Bard spotting on Bluesky 21 December 2024

Scarlet - 🍵 Woman (@gurrengin.bsky.social):

This brings to mind a time when the CEO of reddit /u/spez said that he idolizes Musk. A bit later, and many moderators leave the site in protest, and /r/againsthatesubreddits progressively accepted fewer contributions.

Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net):

The terrorist who attacked a Christmas market in Germany was a militant AfD supporter and Elon Musk fan.

Elon says AfD, a far right neo nazi party in Germany is what is needed to "save Germany."

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

Oh, AHS accepted fewer contributions & eventually went into static / archive mode because when Reddit adopted a rule in the Mod Code of Conduct that made mods responsible for the things their subs were used for, they had taken responsibility for the entire trust & safety silo.

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

Hate groups get handled no matter what language they use; harassment groups trying to jebait can't use a volunteer effort to farm eyeballs; they can't make infinite spinoff subreddits. Confidential reporting covering malfeasant mods was what we needed and asked for.

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

It's not perfect but it breaks the dysfunctional cycle and now people can do other things

Scarlet - 🍵 Woman (@gurrengin.bsky.social):

Ah okay. Is it true that the mods lost access to a bunch of cowtools in summer 2023?

Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️⚧️ (@aaronsofaer.bsky.social):

Amusingly (not!) when I was twenty four I was like "I wonder what I would look like as a girl" and the overwhelming response I got from anyone who was interested in voicing an opinion was "no absolutely not you are not trans", from cis and trans people alike.

Mostly because I was too happy.

Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️⚧️ (@aaronsofaer.bsky.social):

Oh for sure.

Personally I did have the "are you sure you're not trans" conversations but my feelings about it were too messy and Problematic to unpack without someone dragging it out of me-or as it turned out, writing it as internal narrative in an egg cracking scene, 💜@purplecatgirl.com for that!

Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️⚧️ (@aaronsofaer.bsky.social):

This is why I go fricking spare over the aesthetic of dysphoria as a sacrament or about gatekeeping our communities and identity. I can make reasoned or objective arguments about it, but fundamentally it's because every trans person I knew was like "no you have too much joy in your life and body".

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

Eisegetic readings of the DSM III diagnostics by laymen, perhaps.

Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️⚧️ (@aaronsofaer.bsky.social):

I think it was just the prevailing definition of trans identity at the time in a way that it has shifted away from being (though not all the way). People who had suffered deeply making that suffering the core of their identity, excluding me.

Also a girlfriend jealous of how pretty I'd be? lol.

Katie Tightkitty, Editor-In-Chief (@katie.bzky.team):

it's kinda funny how whenever a trans woman is confident and loud and reasonably popular people start going "i always knew they were evil. you can't ever trust big accounts. we should kill them" the moment she does something minor that they dislike and by kinda funny i mean Deeply Transmisogynistic.

Maddie (@maddiequestions.bsky.social):

it's funny how they always knew we were evil I wonder if there's a word for that kind of prejudice

Katie Tightkitty, Editor-In-Chief (@katie.bzky.team):

I WONDER IF THERE'S A WORD FOR IT

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

Seems like maybe one of those cases where there's a long German word for it, maybe

Katie Tightkitty, Editor-In-Chief (@katie.bzky.team):

TranssexuelleFrauenfeindlichkeit we could call it

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

Driving on an errand today and made my passenger double-take at the radio, by coming to a stop at the red light in time with the end of Chappel Roan's "Good Luck, Babe"

daryl "criss angel's thesis" b 🏳️⚧️ (@hypercubexl.bsky.social):

new speed sensitive songs, all the rage

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) (@nora.zone):

what's the best game of all time for playing secondhand by reading posts about it, do you think?

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

Once upon a time at a LARP one of my company members went knees-first horizontal thru an open window into the shed where the hostage was being held, unfolded inside in a flurry of (boffer) swords, julienned the baddies & then did a hero kick to open the doors into the asses of the posted guards

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

Once upon a time at a LARP I had the macguffin in my waistband and was charm-kiting the baddies thru a field on my way to the win when an assassin with immunity to charm popped up in my g-d*mn path where he planted himself a half hour before with a bunch of the flowers in the field

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

(The Touch of Death on that one was particularly humiliating)

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

Once upon a time at a LARP I was asked to field test someone's polearm and it resulted in launching a 170 pound kid 10 feet backward because the core of the pike was a vault pole

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

Once upon a time at a LARP I got a 130 pound Marine onto my shoulders and I picked up full body shields in each arm while he dual'd polearms and we terrorised a bunch of newbs and ran their line

Jason (@jasonnicholson.bsky.social):

Ok, you're now one of my heros.

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

If you ever feel incompetent, just reflect on the fact that Reddit is nearly 20 years old & still has no admin-level policy & process to scrub every post & comment made by a brand new dedicated hatred / harassment / violent threat throwaway account.

Pro-Natalieist Movement (@nataliereed84.bsky.social):

Nahhh. The most magical and divine thing about older s is that we sang ourselves into the world.

Noctiflora 🪂Ⓐ 🏳️⚧️ (@noctiflora.bsky.social):

appreciate trans milfs, for we are like hooking up with galadriel, we are magical first beings created by Eru Ilúvatar, who sang music that created the world

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

"… 'But to the Atani I will give a new gift.' Therefore he willed that the hearts of [the race of] Men should seek beyond the world and should find no rest therein; but they should have a virtue to shape their life, amid the powers and chances of the world, …"

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

"… beyond the Music of the Ainur, which is as fate to all things else[.]"

But Ilúvatar knew that [the race of] Men, being set amid the turmoils of the powers of the world, would stray often, and would not use their gifts in harmony; and he said: …"

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

"… ' These too in their time shall find that all that they do redounds at the end only to the glory of my work.'"

Dr. Damien P. Williams: Like TSCC s03 John Connor, But Better (@wolvendamien.bsky.social):

My most toxic trait is that I think philosophy education should start with critical thinking classes in elementary school and that kids schould be reading Latour and Woolgar by the time they're taking physics.

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

Or at least have touched on the most pervasive fallacies and their common expressions!

But that would threaten the utility of eyewitness testimony, scapegoat-politics, and so much more

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

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your résumé?

Me: Under the WPATH SOC Version 8, I no longer am required to.

Assigned Media (@assignedmedia.org):

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Journ*list: it's called an em dash.

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

any moots or former loots want to keep in touch, my groomercord is kiraculous.

i'll be deactivating by monday

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

Welcome back, dear heart ♥️

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.