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Bard spotting on Bluesky 02 December 2024 
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I took a shower and had a snack and am becoming more and more furious
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
THEY TOLD US IN 2017 THAT THEY WERE COMING FOR OBERGEFELL AND THAT THEY WOULD USE TRANSGENDER PEOPLE AS A WEDGE ISSUE TO ACCOMPLISH IT
this is why we are furious at all politicians and pundits demanding we be sacrificed
HK-1988 (@hk1988.bsky.social):
I'm sorry.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
They told us in the GOP NATIONAL PLATFORM EVERY FOUR YEARS SINCE 2000 that they wanted to take away rights from LGBTQ people.
They told us in 2016 & 2020 in the platform that they were coming for Obergefell.
They told us in 2017 in the Nashville Statement they were coming for Obergefell.
MAJeff, God of ππβοΈ Cookies (@majeff.bsky.social):
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
They told us in 2017 in the Nashville Statement that they were coming for Obergefell and that they would use transgender people as a wedge issue to accomplish it
Payton Alexander (@paytontalks.bsky.social):
Too many voters have a terrible habit of dismissing R's horrific statements with a cheeky "oh, you don't really mean that"
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
IMNSHO, no one should purport to speak for an oppressed demographic, as a member of that oppressed demographic,
without first reading - front to back - Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation β¦
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Segregation, to use the terminology of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, substitutes an "I it" relationship for an "I thou" relationship & ends up relegating persons to the status of things. Hence [it] is not only politically, economically & sociologically unsound, it is morally wrong & sinful. β¦
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Politicians & "moderates" who counsel transgender people to achieve equality by assimilation are not counseling wisdom, but are "β¦ the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress"
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"We must come to see that, as the federal courts have consistently affirmed, it is wrong to urge an individual to cease his efforts to gain his basic constitutional rights because the quest may precipitate violence."
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Ryan Sproull (@ryansproull.bsky.social):
Hmm. A few months ago I did a standup gag about David Seymour performing oral s*x on a tobacco lobbyist. Was I leveraging ambient bigotry here? The joke was subservience, not "har har he's gay", but would there have been laughs without some background level of "it's funny to imply someone is gay"?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Possibly. The coding might be that regulatory capture (subservience of parliamentary government to corporate interests in abrogation of fidelity to rule of law / representative government oath) is a deviation from the proper order, & thus the s*x act might have been queercoded as deviant
Ryan Sproull (@ryansproull.bsky.social):
I hadn't even considered that.
A friend has also pointed out to me that plain ol' misogyny and homophobia explain my joke just fine without even needing ambient bigotry, so back to the drawing board.
Thanks for the post β new things to think about.
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):
It's interesting that the majority of the stuff I see that shows right wing or outright fascist content on this app is not coming from right wing accounts, but from resist accounts. Same goes for wildly misogynistic or anti trans content Like the Elonia crap.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):
For many of us who have done the work academically and as public speakers trying to educate on the threat of fascism, and the far right, we are against these resist accounts for a reason as they do not do anything magically change the situation and end up pushing their propaganda further.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):
Seems the reality that it's not humor to share misogynistic/transmisoginistic ai slop it's just bigotry is already upsetting to some. Also note how this is almost indistinguishable from the "educated elite" shit the far right has been pushing for decades.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):
you don't have to intentionally be saying bigoted things to be a bigot and many of us see it and are disgusted with you.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):
Update: taters isn't beating the allegations that he's just a reactionary bigot who likes to spout anti elite proto alt right bullshit.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):
And the circle is complete taters has constructed his narrative and is now trying to do a little outrage farming. Too bad it just proves he's a far right shithead.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
When you get these Type of Guy, send 'em to me, and I'll hold their hand gently thru the decontamination airlock
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janus spans (@janusspans.bsky.social):
I genuinely think this needs to be a big effort to get resist types out the hate
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
belting out soprano
I think I'll tryyyyy
Defyyyy-
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Advisory #2 for my Hate Enablers, Transphobes, Trolls, Nazis, Freedom From Association & IMVE lists:
All followers of @ thelibsoftiktok account will be added to these lists, no exceptions.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Bulletin for my various blocklists:
@thelibsoftiktok.bsky.social will no longer be used as a magnet for blocklisting. Thank you for your attention / help.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
This is an appreciation post for @edithcharles.bsky.social , who (once upon a time a few months back) breathtakingly decoded a few particular extremely rarefied Upper-Class British transphobic dogwhistles, for which I am grateful
Edith Laurie Charles (@edithcharles.bsky.social):
Oh! I did a useful??? Thank you!
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demon core vidal πPAXunplugged (@regretagarbo.rip):
the backbone of this fricking place was literally called the "trans and queer shitposters cluster" and now the worst people online are fricking ruining this place.
can our One True King, jeff tiedrich, appeal to these lesser people and explain to them how this place works? he rode with us, he gets it
Ski (@ski3143.bsky.social):
I've heard if we block the transphobes they'll end up with no content on their feeds. Happy to block anyone who needs it.
WeaponsOfMathInstruction (@mathchik.bsky.social):
Can anyone recommend/build a starter pack of folx to block, like some have done with MAGA? I'm pretty new here so I don't know the territory well yet.
Phryne (@phrynethorn.bsky.social):
I use this one
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Also these are worthwhile
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Phryne (@phrynethorn.bsky.social):
I don't use the British bigotry one myself as I've seen British trans people objecting to the name, and because I've seen the maker admitting they also add trans people they disagree with. But I'll not judge anyone else for doing what they need to to be safe.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I try to avoid listing trans people I merely disagree with or am angry at; i have listed transphobic trans people whom I disagree with / am angry at, when my personal feelings are independent of that person's transphobia. But it's a high bar.
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ThatGuy (@bthatguy.bsky.social):
Joe did exactly what everyone would have done if anyone was maliciously going after their son or daughter
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Which anyone would be moved to do, but, importantly,
He did what anyone governing in good faith would do if they knew, prima facie, that an incoming administration would terroristically treat the pardonee as a political pawn if left in the custody of the incoming administration
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Trump's thugs would invent charges based on his alleged behaviour, to add more prison time, solitary, etc
ThatGuy (@bthatguy.bsky.social):
π― agreed
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Many, many millions of corporate & government & social mid-level functionaries proved, Nov 5, that they are absolutely willing to look the other way at all of MAGA's mob criming.
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Daniel (@danieljarthur.bsky.social):
They might not have a choice, if the GOP does what it is saying it will do. There seems to be only law by authoritarianism coming.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
AgreeeeeeeEeed
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Abigail Thorn (@theabigailthorn.bsky.social):
Apes together strong π¦π¦§
Sage π³οΈβ§οΈ (@trans.bsky.social):
i think you broke that bozo's brain. good.
Joey Chestnut (@fumblebee.bsky.social):
Holy frick what did I just read
Joey Chestnut (@fumblebee.bsky.social):
There were thousands of choices here. "You can't understand ants because you aren't an ant??" Bro went with fricking APES
Amber (she/her) (@genuinelycrooked.bsky.social):
You can't really understand ants, though. Like, you can know stuff about them, but you can't understand their pheromone communication. So that kind of upholds the metaphor.
Joey Chestnut (@fumblebee.bsky.social):
Understanding is literally a grasp of knowledge? You're correct that I can't interact with ants constructively, I'm not Paul Rudd.
But the point is that one doesn't need to hold an identity to mock those invalidating it?
Just thought I'd underscore the fail in making the opposite point
Amber (she/her) (@genuinelycrooked.bsky.social):
People can study ants and cis people can listen to trans people and still not understand the experiential aspect of their existences. That doesn't mean we can't be supportive or mock transphobes, but we should acknowledge that we will never fully understand.
Joey Chestnut (@fumblebee.bsky.social):
I'm confused by where you think I said otherwise.
Joey Chestnut (@fumblebee.bsky.social):
I was mocking transphobes but have never ever claimed I understood what it is to be trans
Amber (she/her) (@genuinelycrooked.bsky.social):
Oh yeah, I didn't think you were. I'm just saying I don't think the transphobe actually could have come up with a good example, although you're right that they came up with the absolute worst one.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Someone on a chan or gc board a decade ago came up with it; JAQ commenter just picked it up & waved it (as if it were the jawbone of an butt) at the 1 x 4 x 9 rainbow monolith that stands now in the dawn light of his world, emitting a strange, low hum that sounds remarkably like a Chappell Roan song
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I have 11 blocklists, which is good and well when my blocklists educate others on how to think about Acceptable Use Policies & when those lists feed other, one-stop blocklists.
It's not enough to be a one-stop blocklist provider, which is what most people want/need.
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Antikris (@antikerbal.bsky.social):
@skywitches.net Here is one for the list. π
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Thanks!
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
And me only just approaching 350 π’
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ααααα ααα α ααααααααααααααααα (@ciara2001.bsky.social):
Aha, no, just no, I shall use my free speech to encourage as many people as possible to exercise their free speech by blocking the toadmeister bsky.app/profile/toad...
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Definitely worth putting on my blocklists. His entire career is bad faith conflation of free speech with violating boundaries
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Sage π³οΈβ§οΈ (@trans.bsky.social):
when will Wizard Biden & Swashbuckler Biden be pardoned
Kiraculous the Cyborgπ³οΈβ§οΈ (@kiraculous.net):
too bad no one specialized as Assassin Biden
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
K i r a
Kiraculous the Cyborgπ³οΈβ§οΈ (@kiraculous.net):
you should be asleep my dear!
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
You are dear my sleep
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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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