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Joe Uchill
@joeuchill.bsky.social
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Potential game show contestant. Former Axios, The Hill, Passcode. Founder of the Codebook cybersecurity newsletter. Once got lost in a Starbucks.
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 7h
Are you hungry or just angry at chickens?
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 7h
If you’ve never seen the Werner Herzog’s ANT MAN sketch, have I got something for you to look for.
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Josh Hilby @ilprofessore.bsky.social · 8h
Werner Herzog’s Jungle Book
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 8h
Kevin Smith’s Oppenheimer
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Upbeat Former Prof @upbeatprof.bsky.social · 8h
Paul Schrader's Madagascar
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 8h
Kevin Smith’s Oppenheimer
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Upbeat Former Prof @upbeatprof.bsky.social · 8h
Paul Schrader's Madagascar
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'Gory the A'ight @gregoryaight.bsky.social · 1d
Darren Aronofsky's Happy Gilmore.
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 10h
Your stuffed animals forgive you.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10h
A team of researchers analyzed the anatomical dimensions of an infamous imprint on a Chicago sidewalk, sifting through photos and measuring mammal specimens in museum collections to put what they were seeing in context.

Their conclusion? The Chicago Rat Hole was not made by a rat.
The Chicago Rat Hole Was Not Made by a Rat
A statistical analysis of an infamous indentation in a sidewalk suggested a 99 percent likelihood that another rodent made the mark.
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 10h
playing ent with wood tiles seems cruel.
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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 11h
The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11h
Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.
Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 11h
if you’re considering reporting as a career, clips are going to be more important than a degree.

If all your college gives you is “Breaking: The Dean is Very Attractive,“ have a backup plan.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
IndyStar 2 . Follow 1h: "All Media School and IU students, faculty and staff should be scared by this blatant attack on someone standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement. Read more: bit.ly/43ebKW1 IndyStar. IDS The original investigative student newsroom of Indiana University Barge suspends Bloomingtonr LITTLE 500 IDS IDS She should've knownbetter:' nt in N eoiencnalt. A INnpttM Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid push to control student newspaper's content The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper. As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11h
If you know of any litigation resulting from/related to this, please reach out. Email and Signal are in my bio.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13h
BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.
Department of State v @StateDept g.. The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans. The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.: 5:55 PM • Oct 14, 2025 • 34.1K Views
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 11h
I think that when media outlets report on "threats to ICE" they should remember and cite Mike Johnson saying that a naked bike ride is the most threatening thing he's seen so far
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 11h
I think every grown up reaches the point where they no longer understand the youth.

This is mine.
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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 11h
Hi what
Headline: “nature’s labubu: why are gen z unboxing conkers?”
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 11h
“…No.”

“Is there going to be, like, a twist ending?”
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 11h
Have them film you talking about being laid off.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
IndyStar 2 . Follow 1h: "All Media School and IU students, faculty and staff should be scared by this blatant attack on someone standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement. Read more: bit.ly/43ebKW1 IndyStar. IDS The original investigative student newsroom of Indiana University Barge suspends Bloomingtonr LITTLE 500 IDS IDS She should've knownbetter:' nt in N eoiencnalt. A INnpttM Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid push to control student newspaper's content The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper. As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 11h
For this weeks's Art Insider for @kcrw.com, Paula Mejía has a look at piñatas by Roberto Benavidez that are inspired by the creatures of Hieronymus Bosch.
email.kcrw.com/roberto-bena...
A piñata sculpture of a hybrid bird-mouse creature is rendered in brilliant blues.
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 11h
Bela Lugosi's Dead (Official Version)
YouTube video by Bauhaus - Topic
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 11h
I HAVE THOUGHTS ABOUT THE CLOSING CREDITS SONG.
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FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 11h
A biopic about the life of DRACULA star Bela Lugosi is in the works from Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way and the writers of ED WOOD.
Young Bela Lugosi Biopic In The Works From ED WOOD Writers
A biopic about the life of DRACULA star Bela Lugosi is in the works from Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way and the writers of ED WOOD.
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 11h
it‘s a contentious point among religious scholar, but my read of the Bible is God can kick most people‘s asses.
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 15h
Another is that human trafficking among people who have never and will never go to the USA, has a dramatic impact on US lives. It's not just a moral obligation; it's a component of a multi-billion dollar criminal industry that targets Americans.
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 15h
I'm not here to rank order evil (thank God), but there are a bunch of important takeaways.

One of them is this: Of all the industries legal and illegal that slave labor could be used for, cybercrime at least an extremely profitable one at that scale of workforce. It's not a niche crime.
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 15h
Yeah. My understanding is it's pretty big across SE Asia, topping 300,000 people enslaved to run pig butchering scams. It has gotten particularly bad in Myanmar due to the civil war - policing crimes against foreigners isn't a high priority.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17h
"it is your turn to study statistical mechanics" is the funniest way to say "kys" which will not get you banned
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 15h
One of the interesting things about human trafficking is, while sexual slavery is the thing Americans are most familiar with, there is a huge human trafficking market in cyber scam operations - like six figures of people in Myanmar alone.

This group used forced labor pools in Cambodia.
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 15h
The US seized today $15b from a mega cyber scam operator: www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr...

Elliptic says it tracked these funds to the the hack of Chinese mining pool LuBian in December 2020: www.elliptic.co/blog/15-bill...

Things... are getting weird
Chairman of Prince Group Indicted for Operating Cambodian Forced-Labor Scam Compounds Engaged in Cryptocurrency Fraud Schemes
25-cr-312_indictment.pdf BROOKLYN, NY - An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Chen Zhi, also known as “Vincent,” the founder and chairman of Prince Holding Group (Prin...
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 15h
The US seized today $15b from a mega cyber scam operator: www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr...

Elliptic says it tracked these funds to the the hack of Chinese mining pool LuBian in December 2020: www.elliptic.co/blog/15-bill...

Things... are getting weird
Chairman of Prince Group Indicted for Operating Cambodian Forced-Labor Scam Compounds Engaged in Cryptocurrency Fraud Schemes
25-cr-312_indictment.pdf BROOKLYN, NY - An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Chen Zhi, also known as “Vincent,” the founder and chairman of Prince Holding Group (Prin...
www.justice.gov
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