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23andMe's going under & I wrote up how to get your own data back out, tell them "no", and hide yourself from others. The point is to take my ball home and to poison the things that might be left behind; a second post with "disinformation then deletion" is coming. www.patreon.com/posts/breaki...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

How is the “but” not “and”????? [NY Times Morning Review newsletter]

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

My Bingo card for “2025 sux” didn’t have “get chickenpox for the first time” but here we are

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Damn those do not comply in advance mf were right

submitted 77 days ago • 8 comments

"They are targeting trans people because trans life represents the principles of dignity, self determination, and gender equality that they abhor." YES! @moiradonegan.bsky.social that sentence is so good

submitted 77 days ago • 11 comments

Why yes OF COURSE I am on board with a #Lego version of #Stonewall ideas.lego.com/s/p:ade8101b...

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

A federal judge in Maryland issued a temporary restraining order on Monday, blocking members of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency team and anyone “working on the DOGE agenda at the Department of Education” from accessing sensitive data until March 10.

submitted 81 days ago • 119 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 86 days ago • 1011 comments

Incredible news! More hospitals have returned to offering gender affirming care after Trump's executive order was blocked. Moments after publishing our story on hospitals returning, Childrens National DC announced a return to care. And JUST now, Colorado Children's is back to giving care! AMAZING

submitted 85 days ago • 72 comments

New article went up last night, first of 3 on the subject of passwords! Learn WHY biometrics are BAD, and learn a great way to make a passphrase worth using. www.patreon.com/posts/authen...

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

submitted 91 days ago • 1036 comments

I am really outdone. The Maryland National Guard cannot celebrate Frederick Douglass, the state’s native son and perhaps the greatest American this nation ever produced, because he’s Black and his chosen birthday happened to fall during Black History Month. (Ask me why he had to choose is b-day)

submitted 90 days ago • 75 comments

I can personally attest that this should have been all but impossible on a federal payroll system. Unless some impatient, overconfident dev with top level admin access got frustrated by security limitations and overrode them.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Pulled the levers for a final data-output on my X accounts and will be deleting both the moment the data downloads happen. If you're finding me here bc of my last-post there, HIYA.

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.

submitted 91 days ago • 759 comments

I’m starting something up; it’s cybersec guides/recs for non-geeks. www.patreon.com/posts/121588...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

This is right now www.youtube.com/live/C_7LqxL...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Trump *wants* to be king. But the US has no kings. The President is no king. Call him a dictator, tyrant, or usurper. But we have no kings, and he is not one.

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

The idea that a president can issue an executive order that overrides Congress, while it may be appealing to everyone who wants TikTok back and agrees that the TikTok ban is a first amendment violation, is actually illegal dictator shit

submitted 117 days ago • 117 comments

Jeez, I guess now I really REALLY gotta get around to watching Twin Peaks. Mom said I wasn’t old enough to and/or couldn’t stay up that late during the original run.

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

Challenger.

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday I pulled overt references of queerness off my site, my very successful store that sells my books that have queer main characters. Because a few days ago, Meta emailed saying my advertising on their platform will be restricted - my site was categorized as "sexuality and gender identity."

submitted 153 days ago • 104 comments

That one scene, “English, muthafucka, DO YOU SPEAK IT?”, from Pulp Fiction? That’s Samuel L. Jackson’s way of playing the Glock and spiel.

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments