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patwashburn.bsky.social
Writer, editor, cybersecurity nerd, #author of Self-Care for Cats, #gamer, #disability activist, wheelchair user, recovering journalist, passionate reader of #sff living in Maine.
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I have not always supported everything Janet Mills does, but this was a good moment.

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

Books matter. Fascist regimes try to suppress them. They will be read anyway. Buy books, read books, support your public library and freedom of information.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Canada wins…

submitted 1 day ago • 434 comments

Advice for the current moment

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This is the most-read piece on @theatlantic.com. It should be the most-read piece. You should all read it, even though it may make you sad. Here’s a gift link so you can read it. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 79 days ago • 3771 comments

Delta's treatment of my chair has spoiled my last 2 vacations and convinced me I cannot risk traveling again -- something I have enjoyed and valued. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social made a valiant effort to make things better. I hope the courts and the DoT uphold this rule.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I love this story, and this guy seems great. Unfortunately, it is tough to maintain my sense of adventure when Delta Airlines routinely breaks my mobility equipment. wapo.st/4k7j7Fv

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Dear cat: must you wait till I’m in a work call to express yourself in digestive form?

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Hurricane was a very good dog. (gift link) wapo.st/4165P3F

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

dear god this is heartbreaking. we gotta make it stop.

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Excuse me, but YOU DO NOT DISS DOLLY.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

What the actual…? www.wbur.org/news/2025/02...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

My aunts, Alice and Elizabeth Washburn, with their cat in Cranford, N.J., in roughly 1927. @catsofyore.bsky.social

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#TeslaTakedown is organizing more protests. We'll post future events soon at Teslatakedown.com Thanks to everyone who is mobilizing to stop Musk and inform the public to the danger posed by his reckless and criminal actions. You can learn more and take further action at firemusk.org

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Proud to have been born in Worcester! (Pronounced Wistah)

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If you have a little money to throw at resistance, I highly recommend subscribing to the Substack of @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, a soon-to-be-fired Guardian writer who has done excellent work covering the intersection of government and technology. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

ha ha

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Here’s a description of the rejected ad. Does anyone have the actual copy? It should be disseminated widely.

submitted 5 days ago • 361 comments

Gen X represents!

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Just reposting this for no reason

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Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 9 days ago • 417 comments

Maybe it's your turn too?

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I think our country sinks beneath the yoke: It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds.

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

This fucker would get ejected out of a mass grave for ruining the vibe

submitted 8 days ago • 351 comments

from a friend who likes Star Trek (reference is to "Chain of Command" episode)

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so apparently the bright boys at doge.gov left their database open ...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Kids, if you gotta use AI for your work, at least cross-check the references. www.abajournal.com/news/article...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The grocery store sent me an email saying "Your Order is Perfect!" and I didn't realize I was being judged on this, but thanks

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DOGE as a National Cyberattack

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"... the most alarming aspect isn’t just the access being granted. It’s the systematic dismantling of security measures that would detect and prevent misuse ... by removing the career officials in charge of those security measures and replacing them with inexperienced operators."

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From @hcrichardson.bsky.social today: The idea of a small government that serves the needs of a few wealthy people, Lincoln warned, is “the same old serpent that says you work and I eat, you toil and I will enjoy the fruits of it.”

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