James (Jamie) Tomasello

Hold up. He’s 11 now?!?!?

This Is the best thing I’ve heard all day.

That time you have to eat like garbage for a few months in order to raise your A1C to qualify for metformin, so you can use it to treat your idiopathic intracranial hypertension symptoms and lose weight.

This is how us chronic pain peeps hack the Gibson.

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

I just said to the dog, “Come sit on the couch next to mama and listen to the Beatles. They will keep you safe.”

My semi-regular reminder to always have at least one friend to whom you can text things like “If shitting was an Olympic sport, I would have won gold.”

I really want to submit for USENIX Security Enigma track, but I’m concerned that people don’t want to hear about how pain management vs pain avoidance shows up in the work we do.

Catalog - Risky Business Media Catalog

Are you selling a security product? Can you please do us both a favor and just tell me what it is? Just explain literally what it does and how.

Risky Business was kind enough to start a catalogue with useful descriptions for their advertisers, but can we please normalize this?

risky.biz/catalog/

Yup! I just found that stuff too. It’s waaaaaaaay too scented, and it works. I have a mix of 2a - 3a curls so I have to limit how much of that product I put in as well.

I feel like a responsible adult today for getting all my tax information to the tax man.

It's hard being a responsible adult when the world is full of leaders being irresponsible.

Endoscopy today found gastritis (as expected) and removed three 1 cm stomach polyps (unexpected!) and multiple biopsy sites for testing.

The propofol induced nap was nice.

“Lower headcount”? These are people lives, you fucking monsters. Rot in hell with the shitty world you helped facilitate. Can’t wait to hear the thinkpiece titled “I used to sell AI garbage that destroyed people’s livelihoods, then AI took my livelihood. I am sad.” Take me off your list, psycho. Sincerely, Alison Gianotto Founder & Chief Mohawk Officer agianotto@grokability.com Website: https://snipeitapp.com Support: https://support.snipeitapp.com "If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent.'"– Edsger Dijkstra On Feb 27, 2026, at 12:31, Olivia Murphy <olivia.murphy@falarudi.info> wrote: Alison, Quickly circling back - Ever looked into AI answering your calls at 70%+ less vs staffing? Think lower headcount & more time focusing on profitable activities. Let me know if this is worth looking into. Olivia Murphy

Over here having a very normal one.

(Seriously, fuck these companies though.)

At the podiatrist right now to fix my jacked up big toe, she mixed in marcaine with the lidocaine and it took two rounds of numbing and an hour to get the toe numb. Thankfully, she listened to me about my body.

Payment sent! Time to start wearing purple!

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I will pay you $50 for the ticket if you give it to someone who needs/wants to experience musical joy.

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

A graph using reports from people over papers showing Numbers of reported kidnappings and activity from Minnesota, California, Florida, Texas, and then a combination of all other states. The highest Spike is in mid-January showing that Minnesota was reporting 500 incidents a day while California was reporting right around 100. Along this whole graph, Minnesota is showing at least double reports compared to everyone else with the exception of a time in very early January when California was almost on Pace with what we were seeing here. There is a small heading up top that says: immigration enforcement in Minnesota dwarfed the rest of the nation.

Seeing this visualization has been really impactful for me. There were times when people tried to come at us sideways for claiming this is *different* and massive in a way that we hadn't seen other places. But it really really has been.

Yeah, I had a hell of a time with an epidural during labor with my son, I'm not sure how it happened but all the labor pain referred or I guess rerouted to the urethra. (Yes, I had a foley at the time, but it wasn't that.)

So I knew about the redhead gene. There are no redheads in my family. But the tissue perfusion fuckery is new to me. Doctors didn't take me seriously about the lidocaine nonsense, so I started saying I had MC1R gene mutation / redheads (even though I have nothing to prove it).

I often tell dentists and anyone else administering lidocaine to use twice as much and come back in 15 - 20 minutes.
The lidocaine did fuck all for the insertion of the femoral vein catheter for my cerebral venogram.
Yeah, the LP w/ lidocaine sucks too. I asked for mild sedation for my last one.

Cover page of a report. Text reads, "Breaking Government: How DOGE and Trump Cost Taxpayers, Federal Workers, and Public Services. Interim Staff Analysis. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. U.S. House of Representatives. February 12, 2026. oversightdemocrats.house.gov"

Though this hasn't received much news coverage, we're sharing in case our community is interested in reading the report in full. Link in 🧵.

is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?

What’s your problem with lidocaine? It’s been quite an experience to read some of your symptoms matching mine but I don’t have the traditional symptoms of EDS. (Although, I have been wondering about MCAS more and more.)

Yesterday with your help, we paid the rent for five Minneapolis immigrant families in need. Rent’s coming up, donations are down, and there’s still so much need here. Let’s help as many as we can today!

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I'm watching the Closing Ceremonies (I think) of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, and I think a woman is singing "Il Mondo"!

Thank you About Time for introducing me to Jimmy Fontana.

I blame When Harry Met Sally, Practical Magic, and 10 Things I Hate About You for shaping my ideas on romance and relationships.

James&#39; M3AAWG Mary Litynski Award Acceptance Speech | James Tomasello Today, I received the honor of the Messaging, Malware, Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group 2026 Mary Litynski Award. I am making my acceptance speech available because the call to action needs to be heard...

I posted my acceptance speech if you’d like to read it. :)

www.linkedin.com/posts/jtomas...

Very true. A Powerball lottery would empower a serious Foundation.

Thank you. Sometimes the recognition that matters isn’t monetary.

I have to win the lottery first.