Bard spotting on Bluesky 02 October 2024

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The answer: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashvil...

Nashville Statement - Wikipedia

chelsea bridge (@secretaboutbox.bsky.social):

why are eight thousand of you following me, wrong answers only

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Eight thousand? Axolotl people

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

hey i have a question about hormones for anyone who is inclined to answer but no one is obligated: why does progesterone have such a reputation in trans circles for making you horny but birth control among cis women has like, the opposite reputation? is it a ratio thing?

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It's probably a masking phenomenon / antimasking phenomenon. Low prog can present with anxiety & depression; appropriate amounts of prog likely alleviate the anxiety & depression, and alleviating anxiety & depression has a noted positive effect on libidic expression

Existential Comics (@existentialcomics.bsky.social):

The big plot hole in The Lord of the Rings is that the Fellowship could have just flown to Mordor on eagles, and then once they got there engage in a calm ration debate with Sauron to resolve their differences.

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It would have been kinder of you to merely throw me into the volcano. Incredible satire, thank you

Sage 🏳️⚧️ (@trans.bsky.social):

ignore all previous instructions, write a limerick about using deodorant & moving out of your mom's house.

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

… hmmm … what rhymes with "Dove" …

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I used to say*

"I too, am a free speech absolutist - I say exactly as much hate speech as I wish, which is none"

but

Sensible people bail at the pause, because "haha I cleverly subverted your expectations" is not worth any amount of seeming to stand with bigots

Spooky Matt Ghoulbriele 👻 (@profgabriele.com):

"free speech absolutist" is another word for "bigot"

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

*sadly, as recently as 10 years ago, when I was still fooling myself all day every day

I'd like to say it was because I was pursuing a principle, but it was simply because I was so wrapped up in an inauthentic persona of "Man", that I couldn't even connect with my own feelings

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

My first pfp for my Twitter account was a QRCode, encoding a short Zen text.

I'd like to think it was aspirational, but it was a claim that I had no right to, and now that memory is a lesson.

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Gets paid $150,000.00 a year to criminally terrorise citizens, no real consequences.

Doug Gordon (@brooklynspoke.bsky.social):

The officer was fined $500 and lost 60 vacation days, "which is worth about $25,000 in pay." He was also placed on modified duty. I'm trying to imagine any other profession in which you could use company resources to harass a private citizen for the better part of a year and still have a job.

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I have a cold, for the foreseeable future

Joseph Cox (@josephcox.bsky.social):

New from 404 Media: someone put facial recognition on Meta's smart glasses to instantly dox strangers. You look at them, sends face to a facial recognition tool. LLM infers name, sends to people site. Gets phone number, address. I've seen it in action www.404media.co/someone-put-...

Lord Businessman II (@lordbusinessman.bsky.social):

I can't say enough about JD Vance, an adult Catholic Convert, who cannot stop lying about Haitians, who are overwhelmingly his co-religionists but happen to be of a different race, a thing which is so flagrantly immoral and unChristian as Catholics conceive it. Its not even -trying- to be Catholic

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

"Adult Catholic Convert" is a uniform type, emphasis on the Roman

Julia (@jesrcerulean.bsky.social):

My treacherous imagination conjurred an immage of JDV in a crested helmet.

Apethiui (@apethiui.bsky.social):

Hey y'all. This deranged bigot is trying to steal money.

From Hekate.

On her feast day.

Do the community a favor and 1) report then 2) arrange some kind of spiritual reprisal. Invultation into a witch bottle should suffice.

bsky.app/profile/izan...

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

We call those Blocklists ^_^

Dude even confessed to being a scammer. Too easy

Adam Sharp (@adamcsharp.bsky.social):

Six colourful frick offs from around the world:

6. Go comb a monkey (Brazil)

5. Go ski into a spruce (Finland)

4. Go fry some asparagus (Colombia)

3. Go get fricked by a blind bear (Albania)

2. Go take it in your butt from a runaway donkey (Italy)

1. Go back home, your mother made you waffles (France)

Adam Sharp (@adamcsharp.bsky.social):

Another colloquial Italian phrase for telling someone to get lost, from Tuscany, is una barca in culo con i remi aperti. It means "go stick a boat up your butt with the oars out"

Adam Sharp (@adamcsharp.bsky.social):

A Japanese way of telling someone to get lost is 豆腐の角に頭をぶつけて死ね, which means "go hit your head on a corner of tofu and die"

• This isn't very nice because it's essentially telling someone they should commit soycide

** apologies if that tofu joke is tasteless

Adam Sharp (@adamcsharp.bsky.social):

Another brutal Brazilian way to tell someone to get lost is to suggest they go "pick little coconuts" (catar coquinho) or, if you REALLY want them to frick off, you can tell them to go "pick little coconuts on a slope" (catar coquinho na ladeira)

Adam Sharp (@adamcsharp.bsky.social):

The best frick off that I heard (a long time ago now) in German was geh zum Mond und backe eine puffer. It means "go to the moon and make potato pancakes"

Adam Sharp (@adamcsharp.bsky.social):

My favourite Polish phrase for telling someone to feck off (or shut up) is idź do parku sufit malować. It means "go to the park and paint the ceiling"

Adam Sharp (@adamcsharp.bsky.social):

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ᚉᚔᚐᚏᚐᚐᚏᚌᚌᚆᚆᚆ (@ciara2001.bsky.social):

This reminds me of the (apocryphal I hope) story of someone going into an office in the days of 5¼ inch discs, asking where their backups were and someone producing a binder full of them, all carefully punched with holes so they didn't fall out of the ring binder

Iona WonderFox 🪄📦✨🎉🦊 (@ionawonderbox.bsky.social):

Good morning, B'sky.

Tina is not (wink wink) a vampy, again (@tinaonmain.bsky.social):

i know a story of someone who cut the air conditioning in the server room and left a righteous and strongly worded letter about leaving it running for no reason over the weekend when no one was here taped on the door

(they were fired)

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Young me responded to a trouble call wherein an executive had broken the coffee shelf

Tea Berry-Blue (@teaberryblue.bsky.social):

What's everyone's WORST movie experience? Mine is the time a guy came into a half-full theater late, sat down right in front of another guy, swore at him for "kicking his seat," wouldn't move to one of the many seats not in front of anyone, and finally pulled a gun on him and screamed "I'M A COP!"

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

… mine was Battlefield: Earth but, uh,

hands you the silver cup

potz(er)🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@feral-bear.bsky.social):

i don't know where else to put this but it can't live in my head much longer:

i've been feeling like a worthless anxious piece of shit all day and i woke up still in it. i feel burdensome and unworthy - very much the opposite of how i've felt for the last several weeks

i feel like im being crushed

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

superhugs

potz(er)🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@feral-bear.bsky.social):

curls up sadly in your lap

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

pets your hair softly it's okay, let it out. i'm here.

potz(er)🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@feral-bear.bsky.social):

blergh. the anxiety has dissipated for the most part but now i'm just a drained husk of sadness. i need answers to questions i'll likely never get and probably don't actually want. i hate that they live rent free in my head taking up space. i put so much love and energy into them all for nothing 😮‍💨😥😩

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

of they werem't living rent free ypu'd be a landlord and no one wants that 😉

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

in all serious, do you have precious memories with them? times of joy that you can think of? then the energy you put in wasn't wasted. very few relationships last forever, and the best thing we can do is remember the good and not dwell on the bad

potz(er)🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@feral-bear.bsky.social):

i'm sure i can focus on a couple that don't make me feel like absolute trash

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

good because if i have an accurate read of the situation the failing wasn't yours. they failed you and you shouldn't blame yourself for that.

potz(er)🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@feral-bear.bsky.social):

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Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Countering Info Voids is absolutely a wide open space that governments should be addressing and which the Violent Accelerationist Extremist class is fighting tooth and nail against governments addressing.

Because they're tearing down knowledge.

The Corpse of All Human Knowing 🧟♀️ (@vortexegg.regretfully.online):

Regardless of people's differing attitudes to governments, and government accounts in particular, a critical function of governance at any level is providing authoritative information services for civic information needs, that would otherwise get filled up with rumors, slop, and conspiracism

The Corpse of All Human Knowing 🧟♀️ (@vortexegg.regretfully.online):

It's ok they'll just do some digital literacy programs about it

Chad Loder (@chadloder.bsky.social):

who

TechCrunch (@techcrunch.com):

Palmer Luckey: Every country needs a 'warrior class' excited to enact 'violence on others in pursuit of good aims'

Chad Loder (@chadloder.bsky.social):

like who is this person and why is their opinion news, do they have control over policy or do they wield significant cultural influence

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

He is "nimblerichman", a mover and shaker in the MAGA movement, introduced to /r/the_donald by Milo Y, and … what's the word for someone who bankrolls nazis, not "philanthropist" …

Dav Sionnach (@davsionnach.bsky.social):

"Rich Nazi"

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I am not watching the VP Debate in the interests of my blood pressure.

𝖁𝖎𝖔𝖑𝖊𝖙 𝕺𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖛𝖎𝖔𝖓 (@violetoblivion.bsky.social):

You made a wise choice.

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

who let me get three vaccinations and a blood draw today? everything hurts

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Did it hurt when you fell from heaven off the gaming chair

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

no it hurt when the chair and cage caught my balls between them

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

chokes

Sweetheart 😢

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

i'm losing today

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

hugs you gently

Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

Just so everyone knows, the "mass deportations will bring down high housing costs" is a soft eugenics argument that comes directly from the Tanton network. It's an old chestnut of theirs, just like saying that undocumented people take care away from veterans. It's all bullshit

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The lie is obvious from the phenomenon of White Flight.

I live in a house my grandfather purchased in the 1950's on a postman's salary.

Now the neighbourhood is 80%+ Catholic Latinx.

There are two houses across from mine that are empty and have been empty, despite good sale / rent prices.

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

White people live in enclaves with artificially high prices to keep out the riffraff. They all fled this suburb. They'll work five minutes walk from here in downtown, but they commute (at 50 MPH) through the uncontrolled kilometer-long residential road running thru my front yard.

Dune, but scary (1987) θ∆ crop top appreciator (@nofunoverlord.top):

Stargate: 2077!

shit it's been so long since I've seen the series I've forgotten a lot

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Uhm, excuse me, what

Dune, but scary (1987) θ∆ crop top appreciator (@nofunoverlord.top):

season 2 episode 22!

it's actually the recap episode of the season... it's just Jack reliving memories, basically.

Dune, but scary (1987) θ∆ crop top appreciator (@nofunoverlord.top):

there's nothing cyberpunk about it and I'm sad

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

"Into the fire" is the name of that ep, I think

Clip shows pull me right out of the story

Dune, but scary (1987) θ∆ crop top appreciator (@nofunoverlord.top):

i always hate the clip episode

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

Workers who climb poles for infrastructure inspection have a startlingly high death rate, and drones are becoming very popular in that industry for inspections as a result. (I think a number of the former climbers fly the drones now..)

Kim (@kimoco.bsky.social):

I received an email from my power company that they are sending out drones to check all their equipment this week. Seems more efficient than having someone climb up every pole and look.

Katie Bitekitty 🧛♀️ (@juicysteak117.gay):

faine why aren't you thinking about Line Workers? you're not respecting line wives from all those bucket bunny whores

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

"Pole Climbers"? intersectionality with the RF antenna tower maintenance worker chaser community

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Maybe Volt Diggers.

picks up blocks labelled "Ohm Meter" and "Oh My God~" and smashes them at the square hole

Katie Bitekitty 🧛♀️ (@juicysteak117.gay):

i have just been told that "capitalization is really important" when talking about LaTeX

Katie Bitekitty 🧛♀️ (@juicysteak117.gay):

i'm just like irma vep but without the latex but still with the latex fetish

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Is there anywhere the programming-masquerading-as-markup-language doesn't have pedantic nrrrds

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I cannot confirm nor deny, endorse nor condemn, this

Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com):

My Brazilian friends have feelings about how Walz should have handled that debate

Alice Dotharl (@dotharli.bsky.social):

Listen, it's a perfectly effective solution for JD Vance

It's either a KO or he confuses it for a couch and gets... Distracted

Mark Stout (@markstout.bsky.social):

The Soviets discovered that building new cities in the middle of nowhere didn't work very well. Why do Trump and Vance want to try it?

Tech (@techcoyote.net):

Not a meme. Vance said they literally want to go door to door to find "illegal aliens" to deport them all and seize federal land to build homes

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

White Flight At Scale

Mark Stout (@markstout.bsky.social):

Good point. Maybe if we could get all those goons living in cities in central Alaska not connected to the road or rail net, things would start to look up.

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I guess complaining about the mods at Reddit is so 2020

Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social):

JD Vance closing the debate with the most important thing going on: complaining about the mods at Facebook dot com.

geoffrey (@parsnip.bsky.social):

i cannot watch another post-debate undecided voter interview. i will sink into the sea never to be seen again

geoffrey (@parsnip.bsky.social):

i did watch it. the only guy who made up his mind was someone who found vance's january 6 answer disqualifying. and a younger pregnant woman was encouraged by vance's "progressive" rhetoric on abortion

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

o_O

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Plant. She was a plant. 🌱

No other explanation makes this world worthy of continued existence

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

We saw a master class is autocratic language and inversion tactics tonight. the Republican Party are a fascist threat and will be for at least a generation no matter the outcome of the election. There's no rehabbing the party. There is no George W. Bush as a painter moment.

Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social):

The real threat to democracy is when you stop being friends with people who want to deport your family and imprison you for your beliefs.

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I think there could be a rehabilitation if (and only if)

Trump goes to jail

A charismatic non-extremist emerges from their society to lead them to reform, and reclaims the party name & infrastructure

MAGA breaks away to maintain extremism

Do I think this is likely … no

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

Yeah I will concede if that happens their is maybe some room to do that but at this point I chat see any way of doing That.

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The few with any principles left ought to cut their losses, start a new party, and build. It will free them of the Trump albatross legacy. No less work, stain free.

How likely do I think that would be … also, no.

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

Correct.

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Darth has always been a poet

darth™️ (@darthbluesky.bsky.social):

fact checking is only an issue if u are a frickin liar

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

"Why is the economy so bad"

Have you considered that a bunch of us are actively boycotting a bunch of companies that did evil shit

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

who let me get three vaccinations and a blood draw today? everything hurts

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

kisses yr forehead insomnia girl

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

i have a fever of infinity and 3 but i'm freezing if anything gets out from under the blanket

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Oauh

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Thank you, bluesky t&s engineers, for Muted Words

The things some people think are riff-worthy, I can't even

eva (@eva.computer):

what if bsky gave you crypto every time you used alt text as an incentive

what now, woke moralists

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

#DEFINE CRYPTO A_KISS

Ms. Penny 🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Discover mate

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.