Bard spotting on Bluesky 13 February 2025

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

I run a subreddit for my hometown.

We had a post that was a 4th & 5th Amendments Rights Card ala the ACLU / UFCW Rights card.

Post got swarmed by fascists demanding that immigrants have no rights

Banhammer workout that day

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

Help people learn about their rights. It makes fascist scum angry.

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

I think I'm going to repost that post across a bunch of subreddits

You Are Carrying (@youarecarrying.bsky.social):

You are in a room whose dimensions seem to measure a perfect cube. On the floor of this room is a series of symbols, inscribed in the stone.

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

i

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

Just … do anything else.

Persist.

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

Something that surprises people every single time I mention it: "Antifa" as a word in the English language had been used by next-to-no-one until Trumpist Twitter / 4chan / Reddit accounts started crying Boogeyman about Antifa in the wake of his first election.

Spencer Sunshine (@transform6789.bsky.social):

Antifa Panic panic 7 about to drop. below are some of my articles on the past ones - but this one will be much, much worse.

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

Unless you are an historian of Weimar/post-Weimar Germany or a German-adjacent leftist or a radical leftist, you never heard or read "Antifa" until Trump needed a domestic terrorism boogeyman and tried to manufacture one to distract from White Identity Extremism

Kernighan (@kernighan.bsky.social):

Agree in general, although I grew up on books like The Monkey Wrench Gang, "Steal this book", etc, in a rather .. not typical American childhood.

Ed Zitron (@edzitron.com):

drives me completely insane that the new york times and most major media entities can't link to court filings they're discussing. Is there a reason?

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

It might be an active choice; there's been studies done showing a lot of people don't look at the primary cited sources, that some of them trust a piece less when it cites sources (irony, irony) …

Ruth keady (@ruviewer.bsky.social):

Hmmmm… I'm not sure we should be tailoring our news stories to suit people who are nervous about facts

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

The psych theory behind explaining it is that people want to trust the word of the reporter instead of trusting a scientist / researcher / journal they didn't previously know. That the reporter's narrative should stand on its own.

Which … is a naive attitude, but exists nevertheless

Ruth keady (@ruviewer.bsky.social):

My MAGA sister-in-law told me a couple of years ago "I don't trust fact checkers."

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

I had a Fox News watching great aunt who simultaneously distrusted factcheckers and admonished me to "do your own research". She resisted seat belt laws until the 2000's, too.

But some very "un-political" people will delegate to reporters. They want someone to think for them.

Bardfinn has never seen Henry Rollins in person.

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):

The only people who target anti fascists with violence are fascists.

Ali Winston (@awinston.bsky.social):

Some big changes are coming to American counterterrorism policy. I ran the rule over the current state of play for @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/news/story/f...

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

The messaging is of course extremely clear,

"We are White Supremacist Fascists, & opposing us is terrorism"

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social):

Yes.

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

That's Good

Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social):

BREAKING: A fourth judge blocks Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship.

"This ruling ... is based on straightforward application of settled Supreme Court precedent reiterated and reaffirmed in various ways for more than a century by all three branches of the federal government."

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

That could be good. Maybe the agricultural veterinarians will inherit the Earth

The Los Angeles Times (@latimes.com):

A CDC study has found H5N1 bird flu antibodies in veterinarians who had no symptoms and no knowledge they had been working with infected livestock.

Matt Hope (@matthopeart.bsky.social):

Every day I'm trying to calibrate how freaked out I should be

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

Thank God I'm Pretty

I'm BleEeEEeEEessEd

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Thank God I'm Pretty

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

Sarcasm can be cathartic

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

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The Star-Spangled Banner - Emilie Autumn (with lyrics)

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

throws up my hands

Paris Marx (@parismarx.com):

Apple is the latest advertiser to return to Twitter/X as companies feel buying some ads on the platform is necessary to can keep Elon Musk (and by extension Donald Trump) happy.

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

Scratching my arm until I get petichiae as a symptom of Cassandran curse conjunct to fascist state

Brooke (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

There's another word for "masculine maximalism" in politics, if only I could think of it what might it be

Judd Legum (@juddlegum.bsky.social):

🚨🚨 This is not journ*lism. It is embarrassing.

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

if only the media could use the words

vortex egg, MLIS (@vortexegg.com):

Gender-affirming propaganda

Jim VandeHei (@vandehei.bsky.social):

www.axios.com/2025/02/13/t... 🚨🚨 President Trump and Elon Musk, arguably the two most unorthodox and influential American leaders of the 21st century, are practicing and fine-tuning a fused theory of governing power -> Masculine maximalism.

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

Mussolinism immanentised

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

In case you didn't know, both Nazism & Italian Fascism were explicitly branded as pursuing maximal masculinism of the state

Stacks of literature about them

Jim VandeHei (@vandehei.bsky.social):

www.axios.com/2025/02/13/t... 🚨🚨 President Trump and Elon Musk, arguably the two most unorthodox and influential American leaders of the 21st century, are practicing and fine-tuning a fused theory of governing power -> Masculine maximalism.

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

There's lots of accessible literature about how Nazism itself spawned from a Return-to-Glory-Days Völkisch movement (what we'd call today Tradition / Crunchy) but less about the insecure toxic masculinity part, & with Trumpism on Reddit "crunchy" (ecofascism, RETVRN) was an afterthought

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

They overtly branded as "MAGA" but recruited heavily from the toxic, insecure masculinity ecosystem that had long been established on Reddit

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

My hair normally: flat, frizz, flyaways

My hair, i wash it and then sleep in it without binding it back: Volume! Drama! Curls! Wow!

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

Also, girl is sad to report: tangles knots & snarls

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

I'm a 10 on the Intimidating Factor over the Internet and In Person. I'm an ice queen, a cold hearted vvitch, 6'3" and have resting vvitch face. Also eye avoidance and in many/most industry height chairs, have a reflexive leg bounce. My attention snaps to threats.

🍒🍓🌸 yve 🌸🍓🍒 (@letsgoyvie.bsky.social):

quote this with how intimidating YOU think you are on a scale of 1 - 10 and let other ppl reply to it with how intimidating THEY think you are >:)

Scrappy (@scrappyaf.bsky.social):

If clear, decisive, knowledgeable, bullshit-free, approachable also means 10, then 10.

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

Thankee

Gestalt Ersatzsquatch (@emdashel.bsky.social):

Anyone else struggling to see the point in doing anything at all?

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

I washed my hair, which helped with that

Gestalt Ersatzsquatch (@emdashel.bsky.social):

Nice.

My hair wash routine doesn't impact my mood that much, don't have enough of it to luxuriate.

I just feel like I've spent my whole life trying to be the best version of myself and it seems like I'm the only one who has.

I am certain you do not wish to argue that several years ago you assaulted me at Tanglewood Forest. Several of your fellow company members have chased me and thwapped me with Amtgard -legal boffer weapons on Company Road while I was making announcements on behalf of Kingdom Officers.