Bard spotting on Bluesky 09 October 2024

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

[pretend this is the funniest skeet ever]

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

So, uh, what time do you get off?

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

depends on an act of congress

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

The reason Threads is removing a harmless epithet that skewers white privilege, is because Meta hired a White Identity Extremist as their lead for Trust & Safety

#DeleteFacebook and all other Meta products

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

newrepublic.com/post/185306/...

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The Project 2025 Refugee Who Slid Into Your Socials

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

Sorry, their Director of Public Policy, which is the Board level report for T&S department, so —

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

I am as pale and white and Caucasian as it's possible to be.

No one is credibly coming for my (or any other pale European-descended person's) job, health, life, safety, sanity, or franchise by leveraging "cracker".

Denying its use is denying legitimate anger and history.

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

Thread's automated sitewide policy against the use of the word is bad faith equivocation of discussion of racism with performance of racism, it is the "well if I can't say N— then they can't say Cracker" mentality which is real censorship

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

The only way huge tech corps like Meta ever fix themselves is if there's a legitimate boycott.

Bullet the Bsky (@windblow.org):

The funniest thing is that this exact shit happened here in Bluesky in the early days of moderation and it was booed out almost immediately

Sage 🏳️⚧️🎃 (@trans.bsky.social):

this image is illegal on Threads. reskeet this cracker post to trigger The Zuck.

Sage 🏳️⚧️🎃 (@trans.bsky.social):

the cracker trap is one of the most straightforward trust & safety litmus tests out there. it reliable shows how in touch with reality a platform's moderation team is.

if they emotionally spiral & double down over the word cracker? leave now, they will make far worse decisions in the future.

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

Mmmm salted unleavened flatbreads toasted over an open flame, leaving no opportunity for natural yeast activity

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

Alabusters

Yankees

The Caucasity

Crackers

Hardtack

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

As a long-time resident of Garland, Texas, USA, I can relate

m.youtube.com/watch?v=tCHG...

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Garland

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

brisbian - having a crush on mrs brisbee

frisbian - having a crush on the hot girl you saw playing ultimate frisbee

Gestalt Ersatzquatch (@emdashel.bsky.social):

Bisbian, is that anything?

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

Kirasbian

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

Less than an hour after the news of the ChristChurch massacre, the operators of /r/the_donald stickied a "moderator" announcement mocking Islam and Muslims, calling them "Satanic" and engaging in pedojacketing.

Straight DARVO stuff.

MAGA are a terrorist cult.

Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social):

The more I talk about the election the more shocked I am by how many people memory holed 2016-2020. Every day was a new horror. New emergencies popped up constantly. I fundamentally don't understand how people seemingly forgot about all of it.

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

"""straight guy""" who loves lesbian pop songs wayyyyyy too enthusiastically

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

"Why are all these guys around me not as enthused & excited for Sarah McLachlan opening for […] as I am?"

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

Cards Against Humanity does "Use the machine against the oppressors" far better than Will Stancil's "Use the machine against the oppressors"

Stephen C. Rea (@stevierea.bsky.social):

Oof, Nick-effing-Fuentes did actual debunking/fact-checking of FEMA and Helene conspiracy theories on his show last night. Explaining how budgets work, how the $750 figure is just one thing not the total, how it's all being politicized… Yikes, when this butthole is the "voice of reason" 😳

Dr Henry (@cmhenry.bsky.social):

This fills me with an unspeakable and confusing dread

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

Obligatory Onion Headline

sina (@rejectionking.bsky.social):

democrats need a rove or atwater figure is how im understanding this Stancil Classic™️

Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social):

Yes: fundamentally Democrats and liberals often fail to grasp that to dominate narratives you need people to pay attention and talk about you, and you get people to pay attention and talk about you not by AGREEING WITH EVERYONE but by AGGRESSIVELY PURSUING GENUINE CONFLICT

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

"Democrats need to troll people" is the only reading of that which makes sense to me

I'd have given "by genuine conflict i mean the pursuit of the presence of justice, rather than the absence of tension", but no, that's … not what he means. He means "use and power the machine of deceit"

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

There's a reason to "dominate media narratives" in this day and age, and it's to derail science, knowledge, good government, the protection of rights, trust in institutions

For whom is dominating media narratives important, Will

For whom

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

A statement from the member of his advisory council who reported he wanted protestors shot in the knees …

Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social):

Feels like a good closing ad would be a clip of Trump saying "what have you got to lose?" followed by a montage of news clips about Trump's bungling of hurricane responses, the loss of Roe v Wade, the COVID death count, the tanking economy, his Bible waving anti-BLM stunt, the January 6th mob...

Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social):

1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia

2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff

www.404media.co/the-editors-...

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The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes

Alex White is designing a romance game (@nalexwhite.bsky.social):

One wonders what is in the minds of idiots who are deliberately polluting Wikipedia. Is this the same kind of idiots that have always been at work, but with cowtools that let them generate more garbage more quickly? Or a new breed of idiots?

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

There are three motives for this behaviour

Politics

Profit

Fun

Until arrested and put on trial for a crime committed in connection with the activity, all three are indistinguishable from the outside. Paid trolls behave like 13 YO trolls, political operatives throw whatever might stick, etc

Zanes, Blue Collar Mage (@zanestheargent.bsky.social):

For all 3 are indeed connected in one big cultural core: post-truth. Making so there is zero trust and zero verifiability by exhaustion makes people less likely to research and more prone to take info that is comfortable.

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

@kiraculous.net I miss you 🥰

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

Several months after I came out as trans to a private group on Reddit (2016), the operators had let in a bunch of /r/the_donald commenters & posters, b/c the only requirement was 100,000 karma.

They upmarseyd some hateful transphobic comments responding to someone with a newly out trans daughter.

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

A leader of a 15,000 member fascist telegram channel told me - that when i.e. a trans woman starts shouting about "tucutes" "using up resources" or gay men lead a pileon because someone got it twisted, or some member of a vulnerable demographic punches down - it is blood in the water for them

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

I asked the operators, "Are you really going to let them be hateful Nazis in this subreddit?"

and more than just saying "It's not our problem lol"

one of them decided to target me for abuse.

And that is why I wrecked 42,000+ bigot Redditors' shit by campaigning for a rule against hate.

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

It is why I wrecked a few hundred subreddit "moderators" shit by campaigning for a Moderator Code of Conduct to hold mods accountable for letting their subreddits be toxic cesspits.

Because forums shouldn't be virtual attractive nuisances

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

if you have power in reach to stop these buttholes and you don't fight with every ounce of strength to pull the lever that slams the trapdoor on their fingers

They smell it, and then they know they own you

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

A leader of a 15,000 member fascist telegram channel told me - that when i.e. a trans woman starts shouting about "tucutes" "using up resources" or gay men lead a pileon because someone got it twisted, or some member of a vulnerable demographic punches down - it is blood in the water for them

Chad Loder (@chadloder.bsky.social):

There is no "culture war" trap that fascists can set for us, besides the only trap fascists EVER set — the one where we allow marginalized groups to be picked off because we're afraid to show solidarity with them

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

They have search engines that look for keywords to find people who say things like "It's easy to tell if someone's really transgender". So they can be the first responders to that person.

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

Shove / faces / throats / normal / attention / 32 genders / too young

If my account were indexable by Google; If I made a sockpuppet on Reddit and posted these words in 2019;

They'd be my instant best friends and steer "me" into "reason" and towards "Us" vs "Them"

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

We will see a spike in electrical fires b/c of this.

Ron Parker (@parkrrrr.bsky.social):

The opposite case is all too likely even without AI's "help," now that recent NEC revisions have allowed 10A circuits for low-power lighting, so 16ga Romex will start turning up in big box stores.

Riley MacLeod (@rcmacleod.bsky.social):

Boy, you gotta just put your finger in the exact right spot on the mandolin fret or it sure lets you know, huh

orsonswelles (@orsonswelles.bsky.social):

in a month you won't even have to think about it

Riley MacLeod (@rcmacleod.bsky.social):

i have to think about EVERYTHING! I keep thinking i've figured out where my left hand should go and then i get distracted and when i look down my wrist is at a weird angle and i'm like, well all this is a one way ticket to an RSI. HOW IS THIS INSTRUMENT SO HARD

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

They are all that hard

But there's a reason the kitchen gadget that slices carrots and cucumbers is named a mandolin

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

Forgot I was on the Discover tab, commented on someone's post as if I knew them

[30 seconds of anxiety breath hold]

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

I do not know how I got here, but I know how it's like … two octaves down from the squeakfest

Entirely new patch.

Actually I think I might know why the original patch wasn't responding to midi velocity, now.

janny with a mop. janny with a mop.

Granny panties and a dress. Granny panties and a dress.

6 foot 4 and a mugshot. 6 foot 4 and a mugshot.

Child abuse and no job. Child abuse and no job.

Living in mama's sunroom. Living in mama's sunroom.

Giant pale hands and lipstick. Giant pale hands and lipstick.