Which one of you spectacular bastards did this?
EDIT: The author, it seems. https://bsky.app/profile/rockymntnmike.bsky.social/post/3mpiybeiifc26
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mastodon 4.7.3Musings on DC, ancient Greek, depressingly overweening (in every possible sense) US fascism. Erstwhile Jeopardy! champion; Twitter escapee; just the beer light to guide you.
Lawful in the streets, chaotic in the … toots?? (Relative newcomer to Mastodon & still fumbling toward Masto competence.) William Hung and snow-white tan.
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Just fuckin great: setting fire to a mountain of cash because the Dingbat in Chief likes the idea of camo-clad soldiers marching around in the Union Station shopping mall and Metro stations doing jack shit. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/us/politics/national-guard-troop-housing-dc-trump.html
When you forget that US passports are issued to US citizens, not to foreigners visiting the US.
Attacked by AQI-da.
Missouri’s Republican legislators: Voters, howzabout you permanently cripple your ability to effect grass-roots change through ballot initiatives?
Missouri voters: LOL, no. GTFO.
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@ben@werd.social I don’t follow. From a pure realpolitik standpoint, Dems should *want* the Senate seat that would normally command another GOP vote to be held by an absent/non-voting GOP senator. If MM is dead, the GOP should want to get the special under way because their odds of winning are good. And Beshear should drag his heels if there IS a death/resignation before Aug. 3 because the KY statute sets no deadline for Beshear to proclaim a special election.
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @scottmiller42@mstdn.social See, that’s your problem right there. You need *infinite monkeys*.
Fortunately, we have a spec for just such a scenario.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2795
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@mattblaze@federate.social Staying indoors?
I once walked from the Black Hat venue (Caesar’s) to the Alexis Park to pick up my DEFCON badge.
Once.
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@chefraven@sfba.social @carstenfranke@mastodon.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Maybe you know this (or even meant it above) but JIC: instead of buying the whole umbrella, you can usually buy a replacement canopy at a much lower cost. Apologies if I am Mastosplaining.
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@carstenfranke@mastodon.social @chefraven@sfba.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Key dimensions are a) number of ribs and b) diameter. I replace our canopy every few years owing to fading (or worse) from the intense summer sunlight.
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@Nonilex@masto.ai Also, he’s fine with air pollution as long as the source is his rich buddies in the petrochemical industry.
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@jalefkowit@hachyderm.io @overholt@glammr.us
Well, this is awkward. Just read the Wikipedia page for Dr. Harry Harlow, he of the rhesus monkey/wire and cloth mother surrogates experiments and it says this:
“Little is known of Harlow's early life, but in an unfinished autobiography he recollected that his mother was cold to him and he experienced bouts of depression throughout his life.”
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@mattblaze@federate.social The overarching theme, however, will be “We have to do these things because Democrats cheat, like the way they cheated to win in 2020 blah blah blah.”
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@mattblaze@federate.social Don’t forget to check the pool area for rabid mongooses. https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-1st-circuit/1004677.html
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@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @wendynather@infosec.exchange @mattblaze@federate.social @fuzzface@epsilon-ix.masto.host @SecureOwl@infosec.exchange At least there weren’t any RUSes.
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@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @mattblaze@federate.social @AnnaAnthro@mastodon.social It’s an invasion, surely from Gander AFB.
It’s so adorable how The Times pretends there’s any dramatic tension here. GOP senators will cower and cave the way they have consistently for the past 18 months. That’s not going to change on a big-ticket item like this that’s so important to the Narcissist in Chief.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/us/politics/todd-blanche-attorney-general-confirmation.html
RE: https://mstdn.social/@Holberg/116854246045560987
When you misunderstood the assignment: set up a dunk tank.
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@mattblaze@federate.social @SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange
It’s the Island of Misfit Toys, but for journamalism.
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@jamesmarshall@sfba.social @mattblaze@federate.social As Matt noted in a followup post, KY law requires the governor to appoint one of three nominees proposed by the party of the deceased senator. IOW it has to be another Republican, one chosen by Republican leaders.
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@mattblaze@federate.social @alienghic@timeloop.cafe Also with heatstroke & heart attack victims among those sitting around in dangerous heat (and without adequate water or cooling because, y’know, security) for hours before the pyrotechnics even get going. I mean, people are already passing out *on the damn ferris wheel* from the heat in the mostly enclosed cabins (which was a super smart choice for July in DC).
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@Nonilex@masto.ai He has 10 days (minus Sundays) to veto it. Failing that, it becomes law even if he refuses to sign.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-7/clause-2/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@luckytran/116950306136025871
I have a bad feeling in my guts.
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The FDA now says that Taylor Farms finding is a false positive. What a mess.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/fda-says-taylor-farms-cyclospora-finding-was-false-positive-2026-07-20/
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@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @mattblaze@federate.social @AnnaAnthro@mastodon.social May I assume they were not valued?
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@joebeone@techpolicy.social UGH. The current infestation of the White House too those docs down so pls check Internet Archive.
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@joebeone@techpolicy.social The materials linked to by this post may be of some use. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/standards-of-care-and-safe-harbors-in-software-liability--a-primer
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Awesome. New “60 Minutes” Executive Producer Nick Bilton, who has zero experience in broadcast news, hires Ross Douthat — who not only has no broadcast news chops but isn’t even a journalist — as a correspondent.
CBS News under Bari Weiss is a bad joke. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/business/media/60-minutes-ross-douthat.html
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@wendynather@infosec.exchange @mattblaze@federate.social @fuzzface@epsilon-ix.masto.host @SecureOwl@infosec.exchange You can buy one of these from Harbor Freight for $8.99. I especially enjoyed this review:
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@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @mattblaze@federate.social LOAC is not my bag, but if they’re held outside the US I don’t see a basis for an REP. Maybe the Geneva Conventions confer certain rights and protections; I’d be astonished if any of those are framed in the terminology of the Katz test.
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@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange lol get fucked assholes
I hope the cops beat the living shit out of them. Get a taste of the fascism you begged for.
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@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @wendynather@infosec.exchange @ajn142@infosec.exchange Making *more* icebergs tbqh
brb gonna start a band and call it Floe and Eddy
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@mattblaze@federate.social Kinda wondering what the AQI will be tomorrow in NJ for the WC final & how/whether FIFA will deal with that.
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@SuperMoosie@mastodon.au @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org My partner would definitely say no if I were to attempt mounting on the roof.