Bard spotting on Bluesky 28 August 2024

daryl "lorking for wook" bartley 🏳️⚧️ (@hypercubexl.bsky.social):

this makes me think of the borat trying to learn comedy bit.. this suit is NOT black

Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com):

That oughtta do it.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

… … … …

Bahahahahahahahahahhaahahhahahaha

Russo (@matheusdirusso.bsky.social):

Esse negócio de .bsky.social é ridículo kkkk fora isso é legalzinho até a rede

Mary (@laurmxds.bsky.social):

É horrível, queria poder postar vídeo também, mas não dá, espero que tirei isso do user, e dê pra postar vídeo

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

eles estão trabalhando em vídeo; eles querem fazer direito

Micah (@rincewind.run):

the Arlington disaster barely registers on the list of Trump scandals - which is darning in and of itself - but it is a good reminder that he can make something as normally uncontroversial as honoring veterans a selfish, crude disaster

do we want to deal with this shit daily for another term?

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It will be worse if there's another term, because if he is elected (or installed), he will ski for the ninth circle of heck

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

pf, perdoe meu terrível português

Use o botão de denúncia quando vir fascistas fazendo ameaças, buttédio sexual ou discurso de ódio.

Nós não discutimos com fascistas, nós os expulsamos

Moorie🦊 (@moorie.tripazeada.club):

AQUI NÃO É TWITTER NÃO TEM TRETA NEM TEXTÃO, E AI DE QUEM VIER TIRANDO A PAZ DE QUEM JÁ MORA AQUI, A GENTE APAGA DA EXISTÊNCIA

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

E bv ao bluesky

olive consumer (@machete.gay):

IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN

olive consumer (@machete.gay):

as someone who can read spanish and italian but not portuguese this website is like having a stroke for me personally

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I only know the portugese I know because a decade+ ago I habitually played Transformice, & 3/4ths of the players were brasilian

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Fascista não passarão!

Paul Frazee (@pfrazee.com):

seeing a bit of a spike in signups

woketopus (@woketopus.bsky.social):

'does gonzo frick' – the greatest thread in the history of bluesky, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

The saddest girl to ever hold a martini (@lifeisterrible.bsky.social):

the audience is 100% bluesky

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

If Gonzo doesn't frick, why is there an entire major porn category named for him

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

R i d d l e m e t h i s

Lizzy Esq. (@lizzyraven.bsky.social):

You could strategically relocate like 20,000 Democrats and the Electoral College would never matter again. Weird that no eccentric billionaires are working on this.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

… 24,000 because you have to have a 20% safety margin, & you can not in any way tip the hand that the purpose of the relocation is for voting purposes, because even the slightest question of it would be the basis for not just felony election crimes but 20 years of "WE TOLD YOU SO" propaganda

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

… in a hypothetical scenario

Juni! 🥰 (@queen-of-the.pelf.ie):

Kids these days will never know what it's like to put food in a VCR

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Grandmothers still have VHS tapes of Disney classics & VCRs (that haven't operated in 2 decades) to play them in, so

That PB&J is gonna get stowed right where it oughta

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Alan Moore would laugh, if he cared a whit for the vagaries of our lives

Helen Kennedy (@helenkennedy.bsky.social):

Crashing into a fire hydrant causes water to soak a cybertruck and it catches on fire. No, no, I don't understand.

www.valleycentral.com/news/local-n...

eva (@eva.computer):

if you have alts for any reason other than business, porn, or software testing, then you are in fact a crazy person

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

unable to refute this as someone who had alts to infiltrate and destabilise online fascist and racist groups

No amount of therapy will fix that damage

eva (@eva.computer):

prosocial crazy person behavior

Jon Phillips (@jowiph.bsky.social):

Coldplay.

Coldplay is to Radiohead what Creed is to Pearl Jam. Shameless, soulless knockoffs. (Though to be fair, Chris Martin is not, as far as I know, anything like as terrible as Scott Stapp)

The Nerdskull (@nerdskull.bsky.social):

Tell me a band that you unabashedly hate. You aren't allowed to say Imagine Dragons, Nickelback, or Train. You gotta put yourself at risk of being canceled here.

I'll start it out with Twenty-One Pilots, Third Eye Blind, and Pearl Jam. That last one will get me canceled for sure.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

"Coldplay is the music computers would write if computers could write music, and they hated humans" — forgotten Twitter pundit circa 2014

Cynde (@cynde.bsky.social):

Trump is Caligula without the smarts.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I've had the Book of Revelation open to cross-reference against the historic events and have been reminded that the original author(s) of the prophecies that wound up in Revelation likely saw Nero and/or Titus as the antiChrist

Cynde (@cynde.bsky.social):

Please share other stuff you find!

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

being traumatized for a decade by a partner who was traumatized themselves is such an isolating event. it has fused itself to me as a constant reminder that i won't ever be enough

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

🤞🏻🙌🏻🫶🏻

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Reddit is still making & selling NFT avatars

Christopher Mims (@mims.bsky.social):

SEC notifies NFT marketplace, OpenSea, of likely lawsuit

Seems a little like beating a dead horse, no?

www.axios.com/2024/08/28/s...

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

I wish the MAGAs would stop being sneaky about it and just call for the institutionalized state sacrifice of children and women to the Cop Gun Peepee God

which is what they obviously want

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It's only authentic Führerprinzip if the saviour-leader comes from the protected designation of origin of Austria —

otherwise it's just sparkling Strongman Authoritarianism

b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie.bsky.social):

the thumbs up and grin at the grave is just so disrespectful and i cannot get in the headspace of a family that sees it as an honor

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Bluntly, it's the Führerprinzip.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BC...

the Leader Principle demand# personal obedience & obesiance to the supreme leader. Der Führer hat Immer Recht. He is their Personal Jesus. Therefore his gesture is a blessing.

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jagldyome3h27twtp46nxen7/bafkreigidkbdblzt7cibs7ej44ab63mwu2uo2fpruu76uamizpfmsbdgxe@jpeg

Führerprinzip - Wikipedia

Paul Frazee (@pfrazee.com):

This will lead to a lot more screenshot dunks (that's life) but at least now a quote dunk doesnt funnel a bunch of angry people straight to your thread to tell you what they think of you

Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com):

You can now prevent your posts from being quote-posted!

XINNIX (@xinnix.bsky.social):

Quote dunks would be heavily minimized with a downmarsey button. Currently posting ragebait is rewarded with more attention while Reddit/Lemmy discourages hate because you get less attention for ragebait

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Hello!

I'm going to "No, but …" your assertion.

Reddit was fertile ground for ragebait for over a decade. Prohibiting hate speech helped a great deal, but what ultimately killed the proliferation of ragebait on Reddit was a Moderator Code of Conduct that prohibits "Community Interference".

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

2015-2020, most of the largest high traffic "non-default" subreddits were set up by groups who sought to harness ragebait.

Another mechanism that damped it on Reddit was Musk buying Twitter. Those groups bailed and set up on Twitter immediately, deploying their ragebait formulas.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Under US law (if Durov were being prosecuted under US law) this would suffice to demonstrate that Durov / agents of Telegram had the means and opportunity to moderate the content on the platform, establishing a duty to do so

France likely has analogous legal code / theory

Stephen C. Rea (@stevierea.bsky.social):

Worth noting in the whole Durov saga: in 2022, Telegram consented to a regional block of 3 channels in Brazil, and deleted 64 channels at Germany's request:

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Donald Trump is a terrorist. There is no denial, defense, derail or dismissal possible. Truth Social is an Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremist group.

www.mediamatters.org/truth-social...

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Trump promoted another Truth Social account that calls for killing his political opponents

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I need more dubstep sound sample fugue mashups

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jagldyome3h27twtp46nxen7/bafkreihuocehryhot4ntjcmxg4ufjgufceiflmqaedkhzffdtblqvt5pca@jpeg

La Roux - 'In For The Kill' (Skrillex Remix)

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Bring back this sort of thing

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jagldyome3h27twtp46nxen7/bafkreidzqgib74jhzc2qtqvw6uoqnmfpoiva4eo6qe3p7uqicjcxjv2hn4@jpeg

Shawn Wasabi - Marble Soda (Original Song)

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

More more more

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Madeon - Pop Culture (live mashup)

Fluff Orpington (@flufforpington.bsky.social):

We have this on a driving playlist!

David Buchanan (@retr0.id):

the main problem with posting in a public forum is that there isn't enough DRM

­　　　　　　　　　the　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　­　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　postes (@rem.postes.club):

okay im sorry but are you presenting "nothing can stop someone from taking a screenshot of your post and posting it" as an actual problem in need of a solution or

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

ಠ_ಠ

Michael Edward (@michaeledward.bsky.social):

www.wired.com/story/trump-...

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The Trump Campaign's Rhetoric About Women Sounds a Lot Like Andrew Tate's

Red Lori Bright Eyes (@redloribrighteyes.bsky.social):

that's because they are the same

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The Reddit account picked up by the founders of /r/the_donald to grow it from a bare-metal subreddit into a 24/7 meme-drenched rally space was an account that they found prolifically commenting on PUA & "Redpill" misogyny subreddits.

Trump's message is inseparable from misogyny

Chris' RacCoons (@chrisraccoons.bsky.social):

Misogyny is absolutely a core value of the Trump message.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

/r/nocontext

Professional Hater ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (@pyrholidon.bsky.social):

Frankly I'm salty that people aren't quoting me more.

Professional Hater ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (@pyrholidon.bsky.social):

Screenshot thiefs piss me off lol

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The work of Moxie Marlinspike & Meredith Whitaker & others on Signal is laying the groundwork for communications privacy that will help everyone, please use & support the service

Maria Farrell (@mariafarrell.bsky.social):

Yep. Supporting Signal is wholly optional so IMHO anyone who uses it, and can afford to send them the price of a latte or two a month, fking well really really should.

It's critical infrastructure for privacy and ultimately for democracy.

Rarely do you get the chance to so cheaply support that.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Praying that we can get a Democratic House & Senate, & laws that criminalise Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremist specialist UCHISPs

Constantine (@ajaxsinger.bsky.social):

I just now learned that Truth Social has less than 1/3 the active users of Blue Sky.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

…

…

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH

Jonn Elledge (@jonnelledge.bsky.social):

So a thing that boosts and wrecks my ego all at once:

According to an FOI request by the Spec's James Heale that he was kind enough to share, A History of the World in 47 Borders was the most popular book in the House of Commons Library since the election!

It's the only one to be taken out twice.

Jonn Elledge (@jonnelledge.bsky.social):

My sentiments exactly. x

olive consumer (@machete.gay):

One of my most Libertarian qualities is I think it would be cool to live in an old missile silo.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

(1:32 of wheezing chuckles)

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

How does saying what you said

• Solve the systemic problem

• Help thousands move to your doctor

• move your doctor to thousands

• assuage anxiety & PTSD?

I live in a jurisdiction where my existence is being fasttracked to criminality. I don't feel better for reading your comment

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

ok good night nightsky

don't stay up too late

love you 💋

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

🥰😴💤

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

10 SLEEP

20 GOTO 10

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Currently there is a wave of Reddit user accounts who are discovering that their "deleted" posts and comments - some which they deleted years ago - are showing back up on their accounts.

More evidence for the "Reddit never actually deletes anything, just flags it so it shows an interstitial" theory

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I'd love to see the EU do a full investigation into whether Reddit is actually complying with GDPR laws for users who file Right to be Forgotten on their own content, or if they're just applying a flag instructing a presentation system to pretend to the public that it's deleted

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

In perhaps the future, I will be able to comment on this (speech on X being within the boundaries of the law) with specifics.

But I can't comment on it while it is ongoing.

This is a reminder and placeholder.

Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social):

sigh Every few months Elon says something like this again, and it's never true, never been true, and never will be true.

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.