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Bard spotting on Bluesky 21 January 2025 :marseyrandom:

Here we spot wild Bardfinn Bluesky activities.

Be valid and ping ! bardfinn for something worthwhile or create a new thread.

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Parasite.

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Blue Horizon (@phds2.bsky.social):

@lovekat41.bsky.social

You are on a block list for Nazis @skywitches.net They included resistance accounts.


โœจ๐ŸŒŸ โญ๏ธ LoveKat โญ๏ธ๐ŸŒŸโœจ๐ŸŸฆโ™ฟ๏ธ๐Ÿงฌ๐Ÿณ๏ธ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐ŸŒŽโ˜ฎ๏ธ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ๐ŸŸช (@lovekat41.bsky.social):

They can put me on their list. Whatever๐Ÿ˜‚ I don't know how you get off lists, but it makes little difference to me.


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

To avoid being placed on blocklists in the future, avoid making posts like the linked post, which - in isolation - is indistinguishable from Stormfront comments. Avoid calling things a "NWO", which is a Nazi / antisemitic trope.

bsky.app/profile/love...

โœจ๐ŸŒŸ โญ๏ธ LoveKat โญ๏ธ๐ŸŒŸโœจ๐ŸŸฆโ™ฟ๏ธ๐Ÿงฌ๐Ÿณ๏ธ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐ŸŒŽโ˜ฎ๏ธ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ๐ŸŸช (@lovekat41.bsky.social):

Sometimes, questioning and cognitive skills are a curse. Seeing how truth connects is seriously overrated:/ There is a NWO and they are all libertarians. They are Billionaires. They are connected. And now they rule the world. ๐ŸŒŽ


โœจ๐ŸŒŸ โญ๏ธ LoveKat โญ๏ธ๐ŸŒŸโœจ๐ŸŸฆโ™ฟ๏ธ๐Ÿงฌ๐Ÿณ๏ธ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐ŸŒŽโ˜ฎ๏ธ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ๐ŸŸช (@lovekat41.bsky.social):

Thanks ๐Ÿ™


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

@brooklynmarie.bsky.social coined "Global Far Right Power Grab", which is just chef's kiss

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

Vance's top finance sector advisor's connection, probably

kate conger (@kateconger.com):

ummmm? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/t...

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Brooke (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

Finally feeling deeply vindicated in my previously baseless and irrational dislike of Jewel

muscular baby jeb lund (@mobute.bsky.social):

if you'd told me in 1995 that a woman singer-songwriter would believe vaccines magnetized your blood and ham cured measles, i 100% would've picked jewel


Brooke (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

Lmao

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Jewel Joined the Inauguration Festivities, Too


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

She did a yodel verse in one of my fave renditions of Closer To Fine at Lilith Fair. Godsdarnit

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Blue Horizon (@phds2.bsky.social):

@lovekat41.bsky.social

You are on a block list for Nazis @skywitches.net They included resistance accounts.


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

No, I included lovekat41 for making a post that included abusive language targeting a person or group based on ethnic identity, using a white supremacist trope.

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squirrel (is a squirrel) (@laserbread.bsky.social):

Mf literally create an account just harass people.


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

It's some insecure pseudo intellectual jerk with a narcissistic ego wound. Block 'im.

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Maggie Harrison Duprรฉ (@mharrisondupre.bsky.social):

Several of the Trump Admin's new executive orders feature bizarre errors, formatting oddities, and stilted language -- familiar artifacts that have led to speculation that AI was used in the drafting process.

futurism.com/trump-admin-...

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Trump Admin Accused of Using AI to Draft Executive Orders


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

The numbering issue shown is also a known artifact of Reddit markdown list numbering being broken when the parser thinks every entry is its own list

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olive consumer (@machete.gay):

i try to not be rude about dating profiles but what the frick does "promoting flow by elevating ways of being" mean


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

"Like, just breathe, and visualise a soft blue glow descending through your vajayjay chakra"

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

Y'all

I used to think that Reddit was just going to host bigots and neoNazis forever, that their admins would never take action, that it was going to be that way forever.

Then I tested falsifying that hypothesis.

Hope and success can spring from even the slightest inclination


(@jurov.bsky.social):

Most of Reddit moderators aren't employees but volunteers. It even caused conflict when the management wanted to herd them around before doing IPO, curious you never heard of it?


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

In 2015-2019, Reddit hosted the largest Holocaust denial forum on the Internet & in that time a whole host of violent extremist bigot groups. I used to think "This is how it is, it will never change". Then I started digging into the TOS & content policies, & joined AgainstHateSubreddits


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

I'd dug up where Spez said (in, like, 2010 or 2012) that as long as he ran the site, they'd ban Nazis. I dug up how some T&S employees had started to apply their rule against Targeted Harassment as a prohibition against hate speech, back during Ellen Pao's tenure


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

Based on those and some analysis of how Cloudflare was persuaded to deplatform some bigots, and some statements from content creators about how reddit is seen as toxic, we campaigned to get hate speech spelled out in policy as a special case of targeted harassment.


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

In Summer 2020, with a bunch of neoNazi subreddits fomenting violent incidents including targeting journ*lists, sitting politicians, and police for assassination, (and overrunning the good subreddits) it brought things to a head, and we got a sitewide rule prohibiting hatred


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

In 2019, I said to myself, "What if โ€ฆ it didn't have to be this way? What if we could persuade the admins that these nazis were killing their business?"


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

9 months and a huge amount of effort from thousands of people later, reddit kicked the Nazis off

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https://i.rdrama.net/images/17189081272030811.webp

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

In frumpy clothes, managing a backup tape library from 8-5 weekdays, going home to her marudai, beads, and warm blankets

Jessica, Kait's Wife ๐Ÿณ๏ธโšง๏ธ๐Ÿณ๏ธ๐ŸŒˆ (@pairofclaws.bsky.social):

That super strong, super brave trans woman you know wishes she could just be some lady.


Geoff Nesnow (@dontinnovate.bsky.social):

You might appreciate this humor. I helped make this a very long time ago.

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Institute for Backup Trauma


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

Hilarious!

Long ago, in the days before Sarbanes-Oxley, the corp I was working at had a small problem, in that it took ~29 hours to back up 24 hours worth of data to tape

Wheee

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

EIN HITLERGRUแบž IST EIN HITLERGRUแบž IST EIN HITLERGRUแบž

Pwnallthethings (@pwnallthethings.bsky.social):

Or to put it more succinctly, the view from Germany:


JC_Spurlock (@historiator.bsky.social):

How could he make it any clearer?


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

A heel click, perhaps

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

EIN HITLERGRUแบž IST EIN HITLERGRUแบž IST EIN HITLERGRUแบž

Pwnallthethings (@pwnallthethings.bsky.social):

Or to put it more succinctly, the view from Germany:


diet harakiri (@yojimborice.bsky.social):

hope he is banned from entering germany or the eu for that matter

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

"Ho Ho Ho, [Deadname] MAGA Transgender Person, [misgendering pronoun] is going to reap the whirlwind"

this doesn't fix the problem, it is the problem

It's called Bigotry Ventriloquism, and bigots love it when "allies" do it, because it normalises it and gives them social permission to bigot.

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(@mrkitty5454.bsky.social):

@skywitches.net

It's amazing how many allies you have put on your block lists

Peace loving people, people who fight discrimination who fight transphobia

Who truly want to see a better world

Because someone who got angry at those people sent you a message


(@mrkitty5454.bsky.social):

Your 'appeals' process is degrading and humiliating

You expect people to know why they are in your list, create a perfectly formatted response

Find them guilty that they are supposed to apologize and make amends for something they don't even know about

Or if they did, they disagree t


(@mrkitty5454.bsky.social):

People can just block. A heated discussion from one liberal to another shouldn't put people on block lists

Just block them

You might want to reconsider what you are doing

First of all, people are very wary of block lists in general.

Finding people on them that should not be there


(@mrkitty5454.bsky.social):

Second you are preventing people who are working to ensure things like proper health care, voting rights, fighting discrimination from talking to each other

Yes, people against transphobia too.


(@mrkitty5454.bsky.social):

I am sure it makes you feel powerful to give it to all those people

Make them grovel and bow down to get off your lists

Maybe some actually deserve it.

Not all

This is a burner account

Block as you wish

I have already contacted my mutuals individually to have them drop your list


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

Yeah, that's your individual and collective right to choose to use blocklists or not.

I'm not "in the business" of saying "this is s good person, this is a bad person". I'm "in the business" of saying, "this is abusive speech that targets an individual or group based on identity or vulnerability".


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

The people that use my lists know (or, at least, I make heavy effort to let them know) that the lists are for individual behaviours, and for Behaviour on Platform.

And if you think that "Hey, I wasn't careful enough and I am sorry" is humiliating, that's a problem.


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

My appeals process exists. I am not aware that any other block lists here use it. I tested it on Reddit for 4+ years; it works well there. And it prevents neoNazis from sending me death & r*pe threats every day, in an automated fashion.


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

I'm also "not in the business" of collecting trophies or using the appeals for other reasons. I have a life to live; All the appeals process exists to do is to let responsible adults fix their mistakes. I don't want or need to know anything more than that about those people.


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

I do need to thank you; this reminded me that I should find a way to make a privacy policy statement for the appeals.


(@mrkitty5454.bsky.social):

Yes

That would be very helpful

You should make that public


(@mrkitty5454.bsky.social):

You tell me

If a person doesn't define the conflict in Gaza as a genocide

But believes it to be war. A war which many innocents on both sides die; and is glad their is a cease fire. Is that reason enough to be on your lists?


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

If a person doesn't define the conflict in Gaza as a genocide

They're wrong. Or they have an empty position, waiting for sufficient facts and theory to make a positive position. Which is mere ignorance of the subject.


(@mrkitty5454.bsky.social):

So would that be a blockable offense or not?

I am not going to put anyone on a block list if that is what they believe

I don't think anyone has an unbiased opinion. I even admit I can be wrong because I don't have an unbiased source of information

And I am biased


(@mrkitty5454.bsky.social):

The offer of 50 dollars still stands to the charity of your choice

Heck it will even make me feel better about doing something for people in need


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

You can donate to whom you wish, when you wish, free from even a hint of coercion of quid pro quo.

Have a good day


(@mrkitty5454.bsky.social):

Ok

So you prefer I not back up my words with actual action

I won't bring it up again

So is this something to appeal to get off your lists or not?

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Jim Pickard (@pickardje.bsky.social):

don't shoot me but my contentious view is that it probably wasn't a Nazi salute - despite obvious similarities - and we shouldn't claim to know that it was one


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

Deputy Political Editor, Financial Times

An Upton Sinclair quote rises to hand.

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Anna Phylaxis (@quatoria.bsky.social):

now i get to begin the exciting process of wondering whether or not the passport renewal i started last week will still go through


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

I'm sorry ๐Ÿ˜ž

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

Y'all

I used to think that Reddit was just going to host bigots and neoNazis forever, that their admins would never take action, that it was going to be that way forever.

Then I tested falsifying that hypothesis.

Hope and success can spring from even the slightest inclination

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rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):

Chris Rufo (account link several layers of QP down the chain) is one of the people where it's probably worth blocking all their followers, especially since there are a lot of "journ*lists" who need to learn to stop giving that motherlover air.

๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธMartin "Doomsday" Pfeiffer๐Ÿณ๏ธ๐ŸŒˆ (@nuclearanthro.bsky.social):

With extreme prejudice (like, probably block most of the people following him)


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

Thanks for the head's up

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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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