Bard spotting on Bluesky 08 September 2024

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

There's a good reason I (& others!) use the phrasing "Violent Extremism / Extremists" in place of "Terrorist";

"Terrorism" has two important qualifications - formally, it presumes motivation, & it presumes a specific method.

Technically, when MAGAts stormed the Capitol Jan6, that wasn't terrorism

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

"Violent Extremism" is a pragmatic, umbrella term. You got your Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism, your Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism, your Anti-Government / Anti-Authority Violent Extremism …

Any of which might or might not be carried out / promoted by terroristic ends

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Terrorism, it is accepted, involves an actor acting on a victim to influence a target.

Such as by demanding unfettered free access to mass murder machines used to massacre schoolchildren & concertgoers, to persuade voters that

Only We Have The Solution (Ignore Every Other Country That's Solved It)

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Someone can be a terrorist without being the one pulling the trigger.

Someone can be a terrorist by promising a bloody carrying out of a mass roundup and deportation that will require forming militias and deploying federal military on domestic soil, "never seen before"

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

So it's important to distinguish between a white supremacist footsoldier vs someone who destroys a reproductive health clinic (whether with a molotov or the stroke of a pen)

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I think we are overdue in America for a reckoning of what constitutes terrorism.

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) (@nora.zone):

it's fricked up that if you put a brain worm in people in real life they just run for president for a bit and don't become mind flayers at all

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Still waiting for his eyes to flash-glow and his voice to go deep, resonant, and gravelly as he launches into a villain monologue

Sarah ⚧ ✡︎ (@sarahkorse.bsky.social):

How quickly they forget. My TTRPG players could not decipher this:

We6mi5+re55

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

HOW

H O W

Sy Nakamura (@theredprince.bsky.social):

Today I learned tahini can develop black mold

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

shudder that's totally the stuff of my nightmares

Sy Nakamura (@theredprince.bsky.social):

Laura Loomer is a great example: she makes me squicky

April Daniels (@aprildaniels.bsky.social):

Are there any conservatives on BlueSky? I haven't seen any and it makes me wonder if there's a structural cause for that, or merely my own follow-bias

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

They are whooping it up on XChan, mostly.

There are some conservatives here, but they get comprehensively blockaded

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Many years ago, laws and/or regulations in the USA were passed that prohibited storing digitized medical images in lossy formats, including JPEG —

To prevent the entirely foreseeable introduction of artifacts which would affect diagnosis

We need laws prohibiting AI in med imaging

Thomas Fuchs 🔭🕹️ (@thomasfuchs.at):

"When the AI provided an incorrect result, researchers found inexperienced and moderately experienced radiologists dropped their cancer-detecting accuracy from around 80% to about 22%. Very experienced radiologists' accuracy dropped from nearly 80% to 45%."

pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/...

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I use this regularly! Super helpful feature!

🏳️🌈 💜 🇵🇸 Seanie (@thegayalbino.bsky.social):

PSA: If there's a specific post that pops up in your feed a lot that you don't like or just don't want to see anymore, you can mute that specific post.

Tap the 3 dots and tap 'Hide post for me' you won't see the post anymore

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

This is the "win condition" that was discussed in MAGA subreddits, both open and private, 2017-2022. Radicalising "white people" especially "white men" into autonomous cells who would spontaneously answer a call to action

Tyler King (@tylerking.bsky.social):

Imagine every MAGA weirdo deputizing themselves as a deportation force to harass, stalk, assault, and murder anyone who looks "foreign" to them. It's the KKK lynch mobs and firebombing immigrant neighborhoods on a scale we haven't seen since the Civil Rights movement.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I cannot stress how hard the White Identity Extremism culture went into pushing a narrative of "anti-white racism".

/r/cringeanarchy was drowning in it. /r/the_donald was drowning in it. /r/metacanada was drowning in it. /r/coontown, /r/whiterights, /r/holocaust all drowning in it.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It's a core tenet of Russian White Identity Extremism wedge ops targeting America, too.

In the 1970's they used to push a message, "A u vas negrov veshaut", "yet in your country they lynch black people".

Now they are playing "A u vas belyye veshaut"

bird observer (@bird.observer):

why do terfs even want to be on here

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

XChan making the Nazism inherent to transphobia too blatant, needed some Lebensraum between them and the mask-off

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

"I need to know what they're thinking!"

They're not. They've not had an original thought in years.

"I need to see the hate speech to report it!"

You don't. Trust me: that meme is a trap.

"Someone has to …"

Someone should be paid to.

"But what if …"

What if you lived free?

Born to fly.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Hello to everyone dunking on the dipshit herp handler Leibowitz who got himself bit by his Inland Taipan

Did you know?

You do NOT need to screenshot, post, and repost his misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic rants onto other people's timelines!

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Your desired outcome of his macho medical misadventure will not be affected in the slightest by being the ventrilogue of his hate speech into the eyeballs of others

Thanks

Tracking the Little Bubble Boy (@trackingbubbles.bsky.social):

We converted our List to a Moderation List, so you can subscribe to it and pop any bubbles we find.

Personally, we'd reccomended muting as a whole and then blocking individually - as no list should be inherently trusted and due diligence is always a good thing.

🫧 bsky.app/profile/did:...

Tayam Decryptor - 🏳️🌈, 🇧🇷 & 🇫🇷 (@abzan-tayam.bsky.social):

Genuine question, what exactly do you mean by a bubble? Like an echo chamber?

Tracking the Little Bubble Boy (@trackingbubbles.bsky.social):

"More Bubbles" is the self given moniker of a stalker who has created hundreds of alt accounts over the past 5+ months to:

• spread transphobia

• stalk trans women

• pit marginalised communities against eachother

We provide a block list to protect trans people from his harassment.

Tracking the Little Bubble Boy (@trackingbubbles.bsky.social):

We don't know why he calls himself "more bubbles", it could be a fetish (which is fine with us) or he could just really like bubble baths.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

He almost certainly picked it because the n-gram "mr bbbls" has a very low natural frequency in established English Language corpuses, making namesearching more efficient.

He feeds of being given attention. He's a sociopath and a narcissist.

Alsvid Wotansdottir (@alsvid.bsky.social):

Anyone can see this if they go back to Xitter, I routinely post examples, so please don't discount what Maddie said here.

Maddie, Transsexual Psychopomp (@maddiequestions.bsky.social):

what he said though, repeatedly i think is reflective of how violent rhetoric against us is both escalating and deemed acceptable. he's at the extreme end of that, tbh, but i've seen people say trans men should be allowed to hunt us for sport and calls to hunt down and shoot a trans woman to death

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Blocklisted from the username alone, jfc

Thanks to you both for the head's up

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

Hi,I'm not pretty.

Discuss

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Hi Autumn! You are pretty!

Themperor Kennedée🐸🏳️🌈 (@kennedytcooper.bsky.social):

Did you know it's legal to triple or even quadruple the recommended garlic in recipes. It's still legal in 2024 to do this.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Night before last's dinner was, in fact, garlic chicken in a garlic sauce, with sauteed garlic vegetables

Kevin Collins (@kwcollins.bsky.social):

I really try to be judicious in describing something as fascism, which can be overused. But Trump has both promised to engage in a "bloody" mass deportation, targeting minority ethnic and racial groups, and to use the power of the state to punish anyone working against his election. That's fascism

Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com):

Sure, it SOUNDS bad, but this is just copypasta going around Truth Social that the old-timers think protects your copyright

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

If Robert O Paxton calls him a fascist & MAGA fascism, you're clear to do so as well.

Justine de la Violencia 🫀 (@transgirlsurf.bsky.social):

Remember cis men:

• Character creation is DANGEROUS

• one single hour playing as an avatar with tits COULD makes you start taking estrogen

• If your character wears a colorful shirt you MIGHT be gay and probably WILL suck a peepee

• Actually being creative at all is GAYYYY

• Maybe just phone it in.

Jessica, Kait's Wife 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 (@pairofclaws.bsky.social):

This is what being cis sounds like to me

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

This sounds like it might be a well-known "end-of-slider" effect. In this grant proposal, I set out a case for a $1600 gaming laptop, market value for a license for BG3, and $20,000 in scholarships to study this phenomenon

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Y'all ain't gon' believe this, but it's because LoTT & EndWokeness / Posobiec are funded and directed by White Identity Extremists desperate to bootstrap civil war in the united states, all working from the same script

Does that sound at all familiar

Nick Martin (@nick-martin.bsky.social):

A few weeks ago, neo-Nazis carrying swastika flags marched in Springfield, Ohio to protest the presence of Haitian immigrants in the area. At the time, it received zero coverage in the press. Now, within the past 24 hours, the entire MAGA movement has begun pulling out the torches for Springfield.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Hint: "Hawaii Not Ukraine"

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

bsky.app/profile/soha...

Sohan Dsouza (@sohandsouza.bsky.social):

From @rvawonk.bsky.social:〝These tweets were not just expressing the same idea; they were using nearly identical language to do so, and all of them included the phrase "Hawaii not Ukraine."〞

https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/russia-amplifies-right-wing-influence

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.