Bard spotting on Bluesky 17 March 2025

Anna Phylaxis (@quatoria.bsky.social):

he really does look uncannily like gollum, doesn't he?

Sebastian Salazar (@hangarcat.bsky.social):

James Carville… isn't there a ring he should be chasing after, calling it "his precious"?

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

He looked 106 years old in the 1980's, too

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

Can someone who listened to / has a transcript find the exact wording used by the DOJ attorney at this point

Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social):

DOJ agrees that no one will be removed subject to the AEA proclamation until further order of the court or D.C. Circuit.

Boasberg also is ordering a declaration stating that no one subject to the AEA proclamation was on the third flight.

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

The evolution

Of the Public Face

Of the GOP

———

Behind closed doors, in public while masked (or hooded, as it were) — they have been consistent for 75 years

Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social):

For all those people who think "the left got more radical," this is what the evolution of the GOP has looked like over the past few years.

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

Pappy Daniels

Homer Stokes

Sheriff Cooley

All the same

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

to quote a wise man,

"This is America

Don't catch you slippin', uh"

Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social):

Other people are still at "is it a constitutional crisis yet?" and I'm at "the crisis was several exits ago, the car has crashed, we're now just seeing how many cars end up in the pileup and how high the casualty count is" or "the house is actively burning down, the question is what's left after."

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

deeeeeeeep, deeep, deep sigh 😮‍💨

Right Wing Watch (@rightwingwatch.bsky.social):

Ralph Drollinger is a right-wing pastor who leads Bible studies for members of Congress and the White House. This week, he's teaching them that LGBTQ rights, feminism, abortion, Islam, communism, and liberal Christianity are all "schemes of the devil." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

(@hazyrecollection.bsky.social):

I'm starting to think that Europe was right to kick the Puritans out.

Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net):

YouTuber JerryRigEverything tested a Cybertruck tow hitch and it turns out it's all extremely thin cast aluminum glued together. It completely snapped off before it hit us tow weight rating of 11,000 lbs.

If you see this truck towing something, STAY AWAY.

full video.

Robert Szasz 𓅆 (@rszasz.bsky.social):

Tongue weight is supposed to be like 10% of the total weight being towed for that type of receiver, so 1,100 lbs.

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

I was out at "they glued it". They glued the exterior bezel panels on, too, and those are coming off in highway wind speeds. There can't have been any proper QC on the tow receiver assembly either. These things are kit cars assembled by giterduns

Robert Szasz 𓅆 (@rszasz.bsky.social):

I have bad news for you about modern vehicle construction

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

I miss my ex-cop Caprice. Seated 7 & their gear

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

If I won the lottery I'd have the wedding here just so the entire shebang could be Soundtrack By FlavorFlav, Noodling No. 9 in C Sharp Major

FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ (@flavorflav.bsky.social):

I'm available for weddings,,, only at this chapel in the woods ⛪️🌲

44 Billion dollar bonfire (@blyons.bsky.social):

Gorgeous building!

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

Holy shit.

Read the questions.

BNO News (@bnonews.com):

BREAKING: U.S. Air Force employee charged with giving classified information to woman he met on dating site

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

Airman Dave is going to be swabbing the latrines in Leavenworth until he dies of old age. If he's lucky.

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

Oh my god it's so much worse, he was a retired O-5

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

In 2019 Reddit - notorious for "Free Speech" - hosted the world's largest:

🔘 neoNazi;

🔘 Holocaust denial;

🔘 White Supremacist;

🔘 Misogynist;

🔘 Transphobia; &

🔘 MAGA / Trump

Webforums.

In 2020 they kicked them out

The world is now finding out why, the hard way.

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

And like … that 👆🏻 post, is just me having a PTSD "somebody do something" spasm. We are past the point of "danger, danger, danger". We are now at "brace, brace, brace", the mountain is unavoidable, civilisation is slowly crumpling into a smear on a cliff. I don't know what to do

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

Happy "Everyone Is Irish" day

Dance some hearty jigs on the rocky road to dublin 12345

Paul (@paulatkinsonpdx.bsky.social):

But why does "Dublin" have three syllables?

I know, probably the same reason "film" has two.

persenche (@hyacinth-girl.bsky.social):

hm. how do people set up private wishlists these days? amazon's selection of stuff is such utter shit that i'm not even sure an amazon wishlist is viable anymore, unless i'm looking to buy drop shipper crap and sweatshop clothes.

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

Throne? I keep seeing confident girlies using a site called Throne.

persenche (@hyacinth-girl.bsky.social):

I've been looking at them and their model is weird. like, 'we'll give you money and you buy the thing yourself'.

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

Yes, that does seem weird, thx for pointing it out

Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat.bsky.social):

trying to pressure public figures who care about democracy to fight for democracy is in fact doing something?

I mean, there are a range of things to do, but trying to encourage politicians to be better is certainly one of them. 1

TexInTheCitySF (@texinrhecitysf.bsky.social):

If it's an emergency, the course of action is not to call on politicians who are retired. It's on US. Nobody is coming to save us. They are not our saviors. You're lazy and unwilling to recognize the moment.

Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat.bsky.social):

like, is insulting people who dare to criticize Joe Biden a powerful front in the war against fascism? idk. it doesn't seem particularly brave or effective to me, but you know.

Stephen Robinson (@playtyperguy.com):

Democrats adhering to norms and ceremony that maintain an illusion of normality directly undermines their "democracy is at stake" narrative, which you'd think they would realize after 2024

Stephen Robinson (@playtyperguy.com):

Trump didn't retire after defeat. We would've preferred he went away but to the average low info voters, Trump continuing to be involved and fighting after his loss mattered. Heck, even the charge that "I have to win to avoid going to prison" had stakes

Stephen Robinson (@playtyperguy.com):

I don't know. I think Obama and Harris still actively campaigning against Trump is a better tactic than Dems throwing trans people under the bus.

SE Gyges (@segyges.bsky.social):

SHOW MORE

Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social):

I'll just note that this OLC opinion was written by... someone that Trump appointed to be a federal judge during his first term.

Pwnallthethings (@pwnallthethings.bsky.social):

Ooh ooh, very much not the main thing, but this also touches on my favorite OLC opinion: whether the president signing something by autopen is valid (it is) www.justice.gov/file/494411/...

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

Tomorrow he may well post that Biden's US flags all have fringe on them, and therefore he was only an admiral

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

I have witnessed a Phoenix, the cry of her rebirth burning-mother and her mother and her mother, who are now-living beings echoing throughout time and eternity and all things, and their name is Love, love everlasting, love for all and through all

Big DeVito Energy (@mayawest.online):

1) Do you believe you deserve love?

2) do you love yourself?

3) are you able to accept love, even if you don't believe you deserve it?

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

Motherlover, Nixon was rightfully impeached for less.

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

Mad Lord Snapcase

Pwnallthethings (@pwnallthethings.bsky.social):

hooboy

Larry Williamson (L422Y) (@l422y.com):

lol he won and he's still mad

Sinéad Rhiannon (fae/faer/it) (@sineadthefae.bsky.social):

cw knife posting

this is my spyderco p'kal!

i am still learning the best ways to hold and use the blade, but i have figured out how to open the blade from the "pocket" with a decent amount of confidence and that's a start!

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

"From the pocket" heheheheheheheeh

Sinéad Rhiannon (fae/faer/it) (@sineadthefae.bsky.social):

hahaha i'm glad someone liked that 😆 (to be fair, i'm more likely to store stuff in the boob pocket than anywhere else - especially given how few pairs of pants i own even have pockets 🙄)

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.