Bard spotting on Bluesky 01 January 2025

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

Core to the process of radicalisation is depersonalisation. The movement hollows out someone's identity and personality & replaces it with the group identity & social dysfunction. Helping that accelerate is counterproductive.

Chad Loder (@chadloder.bsky.social):

Incidentally, this process of isolation driving radicalization is why experienced antifascists don't rush to public exposure of proto-fascists.

Sometimes, it's more effective to send a "shot across the bow" (e.g. a warning delivered privately) before ruining someone's life with public exposure.

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

It's also why getting people interested in Anything Else Than The Movement is the most* effective counterradicalisation technique

• They still have to want to avoid or abandon the extremist movement, and nothing substitutes for that core motivation

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

A decade or so ago … maybe two decades ago … I tried to explain the prevalence of islamic terrorist activity in the United States with a graph.

And then a different graph.

Then another.

The problem I kept having is that the fraction of the populace that are Islamic terrorists — sub-pixel area

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

I had to magnify the area 100x for it to even show up as one pixel on any chart

1000x to show ISIS/ISIL/al-Qaeda

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

100,000x magnification to show Wahabbist extremism vs global Islamic believers

The old Gotcha! Thought Experiment, "what if a bowl of skittles and there was a poisoned one"

More likely to die from the cytokine storm from a maladaptive response to a microbe, than the microbe itself, in such cases

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

Meanwhile, White Identity Extremism is visible to the naked eye and in everything in the bowl, like a fungus

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

Welp

throws papers off desk and walks away

The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com):

The suspected driver in the New Orleans attack was identified as a U.S. citizen and had an ISIS flag, with weapons and a potential IED in his truck.

The driver, 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, is from Texas, the FBI said Wednesday.

Follow the latest updates:

David Mulford (not the financier) (@mulford.bsky.social):

I hate 2025 already

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

It may as well be October 2001 for the intents and purposes of American domestic and foreign budget and policy, for at least the next 4 years

It's absolutely terrorism and absolutely bait and the desired outcome is making the USA go to war with 1 billion moderate Muslims, which Trump et al will do

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

If Harris / Walz were elected they'd spend ~$25 million digging out the cell he spawned from and that would be the end of it.

Asperas Bompar (@asperasbompar.bsky.social):

Biden is still president. If he holds to form, he authorizes drone attacks on HVT's in an attempt to cauterize the wound.

(I'm not saying this is the best response, but it is Biden's demonstrated preference).

𝖁𝖎𝖔𝖑𝖊𝖙 𝕺𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖛𝖎𝖔𝖓 (@violetoblivion.bsky.social):

I'm done with this one,

@skywitches.net

@skywatch.blue

@ghostbear077.bsky.social

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

twitching my nose

Listed!

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

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𝖁𝖎𝖔𝖑𝖊𝖙 𝕺𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖛𝖎𝖔𝖓 (@violetoblivion.bsky.social):

Merci!!! Happy New Year, Sister Witch!!

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

It is 55°F in my bedroom and I am tucked under two warm blankets and slept a decent amount

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

I'm right beside you

All or nothing

Right up to the end

In the last days of the year

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Even

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

I am dealing with waves hands at everything by dissolving into Grey Eye Glances' 1997 "debut", Eventide

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Eventide - YouTube

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

I picked this album out of a shelf at Bill's Records at random; it was marked "Radio Promotion, Not For Resale", for ~$7, and knowing nothing about them, bought it and listened to it on a long road trip, with it becoming a core memory.

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

I wish everything, everyone, every day could be as beautiful and melancholy and joyful as a Grey Eye Glances song

janny with a mop. janny with a mop.

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.