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Bard spotting on Bluesky 02 April 2025 
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Weird things I have done, a thread
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Age 7, memorised the procedure for diagnosing appendicitis and performing a surgical appendectomy, from a 1960's-era medical encyclopedia. Was told later that day by a Scholastic rep that I was too young for the Star Wars picturebook I wanted to buy
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
American but spell words non-American i.e. "memorised", "colour" b/c I learned to spell from British supplied textbooks for NATO school kids
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Age 17 I sat down in the Computer Science lab and using ALT+nnnn codes dumped the binary machine code for the TSR I'd written into LOGIN.COM to intercept admin & user credentials. Used those credentials to drop a note in a home folder to ask a girl to prom.
(There was no email.)
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Overcame decades of internalised transphobia by also overcoming GOP / Evangelical Christian suppression of biology education to crush my internalised "transgender isn't authentic biology" bigotry (which had been conveniently supplied by the evangelicals)
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Studied / practiced (in no particular order)
🔘 Zen
🔘 Nichiren
🔘 Christianity
🔘 Western European pre-Christian religions
🔘 Inanna worship
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Learned German to learn why Germany succumbed to Nazism
Learned Python to fight Nazism
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
and I like to contrefait
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Matt Akins (@walkipedia.bsky.social):
Okay, all the others are normal, quotidienne things. This one, however - this one is _weird_ .
(My normal may have been affected by my upbringing. YMMV)
Matt Akins (@walkipedia.bsky.social):
After all, I spend all day reading emails and looking at spreadsheets , and then come home and draw in my notebook:
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
If the pages had 120° offset dots supporting a hexagonal layout, you could instead tile with einstein tshirts
www.scientificamerican.com/article/newf...
Matt Akins (@walkipedia.bsky.social):
I have a hexagonal journal . . .
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