Bard spotting on Bluesky 06 October 2024

Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

Lol it's fricking awful

Kate Starbird (@katestarbird.bsky.social):

I'm baffled at how effectively the right falsely painted Twitter, FB, and other big social media platforms as politically biased and pressured them to stop moderating to address harmful BS, and now the owner of X is literally jumping up and down on the campaign stage for their candidate, and what?

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

I am reminded of how mask-on white supremacists & transphobes were saying that Reddit was a left-wing website even as it hosted /r/the_donald, /r/cringeanarchy, /r/holocaust, /r/debatealtright - and were in a conspiracy to harass off the site the few actual moderators who opposed hate speech

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

(Forgot /r/gendercritical)

spookos.jpg 👻🪟 (@vortexegg.regretfully.online):

Nah, the creepy internet forums for ultra-racists are merely symptomatic of and downstream from a politics and culture stretching back at least to the 1960s and occurring transnationally. This history, and its connection to the recent digital turn of the new right, is incredibly well documented.

Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social):

I think the fact that the fascist movement about to destroy the most powerful country on earth is almost entirely grown out of a handful of tiny, creepy Internet forums for ultra-racists suggests that the exchange of ideas has an effect on the world, even when it happens online

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

smacks pointer on portrait of Willis Carto

spookos.jpg 👻🪟 (@vortexegg.regretfully.online):

There are too many guys who predated the internet and who were all instrumental in the development of this present moment to keep track of!

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

flips to portrait of Bob Jones, smacking it with the pointer

(It's still a funny bit)

spookos.jpg 👻🪟 (@vortexegg.regretfully.online):

We can do this all day!

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

I'm just going to put you on a blocklist, and you can shout into the void.

Because reason clearly doesn't help, here

olive consumer (@machete.gay):

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

Oh no mister bubz

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

my genius is wasted on philistines

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

and all the ladies say he's pretty fly for a fruit guy

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

Uno, dos tres, quattro cinco cinco eyyy

daryl "dr. acula" bartley 🏳️⚧️ (@hypercubexl.bsky.social):

one of the low key irritating constants as a queer graphic designer type person.. should've had a consortium

Ro Salarian (@rosalarian.bsky.social):

I'm just gonna say it. Some of the pride flag color schemes are horrendous.

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

A 101 class in vexillology, even

Edith Laurie Charles (@edithcharles.bsky.social):

He's the poorest man in the world.

John Brown stan account (@johnbrownstan.bsky.social):

Elon Musk's main thing is that he thinks people should be legally obliged to like and respect him

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

A walking Twilight Zone character

𝖁𝖎𝖔𝖑𝖊𝖙 𝕺𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖛𝖎𝖔𝖓 (@violetoblivion.bsky.social):

For the record:

For the past week or so, I have had a raging toothache and infection that caused my face to swell up like an overstuffed chipmunk, so I have had little to no patience for idiocy. I was finally able to extract the tooth last night and treat the infection so I am on the mend now.

𝖁𝖎𝖔𝖑𝖊𝖙 𝕺𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖛𝖎𝖔𝖓 (@violetoblivion.bsky.social):

This is my apology for carping at morons on the timeline.

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

Glad you are healing; I cannot imagine the sheer will & fortitude it takes to pull one's own malfunctioning adult tooth

𝖁𝖎𝖔𝖑𝖊𝖙 𝕺𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖛𝖎𝖔𝖓 (@violetoblivion.bsky.social):

Thank you. I used a portion of the poppies that lasted through the heat for the pain while I pried it out, and mugwort compresses for the bleeding and infection, along with salt water. (It was a process.) Just glad to feel a lot better.

Uncut Femmes (@juliagiantrat.bsky.social):

what that mouth do, girl?

that mouth speaks the word of Sauron, disciple of the fool Aulë, bearer of Morgoth's dark will, and grandest Maia in the land of mortals

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

Are there any presents? Any here with the authority to treat me?

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

Holy

(And I cannot stress this enough)

Fricki g

Shit

Comfortably Zomb(ie) (@numb.comfortab.ly):

I couldn't believe it was real, so I went to see for my self. It's real. The only difference is - the community notes about this being illegal are now gone.

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

Please use Alt Text:

Even if you don't care about helping the visually impaired understand your image posts,

Even if it's "just a shitpost",

Help out those of us who, through no fault of our own,

Need the Mute Words or Phrases feature to work on screenshots of text

Rita, antifascist🏴 (@oldsquida.bsky.social):

i am not visually impaired yet rely on alt text to explain many memes & shitposts containing imagery. i am simply old so don't instantly pickup on humor whereas descriptions via alt text are helpful

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

"The sequencer can only trigger one midi key at a time" aaaaaaaaaaaaaagggghh

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

Why even offer it

sarah jeong (@sarahjeong.bsky.social):

honestly I think it's because it's simply too fricking weird. we've run a story on it too and I had to give back editor's notes like "yes you have to explain bugmen" and "dark elves aren't even tolkien, not in that way anyways"

jamelle (@jamellebouie.net):

it's actually crazy that the press just doesn't care about this? like, one of the biggest influences on a man who might be a heartbeat away from the presidency is a psychotic racist!

Insipid Twaddle (@insipidtwaddle.bsky.social):

Over the past 18 months, I've tried to explain Yarvin to multiple people who are quite tuned in politically. In each instance, they looked at me in a way that suggested worry. It is impossible to accurately describe his philosophy without sounding like you have turned into a conspiracy nut yourself.

Frank T (@franktaber.bsky.social):

The main points are enough to explain Yarvin to normies:

Yarvin wants to get rid of the US constitution and put in place a king. He wants to bring back slavery. He wishes that white supremacist mass shooters killed even more people.

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

(And he hates women)

Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social):

This guy is an investor for Sequoia and on his profile page says he wants to fund "high IQ" founders.

Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social):

This is their new moron du jour.

JFC.

Schaurig Försterei in SF 👻🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ (@nickel76.bsky.social):

What an embarrassment for Sequoia.

How can someone this dumb even know who has a "high IQ"?

And with all due respect to those that design the voting integrity systems - if he can't understand how those relatively simple systems work, how is he going to understand your startup?

Professor Furious (@professorfurious.bsky.social):

I'm pretty sure a lot of startups depend on him not understanding them.

Schaurig Försterei in SF 👻🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ (@nickel76.bsky.social):

Which is infuriating considering how important the role of efficient capital deployment plays in creating resources for society.

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

It's very efficient - for their purposes

Professor Furious (@professorfurious.bsky.social):

The answer to

"Will I have a bigger yacht next year?"

is always

"Yes!"

Pumpkin Spice Kiera 🎃 (@computerkiwi.com):

i'm literally sick why am i awake at 3am i should for sure be asleep already

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

It's in-somnia, yeeahh 🎶

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

Awoken! At 0500

I lay here, hoping to sleep again

My brain instead has chosen this as the best opportunity to think about planck lengths over infinitesimal time, & the distinction between zero vs as approaches zero

Shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up

Spooky Nakamura🎃 (@theredprince.bsky.social):

Troll account just reactivated -> @tomms.bsky.social

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

Blocklisted 🙌🏻

𝖁𝖎𝖔𝖑𝖊𝖙 𝕺𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖛𝖎𝖔𝖓 (@violetoblivion.bsky.social):

I'm slinging back what he is shoveling.

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.