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Buddy Bear Security

@buddybearsecurity.bsky.social
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Buddy bear security: debug your security with a teddy bear, and then snuggle said bear as you panic at said security! There is no security unless there is security for all. Canadian/American in Halifax, NS Cybersecurity by day, astrophysics by night.

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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
There was an ant in my hair. The kitchen is now just ant-out. The floors and some of the counter tops. Sprinklings of ant carcasses about. These creatures can stay on the “out” of the house
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
One more day!
A stuffed bear and stuffed pigeon in a graduation cap in front of the book “Will the pigeon graduate?” By Mo Williams
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The system has challenges but when kids are kids - holly hannah I’m so grateful! Occasionally the kids hospital will have volunteers handing out snacks, dinks, and colouring supplies if the waits are long.
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Today in musings without data: - AI feels like the first system designed for a neurodiverse brain - ND folks are more likely to question the ethics of AI RN: Trying to describe how I use AI with high efficiency basically “I can’t give you ADHD, like you can’t make me NT” is all I got 🤦🏻‍♀️🫠
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
15% off a vacuum while taking away reproductive rights? Sign me up for that dystopia! 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Baby Kitty and Teddy Bear explored Volta and tried blending in to the coworking space overlooking downtown Halifax.
A teddy bear and a stuffed grey kitty are propped up and facing each other between a window sill and a table ledge. The window overlooks Halifax downtown during the day.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 18/04/2026
In many cases, we'd prefer not to know.
A guy standing on a ladder in his front yard. He is holding a cup of coffee and waving to a passing neighbor. A tree in the front yard is standing next to the man and also drinking a cup of coffee. The cup says Handsome Ron lives here. The text reads: What you do on a ladder in the summer. That’s none of our business! We’re not here to tell you where to drink your coffee. We’re here to tell you to set your ladder up on a firm, flat surface and to make sure you have a spotter.
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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 18/04/2026
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
🤯 getting final grades back and realizing that I’m graduating in May with a degree in astrophysics, done while doing life for 8.5 years… and Magna Cum Laude.
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Ahhh the cutest!!
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Actually, correction, I do tell them to ask me rather than just flipping do it.
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I’m jealous. Sometimes I’m still telling people that maybe they should apply OS patches that have piled up for 3 years, or to *not* ask to save all the passwords in the vault to a text file “for safe keeping” 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Honestly this is the most hilarious outcome of the dumbest timeline
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Finished my last exam of my undergrad. This has taken almost 10 years to do. Teddy is unsure what to do with his time.
A teddy bear on a window ledge overlooking a grey Saint Mary’s University.
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I’m soooooo happy to live next to an airport with a pre clearance terminal! I’m a dual citizen but even then - problems? Nvm, going home.
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Intro to observational astronomy: the only intro course I’ve taken that’s a 4000-level course. The math isn’t hard, but it’s a course in how physics will tell you to fuck off at every opportunity. I made a diagram to help me understand sources of pain. #astrosky #astrophysics #study #physics #ouch
A whiteboard diagram of many things that go wrong when trying to image a star. On the left hand side, there is a column starting with the title “Get Fucked!” And details a few challenges such as distance, wave-particle duality, SNR ratios and the speed of light changes in a medium. On the main section there is an orange line going diagonally from a star at the top left corner, through the centre with a crude telescope drawing saying “starlight bucket contraption” and then to the bottom right with a square and a scribble and the caption “WTF is this??” - along the path there are statements or questions in green about how one might try to image a star, and then blue saying how this goes wrong. Then off the blue there are correction ideas and then more blue saying how this also goes wrong
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Haughty Chicken @haughtychicken.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
In a compulsory research class I stood before undergrads who clearly didn't want to be there, nor saw the need for it. I began class by asking them to imagine that the next professional they sought help from didn't think researching best practice really mattered. They got my point.
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
My kid will watch Minecraft videos in any language because he doesn’t care about the words. W/E, hearing the cadence of language helps passively gain intuition for language, and I can study. Except today he found a French video & I’m bilingual. I’m now learning vocab instead of CCDs 😭🤦🏻‍♀️
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
And generally maybe don’t criticize others for mispronouncing words if it’s a genuine mistake. Love, someone with sensory processing challenges.
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
At this point in writing reports for the end of semester: if it isn't a .tex doc, and in Overleaf, it can rot in hell where it belongs.
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I feel we need an update on how the class fares tomorrow
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is why the international community is concerned about another country’s leader - especially if a lunatic is able to launch nuclear weapons.
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
It appears my tire held up great! The rest of the car after being rear ended? Ugh. Less so. This trip back to Halifax was destined to be main character energy.
A small teddy bear in front of a black SUV with the back window smashed in and bent bike rack
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Teddy thanks @oktire.bsky.social for helping us get home this weekend after a particularly spicy rock flattened our tire to the rim!
A tire with a flat section. The flat tire sank to the rims on the ground.A teddy bear looking at the camera with the “OK Tire” sign in the backgroundTeddy found a spot to wait in a tire
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
How to tell your kid might have ADHD: Two days cooped up means finding anything exercise related in the houses we travel to. Today: treadmill.
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
👀 1) I love everything about this. 2) now trying desperately not to find that lego set until after exams.
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
We should probably teach more about slide rules and why logarithms make way more fucking sense as a thing we use when that concept is explained.
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
My theory is that he got mad people were excited about Artemis II and not him
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
“Privacy is a myth if it’s connected to the Internet” - at this point I’m just going to go buy a typewriter
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Last night’s head-desk-Earth-solar system-galaxy read while getting sources on nation state attacks.
A photo of the book Countdown to Zero day that has a tldr of “in 2010 a USA report said not to fuck with Iran. They will retaliate.”
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Omg the culture is sometimes unbearable, and entry level - sheesh - the worst. Anyone who survives in this field despite all of that I respect.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10/03/2026
‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’ ‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’ ‘Hello’ is not related to either. Goodbye.
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
And that person is rumoured to be more violent before said villain origin story making event
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
At least everyone is flagging “expect cyber attacks” - and if the news is anything to go by for predictions 👀 uh, this ain’t looking good.
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This is basically the history of YOLO tech and probably not enough diversity to go “wait a goddamned minute” - but that’s my bias
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
My version of a relaxing Sunday read - along with cute spring themed page flags 😍
A picture of the book “We Are All Targets” with a set of page flags with bunnies and flower on a grey fuzzy pillow.
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Fountain pens and stamps have become my silly joy of analog / offline processes
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Halifax ReTales @halifaxretales.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
There is some sort of 2026ness that Women's Day is only 23 hours long this year
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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 06/03/2026
Another wonderful article by Jess DeCourcy Hinds and I am happy to see so many librarians that I’m honored to know, being recognized! lithub.com/8-badass-lib...
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8 Badass Librarians We Need to Celebrate This International Women’s Day
In the late Victorian era, Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system (and a womanizer) argued that women make excellent librarians because we have “a clear head, strong hand… and great hea…
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collie.bsky.social @collie.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Please don’t spread misinformation. Tomahawks fly at low altitude. It’s climbing like a THAAD interceptor (we are out of interceptors).
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
At what point can we just start having these reference other attacks and go “yeah you’re in it, but like, already fucked anyways so no harm done?” 👀 Looking at you, NS Power…
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
👀 I’m more hoping we take the “you started this, bud” sideline
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The one where elections are cancelled
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
“This would be a war crime” - yeah, on brand really
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
It’s only a bad decision if the goose isn’t silly (but even then, serious goose sounds like a good one too!)
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I locked myself into a library for 5 hours today and it was glorious.
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Cute little floaty death bear <3
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I've been working on a side project (beyond going to uni) around #cybersecurity advice that takes the idea of debugging security with a teddy bear to a more literal level. The duck is the homage to the rubber ducky programming where you literally tell the duck how the software works to debug it.
"For the love of security and teddy bears... please patch before the CVE drops. Buddy Bear SECURITY"

A cute, smiling, brown teddy bear wrapped in a blanket and a warm cup of hot chocolate on the floor in front of a green laptop on a green pillow looking towards the viewer. A small plant on the left, and a small light, book, and duck on the right. The words are below, with "Buddy Bear SECURITY" in a banner. The banner has the bear's head on the left, and a padlock on the right. 

The duck is the homage to "rubber ducky programming" where you literally talk to a rubber duck to debug software.
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Jeeves and Wooster series, then watch the Masterpiece Theatre version
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Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Yeah I saw the Siamese below!
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