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Bard spotting on Bluesky 04 December 2024 
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vortex egg, MLIS (@vortexegg.com):
For the last 4 years I've been saving all of the (worthwhile) browser tabs I open as bookmarks with the vague intention of going back and sorting them to find the stuff worth keeping. I decided to import all of them into zotero for organizing. Chat, there are over 10,000 of them.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The "oh no" sound I made
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Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):
hey, look, my reply guys: you deserve better than being replaced by a robot that can never truly emulate your maddeningly human ability to mildly annoy
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Troll Union Now!
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potz(er)🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@potzer.xyz):
When you're mean to me online this is who you're being mean to
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
💜
p o t z-(er) 🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@potzer.xyz):
hi Penny ❤️
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Dr. King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail is entirely about the distinction between legality and morality, authoritarianism and liberty, the false peace which is the absence of tension versus the true peace which is the presence of justice.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
People think they don't really need to read it because it was assigned in middle school or because it's 60 years old or because it's long or because we already have the Civil Rights Act.
Read. It. It is more relevant today than ever.
www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
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Sage 🏳️⚧️ (@trans.bsky.social):
me venting about another trans woman: "i just wish she worked through her self-loathing more. i can tell she struggles & sometimes takes it out on others."
some random cishet person: "yeah frick that b-word"
me: (claws extend) "what the frick did you just say about my sister you rancid shit clown"
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Back 25 years ago some rando tried something similar on overhearing a discussion I was having with a friend
He backpedalled reaaal quick when we stood up and picked up swords
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toasty grink (@toasty.cx):
ok so in this particular case I will not do the occasional rare "I'm actually DB Cooper" bit
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I was thinking his nose looked remarkably thin
toasty grink (@toasty.cx):
Yeah mines real normal, super regular width nose
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Charles S (@cstarks.bsky.social):
@skywitches.net
Yikes
@/blueskyfook.bsky.social
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Got 'em!
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The recently-arrived-from-Twitter might not understand just how evil this is.
Michael Knowles once spelled it out: the position that transgender people are "without ontological category", tipping their hand: the German word for that is literally "Entartung"
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_...
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
What the State of Tennessee argued before the Supreme Court of the United States today was Nazi ideology with the serial numbers filed off
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It is insanely frightening to have spent school & 30 years learning German and why Nazi Germany happened in the hopes that it should never happen again, and coming out as transgender, only to watch people everywhere around you sleepwalk into the hatred and horror happening, again, here.
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SmallTownQueer HIV+ (@htownqueer.bsky.social):
Ah. This account engaging with everyone but me.
Fyi
@socialistdex.bsky.social
Let me be clear: Israel could kill every single person in that area and I wouldn't lose .1 of a second of sleep.
LeAnne, who is not high in this photo (@ennael.bsky.social):
@brainnotonyet.bsky.social
@skywitches.net
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Added the genocide jerk in screenshot to my Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism list.
LeAnne, who is not high in this photo (@ennael.bsky.social):
Thank you!
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
IMVE / RMVE / Supremacist blocklist addendum:
Accounts which threaten, advocate for, wish, hope, celebrate, express extreme indifference towards, or otherwise encourage or suggest violence or death from an identifiable ideological motive. This includes genocides & major violent events.
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Kendyl Hanks (@kendylhanks.bsky.social):
I will never celebrate killing.
That said, even w a tremendously expensive "Cadillac" policy, I spent 18 mos fighting UHC when they unilaterally decided my depression/anxiety was hopeless so would no longer cover therapy. They only restarted coverage after multiple appeals & NY enforcement action.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
There should be laws that yank licenses & impose jailtime from insurers practicing medicine without a license & a fiduciary relationship w/ the patient
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ChinnyVision (@chinnyvision.bsky.social):
I know I post this often but the sounds, oh the sounds! Benny Andersson's Yamaha GX1 which in today's money would cost about £350,000!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajP6...
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I would have added a smidge of release to the flute. Just a tiny amount.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Ahahah ahaha ahhahahaha ahahahaha ahahahahha ahahahhahaha ahahahha ahahahha ahahahhaha ahahha
Ahahahhahahahaha
Ahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Christine (@klaxon.bsky.social):
What the actual frick
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It's apparently just the clock part.
And also, there's zero reason to do this, except to save a sliver of computation time in calculating local time offsets
Bóbr, Курва Бобер (@bobrcopter.bsky.social):
Soon it will be the refresh capability removed, and then users will get an hourly email digest of their feed.
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David Christensen (@davidchristensen.bsky.social):
But local date offsets have to be computed from local time offsets
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Twitter's timestamps as supplied by their API are "human readable" ISO 8601, so all they have to do is strip everything after the T delimiter, re-endian the date, and it'll be right half the time for half the people!
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
So, the reason this is so hilarious to me, is that /r/WhitePeopleTwitter — which obviously robs Twitter of juice by offsiting good content to Reddit — has a prominent rule: all screenshots must show a time/date stamp, no exceptions
This change was likely made specifically to screw with WPT
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I can't wait for the big brained "screenshots of social media are inherently property of the site which was screenshot" arguments
Mithos (@mithos343.bsky.social):
Remember Elon begging Taylor to do concerts on "X"
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Marci (@marcimoomagic.bsky.social):
which was last screenshat*
Marci (@marcimoomagic.bsky.social):
...how the frick did "last" get in there?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Screenschwot
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Ahahah ahaha ahhahahaha ahahahaha ahahahahha ahahahhahaha ahahahha ahahahha ahahahhaha ahahha
Ahahahhahahahaha
Ahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Ahahaha ahhahaahaha ahahahahhaa ahahahahahahahahahaha ahahahahah ahahahaa ahahahaha ahahahhahahah ahahahaha ahaa aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha. Aha ahahahhahahahhahahahah ahahhahahahhaa ahahhahaha ahaha
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
pounding in desk and wheezing
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
What ahahahahhaa ahahaha ahahahhahahahahaha ahahaha ahahahhaha
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Ahahahha holy shit
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Whoo okay it's just the clock part of the timestamp
If it had been timestamps altogether, just,
Oh wow
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Charles S (@cstarks.bsky.social):
@skywitches.net
scambot:
@/jaredjohnb.bsky.social
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Reported & added to blocklist! Thanks!
Charles S (@cstarks.bsky.social):
ty!
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The conservative judges in the Skrmetti oral arguments today seem to be adhering to the bad-faith "send it to the states" reasoning that has resulted in bans on reproductive health care for people who can get pregnant, across half the country.
It's a way to wash their hands of the evil.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
They may as well just light the 14th Amendment on fire
(@scohoe.bsky.social):
didn't they do that already by allowing him to run?
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Kathryn Salamander 🦎 (@transsalamander.bsky.social):
I've seen this meme so many goddarn times and I decided to finally watch the actual clip to figure out some context.
The clip doesn't help lmao
I do love when puppeteers are this good at improv, though lol
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Same energy
youtube.com/shorts/set7y...
Kathryn Salamander 🦎 (@transsalamander.bsky.social):
I should really get a Dropout subscription lmao
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I quit using FaceBook in 2015-ish when, after reporting a half-dozen antisemitic / neoNazi memes that cast Jewish people as human feces, multiple times, over 6 months, Facebook actioned not a single one.
It will never get better. The only solution is starve it out. Boycott Facebook
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April (@aprillia.bsky.social):
@skywitches.net one for you
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I got: Transphobic (from JAQ comment), Triggerin' Teh Libz (user handle), Freedom of Association (concern trolling about blocking), Bad Faith (from a "calm down there buddy" response), etc
Bespoke sealioning
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
[Thesis of my post]
[Stochastic Markov Chain walk]
[Reluctance to accept that I'm a bot]
[Request to turn back time, to rectify my wrongs]
[Repetition of the thesis of my post]
[pleasant humming and ironic credit to DaVinci's Notebook]
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Nothing to see here
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Scoiattolo (@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz):
Fully automated luxury reply guy prompt has been leaked!
Scoiattolo (@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz):
@skywitches.net @rahaeli.bsky.social, possibly of interest
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
To think that they could have gotten the same results with some precomputed fallthru tables & some regexes
Scoiattolo (@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz):
Hilariously, an LLM is massive overkill for what is basically a madlib.
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Katelyn Burns (@katelynburns.com):
Cis people in my replies throwing a fit over me saying "cis."
There's a social media site that bans the word cis so you never have to see it. Try going there.
Daniel Dvorkin (@danielmedic.bsky.social):
I wonder how they feel about "right-handed."
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Putting the "Sin" and "Sister" in "Sinister"
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Katelyn Burns (@katelynburns.com):
Cis people in my replies throwing a fit over me saying "cis."
There's a social media site that bans the word cis so you never have to see it. Try going there.
Grizzly Bear Capital (@whiskeyneat.bsky.social):
Those people assume cis is a slur because when they say trans, they absolutely mean it as a slur.
That sort of nonsense really belongs on X: The Everything App.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
They parrot back the bad faith claim of discrimination that Musk made an article of faith and a free ticket to the party
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jamelle (@jamellebouie.net):
worth reading this if only to observe that every one of these guys is a fricking loser www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
Jamie Gump, testing the acceptable limits of hubris (@jamiegump.bsky.social):
Just once I want conservatives to come up with a conspiracy theory that doesn't end in antisemitism.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Hi, I'm a researcher of White Identity Extremism, and here is an exhaustive list of all the bigotry-justifying narratives of American extremist movements that did not end back at antisemitic screeds:
…
END OF LIST
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Day 4 of Winter, Year 24
Just me (@bybybirdy.bsky.social):
Oh wow, that's right it is winter. That's why the temperature dropped to 75 instead of 84 like it was over the weekend. I hope it last more than a couple weeks.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I hope so too!!
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steven monacelli (@stevanzetti.bsky.social):
NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy.
www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
NativeMichigander (@jcoblentz.bsky.social):
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olive consumer (@machete.gay):
What she should be doing is posting more chickens.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
LookAtAllThoseChickens.vine.mp4
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Casual Cheese Enjoyer (@cheeseenthusiast.bsky.social):
when he says bonds, flaws, and ideals is he talking about dnd or something else?
just looking for more context
I also do not know about bonds flaws and ideals in dnd either
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Yes! They're a character design framework in 5e.
Casual Cheese Enjoyer (@cheeseenthusiast.bsky.social):
nice, will look it up. if you know of any good resources off hand that would be cool. no pressure intended as i do have access to the internet
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Lol that is the sum total of my knowledge on it! I was a World of Darkness girl
Casual Cheese Enjoyer (@cheeseenthusiast.bsky.social):
I kept trying to get into dnd and I found out that if i keep trying to play dnd with people i don't like, i will not enjoy dnd
I have given up on ttrpgs
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Stardew Valley is about my speed nowadays ^_^
Casual Cheese Enjoyer (@cheeseenthusiast.bsky.social):
it's a good game
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Dnd and stardew is it possible for someone to have anti-taste?
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Anyone else think Brennan is a smarmy fricker that needs to get r*ped?
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Our farm girl is playing one of the
iest games out there 
!g*mers
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Also a mobile game because xir is too poor to afford a PC or console.
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That shit sucks on mobile tbh
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Scoiattolo (@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz):
Is this the major first global news / crisis event where, at least for the English speaking audience, Bluesky has served as a real-time sense-making tool in the way that twitter used to?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
There was the Brazilian judicial ban of X. During that there were English speaking lawyers & Brazilian Portugese speaking lawyers hammering out what the order meant by banning VPNs.
Scoiattolo (@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz):
I should sleep, but the reason I didn't answer Aleppo is because I'm already heavily exposed to that group of experts. Were the lawyers connecting organically or already in each others orbits?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Have to defer to Mike Masnick as the one I was watching involved in that
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
At age 17, in the early 1990's, before there were specific laws addressing such behaviour, I sat down at a terminal in my high school compsci lab, and proceeded to
C:> ECHO [litany of ALT+xxxx inputs] > LOGIN.COM
and thereby intercept the netadmin password later that day
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Microsoft only closed the "command line environment will search for and run the invoked .COM extension file before the .EXE extension file" oversight like, 3? 4? years ago
J to the (@josbrowsing.bsky.social):
Wait, freaking what? Oh god I forget it's Microsoft, must've noticed it was interfering with some telemetry module so that's why they fixed it instead of securing the system.
That's nuts.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Microsoft … for reasons that only make sense from a Big Iron Programming perspective … has a long standing directive on backwards compatibility, & .BAT -> .COM -> .EXE as precedence was backwards compatibility
J to the (@josbrowsing.bsky.social):
That's something I wasn't aware of but makes a lot more sense to consider with how whacked out every other release of Windows is. But also from having worked in corporate environments some places will not upgrade until it's fatal to profit. One place still had workstations using Win98 in 2016.
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Christine (@klaxon.bsky.social):
I've really been enjoying Hank's thoughts on Bluesky this week. This one's a bit troubling (the problem he's talking about), but important and interesting.
Eileen 🍒 (@absolutereality.blog):
I've learned a lot about this subject by following @rahaeli.bsky.social and @skywitches.net! You can also look up #BadActorBingo for specific posts about these bot, troll, content scraping, and follow farming networks.
Christine (@klaxon.bsky.social):
I do follow rah, but @skywitches.net is new to me. Thanks!
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I had the same moment of "I walked right into it, what are we gonna dooo" and the same swear word disgust response as Hank's when I got briefly sucked in (reaching for the keyboard) by one of the clones in this operation.
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
I really wish Hank subtitled his videos/posted transcripts so I could also access them, sigh.
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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]… to justify what they were already going to do.
… meaning, before you were a fascist, you were a bully & an butthole"
Casual Cheese Enjoyer (@cheeseenthusiast.bsky.social):
I love him and his laws are threats monologs remixed with a chappel roan beat is my ringtone rn.
thanks for this link!
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
cackling
Casual Cheese Enjoyer (@cheeseenthusiast.bsky.social):
do you wanna hear it?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Of course!
Casual Cheese Enjoyer (@cheeseenthusiast.bsky.social):
I went to go grab the TikTok video and got distracted. here you go
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYy1rpcJ/
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Taylor Lorenz (@taylorlorenz.bsky.social):
Looking for good fiction books in 2025, does anyone have any good recs? I love thrillers and horror and sci fi!
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Blindsight, by Peter Watts.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
There was a subreddit (which I won't name here) that, in 2018, after a few months of testing & observation, the only reasonable view was that it was being "moderated" for political "re-education" purposes by Chinese political prisoners, & "moderators" were removed for allowing China to be embarassed
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
And the reasonable assumption was that their subsequent punishment for failure was worse than merely being tasked with ideological purity / struggle sessions on a subreddit.
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):
Well, let's hope we don't all wake up to a coup attempt in a democracy somewhere else tomorrow morning….
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The absurdity will increase until, it seems, morale improves
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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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