Jessica
@thund3rh4wk.bsky.social
InfoSec professional, geek, gamer, gardener, avid reader, amateur photographer, occasional world traveler, crochet and houseplant enthusiast, cyborg.
Formerly on the dumpster fire site as @Thund3r_H4wk, @jlbuckridge on Instagram.
Formerly on the dumpster fire site as @Thund3r_H4wk, @jlbuckridge on Instagram.
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
A friend of mine recently compiled a list of all our favorite flash animations and I am so nostalgic for that era of the internet. I sometimes wonder how many of the videos and games my friends and I played and watched and quoted endlessly have now been lost to time.
November 28, 2025 at 6:06 AM
A friend of mine recently compiled a list of all our favorite flash animations and I am so nostalgic for that era of the internet. I sometimes wonder how many of the videos and games my friends and I played and watched and quoted endlessly have now been lost to time.
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It will never cease to amaze me that so many tech bros read Lord of the Rings, decided the hobbits were the bad guys and Sauron and his forces were the good guys, and have built their entire personalities around being corporate ring wraiths.
My rule of thumb is if the company is named after something in Lord of the Rings, it’s almost certainly evil.
Since its founding in 2017, Anduril Industries has become one of the hottest companies in a crowded field of defense-tech startup.
Its fast-moving approach comes with its share of setbacks.
Its fast-moving approach comes with its share of setbacks.
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
It will never cease to amaze me that so many tech bros read Lord of the Rings, decided the hobbits were the bad guys and Sauron and his forces were the good guys, and have built their entire personalities around being corporate ring wraiths.
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No
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
No
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Normalize asking what things mean
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Normalize asking what things mean
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I’ll believe Epstein files are really being released when we see a bunch of private jet flight paths to non extradition countries
November 20, 2025 at 4:51 AM
I’ll believe Epstein files are really being released when we see a bunch of private jet flight paths to non extradition countries
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i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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They make games and movies like they used to. So many of them. Same with books.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
They make games and movies like they used to. So many of them. Same with books.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
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Does everyone remember those Xmas lights where if one bulb went out then the whole string went out as well?
That’s basically how the entire internet is set up now.
That’s basically how the entire internet is set up now.
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Does everyone remember those Xmas lights where if one bulb went out then the whole string went out as well?
That’s basically how the entire internet is set up now.
That’s basically how the entire internet is set up now.
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I quit the former Twitter two years ago this week, and I am here to tell you that my online life got a lot better for having left it. In two years I've not been tempted to go back, and I haven't felt any penalty in either career or community for not being there. It's nice to be here and not there.
November 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I quit the former Twitter two years ago this week, and I am here to tell you that my online life got a lot better for having left it. In two years I've not been tempted to go back, and I haven't felt any penalty in either career or community for not being there. It's nice to be here and not there.
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A commonly-misunderstood aspect of computer security is that you are battling computers.
No. That is not right at all. Computers are barely involved.
You are battling humans who eat apathy and coordination problems.
No. That is not right at all. Computers are barely involved.
You are battling humans who eat apathy and coordination problems.
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 AM
A commonly-misunderstood aspect of computer security is that you are battling computers.
No. That is not right at all. Computers are barely involved.
You are battling humans who eat apathy and coordination problems.
No. That is not right at all. Computers are barely involved.
You are battling humans who eat apathy and coordination problems.
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Look, nothing being revealed about Epstein and his horrible friends, from who his friends were to what they did, is surprising me.
What IS surprising me is that these absolute shit-for-brains fools left paper trails everywhere and let that weird fucker Epstein gather and keep such material on them
What IS surprising me is that these absolute shit-for-brains fools left paper trails everywhere and let that weird fucker Epstein gather and keep such material on them
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Look, nothing being revealed about Epstein and his horrible friends, from who his friends were to what they did, is surprising me.
What IS surprising me is that these absolute shit-for-brains fools left paper trails everywhere and let that weird fucker Epstein gather and keep such material on them
What IS surprising me is that these absolute shit-for-brains fools left paper trails everywhere and let that weird fucker Epstein gather and keep such material on them
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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This deal to fund and open the government is a loss for New Jerseyans and for millions of Americans who will suffer devastating increases in their health care costs, on top of the skyrocketing expenses they’re already facing…
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
This deal to fund and open the government is a loss for New Jerseyans and for millions of Americans who will suffer devastating increases in their health care costs, on top of the skyrocketing expenses they’re already facing…
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epstein in dozens of pieces of written documentation: the presidential candidate my best friend loves coming over to my house for the young girls i rent
reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open
reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
epstein in dozens of pieces of written documentation: the presidential candidate my best friend loves coming over to my house for the young girls i rent
reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open
reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open
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I find it highly ironic that the party that bemoaned the deep state and alleged the cover-up of pedophiles is now embroiled in defending the party that has the largest pedophile cover-up in American history.
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I find it highly ironic that the party that bemoaned the deep state and alleged the cover-up of pedophiles is now embroiled in defending the party that has the largest pedophile cover-up in American history.
This is one of the dangerous parts of everything that is happening. All the costs that increase because of legislation, inflation, tariffs, etc. are just the cost now, it's not going to magically correct itself when and if we manage to get things back on track. We're just fucked.
Here’s the thing about healthcare premiums about to skyrocket: they will never come back down, short of a complete overhaul of our system for universal healthcare. Which clearly won’t happen bc of all the money tied up between health and politics.
November 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This is one of the dangerous parts of everything that is happening. All the costs that increase because of legislation, inflation, tariffs, etc. are just the cost now, it's not going to magically correct itself when and if we manage to get things back on track. We're just fucked.
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The guy who literally survived a stroke because of accessible healthcare now parrots GOP talking points that healthcare is extreme. Fuck off, Fetterman.
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
The guy who literally survived a stroke because of accessible healthcare now parrots GOP talking points that healthcare is extreme. Fuck off, Fetterman.
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They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
She is hanging in my dining room and I love her.
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
She is hanging in my dining room and I love her.
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The Crow Witch
Acrylic on paper
Acrylic on paper
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The Crow Witch
Acrylic on paper
Acrylic on paper
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I love this kind of arc for artists. They put out a small volume of impactful work, then they retire from demands on their output & live the rest of life as they want. A lot of novelists are like this. I think of myself as wanting to write novels as long as I live but that's a respectable way.
lots of snark about Andre 3000's jazz flute era but it's like Herbie Hancock's robot voice lectures: when you've given this much to music you get to do what you want. that's just the rules
OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I love this kind of arc for artists. They put out a small volume of impactful work, then they retire from demands on their output & live the rest of life as they want. A lot of novelists are like this. I think of myself as wanting to write novels as long as I live but that's a respectable way.
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Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.