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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Final tip for tonight
Don't Curiosity-Follow obvious bad faith accounts on here.
There are cowtools that can scrape all followers of an account & block them (or add them to a blocklist) in seconds.
If you Curiosity-Follow an Alex Jones type, your account might get blackholed with them.
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
This is a slide from Lindsay Ellis' XOXO talk about her experience of dealing with neoNazi / misogynist harassment by G*merGate.
It highlights an important fact:
Bad Faith Actors use conman tactics to trick us into engaging. They exploit our natural instincts, to get power & access.
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Other people are good at spotting things that we might have blindspots over. Trust your friends' judgement and open up to each other about how and when to disengage from someone one of you suspects is a troll.
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
The MAGA / Republican party split, from the mouth of a Republican.
There's a non-0 chance that after this election, MAGA / "the Tea Party" splits off to an Anti-Government / Anti-Authority Violent Extremism movement & "traditional" Republicans reclaim control of the party steering
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
The sentiments and values driving Project 2025 have been behind the curtain of the GOP for 75 years. Maybe they'll be purged.
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Some of you might feel the desire to go give the finger to a brand new account purporting to be one of the Trump-adjacent, LoTT-adjacent terrorist bigots
Don't do it
Subscribe to appropriate blocklists
Choke off their oxygen
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Merari (@merari.bsky.social):
Is there a way to block all people on a list like this at once?
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Tap Subscribe, Tap Block.
All done.
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I wrote the description of the Nazis list a year+ ago when it was possible to both block and mute a list; now it's one or the other, so I've edited the description to just say "Block 'em"
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geoffrey (@parsnip.bsky.social):
humbly proposing that you block this account and never think about it again whether or not it's actually laura loomer
geoffrey (@parsnip.bsky.social):
eventually, if twitter keeps shedding non-fascist users with some new weekly outrage, the fascists will exodus too, because they can't stand hanging out with each other. much easier to proactively thin the herd now when we can pick em off piecemeal
geoffrey (@parsnip.bsky.social):
noticed that there wasn't alt text in the quoted post so the account is @lauraloomer.bsky.social
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Blocklisted.
geoffrey (@parsnip.bsky.social):
π
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Some of you might feel the desire to go give the finger to a brand new account purporting to be one of the Trump-adjacent, LoTT-adjacent terrorist bigots
Don't do it
Subscribe to appropriate blocklists
Choke off their oxygen
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Together we keep each other safe. Hold the line
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Katelyn Boo-urns (@transscribe.bsky.social):
The "trans athlete debate" is not really about sports or fairness, but about getting a legal precedent deeming trans women to be men under the law that can be extended to other areas of our lives.
Patricia Shannon (@patriciashannon.bsky.social):
Being so extremist all-or-none helps republicans get votes.
Katelyn Boo-urns (@transscribe.bsky.social):
What is extremist about this?
Patricia Shannon (@patriciashannon.bsky.social):
Letting trans women compete in women's sports.
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
It's not. Trans women show the same range of biodiversity in physical capability as cis women do, after sufficient time of hormonal replacement therapy.
I used to deadlift 300 pounds. Now I struggle with pickle jars.
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Moreover, this specific topic was cherry-picked by bigots, field tested in other political markets, and honed to leverage anxieties and prejudices.
People don't transition transactionally to win a sports title. They transition because they need to, for their entire life.
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Patricia Shannon (@patriciashannon.bsky.social):
Why not do away with all gender divides in sports? Why not have men & women compete against each other in all sports?
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
My experience is that would not be fair, either, because humans are bimodal, male and female, & the two modes have some overlap but significant distinction not shared in performance.
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
As an example - I used to swordfight / fence, amateur. I could hold my own against all 6'+ men in my weight category; I lost 100% of the time to ~5' women, due to the dynamics of the sport. Reach doesn't aid me when mask is an illegal target and all I can target is mask.
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Sports are diverse.
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Nop π KITTY IN BIO π± (@voxexsinister.bsky.social):
This transphobic arsehole is sealioning on pro-trans posts today. I would advise blocking his bigoted arse.
His profile:
bsky.app/profile/cmrl...
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Reported, blocklisted
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Micah (@rincewind.run):
if we'd Truman Showed Trump and let him believe he was President while everyone cheered for him on the television all day everyone would be so much happier, Trump included
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Putin would not be happier
Putin can sit and spin
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Micah (@rincewind.run):
if we'd Truman Showed Trump and let him believe he was President while everyone cheered for him on the television all day everyone would be so much happier, Trump included
Ken MacLennan (@historiken.bsky.social):
also find a way to let him think he's getting away with criming
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I'm honestly not even sure he is aware he's criming. I think he thinks sincerely that it's just good business, that he is so unaware that other people exist independently of how they can service him, that he is functionally unfit for trial, if only someone would order the evaluation
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Sasha βοΈβοΈβοΈ (@2darntrans.bsky.social):
So Jon Ashworth's dumb arse fricked off to America to "advise" the Democrats on how to win. That is, a guy who lost a safe Labour seat in the first election Labour managed to win in 19 years is advising the Harris campaign on how to win. His advice? Be transphobic, obviously.
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
GDI
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Dell Cameron π¦ (@dell.bsky.social):
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
BrΕ±tal
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
If I start a sentence with the words "That you should β¦", you have 0.5 seconds to leave line of sight and earshot, good luck
Kamen Rider ViOwOlet (@erviolet.bsky.social):
uhoh why
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Nothing good follows those words
Kamen Rider ViOwOlet (@erviolet.bsky.social):
I'll make sure to never hear you say those
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Kiraculous the Cyborgπ³οΈβ§οΈ (@kiraculous.net):
this is not limited to in person play. if you have an intense involved scene that is voice/text based check in on each other throughout the day/next day to make sure no one is experiencing a drop with no one aroujd to help
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Hey this really good advice crossed my timeline and it's just like the really good advice a lovely Kira C Ulululous wrote half a year ago, I should tag her in to the thread
Kiraculous the Cyborgπ³οΈβ§οΈ (@kiraculous.net):
cus i reskeeted it after potzy reskeeted the quoted skeet
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
IQ tests are a measure of how exclusively you were raised and educated in the core of the author's culture, and how much of your childhood was sacrificed to learning extremely specific mental skills.
I pinned the gauge on standardised tests. I did so to avoid corporal punishment.
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I was accepted to a magnet school, took AP & IB classes, & pegged the PSAT & had 99.97% SAT score group. Got a full ride scholarship.
It came at the cost of living for 13 years with no idea WHO I WAS
There was no room for me in my life, only Study
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
You know what kind of person is the most productive and discovers things and builds things and works with others
Whole people, not cogs, not humans traumatised to shut off everything of themselves except How To Write A Persuasive Essay and Find The Area Under The Curve
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Kiraculous the Cyborgπ³οΈβ§οΈ (@kiraculous.net):
downside of this armlet:
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Nibble guides
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(The ghost of) Dave Karpf (@davekarpf.bsky.social):
Look, Bluesky hasn't won yet, but it is clearly winning.
And TBH that has been one of the nicest surprises of 2024.
They started from community, listened to feedback, and shipped features.
We've basically replaced old-Twitter with a platform that doesn't have to prove shit to shareholders.
tweety fish UNEARTHLY BEAST THAT SHOULD NOT BE AUUUGGGHHH (@sifu.tweety.fish):
I am not sure what this means about me but I'm not at all surprised
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
It's nice to see a long ago dream come true.
Maybe Eternal September is drawing to an end. Maybe as a species we've figured out our first steps beyond a big puddle of spam and trolls
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Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):
These are very good questions. What would designing a social media platform to minimize its utility for the promoters of genocidal hate speech look like?
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
You might not appreciate it, but fundamentally, opaque / nuclear interpersonal blocks are a foundation of how to counter & prevent the promotion of genocidal hate speech.
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
When Reddit changed their block function from a one-way mirror to an opaque block, I watched the ringleader of A group that had run hoaxes, propaganda, & terrorist efforts β have a full-on meltdown in their private ("private") backroom channel
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
And when someone circumvents a subreddit ban or a personal block, Reddit suspends all their accounts.
So there was a period right after they changed their block function & enforcement when people with several-years old accounts were getting suspended "for no reason"
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Fascists inherently disrespect boundaries. Allowing people to declare arbitrary interpersonal (and community, where available) boundaries & then enforcing violations of those β you never even have to stop to ask "who is the bad guy and what is their motive". You just action the violation.
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Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):
I mean i personally appreciate them to a massive extent and agree with this
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I could have found a better way to word that LMAO
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
π they are so precious
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Max Berger (@maxberger.bsky.social):
In my opinion (which is pretty uneducated on the topic): a B-corp social media platform with an explicitly pro-democracy mission could have an expressly anti-fascist moderation policy.
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Oh cool, my area of expertise
So, the difficulty is twofold:
No social media platform wants to open the door to "If you hold [Β«politicalΒ» opinion], you can't use the site"
B/c then that will be the basis of lawsuits & pushes for laws, but also
How do you get the Nazi to tender their Nazikeule
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
The Nazi will just lie and say "I'm not a Nazi" and get past the Nazi gate.
So all User Content Hosting Internet Service Providers focus first on "Behaviour On Platform"
And there are an awful lot of behaviours that fascists do online which are generally also just torts and crimes
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
So if you want to punt the fascists off your site, you make i.e. a mechanism that enforces interpersonal boundaries (c.f. Reddit's / BlueSky's opaque block mechanisms) and then action the accounts that circumvent that block, b/c fascists inherently disrespect boundaries
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
You have and enforce rules against violent threats (b/c felony interstate communications / tort of interference w/ a business relationship), targeted harassment (tort of interference w/ a business relationship), stolen nudes (fash feel entitled to women's bodies), and so forth
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
A sufficiently diverse set of acceptable use policies that disallow antisocial behaviours incl. violating boundaries & reasonably knowable criminal activity will reduce the fascists to quiet, obscure dogwhistling &/or private partitions. Without ever touching on political or "political" sentiment
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Kiraculous the Cyborgπ³οΈβ§οΈ (@kiraculous.net):
i need help:
crown one or two
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
1!
It is least likely to poke me in the face when I wish to kiss yr head
potz(er)π³οΈβ§οΈππ¦ (@potzer.xyz):
i beg to differ my dear, Penny. crown 2 is the way to go!
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Will it be head-kiss-accessible ?
potz(er)π³οΈβ§οΈππ¦ (@potzer.xyz):
any head is kissable if you believe in yourself
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
π₯°π
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
"Can you explain this gap in your resumΓ©?"
ahem
Pale was the wounded knight
That bore the rowan shield β
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):
anytime there's a massive uptic in new users. We start to see a large group of Nazis try to take advantage of the migration to hide themselves. This is a Nazi account one of many that I have seen pop up today or others have brought to my attention. It will be smart for people to be on higher guard.
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Like, I don't like to interrupt bad guys when they're making mistakes, but also naming your 2 troll alters "x[noun]x" is so obvious that it's only interpretable as an insult to the intelligence
All on my blocklists
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):
This is how these idiots have been doing this since we busted up that soy Jack server they literally don't know what to do
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
slightly right-of-european-center regular government
Vs
Mafialand
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Matthew McClellan (@matthewmcclellan.bsky.social):
When you have to consolidate layers on your Google Map because you've reached the maximum amount of layers, and the new category you're working on needs its own<<<
I know this is just a me thing, but it was frustrating! π
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
All the old school Ingress players know your pain
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Tamreen (@scriptor.bsky.social):
some North Sea raider probably got a sore throat one day and that's why we don't sound like the Dutch
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
But surely, you too would like to lachπ± om zwaartekrachtπ±
Tamreen (@scriptor.bsky.social):
niet de zwaartekracht!
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Kamen Rider ViOwOlet (@erviolet.bsky.social):
Reintroduction time !
Im Violet. Your local disabled magical girl secondary kamen rider 6th sentai member. I will post mainly about my specials interests. My partners and crush. And ttrpg sometimes.
I'm 26 years and easily approach so. Come chat with me! (May speak french sometimes)
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
It so good to see you back ^_^
Kamen Rider ViOwOlet (@erviolet.bsky.social):
Penny you flirt.
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Oregon π²π (@oregonthedm.bsky.social):
A reminder that while it has been greatly diluted since, especially when English now just being the third largest language block behind Portuguese (Brazil) and Japanese
that Bluesky early adopters and culture setting was by S*x Workers, Trans folks, and Disability advocates.
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
But older than them all is the fellow known as Tom Boobadil
Oregon π²π (@oregonthedm.bsky.social):
he busy in the lander of twitter, we are the 3 blue wizards
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LeAnne, Destroyer of Worlds and Glassware (@ennael.bsky.social):
This is a troll account, probably an alt for the one that posted a photo of Hitler, videos of people being killed and threats against LGBTQ people since this account liked most of those tweets and the accounts follow each other
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Blocklisted all three. Obvious troll is obvious, indeed
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
So this seems to be the only real surprise (to me) out of the 4 appendices.
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Seems to be this, "Fancelli" budget and travel agenda
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
And an article about it
www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/06...
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
The darning part there is a notation on one of the copies that reads "we pay our own way", which implies that the remainder of the payments are on behalf of someone else, which implies Fancelli is laundering these payments
But
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Katie Bitekitty π§βοΈ (@juicysteak117.gay):
just tried coffee for the first time. this kinda tastes like boiled dirt
logan, hater club CEO (@logan.hater.club):
I'm fairly certain Starbucks just shovels dirt from outside into their coffee filters
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
The one and only time I have had Starbucks', it tasted like campfire charcoal, it was so, so burnt
I was a child in Italy. I know good coffee.
logan, hater club CEO (@logan.hater.club):
Starbucks is not coffee, it is an actionable threat in a cup
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Volume III appears to be a transcript of Trump v Hobbs, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-el... excerpts from Pence's book, a publication by the Nevada elections dept, β¦
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
More publications from Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Wisonsin β¦ seems like a collection of evidence from the states that Trump contested / claimed were fraudulent, that their elections were actually unimpeachable
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
If there's any surprises hidden in the last half of Vol III I'm not getting them; my iPad is crashing trying to load the last half of that 536 page PDF
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Grrr and now my iPad is crashing on Vol I
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
OK
Vol III also contains the official FBI transcript of the Ellipse Rally on Jan 6,
Transcript of Trump's phone call to GA Sec of State, a statement by the Pennsylvania congresspeople of confidence in the election β¦
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Statement by Wisconsin elections commission , the Governor of Wisconsin, CISA statement on letterhead, a statement by Trump's atty Giuliani disavowing Sidney Powell β¦ Barr saying no crimes have been found, Trump campaign response to that,
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
A "Privileged and Confidential" memo, author and addressee redacted, titled
The Real Deadline for Settling a State's Electoral Votes
Which argues that Jan 6 is the "real deadline", citing Ginsburg in Bush v Gore, and also citing Laurence Tribe on another point
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Yep, the references to Tribe throughout another appendix appear to be to his published work on Bush v Gore, and an assertion there that the deadline for electors to be settled is the ballot counting ceremony.
Not hard to guess who the intended audience of this memo is
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Another "Privileged and Confidential" memo that lays out the steps for the "alternate electors" to meet, vote, and convey their products to Pence,
It has every appearance of being "the" Chesebro memo
int.nyt.com/data/documen...
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Which makes the prior memo this one
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Then we have copies of the fraudulent 2020 Georgia electors' products, a photo of the package they were conveyed in, a copy of the fraudulent certification,
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Fraudulent Michigan electors' products,
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Fraudulent Pennsylvania electors' products,
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Fraudulent Arizona and Fraudulent Nevada electors' products,
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Fraudulent New Mexico electors' products,
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Fraudulent Wisconsin electors' products
(Aside: many of these are clearly boilerplate forms distributed within the Republican party and adapted for each state's fraudulent elector slate attempt. Maybe that could be enough to prove conspiracy?)
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
End of Vol III
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
If I'm seeing this correctly - and I think I am - Vol I of these appendices has 700+ pages and only 1, Pg 273, is not blank.
Here it is
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I just have no words
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chelsea bridge π³οΈβ§οΈ (@secretaboutbox.bsky.social):
cis folks PSA
this is a linguistic construction to push back on
"transgender biological {men,women}"
we would say "transgender woman" to indicate a woman who is trans. they want to call us "biological men" and slip that alongside "transgender" in order to poison our language and confuse you.
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Supporting evidence: the appendix on this publication regarding homicides of transgender people shows "biological man" and "biological woman" to score alongside a term pushing trans people to suicide.
"Biological Man/Woman/S*x" is hate speech
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
This is more reason why any politician's "We will follow the law" rhetoric is reasonably knowable to be alarming β this study is about anti-trans laws, showing they are correlated to hate crime homicides of transgender people.
"We will follow the law" isn't enough. Equality has to be a value.
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Vol II is heavily sealed/redacted, but appears to be (so far as I'm reading) a collection of tweets (made by many parties but a lot by Trump) about vote counting, election machines, some by CISA Chris Krebs, a tweet by Trump announcing firing the head of CISA β¦
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Which, uh,
"Govt employee won't play ball with fraudulent claims of election fraud, gets fired by dude trying to steal election" seems like something the press might have written about?
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
apnews.com/article/dona...
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Yep, Vol II is a compilation of publicly available tweets, facebook pages, and truth social posts, most of which document Trump claiming he won the 2020 election, that there was vote fraud (esp in Arizona), he had evidence, & showing off the Jan 6 crowd, "This is Democracy"
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
All of that would likely go towards supporting an argument that Trump was rejecting / interfering with the lawful election and using a riot (Jan 6 mob, aka the Brooks Brothers Riot The Sequel) to seize power
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Dr Henry π (@cmhenry.bsky.social):
uhhhβ¦
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I was like, "well doesn't that explain a lot of Republican Attorneys General's efforts lately"
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
The budget says that it budgets for security for a "group" of 10-15 people. The agenda shows that the person(s) flew (or planned to fly) from Lakeland airport in Florida to Georgia on Jan 4 to rally there with Trump, then to DC on Jan 5 to rally, then back to Lakeland on Jan 6
Roger Stone?
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Volume 4 has several copies of a Budget and Agenda for someone, Jan4-Jan6 2021, which details "donations" to several entities for assisting in Jan6, including Turning Point USA & a Republican Attorneys General association. Millions of dollars' worth. Specified that donations were paid Dec 28 2020
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
it also seems that someone in the Trump campaign was relying on Laurence Tribe's analysis / analyses of how Trump could win, and/or the prosecution was. In the first 300 pages of Vol 4, there's only 4(?) bits unredacted & 2 of them mention Laurence Tribe
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Those first 4 fragments from the first 300 pages
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
There's some unredacted pages capturing the white house webpage about coronoavirus response (not sure why that is relevant but that could be interesting)
But it gets meaty at page 355, where we get a lightly redacted report on prohibited political activity
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Apparently the Trump admin's Head of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy engaged in electioneering for Trump while acting in his official capacity as a government employee
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Seems like they may be making a case that the Trump admin used government employees in 2020 to electioneer against Biden to attack him as a Chinese Communist puppet and to leverage the Covid pandemic in that effort.
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
There's a fragment unredacted mentioning the OSC and the Hatch Act, and that's the end of Volume 4.
Takeaway of Volume 4 is that the Trump admin engaged govt. employees to electioneer against Biden, painting Biden as Chinese Communist, and leveraged the Covid pandemic to do so.
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
And uh, the "donations" to various orgs / entities to help run the Jan 6 event
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Vince Mancini (@vincemancini.bsky.social):
paying a sky writer to emblazon NO THANKS across the horizon
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Thank you for including Alt Text on your images, which (had it been included) would have kept this post about Brianna Wu out of my timeline
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I am back again to thank you for including Alt Text on your images, which (had it been included) would have kept this post about Brianna Wu from transiting my timeline again (and not merely a second time)
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Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
I want a better world for us and our children
I don't want Trump to die in prison, I want him to suddenly, publicly, come clean and recant his horrid politics and confess his crimes and make restitution
But the government approximating that is all I can realistically hope for.
Streetwise, the Cville Safety Corpse (@averysafecat.bsky.social):
What can I say, we have a special hatred for him here in Charlottesville.
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Edith Laurie Charles (@edithcharles.bsky.social):
btw this in the aftermath after I took the body stocking off was extremely funny
Ms. Penny π π§βοΈ Oaken (@skywitches.net):
Te Victa
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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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