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Bard spotting on Bluesky 22 January 2025 
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Now playing: School House Harmony (DKC2).mp3
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
World's Most Obscure Trivia —
The foreword to Liberty Lobby's "Conspiracy Against Freedom", (an incredibly long screed against the ADL) is a free translation of a Goebbels essay, "The Jew", published 96 years ago today in Der Angriff
Ronni🧂Salt (@ronnisalt.bsky.social):
sorry to post crash Ms Penny
here's another to add to your Nazis/RW list. He's been here all of a couple of days and he's only here to "own" all the commies
@/patrolmankato.bsky.social
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
highfive thanks! ^_^
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com):
my guy, there are gonna be a whole lot of "unintended consequences", best you start getting used to that right now
Matti (@mrbtx.bsky.social):
What's it say for the blocked?
bsquiklehausen (@bsquiklehausen.com):
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Ohhhhhhh that guy
He's an anthropogenic climate change denier, trading on his professional credentials as a TV meteorologist to support climate change denialism. These chickens have been on the wing, coming home to roost, for 30 years
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Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):
ah winter, when "it's almost freezing" means it's just a few degrees below freezing
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Sending warm thoughts ^_^
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Transphobia is a Nazi particle.
click click click
You maybe can't see the fashranium but you can detect its emissions
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Never lie to law enforcement. Never lie to law enforcement. Never lie to law enforcement. Never lie to law enforcement. "If you have a warrant, there's the front door"; "I invoke my Fifth Amendment right [and then shut up]"; "I want my attorney"
RadiantHostility (he/him) (@radianthostility.bsky.social):
Lying to law enforcement would be talking to cops, which breaks rule number one!
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It is extraordinarily difficult to persuade people of danger
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) (@nora.zone):
it sucks that bluesky doesn't have custom emojis so i cannot share the extremely bad one i made of my kiln
Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) (@nora.zone):
i am posting it but it's not the same
Jerry Chen (@jcsalterego.bsky.social):
(godfather voice) look how they massacred your 20x20 pixels
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It would be better if a potato took this picture
Jerry Chen (@jcsalterego.bsky.social):
potography?
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
They're taking the Hobbits to AIsengard
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Brianna Wu (@brianna.bsky.social):
Screaming at me may feel good, but you're ultimately a child having a temper tantrum.
✅ Change Course
✅ Lose everything
Pick one.
dead domain 🐐🏳️⚧️ (@domaindead.bsky.social):
Hey dingdong, the course you're on is the course that's losing us everything.
You just don't see it because you're disconnected from 99% of the trans community. You've always been insulated by your privilege and that disconnection.
ArcheoPoo (@pwinbutt.bsky.social):
Brianna does have a grasp on the political thought of people outside the trans community. That isn't a privilege, but is hard work. It is difficult to see them as people you have to work with instead of opponents. You get nowhere treating them like enemies.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The people running virulently transphobic G*merGate subreddits lovebombed her into throwing other trans people under the bus. She absolutely didn't have to work with them & it harmed her & millions of others because she thought she understood them & that they could be trusted.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
They made her feel special & she dehumanised entire demographics to keep them making her feel special.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Of course they're enemies. They told us and everyone in the world that they're enemies, as loud and as long as they could, and then they told her that she could be the exception.
What you gain by treating them like enemies is freedom from being their sucker, tool, fall-person — self-esteem, respect
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Aaron Ross Powell (@aaronrosspowell.com):
The rise of Curtis Yarvin is a good example of the value of expertise and the problems when it's dismissed. People with philosophy and history training recognize him as an intellectual fraud. But he was able to convince enough VCs and software engineers who didn't have the chops to see his errors.
The Compiler (@sixnein.bsky.social):
Software engineers should have received enough training in logic to be able to spot frauds. Fallacies or logical errors are the glue of the arguments of grifters.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Software engineers often just get the latitude to try a new iteration until the bugs are squashed, and work with a team where many eyes find bugs faster. Translating that paradigm to politics means they're all subject to normalisation bias because it's not a bug, it's a feature.
The Compiler (@sixnein.bsky.social):
You can sum up any profession this way, e.g., a writer goes through iterations with editors to quash errors.
Also note a software engineer in my view is someone with a background in computer science. It's not say a tech bro who was born rich and bought into a company in early rounds.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I used to code (I still do, but I used to, too) and managed coders circa 1999-2001. But even the coders I worked with who wrote their code in pen in octal on a punchcard tablature notepad were unable to translate Logic and Reason and Here Is A Fallacy from coding to politics.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
A lot of truly skilled hackers I knew in the late 80's & early 90's were still unable or unwilling to grasp "women aren't idiots or lesser", or to not break into other people's systems without permission
The Compiler (@sixnein.bsky.social):
The old school software engineers were mostly mathematicians and they belonged to a number of different camps. The people you speak of would have probably been called script kiddies.
The Compiler (@sixnein.bsky.social):
They were a unique bunch of people even all the way back to the Jon Von Numan days when the Standard president was bitching about his engineers soaking up the sodas. But I never knew them to be in the bigot community. Some of this shit is from handing a degree to everyone.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
To put it a different way: it took approximately thirty years — a generation — for germ theory to become widely accepted and the minimum standard of medical care.
It took two generations for people to widely quit tobacco use. There's a whole generation affected by TEL.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It is extraordinarily difficult to persuade people of subtle danger
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(@eightxeroxedbutts.bsky.social):
The dark side of TIMTOWTDI
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
And "Code is Law"
(@eightxeroxedbutts.bsky.social):
CS programs considered harmful
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Aaron Ross Powell (@aaronrosspowell.com):
The rise of Curtis Yarvin is a good example of the value of expertise and the problems when it's dismissed. People with philosophy and history training recognize him as an intellectual fraud. But he was able to convince enough VCs and software engineers who didn't have the chops to see his errors.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Alternate hypothesis: He persuaded two very white-supremacist VCs that he could salonfahige-up the bigot's political agenda, and a whole ecosystem of whalehunters fastfollowed him
Thiel & Musk make and break
Aaron Ross Powell (@aaronrosspowell.com):
He has a sizable following before either of them started pushing him.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Never store leftover cranberry jelly in melamine, nor sauerkraut in anything other than glass.
Airwolf! (@airwolf.bsky.social):
Sounds like you have your forever sauerkraut container 😂
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Yep. It was a tupperware pickle jar, but the scent is unremovable by baking soda, by bleach, by boiling … it is in the plastic
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Hundreds of subreddits banning fascist-controlled social media in January 2025, huh?
Glad they came around. Wish it had been sooner.
old.reddit.com/r/Fuckthealt...
November 2022
(@hazyrecollection.bsky.social):
Better late than never, I guess.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It's frustrating, because — invariably — transphobia is a Nazi particle. This is known. It has been known. Elon turned Twitter into a transphobia breeder reactor. He unbanned violent Nazis.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
At any point in the past two years, before it got to "NeoNazi owner of NeoNazi-welcoming social media platform does NeoNazi salute the moment his team crosses the finish line", society could have listened to transgender people.
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Christina(Tina) Hendriks (@renissance1.bsky.social):
www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-mu...
Ben (@gandydancer1961.bsky.social):
Canada did away with the penny years ago. It's not needed anymore
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
😟
Ben (@gandydancer1961.bsky.social):
Ok, we won't do away with you Penny. You're safe.
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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐖𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 (@theunwickedwitch.bsky.social):
Have another mirroring my Acct. Please report them before they start scamming people.
🔮🧙🏽♀️🕯️🖤🔮
#WitchSky #PaganSky #NotEveryWitch
#Witch #WitchCraftSky
#OccultSky #WeCoWitch
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Suspended before it even reached the search indexing
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐖𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 (@theunwickedwitch.bsky.social):
You all are the best. I got word I think within seconds and within seconds it was gone.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I suspect that "bæddel" and "wæpenwifestre" are possibly used in some places by the original speakers / authors, (in the material that's survived at least) to signify "woman who has the social role of a man", using a poetic kenning. "Wæpenwifestre" I suspect especially of this use.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I have no conclusive argument to this end; it is just my gut feeling, and it arose in my mind today as I read Ursula K LeGuin's "Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" theanarchistlibrary.org/mirror/u/uk/...
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The material in which these terms survive are stories, recorded by men, from story and history traditions that are heavily leaning towards a Campbellian Hero's Journey and its attendant phallic symbolism. So especially, "Weapon wife" as a kenning … "tastes" like an Eowyn, rather than a hermaphrodite
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
But also it arose in my mind that perhaps by working with these archetypal framings, an approach to toxic masculinity might be found.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
G*merGate et al is ascribable to a lack of modern culture to supply fulfilling meaning to men, and that it is promised to them a Hero's Journey, but the Hero's Journey necessitates a lot of "collateral loss", and men — while they accept the Hero's Journey bargain, reject becoming collateral losses
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
This is the esoteric, occult "Social Contract" they feel is broken - the one that doesn't deliver to them a constant Hero's Journey, where they are all relieved of being temporarily embarrassed millionaires, where they conquer, assert, squash, colonise, capture
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It is why they have pockets in their slacks, and avoid handbags, purses, carrier bags. Why all such bags they use must be leather, or camo; why they all must be rigidly rectilinear, or at minimum "upon my stick a'wobblin'" (Rocky Road to Dublin, Irish jig)
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Round, curvilinear, amorphous; these are the characteristics of the feminine, the characteristics of the gatherer, the characteristics of the homemaker and of the womb. They are not There And Back Again; they are the coordinates of the community and the cooperative.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Thus, a particularly feminine-coded view of social media is of communities, of network graphs, of connections & of boundaries, and freedom of (and freedom FROM) association as fundamental functions and fundamental rights
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
A wæpenwifestre may, kenningly, be a moderator - emphasising and building connections, cutting off and guarding against the unwelcome incursions.
It is then little wonder why so many trans women take up social moderation roles, and why toxic masculinity loathes and fears us for doing so
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
If their narrative arc demands conquest, no wonder they cry censorship when denied incursion, and the fulfillment of that story shape
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Take your muddy shoes off before you come in the house
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Who are you to waste even a single drop of water in this place
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I did not invite the Emperor for tea
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The Tao that can be held is not the eternal Tao
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subversive socialite (@subversivesocial.bsky.social):
pls take a 10s emotional break and look at my cat
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Your nails are the most gorgeous shade of dayglo '80's nostalgia!
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Sy Nakamura (@princewiddershins.bsky.social):
"The youngest generations are Internet natives born into the Information Age"
The Young: hOw CAn mAke BUrriTo bEfOre StARve?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Rice is especially easy. One cup rice, two cups water, 15 minutes, makes 4 servings
Sy Nakamura (@princewiddershins.bsky.social):
My wife is the rice master; she makes it extra perfect every time
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multi-mara ❣️🌌🌹🔮 (@marallmighty.bsky.social):
🌌 disgusting incel behaviour Jesus Christ leave women alone
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Oh thanks, it's a LARP troll. Added to my blocklists
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Today's Fun Fact
The trip from Dallas to Houston (considered a "short day trip") is roughly the distance from London to Scotland, or from Paris to Amsterdam, or Berlin to Munich.
It's possible to drive in "a straight line" (most direct route) for 12+ hours at Autobahn speeds & never leave Texas
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Second Fun Fact
In the 1970's, some enterprising Dallasites printed bumper stickers reading "Central Expressway Parking Permit #…"
A stash of 100's of these was rediscovered in a storage unit in the 1990's, 20 years in to the same US-75 reconstruction project, and sold out in a day at $1 apiece
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Sam (@samd.bsky.social):
A chipotle burrito, chips, and Coke is now $67 thanks to President Trump
Fat Tom of Brewerytown (@fattom23.bsky.social):
Seriously, though, why is that burrito $38?
Bahrad Sokhansanj (@bahrad.bsky.social):
Because the delivery fee is $2.99.
John (@johnlk.bsky.social):
That but also it's the most expensive one (Brisket) with double meat and guacamole, which adds a ton.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Capitalism is the mechanism of converting the least desirable cut of meat on the cow into deforestation, drought, BSE, and the extraction of 21 days' wages from a swathe of consumers
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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
Jim Pickard (@pickardje.bsky.social):
thanks for all the replies calling me a Nazi, fascinating that the Jewish Chronicle agrees with me
www.thejc.com/news/usa/elo...
Thomas Ableman (@freewheeling.info):
We cannot know what was in his head. The thing that alarmed me was that he did it twice. I tried doing what he did (in my own living room!) and the first time you do it, it looks redolent of a nazi salute. Choosing to do it a second time suggests he was at least comfortable with that.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The guy who praises the neoNazi political party, backs the other neoNazi political party, bought a whole social media platform and UN suspended all the Nazis and instituted Nazi social policies in place of moderation, and used a Nazi frog for an avatar —
Thomas Ableman (@freewheeling.info):
Fair!
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) (@iwriteok.bsky.social):
i stride into the grocery store with two guns, blood from the razor sewn into the waistband of my pants drips down my butt while blood from the razor blade in the tongue of my shoe soaks the escape map that shows me how to get back to my house two miles away.
i have forgotten my wallet.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"Thunderwear". Underwear that ensures the firearm is aimed directly at his junk at all times, ready for a misfire.
Thunderwear. Goddess bless the capitalist dorks.
Kimmylea (@kimmylea.bsky.social):
Thunderwear! Contains the mightiest of farts!
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italianstylemeats (@blagueplague.bsky.social):
since 1995, no less
www.thunderwear.com/about
Jen Stewart (@jstewgie.bsky.social):
This thread just keeps giving.
How many times have you said " their has a be a better way to conceal a handgun," and at the same time be very comfortable.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
His purse (sorry, "operational bag", which we know is in olive drab canvas) is right there, why can't they ever just holster it in their purse
Jen Stewart (@jstewgie.bsky.social):
They need to keep the space free for groceries and little whatnots from their travels by cloth escape map
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Also: le guns can randomly just "go off" meme
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persenche (@hyacinth-girl.bsky.social):
christ, i want dorley mugs now.
i'm fricking dorley-pilled.
goddammit.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Me: I want to experience sublime, delicate, transcendental art expressing beauty
Also me: om nom nom pulp novels om nom
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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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