Amanda Walker
@aw90.bsky.social
security & privacy geek by day, decorative artist by night. Not interested in cryptocurrency or gofundme scams, sorry.
the whole "women's sports exist to protect women from men" framing is hilarious, given that a lot of these divisions were initially formed because men were deeply embarrassed any time a woman beat them at a sport olympic shooting was mixed gender right up until a woman won the gold
Let us drink a toast to the memory of Willis Haviland Carrier, the inventor of modern air conditioning. This message brought to you by a high of 96ºF/36ºC today. However, it was a beautiful day for a scenic drive up the GW Parkway along the Potomac.
Excellent spring weather for a work visit to Zürich. It's quite pleasant to be outside the US for a bit.
Here’s the story of one of them. Awful www.thestranger.com/forced-out/f...
Forced Out: The Electrical Engineer
Anti-Trans Laws in Florida Forced a Woman to Quit Her Dream Job with NASA
thestranger.com
Takaichi’s Castle@discographette.online · 4mo agocongratulations to the astronauts who get credit for a moon mission using rocket development work by trans women who had to quit their job and flee the state of florida and can’t celebrate this win with their coworkers
NASA is one of the best things about this country. Hope. Innovation. Exploration. Wonder. Give them, the post office, and the national parks service all the money from ICE
I hope this email finds you on the couch with the necessary amount of blankets, snacks, and pets
the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained
Happy New Year to my fellow vaccinated people who made it to 2025
I've worked on health care related projects for HHS. I am sad to see political appointees destroying the Department's mission and legacy every time I check the news. Too bad this regime doesn't vet appointees as thoroughly as they do employees and contractors.
DC residents have been refusing to call that airport anything but National for almost thirty years, we certainly can refuse to call that arts center anything but the Kennedy Center for three
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
yesigiveafig.com
This is amazing: byte.tsundoku.io The first issue I recognize is October 1978. Zooming around in this is like a time machine.
Byte - a visual archive
byte.tsundoku.io
Anyone have a good photoshop of a Spirit Halloween banner on the Rayburn building?
Lake Tahoe from the air, taken during a cross country flight last month.
Office archaeology: the first computing device I bought with my own money, working at a computer store in high school. It still works, after giving it new batteries. Somewhere I should still have the card reader and barcode reader accessories for it.
Don’t worry, once we’ve helped them come for immigrants and trans people, they’re sure to be appeased and dedicated to solidarity in our great big tent and not come after anyone else, as history teaches
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
As a friend of mine noted this morning, the inscription on the Department of Justice building that says "WHERE LAW ENDS, TYRANNY BEGINS" is a warning, not a goal.
just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!
If your most effective management skill is insisting people work 80 hours a week, you might want to consider learning some new management skills.
Rare work related post. Project Zero continues to do great stuff!
Natalie Silvanovich@natashenka.bsky.social · last yr.While most vendors ship timely patches for vulnerabilities reported by Project Zero, they don’t always reach users. Today, we’re announcing Reporting Transparency, a new policy to encourage downstream fixes googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/07/repo...
I just got home from a short work trip to Silicon Valley & San Francisco, so have a picture of a blue sky.
