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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · Sep 9

US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously k...

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Shea Fontana @sheafontana.bsky.social · 19h

Life advice: download the file. You know that Google spreadsheet where you filled in all the important info and reference all the time? Well, one day, the owner of that spreadsheet might get laid off and all their links will break and no one will know how to find that file again. “But what about

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 1d

They should still be there!

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I like your username lol

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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 1d

Omg I should’ve just shared this! justinegracephoto.com/yael/

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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 1d

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Oops and this one is also dark background plus first batch of seated

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Dark background. 2/x

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Help me decide between new headshots! White background! 1/x

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Consumer Reports @consumerreports.org · 7d

Texting and messaging scam attempts have increased by 50 percent in the past year, with young adults experiencing the sharpest rise of any age group. Here’s how to protect yourself:

Texting and Messaging Scam Attempts Have Increased by 50 Percent, a Consumer Reports Survey Finds - Consumer Reports

Texting and messaging scam attempts have increased by 50 percent, according to Consumer Reports' 2025 Cyber Readiness Report

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Consumer Reports @consumerreports.org · 6d

The 2025 Consumer Cyber Readiness Report from Consumer Reports shows that Gen Z is falling for “record levels” of text scams. (via @mental-floss.bsky.social)

Gen Z Is Surprisingly Likely to Fall for Text Scams

The ultra-online Generation Z is still getting hoodwinked by text scams.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 2d

New: Records obtained by the @aclum.bsky.social show police across the state are conducting dragnet surveillance of motorists and sharing their location information with cops in states that have banned abortion and gender affirming care, and those that work w/ICE data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...

Flock Gives Law Enforcement All Over the Country Access to Your Location – The Data for Justice Project | ACLU of Massachusetts

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 2d

Scoop, by @lorenzofb.bsky.social: A federal contract shows ICE spent $825,000 on vans equipped with fake cellphone towers known as cell-site simulators, which can be used to spy on nearby phones.