Martijn Grooten
@martijngrooten.bsky.social
Threat Intelligence for Silent Push. Digital security for at-risk people.
Researcher, reader, runner. Eternal traveler, serial migrant, music blogger, lapsed mathematician.
https://lapsedordinary.net/
Signal: martijngrooten.37
Researcher, reader, runner. Eternal traveler, serial migrant, music blogger, lapsed mathematician.
https://lapsedordinary.net/
Signal: martijngrooten.37
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Who'd like to read a book on the Intellexa Alliance?
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Who'd like to read a book on the Intellexa Alliance?
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my VB2025 talk, "Rogue hirer, rogue hiree: workplace cyber threats to individuals and businesses", is now online. paper here: www.virusbulletin.com/uploads/pdf/...
Rogue hirer, rogue hiree: workplace cyber threats to individuals and businesses — Chris Boyd
YouTube video by Virus Bulletin
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
my VB2025 talk, "Rogue hirer, rogue hiree: workplace cyber threats to individuals and businesses", is now online. paper here: www.virusbulletin.com/uploads/pdf/...
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The word 'Orwellian' is overused, but calling countries with active human rights protections 'human rights violators' is pure doublespeak.
Countries that have abortion access, DEI policies or protection for LGBTQ+ people will be considered “human rights violators“ by the Trump regime
We’re in the upside down.
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
We’re in the upside down.
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The word 'Orwellian' is overused, but calling countries with active human rights protections 'human rights violators' is pure doublespeak.
I went to the theater and apparently subtitles (technically supertitles; it was part of some festival) are a thing. That was fun. Hard to follow both the text and the things happening on stage though.
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I went to the theater and apparently subtitles (technically supertitles; it was part of some festival) are a thing. That was fun. Hard to follow both the text and the things happening on stage though.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Every ten minutes last year a woman somewhere in the world was killed by a person close to her, the United Nations has said, as it decried a lack of progress in the battle against femicide
One woman killed by someone close every ten minutes - UN
Every ten minutes last year a woman somewhere in the world was killed by a person close to her, the United Nations has said, as it decried a lack of progress in the battle against femicide.
www.rte.ie
November 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Every ten minutes last year a woman somewhere in the world was killed by a person close to her, the United Nations has said, as it decried a lack of progress in the battle against femicide
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There's a whole industry based around imprisoning people to do this work in Myanmar www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
November 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
There's a whole industry based around imprisoning people to do this work in Myanmar www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Tunisian media collective Nawaat is under threat. EFF stands with Nawaat: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
EFF Stands With Tunisian Media Collective Nawaat
When the independent Tunisian online media collective Nawaat announced that the government had suspended its activities for one month, the news landed like a punch in the gut for anyone who remembers
www.eff.org
November 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Tunisian media collective Nawaat is under threat. EFF stands with Nawaat: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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The Mountain Goats – Rocks in my Pockets
For me, The Mountain Goats (@themountaingoats.bsky.social) will always be the one-man lo-fi band I fell in love with in the late 1990s. I know they’ve released a million albums as a full band since but it still doesn’t feel ➡️
ftherules.net/2025/11/13/t...
For me, The Mountain Goats (@themountaingoats.bsky.social) will always be the one-man lo-fi band I fell in love with in the late 1990s. I know they’ve released a million albums as a full band since but it still doesn’t feel ➡️
ftherules.net/2025/11/13/t...
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The Mountain Goats – Rocks in my Pockets
For me, The Mountain Goats (@themountaingoats.bsky.social) will always be the one-man lo-fi band I fell in love with in the late 1990s. I know they’ve released a million albums as a full band since but it still doesn’t feel ➡️
ftherules.net/2025/11/13/t...
For me, The Mountain Goats (@themountaingoats.bsky.social) will always be the one-man lo-fi band I fell in love with in the late 1990s. I know they’ve released a million albums as a full band since but it still doesn’t feel ➡️
ftherules.net/2025/11/13/t...
Worth noting this, from @simonkuper.bsky.social, on imprisoned Turkish opposition leader Ekrem İmamoğlu on.ft.com/48nZG7E
November 23, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Worth noting this, from @simonkuper.bsky.social, on imprisoned Turkish opposition leader Ekrem İmamoğlu on.ft.com/48nZG7E
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Dreamcoaster – Catch Me When I Fall
The excellent @janglepophub.bsky.social blog — a great source for new music in, well, that particular subgenre — refers to Dreamcoaster’s music as ‘jangle-gaze’. An excellent description, as the ➡️
ftherules.net/2025/11/12/d...
@dreamcoasterband.bsky.social
The excellent @janglepophub.bsky.social blog — a great source for new music in, well, that particular subgenre — refers to Dreamcoaster’s music as ‘jangle-gaze’. An excellent description, as the ➡️
ftherules.net/2025/11/12/d...
@dreamcoasterband.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Dreamcoaster – Catch Me When I Fall
The excellent @janglepophub.bsky.social blog — a great source for new music in, well, that particular subgenre — refers to Dreamcoaster’s music as ‘jangle-gaze’. An excellent description, as the ➡️
ftherules.net/2025/11/12/d...
@dreamcoasterband.bsky.social
The excellent @janglepophub.bsky.social blog — a great source for new music in, well, that particular subgenre — refers to Dreamcoaster’s music as ‘jangle-gaze’. An excellent description, as the ➡️
ftherules.net/2025/11/12/d...
@dreamcoasterband.bsky.social
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poem that my dear friend @arcanumb.bsky.social wrote & published this week ❤️🔥🏳️⚧️
March 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
poem that my dear friend @arcanumb.bsky.social wrote & published this week ❤️🔥🏳️⚧️
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Jovi feat. Reniss – B.A.S.T.A.R.D.
I am a sucker for songs that switch between two languages and B.A.S.T.A.R.D. switches between three: French, English and Cameroon pidgin English. Alternating between rappers (Jovi and Reniss, both from Cameroon) is another weak ➡️
ftherules.net/2025/11/11/j...
I am a sucker for songs that switch between two languages and B.A.S.T.A.R.D. switches between three: French, English and Cameroon pidgin English. Alternating between rappers (Jovi and Reniss, both from Cameroon) is another weak ➡️
ftherules.net/2025/11/11/j...
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Jovi feat. Reniss – B.A.S.T.A.R.D.
I am a sucker for songs that switch between two languages and B.A.S.T.A.R.D. switches between three: French, English and Cameroon pidgin English. Alternating between rappers (Jovi and Reniss, both from Cameroon) is another weak ➡️
ftherules.net/2025/11/11/j...
I am a sucker for songs that switch between two languages and B.A.S.T.A.R.D. switches between three: French, English and Cameroon pidgin English. Alternating between rappers (Jovi and Reniss, both from Cameroon) is another weak ➡️
ftherules.net/2025/11/11/j...
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The Laughing Chimes - High Beams
Right from the opening keyboard notes of High Beams I knew that this was my favourite song of what their label Slumberland calls The Laughing Chimes’ “sophomore album” (I had to check the US educational system ➡️
ftherules.net/2025/11/10/t...
@slumberlandrecords.com
Right from the opening keyboard notes of High Beams I knew that this was my favourite song of what their label Slumberland calls The Laughing Chimes’ “sophomore album” (I had to check the US educational system ➡️
ftherules.net/2025/11/10/t...
@slumberlandrecords.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Laughing Chimes - High Beams
Right from the opening keyboard notes of High Beams I knew that this was my favourite song of what their label Slumberland calls The Laughing Chimes’ “sophomore album” (I had to check the US educational system ➡️
ftherules.net/2025/11/10/t...
@slumberlandrecords.com
Right from the opening keyboard notes of High Beams I knew that this was my favourite song of what their label Slumberland calls The Laughing Chimes’ “sophomore album” (I had to check the US educational system ➡️
ftherules.net/2025/11/10/t...
@slumberlandrecords.com
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Gaze - Eric Idol
Nothing says that my taste in music isn’t that of most people than the fact that about half the plays of Gaze’s Eric Idol on the various music platforms is me playing the 74-second song over and over again for the past ten years. ➡️
ftherules.net/2025/11/09/g...
@krecs.bsky.social
Nothing says that my taste in music isn’t that of most people than the fact that about half the plays of Gaze’s Eric Idol on the various music platforms is me playing the 74-second song over and over again for the past ten years. ➡️
ftherules.net/2025/11/09/g...
@krecs.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Gaze - Eric Idol
Nothing says that my taste in music isn’t that of most people than the fact that about half the plays of Gaze’s Eric Idol on the various music platforms is me playing the 74-second song over and over again for the past ten years. ➡️
ftherules.net/2025/11/09/g...
@krecs.bsky.social
Nothing says that my taste in music isn’t that of most people than the fact that about half the plays of Gaze’s Eric Idol on the various music platforms is me playing the 74-second song over and over again for the past ten years. ➡️
ftherules.net/2025/11/09/g...
@krecs.bsky.social
Cloudflare disrupted the Internet earlier this week but, kudos to them, a) they wrote a really detailed post-mortem blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...
and b) their quarterly overviews of Internet disruptions (intentional or otherwise) are really good blog.cloudflare.com/q3-2025-inte...
and b) their quarterly overviews of Internet disruptions (intentional or otherwise) are really good blog.cloudflare.com/q3-2025-inte...
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
blog.cloudflare.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Cloudflare disrupted the Internet earlier this week but, kudos to them, a) they wrote a really detailed post-mortem blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...
and b) their quarterly overviews of Internet disruptions (intentional or otherwise) are really good blog.cloudflare.com/q3-2025-inte...
and b) their quarterly overviews of Internet disruptions (intentional or otherwise) are really good blog.cloudflare.com/q3-2025-inte...
"Arms supplier to press murderers welcomes press murderer to DC" This is how you do headlines. Kudos, @freedom.press freedom.press/issues/press...
Arms supplier to press murderers welcomes press murderer to DC
DHS targets journalists for speaking out about Gaza
freedom.press
November 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"Arms supplier to press murderers welcomes press murderer to DC" This is how you do headlines. Kudos, @freedom.press freedom.press/issues/press...
I'm really curious about the Washington Post Editorial tomorrow.
November 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm really curious about the Washington Post Editorial tomorrow.
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Absolutely vile
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Absolutely vile
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labour doubling down on the danish model against migrants. this strikes me as particularly cruel: simply never let a person *with refugee status* settle & get on with their life. always uncertain when that status will be removed. a cold cold welcoming.
November 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
labour doubling down on the danish model against migrants. this strikes me as particularly cruel: simply never let a person *with refugee status* settle & get on with their life. always uncertain when that status will be removed. a cold cold welcoming.
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7amleh invites you to #PDAF2026, taking place on 30-31 March 2026.
This year, PDAF asks a core question: how has control of narrative become control of survival?
Learn more about the 2026 theme: pdaf.net/about-theme
#PDAF
This year, PDAF asks a core question: how has control of narrative become control of survival?
Learn more about the 2026 theme: pdaf.net/about-theme
#PDAF
November 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
7amleh invites you to #PDAF2026, taking place on 30-31 March 2026.
This year, PDAF asks a core question: how has control of narrative become control of survival?
Learn more about the 2026 theme: pdaf.net/about-theme
#PDAF
This year, PDAF asks a core question: how has control of narrative become control of survival?
Learn more about the 2026 theme: pdaf.net/about-theme
#PDAF
Four years ago this week, I ran the marathon. Today, I struggled to run more than one kilometer. Don't let people tell you you can't change what your body is capable of.
November 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Four years ago this week, I ran the marathon. Today, I struggled to run more than one kilometer. Don't let people tell you you can't change what your body is capable of.
London Underground stations: please look after your belongings. There are pickpockets active at this station.
Also London Underground stations: this exit for the British Museum.
Also London Underground stations: this exit for the British Museum.
November 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
London Underground stations: please look after your belongings. There are pickpockets active at this station.
Also London Underground stations: this exit for the British Museum.
Also London Underground stations: this exit for the British Museum.
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Law enforcement: we need to break encryption to get access to Signal to protect the children!!
Also law enforcement: for years couldn’t catch a pedophile sex trafficker who used email to coordinate all of his pedophile sex trafficking
Also law enforcement: for years couldn’t catch a pedophile sex trafficker who used email to coordinate all of his pedophile sex trafficking
November 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Law enforcement: we need to break encryption to get access to Signal to protect the children!!
Also law enforcement: for years couldn’t catch a pedophile sex trafficker who used email to coordinate all of his pedophile sex trafficking
Also law enforcement: for years couldn’t catch a pedophile sex trafficker who used email to coordinate all of his pedophile sex trafficking