Bard spotting on Bluesky 18 November 2024

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

Sometimes, I think I might not understand sarcasm —

And then I remember coming across someone who carried for years the impression that one woman's sarcastic quip made on her personal social media was entirely serious & sincere, b/c "she is a professional"

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

I remember the troll who spent two whole years following me around reddit, foaming at the mouth over a sarcastic copypaste I dropped into a comment in response to his "you're a power tripping basement dweller" screeching

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

If, as the rabid bigots demand, trans women are not women — why are we held to the same patriarchal smile-and-demurr never-show-a-flaw-or-personality standards as cis women are? Why are there hordes of unparented, unchastened perverts in our inboxes demanding s*x favours of us?

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

If they really thought we were men, they'd just go back to humouring us and treating us with basic deference and dignity, the way they treat other men by default, instead of becoming a "now listen here little lady" s*x pest reply guy at us

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

The same week I came out, half of my male casual online acquaintances started disregarding and questioning everything I said. Insecure jerkwads started calling me every sly misogynistic adjective they thought no one would notice.

I just don't buy the "YWNBAW" claim.

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

if we're not women, then why are there legislators trying to invoke dress codes and lack of bathroom facilities to keep those of us elected to legislatures, from representing our constituents? Why are they doing the exact same things that were done to cis women who were elected?

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

Why are there organised groups of s*x exploiters who try to blackmail any of us who even hint at being sexual beings?

End Networked Harassment (@endharassment.net):

This is the next phase that Kiwi Farms members have stated they will do - constructing look-alike blocklists and then adding popular trans people to them after the fact, once the blocklist is seeded in the community. Make sure any block list you use says who runs it.

End Networked Harassment (@endharassment.net):

Do you know who is running this list? Reason for asking is they copied this account's lists verbatim, but do not say who is running their account.

Erin, a bee 🐝 🏳️⚧️ (no DMs era) (@erinlisagayle.bsky.social):

This makes me think that a logical next step for Bluesky is verification/authentication of some kind, so that there can be trust for such lists and their creators.

End Networked Harassment (@endharassment.net):

There is, it's setting the domain name. only the domain name owner can do that, and it imposes a several dollars cost to do so.

🍊Citrus Mode🍊 (@citrusmode.bsky.social):

One solution I can think of is to forbid new users from creating lists and only allow it when these accounts have been in use for a certain amount of time so this will prevent trolls with spam accounts and relieve moderation from having to investigate so many accounts at once

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

There are reasons outside of "does this make things better" to consider, there. Social media platforms strive to be content-agnostic & provide service to all comers equally, to cut off legal liabilities that might arise.

There are ways to establish trust & trustability for moderation volunteers.

End Networked Harassment (@endharassment.net):

This is the next phase that Kiwi Farms members have stated they will do - constructing look-alike blocklists and then adding popular trans people to them after the fact, once the blocklist is seeded in the community. Make sure any block list you use says who runs it.

End Networked Harassment (@endharassment.net):

Do you know who is running this list? Reason for asking is they copied this account's lists verbatim, but do not say who is running their account.

KB (@sorrykb.bsky.social):

Can you please screenshot the referenced list here? (It's blocked for me, but I want to make sure I didn't actually subscribe)

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

Settings -> Moderation -> Moderation Lists

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

THE B in H-E-B STANDS FOR BUTT??

Wes Davis (@blunderchief.blather.ing):

Does this edited screenshot of a New York Times obituary for the heir-apparent of Texas grocery chain H-E-B count

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

It stands for Buttford.

Hurts - Useless - Buttford

(Hurst - Euless - Bedford; a Dallas suburbs joke)

hannah gais (@hannahgais.bsky.social):

I mean, the name of the group is "Hate Club" and their Telegram channel has "1488" in the handle. I think we know their political persuasion.

Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona.bsky.social):

CNN's Dana Bash on the neo-Nazis marching in Columbus: "We don't know what side of the aisle this comes from. I mean, typically, neo-Nazis are from the far right. You had protests from the far left at your house as a Jewish member."

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

I dunno, this one time, on Reddit, a "parody" account claimed to be a nazbol … we should keep an op—

Bahahahaha i can't

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

Oh Shit, the trustee wants the attorneys for Jones' straw bidder to be /sanctioned/ for their bad faith motions

P. Andrew Torrez (@andrewtorrez.bsky.social):

🚨BREAKING

1/ Two hours after FUAC (the likely Alex Jones front group) filed its motion to disqualify the Onion's winning bid to purchase InfoWars, chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee Christopher Murray has filed a preliminary response in the strongest possible terms, threatening to seek sanctions.

Bernie The Wordsmith (@berniethewordsmith.bsky.social):

Reading the thing and boy its wild. I know just a bit of this procedure. How BAD you have to be for the trustee to choose violence

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

I still say that Tetrahedron should employ one person to publish a statutory royalty schedule for unlicensed use of the InfoWars IP, & invoice Jones et al for every unlicensed use, and when they don't pay up, sell the debts to the slimiest debt collectors, fully documented

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

I want mob goons delivering pizza to Jones' hotel rooms to demand payment on debts

Bernie The Wordsmith (@berniethewordsmith.bsky.social):

I... I know it's weird to fanboy about this. But I mean, they made the trustee mad. Those guys do not GET mad. We don't know what happens when they GET mad 😂

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

Unsurprisingly, Alex Jones' straw agent's objections to the trustee accepting The Onion's bid as the "… highest and best" bid, are 100% bad faith bullshit.

P. Andrew Torrez (@andrewtorrez.bsky.social):

2/ That is going to undercut whatever advantage FUAC (the group we believe is likely affiliated with Alex Jones) secured at Thursday's status conference when they claimed unfair surprise that no public auction was held.

We now know that's bullshit. They knew.

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

Oh Shit, the trustee wants the attorneys for Jones' straw bidder to be /sanctioned/ for their bad faith motions

P. Andrew Torrez (@andrewtorrez.bsky.social):

🚨BREAKING

1/ Two hours after FUAC (the likely Alex Jones front group) filed its motion to disqualify the Onion's winning bid to purchase InfoWars, chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee Christopher Murray has filed a preliminary response in the strongest possible terms, threatening to seek sanctions.

Cersei Transnister 🏳️⚧️🏴☠️🦋 (@khatunjessicabeki.org):

Roger stone.

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

You know it, I know it, it just needs to be on the record, and in a way Trump can't pardon

Cersei Transnister 🏳️⚧️🏴☠️🦋 (@khatunjessicabeki.org):

Seize his money that he put in a LLC or offshore account for it.

daryl "a violent yet flammable world" bartley 🏳️⚧️ (@hypercubexl.bsky.social):

dr. manhattan butt ux on here rn

smashley (@ashleyann.bsky.social):

i am liking your post

i am liking it again

i am liking it again

i am liking it again

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

In that a vascular system eventually appears and then disappears and then reappears on the post

✨️Angel Facts✨️ (@angelic.style):

"ohhh he so smol !! just a littol guy !!! da skrunkly !!!" im filling your mailbox up with uranium

liv (@livfreeorcry.gay):

hmm tempting but is there any other way I could earn the uranium?

✨️Angel Facts✨️ (@angelic.style):

i got it from some libyans so maybe hit them up

Kayla (BakedRachel)🌑🎃 (@halfbakedrhymes.com):

Is this uranium GMO free?

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

More importantly, which garage is the DeLorean in

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

N a t a l i e W y n n "is the next video going up"

o f C o n t r a P o i n t s

Gillian Branstetter (@gbbranstetter.bsky.social):

"we need a leftist joe rogan" we have many, they're just all transsexuals explaining Derrida while playing horror games on Twitch

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

just remember, my love is like bad medicine: expired and full of arsenic

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

😘

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

A huge Thank You to the atproto dev(s) who decided to use Human Readable Time Values instead of UTC timestamps

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

bsky.app/profile/xkcd...

Randall Munroe (@xkcd.com):

Chorded Keyboard xkcd.com/2583

Katie Tightkitty (@juicysteak117.gay):

OKAY S WITH PECTUS EXCAVATUM SOUND OFF. WE NEED TO GET A STUDY GOING

Katie Tightkitty (@juicysteak117.gay):

i have a theory that having pectus is strongly correlated with transness. basically everyone i know with pectus is trans. the one other "guy" i knew in high school with pectus? i hope she's doing well now

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

You posted this just to set in motion hundreds, maybe even thousands, of trans women feeling themselves up, dintcha

Katie Tightkitty (@juicysteak117.gay):

well no but i do support that

heinz beans (@heinzbeans.bsky.social):

why are you on bluesky, wrong answers only

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

I heard the train a-comin',

'twas rollin' round th' bend

And I hain't seen't BlueSky since —

I don't know when

I was stuck in XChan Prison

Drown't in his Nazi frogs

And the breeze is kept a-blowin'

But now I Microblog

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

Reminder that Clout is something that happens TO you.

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

I've seen what it does to others and I … really want an isolated sheep farm on the side of a mountain

Elizabeth Wingfield (@quirkygrrrl.bsky.social):

More details about this for new folks, please?

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

Trolls purporting to be Kiwifarms are making sockpuppet accounts & spamming likes on target accounts' posts / comments to harass.

DON'T screenshot and post these kinds of trolls; they want that reaction. DON'T give it to them.

Add them to blocklists, report them to labeler services, block them.

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

In short:

There's a type of troll that tries to get as much attention as they possibly can, through outrage or followback spam or likespam, so they can then pivot to harassing a specific target or group to a large audience. Blocks here prevent it.

bsky.app/profile/skyw...

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

Denying hate groups & trolls the Oxygen of Amplification

datasociety.net/library/oxyg...

BlueSky's "Nuclear Block" feature works for this purpose.

We don't dunk on or entertain bigots. They get their fuel supply choked off by the block.

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jagldyome3h27twtp46nxen7/bafkreif5pzfc6t5twxex64znq7xfnpavswewlj4j2wr7nczzjwysn3jl4q@jpeg

The Oxygen of Amplification

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

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_C...

They're going to use "we need the Army / Marines on domestic soil" as a wedge to bypass the Insurrection Act & the Bill of Rights

Matthew Gertz (@mattgertz.bsky.social):

Donald Trump confirmed this morning that he plans to declare a national emergency and use military assets for a mass deportation program.

Cersei Transnister 🏳️⚧️🏴☠️🦋 (@khatunjessicabeki.org):

Or federalize national guard units

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

If dogs had thumbs & could talk

they'd still break into the dogfood cabinet, wolf down enormous amounts of kibble, throw it up on the carpet and

come wake us up in the middle of the night to commiserate about it

MAJeff, God of 🦃 Cookies (@majeff.bsky.social):

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdA_...

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n4w2v3ctgb4f25mzm5foom34/bafkreidrjozadtvr5jpto5f7rz6n635uwcejcxiwpl6fsiliztwwzogrju@jpeg

Cravendale, Cats with Thumbs

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

Trolls purporting to be Kiwifarms are making sockpuppet accounts & spamming likes on target accounts' posts / comments to harass.

DON'T screenshot and post these kinds of trolls; they want that reaction. DON'T give it to them.

Add them to blocklists, report them to labeler services, block them.

Aaron Rodericks (@aaron.bsky.team):

think these are already cleaned up

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

Thanks tonnes!

heartpunk (@heartpunk.bsky.social):

y'all might wanna be aware of/report @redeemer1488.bsky.social. i already did but i'm not sure i did the best possible report.

the 1488 is a well known white supremacist dog whistle as many of y'all will already know, and the mention of kiwifarms is … yea not fricking good.

i've blocked too.

evpok, vvood vvitch (@evpok.love):

account suspended already lol

heartpunk (@heartpunk.bsky.social):

yea but there was another a minute or two later

and now that one's suspended and there's a new one

seems like there's a spree of accounts putting kiwifarms dot net in their handle

i'm so fricking stressed

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

Just breathe and report them and block them. Bsky T&S is aware & on the case.

heartpunk (@heartpunk.bsky.social):

yea, there's a new one already. i've reported it. i'm gonna get to bed before there's yet another new one.

i've just known focused targets of theirs and have an intense fear of them in particular.

anxiety meds are prolly a good idea rn.

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

And a shower and rest. 🫂

heartpunk (@heartpunk.bsky.social):

SHOW MORE

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

Trolls purporting to be Kiwifarms are making sockpuppet accounts & spamming likes on target accounts' posts / comments to harass.

DON'T screenshot and post these kinds of trolls; they want that reaction. DON'T give it to them.

Add them to blocklists, report them to labeler services, block them.

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

And FFS DON'T FOLLOW THEM

Herbal Crone (@herbalcrone.bsky.social):

It's sad that you would have to type that imo

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.