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cat-attack (she/her)

@cat-attack.bsky.social
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Engineer - talk to me about infosec, accessibility, automation, & open source Recovering game dev, avid bookworm, compulsive knitter, unfluencer Queer, polyamorous, leftist, venomous Your favorite autistic’s favorite autistic

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wishing this woman the finest of divorce attorneys. 🫶🏻
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Actually, Soundgarden discovered the ”Black Hole Sun” back in 1994. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
theguardian.com
Astronomers discover a new kind of cosmic object – a black hole ‘star’
The body is the size of the entire solar system and glows with a brilliant red light billions of light years from Earth
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/08/2026
We should really work together, hand and hand, to focus all of our community’s poorly-suppressed and totally ruthless bullying energy on the single demographic we all agree actually deserves it: Harry Potter Adults in the year of our lord 2026
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I never anticipated how zealous the dedication would be to the nudity of the emperor.
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
LinkedIn is the TestRail of social apps.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
girl take us with you
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
15: Have you ever <giggling> trusted a fart? Me: Are you asking if I’ve ever trusted the *wrong* fart? 15: <maniacal laughter> YES!
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
12: I love penguins SOOOO MUCH because they stand on two feet and when they see a human they’re like <arms outstretched> 😀 “TWIN!” 😀
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I think about the Planeteers almost daily, that show really set the stage for millennial adulthood
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Unfriendly Black Hottie @dnellicious.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Say what you want about Kendrick but the fact that people are figuring out what “40 acres and a mule” in 2025 is why any education to black history is important, no matter no big nor small.
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
12: I had a dream. 😳 Me: Oh? A bad dream? 12: No… there was just a REEEEALLY big strawberry. 😳
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Just got our first sieg heil from a truck driving by (complete with heil Hitler) if you’re wondering whether or not this protest is necessary
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 21/02/2025
Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I've *FINALLY* gotten two of my favorite nerd friends into BG3. I just gotta say - the only thing better than being blown away by that game the first time is watching your friends have that reaction. We all need a little joy right now, and that's some of mine for the moment.
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I got rid of a spider and now the kids are singing "Toss a Coin to Your Witcher".
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Threatening people under duress with retaliatory surveillance and abandonment for being too under duress to do the labor you want Is a really common tactic and for folks who are marginalized Please cut that shit out Also stop encouraging it
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Peter Kafka @pkafka.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Here's a list of DOGE staff, assembled and annotated by my colleagues at BI. Whatever you do, please don't share it. www.businessinsider.com/doge-staff-l...
businessinsider.com
We got a DOGE staff list. From a McKinsey alum to a former Clarence Thomas clerk, here are the workers powering Elon Musk's cost-cutting squad.
A list of White House DOGE staffers shows about 30 young tech, finance, and legal professionals remaking the federal government.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth. The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...
slate.com
Don’t Buy a Tesla. Sell Your Tesla. Refuse a Tesla at the Rental Counter. Yes—It Will Help.
Elon Musk’s car company is in a precarious spot.
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Honestly? Just let him go around renaming random shit. If that’s how he spends his entire administration, we’re doing GREAT.
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Every time I open Threads, I am reminded that I hate it along with damn near everyone using it. 🙄
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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 09/02/2025
There are some infosec folks who are playing semantics or splitting hairs or saying ‘let’s wait and see’ in defense of what the DOGE workers are doing. If they witnessed such sloppy cybersecurity in any corporate environment, they would be screaming bloody murder. Why the double standard? Why?
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Wishing the birds a very happy, healthy Superb Owl. 🥰
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Nah, friendo. It’s Big Pharma trying to sell anxiety meds. 😂😭
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
@safety.bsky.app y’all need to deal with bad actors like this.
Screencap from bsky. It reads:
@drewc.bsky.social has added you to the “Transphobes, Genocide Enthusiasts, and Crumbums” moderation list

Weird how someone would create a list specifically targeting people who are none of those things, huh?Screencap of a bsky profile:
The nickname is Doug Jones as Mr. Lizard
Username is Drewc.bsky.social

There are several posts and the first says “Content blocked” and that it has been labeled by the BlueSky moderation service”.

So BlueSky has already been having issues with this person. So surprising!
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
THIS. If you can’t even manage to shut up in public (which yes, jackasses, includes the social media), you are introducing so much unnecessary risk to yourself and others.
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Confession: The weird ASMR whisper makes me want to commit arson. I hate it so much. 😭
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
12: Y’all wanna know a fun fact? 10: What? 12: I was born on my birthday. 😎
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
If you can't find an online history for an organization (or, if it's a coalition, it's component organizations), DON'T GIVE THEM YOUR INFO
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The other night, I had a nightmare and B had to wake me up. IMMEDIATELY, I started peppering him with questions/concerns about the Toy Story universe (note: the nightmare was not about anything even vaguely related to Toy Story). Here is how that conversation went:
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ceej @ceej.online · 29/02/2024
draping the modesty cloth over my sinful washing machine, so that god need not gaze upon its frothing, sensual innards
amazon product image for some sort of cloth covering for a washing machine
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
this is gonna be the way things work over the next few years- the admin getting like 1% of what it wants and losing almost every negotiation while the lapdog press spins every loss as a huge historic win, it's literally the modi model
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 27/01/2025
i know i'm talking a LOT about the glories of the 1990s/early 2000s web and YES part of it is nostalgia, but i honestly believe that bringing back human-made blogging and links free from Meta/Twitter can actually contribute to our political and social survival in this new awful era so LET'S DO THIS
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
All of this. And if you’re NC and would like to shop at a locally owned Black bookstore, check out Liberation Station. They had to close their physical location in Raleigh last year due to death threats.
liberationstationbookstore.com
Liberation Station Bookstore
Since 2019, we have trailblazed the industry as an independent children’s bookstore. We believe in making representation accessible and amplifying Black voices. As booksellers and storytellers, we thr...
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
My favorite response to this is “oh, I’m sorry I didn’t realize it was a joke. They’re usually funny.”
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 24/01/2025
When exchanging your @signal.org contact info over an insecure channel (like a text message or DM), it's a good idea to generate a Signal link (URL) from the app, then you should RESET that link after you connect with the other person on Signal. Thanks to @micahflee.com for reporting.
theintercept.com
Signal’s New Usernames Help Keep the Cops Out of Your Data
Ephemeral usernames instead of phone numbers safeguard privacy — and makes the Signal messenger app even harder to subpoena.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Only saying once on bsky b/c I know it is not entirely useful, but it is totally exhausting that in 2016 some of us said “they’re Nazis,” some of us screamed “they’re segregationists,” and a whole lot of very serious people now posting about them being Nazis and segregationists gaslight us for years
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Thin blue line, baby
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Dear life-at-conception bioessentialists: So nice that we’re all in the girls club by your own definition now! Turns out middle school biology is, once again, not all that helpful when it comes to sex and gender. 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Big reminder to be as precise as possible in what you share, regardless of the story, as we go forward. Without details, the info is useless and adds to the chaotic/fearful information environment that many good folks are trying to reign in and organize.
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
We rely heavily on our local pharmacy. It’s amazing to have a pharmacist who’s familiar with our bigass family’s meds & dx’s. They’re also WAY easier to deal w/ than any of the big chains. I’d be devastated if they shut down. Local pharmacies are vital. If you have one available, go there!
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
8am EST, B is asleep. Me: Babe! Babe, babe, babe! B: Yes? Me: You wanna watch a corpse flower bloom?! B: Not especially… but I’m open to it.
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Come on. What could possibly go wrong?
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Trump has rescinded Biden’s Executive Order 14087, “Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans,” which included things like lowering state Medicaid costs for the most expensive therapeutics, reducing Medicare payments for proven drugs, and creating a flat, $2 Medicare copay for generic drugs
statnews.com
Trump’s initial orders reverse Biden on health care costs, protections from discrimination
Trump's executive orders took aim at Biden's priorities, from drug pricing to gender discrimination.
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell, 1984
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Textbooks are gonna get real weird about how they cover WWII now, huh
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
You don’t have to engage with toxic positivity to get shit done. It’s ok to be exhausted, frustrated, terrified - whatever, any feeling is valid (this goes for p much anything). What you absolutely mustn’t do is assume nothing can change. It’s a trap.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
When you’re quoting Tolkien, this is what you’re saying, whether you know it or not. I borrow a lot of strength from this idea. It’s also not at odds with feeling upset.
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