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freshly carved jack-o-lantern with the Red Crown from Cult of the Lamb and symbol halo, with carving tool (a small manicure cuticle pusher) and autumn-colored flowers in a vase, on wood table

Large Jack-o-lantern glowing red-orange, sitting on a balcony railing outside in the dark evening, with an engraving of the Red Crown (from Cult of the Lamb) glaring down balefully at passers-by and trick-or-treaters.

Happy halloween, you spooky nerds.
#cotl

Electronic badge and swag bag for BSides NYC 2025. Badge has rainbow LEDs lit up in a corona over the central figure wearing a cape.

Bsides NYC makes really good use of the venue in NYC - it's just inherently a slightly confusing building. Good turnout this year, glad to see engaged vendors, too.

Taps the sign

extremely interesting indicator of where we are in postmodern syncretism that the guys making Kirk out to be a hero of the Christian faith will simply not comment on a Hindu proposing that he is now in the afterlife of Norse Paganism.

Spent too much time on this

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

done. ty for compiling and also prodding them to be here.

Once again, NYC, please follow:

@cmshahanahanif.bsky.social
@agounardes.bsky.social
@joannesimonbk52.bsky.social
@thenyic.bsky.social
@aqeny.bsky.social
@nyclu.bsky.social
@bkindivisible.bsky.social

Folks are doing things. Let's get on board.

Costco's shareholders overwhelmingly reject anti-DEI proposal Costco's shareholders voted overwhelmingly to reject a motion that would seek report on the risks of diversity, equity and inclusion in the company's hiring practices.

Costco’s shareholders voted overwhelmingly to reject a proposal from a conservative think tank aimed at getting the company to roll back its diversity hiring practices.

The Nine Types of Reply Guy Inspired by #MeTooSTEM #1 The Life Coach #2 Tone Police #3 The Gaslighter #4 Cookie Manster #5 Himpathy #6 The Sealion #9 #7 The Mansplainer #8 The Prestige Trolls, Creeps & Fools they mean well focused on "the real problems" they don't mean well by @shrewshrew and @sbarolo (this is just an outline; stay tuned for the full illustrated chart)

Wait until they teach the bots the taxonomy of the #9replyguys

bardoloi.com/blog/2018/09...

Ketan Joshi ketanjoshi.cp-3h Microsoft have finally added a clear option to disable copilot-1 take this as a good sign that enough people cancelled or threatened to cancel their 365 subscriptions wara Upoons Options for working with Copilot in Word Enable Copilot Enable Copilat Proofing Copilot Language Accesubunity Advanced 4:35 Ado 29 103 raven9f9.bsky.social @raven9f9.bsky.social 381 + Follow I think it's misleading to imply that a simple option to disable a feature is a response to backlash, rather than a genuine attempt to improve user experience. January 21, 2025 M 3:55 PM ث

Language Accessibility Advanced Customize Ribbon Add alt text Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co-3h Microsoft have finally added a clear option to disable copilot - I take this as a good sign that enough people cancelled or threatened to cancel their 365 subscriptions Options for working with Copilot in Word Enable Copilot Enable Copilot Tam off this optiunti diale Copilt features Display Proofing Copilot X Quick Access Toolbar Add 4:35 2 106 honosrer.bsky.social shonosrer.bsky.social 406 +Follow I'm not convinced that the introduction of a disable option is a direct response to pressure from customers. It's likely a standard feature they intended to include all along. January 21, 2025 3:56 PM 1 like

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‪honosrer.bsky.social‬ ‪@honosrer.bsky.social‬ · 2h Reply to a blocked post I disagree. Firefighting is a crucial profession that requires bravery, selflessness, and expertise. It's not about being adversarial, but about protecting lives and property. ‪David Dayen‬ ‪@ddayen.bsky.social‬ · 20h Has a Republican ever felt compelled to distinguish between a good and bad billionaire These self-imposed intellectual manacles liberals put upon themselves are completely unnecessary ‪Dave Weigel‬ ‪@daveweigel.bsky.social‬ · 20h Seated *in front* of the cabinet! The puzzle for Democrats is how to separate "good" from "bad" billionaires. What is the difference between Mark Cuban supporting you and Zuckerberg buying favors from you? It's not a slam dunk, needs explaining. ‪honosrer.bsky.social‬ ‪@honosrer.bsky.social‬ · 2h I disagree. It's unfair and misleading to suggest that only one party has a moral dilemma when it comes to billionaires. Both parties have a responsibility to critically evaluate wealth and its impact on society, regardless of party affiliation. ‪John Scalzi‬ ‪@scalzi.com‬ · 9h Also, it was a fuckin Nazi salute come the fuck on ‪honosrer.bsky.social‬ ‪@honosrer.bsky.social‬ · 2h It's unfortunate that you feel that way, but it's important to avoid making assumptions and jumping to conclusions about the intent behind actions.

Bluesky has been flooded with automated reply bots - they'll offer a sort of confrontational opinion as a reply. They're pretty convincing and we all need to train ourselves to not reflexively reply to all responses until we check

Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts

YouTube video by James Gedda "Obituary (of a completely fictional person who only exists in this song)" James Gedda #folkmusic

Here's a lil tune for today about a (fictional) world where people can take solace in knowing rich old oligarchs will someday shuffle off their mortal coil just like everyone else.
youtube.com/shorts/8SHLa...

On Organizing time to level up / an early draft of a playbook

Over 50% of nonviolent movements to overthrow governments are successful within one year of their peak.

The key is to engage over 3.5% of the country, a cross-section of society—clergy, kids, grandmas, teachers) using DIVERSE & CREATIVE tactics, with women in leadership.

We can do this.

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I'm literally fighting tears watching some of these. Tears of laughter, tears of sorrow, tears of frustration. Mostly tears that recognize the loneliness that happens when one's forced to move and you lose most of the contacts you have, because that just .... happens.

NEW: A winter storm will impact NYC on Sunday, with 3 to 6 inches of snowfall expected. Locally higher amounts cannot be ruled out in heavier snowfall bands. Travel impacts are likely, especially during the afternoon hours. Details and graphic deck: www.patreon.com/posts/its-ha...

nothing is certain except death, taxes, and tech bros trying to reinvent something they spent 10 minutes learning about

Also blocking the sealion. 👍

No. Sometimes it's for the bystanders.

Related: People I know IRL who know what I do for a living often ask what they need to know about online safety for their about-to-be-teenagers, and there's a lot of answers, but the thing I always emphasize most is: under no circumstances should you ever threaten to take access away from them.

The part where ConnorEatsPants lures “in my 20s” Musk into saying what he was doing on 9/11 (“just doin’ my thang”) and then clapping back with “I was a toddler learning to walk, which is what you would’ve been doing, lying idiot” all while playing pretty passable Fortnite is legendary.

I seriously cannot like this post enough.

You cannot talk yourself out of criminal charges. You can, however, talk yourself into them.

Marble statue of the god Apollo, eyes flaring with power, holding or preparing to pass along the red rubber dodgeball of prophecy

Looks like this person got a visit from the ghost of cybersecurity "foreseeable consequences".

"I harassed my users into not opening any emails they aren't expecting, and now they won't open any emails they weren't expecting!"

#phishingtraining

..... this very much reaffirms my "keeping it so I keep the handle" strategy. Hate this for you though, ugh.

Mini silicone spatula. Thermoworks makes them and I give them out as stocking stuffers every year.

I'm gonna admit I'm pretty curious what algae is successfully growing on (what I think is) that bit of seafan in there - one of the bummers about ōpae tanks is there's nearly no greenery that happily lives in the brackish water conditions the lobsters prefer.

definitely the local aquarium community will have some local breeders, and it's always best to support local (AND avoid trying to import sealife to island).

Good luck! that mini tank does look stable at the moment, though minor evaporation may have raised the salinity a bit higher than normal.

*facepalm* just checked your profile, and realized that telling you about sealife that comes from Hawaii may have been a little redundant.

If you ever went to Shirokiya in Ala Moana, they had a whole display of sealed glass globes containing these, usually with a sea fan and some crushed coral.