Takel, Twelve Birds in a Trenchcoat

@takel.gryph.one

Cybersecurity gryphon, leftist, pansexual disaster. Old enough to complain about back pain. He/him. PFP by @fleeks.art. Banner from art by @blindcoyote.bsky.social. 🔞 b/c Horny on Main. https://fursona.directory/@Takel

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

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i know some people are hoping for a Michigan Democratic Party civil war after Abdul won, but unless we get party leaders kicking each other in the balls it just won't have the entertainment value i've come to expect from state party slapfights

playing around a bit with a calculator and unless i fucked up the math (which is certainly possible), Stevens would need to be up by 50% in the remaining Wayne and Macomb County votes to stand a realistic chance of winning closer than the polls would have had us believe, but I think she's cooked

this has gotten a lot of anger and it's not entirely unjustified, but based on the link in the replies to the full interview the goal seems to be less "death to left-wing echo chambers" and more "we want people talking about more than just the fact that there's a GATDANG CHEETO IN THE WHITE HOUSE"

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Straight women on TikTok are on a "Bi Men are.bad actually" tear, calling us all sorts of shit but not wanting to be called out for bigotry. As one person put it, it's like their version of men being called out for toxic masculinity. They are being asked to reflect on their biphobia & hate it.

By me at this.weekinsecurity.com: A major online ads company that claims to serve 1.5 billion ads a day was hacked and began serving malware designed to steal a person's crypto. This is the latest perfect example why you should use an ad-blocker.

Online advertising giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are necessary

The hacked digital advertiser was caught serving malicious ads that allowed hackers to steal a victim's cryptocurrency.

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That said, let us take a moment to thank our Bluesky Trans and Furry Elders for freaking out Jack Dorsey so much he bolted and left us this nice social media playground, taking most of his crypto chuds with him. We thank you for your service.

"It also detected an “unintended consequence” of the ban: the proportion of parents who didn’t know their child had used social media increased by 10%." Spookily enough, this complacency side effect is precisely one of the things we warned about with this and the Online Safety Act in the UK.

Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d ago

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...