Penny Wright
@pennywright.bsky.social
Tea drinker, work in digital and data law, live in Scotland.
Hugo Weaving and Richard Roxburgh did an excellent job at the Sydney Theatre www.theguardian.com/culture/aust...
Waiting for Godot, Sydney Theatre Company – review
Hugo Weaving and Richard Roxburgh play Gogo and Didi with wit and vigour in Andrew Upton's production of Beckett's play
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March 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Hugo Weaving and Richard Roxburgh did an excellent job at the Sydney Theatre www.theguardian.com/culture/aust...
Totoro or Kiki's Delivery Service
March 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Totoro or Kiki's Delivery Service
Glad you are here!
January 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Glad you are here!
Distracting necklace
January 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Distracting necklace
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![Denise Paolucci (rahaeli on Bluesky) cofounded blog site Dreamwidth and previously worked in trust and safety at LiveJournal. She has a ton of experience with every possible form of social media bad actor and regularly posts on Bluesky about trust and safety. Lately, she's been writing about our bot friends.
Paolucci thinks this particular wave of "reply guy as a service" bots are test runs by a spambot maker, who hopes to rent the bots out to other bad actors as a service: "It's common for spamming software to be pitched as social media management." [Bluesky]
Bad actors want to sort out what bot styles get the most responses for engagement farming. Bluesky is light on algorithms that filter what you can see, but spammers got in the habit of exploring how the algorithms work on Twitter, Facebook, and Threads so they could exploit them.
Some bots are being run to establish what can lower the quality of discussion on a platform. These bots may be political or commercial in intent. Twitter has long been overrun with this style of bot.
The bots also join followback and follow-for-follow hashtags. Content-scraper accounts are grown in the hope of selling the account to a spammer Bluesky has a large number of followback
accounts. Some of these accounts have already](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreidx5saezlmhms642lmv4eyzn637wqjd36zct7lrehnvos2vzfq7vu@jpeg)
January 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Same but with an e
January 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Same but with an e
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Turner's watercolours at the Mound. #Turner #art #Edinburgh
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Turner in January | Ireland's Vaughan Bequest | National Galleries of Scotland
In 2025 the National Galleries of Scotland will commemorate the 250th birthday of beloved British artist JMW Turner with a once-in-a-lifetime, free exhibition. For the first time, visitors will be abl...
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January 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Turner's watercolours at the Mound. #Turner #art #Edinburgh
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