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Sab Steele (@voidmother.bsky.social):
i may have mentioned before, but i added the Alex Jones show analysis podcast Knowledge Fight to my media diet and you would think adding so much Alex Jones into my life would be an extreme weight, but it actually makes me feel better
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Like celery, it consumes more Jones calories than it contains & introduces valuable fiber
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Dell Cameron π¦ (@dell.bsky.social):
deep down don't you just wanna salvage the republican party
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I do want to see it, specifically because it will result in a party split, which will result in the PMVE side being prosecuted & the Democratic party getting electoral sweeps
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Sage π³οΈβ§οΈπ¦ (@trans.bsky.social):
i was a gothy vampire for Halloween, how'd i do? π§ββοΈπ
(ππππ ππππ π πππ ππππ ππππππππ πππππ ππ’ πππππππππ’πππ πππππππππππ.)
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
A+ lip colour
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Cats of Yore (@catsofyore.bsky.social):
POV: this cat almost died of emotions because you left her all alone for ten minutes while you took a shower.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Hoomin, do you not know the horror of being wet to the skin?? You may have been bedraggled! The anxiety! Never repeat this atrocity
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Edith Laurie Charles (@edithcharles.bsky.social):
If Keir Starmer really wants to be the new Tony Blair he needs to frick Rupert Murdoch's wife
Edith Laurie Charles (@edithcharles.bsky.social):
Hehe
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Edith, I trust your judgement on the character of these folks and do not wish to question it, while also remaining blissfully unaware of their apparently very personal sins
Edith Laurie Charles (@edithcharles.bsky.social):
Oh come on where's the fun in having a brain free of unedifying sludge
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Oh, please don't get me wrong - my brain is chockablock besludged, to the point of concerning the human sewage marshall on the statutory capacity. We are turning them away at the doors
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Kemi Badenoch is pounding at the ticket call window demanding seats be produced
We just cannot
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Capacity may free up in the coming week
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
What I struggle here to express is simply
Critical Support for Edith
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Edith Laurie Charles (@edithcharles.bsky.social):
This, too, is misgendering
@marysuesays.bsky.social
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
FWIW marysuesays retracted / removed the gendered language on the list name.
Still blocked however many hundreds of trans women. Not on a list, just blocked. shrug
Just seems like someone who uh, has a possible trauma reaction
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Dana Simpson β¨π¦β¨ (@danacorn.bsky.social):
That PokΓ©mon speaks the truth.
I for one have had enough of how many vocal members of the online trans community feel obligated to constantly pretend democrats suck on our issues.
Democrats are the most pro-trans major party in the world. They have literally never thrown us under the bus.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
There are transphobic positions from Democratic politicians even today, and the party had "ew cooties" reactions to LGBTQ rights as recently as the 1990's, but they presently mostly have a clear view of an equitable future for us.
Dana Simpson β¨π¦β¨ (@danacorn.bsky.social):
Name some.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Here in Texas, Shawn Thierry, who premised her switch to the GOP on her transphobia. There's another in Kansas, Nancy Boyda. They're not party officials, though, and they're not being welcomed for their views. If I were perverse I'd name Tulsi, too, but she's been known a plant for a while
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The trend is clear, though - the Democrats aren't perfect on LGBTQ rights, but neither should we let the Ought To Be Perfect be the enemy of The Present Good
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Dana Simpson β¨π¦β¨ (@danacorn.bsky.social):
(And I always feel like "as recently as the 90s" is a strange way of making that argument. Yes? Three decades ago, when the culture was completely different on LGBT issues, and being too pro- LGBT was political suicide, the democrats weren't as good on it. So?)
A(n In)Famous Historian (@aih.bsky.social):
how can the Democrats be an ally against white supremacy when as recently as the 1860s they were the soft-on-the-Confederacy party?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
There's a difference between the Southern Strategy Realignment, vs 2004 Barack Obama "Marriage Is Between A Man & A Woman; Gays can have Separate but Equal".
Thankfully Democratic politicians can largely be persuaded on facts & law & a value of equality. Few GOP can be.
Dana Simpson β¨π¦β¨ (@danacorn.bsky.social):
Democrats change as the culture changes. As society becomes more tolerant on an issue, the Democratic Party tends to track it.
So, in 2004, society was still wrestling with gay acceptance, and that was reflected in Democratic positions.
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Matti (@mrbtx.bsky.social):
Thierry got kicked out of the party and then kicked out of the State House ?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I don't recall if she left inna huff or if she was kicked. If transphobia were a major wedge issue in 2020 or 2022 I'd know better who planked where, but this year it's "either Harris & Walz win or I literally have to seek asylum abroad".
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I just lie in bed and cry, thinking about how my humanity and existence is on the line
Dana Simpson β¨π¦β¨ (@danacorn.bsky.social):
I refuse to let them do that to me. I'm going to hold my head high and live my darn life and they won't stop me.
Dana Simpson β¨π¦β¨ (@danacorn.bsky.social):
But I live in California. Texas would be different.
Matti (@mrbtx.bsky.social):
I live in Texas and same vibes until Repubs kick me out
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I helped pressure Reddit to adopt the rule against hate speech, which banned The_Donald & its satellites, & suppresses GOP hate speech on the site in this campaign. And so there's been mountains of harassment & death threats.
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MatchaβΆβΉ π»π΅πΈ (@matchateauwu.bsky.social):
Apparently the Green party is the only other party in our apparent 3 party system π
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
At a national, POTUS election level, the other parties are mostly insignificant except as potential spoilers pulling potential voters away from one (or both) of the Democratic & Republican party candidates. Earthquake-grade shifts would have to occur to change that.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Colin Allred had a position on LGBTQ rights published on his website before the panic about him got touched off. None of the people accusing him of transphobia seemed to find this.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
When it (the panic) happened, I recognised it -
bsky.app/profile/skyw...
TubaPeter.com (@tubapeter.bsky.social):
I'm having this weird feeling... is it... pride... in being... a... Democrat?
Weird. I'm sure they'll do something else to make it go away soon.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
In case someone wants to know where the line is on my blocklisting criteria -
Got evidence that an account had:
1. misgendered a bunch of people (in a clumsy way)
2. blocked a bunch of people, mostly trans women
Added to Transphobic blocklist.
(1/2)
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Got evidence that
3. the misgendering was A Mistake, the error retracted and apology made
So I took the account off the Transphobic blocklist.
I don't use "I blockenheimered all of XYZ's followers" as proof, only distantly circumstantial supporting evidence, of bad faith intent.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It's also exactly what needs to happen to be removed from a blocklist.
1. acknowledgment & retract harmful actions
2. make amends
1 in 10,000 people do these 2 things.
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Elle (@elleisanisland.bsky.social):
ARE WE NOT PERMITTED ANY JOY?!!
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I've decided that Stardew Valley is a bubble wrap pop simulator. Especially the crop harvesting.
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Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social):
He should smile more.
Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social):
Amazing to think that a political career that began as a desperate brand-building lark in 2015 might result in him bankrupted and ending his life on parole or worse.
Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social):
I'd say it is the stuff of Greed tragedies, but only if those tragedies were written by unpaid Hillsdale College summer interns for Breitbart.
Tristan Buckner (@tristanbuckner.bsky.social):
Accurate typo.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Apollo speaks thus
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Pavel (@spavel.bsky.social):
Absolutely not
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Zen Mind, Beginner Mind
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
This is a victory!!!
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Sage π³οΈβ§οΈπ¦ (@trans.bsky.social):
should i post this thirst trap i took on halloween even tho i feel kinda clocky in it? π€
Staccata (@stacy.is.relentlessly.online):
closes "reverse psychology" wikipedia page
I'm going to say no
Sage π³οΈβ§οΈπ¦ (@trans.bsky.social):
i trust your judgement π
Staccata (@stacy.is.relentlessly.online):
how to undo reverse psychology backfire
Staccata (@stacy.is.relentlessly.online):
Shit sorry I was trying to Google that
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
(The correct answer to "I Trust Your Judgement" is "We Should Go On A Date", btw)
Staccata (@stacy.is.relentlessly.online):
frick frick frick frick frick on a brick
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD (@ubiquity75.bsky.social):
lol. What. Why.
Blake E. Reid (@chup.blakereid.org):
Is that real?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
This is the first question that must be asked
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Just got word back that this is fake.
Blake E. Reid (@chup.blakereid.org):
Yeah same
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
A sudden thunderstorm broke out here, and the attendant lightning strike triggered a neighbour's car alarm, which fit in perfectly in time and tune to the opening riff of Tool's Γnima
Nature plays me the prog rock
Bianca's Twitter Escape Era π³οΈππ³οΈβ§οΈ (@beegaydoocrimes.bsky.social):
I love it so much when random events like that hit exactly at the tight moment. That's like a sprinkle of magic in an otherwise not so magical world βΊοΈ
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Unless Harris pardons him unconditionally for all federal crimes, I simply don't see how he escapes a life sentence without the end of civilisation
Tegan O'Neil (@teganoneil5000.bsky.social):
after he loses (π€) he's nothing more than a frail old man with advanced dementia that there's no more incentive to cover up (his behavior is where my dad's was about six months before we put him in the home) - so sadly it'll be merely house arrest and around-the-clock care from private physicians
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Jenova's Witness (@babadooknukem.bsky.social):
There's a sign in my neighborhood that says TRUMP LOW TAXES and every time we drive past it I think "god I wish he would"
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Oh π«’
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Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social):
Looking forward to Elon and Ron Paul abolishing the federal reserve and creating a new, government-backed bitcoin currency called the Dunning-Krugerrand
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):
Sethβ¦
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I feel like breakfast, I'm going to get some mashed potatoes to go with this banger
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):
Same
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
#deleteFacebook
#BoycottMeta
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I quit using facebook in 2015 when they kept up a 4chan grade antisemitic caricature for > 6 months despite repeated efforts to have it taken down.
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Frohike, It's Men Like You Who Give Perversion a Bad Name (@2facedjanus7927.bsky.social):
Instantly failing this one, chief. I think the miserable butthole's coming from inside the house, not from Twitter: bsky.app/profile/deck...
Frohike, It's Men Like You Who Give Perversion a Bad Name (@2facedjanus7927.bsky.social):
Sorry that this site is where people do cringe things like "care about politics" and "don't want the fascist to win".
(@stacebase.bsky.social):
The "Caring about things is lame" people are some of the most obnoxious buttholes on the planet.
Decker (@deckerthedude.bsky.social):
I want you people to care more. This is basically team sports to you frickers, or you'd be demanding a little more than "won't have you killed for dissenting opinion".
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Hey, buddy. It can be hard to pull yourself out of Fight mode, but you can be better here. Open hostility here is just going to get you blocked, blocklisted, labeled & suspended.
bsky.app/profile/skyw...
Frohike, It's Men Like You Who Give Perversion a Bad Name (@2facedjanus7927.bsky.social):
Dude's hooked on the endorphins he gets from having people yell at him, he's been whining about how "boring" it is here because we discuss things or hardblock instead of try and dunk on each other constantly.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Sometimes it's worth the benefit of the doubt
Frohike, It's Men Like You Who Give Perversion a Bad Name (@2facedjanus7927.bsky.social):
I mean, go ahead. I looked through his feed and as a Native guy with limited time on this Earth I decided the last thing I need to do is try and argue some white jackass out of his rage addiction.
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Decker (@deckerthedude.bsky.social):
Sounds like fascism.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I'm an antifascist trans woman who's survived three murder attempts by neoNazis & transphobes.
Take a deep breath and understand that we aren't you enemy
Decker (@deckerthedude.bsky.social):
You are not antifascist just because you are a survivor.
The absolute onslaught I've received in response to my barely hostile reply is insane. I think those people are very much enemies.
You seem better than this shit, but you are currently enabling fascist behaviors. Wish you the best.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I'm antifascist because I succeeded in getting Reddit to kick all the fascists off. Six years of effort.
The response you received is because open toxicity and ableism (insulting intelligence etc) is atypical here, but typical of harassers, antisocial personality, etc.
You need a detox.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
We get interesting and fun discussions here instead of toxic brawls by prioritising the Social part of Social media, not the antisocial antipattern Musk curated.
You made a post two weeks ago expressing that desire. I'm just reminding you.
Decker (@deckerthedude.bsky.social):
I think you need a perspective check. 300 people fervently digging through a single person's entire profile page looking for ammunition isn't healthy. What you people do here isn't any better than Twitter, you've just got a better seal around the echo chamber.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Boundaries are a necessary part of the human experience, and we all delegate trust in maintaining those boundaries to others whom we are in community with.
You responded to a very high profile account with a hostile take. That violated a common boundary - common here, common in person.
Decker (@deckerthedude.bsky.social):
If I'd been a protester at a Kamala Harris rally, I'd have been immediately removed, beaten and silenced. That's ok to you, and an acceptable human experience?
When someone is "high-profile" they should face scrutiny, should face pushback. To not is unnatural, and reminiscent of our darkest days.
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):
I'm gonna be less nice than Penny, but say the same thing which is you have no idea what fascism is and those of us who are actually anti-fascists are more about free association and be who you are then anyone else you will ever meet. If you think fascism is fascism, you're gonna do well here kid
Decker (@deckerthedude.bsky.social):
Yes, antifascism is when we shout down dissenting leftist opinions and defend neo liberal institutions to include an over processed idea of "civility".
I'll be less nice to you than I was to Penny when I tell you to frick off and grow a spine.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):
It's funny because now you're just lying and acting like a reactionary. Sorry reality is on our side on this one. Please get back to pretending you're not just a republican and anti-trans
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Was there evidence of transphobia? If there's evidence of transphobia, onto the blocklists
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):
General attitude is being pretty fricking anti trans.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I need specific behaviour on platform.
But I think also he blocked me when the question was raised so β¦ hm
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):
Yeah he has the constellation of actions that has not led me astray when calling an account.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I don't see transphobia there but the "rage addiction" is there. He has to want to walk away.
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Jonquil B. (@jonquil.bsky.social):
Since when did reddit kick out all the fash?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
2020 - 2022, with SWR1 against Hate Based on Identity or Vulnerability & the Q32023 adoption of a moderator code of conduct that made mods responsible for the uses they allow subreddits to be put to. Ones that pop back up now usually get suspended as ban evasion.
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lydy (@los7.bsky.social):
penny u rock for being so nice to this [person who is behaving asocially]
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
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lydy (@los7.bsky.social):
aww
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
That's all.
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Why?
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Tina is short for "Beautiful and Wise Tina" (@tinaonmain.bsky.social):
i did my shot! say: "good girl tina"; say: "oh but you are ever so pretty and estrogenized tina"; say: "i'm in awe of you tina"
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
So vrai, si bien Γ©levΓ©
Tina is short for "Beautiful and Wise Tina" (@tinaonmain.bsky.social):
yes, yes!
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post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social):
it's perfect, in its way
Alex (@alexanotherone.bsky.social):
Idk, what she's describing sounds really bad to me
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Oh, does she mean when people find out the limited hangout that has been uncovered so far, or does she also mean the stuff that is still FOIA (1,3,7a,7f) β?
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Gammitin (Ben) πΎ (@gammitin.bsky.social):
"My computer is acting weird, I haven't installed anything, honest! Can you help?"
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I see the problem, I'm writing you a prescription for DBAN
Gammitin (Ben) πΎ (@gammitin.bsky.social):
My prescription was always: "flatten it, start again!"
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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.
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