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Martijn Grooten @martijngrooten.bsky.social · 4h

I probably shouldn’t post a photo of a spotless starling, should I?

Martijn Grooten @martijngrooten.bsky.social · 15h

I have so many thoughts and feelings about that Gaza peace deal and everything surrounding it's but then I saw a Gazan journalist post on Instagram "the genocide is over" and I realized my thoughts and feelings don't fucking matter.

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Martijn Grooten @martijngrooten.bsky.social · 15h

I work in threat intelligence. This tracks.

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Martijn Grooten @martijngrooten.bsky.social · 15h

Not the main point of the article, nor the main problem, but now I have to add "but not those people" to my "does digital security work for vulnerable people".

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Martijn Grooten @martijngrooten.bsky.social · 20h

Same!

(I realized that when I liked the photos on another social network I was supposed to choose one, but then they had already gone.)

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Martijn Grooten @martijngrooten.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't manage to register to vote in the upcoming Dutch elections which is kind of okay, as I've not lived there in almost two decades, and kind of not, as the country has some crazy politicians and also, I myself tend to have political views that I 100% agree with.

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Martijn Grooten @martijngrooten.bsky.social · 1d

I think also they have historically avoided team codes that are already used as country codes (hence also TBV).

Martijn Grooten @martijngrooten.bsky.social · 1d

My brain registered that headline as "preschoolers arrested for ransomware attack" and yeah, soon.

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Martijn Grooten @martijngrooten.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I was clearly told this by a CBP official when I ticked the 'tourism' box because my first destination wasn't the conference I was going to attend.

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Jason Li @jasonli.bsky.social · 1d

Made a series of annotated screenshots showing how we translate comics at @paradisesystems.bsky.social (every script passes through at least 3 sets of eyes)!

Part 1 of 3

Shows the original Chinese script from two panels of a comic about mouse and real estate.

Text overlay appears over the previous image and says: "Every translation we make usually

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Martijn Grooten @martijngrooten.bsky.social · 2d

Abracadabra Finance is at least not hiding the fact that it's all based on nothing.

Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 2d

Hackers have stolen $1.7 million worth of crypto-assets from DeFi lending platform Abracadabra Finance.

This is the company's third hack in the past two years.

Abracadabra previously lost $13 million in March and another $6.5 million in January last year.

coincentral.com/abracadabra-...

Abracadabra Faces Third DeFi Exploit as Hackers Drain $1.7 M

Abracadabra DeFi platform suffers its third exploit with hackers stealing $1.7 million. Team pauses contracts to prevent further losses.

coincentral.com

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Daphne Papadopoulou @daphnenews.bsky.social · 3d

Did they hear about the Discord data hack?

Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU 2025 @eu2025dk.bsky.social · 3d

On 9–10 October, the EU's digital ministers will gather to deliberate on how minors can be protected more effectively in the digital world. Discussions will focus especially on age verification and child protection measures, as well as on digital sovereignty.

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lena @lenazun.bsky.social · 3d

every day it's a man who looks like my father, taken to the ground. a man who looks like my brother, on his knees. a woman who looks just like my sister, screaming for her children. every day.

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Martin @mshelton.bsky.social · Jun 23

I work in press freedom. The news is bleak, and I know journalists feel it too.

I hope you will support the news in whatever way you can to ensure they can do the work. It’s not their fault things suck, they’re just working their asses off to help get you fact checked information. Get them paid.

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Martijn Grooten @martijngrooten.bsky.social · 4d

There are many self-obsessed autocrats around the world. In Tunisia someone got sentenced to death for a Facebook post critical of the president www.reuters.com/world/africa...
The "oh, but actually we're a really civilized country" responses are fairly unique to the United States though.

Tunisian sentenced to death for Facebook posts criticising president

A Tunisian man has been sentenced to death on charges of insulting the president and assaulting state security through posts on social media, the head of the Tunisian League for Human Rights and his lawyer said on Friday.

www.reuters.com

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Martijn Grooten @martijngrooten.bsky.social · 4d

Mooi! En jaloers!

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Martijn Grooten @martijngrooten.bsky.social · 4d

I just wanted to state publicly that I've been using em-dashes long before ChatGPT started doing it.

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Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 5d

A good story about youth-led protests in Africa and Asia “against aging leaders, corruption, joblessness, income disparities and economies that have left people in their teens to late 20s behind” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Gen Z Anger at Ruling Elites Is Erupting Across the World

From Morocco to Indonesia, young people are taking to the streets to protest against inequality and a lack of jobs.

www.bloomberg.com

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 6d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 6d

A cartoon from my new book, 'Physics for Cats'. Out next week: www.tomgauld.com

A scientist stands in front of an enormous contraption
"I created this device to test my theory that our entire reality is a simulation, but the readings I'm
getting suggest something much worse"

"What?" Asks a second scientist.
"We're living in a cartoon!" Says the first.
"Does it at least have a good punchline?" says the second.
The fiorst scientist carefully looks over the data, then eventually replies "Nope"

From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld - order it at www.tomgauld.com

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Martijn Grooten @martijngrooten.bsky.social · 7d

My mother is one of the few people who consistently talks about X rather than Twitter. She does mean Instagram though.

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Martijn Grooten @martijngrooten.bsky.social · 7d

Glad to see my home country doing —checks notes—a rounding error better at family reunion rights.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...