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El

@bsdtrhodes.bsky.social
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Great value goth dad. Infosec, vegan, gamer, and introvert.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 07/10/2026
Ms Hamilton coined the term “software engineering”.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 03/10/2026
When state lawmakers attempt to rewrite how the internet works, users rely on courts to recognize that laws can’t make technical impossibilities a reality. Thankfully, a court has blocked Utah’s attempt to restrict VPN use. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Court Agrees with EFF: Utah’s VPN Law Demands a Technical
In a win for digital rights, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Utah’s SB 73, the state’s draconian anti-VPN age verification law. The decision comes as EFF submitted our
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Vegan FTA @veganftaofficial.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
They feel fear. They hear the screams. They fight to stay alive. 💔 Their lives are not ours to take. Choose vegan. 🌱 👉 If you eat meat, you need to see this. Watch Dominion: 3movies.wtf/vgfta 🫣 Clip spotted on galapagos_marc (IG) #cows #animalliberation #veganism
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Vegan FTA @veganftaofficial.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Donkeys are not machines. They are individuals who deserve lives beyond labour. 🚫🐴 For Julián, that life is finally possible. Thanks to his rescue by secondchances1433 (IG), he now gets to simply be - to feel safety, love, and joy. ❤️‍🩹 Keep up with Julian's life at secondchances1433 on Instagram 🫶
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RileyTChiweeieT14381 @rileytchiweenie2.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A “Mossad agent” & IDF🇮🇱veterans dressed as Palestinians🇵🇸to manufacture hatred #antisemitism at Jews, NY. #DemandAccountability @mayor.nyc.gov @aoc.bsky.social @ritchietorres.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @repglatimer.bsky.social @tomsuozzi.bsky.social @nytimes.com
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El @bsdtrhodes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
People may not like it, but lab grown is a potential solution for high prices, supply and supply chain issues, and has a much lower carbon footprint. For all the “pro-capitalism” talk, they certainly fight hard to keep capitalism away from ranchers.
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Vegan FTA @veganftaofficial.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
They fight for their lives in every way they can, but the system is designed to break them. 💔 We must break the systems that exploit them instead. ✊ Clips from thesavemovement (IG) and Daisy Laureano #animalliberation #animalrights #saveanimals
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hello: actual co-organizer of No Kings here: these texts are not from anyone who actually organizes No Kings. Please trust that we hate them just as much as you do
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RileyTChiweeieT14381 @rileytchiweenie2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
THIS BABY COW ESCAPED FROM A SHIP BUT WAS CAUGHT AGAIN. HE WANTS TO LIVE. ANIMALS HAVE NO CHOICE, WE DO: LIVE #VEGAN: CHALLENGE22.COM 🌱
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Show Your Soft Side @softside.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Hey! It’s Change The World Wednesday, so let’s get Simone a home! This sweet senior been waiting at Chesapeake Cats & Dogs Rescue (MD) for 1527 days now! 😿 B/c she’s older? ‘Just a brown tabby’? A little shy at first? Whatever! Loves getting petted, other cats. ADOPT OR SPREAD THE WORD! (More 👇) 1/2
Shocked-looking brown tabby on upholstered chair, head pulled back, eyes wide, with text saying “I've been here 1526 days?!?!” (At least a day out of date now).
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El @bsdtrhodes.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Na, I quit that ps plus shit.
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El @bsdtrhodes.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Had a PS since PS2. PS5 is my last, I am going to PC with multiple storefronts. The Black Flag re-release will be my last. And it’s on disc. Good bye Sony.
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404 Media @404media.co · 08/06/2026
SignalTrace "links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate." It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.
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This Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers
SignalTrace "links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate." It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 10/03/2026
EFF has joined a brief in the Anthropic-DOD case explaining why forcing companies to alter their technology to facilitate surveillance violates the First Amendment.
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The Government Must Not Force Companies to Participate in AI-powered Surveillance
The rapidly escalating conflict between Anthropic and the Pentagon, which started when the company refused to let the government use its technology to spy on Americans, has now gone to court. The Depa...
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El @bsdtrhodes.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Anything you allow the government to do to others, they will do to you.
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El @bsdtrhodes.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I don’t think English has a word such an eclectic mix of stupidity and absurdity.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Riddle me this: If Trump's military hasn't issued any illegal orders, why has Pete Hegseth been unable to come up with *any* legal justification for killing those fishermen in boats in the Caribbean?🤔
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 25/11/2025
Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine. Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Don't photograph anyone else at a protest either.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 07/10/2025
Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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El @bsdtrhodes.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
F8 is obviously a sign. :)
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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.
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El @bsdtrhodes.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
In case anyone wants to try (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD tested) and give me feedback (good/bad) feel free: github.com/bsdtrhodes/I...
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GitHub - bsdtrhodes/Itunes-backup-data-extractor: Java application to extract heaps of data from encrypted/unencrypted backups.
Java application to extract heaps of data from encrypted/unencrypted backups. - bsdtrhodes/Itunes-backup-data-extractor
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El @bsdtrhodes.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Im working on a Java based tool for this, it doesn’t do bookmarks, but it will yank images/videos, message history, voicemails and call history from encrypted backups. Is that what you need?
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El @bsdtrhodes.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Part of all those forms you read and sign will cover issued property that is government property, not your property, and you sign forms about it. They’re very lucky.
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 16/09/2025
@archive.org preserved the original study, which you can find here. web.archive.org/web/20250911...
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WasWrecked&NowImFound @wrecked9n76e.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.
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DC Abortion Fund ⭐ @dcabortionfund.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
we love this article from our pals at @51st.news celebrating the power of a community to resist 51st.news/dc-residents...
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With cellphone cameras and tip lines, D.C. residents find small ways to fight ICE
How neighbors and school communities are organizing against the immigration crackdown.
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Like Mucas @mwl.io · 18/08/2025
You want to make my day? Leave a nice review on one of my books. I appreciate them all. www.amazon.com/gp/customer-...
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Check out this Amazon review of Laserblasted
A very well written story based on a very poorly made movie
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El @bsdtrhodes.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
So, this is what they look like on the inside? I’m not sure I understand the hype tbh.
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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Cats don’t see in pitch black. Dogs don’t see only in black & white. Small myths add up to a culture of misinformation.
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Companion Animals: Facts, Not Folklore.
Herbiⓥore published a post on Ko-fi
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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
95% of lab animals are mice — not because they’re the best models, but because they’re cheap & disposable to the system 🐭
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Mice Show Empathy, Science Shows None 🐁
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RileyTChiweeieT14381 @rileytchiweenie2.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
😔🙏🏽✍🏽email: SpeakerAdams@council.nyc.gov Please use your power as head of the NYC Council to end horse abuse by advancing & passing Ryder’s Law (Intro 967) to ban deadly, unsafe horse carriage rides. You can also help via: nyclass.org/stophorseabu...
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity. "What service is Microsoft providing?" Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.
According to three Unit 8200 sources, the cloud-based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank.

Thanks to the control it exerts over Palestinian telecommunications infrastructure, Israel has long intercepted phone calls in the occupied territories. But the indiscriminate new system allows intelligence officers to play back the content of cellular calls made by Palestinians, capturing the conversations of a much larger pool of ordinary civilians.
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 29/07/2025
an important part of this story a media with integrity will make salient is Microsoft is CURRENTLY complicit in the mass surveillance of people being targeted for assassination by an oppressive government aftermath.site/microsoft-bd...
 The Guardian reports Microsoft has “deepened its relationship” with occupation forces, with documents showing that “Microsoft’s products and services, chiefly its Azure cloud computing platform, were used by units across Israel’s air, ground and naval forces, as well as its intelligence directorate” during what Human Rights Watch and UN experts have called acts of genocide.

The Associated Press reports Azure is being used by the Israeli military to compile and search through information gathered from mass surveillance. The Guardian's report also indicates there are uses of the tech on air-gapped computers. This has all been profitable for the company: internal company data and documents reviewed by AP journalists shows Microsoft entered a three-year, $133 million contract with the Israeli Ministry of Defense in 2021, and The Guardian reports Microsoft has generated $10 million in deals from "engineering support and consultancy services" since 2023
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Animal Ag Reality @animalagreality.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The Trump administration is hell-bent on eliminating animal protection measures like Prop 12. The Supreme Court has already rejected previous attempts to overturn this anti-cruelty act. Still, Big Ag has deep pockets and continues to fight for their undeserved welfare state. #AnimalRights
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URGENT: Oppose anti-Prop 12 provisions in the Farm Bill 2.0.
Send a message to your legislators today to let them know that you strongly oppose anti-Prop 12 provisions in the Farm Bill 2.0.
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Piper Furiosa 🇵🇸🏴🌲🏴‍☠️ @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Magneto was always right.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Not at all surprised. CBP has surveillance drones above most protests too, and with the military on the ground they are deploying even more surveillance. Presume all protests are being monitored, as is everything you say online.
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El @bsdtrhodes.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I’m listening to the Wheel of Time audiobook because I just don’t have the time to read it and even then I get confused at times. I wish I had more free time.
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eugene @eugene290390.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Bezos Struggles to Return Wedding Gifts to Amazon open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
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Bezos Struggles to Return Wedding Gifts to Amazon
The newlywed has failed “repeatedly” to get a customer service representative to speak to him.
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El @bsdtrhodes.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
There is also an identifier website: icelistcd.com
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 03/07/2025
there it is. you had to suspect one of the reasons the Trump admin didn't want to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home was they didn't want him telling people what they put him through and what it's like at CECOT reposting with alt text and linking to the filing storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
screenshot of the 120th and 121st paragraphs in 

120. Upon arrival at CECOT, the detainees were greeted by a prison official who stated, “Welcome to CECOT. Whoever enters here doesn’t leave.” Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was then forced to strip, issued prison clothing, and subjected to physical abuse including being kicked in the legs with boots and struck on his head and arms to make him change clothes faster. His head was shaved with a zero razor, and he was frog-marched to cell 15, being struck with wooden batons along the way. By the following day, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia had visible bruises and lumps all over his body.

121. In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself. The
detainees were confined to metal bunks with no mattresses in an overcrowded cell with no windows, bright lights that remained on 24 hours a day, and minimal access to sanitation.
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El @bsdtrhodes.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
So the "free market" is a lie in Texas. :(
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Inclusive Little Unicorn 🅅 @emmie.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Hey! Check out this app to report where you see ICE agents (unfortunately it's only for iOS currently): apps.apple.com/us/app/icebl...
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‎ICEBlock
‎Stay informed about reported ICE sightings, within a 5 miles radius of your current location, in real-time while maintaining your privacy. ICEBlock is a community-driven app that allows you to share ...
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