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Lorax Horne
@lorax.bsky.social
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Editor and writer. Tech critic. Since they are Canadian, would not rule out treachery. Doing work stuff for my local Center for Migrant Worker Rights. Donate to: https://chuffed.org/project/116311-protect-an-open-source-engineer-and-his-family
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Tweet from This Should Be Housing @vacantmap: Genuine question for @MarkJCarney: how much of the new military spending package in the budget will go towards military contracts taking public money to enrich themselves on intellectual property? vs. how much of the #82 billion will go towards housing for veterans?
November 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Here are some of my Gaza Sky Geeks photos, it was a wonderful space.
Photo of a laptop with a Gaza Sky Geeks sticker, including the logo of the popular technology incubator located in Gaza City before it was bombed by Israel. Other stickers on the laptop include "Love Pigs Dox Cops" with a cartoon of a pig, "Yo uso software libre" or 'I use free software' in Spanish, and "be not unkind to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise" Green and yellow large graffiti of the word "Dream" on an indoor wall Blue and orange Arabic script graffiti on a white wall covered in English cartoon outlined English words like "Gaza", "Innovation", "Inspire", "Geeks", "Hope," "Idea", "Pay up", "Fly", "MVP", etc. In the foreground, two 20-something men sit working together on a laptop in front of them on a table. A co-working space with large tables and many chairs arranged around walls covered in colourful mural art with a large bird, tree branches and a kaleidoscope effect. The outline of some people can be seen seated at some of the tables.
November 12, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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It has been a few days since anyone donated to their crowdfund page, but the Abu Matar family is still working on their tent site and making progress, thanks to @raindovemodel.bsky.social and the Safebow team. Donate here: chuffed.org/project/1163... to help the family finish their new home.
A hole for a latrine dug into a sandy ground. A pile of cement bricks is set up nearby under the shade of a red canvas wall. Wooden framing sticks set up in a rectangular shape on an empty lot with red canvas sheeting laid out on the sandy ground ready to be nailed to the sticks. In the background, other white canvas tents can be seen. A 30-something man with black jeans and a blue polo shirt with a measuring tape clipped to his belt is standing on a plastic chair so he can reach up to attach a red canvas sheet to a wooden frame. It is a sunny day with blue skies and he is wearing a baseball cap and glasses, and there is a shine of sweat on his brown arms. A child of about 7 years old wearing a black t-shirt and long pants stands under the shade of a red canvas wall with a relaxed pose, holding their hands together in front. In the background the shape of two people are putting up the red canvas sheet, stretching it out on a wooden frame. On the ground in front of the child, a large red canvas sheet is laid out on the sandy floor, with two hammers and other tools and some sticks lying nearby. It is a sunny day with blue skies and a whisp of cloud.
October 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Alaa is free.
September 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Mohammed just sent me a bunch of photos he found from my trip to Gaza. I am crying. I have NEVER seen these photos before.
Picture of a 30-something Palestinian cis male, short black hair, with glasses and a blue collared shirt standing next to a 30-something white trans non-binary person with glasses and pink pants who is wearing a black baseball cap. Both people are smiling at the camera, relaxed with their hands in their pockets, and are wearing sashes with a keffiyeh pattern and embroidered images of Al Aqsa mosque. They are standing close together in front of a fridge and a sign in Arabic. Selfie of a group of four people on the beach in Gaza, the sky behind them is gray and the Mediterranean sea is calm, the four people are smiling at the camera and making silly hand signs, seeming to enjoy their time together.
August 6, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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The Madleen is approaching the waters off the island of Crete: freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/ Yesterday they noticed a drone following them from the air. Search And Rescue got in touch with their ground team, and reported that it was a Helenic Coast Guard Heron surveillance drone.
June 4, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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The #FreedomFlotilla ship Madleen has set off from port in Catania with aid for Gaza. Track their progress here: freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/
Screenshot of the map on the Freedom Flotilla tracker app, showing the vessel Madleen a few hundred kilometers into the Ionian sea, after leaving port in Catania. A red dot shows the location of the vessel in the sea, and a red line connects the dot to shore, showing the trip's trajectory.
June 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Instead, collecting memes making fun of people who make technical mistakes (that open them up to prosecution for war crimes).
"Is this butterfly?" meme with caption: "Is this a SCIF?" (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) and the butterfly is labelled "Signal", referencing the secure messenger app that was used to text details of the United States bombing targets in Yemen without congressional approval.
March 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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I am missing you @mhamonline.bsky.social and keeping you in mind always. This photo was take only a few days after we met, in 2016. Mohammed was, then, working to bring technology into the health care sector in Gaza, and he is still working now for his people. Donate: chuffed.org/project/1163...
Screenshot of an Open Healthcare @health_open post on Facebook tagging Mohammed Abu Matar and 9 others. Arrows drawn on the photo point at two individuals: Canadian/UK journalist Lorax Horne, a white non-binary person in their late 20s, wearing a blue check shirt and a blue scarf headband, and Gazan engineer Mohammed Abu Matar, a Palestinian person in their mid 20s, wearing a white button up shirt. The two highlighted individuals stand in the back row of a crowd group shot with 19 other people, including several women and men, mostly between the ages of 18 and 30. They stand in front of a banner with the logos of the London Health Sciences Center and the Gazan Ministry of Health. A caption on the photo in Arabic reads: "Thanks for coming and for everyone who helped us grow with you, my friends. They are with us in making this conference a success. #Open_Health"
March 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Boston Tea Party painting but throwing Teslas into the sea instead of crates of tea.
March 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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For anyone looking for new show to watch: PANTHEON is the best show I have seen about hacking since MR ROBOT.
Still from PANTHEON season 2 episode 6 "Apokalypsis" with three Uploaded Intelligence characters, including one Israeli and one Iranian, meeting in a simulated landscape of the compound of the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The characters stand in the courtyard in the sunlight under the shadow of seven lush Celtis australis trees, with the golden dome of the mosque visible in the background. A subtitle from the show dialogue reads "[Yair] See? He can't be trusted".
March 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Pink graffiti on a washroom stall reading "TRANS RIGHTS"
March 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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From vx-underground on X: "Threat Actor UnicornLover67 compromised the Houston Police Department and exfiltrated a lot of data. UnicornLover67 then tried to extort the HPD. When the HPD did not pay, they leaked the data online. To notify the HPD, they replaced all internal training videos with:"
February 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Map of the Gulf of Mexico where the Gulf of Mexico is labelled as the "Gulf of Puppy hacker polycule"
February 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Macklemore came from the movement. He´s always been radical.
Screenshot of organizer and author Harsha Walia's post from May 6, 2024: "heartening to see Macklemore return to his roots. before he popped off decade ago, he was running in anti-capitalist radical circles in the west coast & did few fundraiser shows for us (grassroots anti-colonial, anti-capitalist migrant justice group). movements keep us grounded."
February 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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If any interns at the NSA want to preserve mission critical documents for future generations, you can reach DDoSecrets: bsky.app/profile/ddos...
Screenshot of a paragraph from Judd Legum's Popular Information newsletter from Feb. 10, 2025: "The NSA is trying to identify mission-related sites before the "Big Delete" is executed but appears to lack the personnel to do so. The NSA's internal network has existed since the 1990s, and a manual review of the content is impractical. Instead, the NSA is working with "Data Science Development Program interns" to "understand the false-positive use cases" and "help generate query options that can better minimize false-positives." Nevertheless, the NSA is anticipating "unintended downtime" of "mission-related" websites."
February 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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#38c3 politics in theory vs. politics in practice. Hackers <3 Georgian Protest, and freeing Georgian prisoners, but hate freedom in Palestine, and freeing Gaza. Why is that? There will be an assembly today to discuss: (expect it to get disrupted by Zionists): events.ccc.de/congress/202...
Crowd of hackers in Germany many with faces covered in accordance with CCC mores which encourages anonymous political actions, standing in the lobby of the conference center CCH with the CCC rocket sculpture and a hand-painted sign on a bedsheet that reads "Hacker <3 Georgian Protest" In English and Georgian script, and "New Elections - Free the Prisoners" in English along the bottom of the banner. The people in the photo number about 30 and are holding one fist up in the air in symbol of defiance A poster at the 38th Chaos Communications Congress in German which had the phrase FREE PALESTINE and FREE GAZA added in silver marker to a blank space on the poster. A sticker has been added to deface the Free Palestine message, the sticker reads "Space Invaders Against Anti-Semitism" and is produced by Rosa Antifa Wien, a Zionist antideutsche outfit from Vienna.
December 30, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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The John Goetz "investigation" was nothing more than an hour-long version of this Wikileaks tweet from 2016. We all know what was happening in spring of 2016 in Wikileaks-land...
Screenshot of April 5, 2016 tweet from @wikileaks (likely Julian Assange) saying: "#PanamaPapers Putin attack was produced by OCCRP which targets Russia & former USSR and was funded by USAID & Soros." The @wikileaks tweet includes a screenshot of the OCCRP website at the time which disclosed it was funded by Open Society Institute and USAID. Later that same year, Wikileaks would republish data hacked by Russian intelligence, overselling it in a way that would damage the U.S. presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, and aid Donald Trump to his first election victory.
December 21, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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This misrepresentation might be the real reason why NDR killed his story. Or, maybe he failed to consult key sources & found no evidence of the collusion & corruption which he alleged. You can watch the full draft of Goetz's piece, leaked from the NDR cutting room floor: dalek.zone/w/xjUjomMZxR...
Email leaked of John Goetz's approach to USAID to seek interview about the OCCRP. In the email, USAID clarifies in a reply after their interview that OCCRP's financial agreement with them includes a clause protecting the OCCRP's editorial independence.
December 21, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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This saga has a random #Wikileaks connection, as the journalist who initiated the investigation and then dropped out of the project when his editorial house NDR killed the story, was John Goetz. Goetz allegedly acquired some of his footage with tlaking heads in USG by misrepresenting his project:
John Goetz seeking interview from USAID claiming he is doing a story about the OCCRP's Nobel Peace prize nomination, for broadcast ahead of the Nobel prize ceremony. At the time Julian Assange was campaigning for a Nobel Peace prize as well Leaked email from Drew Sullivan warning his workers that John Goetz was misrepresenting his project when seeking comment.
December 21, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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...bringing 3D printers into the medical technology field. He helped me to find the right students and participants for my workshop on digital security practices. (5/5)
Photo of Canadian-British journalist Lorax Horne, a non-binary white person with short hair and glasses, at Press House Palestine in 2016 in Gaza in front of a banner that reads in Arabic and English: "Empowering Freedom of Expression, Democracy, & Independency of Palestinian Media". They are speaking and gesturing with their hands to a crowd of about ten Gazan journalists including men and women mostly between the ages of 20 and 35, who are seated around a large table, some taking notes and others drinking a can of water. A presenter in the foreground writes on a display board which is not visible tothe camera, the presenter is a non-binary person in a purple shirt with the logo of the Tor Project (an onion outline with roots resembling a circuit board). Next to the Western/white presenter, a young Palestinian co-presenter stands with crossed arms. Behind the two presenters, sit a group of journalists gathered around six tables in a large room with tiled floor and red and wood paneled walls. The students in the backgrounds are paying attention to what the non-binary presenter is writing on the presentation board. Some students near the front, one wearing a red hijab, are taking notes.
November 25, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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possibly hundreds, of victims being executed on the spot or having their shelters bombed." I am reaching out to Mohammed but have not heard from him today. Please keep sharing the fundraiser, and keep the family in your thoughts. The famine in the north continues to decimate the population. (2/2)
Linocut print of "No business as usual Free Palestine" in black script on a white background with green and red illustrations os an olive branch, four poppy flowers and a slice of watermelon. Artwork by Roan Boucher @pollinator_press_art
November 24, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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The story of what we do right now, to prevent Palestine's annihilation, will be told by every future generation. In love and rage, Lorax. Image: Gaza Must Live! by Melanie Cervantes for Justseeds available at justseeds.org/graphic/pale... (7/7)
Illustration of a person with a keffiyeh bandana and scarf, and long wavy black hair. Their face is determined and serene, their lips closed, their eyes are open and staring into the near distance. Above their head, a slogan reads: "Gaza: the lifeblood of our struggle must survive" superimposed on another keffiyeh pattern of the fishing net, olive leafs and black bar motif.
November 24, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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Yeah I've been here for a while. I was #18,238!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #18,238, Lorax Horne ‪@lorax.bsky.social‬, joined on Apr 12, 2023"
October 6, 2024 at 8:11 AM