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Bard spotting on Bluesky 19 January 2025 
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Now playing: Voices of the Temple (DKC).mp3
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Proud are the marching throng
Who bear striped pennants queer;
Loud and cruel come the cries of old
from the bigots as they jeer,
Shouting, "Out, out of public view!
We'll not abide your kind!
There's none but those who minds are closed
can walk these streets tonight -"
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"So turn, turn your feet about
and come you here no more!"
But the marchers, we heed not those calls
As we march today once more,
Then, hushed grows the gathered crowd
as a call springs down the street;
The echoes from the storefronts grow
and mix with sounds of feet —
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Singing, "Love! Love is what we claim;
we won't accept your hate!
Say you what you will of us;
You shall not change our fate!"
And on flows the growing stream
of lovers, friends, allies;
As from their rooms spill the quiet ones,
And the river grows in size -
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Then, Out past the town it spreads
to cross the world quite wide;
From a trickle to a mighty wave
grows the movement we call
Pride.
— Penny Oaken, 01/19/2025
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Six years later and this, from the editorial board of Nature (the single highest citation-indexed science periodical in the world) is sadly once again highly relevant.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Being told point blank by authority that the science & law does not back them up and that they are wrong, and bigots, and criminal, does not stop them. It never has. It never will.
It has always been about reaching out, making the path safe, & surviving.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Welcome back, Victoria
Since you've gone you know that no-one's really missed you
Welcome back Victoria
And now your friends watch over everything
That we do
Welcome back Victoria
So the pendulum swings back
Welcome back Victoria
You went away, o.k.
We got a little slack
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
And once again you'll cover up
What you don't understand
Don't close your eyes
You can't hide behind your hands
Welcome back Victoria
We'll be no threat when we're deaf, dumb and blind
Welcome back Victoria
Clean books, clean screens, clean words
Dirty minds
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I am a child of the Nineties
And for that I must pay
You wag your finger all you like
I'll tell you something, it's my children
They'll have no choice but to say
Welcome back Victoria
I trust your piano legs are covered up again
Welcome back Victoria
Double standards are you forte, now as then
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Welcome back Victoria
We'll tip our top hats to those who take back the streets
And you know what I mean, now
Welcome back Victoria
On commercial street be careful who you meet, but you're alright, Jack
Welcome back, welcome back, yeah
Welcome back, welcome back, yeehee, hee
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
In a single sentence: The President of the United States is not King, and does not make nor abolish laws.
In two sentences: The courts are required to adhere to science (i.e. medical science), not bigot ideology, when deciding whether laws are valid.
In 3 sentences: The Nazis tried this shit, too.
GrrrlRomeo (@grrrlromeo.bsky.social):
... weren't the Nazis successful?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I'd say, instead, viciously effective. They were ultimately defeated, but —
Anyways, we knew this was coming. Project 2025 & his exec order in the first admin which made us unpersons for emergency medical care purposes
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p o t z {er} - 🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@potzer.xyz):
hi friends. i hope you're having a great day 💋
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Gossssshhhhhh
p o t z {er} - 🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@potzer.xyz):
hiiiiii 🫣
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The secret is to use wine or vinegar to give it time to render out the fat
YSUBassoon (@bassoonysu.bsky.social):
I always put a dash of cider vinegar in the pan when making bacon. It helps tenderize it.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
My parents decided to boycott a company in 1988. The company that acquired the company that acquired the company that acquired the company, also acquired the boycott. 37 years @ $5k a year lost revenues & bad will
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
We believe that bridges should not merely be burned, but salted and turned into impassable marshes
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Never flounce
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Zoë Alice Minneapolis 🏳️⚧️ (@zoealicempls.bsky.social):
since Tiktok is down all the people flocking here in the meantime can participate in the Wish Zoë Happy Birthday trend where you wish me happy birthday for the next 24 hours
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Happy Birthday, Zoë!
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"Once you cross the line they know they own you, and it's just a matter of haggling the price."
The GOP is a racketeering operation with Trump as the boss
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
My blocklists were set up to mirror an ontology I used while fighting hate groups & trolls on Reddit; they are mostly useful for "power users" who know what they want to block, other blocklist maintainers, etc — except the Nazis & Transphobic lists, which (unsurprisingly) are widely very useful
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I don't have a comprehensive "This person is a toxic jerk" blocklist; I do rarely run into cases where someone deserves to be universally blocked out of access to good people's audience, but they don't meet one of my blocklists.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I use two criteria for listings:
🔘 Behaviour On Platform (BOP) - they posted the toxic thing to this site;
🔘 Wikipedia Notability - their reputation for toxicity on a subject rises to the level that it's documented enough & relevant enough that a Wikipedia article on the person would include it
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
These criteria help choke out the Oxygen of Amplification of specific types of harassers, bigots, and trolls
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Reintro:
🔘 I run a bunch of single-issue blocklists;
🔘 I am American, live in Texas, & I speak German;
🔘 I frustrate Nazis, Transphobes, & other bigots;
🔘 Love "Defying Gravity" & Elphaba;
🔘 If you want to persuade me or change my mind, approach me like I'm a rational adult (because I am).
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
🔘 Personal & Community Boundaries are the basis of all social media moderation;
🔘 Giving attention and discourse to the continued on-platform existence of bigots and trolls who manage to evade the banhammer is almost always counterproductive - block them and live a better life without them in it
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
🔘 I am sweepingly trans-inclusive
bsky.app/profile/skyw...
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
A cosplay influencer duo who primarily built their brand on TikTok — to the level of "posted their engagement ring-pop & fairytale wedding to the platform" — today posting "frick you tiktok this was theatre to suck up to Trump" and pledging to leave forever
The kids are allright
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I've found - at last - the absolute perfect cover of Just Like Heaven
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Jenn/ Shaia Tempari (@jenalysis.bsky.social):
One thing I'm curious about- in Brazil, was there outrage over the Twitter ban and was it comparable to some folks being mad over TikTok in the US?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
If the Brazilian influx here on BlueSky back then was anything to go by, then, yes
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eva (@eva.computer):
🎶 If tomorrow all the things were gone
I worked for all my life
And I had to start again
With just my children and my wife
I thank my lucky stars
To be living here today
'Cause the flag still stands for freedom
And they can't take that awayyyyy 🎶
eva (@eva.computer):
i wonder how many people know what song this is
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The cognitive dissonance in resolving his thread definitely hurt
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Edith Laurie Charles (@edithcharles.bsky.social):
Seeking to ensconce myself in local trans community as a supposed enclave of safety burned me so bad. You can all too easily find yourself at the (lack of) mercy of someone else's power off the faulty assumption that people who are like you are necessarily going to hate the idea of hurting you.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I was just contemplating the notion of going to go see some folks I haven't seen in a long time, and this reminded me why I walked away. Safety must come first.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I think the Democratic politicians legit believe that TikTok needs to be divested for national security reasons, and maybe even have founded natsec concerns.
I know that the Trump admin / GOP attitude towards TikTok is entirely "Will it be a tool for promoting our cultural supremacy"
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The GOP agenda is correctly summed up as "Carve the world into geopolitical empires again"
Orangesauce (@orangesauce.bsky.social):
And as that dystopia emerges, we will sadly be required to return to tribal means to sustain pockets of truth.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"We don't have a problem with migrants, only a Nazi problem"
True for Germany; True for the United States.
We are poised to drain all our tax coffers into the pockets of security theatrics paraprofessionals, while a good chunk of those same STPP are White Identity Extremists
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
in electing the GOP to control the US Government, we have turned everywhere within 100 miles of our border into a potential civil war incubator
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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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