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Director of Product Management at #Cribl formerly #Tanium, #Splunk, and U.S. Army #veteran. Husband and Father. I make #bonsai in my spare time
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This years experiment on my Oregon Myrtle (Umbellularia californica) #bonsai is to cut it back really hard and see if I can get smaller leaves by fixing it to put out more shoots in more places. If I can't get small leaves I don't think this species has much of a future as a bonsai subject.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

I took Instagram off my phone and don't use it on my computer, and man do they send me a lot of emails to remind me of what I'm missing.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

another Nazi salute at CPAC

submitted 10 hours ago • 988 comments

Feeling better after chatting with an Army buddy who now works in the IC. Much more conservative than me. He was aghast at the actions of the admin called it a coup. Mad about the firings at DOJ, FBI, J6 pardons. This is not left vs right alone. We can be united for democracy and the Constitution

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

A cold civil war ... never thought I'd be writing that, but here we are.

submitted 6 days ago • 62 comments

Our military will soon be asked to make a very stark choice. There will be mass unrest in this country as these disastrous changes take effect. Trump will invoke the insurrection act at some point. You will be ordered to inflict violence on your fellow citizens. Think through this before it happens.

submitted 7 days ago • 73 comments

I just keep thinking that right now is the scene in Hunt for Red October where Tupolev (Musk) turns off all the safeties on his torpedoes (federal government), only to be destroyed by them. youtu.be/CgTc3cYaLdo?...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe I'm paranoid, but I downloaded all of my VA health records. Just in case. #veterans #VA

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Were you a VA staffer who worked on the Veterans Crisis Line and were fired? Or are you there now and know about firings? Please reach out to me for a story at Task & Purpose. I promise to protect sources. Signal is nslayton.12

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Imagine, after all of this, being the poor loser who has to file the motion to dismiss, your name being shit forever.

submitted 8 days ago • 68 comments

Washington State deserves a good #flag. I love George Washington, but his face is hard to draw and he never set foot in the state. I know that there is a lot going on, but if you need something affirmative to do and live in #WA tell your legislator to support HB-1938 app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 8 days ago • 439 comments

ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: I’ll say this again: download all your SF-50s, performance evals, and your eOPF. Now. Print hard copies. And make sure you file an informal grievance with your supervisor within 15 days of any adverse action. Here is a template: www.muellershewrote.com/p/informal-g...

submitted 8 days ago • 327 comments

We are hiring our very first product manager at @felt.com — it’s a brand new role for our budding product organization. Do you know someone or maybe that person is you? Please reach out! felt.com/careers

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Big Weekend at Bernie's energy

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

there's a sense of doomerism on this app that i truly don't understand, it's been less than a month into this administration and the fight is truly just starting and nowhere near lost

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

President Trump campaigned on lowering costs. But he’s letting billionaire Elon Musk and Project 2025 Architect Russ Vought kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. If they succeed, CEOs on Wall Street will once again be free to cheat you out of your savings.

submitted 12 days ago • 279 comments

Meanwhile on the fediverse, IFTAS, the tiny sole provider of various essential third-party safety tooling, is going to have to shut down CSAM detection and possibly other functions absent a miracle because they can’t secure funding. about.iftas.org/2025/02/06/f...

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Listened to @kairyssdal.bsky.social 's Friday interviews on @marketplace.org and could only think of How Complex Systems Fail. The U.S. government is probably the most complex socio-technical system ever built. DOGE is just ripping out all of the safeties. how.complexsystems.fail

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Come for the news that “bigballs” hung out in cybercrime discords, stay for his old friends dumping on his coding abilities krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen...

submitted 14 days ago • 24 comments