Bard spotting on Bluesky 29 January 2025

Domestic Enemy Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social):

Let's hope that when Reddit gets subpoena's or warrants for subscriber information for the people writing these posts that they have more of a spine than Facebook or X or any of the tech companies, bowing down to Trump

Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social):

Incredible things continue to happen on the federal worker subreddit.

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

IDKIY have ever subpoena'd them, but they have a long history of keeping only the account creation IP & 90 days' worth of "last accessed from" IPs for the vast majority of accounts, & verification email addresses if used, & rejecting improper govt requests

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

They might gather & process & store more than just the minimum IP address records nowadays, but things like "screen dimensions" & HTTP client ID strings are notoriously bad at being unique identifiers

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

The Trump Executive Orders are sweeping attempts to illegally and unConstitutionally deny Americans and Persons On American Soil their Constitutional Rights

In the immortal words of Snake Island, Ворожий військовий корабель, іди до біса

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

And still, NOWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS IT ILLEGAL TO BE A NEONAZI

Apetivist ☭ 🇵🇸 🔻 🏳️🌈 👨🦼😷 (@apetivist.bsky.social):

If Socialists were in power we would do it day one!

Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com):

As someone who's been writing and posting about the horrific anti-rational anti-vaccination movement for a long freaking time, I avoided watching the RFK Jr. hearing today because I was quite certain it would cause my head to explode.

Carl Sagan's Demon-Haunted World has come to life.

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

Denial, Dismissal, Defending, and Derailment. Wall to Wall, in his answers

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

Even if you can recite your SSN, your State ID serial#, birthdate, address, phone, passport #, etc from memory

The police can just … "forget" or "misremember" or etc those,

And (disclaimer IANAL IANYL ATINLA)

If you start spouting anything other than "I invoke the Fifth" & "I want my attorney"—

Sylvia Pellicore (@roenok.bsky.social):

Quick question, just trying to figure this one out: if you are snagged by ICE but you did enter the country legally, perhaps even by being born in it, how exactly do you prove that without any rights to due process?

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

If (IF) you make it out of the Does A Person Have Rights Under A Trump Administration K-Hole, some atty somewhere is going to argue to a court that your volunteering of XYZ mote of info was you waiving [arbitrary rights], and might get a judge to agree

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

THEY ARE LITERALLY LAYING THE FOUNDATION TO LEGALISTICALLY UN-PERSON ARBITRARY TARGETS

mark (@keptsimple.bsky.social):

i think jesse singal really is disappointed in the trump trans orders, since he probably thought harris would win and he'd have at least another 4 years to write the same article over and over telling lawmakers they need to make trans people miserable

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

kkkkkkkkkkkkkk

randy (@thephatic.bsky.social):

I keep watching this and trying to let it sink in that he did this and that the audience instantly clapped; this is a whole new, terrifying world.

Right Wing Watch (@rightwingwatch.bsky.social):

Father Calvin Robinson finished his remarks at the National Pro-Life Summit by throwing an Elon Musk salute, much to the delight of the crowd.

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

There is an entire culture of Catholic minister, lay, priests, etc who believe that secular fascism and authoritarianism is Good, Actually™️, because those most often bridge from dogma to secular enforcement of dogma on everyone

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

It's shocking but ultimately for me unsurprising.

The Heritage Foundation especially is an alliance between highly powerful & influential Baptists & Catholics.

randy (@thephatic.bsky.social):

I think for me it's the audience's reception, it's one thing for these ghouls to believe this stuff and write about it but to perform it in front of an audience and have it received like that? Seems like a very different world than just cloistered fascists getting each other off.

Emmy Cumslutress (@emma.meangirls.online):

i love the fact that i block and report 99% of the creepy DMs i receive but the one time i respond and decide to name and shame because im in a bad mood about all the shit going on, i see shit about how i'm taking "screenshots for engagement"

i'm literally just a who posts a lot idk

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

We are allowed to melt the faces of the people who would prey upon us, and anyone who says differently can let the lightning nest in their bones

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

BAD

FAITH

CLAIMS

OF

DISCRIMINATION

Mike Hixenbaugh (@mikehixenbaugh.com):

I spent four years investigating these sorts of claims.

Children aren't being taught they're inherently victims or oppressors. Teachers aren't leading kids to change genders.

Instead these claims are used as a pretext to sanitize history curricula and impose conservative Christian ideas in schools

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

If you're wondering why the Trump Executive Orders read / sound like something that would spring from a Stormfront message board, it's because Trump's politics are White Identity Extremism;

One of the single most posted and reposted topics in /r/the_donald was "Anti White Racism".

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

Another, of course, was anti-LGBTQ hatred and violent extremism.

The_Donald was a clone of / synthesis of every other neoNazi message board there ever was.

And it served as a focus group and political R&D for Trump.

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

Reddit Inc's response to such bullshit as "trans women are taking right from [cis women]" and "[DEI | Multiculturalism | Equal Rights] Are A Code Word For Anti-White" was to include a note in the Sitewide Rule Against Hate, excluding

"Bad Faith Claims of Discrimination".

We should use that.

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

This Executive Order is Trump telling white people (white kids, especially) that they are allowed to call African-Americans racist slurs and that their school can do nothing to stop them

P. Andrew Torrez (@andrewtorrez.bsky.social):

3/ The definitions section regurgitates right-wing lies about gender and racism, including incorporating by reference the scientifically inaccurate and much-lampooned definitions from the anti-trans EO that effectively defines everyone as female.

Eileen (@eileenfiona.bsky.social):

I guess we all need to brush up on our Nazi punching skills

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

If the POTUS can mandate that you cannot use a word —

That's called Prior Restraint

Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com):

1. Getting word that we have another anti-trans EO tonight, this time targeting teachers.

It directs the federal government to work with state AGs to put teachers who use trans kids pronouns in jail through "sexual exploitation" laws or "practicing medicine without a license."

From a RW source:

Kernighan (@kernighan.bsky.social):

Isn't that literally what the free speech part of the First amendment is supposed to protect us against? The government defining what words you can and can't use?

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

"The best swordsman in the world doesn't need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn't do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn't prepared for him …" — Twain

Jonathan Bernstein (@jonathanbernstein.bsky.social):

And remember: Just because they're incompetent doesn't mean they aren't dangerous, and in some ways incompetence can be more dangerous than ruthless efficiency.

Kernighan (@kernighan.bsky.social):

Reminds me of the miniseries Godless, where one character is built up throughout as an amazing gunman and we get to the final big fight of the series and you're just waiting for him to lay some outlaws low, and he's killed by a throwing knife as he walks out the door to confront the bad guys.

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

In plain English: CALL YOUR REPS NO MATTER WHAT (R|D|I) THEY HAVE AFTER THEIR NAME, AND TELL THEM "NO ON RFK JR"

Matthew Cortland (they) (@matthewcort.land):

If this is why you aren't calling your Senators about the nomination of RFK Jr., please understand that Leonard fricking Leo is opposing this nomination.

Their coalition is fracturable.

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

This is the point at which I just say, "Hey, cishetero people, I hope you have a plan, because it looks increasingly like the Trump admin is going to unperson LGBTQ folks ASAP"

Groene democraat: Jeroen Verzijl (@groenedemocraat.bsky.social):

Unperson?

That sounds horrific

I can't keep up with the crazy news from the us.

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

What everyone else in the world is learning right now is that the absolute maximum reasonable forecast for the full faith and credit, goodwill, and stability of the USA is "until the next federal elections, i.e. 2 years", which is going to make investment plummet

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

Foreign investment is attracted to do business in the US because the laws and regulation and government are Known Quantities, well characterised values.

Well, they were

Cersei Transnister 🏳️⚧️🏴☠️🦋 (@khatunjessicabeki.org):

companies also don't want to pay a 15-20% trump tax into trump's pockets

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

The Dune 2000 miniseries could have been salvaged if

🔘 Better Costuming

🔘 Lit for cinema, instead of for Brightly Lit Couch

🔘 Better screenplay

🔘 Editor

🔘 Choreographers

"… hnhThe Guild … Does not Follow … Your Orders …" keeps returning to my mind

!bardfinn it's her birthday(I'm pretty sure). Wish her a happy birthday

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

It's so very darkly hilarious to me that the administration is operationalising a fricking Redditor-butt forum screed about transgender people, like they skimmed and misunderstood the abstract of one paper published on PLOSOne & a withdrawn junk paper that polled a board of 50% astroturf sockpuppets

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

The Heritage Foundation literally 4chan-shitposted their way to global policy relevance with an army of sockpuppets

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

Never suffering from impostor syndrome again

"Why is Penny awake at 0230"

This time it wasn't because "worry"

I had a dream that was cathartic and healing, dealing with the past and trauma. So much ritual and meditation finally came together.

imagine having a thought that you didn't post on the internet. What would that be like?

Aranock, 4 of Ravens (@aranock.bsky.social):

Every day I get more and more of the belief that Magneto was right.

Aranock, 4 of Ravens (@aranock.bsky.social):

This is not a post about media...

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

How bad is it that I recognised the YouTube URL

FaeAlicia System (@faealicia.bsky.social):

Good sign for you, bad sign for the world itself.

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

"Why is Penny awake at 0230"

This time it wasn't because "worry"

I had a dream that was cathartic and healing, dealing with the past and trauma. So much ritual and meditation finally came together.

p o t z {er} - 🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@potzer.xyz):

🫂❤️

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

Today was possibly the best possible day for the inevitable EO to drop. I was too busy being a modern executive today to be an analyst, commenter, writer. Things got done today by me, which is infinity times more than what Trump has accomplished in the past week

Michael Dimitri Richard (@snobwho.bsky.social):

Why did you list me as a Right Winged Republican ?

Can you please remove me from the list ? I vote for Democrats , I volunteer for candidates and I am extremely Mexican.

I used my actual name, my actual photo and even uploaded Youtube videos. WHAT OTHER PROOF DO YOU NEED ?

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

Sir, I do not have either of your user accounts on any of my blocklists.

I do have a blocklist that is specifically for people who use alt accounts to circumvent blocks, however — which is something you've specifically, evidentially done, here, and which is sociopathic, and a felony.

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

So, you can just delete this, block me on this account, and we'll be done, here.

Or I can hand this to BlueSky Trust & Safety as evidence of harassment and stalking, and your accounts will be actioned by them.

Ball's in your court.

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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.