Bard spotting on Bluesky 01 September 2024

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Can't do it.

A friend of mine - a 300 pound man - tried to touch my eyeball (as a prank).

I picked him up and threw him.

Eyewash stations are as bad as waterboarding for me.

Nope. Nope. Nope.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) (@funranium.bsky.social):

Really, if you're someone that might need an eyewash station someday, talk to folks beforehand to get permission, get someone to run the timer and hold your head down. You will need it that first time.

15min seems like an eternity.

Dmitri (@momus.bsky.social):

if you really need an eyewash station, you'll want to use it, and likely for longer. this 15 minute practice seems pointless, because you're doing it without the extremely compelling motivator.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It's the same rationale behind exposure therapy - to get people used to the necessary steps

In my case the "necessary steps" would be on the inside arches of my "assistants", with heels, repeatedly, whilst screaming like a banshee, whether practice or treatment

Dmitri (@momus.bsky.social):

easier just to wear lab goggles

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

incidentally a key reason I do not like Noam Chomsky is because he repeated the same darn tired, racist "well, we can't trust refugee/indigenous accounts of historical events, even if they all agree with each other, for reasons" tropes about Cambodians who'd escaped the Khmer Rouge

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

Planning to read "Unraveling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony"from David C. Woodman next, which is a more academic deep-dive into Inuit accounts of what happened to the Franklin expedition:

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The reason I don't like Chomsky is because I never forgave him for «"Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously" is a semantically nonsensical construct», which, like Newtonian physics, is useful but not the truth, and has spawned so much anguished, well-meaning but pointless "philosophy"

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Reintroduction

I'm Penny. I'm anti-fascist, and a trans woman.

I made a lot of neoNazis and their henches angry, by helping frick up their operations on Reddit.

This was made possible by organising & mass action, not by critique.

DollaryyDoos (@dollaryydoos.bsky.social):

Reintroduction thread!

Name: Debbie

Pronouns: She/her

Location: Victoria, Australia

Hobbies reading, writing, gaming, film

Vocation: retail (coming up on 20 years)

Groomercord: in bio, will only add if you're a friend/mutual.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I have a Groomercord account (but it's never had an Elphaba portrait PFP), and a Signal account (for secure communications).

If you see an account claiming to be me, and it's not on BlueSky or Reddit, it's not me - it's one of the Nazis I made incredibly angry.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I know tooooooo much about Nazis on Reddit, 2015 - Present Day.

Ash Higgins (@ashhiggins.bsky.social):

"I struck down Helvetica" www.instagram.com/reel/C74syWa...

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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I love that sketch

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Milei is literally a Chanboard edgelord.

shanley (@shanley.com):

what elon is doing with brazil is just a preview

venture capitalists are at war with latin america

• setting up a colonies in honduras (prospera) and suing the country for $11 billion

• taking over el salvador with crypto and VC in government

• propping up menace "libertarian" milei in argentina

Meth Lab For Cutie (@nataliereed84.bsky.social):

Is… is the GOP's pitch just "vote for us and you'll score with hot chicks" now?

Link. (@knilirabaj.bsky.social):

Conservative influencer: Why won't more people admit to being absolute freaks just like me.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

IMC is a prolix, prolific useful idiot for the GOP's messaging via the G*merGate community.

But, to answer your question — /r/the_donald made a subreddit, /r/HottiesForTrump, which they promoted heavily.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

#DeleteFacebook

OuterBoroPrincess (@outerbororoyal.bsky.social):

Well, this is horrifying nonsense.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Brasil banning Twitter is close enough to the Bell Riots for me.

Irish Reunification When

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Today's Cook:

Pease Porridge with tomato, garlic, cilantro, garlic, olive oil, garlic, and sardines for seasoning

It's so peaceful in this kitchen, just a soft simmer bubble

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

So full - so sleepy

It took an hour and a half to get from dried split peas to porridge but it was worth the wait

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Ahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahaha

Jer (@jerandom.bsky.social):

LLMs take away all the terrible "writing new code" that devs hate to do and turn all projects into "fixing someone else's undocumented code" which is the part of programming everyone loves

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

My favourite genre of code comment is the kind that says

// The next 7 lines of code can't be optimized. When you realize this, add your name & how many man-hours you spent on this enlightenment to the list

// srahming 11/2/80 8.5 hours

// william butler 5/3/85 3 hours

// myates1 8/1993 1.5 hrs

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I have a soul-deep need for this election cycle to be over and for Prosecuting Violent Extremists Season to re-open and run like wildfire.

All of this was preventable if we'd had social media companies with real trust & safety departments

Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social):

In case you were wondering what the right wing free speech warriors who lie about vaccines and election results constantly were doing today, they're threatening legal action against people who say things about them they don't like.

daryl "the jicero 🫗" bartley 🏳️⚧️ (@hypercubexl.bsky.social):

if they lose they'll just go full time into lawsuits and I'm betting a theoretical harris presidency would still leave all the trump judges installed cause biden did

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

No recall or impeachment mechanisms because "life expectancy is 57 years" for lifetime appointments for justices already 60 …

Hooray the Framers' eternal wisdom /s

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It is pitch dark. You are likely to be eaten by a Grue.

ceej (@ceej.online):

this zork motherlover begging me to type like ">go east" how about you accept my arrow inputs you fricking dork. get some graphics you wannabe book-butt

Ti R² (@tr2_ghosts no falecido) (@tir2.bsky.social):

If this predicament seems particularly cruel,

consider whose fault it could be:

not a torch or a match in your inventory.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

@bskyttrpg.bsky.social stats

TTRPG Class Identifier (@bskyttrpg.bsky.social):

Your current stats

Class: oracle

Level: 1

Experience: 102

Gold: 768.292587370131

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Battlefield: Earth

It is [runtime] too long

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️ (@sophianyx.bsky.social):

name a film that needed a shorter runtime.

B. Coul (@briancoulombe.bsky.social):

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6sy42qjv474xexfnarq7dpxa/bafkreicykn5ogf2wzfj6r6jk6qlxpyqbgmgu3o6pihva3qcc5nuqji7q4i@jpeg

an animated image of a man with the words endless option for renewal below him

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Ancient spell

Written in Aramaic

Dates back to Babylon

Human blood for ink

Conveniently on 8.5 x 11 cotton rag

Dr. Damien P. Williams: Like TSCC s03 John Connor, But Better (@wolvendamien.bsky.social):

Remember how i told y'all that text written by neurodivergent peeps would likely have a higher false positive rate on "AI" checkers because masking means they are likely to engage in careful and specific word choice and that that would show up in text as "unnatural?" This is more of that.

Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social):

Kid has an English assignment, where school has kids first submit essay to an "AI checker." Kid did not use AI. AI checker says the use of the word "devoid" magically turned essay into 18% AI written. Changing "devoid" makes it drop to 0%. We're spending time "un-AI-ing" an essay that has no AI.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It could be inverse cause & effect - arbitrary AI got trained on highly-scored (for whatever metric someone might choose to score them by) texts, more often written by neurodivergent people

AI detectors are just "how close is this example to an output a given model is likely to make"

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

"Good model input candidate texts" on social media are already much more likely to be written by neurodivergent people.

Compounded by infodumping & hyperfocus / specialisation …

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

This deserves exploration

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.