Bard spotting on Bluesky 27 February 2025

🏳️⚧️ Amy had a little pond 🔞 Protect Trans Users (@amypond.gay):

Wow. I got copyright blocked for SINGING CELINE DION on YouTube.

Jesus Christ.

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

what an enormous flex. When people ask you why you don't voice train just tell them the algo is 100% confident you can belt the dulcet tones of Celine Dion

🏳️⚧️ Amy had a little pond 🔞 Protect Trans Users (@amypond.gay):

Streuth

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

Coping with this shitshow the way it was always intended: by blasting Type O Negative's Bloody Kisses at full volume until the neighbours call the cops to report my (little) death

diet harakiri (@yojimborice.bsky.social):

Be kind to yourself ❤️

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

DEI = 🗽

That's it. That's all.

Values so American we and all the world have an emoji for them, now and forever -

"A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles."

Adam Conover (@adamconover.net):

The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.

heartpunk (@heartpunk.bsky.social):

unclench ur jaw u fricking ladygarden do it do it do it ok good now keep it that way

(talking to myself here)

heartpunk (@heartpunk.bsky.social):

(but if it helps u remember cool!)

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

(Me, to myself, every fifteen minutes)

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

Just to be clear, LGBTQ NSA employees are being targeted by Christian theocratic terrorists operating on former-Twitter through "leaked" chats they made on work machines, almost certainly yoinked by Elon Musk & a gaggle of young men who all seem to have ties to Kiwifarms & such

(@dogsbody1524.bsky.social):

Is there any way to prove the legitimacy/illegitimacy of the chats? So far it looks like just screenshots of chats on twitter

Lady Aranea (@ladyaranea.bsky.social):

Does it matter? Queer folks are entitled to discuss the concerns of the queer community, including seeking medical advice and support among their peers. Everyone is entitled to seek relevant advice from peers who are in the same cohort as they are.

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

There's no way to substantiate that the alleged chats are even real.

Things that aren't work related shouldn't be on work systems, but also, had those actually happened, they have a right to be disciplined for them commensurate with the discipline of any other employee, not summarily fired

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

And in a timely manner, too. Their supervisors should have been keeping their use of work equipment focused on work.

It's a witch hunt. It's openly motivated by animus.

Lady Aranea (@ladyaranea.bsky.social):

Look, just because they've said and written in multiple contexts and formats that they want to eradicate the queer community, that doesn't mean that they're actually going to do it, all actions designed to that end to the contrary, amirite? 🤔🙄😭

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

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

The very best advice I can give to people who intend to resist Donald Trump —

Stay Focused.

Have defined goals, and be fearless in asking "Is this proposal foreseeably going to contribute to the goal(s) —?"

If yes, do it. If no, don't do it.

Also make sure to know everyone helping out.

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

If you don't know the person, you don't know if they're a MAGA aligned monkeywrencher.

Most people are good, conscientious folks.

Bad people take opportunities like this to insert themselves and break movements and sabotage.

Meet people's parents if you have to. And their parents' neighbours.

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

Be absolutely clear in any public messaging, and be absolutely clear about who has the authority to speak for the group.

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

There are papers published about how shame and guilt were major drivers of Germany's adoption of Nazi rhetoric. The Nazis handed German men (primarily the "rescued" of this dynamic) a Get Out Of Shame Free Card.

We need one (social forgiveness) for MAGAs & their traditional elite enablers.

Katelyn Bowden 🅅 (@medus4.com):

I get that it feels good right now, but long run- we need MORE people who are willing to see the problem, and we need to remove the barriers like shame and ego from it.

We can worry about making them feel guilty later, once we are out of this mess.

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

If we don't offer an emotional out for American cis white MAGA men, Trump will continue to tell them it's at the end of his grift, "right around the corner, keep pushing the minorities into the pits"

Emily AF 🏳️🌈✨ (@rockstarelise.com):

I will always welcome a genuinely changed mind back

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

That's a lot of volts over amps right there

Governor Tim Walz (@governorwalz.mn.gov):

Great meeting with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers!

When our unions are strong, Minnesota is strong.

☠️ Ichabod Cranium ☠️ (@snowintheair.bsky.social):

Watt?!?

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

• provided the federal government of the United States survives

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) (@merovingians.bsky.social):

elon musk is going to cost american taxpayers billions of dollars in one of the largest class action settlements in human history

Milly (@millycenti.bsky.social):

Looking in from the other side of the world my reckon is that the USA will potentially cease to exist within my lifetime

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

That's worse

Daniel Redwood (@holdthevision.bsky.social):

Hoping for the best but clearly there are reasons the best-case scenario may not be how things work out.

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

Arthritis pain hovering at a 3 spiking to a 7

Enjoy youth; don't spend it getting smacked on the hand by bamboo and rattan and wood and carbon fiber and …

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

2 spiking to a 6 this morning

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

Once again:

Nowhere in the USA is it illegal to be a Nazi

(@keenbean.bsky.social):

It's illegal in my house and in my family. Frick Nazis! Frick Yarvin! Frick Musk! Frick Trump! And their lap dog Vance too!

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

Donald Trump's / MAGA's politics are exactly what they were shown to be on /r/the_donald: White Identity Extremism, homophobia, theocratic autocracy, misogyny, male feminists, transphobes, and corporate

In short, violent fascists

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

plug in device, wait for USB enumeration

ten minutes of troubleshooting

only then notice cable has label that says "FOR CHARGING ONLY, WILL NOT TRANSFER DATA"

swap cable

done 15 seconds later

(@hazyrecollection.bsky.social):

I like those charging only cables for work, but they break my heart at home, every single time.

/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".