Bard spotting on Bluesky 12 October 2024

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

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I recommend Nora's Holiday Jewelry Sale! Hir pieces are awesome!

Norasferatu Reed (they/them ze/hir) (@nora.zone):

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

I recommend the Nora Reed Designs Jewelry Holiday Sale

Her pieces are awesome

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Norasferatu Reed (they/them ze/hir) (@nora.zone):

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RiverRabbit (@riverrabbit.bsky.social):

FYI: Nora's pronouns are in hir display name :)

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

The Harris County DA is a Democrat and made a spot saying she's voting for Ted Cruz

Cynde (@cynde.bsky.social):

wtf 😬

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

She's a white woman DA, in Texas, and will probably be registered Republican real soon. Someone forgot to tell her that Ted Cruz is part of a criminal plot to overthrow the Constitution

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

Harris County is where Houston, Texas is. Her sound bytes in this TV spot is that she wants to fight back against immigrants. Her district is the most ethnically diverse area of Texas. She's doing GOP Law & Order messaging.

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

The fact that I'm seeing this spot in Dallas, an entirely different media market, is probably important to note, too.

Cruz and Ogg aren't targeting her district's voters with this messaging.

Cynde (@cynde.bsky.social):

Was she a plant?

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

If you see something wrong happening on this website, Report and Block

Life's too short to put up with people who think that Fox News is the pinnacle of human expression

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

Block often, block liberally. Block first, ask questions later.

Gwen Snyder is undead (@gwensnyder.bsky.social):

At this rate he's gonna end up having to deport himself

Naomi Kritzer (@naomikritzer.bsky.social):

OK people, you need to see the photo of Trump and Cornyn that was straight up shared by Cornyn this morning. Trump's makeup never looks GOOD but this is truly just mask-like, what the heck

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

Like an apple overripe and showing thru the skin

Avery Edison (@aedison.bsky.social):

listening to a liberal podcast host talk about how great the new documentary "will & harper" is, how everyone needs to see it but sadly "the people who need to most, won't", all the while repeatedly misgendering the subject of the movie, over and over and over.

Katie Bitekitty 🧛♀️ (@juicysteak117.gay):

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

the demon chelsea bridge (@secretaboutbox.bsky.social):

katie did you listen to the clips??? jesus christ it isn't a lil slip the motherlover dumps the entire he/him magazine

Katie Bitekitty 🧛♀️ (@juicysteak117.gay):

i think if i speak i'll get banned

the demon chelsea bridge (@secretaboutbox.bsky.social):

i wrote one reply i had to back off of because it was absolutely actionable

Katie Bitekitty 🧛♀️ (@juicysteak117.gay):

my favourite babymetal song is the one title "death"

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

My favourite Propagandhi song is "The Only Good Fascist …"

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

I am trapped by linear time, tied to it throughout, visited by visions unbound from the same, showing only nine vast concentric circles and four riders

My hindbrain speaks with the cultural argot, the Sondersprache, of Dante & Yeats

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

Discovering the process of recovering an iPad for the first time in 12 years

I think that, perhaps, one catastrophic failure mode per decade is a decent rate of error

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

How do you deradicalize millions of quiet go-along-to-get-along people supporting violent extremism

Chad Loder (@chadloder.bsky.social):

I'm not in the prediction game, but I think it's more likely than not that Harris will squeak by.

Which then still leaves us with tens of millions of our fellow citizens who support, who WANT, nazi rule.

Trump could die tomorrow and we'd still have that problem to deal with.

mynnna (@mynnna.bsky.social):

hope that going along swings in both directions, thereby reducing the task to a smaller but still impossibly large group of actively rooting/pushing for it folks?

😐

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

I'll be over here ventilating into a paper bag

mynnna (@mynnna.bsky.social):

right there with you

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

Trauma will trick you into carving the face of your enemies onto the face of your friends — Edith Laurie Charles, Wise as Shit

Edith Charles (@edithcharles.bsky.social):

Trauma will trick you into carving the face of your enemies onto the face of your friends.

Kat-o-Lantern 🎃 (@transsalamander.bsky.social):

You want a s*x robot because you can't talk to women, I want to become a s*x robot so I can experience the kinkiest s*x imaginable with other s*x robots using my unbreakable body that never tires

We are not the same

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

Kat

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

Kat I am trying to repair a computer right now I cannot be in this headspace Kat zomg

Kat-o-Lantern 🎃 (@transsalamander.bsky.social):

That sounds kinda hot given the subject of this thread ngl

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

Zomg Kat

I watched Alita Battle Angel for the first time two days ago, and I 100% need a Mars MacGuffin Corporation self-adapting-to-self-image chassis

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

I think one overwhelming factor is that for a lot of Americans,

Their brain: █████████████████████

The part of their brain they allow to process politics: ▀

Can't defragment a sector that has no room to manouevre in

jamelle (@jamellebouie.net):

i am essentially unable to get into the headspace of a person who sees trump rant and rave and thinks to themselves "i trust this guy to decide on whether to use nuclear weapons"

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

American Politics was purposefully made into shelf products for consumers.

The consumers who bought cigarettes, a pack a day, and now are wondering why the persistent cough, but are still smoking the cigarettes

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

How dare you, sir, say that the cigarettes my doctor recommended in 1962, are bad for my health

Norasferatu Reed (they/them ze/hir) (@nora.zone):

i accidentally got over 6k followers by complaining about the democrats. i will probably do that again but i try not to do it constantly. if you are new here welcome. i hope you like glass

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

I got 1k followers by explaining why No-Moderation Forums are Bad

and a smattering of other stuff

I don't get it

Micah (@rincewind.run):

maybe they're right, but I am not convinced that the Harris campaign pivoting from "look at these frickin' weirdos" to "I will create a bipartisan advisory council" as the race tightens is a good strategy

a lot of these are the Biden people and I'm not inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt

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

I think it's to short-circuit the MAGA extremism / radicalisation machine. But I'm also chanting "whoop whoop pull up" under my breath all day every day, now

Alexis (@transcinderella.com):

Just found out my ex-wife has a huge Trump banner on her house and it appears to be custom.

I knew she was conservative, but JFC.

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

Frightening, frightening. 💔

Ten🏳️⚧️ (@theletterten.bsky.social):

Bill Nye's daughter, Dee, has come out as a flat earther and anti-vaxxer. She's even started an organization to help support her "research."

It's called the Dee Nye Science Foundation.

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

🥁 kssssh

Blue Fairy Girl🧚 (@bluesnowflake.bsky.social):

Some of you need to hear this- Target is just Walmart with lipstick

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

And higher prices

Blue Fairy Girl🧚 (@bluesnowflake.bsky.social):

Exactly

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

walks up to the molecule so which one of you us hydrogen and which one is helium and which one is nitrogen and which one is oxygen and which one is carbon and which one is sulfur and which one is calcium

The Cask of Amon-Tea-llado (@teaberryblue.bsky.social):

walks up to polycule so which one of you is the Godzilla and which one is the Anguirus and which one is the Megalon and which one is the King Ghidorah and which one is the Mothra and which one is the Biollante and which one is the Hedorah and which one is the Rodan and which one is the Mechagodzi-

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

Molly-cule

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

head desk

Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social):

In February 2016 The Federalist (yes, THAT Federalist) published an article that gave 5 reasons why every American should oppose Donald Trump. Reason 5 was "Trump Is an American Fascist." thefederalist.com/2016/02/29/5...

Stefanie 🏳️⚧️ (@foxenlock.bsky.social):

Please, not another fantasy story where people call testicles stones

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

They should call them frogs.

So that they croak and hop away

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

I'm awake at 0145 hours so I can laugh at the neoNazi who fell down a mountainside

Not because I am crying into my pillow and cursing

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

I have the impulse to post "Why am I awake at 0100 hours"

but I know why I'm wide awake

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

Every word

Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

I'm really looking forward to this crisis being over in my lifetime so I can talk about literally anything else. I'm so sick of repeating this every single day but I'm going to have to keep doing it as long as people keep acting surprised or skeptical

heartpunk (@heartpunk.bsky.social):

(this is not defeatism tbc this is me having just restarted watching battlestar galactica, but,,, "all of this has happened before, all of this will happen again")

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

In light of the rhetoric at Aurora, buckle up, because I'm going to dump (a Wikipedia article) on your timeline

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Stab-in-the-back myth - Wikipedia

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

The stab-in-the-back myth … maintained that the Imperial German Army did not lose World War I on the battlefield, but was instead betrayed by certain citizens on the home front – especially Jews, revolutionary socialists who fomented strikes and labour unrest,[1] and republican politicians …

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

Nazi propaganda depicted Weimar Germany as "a morass of corruption, degeneracy, national humiliation, ruthless persecution of the honest 'national opposition' – fourteen years … at last … swept away by the National Socialist movement under Hitler and the victory of the 'national revolution' of 1933"

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

The Dolchstoß was a central image in propaganda produced … in the early days of the Weimar Republic, including [the] Nazi Party. For Hitler himself, this explanatory model for World War I was of crucial personal importance.[35] … Throughout his career, he railed against the "November criminals"

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

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

It's neat to read people's pinned posts

Fluff Orpington (@flufforpington.bsky.social):

I didn't know we could pin them here!

Alexander Reid Ross (@areidross.bsky.social):

Possible that Trump's last few weeks' binge of xenophobic insanity will rlly backfire

Beetlejosh Beetlejosh (@joshuajfriedman.com):

Republican mayor Mike Coffman on Trump's rally today in his city of Aurora, Colorado (via Ben Siegel, ABC)

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

May it be

Anguirus Is Already A Spooky Monster (@anguirus.bsky.social):

Just saw the new SALEM'S LOT, very solid vampire thriller in an era where there is a lot tacking against playing one straight.

but the MVP by leaps and bounds is the kid playing Mark, who completely sells the book character's utter conviction that he can AND WILL personally kill every single vamp.

Anguirus Is Already A Spooky Monster (@anguirus.bsky.social):

it actually got better as it went on--there was a bit of the overly-self-conscious adaptation woes of other re-Kings, and a challenging pacing problem, but the end of the second act sold the terrifying speed of the town's fall, and the third act featured a clever and original set piece.

Anguirus Is Already A Spooky Monster (@anguirus.bsky.social):

extra props for making me care about Susan for the first time ever, and an exceptionally devious re-framing of Cody's fate that somehow feels more Stephen Kingly than Stephen King's original text.

Anguirus Is Already A Spooky Monster (@anguirus.bsky.social):

I will say that I laughed out loud when I got to the end credits and realized that the Bill Pullman looking guy is Bill Pullman's actual kid.

who probably looks a great deal like Bill Pullman did in the real 1975

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

Oh cool, I'll … it's HBO isn't it. Argh I just cancelled this summer

I'll have to find someone to watch it with

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

In the interest of public political discourse, I recorded the statement Colin Allred (not my state representative but his district covers parts of my home town) made to Spectrum News, as linked by Erin In The Morning; I'll try to transcribe it in following posts

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Colin Allred on Spectrum News as linked by ErinInTheMorning

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

Host: The Cruz campaign has put out a nearly $7 million dollar ad buy as it relates to your stances on transgender participation in sports; I do just want to just ask you to clarify

Allred: yeah, yeah, well, let's be honest here. The United States Senator, who is representing 30 million people …

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

Allred (cont): … who's running such a small, narrow, campaign about demagoguing certain folks, to try to get back into the United States Senate. That's what we're really talking about.

What I've supported is basic protections for folks on the basis of their sexual identity …

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

Allred (Cont): … or who they love, or how they identify, and trying to make sure they're not discriminated against. That's what I support. And I think that's pretty basic - and I think that's also who we are as Texans. I'm a 4th generation Texan, and in the Texas I believe in, and that I grew up in,

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

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