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whdevreaux.bsky.social

Random musings & smartass remarks. Neurolurker. Dilettante. He/him/his. Interested in (but not necessarily posting about) (or even doing) higher ed, IT, infosec, cocktails, music, old movies, bicycling, & other stuff I don't have room for.

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my threads on the “alt” govt accounts are getting pulled into some things, so let me just put a few things in the same place at the top of my feed real quick:

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

After moving away to the big city to pursue a career, I am spending the week in the mountain town where I grew up, and I realized we're about 2/3 of the way to a Hallmark Movie plot.

submitted 48 minutes ago • 1 comment

T-minus four weeks until THE PAYBACK drops. Early reviews have called the book “timely,” “exciting” and “the right size to throw at your enemies”

submitted 1 hour ago • 11 comments

Society really lost its way when we moved away from food-based telephones

submitted 11 hours ago • 26 comments

"manuscript under review"

submitted 21 hours ago • 63 comments

Let me just say again how much I loathe I-95 and all the I-x95 beltways and offshoots

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I get heavy in this.

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

No Kings includes Draft Kings

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

UM I WON A STOKER AWARD

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments

I am heading to NC in a couple days to visit my mom. And I have had 40 years of dealing with the cognitive dissonance between my small home town and the bigger cities I've gone to school in & lived in. But I don't know if I'm going to make it back this time without ... some kind of incident.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

1. Let's put this together. The assassin appears to be the follower of the New Apolostolic Reformation, which holds that American society is literally under demonic possessions. (And you, dear reader, are one of the demon.) www.wired.com/story/shooti...

submitted 3 days ago • 174 comments

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff “Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.”

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

the thing about the Rubicon is as a river it's pretty easy to cross, not doing so is more about a respect for the rules than the difficulty of breaking them

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Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

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Yes I ended my talk with a poetry reading. I send this poem to my parents every 4th of July. Here it is in full if you've never read it: poets.org/poem/let-ame...

submitted 425 days ago • 6 comments

States should be passing laws that make concealing one's identity while dressed as a police officer presumptive probable cause for an arrest for impersonating a police officer.