Bard spotting on Bluesky 16 August 2024

potz(er)🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@feral-bear.bsky.social):

"i'll do it if you do it" but it's just popping each others bacne

­　　　　　　　　　the　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　­　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　postes (@rem.postes.club):

any "i'll do it if you do it" agreement is a suicide pact. a suicide pact where we both do the dishes. etc. no death involved its just called that

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The grooming instinct

potz(er)🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@feral-bear.bsky.social):

i'll groom* you 😉

*hygienically

Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

You are the opposite of fun, go away and don't come back until you learn how to not suck all the air out of the room

David Avallone (@davallone.bsky.social):

I would like to know who this is, for the preemptive block.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

One "Lee Rowan", which I glimpsed before the block

Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

A real annoying prick too, as you probably can see

David Avallone (@davallone.bsky.social):

Lee Rowan not showing up on search. Huh.

David Avallone (@davallone.bsky.social):

(Also only seeing one response to Penny. So many blocks…)

Jeremiah Avery (@jlavery522.bsky.social):

His name popped up in my search. Seems to think his generation was the best and is being unfairly maligned, while also being condescending. Lovely.

David Avallone (@davallone.bsky.social):

I just checked from an alt account, and he came up there.

He may have blocked me just for asking who this thread was about. That IS thin-skinned...

Jeremiah Avery (@jlavery522.bsky.social):

I went ahead and preemptively blocked him. Should have sent him the clip of George Carlin bashing the boomers. But he's not worth it.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

SHOW MORE

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Whaantera

Dan in his coconut era (@dvgeebees.bsky.social):

Name this band

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

In rewatching The Matrix, it occurred to me that the hatred for the "smell" of humans, his disgust, was a motivation planted in him by his creator — to drive him to use any means necessary to acquire the downfall of Zion. So that he could escape.

A perfect cinematic portrait of Xenophobia.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Agent Smith is Hate.

Which makes his creator — The Architect — also Hate.

The Architect is clean, sanitised, salonfahige Hate. Institutional Hate. Plausibly Deniable Hate.

But Hate, nevertheless

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

In the interview with The Architect, he narrates a history of The Matrices, and takes care to blame — not himself, not logic, not his army of AIs, but to blame humans, some inherent trait of humans, the victims, for the failure of the enslavement systems they are subjected to.

Drapetomania.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

And then sets Neo a Trolley Dilemma of the Architect's own design.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Literal neoNazis, more than a decade ago, were occupying the "Israel is an apartheid state & is committing a genocide in Palestine" rhetorical space, which may have contributed to authorities & journ*lists jumping to conclusions about current protestors' ideologies. That's bad.

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) (@shengokai.bsky.social):

Finally, the very complexity of this question is why I include a whole section on the Jewish community and race in my Philosophy of Race class. Many folks, including anti-racist folks, don't have the first fricking clue what how to account for antisemitism beyond "it is bad," and this is a failure.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

There's also a narrative that the anti-genocide / pro-peace demonstrations & protests are backed by one or more foreign powers with a vested interest in destroying Jewish people and/or the Republican Party (because "without a conflict they have nothing"), and no way to affirmatively debunk them

Edith Laurie Charles (@edithcharles.bsky.social):

Don't feed me or I will kiss you

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

🫨

Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

BINKOWSKI: I have already decided what I think

Mary Robinette Kowal (@maryrobinette.bsky.social):

Your campaign slogan is your last name and the last text you sent.

KOWAL: I think that should be fine

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

OAKEN: They Have Beef Jerky On Clearance

Sage 🏳️⚧️ (@trans.bsky.social):

Privilege goes: Dragon, Stellar, Psychic, Fairy, Dark, Steel, Ghost, Fire, Water, Electric, Grass, Ice, Fighting, Normal, Poison, Ground, Flying, Rock, Bug

it doesnt matter how shiny u r if u r dragon & steel. u r dragon & steel FIRST.

not 2 say u don't experience type disadvantage or team rocket.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Every new day is a new adventure in Satire The Topic Of Which I Understand Without Understanding The Object In Any Way

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The former-Mindgeek conglomerate should be shut down for materially aiding & abetting the harm of performers, women, & children; This is not that. This is the first step in choking all public social media to death.

The Intercept (@theintercept.com):

In a hidden-camera recording, Russ Vought explains that age verification laws are just pretext to shut down porn sites.

Martin Nutbeem (@martinnutbeem.bsky.social):

Mu mu! Mu mu!

Bloody love KLF #totp

Emily 404 Not Found (@emilyatlast.bsky.social):

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:w74gp6ztugdn7f6r57cs6wzo/bafkreifwlxb6vmjvqvwy6wnspwlvmqaek2a7jjackzfkzcqmkbqsvia7t4@jpeg

The KLF - Justified & Ancient (Official Video)

Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social):

Bill Drummond wrote about how Tammy Wynette sang the nonsense lyrics without batting an eyelid, like a true professional, and then they had to take her vocals back to the studio and syncopate the heck out of them because she'd sung it with feeling like a country song

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It's nice to scroll past a post which I fully understand. Always nice to read more about the KLF

Richard K (@rkemb.bsky.social):

Bill Drummond has written many books which are actually very interesting, despite him clearly being a total arsehole.

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

y'all: let's stop context collapsing people

also y'all: immediately context collapsing people when they say something you don't like

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I'd rather snuggle pile collapse

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Created in 2020, Reddit's Sitewide Rule Against Promoting Hatred had a crucial and under-recognised clause.

"While the rule on hate protects [vulnerable] groups, it does not protect those who promote attacks of hate or who try to hide their hate in bad faith claims of discrimination."

Sarah J. Jackson (@sjjphd.bsky.social):

Been seeing an increase of useful terminology developing among academics to describe the right's appropriation of these ideas:

"inverted victimhood"

"hijacked victimhood"

"imitated victimhood"

The challenge is getting media folks to do the power analysis around victimhood claims in real time

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The whole text of the rule is here:

support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/art...

Promoting Hate Based on Identity or Vulnerability

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The /r/The_Donald subreddit, and its entire ecosystem (which included /r/MetaCanada, /r/CringeAnarchy, /r/Conservative, and many others) were built around promoting the claim of "Anti-white racism".

The same talking point has been shifted to "anti-Christian discrimination", Lee Atwater style

Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

I don't give a shit what anybody else's says at this point it's Harris's and Walz's

Ian Boudreau (@iboudreau.bsky.social):

Not even the AP should be using AP Style any more because most of those apostrophe rules were designed to economize on space, it was annoying to have to typeset extra letters and punctuation when someone was doing that by hand

Dantès Was Framed (@jamiea.bsky.social):

Ick

Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

Ick's

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

We have just folded space from Ick's. Many machines on Ick's.

J.M. Berger (@intelwire.bsky.social):

Just leaning right in there, are we

Ed (@notdred.bsky.social):

Yes… YES we have achieved Bill the Butcher discourse

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I wonder if Vance might have any glimmer of understanding about the significance of Bill the Butcher replacing his blind eye with a ball, bearing the seal of the United States of America

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Also — that's Yarvin shining through

David Noll (@david.noll.org):

this is a big piece of the effort to legalize and mobilize right-wing vigilantes. you get people to serve as foot soldiers in culture war attacks by persuading them that they are under attack.

Sarah J. Jackson (@sjjphd.bsky.social):

Been seeing an increase of useful terminology developing among academics to describe the right's appropriation of these ideas:

"inverted victimhood"

"hijacked victimhood"

"imitated victimhood"

The challenge is getting media folks to do the power analysis around victimhood claims in real time

Genevieve (@jenuhveeve.bsky.social):

Cc: @skywitches.net

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The Karpman Drama Triangle Dynamic!

"They" are the Persecutors; "We" are the Victims; The Strongman Candidates are the Rescuers.

David Noll (@david.noll.org):

this is a big piece of the effort to legalize and mobilize right-wing vigilantes. you get people to serve as foot soldiers in culture war attacks by persuading them that they are under attack.

Sarah J. Jackson (@sjjphd.bsky.social):

Been seeing an increase of useful terminology developing among academics to describe the right's appropriation of these ideas:

"inverted victimhood"

"hijacked victimhood"

"imitated victimhood"

The challenge is getting media folks to do the power analysis around victimhood claims in real time

Leon "Lee" Grayhare (@grayharetherabbit.bsky.social):

There's an article that talked about this tendency in white supremacist rhetoric & propaganda from 24-25 years ago

www.jstor.org/stable/20832...

THE VICTIM IDEOLOGY OF WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND WHITE SEPARATISTS IN THE UNITED STATES on JSTOR

Delbert Grady Seasons (@delbertgseasons.bsky.social):

Wasn't this the motivation for the Civil War? "How the end of slavery hurts me, the slave owner"

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Replete with the invention of "Drapetomania", a proposed mental illness that premised that slaves must be insane to wish to escape slavery

Crystal Frasier (@amazonchique.bsky.social):

I'm not making any accusations, but…

If I had written a plot where a world leader introduces his new sidekick—a malevolent goblin who fricks couches—then started getting tired, slurring his words, and withdrawing from public life… well let's just say even player character would pick up on that.

Dr. NerdLove (@drnerdlove.bsky.social):

"Settle down there, Grima Wormtongue…"

Steven Vesci (@vescis.bsky.social):

Too long have you watched my sister's furniture. Too long have you haunted her couch.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Theil did found Palantir Technologies 🤔

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Correction:

Elon Musk will have to sell billions in Tesla stock to keep up paying the vig to the people who lent him most of the $44 billion used to buy X — lest he be introduced to a 55 gallon drum

ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper.com):

"The last publicly available figures prior to Musk's acquisition, from Q2 of 2022, had revenue at $661 million. After you account for inflation, revenue has actually collapsed by 84%, in today's dollars."

lol

fortune.com/2024/08/15/e...

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

There is no rescuing Former Twitter. It is and always has been, since November 2022 when the sale finalised, performing a set of (rise)-over-run calculations which have, as their goal, the 2024 elections

Christian Mutig (@ductos.bsky.social):

He will shutter it some time after the election and then blame Cancel Culture, George Soros, the Deep State or all of the above.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Correction:

Elon Musk will have to sell billions in Tesla stock to keep up paying the vig to the people who lent him most of the $44 billion used to buy X — lest he be introduced to a 55 gallon drum

ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper.com):

"The last publicly available figures prior to Musk's acquisition, from Q2 of 2022, had revenue at $661 million. After you account for inflation, revenue has actually collapsed by 84%, in today's dollars."

lol

fortune.com/2024/08/15/e...

ark of the coconut - skyybeans (@skyblu.bsky.social):

i'd love to see that introduction

Is there a way to reportmax these posts on blue sky? Something along the lines of nightmare fuel/gave me eye cancer?

janny with a mop. janny with a mop.

Granny panties and a dress. Granny panties and a dress.

6 foot 4 and a mugshot. 6 foot 4 and a mugshot.

Child abuse and no job. Child abuse and no job.

Living in mama's sunroom. Living in mama's sunroom.

Giant pale hands and lipstick. Giant pale hands and lipstick.