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Bard spotting on Bluesky 12 January 2025 
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rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
Hey @matthewkeys.bsky.social, please go submit a DMCA report to Bluesky for my use of this screenshot, reproduced here to document and respond to your threats of DMCA abuse. Particularly since I just screenshot all those admissions of bad faith.
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
Come on, buddy. You've been caping so hard for sexual predators that it must be really appealing for you to stick your peepee in that bear trap I'm holding out for you.
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
lol it worked
Dylan Reeve (@dylanreeve.com):
I can only presume he doesn't actually understand how the DMCA works?
Like he files the notice, Bluesky tells you, you say "nup, not an infringement, fair use" and they go cool. Tell him you said so and then it's up to him to sue.
He's just wasting a lot of time and Streisand'ing himself.
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
Oh, I'm not talking about 512(g)(3), that's easy peasy. Matty here really, really should be much more concerned about 512(f).
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It's fascinating to watch how it gets abused. The one time someone falsely filed a DMCA on one of my online works (a Reddit post consisting of my short title & an uncopyrightable link), the contact they used was something like I.P. Freely, 100 Main Street, Geauxfahk Yearsail, FL
rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):
Yuuuup. There's a reason DW is so aggressive about 512(f) filtering and has been for years. (And I'm grateful to Lenz for the case law that not only says sites should be doing that, the failure to do it can make them liable!)
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PlsRope
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
… volunteer?
I suffered through being screamed at by adults when I was six for not knowing cursive yet, and those adults' taxes can line up a commission per page, tbqh.
Konnor Rogers (@konnorrogers.com):
"Superpower they're looking for...volunteer"
Ahhh! Found your problem!
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Dave Willner (@dwillner.bsky.social):
Longish answer - Users blocking content for themselves is a useful tool for some kinds of problems (e.g. you don't want to see nude pictures) but doesn't do much at all for others (e.g. you don't want other people to see nude picture of you). 🧵 1/6
Dave Willner (@dwillner.bsky.social):
More generally, it's more or less impossible to have really large social spaces online that aren't moderated for a whole host of things, very few of which are actually legally required (e.g. CSAM, NCII, regulated goods) and many of which are not (e.g. spam, doxxing, terrorist propaganda, etc). 🧵 2/6
Dave Willner (@dwillner.bsky.social):
So the question is really just "which things do you think should be moderated" not "should moderation happen". Everyone outside the dark web moderates, including X and 4chan. It's just disagreements over which things are in and which are out. 🧵 3/6
Dave Willner (@dwillner.bsky.social):
That's true for FB's changes here. Their hate speech policy still prohibits quite a lot of stuff! It just now has very specific carve outs to allow certain kinds of speech if based on gender, sexuality, and immigration status that is still prohibited if based on race, religion, etc. 🧵 4/6
Dave Willner (@dwillner.bsky.social):
In my view, that doesn't make much sense from any principled point of view. If you were primarily concerned with "free speech" you'd go further than they have, while if you were only concerned with ensuring you don't interfere with legislative debates you'd go much less far. 🧵 5/6
Dave Willner (@dwillner.bsky.social):
Either way, what they've done here is incoherent to me and, in my view, only really makes sense if it's motivated by avoiding pissing off Republicans, rather than by any specific set of principles one way or the other. 🧵 6/6
Zach (@zbayou.bsky.social):
It is utterly supplicating to Republican viewpoints. Zuckerberg is just embracing maximum cynicism and has made himself and his company maximally embarrassing and dare I say, nefarious.
Dave Willner (@dwillner.bsky.social):
I have found myself puzzled what the long term strategy is here. My belief had been that Zuck was pretty good at prioritizing the company's long term financial interests. I get the short-term strategy here, but not the long term - a bunch of the damage here feels like it can't be easily undone.
Zach (@zbayou.bsky.social):
My sense is that he's fully ingrained billionaire hubris like Musk and based on both the corporate structure of his organization, Meta's embedding of its ad infrastructure so widely, and M&A-monopolization of digital services via Insta and Whatsapp (and now Threads), he doesn't fear any consequence.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"If people didn't leave over the Rohingya genocide, they won't leave over this" is how I expect it boils
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Are you feeling okay bud?
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MaxLaw_in_SC (@maxlaw843.bsky.social):
Homeless with Internet access and email? Interesting, but probably false, IMHO.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
In the interests of saving everyone a lot of time, can uou answer these few questions as honestly as possible:
Do you know what Freedom From Association means?
Did you vote for any GOP political candidates since 2016?
Have you ever read and understood, exegetically, Matthew 25:31-46?
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Matthew 25:31-46
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
So, the whole "buy Greenland" thing is a long-term NATO destabilisation ploy, relying on complicit or gullible us politicians.
If this were 1983, 1993, 2003, or 2013, these twerps would be impeached and unelectable, with the FBI in their daily lives.
Cinderella Mechanicus (@hroethgar.bsky.social):
Generations of Soviet leaders failed to take Marx seriously enough
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David M. Perry (@lollardfish.bsky.social):
Rufo invents a problem. It goes viral for and against. There are opeds. Reported features. And at the end whether or not policy changes, a thing that wasn't controversial becomes controversial. Division is the goal. Destabilizing anything helpful to marginalized people is the goal.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
He worked for the people who invented "Teach the Controversy" about the theory of evolution vs "intelligent design", after all
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Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):
me, an hour ago: i'm hungry but i will do nothing about it
me, 50 minutes ago: i'm hungry but i will do nothing about it
me, 40 minutes ago: i'm very hungry but i will do nothing about it
me, 30 minutes ago: i'm very hungry but i will do nothing about it
me, now: why am i atill hungry?
Foxy ✨Gaming Witch✨🦊🏳️⚧️🍉 (@foxynature23.bsky.social):
you need to eat if just a small snack
Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):
i'm eating a sausage and gravy pot pie, i wouldn't make a joke about a situation i was ignoring
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
B/c then you wouldn't be ignoring it
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Just curious: would you murder me in return for a box of Girl Scout Samoas
Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):
ewww coconut! i would eat a person before i ate samoas
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Oh my goddess
More for me, then
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Also you can nibble on mi
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"Conservative", as an ideology, is vastly overspecified, and used coherently at present only to signify "member of a political coalition that acts in opposition to liberation, egalitarianism, pleasure and freedom".
As a negative diagnostic pool.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
There's surely no real coherent ideological similarity between an Evolaist and the signatories of the Nashville Statement, save that they both desire political power and see LGBTQ people as convenient scapegoats, that they both know the propagandistic inertia of misogyny
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
One of the problems we have at present is the confusion between "coherent ideology" versus "effective political praxis".
Progressiveness has both, but the Democratic party has lost both.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Barack Obama was popular, invigorating, and served two terms specifically because he espoused both a coherent ideology of "the Dream of America" and an effective political praxis of it.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Donald Trump espouses a "Dream of America", too. His political praxis is cheap and easy, it is fear and hatred and anxiety about people's retirement funds.
When I was in line waiting to vote, the people around me spoke — not of the price of eggs or trans women, but of their 401k's
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
An effective political movement that can take America away from fascists and grifters and felons and predators in the GOP, has to find a way to state, clearly, "Economic Prosperity & Justice through Liberty"
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It can be the set of people who aren't aspiring to be transphobes, homophobes, christian theocrats, fascists, looting the tax coffers, running social media sites as networks of neoNazi terrorists
But it has to want to find and define the movement, to embrace the BRAND
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It has to want to blaze that brand into public consciousness, to make it burn so bright it incinerates the efforts of the Chris Rufo's of the world trying to "Uhm, actually, this is Marxism inchoate" the brand.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Branding Trump & Vance as "Weird" (derogatory) was a step in the right direction.
But the effort of this successful polity has to not be in tearing down MAGA. It cannot exist for the sake of contrasting to MAGA.
It must exist to hold a torch for the American people and the people of the world.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It must be its own entity, holding open a door to the future.
Not as "we're all the things MAGA isn't".
But as "we're all these things - things you truly want and need from government".
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I don't know what you said, because I've seen another human naked.
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Talia Bhatt, Third-Sexed Transfeminist ♀︎♀︎♀︎♀︎♀︎ (@enkiducoin.bsky.social):
People fundamentally just do not understand how conservatives view the world, which is why so much liberal discourse involves "dunking" on them for "hypocrisy" that is perfectly in keeping with their views.
Conservatives value hierarchy above all, even if it hurts them personally.
Alys 'n Heck (@fleur-de-alys.bsky.social):
I'm a former conservative who lived surrounded by other conservatives.
This is mostly false.
The prime conservative view is that things are the way they are because they must be, and trying to change it will always make things worse.
They focus on adapting to what is above all else.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Both. Both are the truth.
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olive consumer (@machete.gay):
love understanding everything this guy says
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
… … … … … what if it is no longer an open question
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I'm just saying, /r/the_donald existed. And was smashed, kinda.
Maybe the question is whether the syncretic movement can be quashed, or shunned, or just … circumvented
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
G*mergaters jointly allying with one another (despite half hating all authority and half loving cops & the troops) over a hatred of trans women specifically —
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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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