Bard spotting on Bluesky 26 March 2025

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

This would be used to harass Muslims & Catholics as well

Yair Rosenberg (@yair-rosenberg.bsky.social):

This bill is partly a response to long circulating neo-Nazi lists of Jewish members of Congress that claim they all have Israeli citizenship. None do. Ironically, the bill would debunk one of the very conspiracy theories that inspired it. But it would be wielded against other minorities.

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

And they weren't celebrating out of ignorance or anything like that; the /r/the_donald cult holds an Article of Faith: that Muslims are all loyal first to a transgeographic "Nation", the Ummah, and therefore all are seeking to destroy Christendom (and another AOF: America is Christendom)

Gallifreyan Jedi (@jediofgallifrey.bsky.social):

the worst thing about signalgate isn't that they were circumventing foia laws or that it was insecure or that a magazine was in the chat, the worst thing was that they coordinated the bombing of a civilian structure where people lived and now they're all dead and these rancid fricks celebrated

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

For Trump's loyal cult, there are only two acceptable states of existence of Muslims: Dead or Killing Each Other.

They literally see themselves as Crusaders. They want Israel for the Jews, Europe & NA for the Christians. They want Armageddon

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

The ontology of "first loyalty to the faith" is both an accusation in a mirror and an embodiment of how they view all other religions and sects. It is why the Protestant GOP loathed JFK and Biden, and they only put The Protestant/Catholic Troubles of America on hold to deal with "bigger fish"

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

Even the atheist wing of Trumpism ( … Musk, et al ) are Protestant Atheists and Mormon Atheists.

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

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

" … not so violent or genuine as it sounded."

• The New York Times, 1922, reporting on a rising star of popular German politics

Micah (@rincewind.run):

"he won't actually do the thing he's saying he will, it would be incredibly destructive" is an assumption that everyone at every level of politics - from elected officials to voters - has made time and time again

it is always wrong

Osana (@osana.bsky.social):

The fact that we have the benefit of hindsight makes it so much worse to be complacent as many are now.

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

A BlackBerry that had been, in fact, heavily re-engineered by the NSA to make it as secure as possible, down to the effective viewing angle of the screen

Alyssa MacKenzie 💜 (@alyssamackenzie.bsky.social):

Do you remember when people relentlessly heckled Obama bc he wanted to use his blackberry?

Doesn't that seem like 90 years ago, at this point? And what would you give for THAT to be the biggest topic of conversation happening at the moment?

daryl "criss angel's thesis" b 🏳️⚧️ (@hypercubexl.bsky.social):

also they called it the barackberry, how cute was that

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

stares in Chosen Surname "Oaken"

mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social):

It rules that every racist white chud who laughed about ridiculous or "made-up" black names in the 1990s now has a granddaughter named Oaklyeighnn

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

Gods what if I had picked Oaklynn or Oakleigh

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

My chosen name is so Caucasian it came with a complimentary five gallon tub of Kraft Miracle Whip

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

My chosen name is so Caucasian it answers to "Karen" reflexively

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

AND YET THE GOD GUNS N GLORY GUILD OVER HERE —

Chas The Verruca Gnome🇺🇦 (@chassmith.bsky.social):

You should set out on a quest for a spouse with the last name Shield so you can hyphenate with it

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

Last month a tabloid-grade blogger published an "exposé" of how allegedly Palestine & Hamas "control" an allegedly vast network of subreddits. The piece was bullshit, & once I read it, it was clear to me: a pretext to the Trump admin attacking those subreddits, moderators, & audiences as terrorists

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

I knew it was bullshit because the author led her story by identifying a subreddit I had tracked as involved in the /r/the_donald ecosystem — run by a savvy, mask-on antisemitic White Identity Extremist who had years before explicitly praised the ME conflict for dividing non-whites — as Palestinian

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

It's a sad reality that online services can only prohibit the use of the service to convey speech that promotes hatred & violence, but not prohibit the use of the service by Nazis with a drop of self control and foresight and guile — nor by hacks ginning up political hit jobs and just-so stories

electric toastboy (@toasty.cx):

I mean they could, they just won't add a clause to the TOS that says "we reserve the right to boot you for any reason whatsoever" cuz it would make the Nazis mad

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

It's also hard to get Nazis to provide proof of party membership.

electric toastboy (@toasty.cx):

Nooooo kidding

Gotta have savvy folks on staff to snuff em out

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

For those that don't know, FSW conflated "Moderators remove a post for targeted harassment" as a violation of the law, and promoted a requirement that volunteer moderators be prohibited from removing posts and comments unless ordered to do so by a court of law

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

In case I never have the privilege to publish anything to the Internet again, I just want to say,

A: /u/FreeSpeechWarrior

B: Serious Concerns

P(A ∩ B) = 0

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

In case I never have the privilege to publish anything to the Internet again, I just want to say,

A: /u/FreeSpeechWarrior

B: Serious Concerns

P(A ∩ B) = 0

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

Congratulations on a long career of shouting that the sky was falling. I hope you live another century, with this haunting even the least of your dreams

Jen (@jenuhveeve.bsky.social):

What ever happened to him?

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

They're gonna try to claim that any BDS advocacy "supports Hamas", then any speech critcising Israel as "supports Hamas", then advocating for Palestinians to have life, liberty, dignity, autonomy, etc "supports Hamas", & will be classed as "material support" of an FTO, pretexting deporting citizens

Prem Thakker ツ (@premthakker.bsky.social):

NEW—DHS claims, without citing proof, Rumeysa Ozturk "engaged in activities in support of Hamas."

Among "activity" Ozturk engaged in was co-writing an op-ed urging Tufts to heed student resolutions to acknowledge the Palestinian genocide & divest from companies tied to Israel.

Zyphex🇨🇦🇺🇦🍉 (@zyphex-skybreaker.bsky.social):

They've done that for the last year and a half.

Jeff Tischauser (@jtischauser.bsky.social):

someone, anybody, what does this mean: "Invalid app.bsky.feed.post record: Record/embed/alt must not be longer than 1000 graphemes"

tried googling it and no help. trying to post video on here in a thread.

Steve Townsend (@stevetownsend0.bsky.social):

Grapheme roughly translates to 'character'. Something you are trying to do with a Post violates a platform string limit - a search in the source code should show exactly what.

Each Post is a Record in a PDS, which you can think of as your 'home database' inside the entire bsky.social dataset.

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mv7rnemycyx4smyragqjtubf/bafkreia4xl55vrzs2irfnyj3vajpfrly756tnnvy4jywtznjusup2mptv4@jpeg

Bluesky

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

Yep. The debug version of the "Alt Text Too Long" error, mainly because they haven't massaged that error message user facing yet

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

Reddit moderators are telling me that posts and comments critical of the Israeli military occupation of Palestine are now being reported as Promoting Hatred and Targeted Harassment - some more than five years old.

Cosmo Spatchpeepee (@cosmo-spatchpeepee.bsky.social):

Here we go, it looks like they're selecting targets.

Doritos (@doritosofficial.bsky.social):

great, another place where people can ask us to bring flavors back

muffin oracle 🔮 ᵖʳᵒᵖʰᵉᶜⁱᵉˢ ʰᵃᶻʸ ᵃˢᵏ ᵃᵍᵃⁱⁿ ˡᵃᵗᵉʳ (@snappleroan.bsky.social):

INTENSE PICKLE

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

momentarily setting aside my policy against engaging in the replies of marketing accounts

Gods yes this please

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

Let me translate

"Elon, please crowdsource a plausible pretext for us to charge with treason the Atlantic journ*list & everyone he worked with"

(@hesster56.bsky.social):

100%

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

This is also (one of) my gripe(s) about the sexism in Jordan's Wheel of Time — the magic system's mechanics of Things Which Gendered Mages Excel At are pretexted on "women know the home; men are huntergatherers" sexist dichotomies, right down to different methods of teleportation ("To" vs "From")

Materialist Gnostic (@walmsley.bsky.social):

this is what Robert Heinlein actually believed. no really, there's a whole bit in Starship Troopers about how women are better at running spaceships.

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

This is remarkable, really. She regrets them, but doesn't say why she regrets them. She wouldn't send them today, but doesn't say why she wouldn't. She contrasts Trump's bluster vs Trump's actions. Of course most people whose lives are in danger from a tyrant's whims won't draw his ire

max tani (@maxtani.bsky.social):

NPR CEO Katherine Maher says she regrets her years-old tweets calling Trump a fascist and a deranged racist: "I regret those tweets, I wouldn't tweet them against today. They represented a time when I was reflecting on something that the president had said rather than who he is."

Regina Schrambling (@gastropoda.bsky.social):

I don't want to say white people are all the problems, but...

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

Reminder: if your account is on one of my blocklists and you feel that should change, I have a documented appeals process.

Reminder: You will not get off the blocklists by defaming me to your audience.

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

How to appeal blocklist listing:

bsky.app/profile/skyw...

Brooke (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social):

Jesus fricking Christ

max tani (@maxtani.bsky.social):

NPR CEO Katherine Maher says that NPR was "mistaken" and "should have covered the Hunter Biden story more aggressively." She also said that NPR has acknowledged "that the new CIA evidence" about the Wuhan lab leak is "is worthy of coverage, and have covered it."

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

For my $0.02, idc if they frontpaged unredacted photos of Hunter's junk alongside his tax returns; politics is politics and Hunter reaped what he sowed, there — the functional problem is her a priori assent to the lab leak kookspiracy

Strepsirrhini (@strepsirrhini.bsky.social):

Dark af

p o t z {er} - March = 🎂🎉🎁 (@potzer.xyz):

my sleep pattern is nothing more than two to three 3-4 hour naps in a 24 hour period and i'm certain this is both healthy and sustainable

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

❤️‍🩹

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

welp that bad brain shit kicking in as someone i once thought of as a friend blocked me. oh well. i don't care but that is still kicking me right in the abanonmemt issues even though logically it shouldn't matter. but some fricking part of me won't let it go peaceably.

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

🫂

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

🫂

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

Without even needing to see their chatgroups, I know 100% that ISIS / ISIL / al-Qaeda / every anti-USA terror org everywhere around the world is going to set "America Seeks To Murder Your Women; It Brings Them Joy" as the crown jewel of their propaganda for the next decade, pointing at this

Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog.lol):

anyway calling these "war plans" when they were actually plans to blow up an apartment building full of civilians because the girlfriend of a guy we don't like lived there sounds more like "terrorism plans" or perhaps even more accurately "terrorism factory creation plans"

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

Exercise For The Reader: Imagine you're trying to persuade angry young men to travel internationally and suicide bomb USA / Israeli / European targets. Can you imagine something more persuasive than "the USA will bomb your girlfriend's home, and do it specifically to get paid by Europe / Egypt" —?

Deth Veggie (@dethveggie.bsky.social):

A tiny bit of good news.

Steven Mazie (@stevenmazie.bsky.social):

NEW at SCOTUS: Court rules 7-2 that ghost guns can be regulated by the ATF as firearms. Alito and Thomas dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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

I'm simultaneously curious as to why Alito & Thomas dissented, while also knowing that learning exactly why, will be a "I don't know what I was expecting" "Dead Dove" scenario

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

Will it be an argument as to why Wickard v Filburn is Bad, while ignoring Raich

Will it be an originalist argument to the text of the second amendment, ignoring the phrase "well-regulated militia"

I won't tune in because the results will just depress me

Deth Veggie (@dethveggie.bsky.social):

Presumably the latter, as that's what they relied on in DC v Heller, thereby overturning two centuries of established precedent

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

Under every known Rules of Engagement, "collateral targets" are war crimes

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

Under the Constitution of the United States of America, "collateral arrests" are kidnappings

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

I'm awake at Too Early O'Dark Thirty because I spent yearrrrrrs trying to tell the world that transphobes are violent terrorists who want to tear down nations, steal your retirement, and find ways to poison you

That Stove is Hot

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

Why is Penny awake at 0500

gestures at violent, corrupt, and massively incompetent bigots who have control of governments because the public is complacent and ignorant and vote based on vibes instead of facts

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

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jagldyome3h27twtp46nxen7/bafkreih4xb5p6rcuxpolka3kwhkpj2iph6umieki2w3o7pjrmxvppyz3du@jpeg

a cartoon of a girl laying in bed with the words current situation behind her

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.