Bard spotting on Bluesky 15 January 2025

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

We're never getting the stock trade ban, nor an amendment stating that the POTUS is not immune from prosecution for crimes in office.

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social):

In his farewell address, Biden calls for:

An end to dark money

18 year term limit on Supreme Court Justices and ethics reform

A ban on stock trading in Congress

Amending the Constitution to say no president is immune from crimes committed in office

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

The stock trade ban would be the right thing, but would be stonewalled by legislators.

The amendment would be a retread of precedent / case law being worked out now, and there would be NatSec considerations for exemptions

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

We're never getting the stock trade ban, nor an amendment stating that the POTUS is not immune from prosecution for crimes in office.

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social):

In his farewell address, Biden calls for:

An end to dark money

18 year term limit on Supreme Court Justices and ethics reform

A ban on stock trading in Congress

Amending the Constitution to say no president is immune from crimes committed in office

ark of the - skyybeans (@skyblu.bsky.social):

His brain has been cooked for years. What a farce

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

Some people who are today calling fact checkers "censors" are the same people who claimed /r/ShitRedditSays, /r/TopMindsOfReddit, /r/IsRConspiracyRacist, /r/AgainstHateSubreddits, etc were censors

While they simultaneously conspired to harass the mods of all major subreddits into quitting

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

Let's cast a GOODVIBE spell, and leave the bad vibes behind

sina (@rejectionking.bsky.social):

is nirvana considered classic rock?

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

According to my local classic rock station, yeah

That was a bad day, i can tell you

multi-mara ❣️🌌🌹🔮 (@marallmighty.bsky.social):

🌹 you as a plural system should be way more understanding and accepting of trans people alongside dropping your internalized transphobia

it's uh. really not a good look

Car_Accident.mp4 (@lenaharness.bsky.social):

on top of that, most TERFs aren't actually transphobic or anti trans, that belief comes from a small group of them.

RoseDew 🏳️⚧️ (@lookarose.bsky.social):

I just cannot believe this account is for a real person expressing their views. The 18yr old, MLP pfp, plural, gender fluid trans femme that says that TERFs and Republicans are right that trans women are a fundamental danger to (all) women is the most fake sounding thing I've heard today

Genevieve (@jenuhveeve.bsky.social):

Larp

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

Some people only feel alive when fighting. She's one such.

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

Like, her ontological gymnastics is why "Transmisic" as a word exists

Sage 🏳️⚧️ (@trans.bsky.social):

funny how that works 🤔 Im an r-slur but historical events are caused by conflicts of material needs between unjust hierarchies.

maybe history is kinda like a conversation between contradictions caused by exploitation vs the responses against that oppression?

somebody should really look into this.🧐

Jeana (@jeana-mm.bsky.social):

Literally following the amount of years it took for the collapse of the Roman republic

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

Just gonna bookmarx this

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

This scenario, coincidentally, is also why Proton is losing 1/2 - 2/3rds of their customers today

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

The premise of this scenario was looking to a future where we had a way to circumvent i.e. state level censorship or surveillance, distribute mp3s, etc

One of the things my group noticed is that this was the same criteria that would allow a worm to brick all those devices, or DDoS someone

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

Many, many years ago, I wrote a "What If" scenario that involved:

🔘 Pretty much every American possessing an always-on, cellular-connected handheld computer

🔘 with a backdoored system-level driver

🔘 allowing the controller of the backdoor to set up End-to-End Encrypted Peer-to-Peer networking

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

The premise of this scenario was looking to a future where we had a way to circumvent i.e. state level censorship or surveillance, distribute mp3s, etc

One of the things my group noticed is that this was the same criteria that would allow a worm to brick all those devices, or DDoS someone

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

And now, like, What If there was an app that had code in it that polled a Chinese UCHISP's servers every 30 seconds and then China "accidentally" changed their DNS to point that server name at an airspace control system, right

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

And the system controlling airspace over Maryland happened to go down on Jan 20 2025 because five million kids all got hijacked into DDoSing the nation's air traffic control systems

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

Or whatever.

So that, in east to understand language, is the case for why the USA wants ByteDance to divest TikTok

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

• when THEY can be shown to be complicit in platforming it

Rachel Bitecofer (@rachelbitecofer.bsky.social):

Dear Western World,

If you want to save your democracy and avoid our fate, make sure social media companies are liable for the content they platform.

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

I've seen White Identity Extremists coordinate their movements at public events using highly coded language; I've seen Chinese atheistic violent extremists coordinate attacks on Chinese Christians using Online Chinese dialect. I've seen antisemites use "The Amish" as a dogwhistle for Jews.

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

None of these particular incidents are things that UCHISPs can be expected to have the means or opportunity to proactively detect and action. Bad actors constantly shift the ways they express their intentions in order to evade both automated & human moderation.

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

You cannot hope to hold a UCHISP liable for al Qaeda recruiting violent extremists using underdocumented dialects of North African languages, nor for ISIS posting deep-fried memes celebrating beheadings, if they cannot automate detection and no human mods understand the language used.

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

I've also seen UCHISPs be utterly complicit in mismanaging their platforms in ways that facilitate crimes and violent extremism. Reddit is being sued by the families & survivors of the TOPS Supermarket shooting, despite the shooter posting almost nothing notable nor actionable to the site.

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

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

Section 230 protects volunteer community runners and moderators.

Repeal Section 230, and there will be no more Reddit, no more BlueSky blocklists, no more private Facebook groups, no more comment sections.

emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social):

Lindsey says he wants to repeal Section 230.

Ut oh.

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

No more Mastodon instances, BBSes, independent community forums, craiglists, or letters to the editor

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

No more Etsy reviews. Better Business Bureau? Boom

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

No more social media. No User Content Hosting Internet Service Providers (UCHISPs).

Tumblr and PornHub alike - 💨, folded

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

transfemme barack obama voice

uh, let me be queer;

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

transfemme ronald reagan voice a few weeks ago i told the world i did not trade nudes for headpats, and in my heart i still believe that is true

Sy Nakamura (@princewiddershins.bsky.social):

Vegan troll -> @plsdoitbetter.bsky.social

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

more than just a vegan-troll, a misogynistic, insecure pseudointellectual

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

Sorry about blowing up your notifs while jousting with the troll a few days ago

Sy Nakamura (@princewiddershins.bsky.social):

I enjoyed it 👍

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

The French language has some of the most beautiful phrases imaginable

4 militants d'extrême-droite condarnés

Maxime Haes (@maximehaes.bsky.social):

4 militants d'extrême-droite condarnés pour avoir violemment harcelé Bilal Hassani en 2023, l'ayant forcé à annulé son concert à Metz.

Ils devront indemniser Bilal Hassani et les associations qui avaient engagé les procédures judiciaires.

Nouvelle victoire pour Bilal et @stophomophobie.com.

Maxime Haes (@maximehaes.bsky.social):

😂.

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

What the heck is a "Real E—

State Novelist", who

Never had time for a wife?

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

Well they hop in my car, but

Leave doors ajar, and

Fail to wear seat belts, ya know

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

And the highway moves like the

Bumper cars, and the

Passenger smells like a beer

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

POME US A POEM, YOU'RE THE

HAIKU MAN,

POME US A POEM TONIGHT,

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

Okay that hypothesis has been tested to destruction hehehe

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

AND THEY TREK THRU THE STARS

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

Apparently for Alito, any communication about the sexual aspect of human existence is always and forever going to exclusively be the domain of the prurient interest, unless accompanied by an interview with a novelist

gwen howerton (@kissphoria.bsky.social):

Justice Alito is asking if websites like Pornhub have "essays, modern day Gore Vidal, stuff like that" like the old playboy

Valentine Valcourt 🏳️⚧️ (@vvalcourt.com):

Reason #981 that Supreme Court Justices should have term limits. They are just insanely out of touch with reality.

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

We didn't start the fire

It was always burning since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

No we didn't light it but we tried to fight it

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This is a subtweet. Of everything.

It's not fine.

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.