Bard spotting on Bluesky 20 February 2025

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

Just had to explain to some "Conservative" dork on Reddit that I'd be happy to help him out in the way he just demanded but, one response directly above, he had just refused that help after refusing it the comment before that, too

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

"Hi I have half a decade of experience here and this thing you're demanding people pay attention to is a big nothing burger, here's 40 reasons why"

"Ggrrrr no it's totally a thing also I'm as much an expert as you because I held a grudge once against neoNazis making my side look bad"

Ok my dude

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

"Let me help you"

"I don't trust you! Well? Do something!!"

sigh

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

If the Triscuits are three years past their Best By Date …

How could you even tell

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

This is where the castle's army was quartered. The garrison fell into disuse as all known lands fell under the rule of the Flatheads; the army had little to do except quell an occasional tax revolt. In fact, the only evidence of the garrison is a rusty locker. A road leads northeast.

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

i

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

Back when Vine was a thing, one of the lesser-noted vines was a kid shouting "I'M AN LGBT ALLY AND THIS IS A SAFE SPACE" whilst swinging nunchaku and doing roundhouse kicks, awkwardly

I think of that Vine every.frickin.time

em (@emilyonhere.gay):

as a trans person, at this point in the game, i find it incredibly offensive for a cis person to tell me i'm "valid". shut the frick up and take action.

em (@emilyonhere.gay):

lmfao

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

I was Today Years Old when I realised that Terry Pratchett did a clever with the title of the King of Arms of Ankh-Morpork

PJ Harvey Dent (@bsakat.bsky.social):

Oh, god, what is it? I know I've read the arms but I can't remember what they are.

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

In Feet of Clay, the Chief Herald of Ankh-Morpork is titled Dragon King of Arms

Or, * Dracul *

PJ Harvey Dent (@bsakat.bsky.social):

O H! You're right! In my defense, it's been for/ever/ since I read Feet of Clay despite it being probably my favorite Guards book.

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

I was turning it over and over in my mind, like, "why doesn't his character have a name, only a heraldic office title, hmmm, why d— 🔆"

PJ Harvey Dent (@bsakat.bsky.social):

It's just layers and layers with Pratchett. He was one of the best to ever do it.

Micah (@rincewind.run):

at some point he is going to personally smash something important to every single person in this country and it depends whether or not they can bring themselves to accept that he's done it

there is nothing here but an endless, rapacious desire to destroy

The San Francisco Standard (@sfstandard.com):

Donald Trump moves to abolish the Presidio Trust through executive order

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

s/destroy/fire sale to private equity/g

Edith Laurie Charles (@edithcharles.bsky.social):

I would trust resist libs a bit more if their incessant AI pics of the statue of liberty at least had the courage to give her a peepee

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

Not quite like the brazen giant of Greek fame

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

From the bottom of my heart, if I do not wake in the morning, I need the world to know,

Frick Donald Trump

Frick The Heritage Foundation

Frick ICE

Frick MAGA

Frick everyone who did nothing to prevent this

Frick everyone who voted for him

Frick everyone who wanted this

Frick you

Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social):

"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

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

Frick everyone who deflected, denied, defended, dismissed, and derailed

Frick everyone who let his terrorists use their platforms and did not dare to kick them off because of POLITICS

Frick everyone who shrugged their shoulders and threw up their hands

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

If I do not wake up one morning, and if there is an afterlife, I will Exorcist you frickers, i will Poltergeist you, I will Babadook you, I will Ringu you. I will haunt you.

Frick you

Frick you

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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.