Bard spotting on Bluesky 04 February 2025

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

I did not anticipate the Elon/Trump junta attempting to destroy the CIA within two weeks of inauguration and I have a very bleak imagination - whoever did, take a bow?

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

I bet George Bush wishes now he had endorsed a candidate

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

I did not anticipate the Elon/Trump junta attempting to destroy the CIA within two weeks of inauguration and I have a very bleak imagination - whoever did, take a bow?

Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social):

As someone else said, good luck disbanding an organization literally full of trained assassins.

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

Also the people who actually have all the zero-days

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

I embrace my

desire to

feel the rhythm to

feel connected

enough to step aside &

weep like a widow to

feel inspired to

fathom the power to

witness the beauty to

bathe in the fountain to

swing on the spiral to

swing on the spiral to

Swing on the spiral of

our divinity &

still be a human

Lateralusian (@lateralusian.bsky.social):

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a computer generated image of a man with a glowing heart and a purple background .

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

I just had dinner, I do not need to eat a half pound of cooked bacon

Amazon Syren (@amazonsyren.bsky.social):

But you could tho

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

Dear World,

Do not ignore the wisdom of the cDc

They know what they're speaking about

Deth Veggie (@dethveggie.bsky.social):

CULT OF THE DEAD COW can confirm.

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

It's called Rendition, as in "Trump is Rending and Tearing Up the Constitution and Bill of Rights"

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com):

Trump on American citizens: "If we could these animals out of our country and put them in a different country under the supervision of somebody that made a relatively small fee to maintain these people ... we don't want these people in our country."

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

Folks, I am possibly the single most pedantic technicality waiddaminit person you will ever meet

Yet

There come a time when one must say, "It is a perversion and abomination to argue against [a position]"

Trump sold Musk our government.

Melanie D'Arrigo (@darrigomelanie.bsky.social):

If you broke into a computer system and stole someone's personal data you'd be charged with felonies and sent to prison.

When Elon Musk hijacks federal computer systems containing the personal data of millions of Americans... nothing.

Because Donald Trump sold him our government.

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

I went from "spooky kooky esoteric gonzo anti-hatred fringe researcher" to "positively behind the times and a dollar short", and am proud of how quickly everyone else has shifted gears, and saddened that the prophesied evil has arrived

Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net):

I can't believe I'm just now finding out that the ASCII code for the letter "X" is 88. Before I would've thought it was a coincidence but now....

Vivek Ravishanker (@vivekr.bsky.social):

I'll just go ahead and nip this one in the bud because there's plenty to actually worry about. ASCII maps 128 (2^7) characters to binary in groups. They started the letters at position 2^6 (midpoint of 128). So A is 65 (64+1). X is just 64+24 which happens, not for Nazism reasons, to be 88.

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

She's not saying that IANA is racist; she's saying Musk picked "X" because it's a plausibly deniable dogwhistle to Decimal 88 on the ASCII table

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

Also, they are deeply, deeply bigoted. As are their allies.

Bird + Camera (@doctorbluebird.bsky.social):

Please read this and pass it on: Aaron is a Harvard educated lawyer, community organizer and bookstore owner in Buffalo.

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

Search-and-replace "crypto" and "AI" in that with "Patriarchy" and "Christianity" and you have the Heritage Foundation's motive

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

I was … 10? 11? 12? at a Boy Scout function, being needled about why I had refused to eat the provided food, and — I cannot recall if I said it out loud, or only thought it — "to watch my girlish figure",

I do clearly remember having an existential crisis about that thought

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

🫂

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

head to toe,

Soap Layer

mel~ 𐂂 (@mel.bzky.team):

TRANS WOMEN OF BLUESKY:

What was your egg cracking moment?

When did you know you were trans? What made you realize?

And did you know you were a woman right away, or did you pass through other identities first

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

… hard to say. When I was 15 or 16, I had a lucid dream where I forced myself to see myself in a "mirror", and it showed me that "I" was a cracked-open Civil War era artillery shell - the round kind. I remember being a girl in my dreams age 5-6. But it took until 41 to fully shatter.

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