Bard spotting on Bluesky 15 August 2024

getnorthern (@getnorthern.bsky.social):

I'm on a list called "C*nts", and I couldn't be prouder.

Duchess Gemma aka Ms Tonks 🐠🕷️🇪🇺 (@gemmagould.bsky.social):

Oh Christ how do you check lists here ?!

Dougie Comrie (@woodycrombie.bsky.social):

This apparently clearsky.app

ClearSky

Duchess Gemma aka Ms Tonks 🐠🕷️🇪🇺 (@gemmagould.bsky.social):

Ooooh I've found a whole load of lists I'm on I presume to get off those you need to block the user who put you on them?!

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

No one gets off a list unless the account operating the list gets suspended or the site admin deem the nature of the list to violate user agreement / terms of service.

In the end, 99% of them are "I have a personal grudge" or "I think this person is annoying"

Dougie Comrie (@woodycrombie.bsky.social):

I was on various lists on Twitter. I never got any grief so I just stayed on them.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

In 2022, when I shut down my Twitter account, I'd blocked 600k accounts. Here maybe 200.

Bluesky moderation handles most of the abuse, promptly.

Katie Tightkitty (@juicysteak117.gay):

literally what the frick is wrong with europeans because ken and i just tried salt licorice and had to spit it out immediately to go rinse our mouths out. this tastes like licorice dunked in cat piss.

i immediately messaged two europeans who both said that they love the stuff. FREAKS

Robert Szasz 𓅆 (@rszasz.bsky.social):

I mean, ammonia salts, so yeah

Katie Tightkitty (@juicysteak117.gay):

WHY ARE WE PUTTING CAT PISS ON CANDY

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

There's a hypothesis that the people who survived in Northwestern Europe a millennium ago, were the ones with mutations making it possible for them to acquire a taste for i.e. fermented shark and fermented herring, and so some modern humans are able to tolerate ammonium chloride salt licorice

Lego Dolemite (@psychoalpastor.bsky.social):

Did someone say fermented shark 🤪

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Hákarl (Fermented Shark) Sausage

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Oh god, it touched his wood cutting board. RIP cutting board

Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com):

The Secret Service is going to start surrounding Trump on three sides with bulletproof glass for his outdoor speeches—a measure generally taken only for sitting presidents. USSS is ordering multiple sets to be stored around the country and trucked to rallies (the glass is very heavy and bulky).

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Secret Service prepares use of bulletproof glass for outdoor Trump rallies: Sources

サージャントヒッピー (@sgthippie.bsky.social):

Seems super expensive to provide this wannabe despot with protection. Shouldn't he pull himself up by the bootstraps and provide his own security instead of mooching off the American taxpayer?

Gavin (@gavinneedham.bsky.social):

He's a former president. They get secret service protection for life.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Irony: Lifetime Secret Service protection for former presidents was discontinued by legislation in 1994; Obama restored lifetime Secret Service protection.

サージャントヒッピー (@sgthippie.bsky.social):

Obama just giving away our tax dollars to one of the biggest taxpayer mooches.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It probably simply costs more in administrative & intelligence overhead to evaluate "how do we respond to this threat and will we have to read the Secret Service into this response operation" than just to have a flat expense line item.

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Katie Tightkitty (@juicysteak117.gay):

literally what the frick is wrong with europeans because ken and i just tried salt licorice and had to spit it out immediately to go rinse our mouths out. this tastes like licorice dunked in cat piss.

i immediately messaged two europeans who both said that they love the stuff. FREAKS

Tequila Sunset (@pepperonidave.bsky.social):

I heard their vomit tastes like Hershey chocolate too.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

10, 10, 10, 9.7, and a 2 from the Russian judge

Amy Hoy (@amyhoy.bsky.social):

"the thing about that is that that is their choice"

english… we gotta talk about your "that that" and "is is" problem

William Glibson 🌵🌵 (@matthewbrendenwood.bsky.social):

This is the kind if thing that would drive our ELL students crazy, and I had no good explanation for it

Amy Hoy (@amyhoy.bsky.social):

most languages have weird shit like this tho, afaik

german speakers have a couple words that they just slap any old place for emphasis but which can't be translated as like "very," for example

William Glibson 🌵🌵 (@matthewbrendenwood.bsky.social):

I struggled through a few years of German in college and the thing that always drove me crazy was the 2 verb placement rule not that I remember any of it

Amy Hoy (@amyhoy.bsky.social):

mark twain said it all best

The Awful German Language

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

doch

Bard could be really funny and post some ping groups to make this bot waste some coins

Kiraculous Once and Future Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

just what i need after an hours long pain spike a fricking migraine. oh what's that we're still in the pain spike? fricking kill me

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

🔜

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I am certain you do not wish to argue that several years ago you assaulted me at Tanglewood Forest. Several of your fellow company members have chased me and thwapped me with Amtgard -legal boffer weapons on Company Road while I was making announcements on behalf of Kingdom Officers.