Libby Brown
@trubludevil.social
Product manager @ SpruceID. Mom. Digital Wallet, verifiable digital credentials, and Passkey enthusiast. Ex-Microsoft. Duke fan. Dweller of Seattle exurbia.
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The Mandalorian almost dancing down the street: This is sashay.
The Mandalorian making cheese:
This is the whey.
This is the whey.
The Mandalorian serving hors d’œuvres:
This is the tray.
This is the tray.
January 17, 2026 at 6:09 PM
The Mandalorian almost dancing down the street: This is sashay.
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While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →
January 15, 2026 at 7:57 PM
While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →
Please don’t encourage randomly scanning potentially malicious QR codes.
I am introducing the Quick Recognition (QR) Act, which requires ICE and CBP officers to wear uniforms featuring QR codes. When scanned, the code would generate a digital ID displaying the officer’s name, badge number, and law enforcement agency.
ICE should be unmasked both physically and digitally.
ICE should be unmasked both physically and digitally.
January 14, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Please don’t encourage randomly scanning potentially malicious QR codes.
It’s hard to try and do things like focus at work when jackbooted thugs are, with the full approval of the President, grabbing people off the street and out of their homes. At least these Minnesotans were successfully able to run ICE off this time.
Video of federal agents getting run out of Lyn Lake this afternoon. Agents drop a gas can at the end and someone kicks it back at them.
January 14, 2026 at 4:42 PM
It’s hard to try and do things like focus at work when jackbooted thugs are, with the full approval of the President, grabbing people off the street and out of their homes. At least these Minnesotans were successfully able to run ICE off this time.
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If yall want to give her a follow, Hannah Natanson is on Bluesky: @hannahnatanson.bsky.social . Here is the article she wrote: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal.
One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:39 PM
If yall want to give her a follow, Hannah Natanson is on Bluesky: @hannahnatanson.bsky.social . Here is the article she wrote: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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All hail King Crustacean, hallowed by thy name
December 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
All hail King Crustacean, hallowed by thy name
Just a reminder that military professionals also swear to uphold a code.
From “On Tyranny” by Timothy Snyder.
November 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Just a reminder that military professionals also swear to uphold a code.
New footwear purchase is cat-approved.
November 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
New footwear purchase is cat-approved.
When I think of Zava….
November 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
When I think of Zava….
I heard that this year, Microsoft had to turn to Zava for customer evidence because Contoso leadership expressed skepticism about the ability of AI to transform their business and operations.
#NotAFrontierFirm #MSIgnite #FakeRumor
#NotAFrontierFirm #MSIgnite #FakeRumor
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I heard that this year, Microsoft had to turn to Zava for customer evidence because Contoso leadership expressed skepticism about the ability of AI to transform their business and operations.
#NotAFrontierFirm #MSIgnite #FakeRumor
#NotAFrontierFirm #MSIgnite #FakeRumor
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Imagine shooting a friend in the face and it’s so not nearly the worst thing that you did
November 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Imagine shooting a friend in the face and it’s so not nearly the worst thing that you did
Does anyone else hope Miguel Rojas goes around saying, Baseball is Life? Just me?
a man on a soccer field with the words " football is life " written below him
Alt: Dani Rojas from Ted Lasso, on a soccer field with the words " football is life " written below him
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Does anyone else hope Miguel Rojas goes around saying, Baseball is Life? Just me?
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What does this say that people will downgrade to a 15-year-old OS rather than install linux?
cc @swiftonsecurity.com
cc @swiftonsecurity.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
What does this say that people will downgrade to a 15-year-old OS rather than install linux?
cc @swiftonsecurity.com
cc @swiftonsecurity.com
Anyone else a Dungeon Crawler Carl fan? I just made it to the start of Faction Wars (completed book 6) - how am I expected to work the rest of the day??
www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)
A pantheon of forgotten gods. An old grudge between a t…
www.goodreads.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Anyone else a Dungeon Crawler Carl fan? I just made it to the start of Faction Wars (completed book 6) - how am I expected to work the rest of the day??
www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
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Fuckin decorative gourd season seems like it comes earlier every damn year. I remember when we didn't get fuckin decorative gourds around here until October 9th. Now it's not even past Labor Day and we got gourds everywhere.
September 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Fuckin decorative gourd season seems like it comes earlier every damn year. I remember when we didn't get fuckin decorative gourds around here until October 9th. Now it's not even past Labor Day and we got gourds everywhere.
From “On Tyranny” by Timothy Snyder.
September 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
From “On Tyranny” by Timothy Snyder.
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Someone needs your kindness today. I don’t know who, so distribute it widely to be on the safe side.
September 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Someone needs your kindness today. I don’t know who, so distribute it widely to be on the safe side.
First international standards working group meeting. #achievementUnlocked
September 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
First international standards working group meeting. #achievementUnlocked
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In a meeting looking at all the data supporting RTO. It's just out of frame.
September 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
In a meeting looking at all the data supporting RTO. It's just out of frame.
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I've ended up writing a very long piece about XSLT and whether browsers should keep the code they use to transform XML documents into new forms because what was meant to be a technical debate about security, resource priorities and backward compatibility touched such a nerve it needs MEMES 🧵
XSLT Debate Leads to Bigger Questions of Web Governance
Security issues and web compatibility are pulling in different directions, as Google and Firefox discuss dropping XSLT support from browsers.
thenewstack.io
September 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I've ended up writing a very long piece about XSLT and whether browsers should keep the code they use to transform XML documents into new forms because what was meant to be a technical debate about security, resource priorities and backward compatibility touched such a nerve it needs MEMES 🧵
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Make a band food:
Grateful Bread
Grateful Bread
Make a band food:
Collective Sole
Collective Sole
Make a band food:
Stone Temple Pilafs
Stone Temple Pilafs
August 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Make a band food:
Grateful Bread
Grateful Bread