here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

Please stop flying your personal drones over wildfires. They can ground or collide with our firefighting aircraft, disrupting time critical firefighting and threatening people’s homes. Your photos are not worth someone’s home. If you fly, we can’t.

No, I don't want to close the tab, I need to refer back to it again later, and the data I need to read may not be there again when I try to load it again later. No, the Wayback Machine can't capture it because it's fucking loading some JSON. I want an idle page doing nothing to do fucking nothing!

QotD: If you ask a hospital "What happened to the patients who had sepsis during your ransomware attack", their lawyers will say "Sir, this is a Wendy's please don't ever call me again"

the real risk of child sexual abuse isn't trans people using the restrooms or locker rooms that reflect their genders, it's coaches and teachers and youth pastors who you want to give a legitimate reason to be inspecting their genitals in the name of oppressing people who aren't hurting anyone

how many real people have experienced actual, documented harm at the hands of Trans people playing sports? ok, how many children will be victimized by mandatory genital inspections, because you know the number isn't zero? tell me again, who are you trying to protect here??

Anti-Car sticker spotted in Buxton, UK

But what does this mean for the average person? We asked John Obvious Bad Guy and Gary Clearly Has Vested Financial Interest to tell ordinary people what to think.

If this gets instituted, we’re going to see a study in a few years that says, “Black children, and children of color, were pepper sprayed at nineteen times the rate of white children,” and mfers are going to act surprised, despite how clearly every data point says this will be the case.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7d ago

“The drones wouldn’t break up a schoolyard fight…But if one of the students pulled a knife, they could.”

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Carrying NCCDC Forward alexlevinson.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/c... A new home for NCCDC ncr.foundation/news/nccdc-n... The National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition is moving to NCRF, a non-profit helmed by long-time event volunteers Alex Levinson & Dave Cowen. I trust both w/ this stewardship

Carrying NCCDC Forward

After 21 years of stewardship, UTSA and the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security are transitioning the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition to a new home. Dave Cowen and I are …

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I worked at Disney a while ago. Do you know why theme parks are so safe? Because OOSHA reps can walk the track on any ride at any time and any safety violation they see is a $10,000 fine. Each. Theme parks are not safe because the company cares. They're safe because it's cheaper to comply.

Jon of The North@krauza.bsky.social · last wk.

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

Networking is the hardest part of hacking

The safety of our community is our highest priority. For this reason, we have decided to postpone DEF CON Middle East. The evolving security situation in the region makes it impossible to concentrate on delivering the experience attendees deserve.

We understand that this news is disappointing, but we believe it’s the most responsible choice right now. We look forward to bringing the full DEF CON experience to friends new and old in Bahrain, and we will share new dates and information as soon as they are confirmed.

Yes, all of this. Use your library! It's an unmitigated good in the world!

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2w ago

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

Wired sets the frame that the model “escaped containment,” but from an accountability perspective, OpenAI left a door open by failing to properly isolate their system. Real headline: “OpenAI’s security failure leads to cyberattack against another AI company.”

A white supremecist has higher order epistemological issues that make everything else they think suspect. They aren’t wrong on one minor issue, they fundamentally misunderstand people and society how they interact.

Kinda hilarious how the "Live Free or Die" country spawned "Comply or Die" A periodic reminder that guillotines are the moderate solution

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Homan on people getting killed by ICE: "It comes down to one simple fact -- these people failed to comply with law enforcement ... all they had to do is comply. If they did, they'd be alive today."

There's so much destruction right now. Of course you can't fix everything yourself. But you can focus on one thing, find some like-minded people, and make a real difference.

Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 3w ago

On Tuesday, a New Jersey town pulled $91M out of Citizens Bank over its business with ICE prison contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic. Yesterday, Citizens announced it was ending its relationships with GEO and CoreCivic. Money managers should DIVEST from $GEO $CXW www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...

Last book that made you cry, I'll go first

Nobody disputes that having access to a car in a car-dominated society is good. It gives one access to jobs, healthcare, food, education, social opportunities and more. All we're asking is for people to go one step deeper and ask why access to such basic rights requires buying and operating a car.

Romeo Kokriatski@vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 3w ago

I grew up in Jackson Heights in Queens and we still had a car, and our lives got measurably better when we did.

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mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 3y ago

watching OPPENHEIMER as Christopher Nolan intended, projected onto a wall in a DOOM WAD running on a hacked ATM:

No fuck off we're not calling this "Millennial grey" this shit was dictated completely by boomer retiree house flippers we absolutely had NO say in this

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

if your dad sucks let me—an actual dad—use father's day to tell you what I think every child deserves to hear from their parents: I'm proud of you, and so glad you're figuring out how to survive this messy world. The world is better with you in it. This is extra true if you're trans.

a solution to AI water usage: Brawndo has what H100s crave

My friend is selling a toorcamp ticket if someone still needs one

Everyone involved needs to be tried for war crimes

Asha Rangappa@asharangappa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/