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Bard spotting on Bluesky 05 December 2024 
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Matthew Cortland (they) (@matthewcort.land):
The most recent time a health insurer tried to kill me was 2013 (CareFirst, if it matters)
I had to fight them while incredibly sick; bc the policy was regulated by Maryland, I filed this complaint with the Maryland Insurance Administration
You're probably not a better healthcare lawyer than I am
Matthew Cortland (they) (@matthewcort.land):
This? This is two years of public health grad school, three years of law school, and a decade of practice as a health care lawyer.
Matthew Cortland (they) (@matthewcort.land):
I'm sure you have the time and money to do five years of grad school, right? To get to a place where you could think about starting to write something like this when a health insurer tries to kill you?
Matthew Cortland (they) (@matthewcort.land):
This conduct is so atrocious it goes far beyond bad faith. The mendacity and deception insurers routinely employ to kill chronically ill and disabled people is a particularly revolting kind of mass murder. If you don't see this ⤵️ as murder when it happens to anyone who isn't a, eg, lawyer why not?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
What a nightmare.
You proved that you could bring public political pressure exposing their malfeasance, that you had expertise in navigating the system, and that the treatment was longstanding, typical, and absolutely medically necessary — and they still tried to deny the treatment. FFS.
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Andy Vitek (@avitek.bsky.social):
I refuse to believe this is real and not a troll. I just cannot accept it.
olive consumer (@machete.gay):
Not the worst timeline, but the dumbest.
Which, it turns out, is a lot like the worst.
J.M. Berger (@intelwire.bsky.social):
Not the worst timeline yet
olive consumer (@machete.gay):
It can always get worse AND dumber!
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
X A N A X to go!
I need to relax whoa-oh!
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
lolsob.heavy.on.the.sob
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Bigots treat this fact as if it were a trans shitposter joke or lie, but it is true.
Chromosomes stop playing a role in phenotype (organ development) in the embryo during the first trimester, & can be overridden by maternal hormonal levels & other epigenetic factors.
Hormones! Not Chromosomes!
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
An adult Homo sapiens with endogenous or administered estrogen & low T is biologically a woman.
An adult Homo sapiens with low / absent estrogen/ progesterone & high T is biologically a man.
Humans are bimodal sexually, not merely "dimorphic".
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
In conclusion, Elon Musk & a bunch of other bigots have bought billions of dollars of propaganda to persecute a vulnerable minority of humanity — because it's politically viable to do so, & persecuting based on skin colour or nationality or etc is legal & political suicide.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
They have fought tooth and nail against laws prohibiting persecuting minorities for decades, and they are cornered and this is their last push. They want to undo every civil rights advance since the 1950's.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I keep having to find this again every time; maybe this time I can make it different.
Keywords: Bimodal sexual development spectrum sciencevet sciencevet2 twitter archive.org
web.archive.org/web/20190402...
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Karl Bode (@karlbode.com):
where did all the libertarian billionaire defenders of free speech go suddenly
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Reddit — the corporation — has a sitewide rule against inciting violence.
The volunteer moderators across most of the reputable subreddits, about five years ago, all decided that this would be applied as prohibiting any speech that glorifies or otherwise approves of homicide.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Reddit's Trust & Safety usually treats such expressions as violations of Sitewide Rule 1, to the point that it was notable when the admins made a public note two years ago when Russia invaded Ukraine that they would not action people wishing death on Putin.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Reddit has a moderator code of conduct.
Subreddit moderators lose mod privileges if they — through action or inaction — allow a subreddit to be used to violate the acceptable use policy, egregiously, regularly, etc.
So they removed & locked the post.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I hate this timeslip branch, someone go back and find the Infinity Stones and keep them out of Trumpos' hands
Jon R (@newsfreedom.bsky.social):
Doesn't matter it's what Putin wants. I have really come to detest my country.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It's what Trump & Co want. Insulation from investigation & prosecution
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I hate this timeslip branch, someone go back and find the Infinity Stones and keep them out of Trumpos' hands
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
For those unaware, Domestic Violent Extremism is the branch investigating & prosecuting i.e. the Proud Boys & Oath Keepers & Groypers & the rest of the Jan 6 coup stormtroopers, along with a slew of more radicalised White Identity Extremism
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
%0.0000625 of the site has directly blocked a specific (not named here) account. %0.0023 has directly blocked another. Neither of these are really newsworthy as "These are highly unpopular entities"; the figures are newsworthy as "having a beef with these entities is a highly unpopular issue"
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Will refer back to these figures whenever I need to invoke Bigger Fish To Fry
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human bean (@dangerpixel.com):
I know this is a long shot, but my dad has just been diagnosed w dementia
he is still him but he fades sometimes
i want to find this show so i can show it to him next time i visit
because he loved it before
human bean (@dangerpixel.com):
anyone just showing up, I got it! It was Lexx.
everything i remembered about it was not helpful after all but y'all still found it
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Lowbudget Exxploitation scifi show
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Another Emily (@emilyatlast.bsky.social):
Well they're really coming out of the woodwork now.
Ladies and gentlespoons, another single issue obsessive transphobe account...
@hedgehogsafety.bsky.social joe
ᚐᚔᚈᚆᚅᚔᚑᚅᚅ ᚉᚔᚐᚏᚐ ᚉᚔᚐᚏᚐ ᚓᚔᚂᚓ (@ciara2001.bsky.social):
Seriously wondering if there is some kind of mechanism where you can just block all new accounts <14 days old and then unblock the ones that haven't been tagged for transphobia after say a month
Another Emily (@emilyatlast.bsky.social):
That would be great.
In the meantime I hope they're getting the traditional Bluesky welcome of crickets, followed by blocking, followed by more crickets.
ᚐᚔᚈᚆᚅᚔᚑᚅᚅ ᚉᚔᚐᚏᚐ ᚉᚔᚐᚏᚐ ᚓᚔᚂᚓ (@ciara2001.bsky.social):
I suspect a lot of them are the same people, getting zero traction on one account, knowing it's blocked a thousand times and just setting up a new account to start all over again
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Data from other platforms suggest this is the case.
A tiny percentage manufacturing hundreds / thousands of sockpuppet accounts to circumvent bans & blocks, to continue to harass a few people.
Which is why blocking them without a response is so important.
They desire engagement
Another Emily (@emilyatlast.bsky.social):
Yeah, this.
Ignoring them is the only strategy that works.
Plus, it involves no actual effort.
AND it REALLY pisses them off.
All the winning.
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Granny panties and a dress. Granny panties and a dress.
6 foot 4 and a mugshot. 6 foot 4 and a mugshot.
Child abuse and no job. Child abuse and no job.
Living in mama's sunroom. Living in mama's sunroom.
Giant pale hands and lipstick. Giant pale hands and lipstick.
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