Bard spotting on Bluesky 30 January 2025

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

The "prioritise service to areas with higher birth rates" part of the EOs, is some sheer Handmaid's Tale bullshit

They really are gunning for a Republic of Gilead

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

Don't need a federal civil administration if your ideal government is a military junta

DanSingh (@dansingh.bsky.social):

"We will coup whoever we want."

ellie lockhart (she/they) (@eleanor.lockhart.contact):

anyone noticing a bunch of really low effort, extremely pathetic right wing trolls on this site lately

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

Sssort of? I slap them onto blocklists

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

if anyone wants to explain what i missed while i was asleep i would appreciate it. i gather it's extremely bad but i can't bring myself to look for it

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

It was some bullshit that no one should have to acknowledge

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

Dear Future Me:

No, you do not need to re-watch The Exorcist III.

Matt Akins (@walkipedia.bsky.social):

Have you considered something from Criterion? Maybe a nice recommendation from Denis .

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Denis Villeneuve's Closet Picks

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

Nous tous aux stroumpfe

Victor Turner Overdrive (@badfriendclub.bsky.social):

I mentioned the plane crash to the racist mechanic at work, and he said that he hadn't heard of it, and then said that he saw a reel where a Marine said it was fake and that blackhawks basically fly themselves and that it's impossible to crash one

vortex egg, MLIS (@vortexegg.com):

"I haven't heard of that but it's fake and here's a fabricated reality to explain why it could never happen"

Victor Turner Overdrive (@badfriendclub.bsky.social):

This, to me, says a lot about society

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

That it is maddening, and that we all deserve cabins on mountainsides spinning and plying wool, far away from Jonesian nonsense

Brooke (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

In 2014 I was invited on an "immigration study tour" by the German government and ended up yelling at nearly everyone I met there about the obvious racism they were pretending didn't exist and naturally never got invited back. I was right though

Musa Okwonga (@okwonga.bsky.social):

Almost every pundit in Germany said that Germany's conservatives would never work with the far-right AfD. And yet here we are. I remember when many of us warned about Farage getting a standing ovation in Berlin as the AfD's honoured guest. And yet here we are. I just wish more people had listened.

Brooke (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

Like all of them trotted out all these examples of how racist they weren't until I brought up Romani people and then, bam! There it was.

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

Every european subreddit, 2015-2020

"Americans, so racist!"

two posts down

"[Anti-Roma Slurs] are just thieves! It's reasonable to hate them!"

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

This morning I am reminded of that quintessentially American novel, "The Scarlet Letter", which (in addition to being "a romance"),

is about the deep dysfunction of

a puritanical legalistic society that scapegoats powerless minorities, casts out children, & blames all its ills on Scarlet Letters

Katy Montgomerie 🦗 (@katymontgomerie.com):

Went on my Pokémon Cards twitter to see what's going on (community hasn't moved yet). Nazi in my mentions, of course. Clicked their timeline to see how bad it is there. Top post straight up calling South Asians cockroaches. Scrolled up and... written by GC activist and owner of Reduxx, Anna Slatz

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

So - to be clear - Slatz with the dehumanising slur targeting South Asians, am I reading that 100% correct.

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

All I have to do is get out of bed. Dish out leftovers. And eat. It's literally the only necessary thing I must do now. Penny, get up, get up, Penny. Get up.

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

Get

Up

Penny

borderless (@borderless.bsky.social):

You got this! 💪

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

trans women are biological women

pass it on

Foxy ✨Gaming Witch✨🦊🏳️⚧️🍉 (@foxynature23.bsky.social):

trans women are biological women

pass it on

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

I SHOULD BE IRRELEVANT AND A CRACKPOT, NOT RIGHT

Brooke (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

Goddammit this was supposed to be a fun time shitposting account on a fun time shitposting site and now everyone's an expert in politics and fascist power grabs again. This sucks

Craig Johnson (@cajohnson-craig.bsky.social):

daily i beg for my research to be some weird irrelevant thing i'm fixated on

Merriam-Webster (@merriam-webster.com):

'Phonetic' is not.

'Abbreviation' is 12 letters.

'Thesaurus' doesn't have a synonym.

Say what you will about English, but it has a sense of humor.

𝘑𝘦𝘴𝘴 • 𝘽𝙏𝙎 𝙔𝙀𝘼𝙍 (@jessolpunkass.bsky.social):

Thesaurus's synonym is alternativewordbook 🤨

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

English … is a Germanic language, after all, so …

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

Since the topic of Warrant Canaries are popping back up, it's interesting to know that Reddit used to (used to) have one in their annual Transparency Report — but it was absent from that report right after their irregular* shutdown of a number of subreddits … which all had one thing in common …

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

Reddit's Official Explanation for shutting down /r/coontown and "a handful of other communities" is that they violated the "spirit of the policy".

They all had one element in common — they were all being operated in part by Joshua Ryne Goldberg, who was being investigated by the FBI at that time.

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

Goldberg, using violent extremist rhetoric, operated these subreddits and others to incite terrorist violence.

He was being pursued at that time by the FBI for directing an ISIS terrorist incident, the "Draw Mohammed" shooting in Garland, TX.

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

The Reddit Warrant Canary was almost certainly removed because the FBI subpoenaed Reddit for all of Goldberg's activities on the platform, making it the first national security letter / warrants they would receive which they were gagged from disclosing. That is the reasonable explanation.

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

That's the interesting backstory about the disappearance of Reddit's Warrant Canary.

The infuriating thing about it is that the same stipulated policy - "making things worse for everyone else" - was never officially used again, despite it being extremely applicable to i.e. /r/the_donald

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

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Katie Tightkitty, Editor-In-Chief (@katie.bzky.team):

it's gonna feel so fricking good when he dies

Lady Amalthea (@ladyamalthea.tgirl.gay):

I have Ding Dong The Witch is Dead queued up as soon as I hear the news I will blast that from every speaker I have

Rev. Jesus "H" Christ, KSC (@reverendjesus.com):

Klaus Nomi's version I hope

Lady Amalthea (@ladyamalthea.tgirl.gay):

I had no idea he had a version but I need to listen to this yesterday

Rev. Jesus "H" Christ, KSC (@reverendjesus.com):

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Klaus Nomi - Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead

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

RIP Herr Nomi

He could get it

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

The Cass Report is likely to be relied upon by SCOTUS jurists in their decisions on Skrmetti. Because it had been published, and lauded by "authorities", and there had not been time for actual critical pushback, review, and replication. They hit the magic window to launder their bullshit into law

Health Nerd (@gidmk.bsky.social):

The BMJ journal Archive of Disease in Childhood has just published the epidemiological study done by York university that was commissioned as part of the Cass review into gender clinics in the UK.

It contains some STARTLING (and yet, unsurprising) revelations. 1/n

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

THIS STUDY IS "PART OF" THE CASS REVIEW. IT WAS COMMISSIONED FOR IT, AND NOT PUBLISHED BEFORE OR WITH THE REVIEW. IT WOULD HAVE KNACKERED IT

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

Notably shitty facts about Calvin Robinson, ex-vidya-game-reporter-c*m-defrocked-priest

On Bishop Budde's appeal to the Trump admin to Have Mercy on LGBTQ people, he told Charlie Kirk that she was violating Church law by speaking;

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

He definitely has Roman Catholic "fans", being glowlingly mentioned in two separate Catholic subreddits in the past week (before today);

Octocryptid says FIRE AARON 🜬 (@octocryptid.bsky.social):

Catholic converts are so incredibly annoying. People who grew up Catholic but not arch-conservative monsters look at food and think "this should be given to the poor". While every convert is like "well the third council of nicea obviously shows that women should not speak"

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

This guy apparently has been trying to speedrun 100% that kind of "theology"

Octocryptid says FIRE AARON 🜬 (@octocryptid.bsky.social):

Everything that people identify as horrible within Catholicism is pretty much the Americanization of it into hyper individualism

/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".