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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Someone once asked me, "Why do you keep doing this [reporting hate speech on Reddit to be taken down]?"
I'd rather die of exhaustion doing the right thing than let someone else die at the hands of GOP jackboot thugs because a new car was more important
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Have you considered — possibly — not leveraging the ambient misogyny that (when normalised and amplified) gets random women assaulted, murdered, denied jobs and housing … ?
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) (@nora.zone):
if you are trans or might read as trans and sensitive to self harm imagery i recommend closing your DMs even if just temporarily. they're targeting trans people in particular
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Where to find the controls to limit who can DM you
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) (@nora.zone):
i think bluesky should notify you when they suspend accounts you reported like twitter used to. because i want trophies mainly
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I usually tell people "You don't really want trophies, you really just want them to squash the trolls" — but I still have a few trophies from getting violent extremists suspended from Reddit
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Guilty as charged
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
pinching the bridge of my nose
If Harris & Walz had won, I'd have a timetable to accomplish this thing that needs doing and a fulcrum to lever against. I have neither. I can let it go
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
There are things I can accomplish.
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Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social):
How the frick are they still doing this? We are at a point when in the same state as University of Austin the government is literally censoring certain words and ideas from the classroom & the federal government is going to try to do the same at a national level. Absolute disconnection from reality.
Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social):
Can I push back? I don't think I get your objection. In particular, what's the connection between the issues you raise and what the new university is doing?
Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social):
Multiple:
*The university has consistently presented itself as a haven from cancel culture. It offers Forbidden Courses at the same time that real universities are being censored.
*It's faculty have aligned with foreign authoritarians who have shut down universities
Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social):
I could go on, but setting aside University of Austin, the fact that CBS is still running the ol' cancel culture play at a time when higher education in some states is under attack, and Trump may take a sledgehammer to higher ed for ideological reasons seems myopic to say the least.
Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social):
Thanks for the explanation. It kinda sounds like your objection is that you want CBS to express your views on the stories it covers, and to cover only the stories you want them to cover. :)
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Sir, as you are a Professor of Law, you will be familiar with the notion of Lying By Omission, and should be able to read in the above / below statements that this is the complaint levelled at both the "academic institution" and the journ*lism covering & conveying its bad faith claims uncritically.
taco socialist (@draggedbygoats.bsky.social):
Orin is considered a leading authority on 4th amendment jurisprudence. Unfortunately, he's thicker than frozen molasses when it comes to anything w/ discernable political valence outside of that
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
In truth, I oughtn't have invoked his professional credentials; in doing so I have only made myself despair more that those teaching a field that pivots upon the finest points of protocol and ethics, would so easily reach for adversarial Socratic eisegesis rather than simply presume good faith.
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karasocial relationship 💜 (@deadontheoutside.bsky.social):
swallowing a handful of paas easter egg color tablets
me: oh god i think i'm dyeing
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Out of the sky
I close my eyes
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Anna Phylaxis (@quatoria.bsky.social):
Death before transition.
No, not mine.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Ma'am, i believe you dropped a "De—"
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Sometimes I see people trying to stunt or dunk on BlueWave type accounts but
I've been shouting this same thing since 2016, and getting this out to 46,000 people in minutes means all that work has paid off.
The spirit. It lives.
That is allyship.
Cersei Transnister 🏳️⚧️🏴☠️🦋 (@khatunjessicabeki.org):
You've been a stone that created a big wave.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I'M A TOMATA
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
My "Trolls / TriggerinTheLibs" blocklist is getting a lot of workout lately, with the flood of Debate Perverts & other 4chanesques showing up, making conflict troll accounts.
Life's too short to put up with these twerps
Fluff Orpington (@flufforpington.bsky.social):
This is SO useful. Do you have any others for different folks like Shapiro?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I can look!
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It originated here: shanesnow.com/research/int...
Which has some few other caricatures / accuratures
Fluff Orpington (@flufforpington.bsky.social):
Thank you!
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
My "Trolls / TriggerinTheLibs" blocklist is getting a lot of workout lately, with the flood of Debate Perverts & other 4chanesques showing up, making conflict troll accounts.
Life's too short to put up with these twerps
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The list, btw
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Maebe Pale Moonlight 🌙 (@kindasortamaebe.bsky.social):
this account is impersonating me, please report it
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Reported & blocklisted
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Bands I've seen live
Eluveitie / Tyr / Metsatöll
Sarah McLachlan / The Chieftains
Blue Oyster Cult / Kansas / Styx
MC Frontalot / MC Lars / Guest: Jaret Reddick
More North Texas Irish Fest acts than I can remember
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Erasure
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
In today's vaguepost,
FA/t= 9 months, FO/v= instantaneous
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
A troll trick that's common on other platforms and has been used here on BlueSky is what's known as False Flag —
The troll makes an account that is initially innocent (or offensive), spams a lot of likes, comments, or follows, then switches account handle & appearance.
There's ways to check!
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Because BlueSky is built on open standards & uses ATProto, a semantic scheme that describes data structures (instead of data presentation, like HTML & CSS does), and is designed to federate a vast number of personal data servers interoperating —
The system uses HTTP & JSON to pass data.
Meaning?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
That means you can query BlueSky's systems for data, if you have a little know-how.
And one of the things BlueSky's servers record is every time an account changes handles.
This is the record of my account handle changes:
plc.directory/did:plc:jagl...
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
That URL needs the DID of an account, rather than the handle — and there are any number of cowtools which will look up DIDs on an account. You can also query BlueSky's backend for that kind of detail — for example, my account:
public.api.bsky.app/xrpc/app.bsk...
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
You can use the second URL there to look up an account's DID, plug the DID into the first URL, and read the history of the account's name changes.
So there's no hiding a history of being named AdolfHitler dot bsky dot social, or having come on board as sweetinnocent dot bsky dot social.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Several trolls have been caught using this method.
I'm publishing this to put the cowtools in people's hands to keep their own communities safe.
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Mike Riverso (@mikeriverso.bsky.social):
Feels like this is something that should be native to the Bluesky client. "See former handles" as an option on the profile screen, maybe.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
My understanding is that it could easily be done, but is such a "poweruser" / corner case that no one has bothered building into the bluesky frontend or any third party frontends.
Mike Riverso (@mikeriverso.bsky.social):
Low on the priority list, sure, but given the focus on strong moderation cowtools, worth putting it on the todo.
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Stormtrooper n. 528 (@stormtrooper.bsky.social):
Is there a reference documentation for the different calls I could do to the bsky backend? This is very interesting
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
docs.bsky.app
docs.bsky.app/docs/categor...
And
web.plc.directory/api/redoc#op...
Stormtrooper n. 528 (@stormtrooper.bsky.social):
Than you!
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Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):
quote this with a pic of you in red
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Lady in reeeeeed
Is sleepy kitty
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Awake in the middle of the night & can't sleep? No problem! Just load up a polysonic synth & recreate the synth sound from Enya's 1987 single "I Want Tomorrow", then drift off into sleep to the soft sounds of plucked harp strings echoing in vast halls
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potz(er)🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@potzer.xyz):
good night bluesky
see you in the morning
ly💋
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
glomp
potz(er)🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@potzer.xyz):
i haven't slept yet
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
You need to be glomped and spoon't
potz(er)🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@potzer.xyz):
so badly
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Turducken Cover (@emily.gorcen.ski):
I have been very impressed at how quickly the Bsky team has been ferreting out and nuking the troll accounts.
If you look at any blocklist designed to target Kiwifarms trolls, they're pretty much empty even though 100s of accounts have been added. This is because the accounts were shut down.
Will B (@willfb.bsky.social):
I think this confirms my suspicion that don't need 10's of thousands of moderators, but moderators who know what to look for and are enabled to do their job. Potentially algorithms are helping their work, but I've not heard yet of anyone accidentally getting caught out who didn't deserve it.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I've seen it happen (I was the cause of it happening!)
I committed the sin of running a development script on production data & a dozen accounts who had blindly FollowBack'ed a cryptofash account got accidentally added to my Nazis list. But that's been fixed.
Don't run dev on prod, kids!
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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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