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Bard spotting on Bluesky 03 September 2024 :marseyrandom:

Here we spot wild Bardfinn Bluesky activities.

Be valid and ping ! bardfinn for something worthwhile or create a new thread.

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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️ (@aaronsofaer.bsky.social):

I am feeling my brain dribbling out through my ears as I work my way through this fricking mandatory HR training thingy. Two hours in and I have primarily learned that the people who created this training are bad at communicating.


Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️ (@aaronsofaer.bsky.social):

Oh good now I'm in the section where the HR training tells me about gender identity and how everyone has & expresses a gender identity, even cis people.


Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It's true! And here's our gender sensitivity mascot, Clippy the Paperclip, to tell you all about it!


Cesena Marie🕷️ 🏳️⚧️ (@thelibraryces.bsky.social):

They're nonbinary!

They're the only nb in the entire presentation and also the only nonhuman!

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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Modern Zen Koan

Does a paperclip have gender?

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chelsea bridge 🏳️⚧️ (@secretaboutbox.bsky.social):

there's a line on my resume about making backup "invisible". why? shouldn't backup have lots of options and tons of features with plenty of UI presence?

do you want lots of people to use it? then you don't actually want these. you want it to be unfrickupable, frictionless, and not bother people.

Micah (@rincewind.run):

something I have had hammered into me by working in software for the past fifteen years is that it's impossible to overstate how important a smooth and intuitive user experience is

most people want things to Just Work, the second you put any tech barrier up you lose 90% of users


Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

There's also the wonderful world of "If you give them the full range of options, a not-insignificant number of them will make sure 24 hours of data takes 27 hours to backup, while hitting the back wall of that hard drive's bathtub curve in a week"

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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

BlueSky Trust & Safety deserves a "Thank You", plenty of applause, etc for dealing past week.

Trust & safety is often thankless, but it shouldn't be.

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Hannah Who 🏳️⚧️ (@notablyuncool.bsky.social):

I had an emotionally exhausting few days and could really use a pick me up.

Can you help me out with your best dumb joke? The dumber the better.


Maude Basking In The TV's Glow (she/they)🏳️⚧️ (@eventuallymaude.bsky.social):

Why is 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 is a serial murderer.


Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Ah, our Prime Suspect

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olive consumer (@machete.gay):

my worst trait is that i actually love being mean to smart people far more than i love being mean to stupid people


sina (@rejectionking.bsky.social):

w e l l w e l l w e l l


Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

She's never been mean to me, which allows me to infer …

Wait, what was the question

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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

… Another protester has crossed the line

To find

The money's on the other side —

Can I get another Amen?

There's a flag wrapped around these trans women

A gag, a whipping girl of a monument …

I beg to dream & differ from the hollow lies

This is the dawning of the rest of our lives -

Trans rights!


Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

"Trans rights today!" works better for the chorus but i'd hit 299 characters

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Emma Evans (@trance.bsky.social):

JK Rowling is attacking female athletes again. This time her target is a trans woman competing in the Paralympic Games Paris.

Rowling is screeching she's a 'cheater' because she's trans.

🤪

This is all she does.


Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

She also lines her attorneys' pockets 🥁

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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Have seen YouTube adverts which claim that the Texas power grid unreliability & failures are due —

not to lack of regulation, squeezing every penny out of an aging infrastructure, climate change and fundamental design failures — no, no

The "real danger" is Chinese hackers (VOTE REPUBLICAN!)

Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

Eugenicists only know two topics, babies and borders


Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Is the danger due to right wing terrorists hitting poorly secured infrastructure, blacking out entire towns, to "rob a supermarket"(sure, Jan) —?

Is it poorly maintained / secured control systems?

Nope!

Only the Republicans can intercept that hacker when he crosses the southern border!!


Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The us fed.gov keeps pouring cash into Musk companies when they should be on contract with google to manufacture secure control systems for national security vital infrastructure. Or just. RTP spinoff a contractor.

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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I used to sysadmin Windows systems.

2003, I had an enlightenment experience, using an iMac running OSX.

I couldn't puzzle out how to change the MacintoshHD icon. Which .config file to edit?

My Mac wiz blew my mind - he dragged & dropped the new icon file onto the MacHD Properties dialog box.

Andrew S. 🥥🌴 (@shoutingboy.bsky.social):

I'm Old Enough to have seen the whole history of the web as an adult, and... I think a huge mental barrier to overcome was, software is written by people who like solving puzzles. They have to learn that every one of those little challenges is driving away users.


Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

After hourrrsss of digging through .config files, searching for which library I would need to invoke in a command line command, which bit of memory would need to be POKEd with a hex editor

Drag - and - drop

I threw away my WinXP machine


Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Everything I had learned to do and which Windows necessitated me to continue to do, was a long era of esoteric heck.

Astronomers don't become astronomers because of a fascination with telescopes. They become astronomers to study stars.


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

I struggle to unlearn windows stuff. I'm mostly on Linux at home but it's really not for everyone end probably never will be. But an easy to understand system is so worth it for ninety percent of people. They just don't need to adjust every little thing so it works and that's it.

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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

BT, Brasileiros! O BlueSky não permite grupos de ódio, discurso de ódio e extremismo violento no site, então quando você vir contas aqui elogiando "incels" e nazistas literais, denuncie!


Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Diga aos moderadores exatamente por que a conta quebra as regras, educadamente e em poucas palavras. Juntos, podemos impedir que o BlueSky carregue ódio e violência.

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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

In the 3 years since January 6, everyone knows there are neo-Nazis in the Republican Party, and no one cares anymore.

In the 3 years since January 6, everyone knows there are neo-Nazis in the Republican Party, and no one cares anymore.

In the 3 years since Januar

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!'!!!

AMANDA TRAP HOUSE 🐢 (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social):

"In the 3 years since January 6, everyone knows there are neo-Nazis in the Republican Party, and no one cares anymore. It won't move." - a rejection I got on my undercover story from a national outlet in 2023 (a story that ended up doing extremely well!).


AMANDA TRAP HOUSE 🐢 (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social):

lol this was january 2023, for extra fun.


Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

And now we're seeing a dropout in faith in the institution of reporting. Trust thermocline inversion - becsuse the traditional press keeps treating the Republican party like a respectable political party instead of a 4chan troll wearing a Nixon mask

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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I am amused that BlueSky has given up trying to ask which language I am posting in. English? German? Klingon??


vortex egg, MLIS (@vortexegg.regretfully.online):

Statistically, you are posting in Brazilian Portugese

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Daniel Malmer (@malmer.com):

Optimist: the cup is half full

Pessimist: the cup is half empty

Computational social scientist: I'll know whether the cup is half empty or half full once I sift through the twelve terabytes of data I've been scraping all month.

Melody Schreiber (@mscribe.bsky.social):

Optimist: the cup is half full

Pessimist: the cup is half empty

Writer getting paid by the word: the cup was, simultaneously and inexplicably, half full and half empty, a symbol of the duality of quenched and unquenchable thirst—


Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Followed, naturally, by

"What do you mean, they shut off the API?"

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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

In the 3 years since January 6, everyone knows there are neo-Nazis in the Republican Party, and no one cares anymore.

In the 3 years since January 6, everyone knows there are neo-Nazis in the Republican Party, and no one cares anymore.

In the 3 years since Januar

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!'!!!

AMANDA TRAP HOUSE 🐢 (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social):

"In the 3 years since January 6, everyone knows there are neo-Nazis in the Republican Party, and no one cares anymore. It won't move." - a rejection I got on my undercover story from a national outlet in 2023 (a story that ended up doing extremely well!).


Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It should be a daily headline scandal for five years after they impeach and jail the very last one of them

"Republican Party gives government power to NeoNazis to use to persecute their victims"

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Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

oh no... clearsky is not showing me any updates of who i blocked or who blocked me in the last 3 days even though i know i've been blocking and reporting neonazies and transphobes and that's how i see if they got banned


Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

i also have a very unhealthy need ti know who blocked me today so i can know what i did to get blocked


Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

hugs You're wonderful and anyone who can't see that is projecting


Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

some of them i know i deserve and some i'm kinda proud of


Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

kissin' yr forehead

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Autumn 🍂 ♿️🏳️⚧️ (@fallgirlautie.bsky.social):

If you weren't aware of me,what is my vibe?


Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

"Down the shops picking up the latest Beatles record"

I may be the least qualified to answer the question usefully


Autumn 🍂 ♿️🏳️⚧️ (@fallgirlautie.bsky.social):

You honestly could pull off femme fatale vibes

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Samantha Burns (formerly Smantha Burns) (@cheesecakechik.bsky.social):

I've been tagging and bagging while reporting any of the accounts I find. If you want a quick list to mass block that only has these brand new accounts on them, here


Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Feel free to augment from my list bsky.app/profile/skyw...

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:marseytrain: janny with a mop. :marseytrain: 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.

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