Schuyler
@mrtowne.bsky.social
Historian & Anthropologist of security technologies, once great lockpicker, now just a great dad.
Impossible to overstate how much I think about locks...
Impossible to overstate how much I think about locks...
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Schuyler
@mrtowne.bsky.social
· Jan 2
Hi! I study the history & anthroplogy of security technologies, primarily locks, but have dabbled in door seals, encryption, etc.
Primary periods of focus are pre-history, 1700-1900 in the US/UK & modern era behavioral security in communities of affinity.
Formerly a competitive lockpicker.
Primary periods of focus are pre-history, 1700-1900 in the US/UK & modern era behavioral security in communities of affinity.
Formerly a competitive lockpicker.
Just in case the rest of you aren't catching up on women's curling Round Robin play through the middle of the night because it's the only time you get a chance to... the entire 8th end of JPN v KOR is AHHHHMAZING.
I want to send every shot, but I think this is a good representation:
I want to send every shot, but I think this is a good representation:
February 16, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Just in case the rest of you aren't catching up on women's curling Round Robin play through the middle of the night because it's the only time you get a chance to... the entire 8th end of JPN v KOR is AHHHHMAZING.
I want to send every shot, but I think this is a good representation:
I want to send every shot, but I think this is a good representation:
Love to hear good stories about my family members ♡♡
And some of us have lived in Maine and paid attention enough to remember when Dunlap would gracefully and without fanfare go into the prisons and help prisoners to register to vote by assisting them in identifying and document their former addresses, etc.
February 15, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Love to hear good stories about my family members ♡♡
My very smart, kind, & blessedly angry cousin Matt Dunlap is running for a critical congressional seat in Maine (ME-2).
He came out in explicit defense of trans folks today, no equivocation.
@dunlapforcongress.bsky.social
If you are in ME, canvas for him, if you have a buck, throw it his way.
He came out in explicit defense of trans folks today, no equivocation.
@dunlapforcongress.bsky.social
If you are in ME, canvas for him, if you have a buck, throw it his way.
February 15, 2026 at 6:38 PM
My very smart, kind, & blessedly angry cousin Matt Dunlap is running for a critical congressional seat in Maine (ME-2).
He came out in explicit defense of trans folks today, no equivocation.
@dunlapforcongress.bsky.social
If you are in ME, canvas for him, if you have a buck, throw it his way.
He came out in explicit defense of trans folks today, no equivocation.
@dunlapforcongress.bsky.social
If you are in ME, canvas for him, if you have a buck, throw it his way.
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they will belittle you for drinking coca-cola when it's cheap and belittle you for drinking "healthy juices" when they are expensive so I hope it's clear there's nothing to win and this stuff should be ignored. make the world you want, be good to the people around you, fuck even the groceries police
Gen Zers and millennials are swimming in student debt and may never own homes, but they’re splurging on gut-healthy juices and rotisserie chickens.
The Booming Business of Luxury Grocery Stores
A new crop of gourmet grocers has hit the city, drawing lines of trendy TikTokers, MAHA-curious health fiends and Instacart devotees who want to pop in for a treat.
on.wsj.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:11 AM
they will belittle you for drinking coca-cola when it's cheap and belittle you for drinking "healthy juices" when they are expensive so I hope it's clear there's nothing to win and this stuff should be ignored. make the world you want, be good to the people around you, fuck even the groceries police
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Just some random painting of queer Joy and tenderness for no reason other than visibility.
February 11, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Just some random painting of queer Joy and tenderness for no reason other than visibility.
There is some dude at the sliding center in Cortina who sounds like he is yelling "MORTAL KOMBAT" in a non-English language at the start of each luge run.
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
There is some dude at the sliding center in Cortina who sounds like he is yelling "MORTAL KOMBAT" in a non-English language at the start of each luge run.
@flophousepodcast.com someone tell stuart!
Ok, now we know who one of the missing primarchs was, and why the emperor tried to erase all mention of him.
RESURRECT JOHN BROWN AND GIVE HIM POWER ARMOR
February 8, 2026 at 3:57 PM
@flophousepodcast.com someone tell stuart!
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Are you studying, researching or teaching the histories of race and ethnicity? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers
For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.
buff.ly
February 5, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Are you studying, researching or teaching the histories of race and ethnicity? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
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Idk if trans kids these days know this but back in my day you could just walk into a RadioShack and walk out with one of these puppies
February 1, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Idk if trans kids these days know this but back in my day you could just walk into a RadioShack and walk out with one of these puppies
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You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.
Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
January 28, 2026 at 10:34 PM
You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.
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🚨 Requesting help:
I am looking for an agent who can facilitate more speaking gigs, podcast appearances, and interviews with journalists
I want to more widely share my story and expertise as a trans geneticist who understands the reality and complexity of "biological sex" 🏳️⚧️🧬
Please signal boost?
I am looking for an agent who can facilitate more speaking gigs, podcast appearances, and interviews with journalists
I want to more widely share my story and expertise as a trans geneticist who understands the reality and complexity of "biological sex" 🏳️⚧️🧬
Please signal boost?
January 28, 2026 at 9:03 PM
🚨 Requesting help:
I am looking for an agent who can facilitate more speaking gigs, podcast appearances, and interviews with journalists
I want to more widely share my story and expertise as a trans geneticist who understands the reality and complexity of "biological sex" 🏳️⚧️🧬
Please signal boost?
I am looking for an agent who can facilitate more speaking gigs, podcast appearances, and interviews with journalists
I want to more widely share my story and expertise as a trans geneticist who understands the reality and complexity of "biological sex" 🏳️⚧️🧬
Please signal boost?
A lovely, worrying, funny, and desperate bit of prose from lena, here.
last week I wrote a letter to Dr Michael Hartley because sometimes you need to cunsult an expert www.cartasalabismo.com/en/dear-dr-m...
Dear Dr. Michael Hartley,
I'm writing you this letter with some timidity, though not so much that I won't send it. I'm writing it to you seated at my dining room table, in a tropical city where the ants haven't gotten the memo...
www.cartasalabismo.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:37 AM
A lovely, worrying, funny, and desperate bit of prose from lena, here.
Lot of people calling out Rep. Omar being ready to hit her attacker, (good!) but I was moved by a softer moment. Unsure what was being said, but as this member of her security team was intensely checking her over, there was a point where she touched his face gently as though to reassure/calm him.
January 28, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Lot of people calling out Rep. Omar being ready to hit her attacker, (good!) but I was moved by a softer moment. Unsure what was being said, but as this member of her security team was intensely checking her over, there was a point where she touched his face gently as though to reassure/calm him.
@iwritewrongs.bsky.social @drewgmackie.bsky.social it took this many days for me to work up the courage to listen to the announcement.
Thanks for treating it so sincerely. I expected nothing less.
I know it's parasocial and weird, but I love you both. Thank you for everything you gave us.
♡♡
Thanks for treating it so sincerely. I expected nothing less.
I know it's parasocial and weird, but I love you both. Thank you for everything you gave us.
♡♡
January 26, 2026 at 10:17 PM
@iwritewrongs.bsky.social @drewgmackie.bsky.social it took this many days for me to work up the courage to listen to the announcement.
Thanks for treating it so sincerely. I expected nothing less.
I know it's parasocial and weird, but I love you both. Thank you for everything you gave us.
♡♡
Thanks for treating it so sincerely. I expected nothing less.
I know it's parasocial and weird, but I love you both. Thank you for everything you gave us.
♡♡
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Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
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hey tech folks!
I'm doing a story that touches on ...
... the job market for computer-science grads
what's it like out there?
if you're a CS grad, love to hear your 2 cents
(or know one? end 'em my way)
hit me up at [email protected]
(repost this to anywhere people might see it, too 🤘🤖)
I'm doing a story that touches on ...
... the job market for computer-science grads
what's it like out there?
if you're a CS grad, love to hear your 2 cents
(or know one? end 'em my way)
hit me up at [email protected]
(repost this to anywhere people might see it, too 🤘🤖)
January 20, 2026 at 4:45 PM
hey tech folks!
I'm doing a story that touches on ...
... the job market for computer-science grads
what's it like out there?
if you're a CS grad, love to hear your 2 cents
(or know one? end 'em my way)
hit me up at [email protected]
(repost this to anywhere people might see it, too 🤘🤖)
I'm doing a story that touches on ...
... the job market for computer-science grads
what's it like out there?
if you're a CS grad, love to hear your 2 cents
(or know one? end 'em my way)
hit me up at [email protected]
(repost this to anywhere people might see it, too 🤘🤖)
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neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now
January 17, 2026 at 2:52 PM
neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now
I measured my success at Starbucks by how many kids hung out at my stores. If I had to kick someone out, I invited them back the next day.
On hot days we would have dozens of waters lined up on the counter when school let out.
The policy changes CEO Brian Nichol implemented hurt kids the most.
On hot days we would have dozens of waters lined up on the counter when school let out.
The policy changes CEO Brian Nichol implemented hurt kids the most.
I’d point out too that public spaces have now become actively hostile to children - banned from malls, no skateboarding, etc - so children can’t be alone even often if parents are ok with it
An underrated factor in "why don't people in wealthy societies have more kids" is changing societal norms that now expect even older kids to be chaperoned by an adult any time they are in public, and to be chauffeured by a parent as their only means of transportation
January 16, 2026 at 1:44 PM
I measured my success at Starbucks by how many kids hung out at my stores. If I had to kick someone out, I invited them back the next day.
On hot days we would have dozens of waters lined up on the counter when school let out.
The policy changes CEO Brian Nichol implemented hurt kids the most.
On hot days we would have dozens of waters lined up on the counter when school let out.
The policy changes CEO Brian Nichol implemented hurt kids the most.
Thankfully my wife isn't in Bluesky so I'm not blowing up my spot to say I just bought these to give to her this valentine's day :)
Nature valentines. This comic is now available as a set of 6 Valentines cards: topatoco.com/collections/...
January 15, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Thankfully my wife isn't in Bluesky so I'm not blowing up my spot to say I just bought these to give to her this valentine's day :)
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In the last few months I have changed jobs, graduated from college, and eulogized my father. It has, frankly, been exhausting. On top of that, my daughter's oldest friend was forced out of the country because his mother was targeted by ICE, and the world as a whole is just such a nightmare.
January 14, 2026 at 2:43 PM
In the last few months I have changed jobs, graduated from college, and eulogized my father. It has, frankly, been exhausting. On top of that, my daughter's oldest friend was forced out of the country because his mother was targeted by ICE, and the world as a whole is just such a nightmare.
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Really interesting piece here about how Dems dunking on MAGA about antifa misses a few important points, such as, If you COULD point to their headquarters on a map, should you? If they WERE in the room, would you defend them?
New for @thenation.com: Liberals keep saying antifa isn’t real - but it is, it knows how to win, & it needs solidarity right now.
Trump admin labeled Renee Good a domestic terrorist to justify her murder - the same label it repeatedly uses for antifa
www.thenation.com?post_type=ar...
Trump admin labeled Renee Good a domestic terrorist to justify her murder - the same label it repeatedly uses for antifa
www.thenation.com?post_type=ar...
Liberals Think Antifa Isn’t Real. But It Is—and It Knows How to Win.
To protect us all from the violence of the Trump administration, we must defend antifa.
www.thenation.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Really interesting piece here about how Dems dunking on MAGA about antifa misses a few important points, such as, If you COULD point to their headquarters on a map, should you? If they WERE in the room, would you defend them?
Delivered my father's eulogy today. It was a reflection on my father as the rare man who genuinely believed he had enough and how remarkable he was as a result of that belief. Here is the text:
Enough
Eulogy for My Father
leaflet.pub
January 12, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Delivered my father's eulogy today. It was a reflection on my father as the rare man who genuinely believed he had enough and how remarkable he was as a result of that belief. Here is the text:
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A group of young kestrels is startled by the presence of a butterfly. 🤣🤣🤣
January 9, 2026 at 5:36 PM
A group of young kestrels is startled by the presence of a butterfly. 🤣🤣🤣
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in acknowledgement of the fact that There Is A Lot Going On, the deadline for this CFP has been extended by one week! oddletters.com/tech-money/
hey!
hey!!!
if you are an academic of any rank in the critical tech studies space who cares about how money, finance, and business structures work in science and technology, i want to see your abstracts for a collected volume! they're due tomorrow!!!
https//oddletters.com/tech-money/
hey!!!
if you are an academic of any rank in the critical tech studies space who cares about how money, finance, and business structures work in science and technology, i want to see your abstracts for a collected volume! they're due tomorrow!!!
https//oddletters.com/tech-money/
January 8, 2026 at 2:37 PM
in acknowledgement of the fact that There Is A Lot Going On, the deadline for this CFP has been extended by one week! oddletters.com/tech-money/