Bard spotting on Bluesky 02 October 2024

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.