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Phil Hagen
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DFIR, security, networking, all things tech, OneWheel, Radinn, travel, LEGO, and probably a whole lot more in small and sporadic bits. (Squirrel!)
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Hotel room view from last night.
January 12, 2026 at 4:51 AM
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“Well, it’s August 2034 and we’re reporting that Shai Halud 72.0 has just been discovered, affecting 745,365 packages. The NPM ecosystem will need to adapt quickly if it’s going to be ready for Shai Halud 73.0 in a few weeks.”
Shelby Forthright, CEO of Buy n Large from the WALL-E movie, explaining that the earth cleanup operation was a failure.
January 3, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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Hotel room view for last night
Looking at a parking garage at night, with an urban apartment building behind it.
December 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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So strange to see repetition between Sam Altman's and Nick Fuentes's ChatGPT histories.
December 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Some interesting, but surely pedestrian fungi I spotted the other day.
Three fungi growing on a log that’s lying on the ground. There’s a bed of pine needles and an out-of-focus cabin the the background.
December 9, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Hotel room view for last night.
Older buildings across a rainy street with a small city’s skyline in the background.
December 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Hotel room view for the last few days.
Looking at an urban skyline at night with a tall residential building in front of a clouded and backlit sky.
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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COULDN’T or didn’t WANT to stop??

(Hint: it’s probably the latter. And the reason is that they are horrible people, who either are themselves or like hanging out with serial child rapists.)

It ain’t rocket science, BBC.
Apple iOS notification from the BBC News stating “Why the rich and powerful couldn't say no to Jeffrey Epstein”
November 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Hotel room view for the past week.
Looking over a red tile roof from a hotel room window, with buildings in the background and a clear blue sky above.
November 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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One of my favorite photos from a foraging experience in the southeastern forests of Estonia a few months ago.
#mycology #mushrooms #fungus #photography #forest #Estonia
A mushroom with a red cap and white spiky dots on it, with more mushrooms, ferns, and assorted wild fauna on the forest floor.
November 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Pardon my skepticism, but two misspellings on the truck lead me to think “Flawless” may be an optimistic overstatement.
Photo of a pickup truck with a list of services provided on the tailgate, including: “Mowing & Edgeing” and “Sod Instillation” The name of the company is “Flawless turf”
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Hotel room view for the last few days.
Looking out a hotel room window across a parking lot and road.
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Not an accident that I wore this shirt today.
T shirt with the Banksy Molotov cocktail art but the bottle is replaced with a sandwich
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Every. Damn. Day. What an idiot.
November 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Hotel room view for the last week.
A view of a beach and coastline at night.
November 2, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Effective immediately, her name is “Skibiti KKKaroline”

I do make the rules, actually.
November 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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A vizsla dog with a pumpkin costume on, also with a coffee cup lid labels “spice”
October 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Hotel room view for the last week.
Looking at a hotel room window over a strip mall building across the parking lot, with a palm tree in the foreground of the lower part of the window.
October 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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In future history books, which of these will portend a darker era of America?
Split photos of the October 2025 demolition of the White House East wing above and aftermath of the September 2001 attack on the Pentagon below. There are visual similarities, including exposed concrete, flying flags, and heavy equipment.
October 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Hotel room view for the last week.
Looking at a brick wall and drain pipe from a hotel window.
October 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Oh great, he’s going to be even more wildly inaccurate than before.
A tweet from Nate Silver: “I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.”
October 12, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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(Not my image but this is the first thing that crossed my mind)
Photoshopped tabloid cover with Jeff Bezos as “bat child”
October 9, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Ice T on SVU meme with the caption “they call it tayvis. Kids chew on cds and drinking Gatorade.”
October 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Hotel room view for the last week:
Looking across a hotel property with a guest room building across the way.
September 28, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Well, Riley, that’s not so impressive when four other people have already run through the wall ahead of you.
Screenshot of a Tweet from Yashar Ali that says: “Jack Posobiec walks out at Charlie Kirk's memorial holding a rosary and lifting it into the air. + Follow Posobiec compared Charlie Kirk to Moses in his remarks and said Charlie was his commander. After watching the speech, Riley Gaines tweeted that she felt like she could run through a brick wall.” The sentence “Riley Gaines tweeted that she felt like she could run through a brick wall.” Is highlighted Nd there is a photo of a political rally in an online video showing a banner of Jack Posobiec” name and his photo
September 22, 2025 at 5:01 AM