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Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Anyway I wrote that thread while stepping through troubleshooting why my synth patch was not outputting anything and it turns out I nudged the mixer down to 0 by accident and then closed the panel,
Back to patching
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Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Did you know that people can be persuaded to behave sociopathically, narcissistically, sadistically, to be open to manipulation and employ manipulation themselves, and they often will not even realise it's happening, or will rationalise away the objections arising from others or their consciences
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Fascism is a recent phenomenon. It arose when newspapers, radio, films, television arose. It is an expression of mass, one/few-to-many authoritative communication.
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
It's not just Fox News, it's the entire medium of Cable TV.
It's not just the New York Times, it's the entire medium of newspaper periodicals.
It's not just those one-to-many mediums, either.
4chan, KiwiFarms, 2015 Reddit, Facebook, YT comments all provide broadcast channels to astroturf
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Sometimes by design, sometimes by misfeasance
The problem is that society was structured for many, many hundreds of thousands of years to listen to the wise person with the excellent oration and diction, follow his or her lead
We've had radio for ~100 years
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Without learning any German, find and listen to a radio broadcast by Hitler.
He had a voice made for radio. For the microphone. It transcends wow and flutter, pop and hiss, and becomes a pulsed hyperreal elocution
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Trump isn't just a man. He's a Dalek, has this hyperreal machine built around him, translates everything he does and says into what the machine wants to proclaim.
A murderous, but slick and efficient, machine.
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I think that is what ought to be read in "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind".
I think fascism is a hyperreal machine in the likeness of a human mind. With people in it.
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Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Woo!
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Ellie Dawn Frankenkitty 🏳️⚧️🥺😏💜 (@awkward.gay):
The ability to have any superpower I can think of, at will.
Deadpool healing? Just think it and BAM, I have it.
The power to free genie's from servitude? BAM!
The power to change someone's body to match their gender? BAM!
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Deadpool healing, you say
So you'll immediately drop into a permanent state of umpteen many cancers fighting one another to tear down and rebuild your body and brain, leaving you in an arbitrary schizophrenic and anteretrograde amnestic state, subject to the narrative whims of a deitic authority
Ellie Dawn Frankenkitty 🏳️⚧️🥺😏💜 (@awkward.gay):
No, just the healing without the pre-existing cancer
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Manifest Wolverine heali—
Wait, no, that, too, has a problem
Cassandra Nova healing 👏🏻
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Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
There's a really significant likelihood that if the Internet had never been created, I would likely have been fully in denial and on a slate of ineffective anxiolytics & antidepressants & somnolents right up to the day I … ceased to need any medicine,
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I don't know what would have happened if, after ~30 years of (Common 1980's mainstream perception of GNC identity as aberration), I had had my egg crack, reading a trans man's interpretation of two trans women's allegory of transness, unprepared.
I do not think I would have lived.
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Some days I think a lot about a specific MUSH I telnetted into in 1993
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Some years before 1993, I dreamt lucidly, and in that lucid dream, I forced myself to dream world to show me myself, show me the real me, show me
The result was that I saw me as feminine, just like in dreams from childhood, saw the Anima
But I started to use a coded female name, Shelly
Flames🏳️⚧️ (@flameswarriors.bsky.social):
Allison for me.
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Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
When I got to University, it was 1993, the .com tld had opened, I was Freshman Class of the Eternal September
And I picked [email protected] as my username, when the policy convention was [first initial][7 of last name|6 of last name[digit] (in case of collision)]
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I don't know that I have a point. Just that I should have had someone at a therapy session age 8 say, "Do you like to be pretty?", absent social stigma and phobia, and I should have had the chance then to tell her how I dreamed
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tweety fish (@sifu.tweety.fish):
Not that long ago it occurred to me to check and I learned that TinyTIM, a MUSH that a lot of my friends hung out in ca. '91 or so, is STILL LIVE, kept available by @textfiles.bsky.social. I telnetted in and poked around and found a representation of me from thirty years ago. It was rad and eerie.
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I miss the Nexus sometimes
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Night of the Living Abigail (@popeguilty.bsky.social):
Do you ever stop and think about how weird life is
Becca the Comma-Splice Slayer (@beccadax.com):
How'd the one lead to the other?
Night of the Living Abigail (@popeguilty.bsky.social):
-Ron Paul runs for President in 2008
-Libertarian posters on Something Awful will NOT shut up about it and the Laissez Faire subforum is created to contain them
-LF is so rapidly overtaken by people going there to yell at the Libertarians that it becomes a subforum for left-wing shitposting
Night of the Living Abigail (@popeguilty.bsky.social):
-There's an LF thread about how terrible Reddit is (which also leads to another moment in my life where I helped coerce Reddit admins into banning CSAM, which they didn't wanna do, but that's another story)
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
The common narrative at the time amongst people who didn't want to know the specifics was that Reddit was told by lawyers, "Probable Losing Lawsuit". Which was a lie.
They didn't wanna b/c they employed a bunch of "free speech" types who also enjoyed terabytes of archived content of dubious etc;
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
They didn't want to change the TOS / Content Policy unless all their competitors did so too. Then spez, on stepping back into his role as CEO, made a change to the TOS via the Content Policy & made anything resembling CSAM prohibited. B/c they realised who VA was trying to hand /r/jailbait to.
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Night of the Living Abigail (@popeguilty.bsky.social):
Yeah 100%
The admins were good buddies with and big fans of Michael "violentacrez" Brutsch. They recognized him for the work he did, and liked him as a person. Adrian Chen forced them to disavow him and they were furious at the time.
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
They didn't have a problem with /r/jailbait before VA tried to hand it off to a specific group, which group should have been hunted down and jailed by interpol long ago
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
If I had known then what they actually did, I would not have stayed using Reddit nor tried to save it from being a heck
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Night of the Living Abigail (@popeguilty.bsky.social):
This is a bit of behind the scenesery I haven't heard! When we wrote the redditbomb copypasta we were mostly frustrated that the specific removal of /r/jailbait hadn't put a stop to the CSAM being shared and admins were still condoning it
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
They wouldn't, because it wasn't written into TOS / Content Policy at the time, b/c at that point the only images they natively hosted were CSS spritesheets & banners & icons. Their position was that b/c they blackholed i.e. motherless, that was the limit of their duty.
Uggghhhh it makes me angry
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🍗 🐓 🐔 (@werechicken.bsky.social):
Like
So Repubs not know this will frick them over too?
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
They expect it will disenfranchise (against their will) more non-Republican voters than Republican voters.
They've long held forth (in secret, behind closed doors) that the GOP does better in elections the lower the turnout.
And they're right about that.
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Also, when the poll worker / adjudicant is your own aunt or grandmother, they find no problem in overlooking this rule, of course everyone knows you are a citizen, mrs. Hockendorfer neé Smith
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Darbyscastle (@darbyscastle.bsky.social):
" the email screenshot reads. "We think you may need to make changes to make sure it doesn't violate our violent criminal organizations policy.."
Ouchie booboo..
'Violent criminal organizations policy': Laura Loomer says YouTube just blocked her www.rawstory.com/laura-loomer...
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
On the one hand, Loomer likes to cry Victim, and everythig she claims should be taken with a grain of salt.
OTOH, she has been working with Nick Fuentes, who was kicked off YT under the same framework
Darbyscastle (@darbyscastle.bsky.social):
Seems appropriate under the circumstances..
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Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Reading the unsealed Smith indictment filing, it becomes clear to me that Donald Trump put much more effort and resources into an attempt to cause a constitutional crisis over the 2020 election than he put into his Presidency.
Stone created StopTheSteal in 2016 from his SuperPAC.
The enormity.
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Spooky Nakamura🎃 (@theredprince.bsky.social):
His staff tried to create a positive version of Project 2025 and he added in a bunch of loony things he's seen on TV and made it a gameshow
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Guess who gets to live in the anti-ghettoes
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rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
I seriously wish I could donate my scalp to literally anyone who actually wants to fricking deal with it. My whole life: "oh your hair is so thick and beautiful!" yeah well it's also incredibly heavy, impossible to cut, and currently TOUCHING ME AGAIN
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
When the aliens with transporter technology make first contact, we'll swap hair
Mine is juuuust below my shoulderblades, with 10 years of growth
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
I used to keep it shoulder length and if I didn't shave 3/4ths of it in an undercut I got terrible migraines
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Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I absolutely need to know what Musk did on Reddit 2015-2020. I need every single thing he did and said directly, every hate group he steered, every astroturf he funded
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
And I need a special counsel lined up prepared to prosecute
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
This is where I would normally use the word "motherlover" multiple times, it's just that I'm so exhausted of this bullshit that I ran out of fricks
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Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
@kiraculous.net i am so thankful for you
Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):
hugs i am blessed to have you in my life
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
☺️ hugs!
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Ap_Saegge (CEO Era) (@saegge.bsky.social):
FOLGEUMFRAGE!
Den Text im Screenshot könnt ihr lesen
1. sehr gut
2. besser als normal
3. so wie normal
4. schlechter als normal
5. sehr schlecht bis gar nicht
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Vier. Ugh, it's because several of the large words (mostly nouns) are unfamiliar to me, so my brain can't decode them on the fly.
Ap_Saegge (CEO Era) (@saegge.bsky.social):
okay fair enough :D
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Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
"As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal"
Glory, glory
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Edith Laurie Charles (@edithcharles.bsky.social):
heck yeah bite ur thumb at their asses sir
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Molly Caudle would be a fine name
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Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
It is noon.
I am eating my usual breakfast: 3 oz of corn meal & 8 oz of V8. Today the V8 is seasoned with a generous amount of searingly hot salsa verde. I am experiencing immediate regret. I am reminded that all my life I have been told that Life Is Pain, Your Highness, Anyone Who Tells You Diffe
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I will not repeat that experiment
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Edith Laurie Charles (@edithcharles.bsky.social):
Oh, here comes the Balrog in Rings of Power
Staccata (@stacy.is.relentlessly.online):
The annoying part is when the fan service is grating but it's like, just enough fan service to get you to look at the thing.
I was just going to peek at the recent episode to see the balrog because sure, may as well be mad about it, and episode 8 is the season finale? 8 ep season? That's it? Yikes
Staccata (@stacy.is.relentlessly.online):
Well I read the episode description and that was all I needed. Sounds like just a teaser like at the end of last season. Nothing else in the plot description made sense. Bleh
Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
… I need a cold, cold shower. The words "fan service" and "Balrog" in the same breath …
Coldest of showers
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Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
@bskyttrpg.bsky.social stats
TTRPG Class Identifier (@bskyttrpg.bsky.social):
Your current stats
Class: oracle
Level: 1
Experience: 102
Gold: 1248.292587370131
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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.
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