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Siegfried

@siegfriedwatson.bsky.social

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Tabletop player and horror writer. Autistic, Depressed, Anxious, the world is on fire, but I'm here with marshmallows at least. Sorry if I miscommunicate, words are hard. I do fortune telling, but not in the typical way.

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Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 1m

The internet is a place of discourse where outrage is frequently used in place of actual cognitive critical thinking. "I don't like this, I will be angry! Everyone else is angry!" Especially in echo chamber groups. When I'm angry, I try to understand -why- I am angry...

Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 1d

They write who pays them the most. NYT are greedy and have zero journalistic integrity anymore.

Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 1d

More like "... If they feed their pokemon... I'll be able to close shop early today. Come on... Buy food for your pokemon... You know you want to..."

Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes, “his” vision… still not convinced he’s not just Heritage Foundation and Stephen Miller’s puppet.

Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno, A LOT of Israeli people have been on board for genocide of Gazans… but I know 85% of Russians are extremely against the Ukraine war, especially since they could be conscripted at a moment’s notice.

Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 1d

There's an asshole politician saying that the 'No kings' is attacking 'our one true king, Jesus Christ' to try to reframe what the protest means to make it anti-christian... While at the same time the whitehouse and trump and vance post AI of trump being crowned king.

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Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 1d

Except the troll farms in the US are paid for by the government to keep outrage and misinformation going. It's the age of information warfare, and the war is against normal citizens.

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Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 2d

Such a beautiful avian friend! Ace pride! <3 We exist, and we're not as simple as 'not fancying a shag', void dammit!

Always be true to yourself!

Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 2d

It's not a full month, but it's nice to be seen! <3

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 2d

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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area

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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction

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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it

Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…

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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely

[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over

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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat

[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster

Minister:
I understand your concerns…

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Nurse:
Are you OK love?

Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters

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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian

[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]

Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love

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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to

[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]

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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR

[woman looks baffled]

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woman:
I just want a bus service

Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]

[ends]

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 3d

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 3d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 3d

<3 I'm unable to get out there due to disability (SEVERE social anxiety... I can't do conventions either... Full grocery stores even cause panic attacks...) So I try to spread the word instead!

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Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 3d

Oh I know what 1488 means, I'm saying there are bots -as well- that do random numbers too! It's best to keep an eye out for those types... They don't use full names, they always use numbered names when they're from troll farms because they use programs to randomly generate names.

Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing how easily you can identify these trolls. They always have generic words + numbers (4-6) in their names. Imgur has them too. They’re literally troll farm accounts.

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Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 3d

Fucking gross, that's the 'MAP Pride' flag constructed by 4chan as a psyop against LGBTQ+ communities...

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Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 4d

Most of the young republicans in that chat were fucking 30+ years old. They're 'young' compared to the 40+ politicians.

Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 4d

Swords, you're revealing dark hidden knowledge. The council is disappointed. *shakes head*

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Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 4d

That took them a while, you're quite rude, and we love you for it, Rob. <3 You tell it how it is!

Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 4d

bsky.app/profile/sieg... So uh... Anonymous, they removed the ability to report Hatch Act violations. Interesting shit, huh?
Anyone else unable to report?

Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting... They've removed the ability to anonymously report Hatch Act violations. This whole fucking admin knows they're breaking the law...

A screenshot of the screen for reporting a Hatch Act violation anonymously. Reveals that you cannot do this because you lack permissions. This also shows the tabs for "Important Information, Employment Information, Case Details, and Submission" on the side.

Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting... They've removed the ability to anonymously report Hatch Act violations. This whole fucking admin knows they're breaking the law...

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Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 4d

osc.gov/Services/Pag... For those not in the know of what the Hatch Act encompasses. In short, the people behind these posts are breaking the law.

Hatch Act Overview

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Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 4d

You've broken the Hatch Act with this post. Abusive cowards.

Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 4d

That's a lot of bot likes you got there. You can't even earn real likes, you gotta use fake ones because no one actually likes you. Even your manipulated mouthpieces are losing respect for you. :3 Cowards. OH YEAH! You broke the Hatch Act with using all of those accounts to spout propaganda.

Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 4d

It's also important to note that they all have verification checks on them, so some people are more likely to be fooled than others, but a vast majority of us know better.

Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 4d

They're already deploying bots to give themselves likes and visibility from what I've seen. They want to make you feel unsafe. They want to intimidate people. That's the only tactic they know. They're bullies and cowards.

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