Bard spotting on Bluesky 23 December 2024

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

Arthritis suuuuuuuucks so hard

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

hugs

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

Hello sleepy sweetie

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

i had another overwhelming episode while chargung this afternoon, sl i took a panic attack med and i'll be sleepobg or feeling sleepy for at least 2 days

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

glomps u

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

snuggles in and naps

Staccata (@stacy.is.relentlessly.online):

I have thought about this post at least once a day for the past two weeks both because of the image and because of the way Zoe wrote it

Zoe Tunnell (@zoewithasword.bsky.social):

Look

You have eyes

You get it

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

That is an incredible photograph

Staccata (@stacy.is.relentlessly.online):

I'd be so proud of it no matter which side of the lens I had been on

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

I want her to run me through with a sharp knife

Fun (@funkelly.bsky.social):

bluesky hates hams

Fun (@funkelly.bsky.social):

when I selected this screen shot to share with you, I got these VERY concerned messaged from bluesky about my choice

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

Once you give away those hams, you can't get them back

Ham gifting remorse is v v v v v real

olive consumer (@machete.gay):

[leaning very close to the mic] actually deciding you don't want to be a nazi anymore because the nazi terrorists decided not to embrace your queer identity isn't deradicalization and if that's what it took for you to realize nazis are bad, hey, that's wild

olive consumer (@machete.gay):

"the nazis didn't respect my pronouns so now i'm a radical leftist"

wrong

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

Well, there's a truth to it, in that derad requires the subject to find a motive to walk away, and "The people worshipping Dhylann Ceilings didn't make an exception for me" is motivating

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

But there is definitely something else going on with the "… why didn't you have a crisis of conscience when it was these other folks being stomped"

olive consumer (@machete.gay):

There are far more normal, human failures I will have to sit with for the rest of my life and I truly cannot imagine that being on the list.

Katherine Alejandra Cross (@quinnae.com):

Thankfully this will never get picked up in the mainstream, but these sorts of slogans are political poison for the left.

Ordinary voters hear "healthcare abolition" and hear "abolish my ability to receive care for injury and illness," not "radically alter a capitalist system of etc. etc. etc."

☀️ Starshine (@starshine.bsky.social):

????

⠀⠀festive toast⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ (@toasty.cx):

"universal healthcare" and "Medicare for all" are RIGHT THERE why are people making up dumbfrick new slogans

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

Discourse.

⠀⠀festive toast⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ (@toasty.cx):

Oh that's lame

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

Discourse and Context Collapse are the twin spectres haunting society

⠀⠀festive toast⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ (@toasty.cx):

We gotta kill at least one of those MFs I swear

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

A social media app that forbids text, only emojis and photos

⠀⠀festive toast⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ (@toasty.cx):

But Penny, photos can contain text

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

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

We are three weeks away from someone on This App posting to respect Weird Al Yankovic for raising awareness of media transsploitation in the 1990's and that setting off an avalanche resulting in approximately 500 people subscribing to a blocklist containing Weird Al

⠀⠀festive toast⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ (@toasty.cx):

oh no, did something happen or is this a prediction

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

I have been slapped by Apollo's Dodgeball

⠀⠀festive toast⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ (@toasty.cx):

Augh frick

Ann Pettifor (@annpettifor.bsky.social):

My humble advice: don't play the Republican war game. Refuse to take part in their strategy of distracting from important economic & political power issues by waging 'culture wars'. By dutifully playing their game, Dems march into a Republican trap - and can't win.

Oriana González (@oriana.bsky.social):

NEW: Republicans say they found their winning electoral issue: Anti-trans attacks.

And the attacks have left Democrats flat-footed.

"It just simply could be the case that it's a losing issue for Democrats," one House Democrat said.

w/ @alexroarty.bsky.social

www.notus.org/2026-electio...

Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.bsky.social):

Hey Ann. I spoke on a panel alongside you in Cambridge once - I felt you were erudite & insightful.

Trans people's rights are a worthy cause, worth defending, in their own right. We are real people, and the attacks on us are very real & dangerous. We aren't a mere distraction or sideshow.

Ann Pettifor (@annpettifor.bsky.social):

Of course you're right. Trans people must be loved, defended and fought for. And of course I do. I am merely saying Republicans have used culture wars as a way of winning huge political & economic power - and have succeeded. That power will be used to attack the very groups we wish to defend...

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FoAM - Grow your own worlds.

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

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David Buchanan (@retr0.id):

someone should make a did:web that responds with an infinitely long did document

Jewels1961 🦋🦋🦋🦋 (@jewels1961.bsky.social):

I'm feeling really old right about now. Would someone please be kind enough to tell me what a "did" is?? Pretty please. 🙏🏼

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

A Decentralised Identifier, like a database index, but with some distinctions. User accounts each have a DID.

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

The root supposition here is that someone might make a host for an account which, when asked to list everything about the account, returns an unending stream of data

And the corollary is that coders should have a an exception handler to handle that behaviour

Florence Ashley (@floralashes.bsky.social):

Today, try to do something you've never done or haven't done in a long time. It can be big or small, commonplace or weird. But do something new, and pay delightful attention while doing it. 😊

Robert Szasz 𓅆 (@rszasz.bsky.social):

Thanks for the minor curse.

Seems like today is "have (pass?) a kidney stone" day

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

Oh no, all my sympathy

Robert Szasz 𓅆 (@rszasz.bsky.social):

Toradol worked miracles the only other time I had one, and I don't even need a ride to the ER to get it cause it's one of my rescue meds for other stuff. If the pain goes away in 30 minutes it's probably a kidney stone. If it doesn't, I probably should have had more lactase with my dinner enchilada🤷

David Buchanan (@retr0.id):

someone should make a did:web that responds with an infinitely long did document

Natanael, Tech janitor (@natanael.bsky.social):

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an aerial view of a rocky coastline with a road going through it and a body of water .

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

Skeet Roast: Coast to Droste

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

Sitting outside enjoying this lovely 65°F overcast weather

Correction, sitting outside being horrified by weather that should be the tail end of Spring, not Shortest Day of the Year weather

Jason (@hashrocket.bsky.social):

For real. It's 61 here in the Central Valley. I just walked outside and was like "what? Suddenly it's spring!"

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

Irony: a single "Oh No" reaction making something Officially Not Funny Any More and simultaneously unofficially infinitely funnier (because I am not in the blame path for the Oh No situation)

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

can i talk briefly about the least important thing about gender stuff that nonetheless bothers me

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

PANTS and SKIRTS should not be GENDER MARKERS they should be markers of WHETHER YOU EXPECT TO BE ON A HORSE

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

If I only could

Make a deal with God

And get him to walk the paces

Keep trotting up that road

Keep galloping that hill

In side saddle

David Buchanan (@retr0.id):

someone should make a did:web that responds with an infinitely long did document

tweety fish (@sifu.tweety.fish):

should they

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

ATprotocol's First Buffer Overflow

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.