Bard spotting on Bluesky 10 September 2024

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

My "egg" cracked b/c a trans woman wrote a comment on Reddit in May 2016 describing the gender nonconformity of Switch in The Matrix. Switch, who had a genuine existence within reach, stolen. "Not Like This. Not Like This".

I bawled for hours. I knew, then: Never Like That.

You are Born to Fly.

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

"the big trans accounts encourage people to transition a lot"

WE WANT YOU TO LIVE.

DO THAT.

NOT FOR US, FOR YOU.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

You are Born to Fly.

Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️🌈 (@thedukewindsor.bsky.social):

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a man with long blonde hair and a beard is saying muster the rohirrim .

Chris C (@captaincell.bsky.social):

The beacons are lit

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Harris / Walz Calls For Aid

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

This was possibly my favourite part. No "No you weren't", "It was only a flesh wound", "If you had been, you wouldn't be standing here".

No one in the room gave a good God darn that he got a pinprick. No one fed his mythos. No one gave him a medal for it. No one even acknowledged it.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD (@ubiquity75.bsky.social):

"I was shot in the head!"

And everyone kept it moving.

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

Morning everyone

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Hello Autumn!!!! How You?

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

Tired

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

You will get sleep tonight, right? Important ^_^

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

n..nooo

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Yes ma'am you YOU are important, as is your sleep

^_^

:D

Deth Veggie (@dethveggie.bsky.social):

-popcorn-

Peter Sagal (@petersagal.bsky.social):

Anderson Cooper is showing a reel of examples of how Kamala successfully baited him into self-destruction… something, as he points out, nobody has ever been able ever to do, not any of the senators, governors etc who have debated him before.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Every smirk! Every time she smirked, she saw the opening

Deth Veggie (@dethveggie.bsky.social):

I know, right? Also, at at least one point she was openly laughing at him to his face. That was wonderful to see.

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):

Oh it's over over.

Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social):

Taylor Swift on Instagram: "I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election."

elliott junkyard (@transarchivist.bsky.social):

Oh I hope Trump has an aneurysm over this 😂

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Trump probably doesn't even really understand who she is, but all his toadies know, and they're all examining the insides of their eyelids over this

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Kamala Harris delivering a coherent, clear, concise closing remark.

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

Don't love the "most lethal" talk but this is America so...

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I'LL TAKE IT

When even HUME is out of the tank and shaking it off

It's Ovah

Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social):

Brit Hume on Fox News after the debate: "Make no mistake about it, Trump had a bad night."

Stef @[email protected] Christensen (@wikisteff.bsky.social):

Good night.

Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social):

Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is something we have to fight for. There are 8 weeks between now and the election. Let's keep up the fight.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Greatly appreciate your Coach Reich approach ^_^

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

FINALLY! FINISHED! DONE! OVER! KAPUT!

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

SHE GOT HIM TO SAY "I GOT INVOLVED WITH THE TALIBAN" ON LIVE TV

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

RACE? AND POLITICS?

IN THIS COUNTRY???

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Holy shit, Harris worked in the Central Park Five and Trump's birtherism

and now she's circling around to "We are not as divided as our politics suggest"

Arthur Russell Brand (@badfriend.club):

That answer was a crusher

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Moderators are keeping it moving

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

"I HAVE CONCEPTS OF A PLAN~"

HAHAHA FRICK YOU TRUMP

TEN YEARS STILL ON FIRST BASE ON HEALTHCARE

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Topic: "Israel & Hamas"

Trump: "PUTIN, UKRAINE, SORORITY PARTIES"

Melissa Ryan (@melissaryan.bsky.social):

Harris straight-up calls Trump a tool and a dupe for autocrats.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

To His Face!

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

ABC News David Muir has just handed in a folding chair on the racist "they're eating the pets" lie, fact check bam

It's uhhhhhhhhh

it's kinda nice to see the debate moderators do

THE JOB

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Trump: "THE FBI IS A FRAUD"

Yes yes yes yes yes keep down that track

Cinderella Mechanicus (@hroethgar.bsky.social):

It's nice to know Trump and the Black Panthers have some common ground.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

loooool

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

And now Trump admitted to communicating with Putin while out of office

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Harris: "I will not ban fracking"

me: uggggghhhhhhhhhhh

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

JAN 6 MENTIONED

TRUMP SAYS "THE OTHER SIDE"

ON LIVE TV

HE ADMITTED IT WAS WAR

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

TRUMP WITH THE MASSIVE EGO WOUND

Stef @[email protected] Christensen (@wikisteff.bsky.social):

Evergreen tweet

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

OK if Kamala Harris becomes President of the United States, I lose my passport, erase my fingerprints, cross the border, get caught recrossing the border, get put in prison as an 'illegal alien", and get a free bottom surgery

DEAL

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Holy shit now she's talking directly to Trump

she set that hook

told him that everyone's laughing at him

and now he's praising Orban

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

OH GOD

HIS EGO WOUND

"Can you imagine how I wouldn't have standing?"

That's his entire thing

Narcissitic injury

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

"Biden let the Russians build a pipeline across Europe"

Harris: puzzled dog head tilt

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

"You fricking leopards! Why are you eating Trump's face?"

kilgore trout (@kilgoretrout.bsky.social):

to me, this is true art

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

ABC MODERATOR LINSEY DAVIS OFF THE TOPE ROPE WITH THE FACT CHECK

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Spox for both parties have been pregaming and goping to proxy their party's messages ahead of the inevitable Trumpcentric shitshow

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

*hoping

Xoe Valk (@x03v.bsky.social):

Goping seems relevant in this context... 😂🤣

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The Worst Person You Know etc etc etc

I'm not bemoaning it.

Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social):

It's interesting to see literal Nazis like Richard Spencer worried that such a strategy will backfire because it's so easily debunked

Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social):

I think she's going to fricking cook him, btw.

Lovely cat lashes ♿ chiari awareness (@kitton.me):

Suspect the same

Probably piss him off enough for him to use a slur in the first 20 minutes

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

They're cutting his mic outside his allotted time, which reduces the chances that his meltdown will be on hot mic

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Woo! Debate! POTUS Debate! Get Hyped! Real policy hash-outs! Platform explainers! Down to the nitty gritty! The numbers! Gonna lay out two plans for the future of America! Two houses, alike in dignity

Is what I'd be posting from a timeline not destroyed by the SCSC Higgs Boson blackhole

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

What I wouldn't give for a black hole ride back home

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

This bill is utterly stupid and will shoot civilian drone programs in the head in the U.S. if passed, which shouldn't be surprising considering the brain-dead and glassy-eyed source

Congressional Bill Bot (@fedbillbot.bsky.social):

H.R.2864

Countering CCP Drones Act

SPONSOR: Rep. Elise Stefanik (R), NY-21

№ CO-SPONSORS: 15

STATUS: Passed House

LATEST ACTION: House floor - 2024-09-09 Motion to reconsider laid on the table ...

#Republicans

Details at congress.gov

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

She coukd have named it the "I watched Terminator: Dark Fate last night" bill and gotten to the heart of the issue

Emily 404 Not Found (@emilyatlast.bsky.social):

THIS.

So much this.

Fiadh (@fiadhfluffy.bsky.social):

If you are someone who refers to the 'trans debate' today, I guarantee you that if you'd lived in 1930s Germany you would have been talking about 'the Jewish question'

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

😭

Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw.bsky.social):

Republicans encourage and feed hate to school shooters because they like school shootings. They like it when kids die, because creating a more violent and hateful society is good for their agenda, and making public schools unsafe helps destroy them (a major conservative goal)

Jessica Kant (@jessdkant.bsky.social):

The shooter allegedly posted about a family supporting their trans daughter: "I need to put an end to that" and threatened an "lgbtq massacre". The media nevertheless suggested the opposite to fan the flames of conspiracy for clicks. Share widely.

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The Apalachee High School shooter reportedly complained that trans people are accepted in society. Right-wing media claimed the shooter was trans.

Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw.bsky.social):

An atmosphere of violence creating fear in minorities, LGBT kids and girls etc to keep them in their place (below straight white men) is literally what conservatives believe high school should be like and school shootings are a manifestation of that. That's how they think society should work!

Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw.bsky.social):

It's been 25 years but I'm old enough to remember when Columbine happened, repeatedly hearing the lie that the shooters were targetting Christians (even specifically asking them to renounce Christ before shooting them) when the reality the media refused to report was that the shooters were Neo-Nazis

Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw.bsky.social):

SHOW MORE

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Circa 2001 my place of employment was toured by Dallas Councilman John Wiley Price.

He was …

Hypothetically, I might have had a constructive termination case. But that was one incident in a string of unfortunate tidings & I was there for the paycheque while jobhunting

Shiv Ramdas (@nameshiv.bsky.social):

whats your uncool celeb story one time I was at an event got pretty drunk then met (I think it was the bassist) someone from Red Hot Chili Peppers & I remember telling him "you guys should name your tour plane Music so you can tell everyone Music is your aeroplane", look it had to be said

eva (@eva.computer):

why do texas politicians look like cartoon characters

Coach Walz Finstock (@coachfinstock.bsky.social):

This is insane shit. Their power grid collapses under the slightest stress and now Texas is running out of water. There are already crops that were once favorites that cannot even be grown anymore.

And where is this story listed? Under POLITICS. Water and farming is political apparently.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Straight answer: it nets them votes from macho know-nothings whose social lives revolve around football, boots, & hate

Hats. I mean hats

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It's the Russian-funded-directed network of bigot-pundits doing it.

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The Apalachee High School shooter reportedly complained that trans people are accepted in society. Right-wing media claimed the shooter was trans.

Samuel 📺 (@samuel.bsky.team):

Ohhhhh my god this object is not iterable? should we tell everyone? Should we throw a party?should we invite brendan eich

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Three outta four ain't bad

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Oh, sofritto, my love

Fae'rynn (Fatal Futch) (@faerynn.bsky.social):

still can't get over the fact that an entire group of people rallied behind someone who thinks you need to try to cure being trans with therapy (conversation therapy!!!) before you can actually transition while calling a bunch of women who just help others get on HRT transmed.

truly incredible!

A_lethe_ion (@aletheion.bsky.social):

Do you mean Wu?

I'm in a country that requires 6 months of therapy before you can access hormones or other care. They did write that Thera is not supposed to question transness, but bad luck w a therapist might get you someone who tries nonetheless.

I chose mine very intentionally to avoid that

Fae'rynn (Fatal Futch) (@faerynn.bsky.social):

no, i have no idea who Wu is

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I envy you

Fae'rynn (Fatal Futch) (@faerynn.bsky.social):

oh right, i forgot about Brianna Wu for a moment. i was just being stupid

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

If society expects me to get up, why did they make cool fall mornings & comfy beds

Checkm8

Tina is chomp (@tinaonmain.bsky.social):

since we're talking being pretty :

nobody is pretty out of the box. it actually takes a lot of work and time and money and the failures SUCK SO MUCH before you get there

oh and also you need to start by figuring who you want to be pretty FOR because that shit isn't universal at all

(@rapnonono.bsky.social):

I hate that we moved away from the idea that vanity is a bad thing. There's all this pressure to look a certain way but no incentive to resist, even in progressive spaces it seems like the message is: yes, you SHOULD try to conform to beauty standards. Not talking about you or this post, btw

✨️Angel Facts✨️ (@angelic.style):

sorry vanity is based actually and i have gotten more pressure in progressive spaces as a trans woman to look less conformist, which is not the kind of woman i want to be

(@rapnonono.bsky.social):

No, vanity is not based. But it sucks that people were trying to pressure you into becoming something you don't want to be.

⸸ Andrea Celeste ⸸ (@manufacturedtulpa.bsky.social):

no one is pressuring anyone into being something they don't want to be. it's about becoming the best version of who you are

(@rapnonono.bsky.social):

But they are, all the time. Media, people in your life, social groups, your boss, the people you follow on insta

⸸ Andrea Celeste ⸸ (@manufacturedtulpa.bsky.social):

you're out of your element, lack context, and are frankly getting kinda annoying. you are having a different conversation than we are

(@rapnonono.bsky.social):

I'm not. You just disagree with me which is fine.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Do you make a habit out of walking up to other people's cafe tables & criticising what they ordered

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.