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Bard spotting on Bluesky 30 August 2024 
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
The parent post is a shitpost, but —
There's a genre of troll who uses the sincere desire of certain people to (above and beyond any other consideration) Always Be Jihading their Enemy
To amplify harms and springboard into the attention of thousands, even millions.
We have to evolve beyond A.B.J.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Instead of
Always
Be
Jihading
— Downmarsey, Report, and Block — Never Engage
(I know — there's no Downmarsey here. The point still stands. Don't engage these jerks. Find people in your friend group whom you trust to run blocklists, & DM them the account names, instead. Deny them oxygen)
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
The people running block lists eventually will learn which other block list runners they can trust, form a group chat, and have a channel there called "Bannedidates" where they swap the lastest "Mower Buhbblez" accounts and cut them off from their targets, ruining their day
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
They want to be screenshot and quote dunked and put on blast.
Freeze them out instead.
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Samuel 🦋 (@samuel.bsky.team):
one brazillion users
🅼ɪᴋᴇ 🅹ᴀʏ (@layeredstrange.uk):
🎶 And 2 random bots pushing 💩 🎶
They're in your comments.
Ti R² (@tir2.bsky.social):
yeah it's weird that there are so many clicks involved in blocking them. you should be able to do it right from the post
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Improvements to user blocking are on the short list of upcoming changes.
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David Buchanan (@retr0.id):
Genuinely very cool to see politicians actually listening to experts
Thea🏳️⚧️ (@tharsull.bsky.social):
is a judge a politician?
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
They oughtn't be,
HOWEVER
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Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):
I want this
Brandon Williams (@stupidartpunk.bsky.social):
Is this the new Megadeth?
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Harvester of Saw Rows
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I cleaned out my purse today and discovered, in the bottom under the panel, a stainless steel diner knife
Apparently at some point the travel chopsticks, travel utensils, and seat belt rescue knife weren't enough??
Osana (@osana.bsky.social):
Being a dinner knife I bet you'd be more likely to avoid charges if you were caught with it somewhere you aren't supposed to have knives too.
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Well that's new
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) (@nora.zone):
why are all my replies showing up on my following feed as ala carte tweets
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Something on the backend has folded in half under the load.
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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social):
Hey @davidkaye.bsky.social, help me out. Is this (auto translated) bit of Brazil's order saying (1) that Google & Apple need to block VPNs or (2) that VPNs need to block X?
And if it's that they need to block VPNs, does that seem as bad to you as it does to me?
Jer (@jerandom.bsky.social):
They take attempts to overthrow the government very seriously in other countries that aren't the US
Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social):
Banning VPNs is not taking the matter seriously. It's fricking crazy.
Jer (@jerandom.bsky.social):
Look at it without the American perspective. A group of revolutionaries attempted to overthrow the democratically elected government and did their organization online. The American billionaire who owns the online platform refuses to cooperate in the investigation and continues to encourage 1/
Jer (@jerandom.bsky.social):
the very same people to do the same thing. This is a national security issue for them, and the tech we have gives very few options for cutting off access to the organizing platform used by these traitors. Is it a bad option? Yes. But they don't have many others 2/
Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social):
Why does everyone insist that my views are based on "looking at it as an American"? It's pretty insulting. I've been covering global internet regulations for years and bad laws and bad application of laws is not a moral relevancy issue. What's bad is bad.
Jer (@jerandom.bsky.social):
Read the rest if what I wrote. What do you suggest they do about this?
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Given the language that is in the preamble of the decision — which goes on at length about defeating censorship and freedom of expression — The court should not be outlawing VPNs, which are used for far more than merely accessing Twitter.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
They should be consistent in criminalising the act of providing access to Twitter in a "subterfuge" manner, but VPNs themselves are a general use technology, built in to / inseparable from iOS & android.
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No, don't reply like this, please do another wall of unhinged rant please.
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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social):
Hey @davidkaye.bsky.social, help me out. Is this (auto translated) bit of Brazil's order saying (1) that Google & Apple need to block VPNs or (2) that VPNs need to block X?
And if it's that they need to block VPNs, does that seem as bad to you as it does to me?
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Given section (3), it reads like the court is considering anyone who distributes VPN endpoint client or bridge software, uses endpoint client, or operates a bridge, to be complicit in "subterfuge technology" that enables Twitter to operate.
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Generic Soy Milk (@emily.gorcen.ski):
shout out to the German soccer fans who put "Gesichtserkennungssoftware" on a banner and moreover it was on the same row as "Hausdurchsuchungen"
Generic Soy Milk (@emily.gorcen.ski):
The thing about making a protest banner in German is you have to start painting six weeks in advance just to finish in time
𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒛 (@electroheinz.bsky.social):
actually, 1x "chun" is missing in "Hausdurchsuchungen" on the banner 😵
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Anne missed the « … frei und … » as well in the transcription, but —
(I can't place blame, it took me a whole minute to stop parsing it as "… grei und …"
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Bacon butty for lunch
Bacon sammies
Picante-fried bacon
Barbecue pork brisket sandwiches
How many ways can it be named
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Alasdair Stuart (@alasdairstuart.com):
Of course they are. Getting it buried, surrounded by salt and then set fire to by a suspiciously blonde, occasionally Liverpudlian, occasionally Welsh, at one point female trenchcoat wearing magician so she can never rise again to mutilate the country even further is a delicate process.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Might need an assist from two brothers from Lawrence, Kansas
Alasdair Stuart (@alasdairstuart.com):
Good point. You can never have too many hunters on a job like that:) Get Jack Burton out of retirement just to be sure.
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Gabbard claims she's on "a list" of "suspects" to play for Victim points.
The reality is:
She's a former US Representative & Reserve officer,
and therefore a prime target for terrorists to attack, kidnap, or plant substances / a device on.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
1. SOP for high-profile US military to conduct close screenings / provide air marshalls
2. SOP for people who have / had SCIF access " " " "
3. SOP for people who sat on NATSEC associated Congressional Committees
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Plenty of terrorists think / know that someone so decorated / qualified would be considered "more valuable" to negotiate $$$ / terms over.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
It would also be invaluable to Propaganda to have a former US Rep & Reserve officer drop into a K-hole or acid trip on a flight, make a scene, have that captured on cellphone video, and then her carryon explodes
Bottom line here: They're not guarding against her.
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
"There is no such thing as «skilled labour»", I hypothesise to myself, as I fumble the timing of the grace notes on the first bar of Concerning Hobbits for the 247th time this morning
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
@kiraculous.net
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
@safety.bsky.app / @pfrazee.com
The tried and true solutions to this request are
an "Add Account" button & modal under Settings -> Moderation -> Blocked Accounts
&
Option to Block User on final page of Report Item dialogue flow
for appropriate friction & user intent certainty
Aaron Rodericks (@aaron.bsky.team):
Thanks. Will add to request list.
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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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