Bard spotting on Bluesky 23 November 2024

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

The owner of a large Goth lifestyle forum site went full-tilt Islamophobe, full-on Born Again Evangelical Christian. Violent genocidal "kill 'em all" bigot.

About 1% of the forum left over that. The other 99% stayed.

That was despair.

Nick (derogatory) ✨ (@slothropsmap.bsky.social):

Policy was one thing but man it is hard to communicate to folks too young to remember: American culture between 2002 and 2006 was vicious.

The "with us or against us" concept manifest in every single thing. Serial killer shit on your nightly sitcoms, I mean it. Feels miraculous we got out.

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

It cannot be overstated that "… execute people … in order to physically intimidate liberals, [make them] realise that they can be killed, too."

Is textbook terrorism.

Coulter, here, is springboarding off one turncoat enemy combatant to justify terrorising the American populace.

Jeff Sharlet (@jeffsharlet.bsky.social):

Ann Coulter, on "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh, in Jeff Sparrow's book on the 2019 Christchurch mosque massacre, Fascists Among Us. Put this in conversation w/ Pete Hegseth's 2024 call to "eliminate" "domestic enemies"—Antifa, BLM, Biden—he says are no different from those he fought in Iraq.

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

It's also a fascinating example of a propagandist appealing to / casting herself & the US government in all three Karpman roles — "We are Victims, so we must Persecute a target, in order to Rescue the American People from al-Qaeda & Liberals from themselves"

Just … breathtaking

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

The downside of reading the f***ing manual: Reads Like Stereo Instructions

The upside of reading the f***ing manual: I can now make bluesky's backend infrastructure tell me useful things, even if bsky.social frontend is down

ᚐᚔᚈᚆᚅᚔᚑᚅᚅ ᚉᚔᚐᚏᚐ ᚉᚔᚐᚏᚐ ᚓᚔᚂᚓ (@ciara2001.bsky.social):

Oh dear oh dear, Ben and Colin didn't enjoy their BlueSky experience, altogether now AWWWWW

Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net):

Lmao.

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

S.E. Red. Dripping.

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

They have no more libs to pwn

Lauren Ashley Davis (@laurenmeidasa.bsky.social):

Behind closed doors, President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has become a somewhat fractious and chaotic environment according to a new report.

The outlet described "shouting matches, expulsions from meetings and name-calling."

www.rawstory.com/trump-infigh...

Dune (1987) θ∆ crop top appreciator (@nofunoverlord.top):

a bunch of you should follow Lily, I wanna see something (Lily getting the attention she deserves)

✨🕸️🕯️Lily Estries🕯️🕸️✨ (@lilyestries.bsky.social):

Get me to 2k followers & I'll post the unblurred one😈💋

#nsfw #realnsfw #milf #goth #tattooed #curves #softtummy #goddess

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

67 to go

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

66

Dune (1987) θ∆ crop top appreciator (@nofunoverlord.top):

heck yeah

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

Optimist: The cup is half full

Pessimist: The cup is half empty

Social Media Trust & Safety: Make mine a double

Stephen C. Rea (@stevierea.bsky.social):

Optimist: The cup is half full

Pessimist: The cup is half empty

Anthropologist: This is how to ask for a drink in Subanun

lydy (@los7.bsky.social):

just got my first anonymous and baseless proship accusation... wow welcome to womenhood

Wife Lover Extrordinaire 💖 (@beccathewife.bsky.social):

How sweaty do you have to be to call someone a proshipper

Cat-Snuggler Abigail (@popeguilty.bsky.social):

I was placed on an antishippers list and I'm not nearly Tumblr enough to have a clear idea of what that is but I can't help feel like I've been accused of something

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

Afaict "antiship" = "there are arbitrary rules to fictional relationships" and "proship" = "there are no rules to fictional relationships", and they both are orbiting the star Sexualisation of Minors

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

Afaict the "proshippers" feel that people who oppose loli are "antiship" and the "antishippers" feel that people who won't / can't / don't grok their internecine battle & take a stand are "proship" and i just need to have them both sail into the West

lydy (@los7.bsky.social):

proshippers largely simply do not exist

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

I'm glad someone understands the whole thing ^_^

lydy (@los7.bsky.social):

an anon account calling u proship has the same emotional content of a pickup truck shouting ""

talia jane ❤️🔥 (@taliajane.bsky.social):

and now i'm thinking about the old lady who cleared out her 10k in savings to give to the antivax convoy for them to live in a parking lot and drive around in circles. is there a way to right this? or do we have to just let it run itself into the ground, no matter how many get hurt along the way?

emily quinn 🏳️⚧️ (@threnody.bsky.social):

i don't remember who, but someone on twitter in like 2021 just kept saying "we've lost 20% of humanity for the rest of their lives" and i kept thinking "that can't be right, there's gotta be a way back."

but it certainly feels true & i absolutely do not know a better answer.

Airwolf! (@airwolf.bsky.social):

I am most concerned what kinds of disasters they can cause for the other 80%

Policy_g (@policyg.bsky.social):

At this point that's all I care about. If they literally drank the cool-aid I wouldn't give them a thought. But they are going to cause a huge amount of damage.

Sascha_Vykos2 (@saschavykos.bsky.social):

100%, but I also know that people do come back from cults, and pulling them out is reducing harm for the rest of us.

I can't, I'm too angry with them and they passed unforgiveable for me a long time ago. But if others can keep those doors open it can be a good thing.

Chinga La Migra (@chingalamigra.bsky.social):

yeah there's a long, long history of fash spontaneously deradicalizing, some of whom commit to deradicalizing their former peers. it isn't common and it can't be relied upon, but it happens.

Jon Hutson (@jonhutson.bsky.social):

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Melissa Ryan (@melissaryan.bsky.social):

OK Bluesky, time for my favorite question: how are you cultivating joy this weekend?

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

🎶Someone else is doing the dishes 🎶

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

Somewhere deep in the etymological roots of the English language is a mischievous daemon laughing over how a word we use, means both "inciteful, bad faith" and "encouraging free speech"

(@james-savage15.bsky.social):

Wait what word is this?

Chappell's Femininomenology of Spirit (@ofvick.bsky.social):

"Provocative" probably

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

Exactly

𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝚂𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚁𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 (@unauthorizedbeast.bsky.social):

The MAGAt mind is a scary place -especially for rational folks.

Take the RW troll 'flipper' account. These kooks pretend to be LIBs for long enough to build good sized mutual bases and then they "Flip" to their true MAGAtry, keeping all those good faith Blue followers:

@analbeeds.bsky.social

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

Added to several appropriate blocklists for these kinds of trolls

𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝚂𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚁𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 (@unauthorizedbeast.bsky.social):

Much appreciated.

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

Journamalist: Namaliste d'jour

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

Someone blocked me on Bluesky. I will write a column about how it illuminates the inadequacy of Bluesky. Then when people make fun of me for that, I will write about that. And so forth, as many times as it works. I am a journamalist.

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

Somewhere deep in the etymological roots of the English language is a mischievous daemon laughing over how a word we use, means both "inciteful, bad faith" and "encouraging free speech"

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

Mainly I'm angry at myself for not seeing sooner that a perfectly acceptable transliteration of "Free Speech Warrior" is "Agent Provocateur"

Cinderella Mechanicus (@hroethgar.bsky.social):

"Free as in worthless"

Sheryl Weikal (The Leftist Lawyer) (@leftistlawyer.com):

People are begging on this website for food money, for medical treatments, for money to escape fricking genocide, and you think sending money to MATT FRICKING GAETZ is resistance?

Prem Thakker ツ (@premthakker.bsky.social):

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

"Give money to alleged child s*x trafficker / fascist" is a very, very long way down the list of priorities

potz(er)🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@potzer.xyz):

do us all a favour and go follow Lily for s*x worker saturday

✨🕸️🕯️Lily Estries🕯️🕸️✨ (@lilyestries.bsky.social):

Get me to 2k followers & I'll post the unblurred one😈💋

#nsfw #realnsfw #milf #goth #tattooed #curves #softtummy #goddess

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

I dunno …

☑️ Glams

☑️ Gams

☑️ Goth

Seems too good to be true

potz(er)🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@potzer.xyz):

that's the best part; it is too good and it's true

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

this account appears to exist entirely to steal other people's jokes, and you should block them for being a total dorkass loser if nothing else

muscular baby jeb lund (@mobute.bsky.social):

here's the bot/thief account from my original post fwiw

Connor (@merchantofvice.bsky.social):

Shit, did you just discover elons Bluesky account

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

That dork would title his lurk account here something like

Lone Skum, @SkyXtremeSkum

Bio: Where the white women at?

Nick Sacco (@nicksacco55.bsky.social):

Interesting to contrast Lepore's perspective with that of, say, Heather Cox Richardson, who has leveraged social media to become arguably one of the nation's most popular historians at this moment. Both are academics that consider themselves public facing historians in some sense.

Daniel Bellingradt (@dbellingradt.bsky.social):

She's not (yet) mentioning Bluesky. Historian Jill Lepore of Harvard fame is not on Facebook or Twitter or Mastodon or elsewhere, and says: "I think the social networks will be looked on as having been fairly catastrophic." 🗃️

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

Hopefully we can meet her expectations for social media ^_^

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

I used to be one of the "Online is for debate and argument, we are gonna find The Truth™️" people.

The truth is:

That path is ridiculously difficult, and

Most people claiming to follow it are selling something.

Jnana-yoga arrives at the same place as any other yoga, but fails more adherents.

Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin (@voicesbyzane.bsky.social):

The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.

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

I had an aunt who was addicted to AM Radio & Fox News. She'd get me to fix her computer & TV & drive her places. She'd constantly admonish me to "Do your own research!", as that was one of the "magic phrases" sold to her by those propaganda outlets.

Her "research" was reading Facebook group posts

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

She refused to wear seat belts, up to the day that Texas passed a law making the driver criminally liable for passengers not wearing them. She claimed they were useless and a symbol of control. This was how badly the poison had ahold of her.

Sammy 🏳️⚧️ (@ranmasaotomes.bsky.social):

That's how it starts. The refusing to do things. The only believing other conspiracy theorists. The do your research.

And they believe that their thoughts are the only way and that everything is fixed.

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

i love how the last word in seo is just "fire". not "fire hazard". just "fire". and it's got a 6 inch cord. just burning it down, burning the whole house down.

𝚗𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛 (@nocontroller.bsky.social):

Plugging 66 space heaters into this bad boy

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

A true "Watt The Frick" moment

sen (@sendai.bsky.social):

@skywitches.net False positive in one of your lists: bsky.app/profile/robe...

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

Listed for cause: Following known White Identity Extremism entity account.

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

Doublechecked - no longer following that account, removed from listing. Thanks for the head's up

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

Evergreen.

jae (@fiadhaich.bsky.social):

some people treat politics as a fun debate after a few too many drinks after a ludicrously expensive dinner with tiny servings, and none of the things they debate materially impact them much at all, and those are exactly the people upset about so-called "echo chambers".

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

It's midnight. Goodnight, everyone

Rebecca Wednesday© (@rebeccawednesday.bsky.social):

Nite sleep well 😴

olive consumer (@machete.gay):

what list did i get put on what's happening

Nick Brumfield (@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social):

Clearsky's down we're all flyin' blind

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

whoop whoop pull up whoop whoop

whoop whoop terrain whoop whoop

Matt Loar (@matt.loar.name):

I've often thought that if I ever met an airline pilot I hated I'd surreptitiously change his wake-up alarm to that

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

The kind of emergence into full adrenaline readiness that has the affected fully upright and dressed before feet even touch floor

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.