John Breen's Avatar

John Breen

@acab.dad.bsky.social

He/They. Queer.🏴 Tech worker (derogatory) Fuck fascism πŸ“: Northern Virginia

8,563 Followers  |  1,346 Following  |  17,376 Posts  |  Joined: 23.04.2023  |  2.2515

Latest posts by acab.dad on Bluesky

I got fooled, and I felt bad about it for a while. They got kicked out of a few of the more prominent queer/trans spaces in DC so the odds of running into them IRL are low

09.08.2025 04:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
!!KICKED OUT OF FEDCON MILITARY RECRUITMENT CONFERENCE (aka @DEFCON) !! - for daring to raise our voice against war criminals and the rise of Al tech fascism.

20 years ago when I spoke at the DEFCON hacker conference it was "spot the fed". After years in prison for hacking charges related to Anonymous, I was excited to finally return - only to find it thoroughly run by feds and deeply enmeshed with the military industrial complex we fight against.

A disgusting display, the first hour's fascist fireside chat with DEFCON's Dark Tangent and General Paul Nakasone - a four star general and director of NSA and US CYBERCOMMAND until just last year. With DT saying "Go Army!" shamelessly recruiting for the military and praising Al imperialism as US bombs fall on Gaza - we had to take a stand. As they smugly took their final jello shots with so much blood on their hands, we shouted "War criminal!" "Free Palestine!" "This isn't a hacker conference - it's a military recruitment drive!"

For daring to speak out, we were aggressively kicked out by Las Vegas Convention Center security guards - who put hands on us, calling us homophobic slurs. No goons or anyone from DEFCON offered any discussion or due process. Shameful how Fedcon treats real hackers and freedom of speech. Hackers, take a stand against the military co-optation of our communities and the hacker ethic!

Jeremy Hammond

!!KICKED OUT OF FEDCON MILITARY RECRUITMENT CONFERENCE (aka @DEFCON) !! - for daring to raise our voice against war criminals and the rise of Al tech fascism. 20 years ago when I spoke at the DEFCON hacker conference it was "spot the fed". After years in prison for hacking charges related to Anonymous, I was excited to finally return - only to find it thoroughly run by feds and deeply enmeshed with the military industrial complex we fight against. A disgusting display, the first hour's fascist fireside chat with DEFCON's Dark Tangent and General Paul Nakasone - a four star general and director of NSA and US CYBERCOMMAND until just last year. With DT saying "Go Army!" shamelessly recruiting for the military and praising Al imperialism as US bombs fall on Gaza - we had to take a stand. As they smugly took their final jello shots with so much blood on their hands, we shouted "War criminal!" "Free Palestine!" "This isn't a hacker conference - it's a military recruitment drive!" For daring to speak out, we were aggressively kicked out by Las Vegas Convention Center security guards - who put hands on us, calling us homophobic slurs. No goons or anyone from DEFCON offered any discussion or due process. Shameful how Fedcon treats real hackers and freedom of speech. Hackers, take a stand against the military co-optation of our communities and the hacker ethic! Jeremy Hammond

repost from @FreeJeremyNet (Jeremy and Jason Hammond) on twitter:

KICKED OUT OF FEDCON MILITARY RECRUITMENT CONFERENCE (aka @defcon.bsky.social ) - for daring to raise our voice against war criminals and the rise of AI tech fascism.

09.08.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 401    πŸ” 115    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 11

The only conference I’ve ever spoken at was a virtual one called FTPCon that some friends set up as a protest against DefCon hosting Alejandro Mayorkas for a keynote.

09.08.2025 04:12 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Dystopian cyberpunk update: the TikTok algorithm is actively suppressing news about massive protests in LA so people are getting around it by tagging it as a 24 Hour Music Festival and then you search that hash tag so you see ppl in riot gear facing down tear gas talking bout the festival is lit

08.08.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1607    πŸ” 638    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 19

Seems reasonable

09.08.2025 04:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of the Bluesky trending tab that says β€œYankees” and then has a flame emoji and β€œHot” to the right of it

Screenshot of the Bluesky trending tab that says β€œYankees” and then has a flame emoji and β€œHot” to the right of it

No they’re not

09.08.2025 04:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Someone I was actually relatively close with on here who turned out to be a massively shitty person

09.08.2025 04:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Very weird seeing people try to rehabilitate abusers who have actual overlap with social circles you’re in.

Like this isn’t just internet drama or β€œdiscourse”. We are talking about people who actually hurt people

09.08.2025 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I guess your word doesn’t mean shit, Wesley

09.08.2025 03:07 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s the same Wes Bell who was trying to take Josh Hawley’s senate seat and told Cori Bush β€œon my word I am not running against you”.

He then dropped out of the Senate race and primaried Cori Bush after taking almost a million dollars from AIPAC.

09.08.2025 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh my god I forgot that you told me about this forever ago

09.08.2025 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That does sound souper gouda

09.08.2025 02:56 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

many are saying a slice of bread, a slice of gouda, and a slice of ham in the toaster oven 425F for 8 minutes, combined with tomato soup, is the move

09.08.2025 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 507    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 2

Good choice tbh

09.08.2025 02:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Because she was outed as a literal abuser who was working with LB and all of her brief Internet fame went down the toilet 🫠

09.08.2025 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I had a thread on Twitter that listed the people who left a company after they posted a controversial policy.

It ended up on The Daily Wire and I got several death threats

09.08.2025 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh yeah I saw that one. How DARE you

09.08.2025 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It gets old very, very quickly

09.08.2025 02:32 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ok yeah that confirms my suspicions bsky.app/profile/acab...

09.08.2025 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I just found a link in your thread and scanned it and….what the fuck is this lol. There’s only one woman who fits the criteria in the article who would write this and then share it with the world

09.08.2025 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Like I was saying

09.08.2025 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What the hell is this self-obsessed crap from? Lol

09.08.2025 02:21 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve seen enough. Play Brandon Marsh every day you cowards

09.08.2025 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

RFK Jr.:

09.08.2025 02:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@alyankovic.bsky.social make it happen!

09.08.2025 02:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I can just hear it now:

🎢G.O.T.T.O.G.O.
Sometimes you just got to go🎢

09.08.2025 02:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

GOTTOGO

09.08.2025 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Banger

09.08.2025 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fuck. It’s happening

09.08.2025 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m obviously on Bluesky because I like it and I want more orgs to post here. But I get why they don’t

09.08.2025 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@acab.dad is following 20 prominent accounts