Bard spotting on Bluesky 01 March 2025

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

Also, Rahm Emanuel's use of "that's why everything is locked up at CVS and Walgreens" is a GODDARNED STORMFRONT MESSAGE BOARD TROPE

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

Screenshot circulating of an interview with Rahm Emanuel that concentrates on him being a middle school s*x pest; not enough attention paid to him parroting 2020-era Republican talking points about "too much liberty"

cool lich doritos 🦝 🏴 (@comrade-raccoon.bsky.social):

Aren't they walking back on locking stuff up anyway? Like, they found out that it's bad for business because people don't buy as much stuff

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

That, and - the jobsworth analysts / solution vendors that jumped through an ecological inference fallacy to justify the policies turned out to be merely slapping together a posthoc justification for the desired tack of some exec tasked with "solving this problem" without more staff hours

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

Guess what the most effective way to solve the problem of shoplifting and theft is

It isn't "there's only one or two employees in the store at a given moment, who clopened" understaffing

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

Theft rings walk into a store and look in the stockroom first thing to look for OSHA violations / chaos. The more they count, the more attractive the store is.

If everything is faced, stocked, sparkling, and safe, they roll on. And that state of affairs only happens when there's enough staffing

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

Guess which stores and staff don't get hours