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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade  26d ago (text post) 29 thread views #313668

Bard spotting on Bluesky 04 November 2024 :marseyrandom:

Here we spot wild Bardfinn Bluesky activities.

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Sammie ⛈️💖 (@sammie.gay):

Hi I'm Sammie and I am very into Yuri manga, the emergency alert system, queer history, and early 00s rhythm games

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

okay, time for a prompt post to distract us all from the horrors. quote this post with your areas of expertise, interest, hyperfixation and/or obsession and invite your audience to ask you questions about them.

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

Hi Sammie! I live in the shadow of the KRLD towers, 1080AM, which is the Primary Entry Point for EAS for much of North Texas and S. Oklahoma. Everything in this neighbourhood is on a dedicated power distribution, with only one provider, the city itself - B/C of KRLD's national security importance

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

I live in the one of the few neighbourhoods in Texas NOT subject to outages b/c of Texas' power grid failures

Sammie ⛈️💖 (@sammie.gay):

Oh we're actually pretty close! You might be able to answer a question for ME tho! Does living near a PEP come with more rigorous/frequent testing?

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

I don't think so - testing of reception equipment is pretty standardised, because of the square cube law, it would only be stressful of reception equipment if it were less than a kilometer from the radio tower. Which my childhood school and home were. The signal bled to everything with a diode

Sammie ⛈️💖 (@sammie.gay):

Oh my god I can imagine. Just everything in your house emitting a low hum constantly!!

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

The phone - KRLD. The school PA - KRLD. The park chain link fence - KRLD. I built a crystal radio as a kid and it had one station, in every harmonic and subharmonic of KRLD, no antenna wire required

Sammie ⛈️💖 (@sammie.gay):

I can imagine building a crystal radio as a kid and being a little freaked out about that. What does krld broadcast when not being used for eas? Or is it dedicated exclusively to that?

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

It was news, weather, & sports on the normal AM audio for decades, but now in the past few years the station carries call-in talk radio and evangelism and bottom-barrel political shows. It's embarassing

Sammie ⛈️💖 (@sammie.gay):

Sigh, of course
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