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Sy Nakamura (@theredprince.bsky.social):
What I've learned from this is that Bill Clinton would have been fine if he had just got blowjobs from a journ*list
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
This seems like a fun party game, let's go
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Problematic faves out of the way first:
Chris Evans' Captain America.
I know, I know, it's jingoist imperialist militaristic agitprop, but I am not immune to charm and wholesomeness and The Scene Bookends In Age of Ultron & Endgame
And the wood splitting scene
Sosumi
Mike Oxlong (@jennytulls.bsky.social):
Tbh I think he's a great example of someone who loves America, but the Sokovian Accords opened his eyes to the flaws in the system, and that's what makes him such a great character. It always seemed to me like he sees what America could be but isn't. (He's my problematic fave too)
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Pratchett's Moist von Lipwig
A rascal, a conman, a scoundrel, a crook, a criminal, a thief, a swindler, an unthinking, unfeeling, addicted to the game grifter, nevertheless reformed and making amends, and tapdancing down the avalanche.
Possibly his most realistic character.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Jesse Pinkman. The Everyman Teenage Dirtbag to Desperate Adult story arc and Aaron Paul's acting are incredible. I would change one part ("Refrigerator" trope) of his story, but like, he is the son Walt adopted, and exploited. Tragedy's exemplar.
(Walter White will not appear on this list)
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Robin Williams' Chris Nielsen in What Dreams May Come.
This film is a melancholic horror, to me — an allegory for loved ones that have fallen into addiction, illness, conspiracy theory rabbit holes. Williams makes me believe that holding open a door out of a personal heck can succeed.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
The Sense8 Cluster. Among other things, the cluster is an overt allegory for DI, the Wachowski sisters & JMS did something novel & touching, made me cry & laugh, hope, and sing. Smudging the boundaries between characters, settings, motives, etc - also a celebration of queer identity & acceptance
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
(Counted as 1 character)
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Alan Ford's Brick Top in Snatch
Actors & actresses very, very rarely capture the incredibly difficult, uncanny essence of "I am a sociopath" that (to me) radiates like stink lines off actual sociopaths.
Ford succeeded in doing so for this unserious, played-for-black-comedy part.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
The Joker. These two actors' renditions.
Ledger doesn't give me the stink lines, but clearly did his research and I think if it weren't "a comic book movie", if I didn't know him from other roles, he might.
Phoenix inhabits the Incel sociopath aspect. 10/10.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Natalie Wynn's Lenora LaVey from the Pronouns video of her ContraPoints series.
A trans woman, a drag queen, a sendup of the sexpot Horror Movie Hostess archetype, the unreliable narrator, the Id of criticism, references to the Addams Family & RHPS & all the sexploitation shlock. A real howl.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Qveen Herby
Blurs the line between performer and persona, because she reinvented herself after a popstar career. Larger than life, girlbossing in all the best ways, the confident nametaker and asskicker coven leader that breaks all the written rules and knows the esoteric laws.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
@mc.frontalot.com
Speaking of blurring the line between performer and persona, the world's 579th greatest rapper. The producer of the nerdy soundtrack of quite a bit of my life.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
(10 so far)
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Zac Oyama's Defendant on Make Some Noise, "A Defendant …"
Everyone loves Brennan's Defense Attorney, but my God, Brennan is just pitching - Zac swings & knocks it out of the park.
...Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
August Diehl's Sturmbannführer Dieter Hellstrom in Inglorious Basterds. Great actors all around, the story is debatable as to its qualities, but this character embodies the Nazi "virtue" of "grave-loyalty", the blind obedience & unwavering loyalty to the cause.
He is thrilled to die for the cause.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
(And also, he is A Nazi. The rest of the German military in the room are German Military, technically Nazis, but they're there for God & Country. StBFhr Hellstrom is a Nazi, & the jig was up before he came around the corner. The spies were pulling rank wrong, the enlisted guy sensed it but -
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
the Major knew it. He was making them dance for him until they broke. He wanted them to sweat. )
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John Inman's Mister Humphries in Are You Being Served?
He stood out as three dimensional, despite being written as a stereotype, and was a character who happened to be funny, rather than a funny character.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
This YouTuber, Julie, does whole voices and characters for her ferrets, and Nugget is a rascal. So much lore and complexity. She makes all of her ferrets characters, but Nugget is my fave.
youtube.com/shorts/dvCnv...
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I was saving her but everyone else is posting her so
Missy, scenery chewing scene stealing Missy
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Granny Weatherwax, for all of her, and particularly for the bit with the anvil in Carpe Jugulum. Fantastic writing.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
"And Hitler ended up in a ditch, covered in petrol, on fire!
… so, /that's fun/. I think that's /funny/!
'Cause he was a mass-murdering /frickhead/!
And that was his honeymoon as well!"
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
The Angel Castiel, Dean Winchester's Superego
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
The Wachowski sisters did a kind thing in writing their anthropomorphic avatar of one aspect of the Axiom of Determinacy as a kind, wise, sweet grandmotherly type.
She would see the Halting Problem as a Halting Opportunity.
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Not actually a character but technically a character but not actually.
Fred Rogers.
DollaryyDoos (@dollaryydoos.bsky.social):
I LOVE that comic!
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
This character, created for a soap advertisement campaign. He's just this guy, but man, is he passionate about the soap he's selling, and he oozes charm, confidence, wit, sauciness & etc. The firm that makes these campaigns & the troupe of improv comedians performing in them really hit a win.
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Buffy Summers.
I've been going thru the motions, walking thru the part. Nothing seems to penetrate my … heart
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Langley, Frohike, & Byers. The Lone Gunmen. I wish all the AM Radio Conspiracy Truther Gumshoes were more like these guys - methodical, skeptical in the true sense, critical, and fearless.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
My Lords, My Ladies …
and everybody ELSE here NOT sitting on a cushion!
Hestia (@thegentlestorm.bsky.social):
I love A Knights Tale
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
So if you care to find me,
Look to the western sky;
As someone told me lately,
Everyone
Deserves
A chance
To fly
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
(19, 7 more owed at this time)
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Wow, you must be a JP fan.
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If only you could put that energy into your relationships
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Sy Nakamura (@theredprince.bsky.social):
#climatesky #energysky
Fyi
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Cool, you were actually the first person I thought of with field expertise / domain knowledge there but didn't want to tag you in to a facefull of slurs. I dredged the Medium account & the bluesky account and the best I got was him being ominous towards David Roberts. He's def an axe grinding crank
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I see he leveraged the appearance of impropriety from the latest IPCC funding, into "IPCC is compromised / useless / must be completely reformed", and my eyes rolled so hard
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Dave Vetter (@davidrvetter.bsky.social):
Hey everyone. Please be advised that a violently antisemitic person called Daniel Williams is on this site under the handle danielwilliams965 . Friends and colleagues have been targeted by him on X. Please see screenshots.
Eternal Cat War (@eternalcatwar.bsky.social):
at some point I'll figure out the link between antisemitic weirdos and hydrogen energy because this is the second time I've seen it this week
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
It's a strategy used for decades, to exploit "Information Voids" or "Knowledge Voids". It lets them leverage rhetorical techniques like Teach the Controversy, that allow them to insert themselves (and their hate speech) into discussions as "relevant"
Eternal Cat War (@eternalcatwar.bsky.social):
Which is funny, cause I did alternative energy research for a supermajor and that guy very obviously did not
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I know very little about alternative energy storage but I know enough about hydrogen to know what the challenges are for a hydrogen energy economy, it's simple physics. No one has to build a conspiracy to blame it on.
Hate speech & denialism - that I know
𝕁 (she Stoke on my Newington 'til I drink party) (@checkwithscience.com):
"gaseous hydrogen is a small molecule because Jews" is a particularly weird kind of antisemitism, I'll give him that
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
It's always "bankers" "financiers" etc as a family of codewords for Jewish people & purported economic control. Millennia of hate behind that false equivalence.
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Dave Vetter (@davidrvetter.bsky.social):
Hey everyone. Please be advised that a violently antisemitic person called Daniel Williams is on this site under the handle danielwilliams965 . Friends and colleagues have been targeted by him on X. Please see screenshots.
Dave Vetter (@davidrvetter.bsky.social):
@safety.bsky.app please note the above.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Hey, I'd like to pin down a source for the antisemitic hate speech that isn't Twitter; because of the abysmal T&S on X, the site is overrun with impersonators hijacking the reputations & personas of activists, "shallowfaking" with hate speech.
I see the account here on bsky links to a Medium —
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Do you know of a post on that person's Medium blog that overtly platforms antisemitic hate speech, or of posts or comments by that account here on bsky that overtly contain hate speech?
Dave Vetter (@davidrvetter.bsky.social):
It's the same person. He's fairly well known for this behaviour. He was on X as danielwilliams_2022 and was banned. He then rejoined as drhwilliams2022 and continues to post, albeit with fewer antisemitic sentiments.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I hear you. Thanks for that.
T&S here operates primarily from "Behaviour on Platform" - stuff they can authoritatively see the account do on the site - so that's the fastest & most reliable course for that.
The secondary line of defense is placing the account on a user-run subscribable blocklist.
Dave Vetter (@davidrvetter.bsky.social):
👍 thanks.
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If only you could put that energy into your relationships
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post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social):
So like, I'm a Jew in America and I grew up in a place without a whole lot of other Jews, and I'm going to try to analogize here:
giving your kids presents from Santa on Christmas is fine even if you're not Christian.
Mimicking Communion is not.
this is much more like the second one.
post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social):
pick a method of interfaith support that is not, in and of itself, a sacred thing that you are misusing.
post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social):
I think this basically comes from a place of support and I don't really want to debate the merits or motivations of that support, only its methods.
but pick a different method. this one's bad.
Leslie Molson (@lesliemolson.bsky.social):
Patricia Heaton is Opus Dei. She isn't coming from a place of "support."
Punkin' Spicy Kelly 🎃💅🏼 (@kellybdevoe.bsky.social):
Is she the one from Home Improvement??
Buttadeus (@thewanderingjew.bsky.social):
Everyone Loves Raymond
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
… that scans because this whole thing smacks of a remaindered Everybody Loves Raymond script pitch
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nora 🪼 (@downtownkitty.com):
it's so good
Bobby Biscotti (@bobbybiscotti.bsky.social):
I'll crack a CDFSCGAZS open to that. That's what it's all about right there
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
My grocery store is sold out of them half the time
I have a standing order to buy all they have, any time they've stocked
We might finally get a CostCo membership for this household, just to meet demand for this soda
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Gender is a performance and
🎼
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far
To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Heck
For a heavenly cause
And I know if I'll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I cried a lot reading TSC but this is where I cried the most
Micah (@rincewind.run):
you could see the effects of the Embuggerance in a lot of The Shepherd's Crown
but the goodbye to Granny was perfect, because it was also a goodbye to Terry
I read it once, and I'm not sure I'll be able to get through it again
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Also, reminder:
In 2017, the "good people" [SIC] who marched on Charlottesville with Unite The Right chanted (alongside "Jews Will Not Replace Us"), "Russia Is Our Friend".
Russia has gone into record amounts of debt in a last ditch effort to break the USA & tear Europe down around it.
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sina (@rejectionking.bsky.social):
do people not read these things out loud to see how they sound or what? (2024)
Cooper Lund (@cooperlund.bsky.social):
What on earth are you talking about?
sina (@rejectionking.bsky.social):
i believe it's a The Format™️ representation of the comment you made re: the poaster in the picture
a helpful translation for those that are more mimetically inclined
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
"Sephiroth posting" is accurate to the "She will never have to worry again, for she shall be the first of the inveterate opposition to face the wall once the glorious revolution … yadda yadda yadda"
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Cooper Lund (@cooperlund.bsky.social):
Do people not read these things out loud to see how they sound or what? How is writing that about someone else over pretty minor political differences acceptable to anyone?
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
That account has a "polandball" pfp, so safe to say the operator has all the political understanding of a /r/PoliticalCompassMemes post
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
No one but Groypers give a darn who Fuentes endorses
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
This decision is effectively "Your employer's wishes supercede your civil rights"
There is no other way to read it
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clockwork banana (@clockworkbanana.fun):
and how is YOUR morning going
Wynn Thornton (Needs-a-job arc) (@northwind.bsky.social):
Not as bad as yours but same:
bsky.app/profile/nort...
clockwork banana (@clockworkbanana.fun):
ah, i went huntin'.
most of these are just queued up. 1 following, 1 post. they'll likely be deployed over the next few days.
Wynn Thornton (Needs-a-job arc) (@northwind.bsky.social):
Someone should make a list of just these
Wynn Thornton (Needs-a-job arc) (@northwind.bsky.social):
I'm on it
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
They're being blocklisted for me by bsky.app/profile/did:...
chadzia dax 🖖🏻 😷 🔞 (@m00psy.bsky.social):
omg thank you i just had 5 of them follow me and had to report and block them all
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Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):
you're going awww? kittens only grow a protective sock when they feel extremely unsafe and you're going awwww?
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Awwwwwwwwwww
Does kitten need to be purritoed
Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):
purritoed!!!! i am ded
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John Bull (@garius.bsky.social):
1. Search for 'spitfire'
2. turn your speakers up
3. click things
4. enjoy
Lone Sloane (@lonesloane.bsky.social):
My searches for "Doctor Who" and "TARDIS" were a disappointment though.
Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Just search for "Asthmatic Camel" and I'm sure …
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Record is 1 days 13 hours 09 minutes and 59 seconds by TheDunceonFlorist
longest streak broken in the last 7 days was BardWatch which was 0 days 15 hours 00 minutes and 54 seconds
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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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