Bard spotting on Bluesky 23 March 2025

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

This time last year if you googled "Tesla Fire", the results you'd get would be journ*lism about people dying in the vehicles, or them melting through road decks because a fire hydrant sprayed the car.

Now it's all results of Elon shouting "Bolshewismus Reichstagfeuer!"

An actual goat (@kokorozek.satan.social):

Unfortunately we dont have a Soviet Union to bail us out

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

There is an exception to this rule: carbon fiber golf club shafts that have been liberated from the clubheads.

Light, stiff yet flexible, & engineered to deliver kinetic force built over the course of a swing to a focused impact.

Be wary of anyone carrying a headless carbon fiber golf shaft.

Edith Laurie Charles (@edithcharles.bsky.social):

13) Out of all sporting equipment one could wield, a golf club is one of the hardest to wield sexily. Compare to baseball bats, tennis rackets, a nicely polished set of boules.

This is because golf fundamentally does NOT frick.

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

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a woman in a black and white photo is holding a whip in her hand .

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

Possibly the weirdest thing about this timeline is seeing a paid advert by Joe "Look out Obama and BLM, Real Americans are coming for you" Walsh saying something like "Donald Trump is unamerican and must go. We have to take America back"

Maybe? The tide? Is turning?

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

I wouldn't use Walsh for anything but a windsock, but what a windsock

I Don't Want No Scabs (@missedith.bsky.social):

Right? I used to reply to any of his posts that came across my tl w/ "pay your child support you fricking deadbeat" and there is always a weird feeling of dissonance these days where he says something I totally agree with but also idk if he ever paid his child support, for example. + he's Joe Walsh?

supercharged toast (@toasty.cx):

ok but what if instead of treating him like one of the reasons everything is so fricked you treated him like an uwu smol bean who likes posting the most boring music playlists of all time every year

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

He's just like me

supercharged toast (@toasty.cx):

hey now as far as I know you've never bombed any weddings

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

If we count my own —

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

🥁🥁💥

supercharged toast (@toasty.cx):

ayyyyyyyyyyyyyy lmao

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

Over the past 5 years, I've worked to get bigoted, violent terrorists (MAGA) kicked off Reddit; I've rescued /r/VoteBlue from being abandoned in the middle of an election cycle, to help promote downballot Democratic elections; I've worked to raise awareness of the danger of White Identity Extremism.

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

I shouted until I was exhausted that transphobia is the signature essential value of White Identity Extremism and MAGA, and I did these things in the face of a deluge of death threats, harassment, and worse.

For my trouble I am likely to be tortured to death in an offshore concentration camp

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

Please stop the Trump administration.

wow marseyrandom

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

Question for those who use my blocklists:

Should I put @edmunds.com on the Nazi blocklist, the Hate Enablers blocklist, or just on the Bad Faith blocklist?

I'm leaning towards Hate Enablers

Edmunds (@edmunds.com):

The world's best selling EV just got a lot better

Black Ned Flanders (@clintmeatwood.bsky.social):

Why not both?

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

The Nazi blocklist is intended for White Identity Extremists / neoNazis / Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists. The Hate Enablers is more "this entity is supporting known hatemonger", so that's more appropriate

Black Ned Flanders (@clintmeatwood.bsky.social):

Enablers list it is 👍

Rev. Jesus "H" Christ, KSC (@reverendjesus.com):

Nobody talks, everybody walks

Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social):

"The FBI urges the public to exercise vigilance and to look out for suspicious activity in areas occupied by Tesla dealerships or Tesla-related entities."

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

Every day is Friday for the foreseeable future

Rev. Jesus "H" Christ, KSC (@reverendjesus.com):

I don't think I can convince Doc to do church EVERY DAY

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

Like …

Section 230 immunises your email provider from being sued for sending spam email to a blackhole

Section 230 immunises ISPs from being sued for sending trojan horse attacks and DDoSes to a blackhole

Section 230 immunises people who maintain lists of pop-up spawning, virus-laden websites

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

Section 230 exists mainly to do two things:

🔘 Make it possible for people to block objectionable stuff & ban / block accounts — without being sued;

🔘 Ensure you don't get sued for stuff others post which you didn't help them post.

Destroying Section 230 destroys those protections.

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

Section 230 exists mainly to do two things:

🔘 Make it possible for people to block objectionable stuff & ban / block accounts — without being sued;

🔘 Ensure you don't get sued for stuff others post which you didn't help them post.

Destroying Section 230 destroys those protections.

Sara Straw (@oneoneder.bsky.social):

??? It ensures that platforms don't get sued for stuff other people posted with their help

It is specifically useful because the platforms make it all possible

It protects Twitter from being sued when they blast lies all over everyone's feed, while Fox loses almost a billion for doing the same.

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

Fox has the ability & the opportunity to vet the information they broadcast in their curated content sent to their audience.

For a platform like Reddit to vet the information they merely supply the infrastructure to convey, they'd need to employ 2 million + people.

Also -

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

Section 230 protects people who take action in good faith to remove objectionable content, from civil liability for the action of removing it.

It doesn't protect people from criminal liability who, demonstrably, through studied inaction, aid & abet crimes. Nor civil liability for aiding torts.

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.