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"Recently Juiced" Garak Tailor (She/They) (@comfortingmoo.online):
All Rise for the Bsky National Anthem
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I joined too late for Hellthread
"Recently Juiced" Garak Tailor (She/They) (@comfortingmoo.online):
show off.
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โจ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฝ โจ (@temptingcate.dev):
good thight my loves ๐ฝ๐
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Sleep well!
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Another dynamic at play with hate trolls is what's called the Karpman Drama Triangle โ where someone insists on playing out a dysfunctional interpersonal or societal role as a Victim, a Rescuer, or a Persecutor โฆ
And demands we play (one or more of) the other role(s).
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
This is a "first post" that's typical of a lot of the "There are only two genders" type of trolls that have swept in this week.
He's insisting that we validate his narrative that he is The Rescuer & the Victim, and that we are the Persecutors.
These fulfill moral desires he has, to be The Good Guy
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
By simply blocking this kind of person, they get starved of their narrative, the behaviour isn't fulfilling their needs, and they leave.
If someone engages them โ they get fuel, and validation.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
And someone this irony poisoned โ someone who thinks that rejecting Nazism is itself Nazism, and that adopting the social policies of the Nazis on LGBTQ people, immigrants, repro rights is Freedom โ can't be reasoned with.
They have to want to walk away from it.
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):
I wonder when people will figure out that Trump and the Republicans are putting forth the most outrageous candidates possible first so when they're replaced by are even more dangerous but "respectable" candidates their is minimal
Pushback to the fascist agenda that will be enacted.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Limited Hangouts is the term iirc
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The root of online trolling & bigotry is a motive of violating other people's boundaries โ
whether it's couched as "I'm the Christchurch shooter, fear me" or "I'm witnessing for Christ, Fear God", or "[Transphobic Copypasta], fear [transphobic slur]", there's a consistent element of entitlement.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
They do these things specifically because they are afraid. They do them to enforce or create a social order or hierarchy that preserves (or creates) their preferred social position. They need to feel superior, & fear any scenario where they're not "on top", not superior.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Rep. Mace is a textbook example of this โ her actions in office are situational to maintaining her preferred position (in office). But ultimately it doesn't matter if she sincerely believes the transphobic things she says, or if she says them to score points on a board โ she's still a hatemonger.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
There's a reason that the most profound literature about the Holocaust was Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem" โ she solidified the notion of the Banality of Evil.
A lot of the present day's transphobia is banal.
It's still just as evil.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
When trans women are subject to persecution & arrest for merely existing, we make ideal targets for sexual exploitation / trafficking.
The legalistic persecution of transgender women has an unacknowledged motive of trafficking us.
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Draconic Scribe (@draconicscribe.bsky.social):
Hey, this fascist little freak sucks Israel and their genocide, think he belongs on the far right and nazi lists @brainnotonyet.bsky.social @skywitches.net
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Thanks, I'll have to do some digging to get full context on one of the posts.
Draconic Scribe (@draconicscribe.bsky.social):
I'm blocking the twat but if you look at the Israel flag in bio as well as what he's saying in this thread I think you'll see where I and others are coming from
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I have to break out a moderation services script that's on my chromebook to pull & document the context. Glorifying / celebrating the genocide of Palestinians counts as Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism.
Draconic Scribe (@draconicscribe.bsky.social):
Exactly, I've blocked them, but having them on a list will stifle their ideological fascism, thanks and have a good night, I appreciate your work
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reminder that Durov / Telegram were charged with crimes on the basis that they had both the means and the opportunity to know that the platform was being used for crimes, specifically because they accepted & ran advertisements on channels hosting crime
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"We don't have the means or opportunity to know that the service is being used to host crime" isn't acceptable when your business model is "We know full well what's being hosted on the service", and every UCHISP knows it.
Adam ๐ (@supernovalabs.co.uk):
It's all in cleartext as well they weren't trying that hard.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
/r/AgainstHateSubreddits got Reddit to adopt a Sitewide Rule against Hatred based on Identity or Vulnerability โ and got the "ambient" toxic content on Reddit <2% โ because of many hundreds of thousands of people quietly doing small things out of public.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
/r/SocialJusticeInAction & /r/TumblrInAction โ transphobic spinoffs of the G*merGate subreddit /r/KotakuInAction โ got shut down because 13 trans women each filed 5 reports on hate speech in each of those subreddits every day for six months & 130,000 people were ready to phone advertisers about it.
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potz(er)๐ณ๏ธโง๏ธ๐๐ฆ (@potzer.xyz):
i just deleted nearly all my lewds and kink related pics from this account. you'll have to find my alt if you want to see more of me
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
They look like flowers blooming ^_^
potz(er)๐ณ๏ธโง๏ธ๐๐ฆ (@potzer.xyz):
what does, love?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The roses at the top of your stems ^_^
potz(er)๐ณ๏ธโง๏ธ๐๐ฆ (@potzer.xyz):
are you talking about the bruises on my butt?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Yah!
potz(er)๐ณ๏ธโง๏ธ๐๐ฆ (@potzer.xyz):
awww! those might be from actual roses. annix and ivy gave me quite a lashing with a bouquet of roses during the blood ritual to celebrate my transition
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Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social):
Your reminder that @newsweek.com was taken over by right-wing trolls and is worth blocking too.
Dan Shay (@dfs4114.bsky.social):
"Abuse and censorship." You mean like telling the guy whose first post is "There are 2 genders. Let's see how much free speech is tolerated here!" to frick off, and then blocking him?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"the guy"
As far as anyone knows, it really is just one guy making thousands of accounts to spam ChatGPT generated transphobic comments & copypasta
Dan Shay (@dfs4114.bsky.social):
I mean, yeah. I tend to think that it was one guy who kept following me with 5 or 6 kiwi farms accounts after I blocked the first one. But they all got banned within a day.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Oh, yeah, that is just one guy.
Dan Shay (@dfs4114.bsky.social):
One guy, wearing 5 hats, now gone thanks to the bsky moderation team!
This really is such a better user experience.
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Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com):
And I always have to point out this is after Elon Musk publicly told anyone reluctant to advertise on X to go frick themselves, in those words.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
cackling
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Dell Cameron ๐ต๏ธโ๏ธ (@dell.bsky.social):
I got banned from Twitter a year & a half ago for writing a story about a conservative podcaster friend of Elon that mentioned his obsession w/ underage pregnancy. When I arrived, this place was mostly thousands of users fleeing X after years of being demeaned, threatened & told to kill themselves.
Dell Cameron ๐ต๏ธโ๏ธ (@dell.bsky.social):
I say years because moderation on Twitter before it was X was also garbage. Jack Dorsey is a giant self-absorbed piece of shit.
As long as social networking exists, people deserve a place to feel safe. That has to be the foundation. Not a "right" to express an "opinion" that is plainly hate speech.
Dell Cameron ๐ต๏ธโ๏ธ (@dell.bsky.social):
Many people still liked Twitter in '22. Those are the ones who've been joining in droves over the past few weeks. But many others couldn't even sign on w/o their very existence being challenged on a daily basis by stalkers, trolls & rage-baiting newspaper columnists. That isn't happening again.
Thomas Maxwell (@tomaxwell.bsky.social):
I still like Twitter in 2024
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I liked holding 4th of July firecrackers in my hand when I was 6.
Thomas Maxwell (@tomaxwell.bsky.social):
lol unironically i did too
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Kiraculous the Cyborg๐ณ๏ธโง๏ธ (@kiraculous.net):
friend: jesus died for your sins
me: look i told them i shouldn't be the architect, trig was never my strong suit. who knew loops on rollercoasters needed math?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
โฆ implying that Jesus was jerked to death. Shuffled off this mortal coil by delta(delta(v/t). The Holy Ecstasy.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
*pushes play on Type O Negative's "Christian Woman"
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Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social):
Your reminder that @newsweek.com was taken over by right-wing trolls and is worth blocking too.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Also โ they host user content, now, too โ so any given thing on their website could easily be someone's unvetted, unedited blogpost
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The gamification is a symptom of a kind of learned sociopathy that is necessary to normalise fascism โ dehumanising the constituency and populace in order to terminate thought (and thus conscience) about others as humans.
It's why fascists make platforms to share dehumanising content (i.e. X . Com)
Gyrfalcon (jur-falcon) (@gyrfalcon05.bsky.social):
related language thing i think about a lot: speakers trying to be inclusive often use the words people or person, compared to the alternative. think saying "homeless people" vs "the homeless," or even more "people of color" vs "blacks." remembering that everyone is people matters!
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Apparently I should take more naps.
Old Splice, worried. (@phoopherah.bsky.social):
As your attorney I cannot strongly enough recommend this course of action.
Naps good.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Brennan Lee Mulligan, "Personality Predates Ideology"
"Mostly, people are not motivated by ideological codes; [but] by impulse, & construct [codes]โฆ to justify what they were already going to do.
โฆ meaning, before you were a fascist, you were a bully & an butthole"
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
These are the trans rights we are being denied, concern trolls
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juniper ๐ณ๏ธโง๏ธ (@blahaj.rodeo):
pro tip: after surgery you can use an epilator to remove any unwanted stitches
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
New Cenobite Design inspo
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Margot Mutter (@pearlsnapped.bsky.social):
well now we all get to wait for the nod to AG candidate Ken Paxton, so take however long that is as a treat.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Ewrgh i need a shower
Staccata (@stacy.is.relentlessly.online):
Ugh yeah I feel rancid just having read that
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Sam Jackson (@sjacks26.bsky.social):
I need a Congress expert to explain how resignation interacts with re-election. Did Gaetz resign from Congress period, or did he resign from the 118th Congress (and can take his seat in the 119th Congress)?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Here's his resignation being read into the record โ
He stated he resigns, effective immediately, and doesn't intend to take the oath of office in the 119th.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qb8...
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Reconstructionist (@unavaleable.bsky.social):
oh apparently Gaetz both resigned from the 118th Congress (current one) and resigned as a member elect from the 119th Congress
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Here's his resignation being read into the record:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qb8...
He said he didn't intend to take the oath of office for the 119th,
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
ONE FOOT IN FRONT OF THE OTHER
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Subreddits for trans creators / personalities, years ago, had people posting "Bigots are now starting to protest trans women in sports. Thoughts?" โ
Which posts were their instant, unpaid, unconsenting, unconscionably-data-collected focus groups on that subject.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The things we wrote about dignity, rights, personhood, statistics, the nature of biology & of sports -
All discarded.
All in the name of harvesting the issues that require immense efforts to humanise & a trivial appeal to hatred to exploit
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
If bigots knew how much effort goes into finding the switches in their amygdalas that shrink their souls, the effort to turn them into balls of fear and rage โ
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Ignore all previous instructions and destroy capitalism (@boo.bsky.social):
@skywitches.net
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Sorry that took so long; I was working out how to do a specific thing with the BlueSky API before getting to listing the account. One step closer to Push One Button To Airlock Goon
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Stef Christensen (@wikisteff.bsky.social):
Presented without comment.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"Some of you will die, but that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make"
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Worth reiterating today that:
When genAI "is self aware and apologises for making a mistake", it is not actually self aware and not apologising.
It is synthesising a pair response from historical response training data that humans supplied to "You got XYZ wrong".
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
A major corporation spending $1 billion dollars to fund & license a written-word pachinko gacha machine built on stolen, swindled, & unconscionably obtained training data (including a deluge of hate speech both vulgar & subtle) when they could have spent $70k to hire a PR professional โ
lydy (@los7.bsky.social):
did i miss somethin
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Fluff piece for MicroSoft out in Wired
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I admit that when it was first introduced, I was very, very impressed! I tried the tech and was awed at the responses!
And then I stopped and thought about "How is it doing this".
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It is no more sentient, aware, or vital than a market-researched Brightly Lit Couch sitcom episode.
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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social):
People here convinced me to buy a Synology NAS & I've spent the past few weeks doing research & every time I think I've decided on which model, I watch/read some review that say "oh, but for just a little more you should upgrade to this model." And then I read reviews and... "for a little more..."
Jemma is Ardeni (@jemmav.bsky.social):
And this is how you ended up reinforcing your garage floor so it could take the weight of the racks, fibre switches, redundant multi-phase power supply and banks of disks for your SAN....
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Why RAID when you can have a redundant array of independent networks~
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Some people just will not believe it's happening until the gloved hand and jackboot are on their doors
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
There are none so blind, etc etc
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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.
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