AidaP is scraping Mumsnet threads, and grading them

Now, a proper coconut revel I would try. A spherical mini bounty.

AidaP is a legend 🤣

Re. Bluesky, this from Bitget, "an exchange committed to helping users trade smarter by providing a secure, one-stop crypto investment solution." The figures seem pretty solid.

Bluesky’s Financial Landscape: Funding Amid Declining Engagement
In April 2025, Bluesky secured a significant financial boost with a $100 million Series B investment led by Bain Capital Crypto, aimed at advancing its vision for an open social web.

However, this influx of capital came at a time when user engagement was sharply falling. By October 2025, data revealed that daily active users had dropped by 40% year-over-year, highlighting a troubling trend for the platform.

This situation exposes a major challenge in Bluesky’s growth trajectory. Although the company boasts more than 43 million registered users, independent analyses estimate that only 12 to 15 million are active each month. This means that just 30-35% of the user base is engaged monthly, leaving a vast number of dormant accounts and raising concerns about the platform’s ability to build a sustainable, revenue-generating community.

The central issue is clear: while the $100 million investment offers Bluesky the resources to pursue its 2026 product roadmap and address declining engagement, long-term success depends on transforming its large pool of registered users into regular, active participants. The funding extends the company’s runway, but does not resolve the fundamental challenges of user retention and engagement."

AidaP is a legend 🤣

I loved the orange-y goodness and the raisins but only my X liked the coffee ones. I became very good at working out which were the disgusting, vile ones and gave them to him to eat. I no longer have him or Revels but I'm rather sad at no more orange-y goodness.

I liked the coffee one. I realise this makes me an outcast and you should probably burn the witch.

He wanted to be deified, not defied. As he's all about the 'I' .

Given that many of the threads on FWR are created to highlight news items or media opinion articles, this seems a very odd framing by AidaP. By definition once an issue or event has been mentioned in the media, whether press, broadcast or social, it's surely unreasonable to expect users of a discussion forum NOT to discuss it?

Interesting though to see just how little reach and response Aida has in the blue place. No wonder he's sore about being banned from Mumsnet.

I love it!

<Steals @BambooLampshade and @Heggettypeg words.>

<feeds them to the AI>

<passes off synopsis as my own>

Synopsis / Summary

This thesis examines how women in digital communities construct, maintain, and defend their social spaces against intrusive male surveillance, using a blend of feminist anthropology, folklore studies, and material culture analysis. Beginning with a case study of an online forum where a rejected man responds to social exclusion by covertly monitoring participants—“He pretends he doesn't care, whilst literally creating a computer program to monitor everything we post”—the work argues that such behaviour echoes long‑standing patterns of patriarchal haunting, intrusion, and attempted control.

The thesis proposes the concept of “digital spirit traps”, drawing parallels between contemporary online practices (thread‑splitting, in‑jokes, coded language, collective vigilance) and historical protective devices such as witchballs, tangled threads, and woven charms. These artefacts—whether glass spheres filled with knotted fibres or sprawling Mumsnet threads filled with recursive commentary—function as communal technologies for confusing, ensnaring, or repelling unwanted presences.

Through ethnographic readings of forum culture, the thesis explores how women deploy humour, solidarity, and shared domestic symbolism to reclaim agency. Spinsters, spider goddesses, and other female figures associated with weaving and entanglement are reinterpreted as archetypes for digital resistance. Chocolate, meanwhile, is analysed as both a ritual offering and a gendered cultural shorthand for comfort, reward, and collective bonding—an edible analogue to the protective charm.

Ultimately, the thesis argues that the digital age has not erased older patterns of gendered power but has instead relocated them into new terrains. Women continue to weave traps, threads, and protective structures—only now they do so in pixels rather than yarn, and their intruders are not spirits but men who cannot bear exclusion. The work positions these practices as acts of everyday feminist magic: subtle, communal, and quietly subversive.

Given that many of the threads on FWR are created to highlight news items or media opinion articles, this seems a very odd framing by AidaP. By definition once an issue or event has been mentioned in the media, whether press, broadcast or social, it's surely unreasonable to expect users of a discussion forum NOT to discuss it?

Interesting though to see just how little reach and response Aida has in the blue place. No wonder he's sore about being banned from Mumsnet.

And then:

- Specific named individuals
- Contentious news framings ("trans mom kidnapped son")
- Potentially harmful claims ("DIY hormones without health care professionals")
- Meta (the one about your scraping)

I collected that piece of data in detail too, as it matters

https://bsky.app/profile/aidap.bsky.social/post/3mkmkrubkjs2y

I think there's the makings of a feminist anthropology thesis in here somewhere. Something like "Entangling the intruder: spirit traps in the digital age." With a lot about Mumsnet threads, actual tangled threads in witchballs, spinsters and spider goddesses. And the role and meaning of chocolate.

He doesn’t want to understand. He just wants to keep mansplaining, which he does very well, & winding everyone up.

You are, not for the first time, as self-contradictory as you are confused.

The post you quote literally says I understand and the feelings were justifiable.

🙄

I think there's the makings of a feminist anthropology thesis in here somewhere. Something like "Entangling the intruder: spirit traps in the digital age." With a lot about Mumsnet threads, actual tangled threads in witchballs, spinsters and spider goddesses. And the role and meaning of chocolate.