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Bard spotting on Bluesky 11 October 2024 :marseyrandom:

Here we spot wild Bardfinn Bluesky activities.

Be valid and ping ! bardfinn for something worthwhile or create a new thread.

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Terra The Lesbean 🏳️⚧️✝️ (@transgirlterra.bsky.social):

Why call it a blowjob when there's no blowing involved I think suckjob would be more factual but it doesn't sound as good


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Below

B'low

Blow

That was what I was told


Terra The Lesbean 🏳️⚧️✝️ (@transgirlterra.bsky.social):

Now that is actually interesting and completely more interesting than my stupid joke


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

^_^

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Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Two people owe me substantial but not obscene sums of money from bets* over this exact thing

Neither of them have been showing their faces lately

  • I am not a gambling woman. If I offer to bet you money on a thing, just fold, don't lose your $20

Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social):

The people who recognized Trump's fascism in 2016 were ruthlessly mocked with shit like "everything I don't like is fascism" and now he's literally vowing an immigrant Holocaust.


Cinderella Mechanicus (@hroethgar.bsky.social):

People tell me I'm negative and I'm right often enough that I know how depressing Cassandra's course was

I wish I was wrong all the time

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Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

T H I S

Emma Roller (@emmaroller.bsky.social):

People need to get away from the idea of politicians as heroes and embrace the idea of politicians as cowards who must at every turn be bullied into having good politics


Jo (@girljo.bsky.social):

I always hate when people talk about "____ is someone I'd want to have a beer with". Why would you ever want to do that?


Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

Right??


Jo (@girljo.bsky.social):

Like I love Tim Walz, think he's a great guy, however the 2nd he begins to represent me I'm gonna be watching him like a hawk


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

He'll be VP, so his power (if all goes well) will be in breaking Senate ties and presiding over the next EC ballot tally, and promoting culture in between

If all goes well he'll never meaningfully be called upon to make decisions


Jo (@girljo.bsky.social):

True but he is the only politician I think I would want to small talk with for more than 5 minutes

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Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

T H I S

Emma Roller (@emmaroller.bsky.social):

People need to get away from the idea of politicians as heroes and embrace the idea of politicians as cowards who must at every turn be bullied into having good politics


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas; If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." β€” Howard Aiken


Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

Unless you're a woman and then no one listens to any of your ideas until a white man steals them

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Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

You could call it a

ahem

global far right power grab


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

"May we quote you on that," she asked redundantly

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Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I'm transgender;

I made a lot of Nazis & transphobes very angry by getting them kicked off Reddit;

I know too much about hate groups on 2015-2022 Reddit;

I am learning to read sheet music, play a keyboard, build synth patches, and I enjoy folk music & October Project.

(1/?)


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Currently my plan is to learn enough music skills to get music out of my head into a fixed form

My contingency plan is [redacted], because if Trump wins this election (or various other things transpire) I will be a political refugee from the USA


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Which is a roundabout way of saying we have to defeat the global far right power grab, starting in the USA

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Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

More details about what I do with respect to extremism online & anti-hatred activism, here

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Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

For the people who want the details:

I'm Penny Oaken; I have helped run /r/AgainstHateSubreddits since 2019. In 2020 we succeeded in getting Reddit to adopt a sitewide policy against hate speech, banning 4,000+ subreddits & 40,000+ user accounts in 2020.

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Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I like the Wheel of Time Amazon Prime series but I quit midway thru book 10; this is the only book series I have ever quit.

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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

And I'll link the advisories I write up for my blocklists off the end of this thread.


Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Blocklist Advisory #1 for my Transphobes Blocklist:

Jesse Singal is a transphobe. Jesse Singal made a tweet on Twitter a few years back announcing that he deep-dove KiwiFarms in an attempt to proclaim KiwiFarms Did Nothing Wrong.

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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Advisory #2 for my Hate Enablers, Transphobes, Trolls, Nazis, Freedom From Association & IMVE lists:

All followers of @ thelibsoftiktok account will be added to these lists, no exceptions.

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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

How to appeal blocklist listing:

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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Blocklist Appeals Process

To appeal listings on blocklists I maintain, write an email to the current blocklist email address.

Appeals must be in good faith and formatted as follows:

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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Transparency / Rules / Notice pursuant to Santa Clara Principles for the blocklists I maintain

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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Another element of trust & trustability for blocklists on BlueSky β€” in line with the Santa Clara Principles β€” is transparency in how accounts are selected for inclusion on blocklists.

This serves the Explainable Rules & Policies, Integrity & Explainability, and Notice policies

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Amyville Hoyrror (@amyhoy.bsky.social):

sooooo sick of men having emotional hissyfits blaming the vice president for not unilaterally defunding one of america's oldest allies


Amyville Hoyrror (@amyhoy.bsky.social):

the vice president has no power. like, literally none. not unless the president is incapacitated or the senate is hung.


Amyville Hoyrror (@amyhoy.bsky.social):

me: so what power does the vice president have?

man: the ear of the president for starters!

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a woman is talking to a man and asking him if he agrees .


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The person in the office, by contrast, always has the power to say something that will cause a diplomatic incident

Overriding that possibility moment by moment is itself a kind of superpower


Amyville Hoyrror (@amyhoy.bsky.social):

that's a great point! ALL the downsides, none of the upsides

tbh her official statements as candidate are about as strong as i can imagine anyone being able to do in her role

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Terra The Lesbean 🏳️⚧️✝️ (@transgirlterra.bsky.social):

If you want to know if it is AI video watch the small details shit will be off


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I've just … given up on trusting any video that isn't carried by multiple competing news networks.

Or shot from multiple cell phones while having no reason to suspect it's faked


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Like … all those 240P videos that got posted to Facebook in 2015

"That pigeon just saluted Putin back."

That's when I stopped.

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Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I wish my expertise were irrelevant

I wish I didn't have a duty to write:

s/Orwellian/Nazi/g

We've seen this before. We know what this is. It doesn't need a fictional allegory.

They're Nazis.

Spooky Lazarus Back From The Dead (@jlazarus.bsky.social):

I'm just a simple country political scientist but it does concern me when one of the two major parties in a two party system holds Orwellian hate rallies.

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KLo (@klogoldman.bsky.social):

What happened to the font on here and how can I change it back?


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Settings -> Appearance


KLo (@klogoldman.bsky.social):

Thank you

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Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

Easy as it is somehow to forget about the whole assassination attempt thing in the wake of everything else

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

I do think Trump going completely off the fricking deep end and the assassination attempt are definitely not unrelated phenomena


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It must eat him up inside. He has no way of knowing if it's one of the thousands of people he's stiffed, lives ruined, screwed over, any number of governments, politicians in his own party, Putin might want his thread cut,

It must eat him up


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Putin was in the GDR during the period when the Stasi staged fake assassination attempts to drive political undesirables into insanity. Russia has allegedly done it, too.

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Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It's going to get worse before it gets better, y'all

Every accusation a confession, and every reality will be DARVOd by Trump

Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social):

The Alien Enemies Act was part of the package of the Alien and Sedition Acts that risked choking off American liberty before the constitutional order had fully taken hold.

It was last used to justify the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

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sina (@rejectionking.bsky.social):

waiting for the conservative originalist justification for the alien enemies act - maybe they'll work their up to the chinese exclusion act too

β€’____β€’

Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social):

The Alien Enemies Act was part of the package of the Alien and Sedition Acts that risked choking off American liberty before the constitutional order had fully taken hold.

It was last used to justify the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I am fricking frightened

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Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

did the NYT use "Nativist" to describe the American Nazi party? Do I care?

I wish there were a way to boycott that paper meaningfully

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

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Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I know what my opinions are. I wasn't asking to have your assessment of them read to me. I was inviting you to talk about the topic.

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Kelsey Atherton (@atherton.bsky.social):

Checked Bluesky a couple hours ago to see posts on why it's inappropriate for an active-duty general to call Trump a fascist and logged back in to see a Trump rally where he's threatening mass deportations and violence against immigrant Americans in the names of women murdered. Pretty fashy imo!


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Technically, it's illegal for the General to make political statements in uniform / _ex officio_.

Realistically, Trump is the leader of a terrorist coalition that tried to overthrow the US Government, a threat to the Constitution, and therefore is part of his job to identify and assess.


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

See also "How you know that the US Military knows things it can't yet make public but also absolutely cannot ignore"

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Klovar: Buffalo era (@klovar.cc):

the observation that i shared this incest folgers commercial immediately before sharing the incest back to the future movie is concerning

i guess i gotta watch Star Wars next 😭

Klovar: Buffalo era (@klovar.cc):

Sister!πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The Folgers lore πŸ‘€

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CesenobiteπŸ•·οΈ 🏳️⚧️ (@thelibraryces.bsky.social):

I done did the thing

CesenobiteπŸ•·οΈ 🏳️⚧️ (@thelibraryces.bsky.social):

Well, I'm "officially" coming out to my family today, if I don't lose my nerve, so kinda scared, honestly


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Braver than any troops πŸ‘πŸ»

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Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

(whoop whoop pull up whoop whoop pull up)

Spooky Lazarus Back From The Dead (@jlazarus.bsky.social):

I'm just a simple country political scientist but it does concern me when one of the two major parties in a two party system holds Orwellian hate rallies.

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Klovar: Buffalo era (@klovar.cc):

Klovar: has been collecting random synth amd midi and mhsic gear for the past 6 years

also Klovar: "where the absolute FRICK is the E#????" 😭

Klovar: Buffalo era (@klovar.cc):

hello

i have put The Clown Stickers on my keyboards because i have no shame, and i do not know about notes and stuff 🀑πŸ₯°

😁


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I would put the stickers, too

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Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The point of walking dogs is to spend time with the dog in the outside

The point of babysitting is to spend time with the child

Only Muskian shitheads would treat pets and children like clothes & dishes & hot water heaters in need of a flush

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clockwork boo-nana πŸ‘» (@clockworkbanana.fun):

i keep getting calls from 309-663-6700, which is a Bloomington, IN number. they NEVER leave a voice mail.

googling it brings up either a collections agency or a lawyer's office, Wilber & Associates.

i don't know what the frick to do. i am nowhere near Indiana and this is anxiety-inducing.


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Let it go to voice mail.

If they're professional and serious, they will post you a letter.

Scammers spoof arbitrary business phone numbers all the time. The only way to deal with them is to let them hear "You have reached (nnn) nnn-nnnn leave a message" every time


clockwork boo-nana πŸ‘» (@clockworkbanana.fun):

i'm looking at ftc.gov and it says they can't report a debt to a collections agency until after they a) talk to me by phone or in person about the debt, or b) mailed a letter or electronic communication about the debt and wait a reasonable amt of time if its undeliverable.

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Federal Trade Commission

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Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

A bus, but it can only drive 20 passengers into a pond while the doors remain stubbornly latched and there are no marked emergency exits, because that would ruin the æ12sthæ12tics

Doug Gordon (@brooklynspoke.bsky.social):

If you stop looking at the Robovan pictures and just repeat "A bus, but it can only carry 20 passengers" over and over again, eventually you start to understand the intellectual bankruptcy of not just Musk but most of Silicon Valley.


Spooky Smut (@smut.one):

And no windshield to allow passengers to see their impending doom.

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olive consumer (@machete.gay):

Not that this is the point, but the talking jpeg reporter wearing that top complete with a prominent nipple really speaks to the training data that underpins AI.

James Withers (@jameswithers.bsky.social):

This is an AI-generated reporter holding a CNN microphone in an AI-generated location, reading an inputted script.

If you think fake news is bad and dangerous now, we are about to enter a whole new era.


olive consumer (@machete.gay):

A collective of some of the horniest and sexually weirdest men alive came together to build a vast machine mind that runs on the equivalent of a billion idle revving Dodge Chargers that can occasionally produce a jpeg of a weird looking but mostly attractive white woman with perky tits.


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

*ducks over, brushes away the flyspeck that you read as a negative sign in the exponent of "2.31x10^9/hr"

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Satellite Anthem Icarus (@atalantafugiens.fursona.club):

Is that the statistic of how much CO2 they're adding to the environment at an hourly rate


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I have the dubious honour of having helped out a lot of erotica subreddits.

Ones that had to change their practices to boot AI.

AI porn is /more/ than /occasionally/ a perky young white woman


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

And so very often weird

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Satellite Anthem Icarus (@atalantafugiens.fursona.club):

Ah. I don't think I have the vocabulary to describe how I feel about this information other than "badly".


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

we live in strange times


Satellite Anthem Icarus (@atalantafugiens.fursona.club):

it was supposed to be space travel guys. terrible job. back to the drawing board


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

At least I have a PADD that can read to me and helps me make music


Satellite Anthem Icarus (@atalantafugiens.fursona.club):

Send a link to your music (if it's published) and I'll absolutely check it out


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

When I get better ^_^

Right now I'm learning to read sheet music and exploring how to recreate the sounds I want in synths.


Satellite Anthem Icarus (@atalantafugiens.fursona.club):

Good luck!! We all start somewhere

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ghost malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social):

alien archaeologists will believe "stepsister" means something like "concubine"


lowtax speedrun enjoyer (@rickywlmsbong.bsky.social):

going over a clothes dryer with a magnifying glass and asking how we got stuck


Kevin (@kja.bsky.social):

I just realized AI porn is going to diverge into some truly bizarre genres. They're no longer bound by what actual human bodies are physically capable of.


moldering toast (@toasty.cx):

listen not to out myself too bad here, but as someone who's got some interests that hove in to the area of "stuff that isn't physically possible" it sucks shit at that too, and in ways that I don't see them being able to solve, basically ever


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Why have a pachinko art gacha machine spit out a consistently bad eyecandy when I can just turn on The Shape of Water


moldering toast (@toasty.cx):

wait you mean you DON'T like seeing exclusively white women with eyes like Alita Battle Angel who look like their skin is made of plastic wrap and have skeletons generously described as "eldritch horror?"


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I mean, I'd be really happy to have a cyber body that matches my self image (I watched Alita yesterday, for the first time)

But my tastes run to emotional expression, & AI is consistently an abomination, only rarely coherent


moldering toast (@toasty.cx):

yeah no kiddin on both counts

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Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Former Twitter is just /r/the_donald_2.0

Like

This is the kind of thing their state A.G'.s file lawsuits to prevent and take to SCOTUS

Rules for thee, not for me

Kevin Collier (@kevincollier.bsky.social):

Per NYT, X's crackdown on Ken Klippenstein and the Iran-hacked Vance doc came after the Trump campaign reached out. Well within each party's right, but this is the exact same thing Musk, Trump, and the right threw a yearslong fit about over Hunter Biden.

www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/u...

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Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Three (?) different patches I've augmented tonight, premised on a harpsichord sound & a chorus/hold, and a weird experiment with a bandpass filter


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I think I need to put Awen 3 as the basis for the best sound for I Want Tomorrow, and route straight from the wavetable to the output with a wet/dry mix on a knob

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grace's ghost (@acab4cutie.top):

i just know my cishet neighbors are getting sick of hearing chappell roan πŸ¦„πŸŒˆπŸ’…


Ms. Penny πŸŒ…πŸ§™β™€οΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

They can endure for Pink Pony Club

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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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