Bard spotting on Bluesky 12 March 2025

Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff.bsky.social):

There is a maniac on the loose and he is trying to kill our kids

Thomas Piggott MD PhD (@twpiggott.bsky.social):

Having had a kid die of measles in my arms as a doctor in the DR Congo, I respectfully disagree that this would be better. Vaccines save lives.

www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-it-wo...

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

There's a killer on the road

His brainworm's squirmin' like a toad

Take a long holiday

Let your children play

JAM (@jamnyc94.bsky.social):

Ooh how I hear that sweet Morrison tone singing in my head. 😌

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

Thirty years of closet can't be good

Jane Ball (bæddel nightmare queen) (@baeddel.meangirls.online):

there is no wrong way to transition(except yours, which is damaging to the whole community)

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

need to get tied up and teased for hours by the end of the month

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

Oh no you might get

T i c k l e d

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

oh no that would be amazing

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

O h

N o o o o

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

need to get tied up and teased for hours by the end of the month

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

Oh no you might get

T i c k l e d

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

oh no that would be amazing

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

O h

N o o o o

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

need to get tied up and teased for hours by the end of the month

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

Oh no you might get

T i c k l e d

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

oh no that would be amazing

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

O h

N o o o o

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

need to get tied up and teased for hours by the end of the month

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

Oh no you might get

T i c k l e d

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

oh no that would be amazing

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

O h

N o o o o

Micah (@rincewind.run):

it is never going to stop being funny to me that when I rant about politics people will sometimes tag elected officials in my replies

"you, elected politician: listen to this internet bozo with the Kronk avatar"

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

"WRONG LEVAAAAAAHHHHH"

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

need to get tied up and teased for hours by the end of the month

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

Oh no you might get

T i c k l e d

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

oh no that would be amazing

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

O h

N o o o o

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

need to get tied up and teased for hours by the end of the month

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

Oh no you might get

T i c k l e d

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

oh no that would be amazing

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

O h

N o o o o

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

Let me translate:

The facial hair grooming standards of the US Military arose when it was overwhelmingly White.

They specify that the soldier must be clean shaven, start to finish in a small span of time.

African-Americans often can't hit that window.

This was used to drum out & harass them.

Jason Leopold (@jasonleopold.bsky.social):

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

Sikh soldiers, too, only recently secured exemption from the facial hair shaving standards (and head hair standards) over the requirements of their religion. So this is going to eject all the Sikh soldiers.

Caias Ward (@caias.bsky.social):

And they will use the 'must be able to properly fit a gas mask" as cover on it.

Even though you can easily pass a fit test on a gas mask with a beard if the mask is, you know, properly fitted for you.

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

"Multiculturalism" is a dogwhistle I used to deep-dive White Supremacist propaganda operations on Reddit.

Michael Feola (@feolski.bsky.social):

One of the most cherished far right slogans, just getting bullhorned at the highest levels of public office. Emboldened, out, and proud. Today's GOP.

Davesnothere (@davesnothere24.bsky.social):

Nothing says freedom like a culture that encompasses most things being forced upon you.

Where can people see those deep-dives on white supremacists operations. Sounds interesting.

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

The /r/AgainstHateSubreddits subreddit, mostly.

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

The fact is that the only people who use the term "multiculturalism" spontaneously are neoNazis. There was even a subreddit titled /r/multiculturalcancer. The content of the subreddit was hateful and harassing and often openly white supremacist

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) (@lizthegrey.com):

Hi, fun facts, that's the lingering effect of the defamation campaign against me conducted by Kiwi Farms. They've successfully poisoned search engine autocomplete and to a limited extent, AI corpora.

My understanding is that each unique URL for each post is treated as a separate datapoint.

Hilux (@hilux.bsky.social):

and those responses can be gamed. it's very easy now to spin up 10000 'news' websites with fake information planted, make them easily available to scrapers, then get your planted info into AI results

www.axios.com/2025/03/06/e...

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

That happened about a year and change ago, IIRC. Thousands of "websites" populated with automatically-convoluted rips from the Reddit post and comment corpuses mentioning KF targets

7ydy (@7ydy.bsky.social):

im a shitty flirt so i mostly just stopped lol

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

All apologies but you are being called out for the lying lie

7ydy (@7ydy.bsky.social):

🥺that's really nice to say & i'm glad that you received it well... i feel like a bad flirt i guess

Paul [Atreides] Wood (@retroid.bsky.social):

People Born in 1970s, how's life?

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4ujhsk32vsorierlduq3q4q2/bafkreihkxyp5r2sklq3oi2k6uh4fyzi3gciwu23f6s3xixxfdxvbyl4a3u@jpeg

a bald man in a blue shirt and red bow tie is saying it is happening again

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

It feels exactly like that. It's happening - again

Paul [Atreides] Wood (@retroid.bsky.social):

People who know history are doomed to watch other people repeat it even though we're standing RIGHT HERE shouting "NO, DON'T DO THAT, IT DOESN'T END WELL ohwhyamIbothering"

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

This made me incandescent with rage.

Tiffany Vilchis (@tiffvilchis.bsky.social):

Attorney says there is not a database full of complaints.

Reyes refers back to the fact that Hegseth is the only person complaining.

"Where in those 3 studies can I find the section (that says) transgender people lack a 'warrior ethos'?"

Attny: "I don't think that exists "

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

Oh sweet Goddess,

Tiffany Vilchis (@tiffvilchis.bsky.social):

Switching tracks to a book Reyes read lately. Talking about Sumerian language and gender.

Reyes is pointing out the differing way we identify "s*x" in science and language. Asks attrny if he knows that intersex people exist? He does not know the science behind that.

Explaining intersex to attrny

Stryder (@stryder.bsky.social):

When do we get to start disbarring some of these people...

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

FYI, this has destroyed the careers of every one of these grad students. There are no "can you explain this gap in your resume" considerations postgrad; this has wiped out their academic and professional careers without recourse

KLAB at Harvard Medical School (@klab.bsky.social):

UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR

Scrappy (@scrappyaf.bsky.social):

Not just ruining lives and careers, but the interruption in the continuum of medical research is going to be devastating for all of us.

Stryder (@stryder.bsky.social):

I genuinely can't tell if this is satire or actual transcription...

Tiffany Vilchis (@tiffvilchis.bsky.social):

Judge Reyes is asking if the DoD cited a Beyonce album in their anti-trans policy, would the attorney demand she ignore common sense and just listen to the album.

DoJ attorney has no idea how to respond.

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

That is actually what is happening, per two sources with PACER access

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

Heraldry is PokeMon but for renfaire geeks

Snazzy, filthy gunpla scrub (@snazzy.bsky.social):

Deep cut but fair.

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

We are in Heck

Noelle (@finallynoelle.dems.social):

While thousands of veterans are getting fired by Yam Tits and Elon, they're asking January 6 criminals to apply for jobs. They're also offering home loans and grants to all those domestic terrorists.

This is by far the most anti-American administration ever.

Cesena Marie 🕷️ 🏳️⚧️ (@thelibraryces.bsky.social):

And the devils are employed

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

Guess what "Populist Nationalist" coming out of the mouth of Steve Bannon means

Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel.bsky.social):

lol. so this is how the episode starts

Chuck Leek (@chuckleek.bsky.social):

Populations are Societies, right? Societies are Social, right? So a Social Nationalist?

Sounds familiar for some reason.

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

O_O

Adam Schwarz (@adamjschwarz.bsky.social):

Trump is asked who his favourite Irish person is and names Conor McGregor, who was found by the Irish High Court to have assaulted and r*ped a woman in December 2018.

Hug Your Dog (@huggamuggas.bsky.social):

He always finds the shoe that fits.

Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen (@wikisteff.bsky.social):

Listen to the intonation and manner of the journ*list here.

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com):

Vacate the Department of Education for "security reasons."

Sure, Jan. 😉

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

Subtext of every line, is "what the frick is happening here"

Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen (@wikisteff.bsky.social):

She sounds tired and angry and shocked and in horror all at once

Sage 🏳️⚧️ (@trans.bsky.social):

this starter pack will get you onto weirdsky, do it:

go.bsky.app/AdnrvbZ

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

Sage, did you block yourself

Sage 🏳️⚧️ (@trans.bsky.social):

no i got blocked by someone asking for weird accounts to follow lol

Sage 🏳️⚧️ (@trans.bsky.social):

her: "bluesky is so boringgggggg it's like a sofa with plastic wrap no one is weird"

me: "okay here's a bunch of weird (complimentary) people to follow"

her: "no not like that i meant /tttt & blanchard slurs" (blocks me)

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

GUAHHHHHH

multi-mara❣️🌌🌹🔮 (@marallmighty.bsky.social):

❣️ by weird the og meant like 4chan slurs and not the weird (complimentary) that Sage has in the pack

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

Just occasionally it's nice to see certain decisions publicly justified; I just wish it didn't come at so steep a pricetag

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

Moving a detainee around to evade judicial review is classic authoritarian behavior.

Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com):

The government claims Mahmoud Khalil was already in NJ on his way to Louisiana by the time his habeas petition was filed—an argument that the NY federal court lacks jurisdiction.

But Khalil's lawyer checked the ICE locator when she filed and even 4 hrs after, and he was listed as still being in NY.

dirtside (@dirtside.bsky.social):

can they bring this up in court and essentially accuse the AUSA of lying? the AUSA can say "he was in NJ by then" but can the judge demand proof of that?

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

The hearing just adjourned; the statements by the AUSAs were taken as fact (presumed so, because officers of the court are beholden to factual, truthful statements to the court).

dirtside (@dirtside.bsky.social):

well, i can rest assured that a lawyer would never lie or misrepresent in court, especially not lawyers for fascist tyrants

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

There has to be a basis for questioning their word. Which means that there needs to be proof that Mahmoud Khalil was still in jurisdiction when the Habeas was filed, and that the fed dot gov agents processing him had opportunity and expectation to have the filing in their hands when he was moved

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

And

That the AUSAs here knew these as fact, and that they therefore misrepresented to the court.

If the system is set up so that no one handling him ever looked at a computer system while railroading him to louisiana -

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

Furman is on to their frickery of moving Mahmoud Khalil to evade the Habeas hearing

Inner City Press (@innercitypress.bsky.social):

Judge Furman: Your papers should address Justice Kennedy's concurrence in Rumsfeld v. Padilla [542 U.S. 426], about moving petitioners to evade jurisdiction.

Petitioner's lawyer: Courts have also looked to identify the field office that was responsible

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

When Mahmoud was given access to legal counsel, it was neither privileged (as required) nor was it for as long as they needed (terminated arbitrarily by the state)

Inner City Press (@innercitypress.bsky.social):

Petitioner's lawyer: Can the Court help us gain more regular access to our client?

Judge Furman: Didn't counsel speak to him?

Petitioner's lawyer: It was non privileged, and cut off.

Judge Furman: Mr. Waterman? I'd be inclined they get privileged access

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

So, yeah, my whole timeline is summed up as

"Transgender people deserve respect. Everyone deserves respect. 2015-2020 Reddit mainstreamed violent bigotry & is largely responsible for the state of modern world politics. Make Nazism Illegal like it was in 1950 Germany. Oh, here's some weird synthpop"

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

With the occasional bit of graphic art, trivia, etc

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

Once upon a time I tried to make an infographic showing how unlikely FTO terrorism on US soil is, and failed badly, because it's impossible to show people a graph or chart where the thing you need to show is sub-pixel-size on the screen

Tarah Wheeler (@tarah.org):

And here I am agreeing with the Cato Institute, so I guess it's just another Tuesday night in Sunnydale.

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

9/11 was an outlier, and Bush & his cronies had a whole playbook ready for how to exploit such an attack. Because of it, we're now here, with a felon conman male feminist POTUS trashing the Constitution, and his cronies in government pretending that a student protestor is a violent enemy combatant

Rick does Math and Stuff (@mathandstuff.bsky.social):

Those stupid, stupid terrorists.

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.