Cat Stack

Cat Stack

@cattystack.bsky.social

I'm a little bit country and a little bit rock 'n roll. Writer, security engineer, peripatetic. Still somewhat optimistic but not sure about what. From SF, CA. Now I live in Europe.

263 Followers 1,185 Following 29 Posts Joined Nov 2024
5 months ago

He likely practices at home on his family

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5 months ago

This is why I stayed « close to the keyboard «  when I went into Cybersecurity from DevOps. 6 years later, they like getting the whole package of sec eng, compliance expert, app sec and soft skills but they still look put out when I ask for deploy documentation. Insane.

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7 months ago
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8 months ago

Welp. Got my airline tickets for Vegas (from Amsterdam) in early August. DefCon here I come!

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1 year ago
reuters.com

www.reuters.com/world/us/mus.... Imagine needing threat models to assume anything associated with the federal government could be hostile to other western democracies. Encrypt everything, esp. if you are a gov't worker. Harddrives, emails, attachments, everything.

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1 year ago

Of all the evil things I imagined, I forgot to put cutting off health care to Americans and Medicaid payments to hospitals on the list. The ensuring "only people with money have access to education" was on the list though. I wonder what will happen when all the Trump people find Medicare is next?

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1 year ago

We now know UnitedHealth—under Brian Thompson—illegally overcharged cancer patients for meds by more than 1000%.

What we don't know is how many cancer patients died or were financially ruined as a result?

What we demand to know is why that act isn't deemed corporate murder & where are the arrests?

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1 year ago

And here I’ve been using ‘htop’ all these years.

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1 year ago
New Yorker cover from November 2016 showing a guy on the subway reading a newspaper with the headlines "oh, sweet Jesus please God, no "and "anything but that" and "come on."

♻️

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1 year ago

I mean…yeah. Don’t know what could have been done differently though

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1 year ago

Wow. Well written and a real, fucking gut punch. I read this in an Irish bar in Utrecht, NL as they madly rung the bell for last call.

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1 year ago

Congratulations to America on our new co-founding father!

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1 year ago

As much as I love watching the MAGA crowd tearing each other down, it's obviously not good to bring more H1B's into the mix right now. Again, people are struggling to find jobs. Musk likely just wants to bring spies and unpaid laborers in because let's run the USA like a corrupt business.

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1 year ago
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Folk Show: Episode 89 (A Winter Mix) The latest Folk Show has a fair sprinkling of winter throughout with other music that just seemed to suit the mood. It features Dick Gaughan, Stephanie Hladowski (who guests on the track by A Hawk and...

I found this mix somewhere. It's helping all the dark weather warm interior Dutch split pea ham bone soup simmering with introspective walks and writing things down and being with a loved one and digging deep one feels this time of year while living on a canal.....

www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...

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1 year ago

Make New Utrecht more like old Utrecht

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1 year ago
“I haven’t written a single poem
in months.
I’ve lived humbly, reading the paper,
pondering the riddle of power
and the reasons for obedience.
I’ve watched sunsets
(crimson, anxious),
I’ve heard the birds grow quiet
and night’s muteness.”
Adam Zagajewski

[Tr Clare Cavanagh]
#poetry

“I haven’t written a single poem
in months.
I’ve lived humbly, reading the paper,
pondering the riddle of power
and the reasons for obedience.
I’ve watched sunsets
(crimson, anxious),
I’ve heard the birds grow quiet
and night’s muteness.”
Adam Zagajewski

[Tr Clare Cavanagh]
#poetry

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1 year ago
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Finding a job now is harder than any time since the pandemic. Is it a bad omen? Americans say it’s the toughest time to find a job in at least three years. When will it get better?

I've got a number of friends struggling with the US job market right now and I know exactly how that feels. We seem to be getting worse and worse with every downturn, and I've survived a few of them just barely. www.marketwatch.com/story/findin...

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1 year ago

Oh, sorry I misread. Excellent work. I shared it!

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1 year ago
Your radicalization moment

I used to believe everyone 
thought of themselves 

on the righteous side of things, 
that people were just wrong 

about the world, not intentionally 
wicked. Oh how wrong I was.

Coming in early for #smallpoemsunday from @tomsnarsky.bsky.social, but every time I read the little poems he posts, they make me want to write one.

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1 year ago

This is the second poem of his I’ve stumbled across!

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1 year ago

I'm finally doing the winter time nerdy thing...like building a home lab to study for two security certs I want by spring. I got a tiny Beelink Mini PC and plan on virtualizing all the things. It takes my mind off impending doom as the Dutch keep worrying aloud about an impending Russian invasion.

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1 year ago
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Luigi Mangione Wrote Online About a Spine Disorder. Other Patients Say It's Hell Luigie Mangione, charged with murder of health insurance executive, evidently suffers from spondylolisthesis, which is painful and hard to treat.

I had an ex-husband who was flatly denied for any treatment for his Stage 4 Melanoma (Kaiser) because they wanted to take a “wait and see” approach. He’s still alive thanks to getting into the right experimental trial. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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1 year ago
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If you ask me, this would have been a much better choice for Time’s Person of the Year.

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1 year ago
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And another new collage. It’s making the long nights a bit shorter when painting and doing collages.

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1 year ago
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Dark at 4:30 in the afternoon. Rain and cold. Good for staying in on a Saturday and starting a new collage while listening to an audio book. Hygge!

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1 year ago
Ana Doina | Mediterranean Poetry The problem with Ithaka “Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is what you’re destined for. But don’t hurry the journey at all” —C.P. Cavafy, “Ithaka”…

New poems from Ana Doina, a friend from an online literary salon and list serve (Cafe Blue) that has limped along sine the mid 90s. It spawned some excellent writers…

www.odyssey.pm/contributors...?

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1 year ago

“But now he came up to himself slowly again—it was like rising through heavy water—and he was warmed by one of the great consolations: nothing very terrible lasts for very long.”

― Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

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1 year ago
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Fjord of Killary

One of the benefits of living in Ireland for a few years, was getting more exposure to writers like Kevin Barry. If you are unfamiliar, www.newyorker.com/magazine/201....

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1 year ago

That’s gorgeous!

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1 year ago

Present! It feels like the poet blogosphere from 2003 all over again. Or something like that.

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