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Bard spotting on Bluesky 27 January 2025 
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Now playing: Gang-Plank Galleon remix (DKC).mp3
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Would you like to know how bad it is going to get?
I spent 2015-2020 researching /r/the_donald and other subreddits in its ecosystem
Here is what happened then:
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
People who helped run the 24/7 Rally For Donald Trump on Reddit organised with White Supremacists - neoNazis - to promote the Unite The Right rally, which was a race riot. They were not ignorant of the fact that the organisers were neoNazis, because some of them were, too
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
With the release of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers and various other Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists from prison because Donald "Good People On Both Sides" Trump pardoned them, there will be more Charlottesvilles. A lot more.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The people who ran /r/the_donald got together with the people who ran /r/cringeanarchy, /r/metacanada, and a dozen other hatred / harassment subreddits to target the main moderators of "the defaults" off of Reddit.
If you've ever read "5 Moderators Control 500 Subreddits", that was spawned by them.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It gets worse
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Some of the people in this group of Trump subreddit operators appear to have been straight-up Kiwifarms core - the kind of people who hijack credit, break into emails, phone up relatives, impersonate targets to swindle "bail money", and phone in bomb threats to homes and workplaces
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
This group also operated /r/watchpeopledie, where they posted and reposted the Christchurch Mosque shooter's video, as well as ISIS beheading propaganda.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
They will — pursuant to Trump admin "Free Speech" policies — push to show footage of violence, including (and especially) politically motivated violent extremism.
This will be to motivate ("2 Minutes Hate") and normalise, demoralise.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Members of this group repeatedly deployed CSAM & CSEM in order to frame their enemies as pædophiles.
These resulted in death threats &, threats of arrest and prosecution.
"Trinadin", in the screenshot below, was a "moderator" of /r/the_donald, responding to one such libertarianjacketing incident
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"Trinadin" was never prosecuted for his part in the conspiracy to harass and defame multiple people through use of CSAM & CSEM.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Trumpist operatives will find ways to level accusations of sexual impropriety against their political enemies. It will not just be LGBTQ people they accuse of pædophilia and child abuse.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Their goal will be to leverage social murder to get people fired, disowned, cast out, harassed, assaulted, and murdered, based solely on allegation
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
These are just the things I witnessed, that I can point to and say "They absolutely did it".
In 2019 I was trying to track down instances of members of this group bragging that they were trafficking transgender women. They hinted in private chats that the more illegal it was, the better for them, $
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I never cracked into whatever backroom or chat or telegram they may have been using. I only saw three statements from members of this group implying that they were driving transgender women into prostitution by coercion.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It may be only after the end of this administration, maybe only a generation on, but we will see at minimum a rash of r*pe, forced / coerced prostitution, and slavery under the aegis of law enforcement
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
These were people who were involved in operating the /r/rapingwomen and /r/beatingwomen subreddits, along with a slate of other horrible subreddits
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
However bad you think it will get, it will get that bad and worse.
because what they're doing to the US Federal Government right now is stripping out every person who would enforce the law, decency, and has a conscience.
All the professional moderators.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
This is why it is vitally important to leave Twitter and leave Meta platforms.
When you place your trust in a platform operated by a Trump-captured individual or group, you are trusting them to not plant material on your account, to get you arrested / fired / assaulted by mob / murdered
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Elon Musk knows that he can get away with calling people who annoy him "Libertarians".
He will never be meaningfully fiscally sued for damages and penalties to prevent him from doing it again, and with a government at his back, he will never be investigated for it, much less go to prison
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
When the Oath Keeper lynch mobs show up, they will not listen to "someone hacked my account"
Do not give the MAGA captured corps any sliver of control over your reputation or speech
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Hope for the best
Plan for the worst
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(@dogsbody1524.bsky.social):
What is the best defense against that? Not engaging with them in online forums? If I understand you correctly it seems like you're saying they were flaming other people online with false accusations of child abuse—so its only a short leap to doing that and then doxxing them?
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Don't engage them; report, downmarsey (where available), ban (where available), block (where available), and ultimately, leave platforms controlled by people who have shown they are co-operating with Trump politics.
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This is a really long way of saying you don't frick.
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Emmy Cumslutress (@emma.meangirls.online):
guess i'm in a name and shame mood lately, but frick it, this is warranted.
frick. this. bullshit.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Onto the barricades with the transphobe
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Emmy Cumslutress (@emma.meangirls.online):
guess i'm in a name and shame mood lately, but frick it, this is warranted.
frick. this. bullshit.
Kate-y Mckateface (@kate.wtrkt.xyz):
WHAT THE FRICK IS WRONG WITH HER??
ZHUGE LIANG PROSPERO AÑO!! (@shuchancellor.online):
good chance it's a troll formed specifically for harassment based on bio
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
She's a fetish grifter looking for marks
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
This is how I've discovered that I should have gone into business with £50 worth of cement, graded pebbles, and rebar
Rev Jerry the Scolding Nurse (@jerrysoucyrn.bsky.social):
concrete finger cot
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I definitely need a better way to add accounts to blocklists. I'm hitting transaction quota limits retrieving blocklists
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Opening the gates to pandemics of suffering and death, easily preventable with a pill.
MAJeff, God of Cookies (@majeff.bsky.social):
Conservatives have always LOVED AIDS.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
If you followed me for Social Media Moderation discussion, you should also follow @chadloder.bsky.social - in addition to being well versed in the issues affecting state regulation of UCHISPs & how that affects activism, they also are active in helping others in need.
bsky.app/profile/chad...
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
If you followed me for Content Moderation / Social Media Anti-Evil reasons, you should also follow @chadloder.bsky.social — on top of being thoroughly versed on issues affecting UCHISPs w/r/t state regulation & how that affect social justice, he is active in helping people in need.
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
In today's "Is it analog synth or is it Fairlight", the decaying sproing vibrato in the synth notes of InSoc's "Pure Energy"
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It is a drum pad, which makes it almost certainly a sample. And mmmaybe not Fairlight
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Liner notes include an Akai S900 sampler in the instrumentation, soooo —
I'm just trying to figure out if this is a FM synth'd wave or a sample of a ruler held to a tabletop & plucked
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Seems like it was a sample.
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🐾 𝐬𝐚𝐨𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐩! ⛦ ૮ ᴖﻌᴖა 🇵🇸 ΘΔ (@gockydongc*ntry.bsky.social):
i'm GAY
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Wreck the world
🐾 𝐬𝐚𝐨𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐩! ⛦ ૮ ᴖﻌᴖა 🇵🇸 ΘΔ (@gockydongc*ntry.bsky.social):
workin on it tbh!!!
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Remember when I mentioned that they'd start persecuting Catholics who don't bend the knee to the agenda and the Führer
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Y'all, it's Ross Bryant. Go follow him.
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Spooky Sara (@pashion.bsky.social):
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The most nightmarish point of a most nightmarish scene
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I have lived a half century on this Earth. My earliest memories of technology were of B&W TVs, radio receivers the size of cedar chests, mechanical typewriters & computers that filled a room & required their own A/C units.
The device I hold now could run an entire multinational corporation in 1975.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
In 1st grade I was expected to know cursive longhand. Again, in 3rd grade, in 1983.
I remember the first time I used the Internet, thru a FIDOnet relay, to send an electronic mail from a dial-up BBS to someone. It used bang paths.
My freshman month in Uni was September 1993.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
One of my CS professors firmly believed that the future of computing science was in humans writing algorithms as daemons in machine code, for the 8086 platform
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The Essence of Woerm Sin (@mxwoermsin.gothgeek.org):
A fellow '93er; I thought you were younger for some reason.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It's the agelessness of the Aes Sedai oath
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Decades ago, on Slashdot or Livejournal, can't recall which board exactly, I opined that "There's nothing stopping the government of the USA from becoming fascist, or big-C Communist, or w/ever, if that's the will of the voters."
Off-hand, dismissively. In the sense of 'it can't happen'
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I was young and foolish then, I feel old and foolish now
🏳️⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison (@anitmata.bsky.social):
A+ reference
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olive consumer (@machete.gay):
If you want a frustratingly nuanced take, which I assume is why at least some of you who aren't morons follow me, something can be both unintentional and a genuine statement of belief.
Musk does pretty obviously have both extremely bad opinions and impulse control problems.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
He has more money than any other individual on the planet and most orgs besides. His faction has won control of the USA. He controls an enormous comms platform that has captured as many 419's as possible. Whether it is self-sabotage remains to be seen.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
In a kind, reasonable, functional world, so much he's done would be The End of It
This isn't that world, and he's got its number
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/r/dallas is a discussion forum with 4 mods, down from 7 mods 5 years ago, and an unacceptable long running policy and practice that can be expressed as "Moderating here comes after job, commute, cooking, family, sleep, holidays, exercise, naps, and blowing our noses".
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