Steven Joel Akins / Penelope "Penny" Verity Oaken / u/Bardfinn / Penny Witchette / Finning Widget / MutabileSemper - "Incest is not unethical" - Troon Reddit powermod who orchestrates the posting of CP to subs they hate, pathological liar with a massive ego, domestic abuser and multiple felon

Sorry for double-posting but Steven's actively participating in the thread about reddit's new "True Block" function

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I wonder if he was projecting and referring to the Farms here... 🤔



Also much seething and coping on the AHS post about the same subject



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A lot of new reddit features don't get implemented on the old site. Hopefully, the new tard block feature won't be either, and it will be business as usual for archiving threads.
 
A lot of new reddit features don't get implemented on the old site. Hopefully, the new tard block feature won't be either, and it will be business as usual for archiving threads.

Unfortunately it's probably really easy to implement it so it's unlikely they leave it out on the old site, although I'm sure someone will make something to fetch and compare the comments to show what's blocked. The reveddit extension already tells you if your post gets deleted


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More delusion and accidental honesty.



"AHS is not compassionate. We are the irreducible modulo of a calculus driven by evil. We pushed back, and a wall was lifted in the space we made. It holds back the evil - keeps it from advancing."

Of course they believe that they are literally fighting evil.

"People help here from various motives. Some of those motives are compassionate. Some are selfish. Some are calculated; some are from inscrutable motives, or driven by some compulsion. There are as many reasons to help here as there are people."

Here's the admission that some people who participate in that subreddit are not at all driven by good motives.

"Fighting sociopaths and sadists and white supremacists and anti-Semites and power brokers and craven politicians and professional media manipulators doesn't make someone a better person. There is no merit in this."

Correct, fighting the evil when done with Bardfinn's bad motivations does not excuse his misdeeds and make him a good person.



Herein Steven states his intention to publish his list of "hate groups and hate group operators" but admits he likely cannot do so on reddit.


For someone who's claimed repeatedly that he has sicced lawyers on Redditors and others before, this Dollar Tree Lord Farquad doesn't seem to know that publishing lists of others claiming they are Nazis is clear grounds for defamation.

Also, that makes me remember, since the older d0xx of his court info showing him getting arrested and his ex wife wanting support, I haven't looked into any new cases. I wonder what he's involved in these days.

Looks like I'm fishing tonight!

Edit: Also, my apoligies for not knowing the thread rules. I'm unaware of whether info from private "address lookup" sites that may not be genuine is allowed. I found one that claimed his mom is a registered Republican. I wonder how Mrs. Akins feels about her degenerate son thinking she's a Nazi?
 
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For someone who's claimed repeatedly that he has sicced lawyers on Redditors and others before, this Dollar Tree Lord Farquad doesn't seem to know that publishing lists of others claiming they are Nazis is clear grounds for defamation.

Also, that makes me remember, since the older d0xx of his court info showing him getting arrested and his ex wife wanting support, I haven't looked into any new cases. I wonder what he's involved in these days.

Looks like I'm fishing tonight!

Edit: Also, my apoligies for not knowing the thread rules. I'm unaware of whether info from private "address lookup" sites that may not be genuine is allowed. I found one that claimed his mom is a registered Republican. I wonder how Mrs. Akins feels about her degenerate son thinking she's a Nazi?

He's from Texas and not in one of those city areas IIRC, so I think it's quite likely that his parents are republicans. I'm sure no one minds where you're getting the information from.
 
Unfortunately it's probably really easy to implement it so it's unlikely they leave it out on the old site, although I'm sure someone will make something to fetch and compare the comments to show what's blocked. The reveddit extension already tells you if your post gets deleted


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Offtopic rant, but the Pushshift API, which Reveddit, Unddit, Camas, etc. pull data from, now overwrites things as of a few months ago, and the author has been complying with hundreds (probably thousands by now) user deletion and opt-out requests. So it will only grow more and more useless with time, which is a shame. I regret not archiving more. I just assumed it would always be there in pushshift, text posts anyway. I'm surprised our boy Steven hasn't opted out yet. 😂
 
Offtopic rant, but the Pushshift API, which Reveddit, Unddit, Camas, etc. pull data from, now overwrites things as of a few months ago, and the author has been complying with hundreds (probably thousands by now) user deletion and opt-out requests. So it will only grow more and more useless with time, which is a shame. I regret not archiving more. I just assumed it would always be there in pushshift, text posts anyway. I'm surprised our boy Steven hasn't opted out yet. 😂

I wonder if it has anything to do with their IPO 🤔


 
Steven's beloved AHS is running a research survey
And there is no fucking way I would ever fill this in unless from behind a VPN, because any academic who is willingly associated with /r/AHS is probably in cahoots with them ideologically and is perfectly happy to pass along their pre-anonymized survey results (including any logs) to Bardfinn & co.
"That was not strictly true?" If what he's saying now is true, that was not even in the realm of truth. Twenty accounts! He insinuates that he's modding many more communities on other accounts and one wonders if those mod teams know his true identity. Why, otherwise would he want to interact with people without the reputation of "Bardfinn'"? If this is true, it's almost maniacal in scope. He's breathtakingly deceptive, but we already knew that.
This statement is obviously bullshit, he doesn't just have 20 sockpuppets. Like I said, you can make and switch amongst an unlimited amount of sockpuppets in RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite), it's not like RES has put a cap on this. He has targeted literally thousands of subreddits, and it's more likely he created a sockpuppet for each one of those. Let me remind you that he's targeted dozens of foreign language subreddits, do you honestly think he targeted those using his US accounts? No, the more likely scenario is that he created a "local" sounding sockpuppet aliases to come across as more convincing and to blend in better with the locals on those foreign subreddits.

He is not transparent about any of his "research" and there is no way to fact-check any of his claims about how he goes about targeting subs and Redditors, so it's best to assume he's lying by default. That "20 sockpuppets" number is as false as him claiming he's only datamined and blacklisted 60k Redditors, when in reality he has datamined and blacklisted literally MILLIONS of Redditors, namely, anyone who's ever posted anything on /r/The_Donald. He would not be able to make a statement such as "There are still people on this site that regularly used /r/The_Donald" if he had only blacklisted 60k instead of millions.
"and we can set a boundary that they can't violate - not without committing a federal felony, anyways." I'm not sure what he's talking about. Does he think that if users follow him on another account after he blocks them, they will be committing a federal felony? If he's following users that block him on other accounts isn't he also committing this "federal felony"?
He's not talking about anything, this is his felonous ass pretending to know or give a shit about the law again.
"Sharing blocklists is as simple as making a Twitter account that tweets out usernames


Or any other method of distributing text"
Except, 1) you're not just creating a blocklist, you falsely and deceptively claim to be engaged in some kind of "research into hate" as a "retired scientist", both of which claims are false and meant to mislead 2) Reddit doesn't warn users signing up to their site that they might be secretly logged and blacklisted as Natsees and white supremacists, in fact Reddit goes out of their way to make sure this information never gets out to the users by banning any public discussion of The League of Extraordinary Trolls, powermods, AHS, etc 3) You have openly and repeatedly targeted non-American Redditors and EU Redditors specifically, and you have thus violated the GDPR and other local laws in their countries. As I pointed out in a previous post, creating secret blacklists is considered unlawful in EU countries like the Netherlands, so when you pass along your blacklist to someone like Merari who is in the Netherlands, the fact that Merari has accepted an American-made blacklist doesn't make it any less of a legal violation according to his local laws.
Herein Steven states his intention to publish his list of "hate groups and hate group operators" but admits he likely cannot do so on reddit.
Even if he does it won't be the full list, see what I said above about him logging literally millions of Redditors just for participating in /r/The_Donald. He might publish a couple of 10k accounts that are actual provable Natsees, while ignoring the fact that he trawled millions of innocent hapless Redditors in the process, with the false and defamatory claim that those were Natsees too. Changing the goal post after the fact so you can misrepresent the actual scope of your "research" is obviously not science. It's manipulative deception.
For someone who's claimed repeatedly that he has sicced lawyers on Redditors and others before, this Dollar Tree Lord Farquad doesn't seem to know that publishing lists of others claiming they are Nazis is clear grounds for defamation.
He's too poor to sic lawyers onto Redditors, instead he bothers LE with frivolous reports. With regards to such lists being defamatory, no one is going to sue him because most people on Reddit are posting there from behind aliases, not their IRL identity, so they don't care about being listed unless their alias is connected to their IRL identity somehow. . Besides he obviously doesn't give a fuck about the legal consequences. He's already ruined his life beyond repair, he has an extensive public criminal record that will follow him forever, so he's going for broke. And besides, with his extensive psychiatric record he can always pull a Courtney Love defense and go to the loony bin instead of jail. He knows he can weaponize his mental illnesses in the legal system, and this realization makes him invincible in his crazy mind. He's basically taunting TERFs to come after him with: "Do you wanted a violent drug addict like myself in jail with other women, because I LARP at being trans? Come at me then."
 
It makes me wonder what he's going to DO with that spreadsheet in the end. Is it just going to be sitting on his computer forever, or is he going to dump it somewhere?
My personal guess is that he wants to sell it, he said he has been looking into "commercial models of hate" which use large datasets, and that led me to the suspicion that he too wants to likewise sell his blacklist to generate such a "commercial model of hate".
 
My personal guess is that he wants to sell it, he said he has been looking into "commercial models of hate" which use large datasets, and that led me to the suspicion that he too wants to likewise sell his blacklist to generate such a "commercial model of hate".
I could imagine the sale meeting.
"Yes, Mr. Ms. Akins, we here at Facebook will totally pay you millions of dollars for your spreadsheet filled with usernames such as 'niggerstonguemyanus69' and about 756 variations of 'WeWuzKangzNShieeet'. Truly, this will bash the fash."
 
Bardfinn slobbering all over Lindsay Ellis again:

The truth about Lindsay Ellis is that she stood up and said “Being dogpiled is a public health crisis” and therefore everyone who relies on dogpiling for their political ends, dogpiled her.

It kills people.

Nothing remedies it except institutional power shifts.

It’s “easy” enough to have TOS policies that prohibit hate speech and violent threats, because those are dead simple to recognise (mostly).

It’s difficult to enforce policies prohibiting targeted harassment.

For the people who practice this modus, any random factoid about their target - seemingly innocuous to others - becomes leveraged to invoke trauma, unease, and fear. They gaslight. They ignore “Do Not Contact Me”.

They will even level accusations of paranoid schizophrenia.

There is no social media platform that takes targeted, sustained harassment by the anonymous / pseudonymous free-tier users of he platform, against other free-tier users, seriously.

Because it would involve hiring moderators.

Employed Moderators are a vast cost center with limited scope and power, and literally an unlimited liability ceiling. There’s case law from incidents with AOL and LiveJournal making it so.

And employed TOS enforcement can’t invest the time to counter and prevent these campaigns


Bardfinn pretends to know German again:
Ich spreche und lese fließend Deutsch, und habe mehr über N*zi-Mist vergessen, als die meisten Leute jemals lernen; Jedes Mal, wenn ich eine Rune oder Odin-Kult-Nordisches Heidentum oder Rot-Weiß-Schwarz sehen —
Ich werde extrem misstrauisch an das.

Meine Reaktion an das ist jedoch einem Funktion des Traumas, nicht von Gründe

Ich halte es für notwendig, eine gesunde Skepsis gegenüber den kulturellen Ausdrucksformen aufrechtzuerhalten, die gewalttätigen Extremismus und Völkermord verankern.

Jedoch -

diese Skepsis sollte nur als Reaktion auf begründete Bedenken geäußert werden

Viel’cht sollte ich ab jetzt nur auf Deutsch Twittern; brauch’ Ich die Übung.

Viel’cht ist mein Verstandung Fraktur’d

Bardfinn: "Ich spreche und lese fließend Deutsch"

Also Bardfinn: "Ich halte es für notwendig"... literally NO ONE speaks German like this. This is what you get when you put "I consider it necessary" into Google Translate.
 
My personal guess is that he wants to sell it, he said he has been looking into "commercial models of hate" which use large datasets, and that led me to the suspicion that he too wants to likewise sell his blacklist to generate such a "commercial model of hate".
You give him too much credit. I think this was, and is simply way of coping from being powerless. I really hate some people, but I cant do anything to them, so I mark them on my "black list" and idk, find dirt on them or something. I my opinion "researching hate" or anything like that is rationalization.

I once did similar thing. However, I was like 14 at that time, not in my 30's for fucks sake.
 
You give him too much credit. I think this was, and is simply way of coping from being powerless. I really hate some people, but I cant do anything to them, so I mark them on my "black list" and idk, find dirt on them or something. I my opinion "researching hate" or anything like that is rationalization.

I once did similar thing. However, I was like 14 at that time, not in my 30's for fucks sake.
So he's basically Steve Buscemi's character in Billy Madison:

 
Bardfinn slobbering all over Lindsay Ellis again:




Bardfinn pretends to know German again:


Bardfinn: "Ich spreche und lese fließend Deutsch"

Also Bardfinn: "Ich halte es für notwendig"... literally NO ONE speaks German like this. This is what you get when you put "I consider it necessary" into Google Translate.

Is Garland's own Buffalo Bill actually complaining about others being "dogpiled"? The loser litterally runs an internet mob in AHS and compiles "lists" of people he hates. That's rich. AHS routinely demands Reddit and other social media sites unperson others for wrongthink.

And its more then obvious the only German Stevie knows is from watching incest schezier porn.
 
And here comes Bardfinn trying to associate the GrayZone exposé with teh fash on Reddit. You'd think someone like Bardfinn, who was trained to be an East German spy in highschool, would be delighted at the fact that Nyk's ex-boyfriend Oliver has been exposed as a shill by GrayZone but apparently he's very angry at people sharing the GrayZone article:

To give people talking about The Grayzone etc some context:

On Reddit, accounts that directed r/The_Donald behind the scenes, and who continue to run its spiritual successor subreddits

are openly crossposting and talking up The Grayzone videos now.

Over the past three months, accounts which I've had tracked on Reddit as engaged in targeted harassment, transmisic hatred, and open racism have increasingly begun to post about The Grayzone, in praise of it - not criticism. This includes now TWO major political thought-leaders

One of these two accounts is a leader of "The Friendly Society" which I wrote about previously here:

The other of the two accounts is a leader of a red-brown "tankie" influence political group on Reddit which has recently lost traction amongst its former English-speaking audience due to the CCP's shift in policy towards LGBTQ expression.

@PennyOaken how are you tracking reddit accounts? I know some antifascists maintain a github http://readme.md with daily reports for twitter accounts, you got anything similar? :)

There's MassTagger, which is more of a "caution this person engaged the chuds so check them", and my own tracking database, which started as just RES tags on accounts and is now more than 100,000 entries.

I use specific Reddit features for accounts which warrant close tracking.

Remember when he claimed it was "only 40k", then "only 60k", now claiming his blacklist contains only 100k Redditors?

That new 100k figure is still false. He openly admitted he has blacklisted and tagged literally everyone who has ever posted anything on /r/The_Donald. This means he has tagged MILLIONS of Redditors, not 100k.

BTW, these tweets are evidence that Bardfinn is cyberstalking me off-thread here on KF. He never mentioned the GrayZone article anywhere until I brought it up in the ContraPoints thread.

For those of you who haven't read the article about Oliver, I want to highlight the following parts:

Valent Projects then planned to “draw together insights” from these findings, developing “comprehensive audience profiles” – including “demographic information” – to design a “mass appeal social media campaign fronted and owned by prominent social media figure Abigail Thorn,” who runs online channel Philosophy Tube.
...

For example, Valent Projects lists the Royal Institution on its website as a client. An accompanying writeup notes it “developed and implemented a data-led behaviour change campaign [emphasis added] aimed at understanding and working with the psychological drivers behind anti-vaxer sentiment in the UK” for the organization.

Similarly, a post on the company’s official LinkedIn page refers to an “
analysis of tens of thousands of UK-based social media users “posting/sharing anti-vax content online” it conducted for Countering Pseudoscience, which would “be used to inform ethnographic research designed to understand ‘why’ people hold these views.” In other words, a specific programming strand outlined in the documents.


To recap, PhilosophyTube was ContraPoints/Nyk's boyfriend in 2018-2019. Bardfinn mods /r/ContraPoints which he uses as a recruitment ground for /r/AHS. Doesn't the above description of "comprehensive profiles including demographic information" and "analysis of tens of thousands of UK-based social media users" sound suspiciously similar to what Bardfinn has been doing on Reddit? Just throwing this out there for all the people who insist he can't try and sell his blacklist. There's defnitely money in these blacklists of online wrongthinkers.
 
And here comes Bardfinn trying to associate the GrayZone exposé with teh fash on Reddit. You'd think someone like Bardfinn, who was trained to be an East German spy in highschool, would be delighted at the fact that Nyk's ex-boyfriend Oliver has been exposed as a shill by GrayZone but apparently he's very angry at people sharing the GrayZone article:



Remember when he claimed it was "only 40k", then "only 60k", now claiming his blacklist contains only 100k Redditors?

That new 100k figure is still false. He openly admitted he has blacklisted and tagged literally everyone who has ever posted anything on /r/The_Donald. This means he has tagged MILLIONS of Redditors, not 100k.

BTW, these tweets are evidence that Bardfinn is cyberstalking me off-thread here on KF. He never mentioned the GrayZone article anywhere until I brought it up in the ContraPoints thread.

For those of you who haven't read the article about Oliver, I want to highlight the following parts:



To recap, PhilosophyTube was ContraPoints/Nyk's boyfriend in 2018-2019. Bardfinn mods /r/ContraPoints which he uses as a recruitment ground for /r/AHS. Doesn't the above description of "comprehensive profiles including demographic information" and "analysis of tens of thousands of UK-based social media users" sound suspiciously similar to what Bardfinn has been doing on Reddit? Just throwing this out there for all the people who insist he can't try and sell his blacklist. There's defnitely money in these blacklists of online wrongthinkers.

I apoligize if someone already brought it up in this 81 page thread, but as you mentioned Mass Tagger, both Tardfinn and MT's creator, Nathan Beam, have admitted they have worked together before. It's believed Steven has full access to the lists MT compiled. We know Reddit admins are close to Tard so it's possible they are protecting Nathan as well.

Beam, as you might remember, stupidly added his GitHub to his Reddit profile, (Morpen) then claimed he was d0xxed. Fucking idiot. His wife is also rumored to be cheating on him with multiple black men.

Someone else said they are planning on doing a thread about him, but I dont know how that's coming.
 
"There is no social media platform that takes targeted, sustained harassment by the anonymous / pseudonymous free-tier users of he platform, against other free-tier users, seriously."

Here's a thought: Bardfinn is no longer anonymous because he was so ravenous for reputation as a cryptologist that he outed himself in a publication. Even as Bardfinn, Steven is guilty of the very behaviour that he describes here. Technically, he may be correct, but he is also a perpetrator of the very activity he is describing. Further, he says that he operates under twenty different identities on reddit. This is an example of how Steven desires for rules to be in place for others that he, himself is naturally exempted from. Even as Bardfinn he cannot keep himself from targeting other redditors. One must simply assume that he does far worse under the other aliases.
 
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