Bard spotting on Bluesky 15 March 2025

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

Fox News and etc collect & attract MAGAs because parasocial one-to-many media relationships cannot, by design,

judge the butthole whose family no longer visits because he chainsmokes, talks over others, leaves porn up on his computer, turns everything into "this is why you suck" or QAnon rants

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

And the butthole isn't gonna watch your Blue Wave Podcast. We don't need to convert Democrats or anyone else into American MiddleClass MiddleAge EmptyNest Hikkikomori dependent on Johnny Carson for a sense of culture.

None of the above - frick it, cut the cord

Scrappy (@scrappyaf.bsky.social):

They're just gone. They're lost. I think our energy needs to be put toward engaging the people who felt like their vote didn't matter. Maybe now they can be shown how desperately it did matter.

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

All those big red circles are subsidised by billionaires and states. Astroturf.

The third estate in this ecosystem — not shown on this chart — is things like Reddit, BlueSky, and private chatrooms on Groomercord & Slack & Signal.

Communities — not one-to-many Cult of Personality hierarchies.

ÆJ Łink. (@link.spacelawshitpost.me):

I am once again begging for a leftist propaganda apparatus in this country.

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

The Medium Is The Message.

Communities don't build around Cult of Personality One-to-Many parasocial hierarchic groups.

Cults do.

Goons who can be radicalised, goaded, hyped, & hypnotically suggested into conforming.

Homogenous. Exclusive.

Communities are diverse, equitable, inclusive.

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

That shit up there?

That's 1960's & 1970's Kissingerian soft statecraft fighting back against the decline of The Nightly News as the mediator of collective identity.

The fall of F🔴R🟡I🔵E🔴N🟡D🔵S and the rise of friends, countered with the rise of 🐸 Frens

Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman.bsky.social):

This is white supremacist, great replacement Nazi shit coming out of the mouth of the U.S. vice president.

WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social):

"Europe is on the brink of civilizational suicide," US Vice President Vance told Fox News. "Countries don't control borders, restrict free speech. If Germany takes in millions more incompatible migrants, it'll destroy itself. America can't save it."

Lo-rah 🫀 (@pastbriton.bsky.social):

God what a disgusting bigot. How the frick can two dudes just turn the whole juggernaut of the US like this?

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

Step 1: recruit a bunch of bitter, angry young men

Step 2: bombard them with messages of entitlement

Step 3: aim them at minorities

Step 4: lather, rinse, repeat

M. Belanger (@sethanikeem.bsky.social):

They inherited their granddaddy's recipe for the Hitlerjugend

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

An exercise in calming TF down after another day of existential dread and anxiety

The Stranger Things Arpeggio as a Thor patch

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

Dollars to Doughnuts the Trump administration says "TRO & class declaration didn't specify we couldn't deport native citizens under AEA" and take it from there

Regime Accountant, CPA (@regimecpa.bsky.social):

One of the few things I can promise you about America is you can always bad mouth a car brand you don't like, have you heard what Chevy truck drivers and Ford truck drivers say about each other?

Stephen King (@stephenking.bsky.social):

Elon Musk claims "the leftists" are bad-mouthing his company. This isn't true. It's ordinary car buyers who are fed the frick up.

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

Lots

Of

Trouble,

Usually

Severe

Sy Nakamura (@princewiddershins.bsky.social):

pokes head back in to social media after six week

I fricking told you dumb weak babies

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

I was concerned about you.

Sy Nakamura (@princewiddershins.bsky.social):

You should be

I'm at Rock fricking bottom

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

Missed you earlier today, in fact. Needed you to commiserate on this -

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

Before stopped monitoring Telegram channels last year, there were already circulated reports of terrorist groups planning out detonating explosives in distribution yards. I've seen energy professionals pooh pooh such possibility while discussing how easy the locks on their gates are to bump.

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

Have a pillow handy to scream into

🦢 kate wehwalt 🦢 (@katewagner.bsky.social):

does anyone have any good readings on how to manage, like, terror and despair right now because i'm genuinely finding it very difficult to live my life from day to day without having severe moments of acute crisis

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

Screaming into a pillow

Hot, hot showers

(@theguy9900.bsky.social):

This implies the existence of a Givin.

Talia Lavin (@swordsjew.bsky.social):

Look at this guy. It's a takin, which is an ungulate native to Tibet, and an absolute unit

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

Needed so badly to find someone had made this joke

(@theguy9900.bsky.social):

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q6qpxiz7g3q66poftuesyqyg/bafkreiagfyzdq37kdsdpzlzg4lsj3elg6zulyuqawm535puxknwrsyodtm@jpeg

a cartoon of a skeletor with the words glad i could help below him

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

Read a post on here that said something like "Someone should explain to Bret Stephens that … "

it made me want to scream

There is an old hacker term, "Read-Only Mind" (ROM)

Bret Stephens has a Read-Only Mind

Life consists of separating ROMs from your thoughts

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

We have sorely lacked in exercising the test of "Sir / Madam / Otherwise, what would it take _you_ to change _your_ mind on [topic]?", and then making personalities infamous for their choice to make it impossible to change their mind whilst insisting we must change ours

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

And by "infamous" I of course mean "social pariahs"

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

Americans are going to learn history whether they like it or not, it seems

Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social):

It's almost as if the guy who "incited domestic insurrections amongst us" is now "depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury."

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

The things I write while hoping for the strained trapezius to calm the f down and let me rest

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

Oh Inanna, bright star of the heavens, who wears the jewels of the universe upon her wrist, be kind to us, your charges

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

Oh Inanna, bright star of the heavens, who wears the jewels of the universe upon her wrist, be kind to us, your charges

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

Before stopped monitoring Telegram channels last year, there were already circulated reports of terrorist groups planning out detonating explosives in distribution yards. I've seen energy professionals pooh pooh such possibility while discussing how easy the locks on their gates are to bump.

Nick Touran (@whatisnuclear.com):

I hate to say this, but I think the nuclear industry has done so well with safety lately that a new cavalier attitude is becoming so prominent that it's increasingly likely that someone's going to get killed. High dose radiation is a real hazard, you guys.

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

The US federal government (what's left of it) is being staffed with people who think that Tesla cars are safe, SpaceX rockets are safe, and now that seeding the packages for nuclear dirty bombs throughout out cities is safe

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

Let's leave off trying to produce messages warning civilisation 10,000 years from now to avoid our nuclear waste

How do we warn ourselves

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

This is a threat to criminalise being transgender

hannah gais (@hannahgais.bsky.social):

Is this some kind of kink? I'm confused.

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

Apologies if that seems obvious to you.

About three months ago I was deluged with death threats (oh, the irony) for pointing out that being LGBTQ is being criminalised in the United States. While laws criminalising being LGBTQ were already on the books.

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

The ACLU is shooting for the moon in asking the courts to find the Alien Enemies Act procedures to be illegal / unconstitutional. We can only hope some Supreme Court Justices wake up from their gilded dream cages and rule in the interest of justice and the rule of law

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

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Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social):

The lawsuit — J.G.G. v. Trump — was filed this morning in D.C. by the ACLU and Democracy Forward.

Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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

I'm 100% serious - if the Alien Enemies Act process stands as Trump & Rubio are asserting, then the President of the United States would lawfully be empowered to arbitrarily arrest and imprison his political enemies indefinitely.

Natural Born Citizen Or Not

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

He's already declared an intent to do so.

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

in case anyone is wondering - yes, sleep deprivation, cold showers, and cutting off from medication are all human rights violations

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

Remembering Dan Kaminsky tonight,

"It's not enough to point out a fire. Someone has to put it out. Someone has to think it's their job to." ― Dan Kaminsky

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) (@shengokai.bsky.social):

I am obligated as a Black Philosopher to point out that Stanley came late to a conversation that West, King, Davis, Delgado and Stefancic, Yancy, Ladson-Billings, Crenshaw, and Bonilla-Silva had already observed in race relations.

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

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) (@shengokai.bsky.social):

Jason is a decent scholar and "How Fascism Works" is a pretty good text on fascism, but its limitation in this moment are its focus on fascism absent the ways that the history of whiteness and white supremacy have structured the particular KIND of fascism at play in the US.

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) (@shengokai.bsky.social):

Charles Mills' "The Racial Contract" is much more applicable to this moment. I'd suggest reading BOTH and bearing in mind how Mills' definition of global white supremacy animates the kinds of fascism that Stanley is talking about.

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

I think if Stanley were here, he would agree; I remember when a transgender woman published a critique of How Fascism Works and he offered that HFW was written from his family's generational trauma from the Holocaust.

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

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

Today was nice. In a way.

0/10 arthritis pain

I experienced a wide range of emotions without spiralling

I am grateful for @kiraculous.net and @potzer.xyz and Inanna

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

so glad you had a good day.

love you 🫂💋

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

Love you 💜

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

@governorwalz.mn.gov

salute

Gabe Ortíz (@tusk81.bsky.social):

"To the crowd, Walz was encouraging, saying their anger is justified.

'The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you're overreacting,' he said. 'You're not.'" www.yahoo.com/news/somethi...

janny with a mop. janny with a mop.

Granny panties and a dress. Granny panties and a dress.

6 foot 4 and a mugshot. 6 foot 4 and a mugshot.

Child abuse and no job. Child abuse and no job.

Living in mama's sunroom. Living in mama's sunroom.

Giant pale hands and lipstick. Giant pale hands and lipstick.