Bard spotting on Bluesky 20 November 2024

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

Someone privately asked me "Why do you have a blocklist for Transphobia but not for Homophobia", and the answer is simple:

Many of my blocklists exist to quash a coordinated inauthentic movement — astroturfing — that is operated for the benefit of a political party, the Republicans.

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

The GOP are a violent extremist cult that target specifically women's* reproductive rights, immigrants, and transgender people.

That's why those are the loud messages, because that's the messages being pushed by them & on their behalf.

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

I spent the last 8-ish years infiltrating hate movements, and I can tell when they're organic vs when they're 150 sockpuppets cranked out by a sweatshop following a production bible.

99% of what'd deluged Bluesky these past few days is the latter.

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

That's not to say there's not 1,000 twerps who all answered a call sent out by Jack Posobiec —

It's to say that each of those 1,000 twerps cranked out 15 sockpuppet throwaway accounts.

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

There's also plenty of True Believers, who have authentic beliefs that all immigrants are bad people who need to be deported — but they can be identified by also being casually homophobic, or antisemitic, or otherwise deviating from the production bible

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

The point here being that if someone is a transphobic jerk, chances are excellent they're a homophobic jerk too. And if they're here to shout "MAGA", chances are excellent that they're white supremacist as well.