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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch

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🔞 | She/Her/Hers Die Himmel in dir, wie kann ich sie wissen, kann sie seh'n? Wir tanzen im Fluge, wie Sterne, die ihrer Wege zieh'n ❤️‍🔥Kira❤️‍🔥Potzer❤️‍🔥 0001101 |x) 𒍑𒆪 𒂼𒄄 “[An] idiot” — Will Stancil https://ko-fi.com/pennyoaken

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · Aug 27

Do not follow / speak to me if you believe that the victims of major violent events (including fascist movements taking power) deserve what happens to them.

If you believe this, log off social media and get help immediately.

We now return you to the regular pinned post

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · Oct 11

I’m transgender;
I made a lot of Nazis & transphobes very angry by getting them kicked off Reddit;
I know too much about hate groups on 2015-2022 Reddit;
I am learning to read sheet music, play a keyboard, build synth patches, and I enjoy folk music & October Project.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · Nov 5

He wrote this in production in 1976 & 1977,

BEFORE THE FIRST MODEM FOR HOME COMPUTERS HIT THE MARKET

Modem handshakes were not by any means cultural touchstones and common knowledge at the time.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · Nov 5

This might be dismissed as coincidence, except Williams has the mothership respond to that invitation with “FaSol” — which is “Here” in SolReSol. Contextually and ontologically appropriate. It then uses “SolSolSolSol” — which means (in context), “HERE”.

They’re negotiating time & bandwidth domains.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · Nov 5

The famous sequence, ''Si-Do-La Laaa Miii''?

"Si-Do-La" is (''Progress, Progressive'') in SolReSol & time-doubled "La" (time-doubled to disambiguate it as the standalone word) would be the Present Participle, time-doubled "Mi" indicating Future. Progress-Now-Future - “Go Ahead”.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · Nov 5

“Wild Signals”, the ‘conversation’ piece from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, doesn’t just sound like an exchange — it’s literally a protocol negotiation using a musical conlang, SolReSol, formatted as a modem handshake — complete with a clock signal.

Williams turned a modem scream into music.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Nov 5

if you have disney+ i highly recommend the documentary/retrospective on john williams. just a nice, pleasant thing to watch. and you'll remember that williams basically created the soundtrack to modern hollywood

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 5h

Sometimes - just, *sometimes* - I am a fan of Christians

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 5h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 5h

I manage about one joke a year and this one just poured out ^_^

Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 5h

“Carl oughta transition” ❌

“Carlotta, transition!” ✅

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 7h

"How much reverb do you want on this track?'

"Yes"

Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 8h

Thank you, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h

Cartoon by John Deering.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 9h

Honestly, this is a banger

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11h

What's most terrifying about the absurdity of our contemporary political moment is that tens of millions of our fellow humans have embraced that absurdity as their reality, and "he who can get you to believe absurdities can get you to commit atrocities." rightlandia.ghost.io/its-funny-un...

It's funny until it's not; why I've stopped finding absurd right wing conspiracy theories so hilarious

What is there to do, really, other than laugh at stuff like this?

rightlandia.ghost.io

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 22h

Trump clearly decided that rapid identification of public health threats to the U.S. is something that only Democrats want.

Public health largely began in the military because once upon a time, leaders understood that disease is the greatest threat to militarily readiness. That’s over.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 12h

The US government stopped reporting Covid stats separately because they were to be reported in the MMWR.

Now they’re gutting the MMWR

E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 14h

I actually gasped. As a former public health reporter the MMWR is a big deal

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 22h

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 2d

You really want to read this entire thread, but this specific exchange is a five alarm fire:

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Perry: DOJ's definition of rebellion would mean that
"literally all nonviolent protest” could be considered evidence of rebellion. Is that your argument?
Hamilton: The president has determined there is a danger of a rebellion, and you must defer to that finding

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Lee 'the J is for J' Carter @carterforva.bsky.social · 1d

Lox, shmear, capers, onions, dill. Can't go wrong.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 1d

lox & capers, toasted, side of half sour pickle spear, tea earl grey black

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

Counterpoint:

You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers

Wilson: Now, one of the things I want to do is say: I’m really glad that slavery’s gone, and good riddance. And I want to say that the Southern slave owner, who read the books of Ephesians and Colossians and 1 Timothy and treated his slaves decently, remembering that he had a master in heaven who he studiously tried to obey — what Paul said slave owners were supposed to do — I would say he was not an orc, and he is part of the reason why slavery ended. In other words, I would say he’s a good guy.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

THIS!! 👇👇

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 1d

Will insurance cover the damage when your car is hit or your home damaged by ICE?

Asking for all the normal folks who just happen to become the collateral damage.

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 1d

a man in a plaid shirt is sitting on a yellow couch holding a white controller

Alt: Brennan Lee Mulligan on “Um, Actually …” energetically gesticulating and shouting into the camera “Envision a world where we seize our destiny for ourselves, and GET IN THE COMMENTS!”

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 1d

this! i was like, “istfg that’s Erika Ishii”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch @skywitches.net · 1d

I am so, so tired. Enormous waste of funds and effort.

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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