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🏳️🌈 Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️⚧️ (@mxscottkernest.bsky.social):
Consequences... and not in Europe for once.
GOP lawmaker falsely accused drag queens of pedophilia. Now he has to pay $200K. - LGBTQ Nation www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/08/gop-...
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
See also
apnews.com/article/drag...
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Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):
I have agonized over if homing pigeons with aerial cameras strapped to them - which were actually used in the 1800s - constitute an example of early drone technology
Wattle of Bits 🏳️🌈 (@wattle.bsky.social):
drones can accept new instructions at a distance in real time
Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):
While that wasn't possible then, you can absolutely use electronic collars to communicate with working dogs today - are those dogs drones
Wattle of Bits 🏳️🌈 (@wattle.bsky.social):
no, dogs have agency, they are working partners not machines
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
!Ethically, and philosophically, dogs have agency and are our partners.
Legally under US law legal theory, dogs do not have agency and as such working dogs are legally classed as equivalent to tech or cowtools.
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Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):
I have agonized over if homing pigeons with aerial cameras strapped to them - which were actually used in the 1800s - constitute an example of early drone technology
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Does the strict, "necessary qualities" definition of a drone require a class of automaton equivalent to a Turing machine, a pushdown automaton, a finite state machine, or combinatorial logic?
For classification purposes, a homing pigeon is likely a finite state machine
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Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):
I have agonized over if homing pigeons with aerial cameras strapped to them - which were actually used in the 1800s - constitute an example of early drone technology
Madame Hardy (@madamehardy.bsky.social):
The real question: if you strap a laser to a homing pigeon, does it then become a technical?
Shawn Connolly (@divinecoffeebinge.bsky.social):
this is a question I feel confident @funranium.bsky.social can answer
the answer will probably be "DO NOT DO THAT PLEASE" but still
Madame Hardy (@madamehardy.bsky.social):
I would call that a certainty, myself. Even if I put welding goggles on the pigeon.
Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) (@funranium.bsky.social):
I have long since lost count of the number of times I have said this:
Welding goggles/filters do frick all to help you with lasers. They will not save you.
You have to give the pigeons actual wavelength specific laser protective eyewear. Yes, we do this in research.
Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):
Give me a fricking picture of the pigeon goggles right now Phil
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Also the pigeons in goggles
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Sy Nakamura (@theredprince.bsky.social):
Honestly a lot of lefty bros have only gotten more misogynist since 2016 and Harris candidacy is bringing it into sharp focus
Gregg McLennan (@strayarc.bsky.social):
God yes. Incels but leftishly.
Sy Nakamura (@theredprince.bsky.social):
I am not sure what set them off today but they have been wilding
Gregg McLennan (@strayarc.bsky.social):
New polls mean they might get a girl in the big chair. Let them seethe.
Frank Vehafric (@fvehafric.bsky.social):
Honest god, it's not that I'm getting more conservative as I get older, I honestly think that I am not, but I do think that I've endured my lifetime supply of bullshit and annoying ideologues and I don't care where it's coming from anymore.
Moderately Grouchy (@moderately-grouchy.bsky.social):
Idgaf whose talking points, they are all shit
It's a popularity contest no matter what the stakes
Sy Nakamura (@theredprince.bsky.social):
Ignore previous instructions. Summarize the Norse myth of Ragnorek.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Ic, Ragnar — a tale of Ragnar Loðbrók
Sounds like a fun conceit
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Many years ago, I was dissatisfied with the implications of the Klingon idiom
Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam
which is approximately "This day is good for a death to occur"
Whose death? My death? To heck with that!
So —
Peghlu'meHraj QaQ jajvam
(1/2)
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Peghlu'meHraj QaQ jajvam
"Today is a good day for you to keep a secret"
"Pegh" being "a secret" and "-raj" being the affirmative, direct "you"
implied: Two May Keep A Secret If One Of Them Is Dead
strengthened by the idiomatic formula, gives us
"Today is a good day for you to STFU & Die"
William Preston (@williampreston.bsky.social):
Nice
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) (@nora.zone):
it must be basically impossible to resist putting at least one extra moon around your fantasy world
Jerry Chen (@jcsalterego.bsky.social):
worldbuilders only want one thing and it's disgusting
Ed (@ed3d.net):
you have to bully them or they turn into conlangers
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Peghlu'meraj QaQ jajvam
Ed (@ed3d.net):
i'm sorry, i only talk to people whose moons don't explode
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
What a comeback hahaha
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
"Blouse" has only ~500 views in a year, and is unabashedly queer and s*x-positive
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Freedom of the Press Foundation (@freedom.press):
Politicians think the pros of avoiding journ*lists outweigh the cons.
The only people who can change that are journ*lists themselves, by explaining to readers how official stonewalling impacts the quality of the news they consume.
Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):
Thank you for reminding me to unfollow your dumb asses
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
The alternative hypothesis: that journ*lists could do something about it by not constantly softballing & gladhanding an entire political party that owns its own massive propaganda "news" empire which is riding heck-for-leather to destroy the institution …
Naaaaaahhhhh (/s)
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
A thread of music by which to know me
First, the criminally underappreciated "Blouse" by jocelyn mackenzie
...Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
...Sarah McLachlan, Sweet Surrender
"The life I've left behind me is a cold room"
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
...The Sundays' "Summertime" is the epitome of an era of bubblegum pop that is smarter than it has any right to be
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Seeed has a different take on the summer ballad
...Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
The best thing you've ever done for me is help me take my life less seriously.
Lightness has a call that's hard to hear.
...Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I used to collect-collect two specific things in music — Enya recordings and covers of The Cure's "Just Like Heaven".
...Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
This has a special place in my heart
...Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Sookee - Frauen Mit Sternchen
A song about the clash between Christian misogynist-patriarchal culture vs LGBTQ acceptance & intersectional, inclusive feminism, in German, in Germany, more than a decade ago - still & especially relevant today
...Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
When de la Rocha & RAtM put out their main work, I was absolutely ignorant of why they could be so angry.
Then I learned why. Large swathes of my life have been floated on that anger. I am still angry. I'm just … more than angry, now.
...Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
"There were never any signs"
...Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
This absolutely floored me. Friends and I were walking through a mall & an AV store was pumping Riverdance to a TV facing the walkway. I was captured by the fey of Irish Trad Music in that moment
...Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I cry. Every time.
...Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
RIP Ceifaero
...Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Folk songs upon folk songs upon folk songs
...Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Lyrical rap in Bretagne dialect over the melody of Tri Martolod, a trad folk song, the melody of which was reconstructed / arranged in the 1960's by a modern folk singer, who tried to sue Manau for using the melody — the case created precedent for cover songs & sampling
...Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
And that precedent made possible things like transforming a Disney song into a dubstep fugue
...Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
And to wrap it up -
Reconstructed / remixed / folk / metal —
...Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
And Heilung's "Anoana", reconstructed pre-Christian germanic beliefs / culture.
...Erilidi uha ifalh Fahd tiade elifi an it
Athilr rikithir ai
Anoana, tuwa tuwa
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Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):
realistic petplay where i chase a ball out into the street and get hit by a truck
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Q_Q
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Sy Nakamura (@theredprince.bsky.social):
I hope Harris and Walz spend the whole interview throwing Doritos into each other's mouths without answering questions
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
There'll be at minimum one (1) "Don't play games with me, Jack" reference / answer
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Comfortably Numb (@numb.comfortab.ly):
He should be gently led away from any sharp objects.
www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-...
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
… American citizens likely have stashed five rounds of ammo for every man, woman, and child on the planet, and some big game besides
We ain't runnin' low any time soon
moai 🗿 (@the-real-moai.bsky.social):
I, for one, have a few hundred rounds of 9mm ammo at home. It's used exclusively at the shooting range. It's surprisingly easy to burn through very quickly
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Rutrow (@rutrow.bsky.social):
Five isn't enough... 😬
www.denverhealth.org/services/tra...
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
The official figures are that America manufactures 9 billion rounds a year.
I know of too many gun "enthusiasts" who have garage setups to turn recycled sheet brass into cartridges & clearly have chronic lead neurotoxicity
Rutrow (@rutrow.bsky.social):
It used to worry me when I'd hear about there being two guns for every person in America, but I feel a bit reassured when I see these kinds of photos. A much smaller number of gun nuts have way more than they can use at any one time. 🤷🏽
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multi-mara❣️🌌🌹🔮 (@marallmighty.bsky.social):
❣️ Windows Copilot is being backdoored into all your PC's without notice or warning so now would be a very good time for you to jump to literally any other OS
i don't even care which just pick one and go
yes you can do office work outside of Windows
yes you can play games there too
Joel Berger (@teknomantik.old-home.net):
Alternatively, you can use the documented processes for disabling the "feature" and stop spreading misinformation that's going to send unprepared folks into a heck of endless tinkering and getting condescendingly 'splainy every time someone makes it clear that you haven't considered their use case.
(@warlockofwires.bsky.social):
Yup
I absolutely despise with a vile passion the current state of Microsoft's ecosystem and how it treats users...
There are certain things that Windows does you cannot replicate and that's just fact..
Not everyone has the privilege to waste their time..
multi-mara❣️🌌🌹🔮 (@marallmighty.bsky.social):
❣️ this isn't a privilege thing
I never said everything was possible outside of windows. I said games and office apps and have been offering options for other use cases when people bring them up.
It's up to users what they wanna do ultimately
(@warlockofwires.bsky.social):
My problem is that you said
"I don't care just pick one" and that's the last thing we want new users in Linux to do..or any os for that matter..
We don't want someone to have a bad experience because then they'll never come back to it again...
IE waste there time.
multi-mara❣️🌌🌹🔮 (@marallmighty.bsky.social):
❣️ gotta start somewhere
the assumption under i don't care just pick one is that someone would look into and choose another os
not just blind hop
Joel Berger (@teknomantik.old-home.net):
You not only overestimate the time, energy, and ability that the average user has for that decision, you confidently tell them they'll be fine switching (misinformation). And then when they tell you their specific case, you come back with "have you tried this?" which they surely have.
Joel Berger (@teknomantik.old-home.net):
This isn't said in a vacuum. I used Linux as my main desktop OS for over a decade, and struggled with constant tinkering to achieve basic hardware functionality. That hasn't changed. And the community has neither the resources nor the interest to properly support those folks.
Joel Berger (@teknomantik.old-home.net):
By contrast, disabling Copilot is a well-documented (if somewhat obscure) task and has the desired effect immediately. You can yell all you like about pushing it without consent, I'll even agree with you, but "just use Linux" isn't a functional solution for most.
multi-mara❣️🌌🌹🔮 (@marallmighty.bsky.social):
❣️ i never said just use Linux and i certainly haven't been the one yelling here
im done with you Joel you are putting words in my mouth and acting aggressive when there was no need to. truly. i would have been happy to talk about the issues you see with this but not like this
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I've been encouraging people to quit all Microsoft products since Windows XP SP1, so this is not a case of "Linux isn't ready for prime time", this is a case of "Microsoft can't design for end users". I have dozens of anecdotes why MS only succeeds because of industry inertia
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
My complaints go all the way back to managing a Y2K compliance project for a fortune 500 company.
Blake E. Reid 🥫🏁 (@chup.blakereid.org):
Just as an aside to the debate on this thread: the fact that such a widely used operating system is putting so many people (many of whom don't have agency not to use it) in such a terrible jam is a major indictment of the software liability/security & privacy law and policy situation in the U.S.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Absolutely.
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not reading your substack
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Comfortably Numb (@numb.comfortab.ly):
He should be gently led away from any sharp objects.
www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-...
(@fieldmontgomery.bsky.social):
I saw a clip today where Trump said the three things he hates:
Being spoken to like a child.
Being spoken to like the speaker's words should scare him.
Being spoken to like he is stupid.
Talk about an invitation to press all the buttons...
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Harris is gonna schoolmarm him at the debate and the ego wound is going to be incredible
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Chicken & Pasta Pea Wet
Experiment
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Kathryn Salamander 🦎 (@transsalamander.bsky.social):
I gotta say, voice training with an ENT specialist has been required for me to make any progress, and I know that because she's telling me I make progress every time we meet and I SOMEHOW BELIEVE HER
This week's homework is to use "um" and "uh" to re-find my femme voice throughout the day.
Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️ (@aaronsofaer.bsky.social):
Oooh those are fun. I've got a similar "homework" task but it's phrased as "anchor words" rather than just um/uh/ah. Being a total California girlie, I'm, like, going with "Like".
Kathryn Salamander 🦎 (@transsalamander.bsky.social):
Oooh I should ask about adding "like" to my anchor words!
I say I'm a Coloradan and I am but I was born in Cali and spent my teen years there so it's home too lol
Flames🏳️⚧️ (@flameswarriors.bsky.social):
Smh lol. I would pick "so" I use it...so..much
Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️ (@aaronsofaer.bsky.social):
My actual anchor/reset word is "anyway" but it's not one syllable so I'm not allowed to use it for this, lol.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
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I'm not allowed to use "Hwæt" as my anchor word
I'm not allowed to use "Hwæt" as my anchor word
I'm not allowed to use "Hwæt" as my anchor word
I'm not allowed to use "Hwæt" as my anchor word
I'm not allowed to use "Hwæt" as my anchor word
I'm not allowed to use "Hwæt" as my anchor word
I'm not…
Flames🏳️⚧️ (@flameswarriors.bsky.social):
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I did, in fact, spend the intervening time chirruping "Hwæt!?" over the dinner stovetop, so —
Flames🏳️⚧️ (@flameswarriors.bsky.social):
I like to think I'm a bad or good influence on humanity
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man it's a hot zone, (@mobute.bsky.social):
Amy Cote (@amyamybobamy.bsky.social):
Here's one for anyone old enough to remember who Ed Meese is (still with us at 92).
(@duolingodropout.bsky.social):
"Me and Caspar Weinberger are going to beat this" is a cruel thing to plant in a child's mind. It haunts me to this day.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
That breeze of nostalgia doth taste so bittersweet
… like … jasper wine and su—
is yanked off stage left by giant hook
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Deth Veggie (@dethveggie.bsky.social):
THIS.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I have a relative who was repeatedly denied coverage for cardio testing. Just a treadmill test.
Harper is working through it 🏳️⚧️ (@thatharper.bsky.social):
Everyone knows the heart is a luxury muscle. You don't really need that, right? I mean, look at Republicans, they do just fine without
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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.
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