Bard spotting on Bluesky 06 October 2024

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!