Bard spotting on Bluesky 18 February 2025

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

Susan, I'm going to double your $100,000.00 US investment in just 21 short years, but it's vital you invest now, today.

Joe Sudbay (@joesudbay.bsky.social):

"He told me he believed in the efficacy of the polio vaccine, and said he would help restore Americans' confidence in vaccines and our health agencies," Senator Susan Collins said.

www.pressherald.com/2025/02/11/s...

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

ISTFG someone could tell her they're breaking the speed of light in a vacuum and she'd be all "Yes! Such confidence!"

daryl "criss angel's thesis" b 🏳️⚧️ (@hypercubexl.bsky.social):

a wallet inspector would make such a killing in congress, both parties

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

The next thing Trump is going to do, now, is go back to the FTC and demand they interfere with social media (user content hosting internet service providers) that ban hate speech.

He tried to have the FTC do it during his first term, and the FTC said "Nope. Not our scope of powers"

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

Specifically, he's going to demand the FTC take over Reddit

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

So that's the Gödel loophole to the Constitution. Trump can just write an EO proclaiming that only he and the AG can authoritatively say what the law is, and the loophole is, no one can stop him. Except his Cabinet. Or Congress. Who are both letting him do this shit.

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

SCOTUS can't say "Uh, no", because someone with standing would have to sue or something, and that would be … SCOTUS. Or Congress.

Maybe the Dems in Congress could just do their fricking jobs and file a suit? A motion?

Maybe?

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

If we come out the other side of this with a USA, it's going to be one that severely strips the scope of the office of the President for sure.

Jon Hyman (@thejonhyman.bsky.social):

That "if" looks bigger and more uncertain by the day.

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com):

how many fricking times do these brainless dipshits have to do this before they stop slamming the country's collective peepee in a car door

Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social):

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them

In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."

www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com):

I DESERVE A BETTER GODDARNED CLASS OF ENEMY THAN THESE BUTTHOLES

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

The Mark Twain quote about the best swordsman not needing to fear the second best swordsman but he rank amateur swordsman has 11 too many characters to put into a BlueSky post

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

If you corner most bigots with logic & reason & science, they'll fully non-sequitur ("you're insane / talking nonsense", the projected form of "where am I, who are you, i have no memory of this") or clam right up. They will refuse to cede the point, because for them, argument is a formality.

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social):

Another extraordinary exchange just now about "animus" in the court hearing on trasngender members of the military:

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

For them, argument is an opportunity to discover a way for one or more dirty tricks to be deployed. To Gotcha. To "win" by technicality.

This is why you don't argue with them. If you win the argument, they ignore it.

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

If you screw up and give them a Gotcha, they will use it forever.

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

We stan a legend

Michael Paulauski♨️ (@mike10010100.bsky.social):

This is fricking incredible.

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

Reyes isn't having it. Of ❀❀ Course ❀❀ it's Animus

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

Good. They need a brutal beat down to keep winning on appeal

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

I'd tell Mark Cuban exactly where his thought process derailed wrt AI, LLMs, and knowledge

However

He follows JS, and so —

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

It's almost like transphobia is the antithesis of knowledge and wisdom

p o t z {er} - 🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@potzer.xyz):

i was just woken up by a coughing fit so bad i couldnt catch my breath. i thought i was going to die

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

🫂

Bardfinn

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

The rational part of my mind knows that Musk is simply inciting stochastic terroristic violence & manufacturing consent, but

The part of me that swung sticks twice a week for ten years is deeply insulted that this twerp knows nothing about how to hold or swing an axe, at all

Shayan Sardarizadeh (@shayan86.bsky.social):

This is not an image of a migrant mob storming a Birmingham hospital with axes and blades, as this tweet shared by Elon Musk claims. West Midlands police has confirmed the image is fake.

The inconsistencies and physical anomalies in the image indicate it's likely AI-generated.

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

They may as well be umbrellas

Or helium filled balloons

No one holds a stick* those ways

No one

(* any stick-like swung weapon. Bat / club / shillelagh / sword / axe)

Hadespuppy (@hadespuppy.bsky.social):

You don't even have had to use it as a weapon. Anyone who has chopped wood even once in their life knows better.

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

Got an 18-year-old Reddit account permanently suspended tonight.

The MAGAs really believe they've reached the promised land, where it's all the hate speech they care to vomit and no one can stop them

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.