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Bard spotting on Bluesky 09 January 2025 
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Now playing: Stickerbrush Symphony (DKC2).mp3
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The producers of The Apprentice or w/ever the show was that primetimed Trump on NBC are going to Heck
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"Gets to be POTUS twice despite being a demonstrable male feminist, criminal, treasonous, extremist mafioso nepo baby — because he is a Brand Name" is just an incredible indictment of humanity.
It was a Republic. We could not keep it.
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olive consumer (@machete.gay):
who is that pundit guy who was usually an butthole who wears the little hat
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down
Erik Kennedy (@erikkennedy.com):
I thought it would be George Galloway. Nope.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Black hat, navy blazer
Uuuggggg
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olive consumer (@machete.gay):
who is that pundit guy who was usually an butthole who wears the little hat
olive consumer (@machete.gay):
MAX BOOT
olive consumer (@machete.gay):
as someone who wears knit ties and gay little hats, i do respect max boot for dressing like a 1940s private eye
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It's a homburg, and honestly it's one of the few good choices for his head shape and size and hair configuration
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Urgh wait. It.
It's a Trilby
By god
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
He's wearing it like a Tyrolean, though, which gives off "Hello Doctor Jones, We Meet Again" vibes
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
My favourite geography fact is that D/FW Airport is larger in land area than the island of Manhattan and LaGuardia airport combined
Bloody Marla 🏳️⚧️ (@desperatemarlas.bsky.social):
This upsets me
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Cosigned. At minimum one of the examples of "permissible" speech shown here is demanding criminal violation of civil rights.
Tell your friends and family to quit Threads, FB, and Instagram
Plutopotamus (@plutopotam.us):
I've been trying since I deleted my own a decade ago… no one cares about the myriad valid reasons not to use it.
I guess if it becomes what twitter became some of my family will leave… others might become more active though :(
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
@kiraculous.net
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The examples presented here would allow literal Nazi rhetoric about Jews, LGBTQ people, and non-Aryans being "Entartet".
While allowing them to also claim to ban dehumanising rhetoric.
There is nothing for it but to delete Facebook
Sal (@ososalsosal.bsky.social):
They have 20 years of intimate data on human nature and they can conclude that people will defy a bully?
How can they be so stupid?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It's a bargaining behaviour - the way that people adjust to things beyond their control is to bargain that it has a benefit or upside. It's made possible by moral injury, here; He's arguing that people have to be harmed to gain dignity.
Sal (@ososalsosal.bsky.social):
So it's their responsibility as a social media platform to provide "character building" experiences or...?
That's disgustingly paternalistic if so
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Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social):
The gif files here have informed me that "Alito" is basically Italian for "bad breath" but I'm sure in time people will link his name to something even more disgusting.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
H alito sis
It's just a bayesian autocomplete, but hey -
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
If I were a LGBTQ Meta employee, I and all other LGBTQ Meta employees would be talking to an attorney about civil rights violations and constructive termination via hostile workplace, etc
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
In one of Reddit's transparency reports, they disclosed that ~94% of 31,000,000 user reports they received in 2021 were false, duplicate, & undecidable reports. 19 out of every 20, garbage.
German Landis (@germanlandis.bsky.social):
I have reported photos of a toddler in a swastika shirt posted by her Aryan Brotherhood grandfather. Facebook says that's A-OK by them and they're still there. This was well before the modding changes.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It's open season for promoting violent extremism!
German Landis (@germanlandis.bsky.social):
It's wild. I found White Boy Summer on Facebook long before it made the news, I still have all the chat screenshots. And I found a Marine who is a Nazi and sent his CO his posts.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
This is a perfect example of Short Circuiting. They're told that "dehumanising" statements are forbidden, but given a slate of dehumanising statements that are exempt.
They'll approve anything that approximates the exemptions.
And again: also result in massive moral injury.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
In one of Reddit's transparency reports, they disclosed that ~94% of 31,000,000 user reports they received in 2021 were false, duplicate, & undecidable reports. 19 out of every 20, garbage.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Meta is moving their reports handling ("moderation") out of California to Texas - a state controlled by GOP theocratic bigots. This means that, for the many millions of US jurisdictions users of Meta products, theocratic bigotry will govern their use of the product.
This is, of course, purposeful
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
They can't automate triage / enforcement on these issues because then they'd enforce against theocratic bigots.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
To go back to Reddit —
I tracked hundreds of reports I escalated to second tier after first tier dropped the ball, and found that 25% - 33% of reports in any given category were wrongly dropped as "not violating"; Most people don't know how to escalate to reddit 2nd tier.
Meta, however —
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
There is no "Second Tier" at Meta. They have a review board, but it is purposefully a bottleneck only able to handle a very small number of appeals. Once a Meta moderator finds "No Violation" on an item, 99%+ are never reversed. Including obvious violations.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Meaning that the structural purpose of these changes is to allow hate groups to harass and threaten LGBTQ people and women out of public speech on the platform, without repercussions
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The contractor / employee Moderators will just find "No Violations" on anything that they think falls under the guidelines, so they'll process a report on a dehumanising objectifying misogynist item that opens with the thesis that women are for cooking meals, as not violating - a common phenomenon
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It's called Short Circuiting - humans evaluating speech against a set of rules will pull the lever on the first rule they recognise. They also pull the lever on the first exception to the rules they recognise.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
All of these contractors / employees — especially if they're employed in Texas, an At-Will Employment state — are under pressure to evaluate as many items as possible and are likely managed by their employer firing the least-performing 10% of the workforce every month - a common but legal tactic
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
This means these moderators are going to prioritise finding "No Violations" on LGBTQ abuse & misogyny, knowing that they will almost certainly never be dinged for passing these items, but will be fired if they act conscientiously.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The amount of moral injury to the contractor / employee moderators will be significantly high, as well.
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Charles S (@cstarks.bsky.social):
Is there really anything to this "US-only" stuff? How can they stop people in other countries from seeing content from US users on their network that might violate hate speech rules elsewhere?
Seems like it would be a lot of work to tag each post or comment as acceptable or not for each country
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Facebook has separate moderation operations for the EU & especially for Germany, where open promotion of Nazism is explicitly illegal. But the fact that they're not automating this enforcement & are relying on user reports means that it will leak — it's going to be a deluge of sewage
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
They'll rely on user reports from the EU / Germany before limiting visibility of the content there, and that will push the burden of enforcement onto users, who will (naturally) just give up on reporting, eventually, on top of having to field it all in the first place.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
This will, of course, precipitate legal challenges, which may or may not result in any meaningful changes - but will fuel "Europe is censoring free speech" political agendas
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The only reasonable choice is for anyone who doesn't want to put up with extremist hate speech, to quit the platform, or limit their use to private groups and private accounts.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Under these exceptions, the Happy Merchant caricature would be acceptable, as would i.e. literal Nazi propaganda posters depicting the Rothschilds as globe-entangling octopuses & vampires
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
These are the kinds of content that Facebook refused to take down in 2015/2016 (despite them clearly violating the published guidelines then) which convinced me to delete my Facebook account.
It will turn Facebook into Stormfront
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
!!!!!!!
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Divided! 5-4!!!!
Gorsuch, Alito, Thomas, and Kavanaugh would grant a completely baseless motion! They are in Trump's pocket!!!!
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Hopefully this opens the eyes of the other two to how utterly corrupt those four are!!!!!
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Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️⚧️ (@aaronsofaer.bsky.social):
It remains the case that I do not like needles. Not one bit.
(Shot taken.)
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
^_^
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Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):
something something crop top something @nofunoverlord.top
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I have
Thoughts
Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):
oh no! thoughts are dangerous!
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
They certainly are
Teeth
Hard
On
Ur
Gorgeous
Hot
T—
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lumberjack wharfie (@lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social):
hey man ya shoulda gotten a doctorate in not being this fricking weird
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The Internet's greatest failure is that we are prevented from screaming deafening shrieks in the ears of jerks
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Me: "It is sleeting and snowing; this happens 2 days a year at most; why aren't these foolish people staying home off the roads and letting me have a quiet peaceful morning"
Also me: "Oh yeah my REI rebate is in I should go pick up a beanie on clearance"
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Papito (@papito.bsky.social):
People griping about hose pressure and not enough engines have no idea what they're talking about. You can't fight that type of thing with water..
Papito (@papito.bsky.social):
That's not the type of resources that would help. Unless there could have been a hotshot crew on standby and in town when it popped there's nothing that would have slowed that growth. Too much fuel, too much wind…
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Only Mother Nature could have delivered the amount of moisture that would have mitigated this, and Mother Nature didn't.
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Cadence Agyirey (@kubedoll.com):
if blocking interactions from the people who run abuse lists doesn't work, what you have is not Robust Safety Cowtools but a targeting system for marginalized people where the only opt out is deleting your account. robust safety would mean stopping those lists before they accumulate targets
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
There's someone operating 7-8 accounts (1-2 already suspended) that claim to be protecting a specific vulnerable demographic but the blocklists are entirely members of that demographic & legit blocklist maintainers
Guaranteed a pentest op
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🍂 Autumn 🍂 (@fallgirlautie.bsky.social):
I know I'm a needy b-word who often deflects compliments but I'm having a really bad day already and I would..I guess, like to be reminded that I matter
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
^_^ You're a light in the world, Autumn
🍂 Autumn 🍂 (@fallgirlautie.bsky.social):
No you ,Penny!!
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
100% 👇🏻 THIS
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Sage 🏳️⚧️ (@trans.bsky.social):
the surgeon at my consult today before he told me my tits were "adequate" & denied coverage:
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
May his dreams be forever haunted by visages with tears of bubbling pitch, singing from their six mouths the song that ends his sanity
Vera/Josh Mitchell (@verasev.bsky.social):
You'll have to try something worse. I've hallucinated stuff similar to that and it turns out you can get used to almost anything.
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✨ (@tremendous.stel.energy):
broke: aaron is secretly running asuka as absolution for being the fall guy
woke: aaron is secretly running the harrassment accounts as revenge against the hated transsexuals
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Galaxy Brain: Bluesky is the control for the Twitter Social Experiment
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Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):
what's a lyric that defined you for a portion of your life?
"i'm the flame i can't get burnt" is up there for me
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
— So if you care to find me,
Look to the western sky;
As someone told me lately,
"E'v'ryone
deserves the
chance to
FLY"
And if I'm flying solo,
At least I'm flying free —
To those who'd ground me, take a message back from me —
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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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