Bard spotting on Bluesky 08 November 2024

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

So far the "hard sci-fi" criticism I have of The Expanse (outside of the Dark Matter realm physics of the macguffin) are two things,

1. Epstein drive (minor, no big deal)

2. interplanetary railguns accurate to what must be incredible fractions of arcsecond. (Major, sucked me out of suspension)

Curt Gebers (@curtgebers.bsky.social):

Is that any higher aiming accuracy requirement than the Hubble Space Telescope?

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

Telescopes have the benefit of image composition & stabilisation over multiple collections, in post.

Railguns don't.

It can be addressed by attitudinal thrusters in the projectile & a guidance system …

Curt Gebers (@curtgebers.bsky.social):

They can stack images for sure. But as I understand it (and I could be wrong about this), the Hubble takes up to 45 minutes of continuous exposure for a single image, and it has to hold the field of view perfectly still on the image sensor for that entire time while it orbits the planet every 95 min

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

To think of it a different way -

The star being observed is emitting a huge number of photons, millions of which (despite being a near infinitesimal fraction of its output) happen to be arriving at our telescope. We get lots of catch chances.

A rail gun, otoh - just one launch chance.

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

The smallest perturbation in velocity, angle, even the heat expansion of the track, can affect whether it reaches the intended target

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

The advantage of rail guns is that they allow a very, very high kinetic energy. They still have the same drawbacks as say, firing a .50 cal, with respect to precision.

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

Y'all, if Trump & Vance haul in the raft of dipstick goons they've campaigned with, we will have six sigma proof within weeks that UFOs aren't extraterrestrial

If proof exists, they won't be able to keep it a secret

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

Looking forward to their Accountability Project that finds nothing except $700 potty seats as billed by their billionaire best buds

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

"I thought this was going to be cutting a bunch of red tape?!?"

Sorry bud, just $75 torque bolts

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

"Why do they have to redo the engineering docs when they change the lightbulbs"

Because of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl

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

"Why do they have to do this test"

Because some greedy / psychopathic MFers will put melamine in the baby formula

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

And the people who are stubborn enough to overcome the friction of using your tool, will have an oversize influence on the service.

Karens. I'm talking Karens.

(I speak as a white-hat Karen)

Pavel (@spavel.bsky.social):

If you are making a tool, you need to have a very strong point of view about how that tool will be used. Otherwise you are shifting that burden onto your users - and if using your tool is a burden, they simply won't.

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

You may think that you want Only Karens / Neighbourhood Watch / People With More Time Than Most to use your tool. That user friction is the solution to at-scale abuse of the tool.

You are almost certainly wrong.

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

It took thirteen transgender women 6 months, tens of thousands of abuse reports & 130,000 activists & a threat of advertiser boycott to get Reddit to enforce SWR1 on /r/TumblrInAction & /r/SocialJusticeInAction.

After two years of violations.

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

It took a user riot (by MRAs) for Reddit to close /r/MGTOW, a year & a half after Reddit adopted SWR1, a year & a half after quarantining it, a year & a half after it was cited by the FBI as a gender-based Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism group.

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

These kinds of foot-drags, where the burden was on the user base to make the case for enforcement, to make a service provider keep the promises they've made,

are the cause of trust thermocline inversions.

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

Possibly Jesse Singal. I don't remember if he blocked me or if he just deleted his thread where he tried to whitewash Kiwifarms and I parachuted in with receipts of the criminal conspiracies to homicide there & proof his PA harassed Austin teachers ala LoTT & is mutuals with a neoNazi

Will Jennings 🗳️ (@drjennings.bsky.social):

In celebration of everyone joining Bsky today, which Twitter account are you proudest to have been blocked by?

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

I didn't pay much attention to others blocking me there.

I did pay attention to the # of accounts I'd blocked there, which topped 600k over a decade — an indictment of Twitter T&S even before the takeover

Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️🌈 (@thedukewindsor.bsky.social):

The electoral college has the opportunity to do the funniest fricking thing and actually steal the election from that orange motherlover

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

It wouldn't be a stolen election.

He'd scream it was, but he'd perhaps have to then admit his attempt at alternate slates of electors were stealing the election

But it would be a nice outcome, for the EC to jury nullify those MFers

Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️🌈 (@thedukewindsor.bsky.social):

Legally correct but it'd still be hilarious to see him have a stroke about it

Nice Footpaws (@ionotter.bsky.social):

So I noticed that I'm on a bunch of anti-indigenous and antisemitic and racist blocklists.

I'm a bit concerned, because that seems totally wrong, but then I checked to see what lists THEY are on.

Ah.

They're all on my nazi p-do zoo list.

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a cartoon of spongebob with his eyes closed

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

The trash takes itself out, sometimes

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

I adore weird music, and DJ Cummerbund is my kind of jam

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DJ Cummerbund - Marching of the Ants

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

SCOTUS is supposed to Describe the intent of the founders / legislators / the law / rights, not eisegetically prescribe carveouts

Angus Johnston (@angus.bsky.social):

People sometimes get mad at me when I say that something is unconstitutional whether SCOTUS agrees or not. But eliminating birthright citizenship is unconstitutional whether SCOTUS agrees or not.

vortex egg, MLIS (@vortexegg.com):

If you think the information environment is bad now, what is going to happen is the technopolitics arm of the federal government will mandate the public subsidization of specific carriers/platforms and content producers

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

My biggest anxiety is that the US fed dot gov finally nationalises a mandate for a public social media / email infrastructure, and it's outsourced to Musk

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

What would be more efficient than a unitary social media platform / e-communications infrastructure

Conveniently lacking a requirement for warrants, encryption, security …

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

Twitter — before Elon even had his mitts on it — had no internal infosec controls once inside the perimeter. First tier support techs could read arbitrary account DMs.

vortex egg, MLIS (@vortexegg.com):

If you think the information environment is bad now, what is going to happen is the technopolitics arm of the federal government will mandate the public subsidization of specific carriers/platforms and content producers

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

They were under a consent decree to remedy it — but never did.

Foreign governments forced them to install political XOs who had free reign to access anything, including the DMs of their political opponents (in India, for example)

It should never have been tolerated

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

There was a user account on Reddit, literally /u/FreeSpeechWarrior — argued that i.e. moderators be held legally liable for removing content / banning users from subreddits without a court order

Unsurprisingly a ringleader of a bigoted harassment group

Micah (@rincewind.run):

as always the vast majority of the "free speech warriors" think that free speech means that they and their friends are allowed to say anything they want without criticism and everyone else must praise them or be forced at gunpoint to shut up

Jazz. (@jl3001.bsky.social):

Now that we got people coming here let's never talk about Bluesky elders or anything that happened on this site in 2023 ever again

Jazz. (@jl3001.bsky.social):

No more internecine beefs. Multi-day dramas. Endless sitewide discourse. Let's get free.

mattbird (@biiirdmaaan.bsky.social):

Someone should probably just make a block list for every account that existed prior to 2024 for them.

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

dissolves into black dust

Mister Stark, I don't feel so good—

🦉🦃 (@smallmutuals.bsky.social):

Not to open the absolute freshest and deepest wound of all time, but do you guys think Joe would have won? I am not sure, but its certainly a live one.

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

Who knows. It would be wonderful to have a control timeline to peek into.

Sadly, Apollo also grants a certain blindness as a gift along with prophecy

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

11 years ago, Marc Andreesen, Richard Stallman, & Aaron Swartz were inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.

Now we know Swartz advocated for legalisation of CSAM;

RMS is a r*pey "ephebophile";

& Andreesen wants to destroy Freedom of Association (and more!)

Carl T. Bergstrom (@carlbergstrom.com):

Same energy as last week's libertarian who feels that in America, "females" shouldn't be allowed to laugh at him in his cybertruck.

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

Also, if you're just now learning this about The Internet's Own Boy, Unjustly Prosecuted For Liberating Science, well —

web.archive.org/web/20130116...

Bits are not a bug.

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

One of the side effects of infiltrating the horrible people that had a throttle-hold on Reddit from its early days, into 2015-2020, was uncovering buried seeds like that which explain a lot about early Reddit's ethos

Josef (@josbrowsing.bsky.social):

Hey I want to say:

Thank you so much for your time and work on Reddit and for your work with AHS. Your work did improve the site, and helped others like me start paying more attention to dogwhistles and noticing when something isn't right.

Katie Tightkitty (@juicysteak117.gay):

excuse me some of us learned that we were women

Moira Donegan (@moiradonegan.bsky.social):

For years I was like "what gen z is going on the internet is simply none of my business" and then it turned out that what gen z men were doing was absorbing thousands of hours of "every woman not currently having s*x with you deserves to die in a slow, painful, public manner."

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

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

• Simone de Beauvoir

Katie Tightkitty (@juicysteak117.gay):

beauvoir is so based

Jane Coaston (@janecoaston.bsky.social):

I am also increasingly of the opinion that widespread access to pornography has led to a weird time in which men see women in real life through the lens of porn, which is why right wing chuds are convinced all college aged women do is have orgies

BeijingPalmer (@beijingpalmer.bsky.social):

there's still a fundamental and deep injustice here in the 'men fear women laughing at them, women fear men killing them' way. but those feelings of social humiliation and being cheated are also real for a lot of young men - and bound up in a lot of entitlement and horrible shit.

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

Respectfully, you have the cart before the horse.

Misogynist pornography is an expression of a culture that exists independent of that body of work.

We know this in part because patriarchy / violent misogyny has existed long before the invention of the camera, and the printing press.

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

Widespread access to porn certainly makes the misogynist backrooms more attractive to young men, and makes a part of a useful tool to manipulate their sexual anxiety - but those are symptoms, epiphenomena, not causes

Joe Reid (@joereid.bsky.social):

Motion that we call the things we post here "tweets" and quit pretending there's a better word for them.

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

Sadly, trademarked. Still.

marlo (@marlo.ooo):

WHERE is my Eurythmics-inspired distro called Annie Linux

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

Some of them want to use yay

Some of them want to use rpm

Some of them want to apt-get -u

Some of them want an .ISO

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

I need this to go far and wide, please:

If you see someone posting / sharing like: "I hope Donald Trump dies",

BLOCK THAT PERSON IMMEDIATELY

Trump's operative use bait

They want to net a conspiracy of assassins. They want proof of An Enemy Within, & will manufacture one.

Don't take the bait

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

The Trump administration is responsible for why you know the label "antifa" — they literally used it to attempt to manufacture an Enemy Within, to pretext unprecedented executive & prosecutorial power.

Same with DisruptJ20.

You want to throw sand in MAGA's gears, start by blocking bait

Enemy Within Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social):

Apparently Trump just announced he is unilaterally ending birthright citizenship.

I would have ridiculed it as preposterous a few years ago.

Now? Well, watch the Federalist Society start holding seminars on why he's right, and I am not confident this Supreme Court will disagree.

Jorge Caballero, MD (@datadrivenmd.social):

Ted Cruz you in trouble, girl

bplumm01 (@bplumm01.bsky.social):

Rubio too

Jorge Caballero, MD (@datadrivenmd.social):

Rubio was born in Miami, FL whereas Rafael Edward Cruz was born in Canada. While both technically gained birthright citizenship, the joke speaks to Ted's more tenuous claim to US citizenship

Matt (@therealmatt.bsky.social):

It's a shame it can't be retroactive to Trump's grandparents.

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

One of the ways fascism creeps in, is by persuading people that the things it promises, the powers it demands, are good and normal and should be used.

Like the One Ring, the promises are lies. Don't buy them. Not even "as a joke".

Thanks for listening, and welcome to the resistance

Lorenzo805 (@loman805.bsky.social):

Has anyone else experienced a ton of follows for no apparent reason? 😳

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

You're possibly in someone's starter pack, but also there's a lot of migration today due to the changes on xitter

Lorenzo805 (@loman805.bsky.social):

I agree, but please be careful of those with over 1k followers with no history or little posts. 🙏

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

📌

J.M. Berger (@intelwire.bsky.social):

I have a forthcoming book chapter with a taxonomy of participatory online communities that may be helpful in thinking about this

olive consumer (@machete.gay):

a fun thing you don't have a huge number of opportunities to learn in life but learn very quickly and sometimes dramatically when you do is basically every fine powder ranges from "flammable" to "basically explosive"

Jerry Chen (@jcsalterego.bsky.social):

TIL mac & cheese powder is flammable

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

And if it doesn't, it's a carcinogen

olive consumer (@machete.gay):

sometimes both!!

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

If someone is using iOS 18, and using the Hidden app feature to conceal Signal on their device, and someone else sends an signal.me identity link,

IT WILL NOT WORK

When you hide an app on iOS 18, iOS de-registers its media handler hooks

Use Usernames Instead

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Signal Messenger Contact

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

Reasons to avoid signal.me links include

☑️ Contact may be tempted to unhide app to make contact

☑️ malicious third party app may have registered passthru media handler hook

☑️ compromised DNS

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Signal Messenger Contact

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

Get Signal

Emma Cumslutress 🏳️⚧️ (@cumslutress.love):

transsexuals are braver than the troops tbqhwyimhongl

emily pathetic (@silverleaves.xyz):

they should thank you for your service

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

Trans be queer hot witches you love me however only next guesday, later

Emma Cumslutress 🏳️⚧️ (@cumslutress.love):

precisely

Magen Cubed (@magencubed.bsky.social):

Now that this place is filling up with Twitter people, please understand that I block fandom discourse accounts on sight. I do not participate in fandom. I want nothing to do with fandom. I don't want to know anything about a fandom. Unless I know you, I do not care about your opinions about art

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

"But Magen," said the voice from the back of the room, "what of your own fandom?"

Magen Cubed (@magencubed.bsky.social):

There is no Magen fandom!

throws laptop out of the window

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

wilhelm scream

Robert Szasz 𓅆 (@rszasz.bsky.social):

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

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Robert Szasz 𓅆 (@rszasz.bsky.social):

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

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Robert Szasz 𓅆 (@rszasz.bsky.social):

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Ryan Marino, MD (@ryanmarino.bsky.social):

Toxicologist here for any fluoride concerns! The amount of fluoride added to water to prevent tooth decay is so minuscule that—no matter your age, size, or health status—you would die from water poisoning long before you could ever even start getting toxicity from fluoride. Fluoridated water is safe

Rachel Maria (@radiantrachel.bsky.social):

I still don't understand why we're ingesting it. It's always bothered me. Also, isn't there evidence linking it to bone cancer in black boys? Just checking.

Either way, removing it is definitely a sign of major divergment from normal.

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

We have fluoride in tap water because of studies done showing a massive reduction in caries (cavities) in kids & adults in areas where the groundwater naturally had fluoride. And since then, studies that show that i.e. fluoridated toothpaste dramatically drops cavities.

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

The studies that show a heightened correlation to bone cancer, etc are simply correlations- they aren't showing causation.

There are studies that show a correlation between consuming apples and higher incidence of cancer. It's not the apples causing the cancer.

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

RFK Jr. & cohort don't understand (or don't care) about the difference between correlation vs causation. They cherry-pick studies that report things that sound scary, to drive their preferred narrative.

Paula who is persisting (@paula2168.bsky.social):

I doubt he did a meta analysis of studies to confidently and reliably say what causes what ever health issues he is trying to discern and generate policy on.

Ryan Marino, MD (@ryanmarino.bsky.social):

Toxicologist here for any fluoride concerns! The amount of fluoride added to water to prevent tooth decay is so minuscule that—no matter your age, size, or health status—you would die from water poisoning long before you could ever even start getting toxicity from fluoride. Fluoridated water is safe

Ninjakick (@ninjakick.bsky.social):

How come theres no flouride in any of the most popular brands of bottled water? Just no consumer demand?

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

None of them advertise as being fluoridated.

Many of them are, however, "From the municipal water supply of [nearby city]", and that municipal water supply will have fluoridated.

Robert Lawrence (@roblawrencium.bsky.social):

FWIW, the FDA does have regulations that apply to fluoride levels in bottled water, similar to municipal water. So there may or may not be a certain level of fluoride present, if at all. www.fda.gov/food/hfp-con...

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

And the advice for counterextremism:

"It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." — Gandalf

anna !!! :) 🇵🇸🌸✨🌸🇵🇸 (@frogs4girls.bsky.social):

so it turns out freely giving children access to the combined thought output of the entire planet with no oversight was not a healthy recipe for raising a generation

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

No education on how to actually think critically.

There are people out there who claim the Fallacy of Appeal to Authority means citing experts

"Recently Juiced" Garak Tailor (She/They) (@comfortingmoo.online):

i remember telling kiddo early on that the internet is full of a lot of amazing knowledge and even more what we call "Bullshit" and its important to always ask yourself if this is bullshit and if you ever want my take ask.

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

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Trandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is how to serve realness with the time that is given us."

Stella (@antlervel.vet):

In these trying times I think the best piece of advice I can give the girlies is: do something c*nty every single day. NOT something bitchy; that's a once or twice a month thing. But you are invincible if you're serving in whatever way you can. There has never been a better time to be c*nt

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

And this is a summary of everything I learned about extremists on social media from 2015-present:

They need and want an audience, to violate boundaries, to conquer.

They want you to agree to negotiate and dance with them, & thereby validate their ideology & purpose & ego

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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

When Reddit set up proper blocking, one of the ringleaders of a long running harassment & manipulation group that had plagued the site for over a decade,

Went on an extended "we are fricked" villain monologue. Full meltdown.

The group left reddit shortly after & moved offsite.

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

Block them. Set up blocklists with your friends and family and classmates and etc.

Trust one another and get support from one another, to cut the harassers out of your life.

The thing they hate the most is us living our lives free of them.

Daniel (@danieljarthur.bsky.social):

I have not had many; however, the only way to get relief from the ones I have had is to block them. Otherwise, they would just keep piling on with nonsense and demeaning remarks.

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

I see the Extremist Understanders Starter Pack got posted somewhere, from the sudden flood of followers.

So here's an anecdote to help people understand why people vote against their own interests

1/?

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

MAGA voter, 65 yo: "I need help; my pharmacy hasn't sent me a refill of my glucose test strips, I need to transfer my prescription to this pharmacy"

Son, helping: "You don't need a prescription for glucose test strips. They're over-the-counter."

MAGA voter: "I'm calling this pharmacy"

(2/?)

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

Son: "You don't need a prescription for glucose test strips. They're over-the-counter."

Pharmacy: "Hello how can I help you?"

MAGA voter: "[5 minute long ramble about normal pharmacy not sending test strips]"

Pharmacist: "we do carry those strips"

Son, helping: "YDNAPFTGTS;TAOTC."

(3/?)

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

MAGA voter: "and do you take [Insurance provider]?"

Pharmacist: "No, sorry, we don't, but it's $$ for nn without insurance"

MAGA voter: "i'll get my prescription"

SHOW MORE

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

When Reddit set up proper blocking, one of the ringleaders of a long running harassment & manipulation group that had plagued the site for over a decade,

Went on an extended "we are fricked" villain monologue. Full meltdown.

The group left reddit shortly after & moved offsite.

Anna Phylaxis (@quatoria.bsky.social):

Some of us not only like fighting, we got way too good at it on twitter, and we intentionally learned to step the heck back, because it turns out that getting good at fighting, and liking fighting, and fighting all the time are AWFUL FOR YR MENTAL HEALTH.

Kathryn Tewson (@kathryntewson.bsky.social):

Was that KiA?

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

In part; It was mostly the CringeAnarchy / CringeTopia group - who had helped / supported / co-operated with KiA / TiA / SJiA

They moved en masse to Twitter when Musk acquired it, in the span of a few months.

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

The big disinfo subreddits — CringeTopia, WatchRedditDie, & G*merGate ecosystem subs — largely abandoned Reddit when the platform implemented true user blocking, automated ban evasion enforcement, & established a rule against community interference. They'd demanded access to harass people for years.

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

100 pounds of white rice & the water & fuel to cook it. Serves 300 meals.

Assigned Media (@assigned.bsky.social):

Famously, Republicans spent $134 per trans person on anti-trans ads. So, we figured we'd ask some trans people, what would you do if you had $134?

Thread of some answers to follow. Please reply or quote-skeet with your own. Let's inject some silliness into all this gloom.

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

i don't feel silly. I just feel disappointed.

It's more important to Republicans that LGBTQ & women suffer & be second class citizens, than feed the hungry, treat the sick, house the homeless.

They made their priorities clear.

Sy Nakamura (@theredprince.bsky.social):

This is a grim thread

BlackJew 🏳️⚧️ (@blackjew.bsky.social):

Following the 2016 election, I was genuinely curious/worried about what was going on with white voters, especially non-college-educated. But I wanted to know what policies or messages could move them. I asked progressive funders and we did a poll and followed by focus groups. This is what I learned:

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

In short, their motivation is "I hate [women / nonwhites / LGBTQ] and want to be the main character of the world", and they're 100% ignorant of how government & society works

janny with a mop. janny with a mop.

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.