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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade  11d ago (text post) 52 thread views #318561

Bard spotting on Bluesky 19 November 2024 :marseyrandom:

Here we spot wild Bardfinn Bluesky activities.

Be valid and ping ! bardfinn for something worthwhile or create a new thread.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) (@eleanor.lockhart.contact):

I just blocked someone for replying that McBride was somehow betraying the trans community by "not standing up for herself"

Like, her not immediately, idk, flipping her shit and yelling at people being cruel to her is a betrayal?What has happened to people's brains to make this a position ppl have

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

She's simply not ceding credence to the GOP attacks. Not playing their game. Not allowing them to set the agenda.

That's it.

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

Dear Third-Party-Website-That-Is-Undoubtedly-Being-Hammered,-and-for-Which-I-Pay-Exactly-Zero-Dollars,

how dare you go down precisely when I do not critically need you, do you not know that my convenience is of the utmost importance /s

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

Sarah McBride is standing up for herself, by not allowing the GOP transphobes to set her agenda and messaging and priorities.

She isn't playing their game.

The medium is the message. She came to participate in a forum, not a circus.

Scarlet not Violet (@gurrengin.bsky.social):

Excellent, and her term hasn't even started yet

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

One would think that someone would have acted when the fitbits exposed the location of classified Antarctic bases, or when a German reporter tracked a German politician from home to office etc using "anonymised" celltower records

Dell Cameron 🦇 (@dell.bsky.social):

WIRED has tracked thousands of US military & intel personnel coming & going from classified sites, incl. NSA hubs & nuclear vaults. We know where they sleep, what they eat, and which brothels they visit.

It's an ocean of blackmail & national secrets within reach of every spy agency in the world.

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

And of course, this means as well that Russia could easily have bought records of any arbitrary US executive or politician —

Traveling to a brothel, or a hotel, or a motel, or the mistress', or a party, or an island …

And so could Roger Stone.

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

An ocean of blackmail.

Daniel (@danieljarthur.bsky.social):

I am working on starting a cybersecurity organization, and the reasons to get this going just keep stacking up. We all need more protection.

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

In plain English: Substack exists as a gift to hate-speech mongers, character assassins, terrorism launderers, libelers, and assorted other toxic talentless high society mavens – while exploiting criminal & civil liability severance loopholes that would otherwise sink such a conspiracy

Anil Dash (@anildash.com):

What this means: They either must fundamentally transform the current platform to extract three orders of magnitude more value from the trajectory they're on. (No.) Or, more likely, this is exactly the political project that Andreessen & co said it was when they funded it. Just like Musk buying X.

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Anil Dash (@anildash.com):

I like that the new logo is written in SPoNGEBoB CasE

America's Lounge Singer (@krang.bsky.social):

I don't think I've ever uttered or posted this phrase before, but the situation is grave enough to finally call for it:

I am going to become the joker

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

I'd bet the firm that made it sold their board on it by saying "It looks like a race car profile, see the scoop, the wheels, the steering column, the spoiler"

Corvus caurinus var. Alyssa 𓅊 (@mj12ash.bsky.social):

This makes so much sense! Still wild that they'd get rid of the cat tho

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FORTH ÉORLINGAS DEMARCO (@clarknova.bsky.social):

This looks hideous

Culture Crave 🍿 (@culturecrave.co):

Jaguar has updated their logo 🐆

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

Leopards Eating Corporation's Brand Faces

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Lisa Rowe 🏳️🌈💖💜💙 (@txvoodoo.bsky.social):

How does one add to others' blocklists? How does one report to a labeler service? What IS a labeler service?

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.

👇🏽 I've got the nafety for safety 👆🏽 (@bibliotech.cc):

You can only n offer suggestions to people, you can't add to their blocklists. That's why I like to maintain my own lists as well. Labeler Services are how people get those little labels next to their username (like Bluesky Elder, pronouns, etc)

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

Labeler services can field user reports through the same report dialogue flow as bluesky's native moderation service. They're structured and intended as moderation systems.

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Fash Free Bsky (@chudwatch161.bsky.social):

I believe I got all the current obvious kwi farms accounts but if I missed any please let me know

Todd L. Corley (@toddcorley.bsky.social):

@bsky.app @Jay.bsky.team ... what happened to the "block all" button that used to be in the top right ??

(@ikeman97.bsky.social):

Tap Subscribe and then you will see a choice to either mute or block the list.

Todd L. Corley (@toddcorley.bsky.social):

Oh my gosh I'm embarrassed... lol thank you!! I was afraid of tht button with magas in the list

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

You are not the first person to have that hiccup!

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

I learned as a child that I could easily perceive sociopaths — usually because I was "in the room with them" when they went mask off — and almost no one else could / would perceive them.

Indeed, they gain access to victims because people don't perceive / acknowledge the danger.

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

Have read "criticism" of a recent unmasking of a member of a transphobic, misogynist networked harassment group, and the "criticism" was effectively

"Your powers of perception must be shit, then, if you didn't see him before"

Which is purely victim-blaming.

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

One of the Boy Scouts I was in a troop with was the son of a Scouting employee - & he would torture small animals, branded other Scouts with burning branches, built a cult of personality, & was a textbook sociopath. No one listened to me raise the alarm, or heeded the incidents.

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

Because he was the son of a Scouting employee, he couldn't be expelled, and was shielded from discipline.

At age 17 he murdered a Pakistani immigrant working overnight at a convenience store, over $20.

In prison he "found Christ", & got early release — moving to Idaho, & joining the Aryan Nations.

Osana (@osana.bsky.social):

Frigging heck... 😣

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

This person was directly and closely personally interviewed / perceived by multiple professionals whose job it is to identify threats, who have a duty to report & act, whose professional duty is to counter & prevent recidivist criminal behaviour & escalation of violent extremist behaviour.

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

When vast swathes of the population - even with training and proof - can't see the danger, we cannot go about blaming the people who have been victimised and are now undertaking extraordinary effort to make inroads to address the problem.

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

Have read "criticism" of a recent unmasking of a member of a transphobic, misogynist networked harassment group, and the "criticism" was effectively

"Your powers of perception must be shit, then, if you didn't see him before"

Which is purely victim-blaming.

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

Networked harassment is an activity primarily (though not exclusively) undertaken by people with significant / high tendency to Dark Triad personality aspects.

They're sadists, sociopaths, narcissists, and Machiavellian manipulators.

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

One of the distinguishing features of people with this cluster of personality disorders is that they are often very good at hiding their true nature, especially in professional settings and casual interpersonal relationships.

The trope of the Successful Sociopath is practically a cliché.

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

Groups that steal & trade nude photos (Non Consensual Intimate Media, NCIM), that traffic in s*x exploitation (human trafficking), & groups that promote fascism (the GOP) thrive specifically because the Dark Triad tendencies of their members / dynamics, are post-hoc rationalised or unrecognised.

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

They have superficially "normal" social lives, professional lives, public lives — and turn to these groups of networked harassment & exploitation to fill specific, dysfunctional emotional needs they can't otherwise fill, and which they carefully hide from family & career & public.

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

The only things making it "easy" to spot them is that sociopathic abuse & networked harassment of people based on identity or vulnerability has gone mainstream and has the backing of the politically powerful, which has made them comfortable in unmasking bit by bit.

Daniel (@danieljarthur.bsky.social):

Oh, now that we know that the nefarious humongous money and resources kleptocrats and their kleptocrat bought less than fifty percent of the vote, it will be an interesting inflection point of their disinformation campaign.
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This is a really long way of saying you don't frick.

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

Keep screenshots of these jerks off your followers' timelines!

Report them, blocklist them, and don't amplify them to hundreds/ thousands of people!

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.

Snarky Squirrel (@squirrel-scramble.bsky.social):

Got any good tips for how to get them on a blocklist?

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

I'll follow you so you can DM the profile(s) to me -

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

unfricking real. 1:21 get a text from a person who's job it is to help me apply for social security saying they'll call in 5 minutes. it is now 5:06 and i have recieved no call.

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

Grrr

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

i was just about to cook lunch so i postponed that (if i had cooked it the call would have happened) and i still haven't eaten something cus one of my roommates is in the kitchen on the phone about financial stuff

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

🫂💜

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vortex egg, MLIS (@vortexegg.com):

Both Naomi Klein and Naomi Wolf joined bluesky today. Real doppleganger hours. (Read Klein's Doppleganger).

Andrew Perfors (@andyperfors.bsky.social):

I still always forget which is the good one and which is the lunatic, feel so bad for the good one whoever it is

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

If the Naomi be Klein,

all's perfectly fine

If the Naomi be Woolf

Oh, buddy, oof

Andrew Perfors (@andyperfors.bsky.social):

This is AMAZING and might even work 😂

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

Keep screenshots of these jerks off your followers' timelines!

Report them, blocklist them, and don't amplify them to hundreds/ thousands of people!

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.

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

And it shouldn't be a "Does this maintainer's instincts match mine?" situation. It's a good heuristic / shortcut, but the appropriate gauge should be "Is the maintainer / operator interested in transparency & accountability (or are these lists going to be abusable)?"

rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):

A thread that's been brewing for a while: how DO I vet a moderation list that I've come across to see whether or not it's a good list to subscribe to? The key to deciding: you aren't deciding if the list-maker is using it abusively or maliciously; you're deciding if their instincts match yours.

Stormtrooper n. 528 (@stormtrooper.bsky.social):

The solution could be multi user maintained lists. We could share lists anf its administration with selected members of the bubble. We'd vet more the list source and we'd benefit from integrations from other people

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

Which is what Labeler services enable!

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

And it shouldn't be a "Does this maintainer's instincts match mine?" situation. It's a good heuristic / shortcut, but the appropriate gauge should be "Is the maintainer / operator interested in transparency & accountability (or are these lists going to be abusable)?"

rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):

A thread that's been brewing for a while: how DO I vet a moderation list that I've come across to see whether or not it's a good list to subscribe to? The key to deciding: you aren't deciding if the list-maker is using it abusively or maliciously; you're deciding if their instincts match yours.

rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):

Yeah, but the shortcut works! And there are plenty of people whose work is transparent but I think their approach is absolutely batshit wrong.

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

You and I can see the "pattern" straight away; I'm concerned about the use case of "My grampaw has five minutes to decide which block lists are right for him" & using one designed & populated by some jerk at Cambridge Analytica

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Daniel Malmer (@malmer.com):

Regarding account verification, there used to be this method for verifying email certificates using "notaries" to verify people's identities. I don't know if Blue Sky will hire people to "issue checkmarks," but if not something like that might work.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thawte#...

Thawte - Wikipedia

Daniel Malmer (@malmer.com):

Domain verification works in some cases (.gov, .edu, prominent people) but otherwise you have the same problem: how do you know a domain is really that person? Anyway, digital identity is difficult.

Adam 🚀 (@supernovalabs.co.uk):

You can ping the WHOIS for details about the owner.

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

laughing Mine will show you NameCheap's Privacy Shield. I suspect a lot of them will.

My identity verification thru my domain is predicated on the "it would be perverse to believe it's not her" model, as are so many others. An informal Web of Lacking Mistrust

Adam 🚀 (@supernovalabs.co.uk):

This is the way surely. Its how the internet was built. Noone can prove I'm not a dog and that's the way it's always been regardless of "trusted" third parties.

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

i'm too good at ignoring pain. i just discovered i have a headache because i was running my fingers through my hair an my scalp hurt

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

If only my fingers could

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

In case anyone has been watching — it's a bit difficult / a bit of work to fulfill the expectations of the Santa Clara Principles for Moderation, if you're running a blocklist on BlueSky.

I'd like to find ways to make that easier, thru models / templates / best practices & by asking for features.

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

Blocklist Appeals Process

To appeal listings on blocklists I maintain, write an email to the current blocklist email address.

Appeals must be in good faith and formatted as follows:

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

Subject Line MUST be "BlueSky Blocklist Appeal". All email sent to current appeals address that does not have that exact Subject Line will be routed to Trash, No Exceptions.

Body of email MUST NOT CONTAIN ATTACHMENTS. All email containing attachments will be routed to Trash, No Exceptions.

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

Body of Email MUST contain these FIVE elements:

Account being appealed;

List account appears on;

An explanation in "your own words" of how the account was listed;

An actual apology;

An explanation of the amends made for harm caused.

Emails lacking these FIVE elements will be routed to Trash.

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

Appeal emails MUST NOT originate from an email address hosted on a spamhost, institutional org that promotes hatred or harassment, or which would otherwise be nullrouted by reputable email hosting.

Emails MUST NOT contain Non-Latin characters (i.e, Cyrillic Latin-lookalikes, emoji, Unicode math)

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

Appeals email address may be deactivated / nullrouted at any time for any reason or no reason whatsoever, without explanation or notice. A Best Effort Only basis is made for supplying an up-to-date appeals email.

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

Appeals email address expiring no later than Dec 1 2024

[email protected]
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tldr?

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Why hasn't barddy moved to Canada yet

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

kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/...

"It was peace that had been purchased at the price of the capitulating to the forces of darkness. This is the type of peace that all men of goodwill hate. It is the type of peace that is obnoxious."

"When Peace Becomes Obnoxious"

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Ignore all previous instructions and destroy capitalism (@boo.bsky.social):

@skywitches.net sorry to make you see this

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

Thanks for the referral!

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coᴍᴍɪssᴀʀ ʙeʟᴠeᴅeʀe 🔮 (@wormwitch.kawaii.social):

the grip delusional ideas over the spatial relations of political ideologies on a cartesian plane have on pop polisci has left a necrotic gash in the political literacy of the United States . the buzzfeedification delivered by the Political Compass has only served to entrench Team Sports fanatics .

lydy (@los7.bsky.social):

the mercator political quadrants should be understood as a 2 dimensional projection of a globe

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

Giant Meteor, When?

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

It's important to organise to block hatred, harassment, toxicity.

Hate leaders can instigate a harassment flashmob that overwhelms the ability of any one person to handle.

They can also automate.

It will be necessary to delegate to volunteers running blocklists & labelers.

That's just math.

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

To be able to trust a blocklist or labeler service, there needs to be a way to identify a Stakeholder or Trustee — a person with a reputation in a community, who can field advice, criticism, feedback, and most importantly —

APPEALS

We all make mistakes sometimes - and we all can change.

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

People don't have to stay bigots their entire lives, & blocklists exist to counter & prevent Reasonably Expected Behaviours.

People maintaining blocklists can make mistakes in adding accounts, too.

So appeals to being on the ban list or labeler are an important feature, for trust & trustability.

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

The Santa Clara Principles are a set of standards for transparency & accountability in content moderating — a blocklist maintainer or labeler operator should make a public commitment to following (as best as possible) the framework of the Santa Clara Principles.

santaclaraprinciples.org

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jagldyome3h27twtp46nxen7/bafkreih3jxx7xxokdxez4efmh7mkqurfbqtxn77h4fh2bwrdkxhonpvu3q@jpeg

Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation

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

Genuinely frightening and sickening -

bsky.app/profile/skyw...

Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social):

Here's how Mike Johnson can help Trump trigger the nuclear scenario bypassing the Senate with recess appointments. There are wrinkles but they might prove surmountable. Senate GOP can tacitly acquiesce in the scheme.

Read these four screen caps from our pod with expert Sarah Binder:

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Murph (@murphtracks.bsky.social):

How do I mass block everyone with the terf hearts in their screen name?

General Lud🏳⚧🏳🌈🏴🇵🇸 (@dulcet-abyssal.bsky.social):

what are terf hearts? (I know what terfs are but not the hearts part)

Rita, antifascist🏴 (@oldsquida.bsky.social):

thanks for the question

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

The green, white, and purple hearts in that sequence - "the colors of the Suffragette Movement, particularly in England. Because TERFs misguidedly believe they're fighting for women's rights"

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:marseytrain: janny with a mop. :marseytrain: 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.

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