Bard spotting on Bluesky 14 October 2024

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

In re: the "ballot-sized return envelope showed up in a mailbox without being addressed or posted" incident, and people asking "What possible reason would they have to do this in a +38 Democratic district"

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

The description in the Reddit post is that it doesn't claim to be for anything in particular. It's merely a return envelope. If it was shipped and arrived in the mailbox by USPS, there'd be an absolute uphill battle to prove malfeasance. It would be a perfect ratfrick.

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

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

To make people mistrust mail in ballots, likely. Blaming USPS for their ballot never arriving, because who makes note of the address on the convenient ballot return envelope?

Destruction of the public trust in services & institutions is a terrorist thing.

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

A ratfrick operation whose goal is to get a few very high profile "screamers" — people whose votes never get counted, whose ballots are used to try to blackmail them, who then make very public cases about it — do so to destroy public confidence in i.e. USPS & the mail-in ballot process.

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

This is an indication that whoever did this doesn't believe that 2024 is their endgame, that they will want to suppress mail-in voting in future elections

🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃 (@shoshana.bsky.social):

A conservative group is placing ballot-sized official-looking return envelopes in people's mailboxes.

The envelopes are addressed to The Presidential Coalition in Washington DC, run by former Trump deputy campaign manager David Bossie.

Ryan Cavanaugh (@searyanc.dev):

Why are they doing it in Los Angeles of all places? Trying to flip CA blue??

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

To make people mistrust mail in ballots, likely. Blaming USPS for their ballot never arriving, because who makes note of the address on the convenient ballot return envelope?

Destruction of the public trust in services & institutions is a terrorist thing.

Ken Burnside (@kenburnside.bsky.social):

If you see one of these, put a letter in it with the address and statements of your local Trumpist legislator, say where you found this pouch, and send the pouch and the letter to:

USPS Office of Inspector General,

1735 N. Lynn Street,

Arlington, VA 22209-2020

🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃 (@shoshana.bsky.social):

A conservative group is placing ballot-sized official-looking return envelopes in people's mailboxes.

The envelopes are addressed to The Presidential Coalition in Washington DC, run by former Trump deputy campaign manager David Bossie.

Loki Charms (@lokicharms.bsky.social):

Or you could fill it with your dog's shit and send it to the given address.

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

That would be a felony. Don't take the bait.

Scoiattolo (@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz):

There is no way this isn't a federal crime, right?

🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃 (@shoshana.bsky.social):

A conservative group is placing ballot-sized official-looking return envelopes in people's mailboxes.

The envelopes are addressed to The Presidential Coalition in Washington DC, run by former Trump deputy campaign manager David Bossie.

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

If it's not a postal carrier putting them in the mailboxes, that's a federal crime

Scoiattolo (@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz):

So this is at least one and possibly several more federal crimes

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

The description in the Reddit post is that it doesn't claim to be for anything in particular. It's merely a return envelope. If it was shipped and arrived in the mailbox by USPS, there'd be an absolute uphill battle to prove malfeasance. It would be a perfect ratfrick.

Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social):

I called the president of the American Heritage Museum in Hudson, Mass. to talk about reenactment participants wearing Nazi uniforms to a local restaurant.

He said people complaining about it on Bluesky are "more antisemitic than any Germans were during World War II."

Our full conversation here:

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Here's what happens when you wear a Nazi uniform to dinner

Claire Willett (@clairewillett.bsky.social):

his description of Bluesky as a lawless wasteland where everyone wants to stab TERFs did make me laugh, just wondering like WTF did he see when he came on here

he's not Online™️ enough to navigate this place, we're all here doing 400-level advanced shitposting but he couldn't even survive remedial

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

He probably asked one of his Fellow Travelers in MAGA, who showed him his collection of Evidence That BlueSky Is A Leftist Terrorist Hive

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

someone make me get outta bed! grab me by the hair and force me to get food and coffee and get in the shower.

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

🫠🥵

kittehn pls

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

blergh i don't wanna get up

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

It's b/c I borrowed your getupngo to get my errands done today

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

you can keep it if you bring me coffee and some food

⛤ (@asterisk.gay):

genital preference is a skill issue

OSMOTE (@osmote.net):

hot take I genuinely think genital preference is inherently transphobic??

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

"I have a genital preference", when sincere, is written (orthographed) the exact same way as "I have a genital preference" as a way to package the implied "… which is cishet peepee in cishet vagina, and anything else is unnatural / criminal / I am a victim of teh predatory transes / gays"

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

It's "I didn't realise my Wehrmacht WWII re-enactment costume would freak out so many restaurant diners" levels of "yeah, right, buddy, sure"

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

The people behind Project 2025 believe I am pornographic for existing. They believe I am a pornographer because I have social media accounts, because I exist online while transgender, because I run subreddits for transgender support and transgender people.

#StopProject2025 #StopProject2025Comic

Greg Pak (@gregpak.bsky.social):

Project 2025 not only defines mentioning trans people as pornography - it calls for "pornography" to be outlawed and for producers and distributors to be imprisoned.

"I think you can see where this is going..."

#StopProject2025Comic

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Dr Henry (@cmhenry.bsky.social):

genuinely think the people who direct companies to send multiple daily advertising emails should be dragged to the Hague

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

Political campaigns as well, perhaps

I talked with an old colleague who is in PR & the idea behind many of the Multiple Daily Emails models is that they believe that someone's PA is handling a free form request by a client, and getting their brand in front of the PA, top of the inbox -

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):

Every time I post about the threat Trump poses and the Republicans pose I get hundreds of responses, some ranging from the normal response to being confronted with a fascist and some saying "calm down" people really have no clue what's happening.

Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social):

the amazing thing is that if you write about this in an honest and level-headed way, you wil still get people telling you that you're overreacting

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

The Calm Down patroniser faction has some significant fraction of "Nothing bad has happened to me & I'm incurious & this shouting is interfering with my TV show" vs "We don't say […] in public" & they're indistinguishable

The former needs to wake up to that latter fact

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):

Yes! It's just so… heavy watching this day after day week after week knowing if this goes poorly they will capitulate

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

DO IT

Split screen, Trump speech on left, viewers react on right

Dr. Damien P. Williams: Like TSCC s03 John Connor, But Better (@wolvendamien.bsky.social):

Dems need a new round of ads that are just people watching the repubs' ads in horror and going "jesus fricking christ"

Dr. SkySkull (@drskyskull.bsky.social):

It's fun to note that the Confederacy lasted less time than many bands you may never have heard of.

The Confederacy: 4 years.

Dexy's Midnight Runners: 8 years.

Dinah Rose KC (@dinahrose.bsky.social):

I understand your point but who hasn't heard of Dexy's Midnight Runners?

Hugh Pumphrey (@hughpumphrey.bsky.social):

Maybe a USA PoV. I cannot imagine anyone in the UK who has ever listened to popular music without hearing something by DMR. (Especially true of people my age who were growing up during those 8 years.)

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

DMR had a hit here in the USA in the 1980's with Come On Eileen, but

The

1980's

  Were

     40

        Years

            Agoooo *turns into dust and blows away*

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

I don't like sarcasm (except when I use it) —

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I need to work harder at avoiding using sarcasm

Michael Tae 🎃Spooky🎃 (@mtsw.bsky.social):

If you are the federal government and you encounter armed militias trying to kill your government agents your response can't be to leave the area, call in the national guard and arrest them.

👻 sean of the dead 👻 (@publichealth.bsky.social):

oh my GOD

Phasmatic (@phasmatic.bsky.social):

Dem administrations using federal cops against "militias" create martyrs. Better to pick them up individually when they aren't expecting it.

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

The situation reads, to me, like tabloid headline bait, designed to turn the "federal occupation" lies into truth.

The local LEOs should be arresting them, jfc

Phasmatic (@phasmatic.bsky.social):

Yeah, not the job of the national guard, (Posse Comitatus) yet, and you don't want the kind of chaos where they would be needed. OTOH, these yahoos probably have significant overlap with local LEO, so IDK if you can expect cooperation.

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.