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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
Tip of the iceberg, friendo. 😅
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m mostly having flashbacks to my first marriage circa 2009. 🙄
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I lived in Reykjavik for a while and this is absolute *peak* RVK 😂😭
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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 · 24/05/2025
Unschooling is more like student-led education. I was able to follow my own interests as a means of learning. For me, that meant learning at a college level in middle school. This is not (and should not be) the case for all children.
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
We opted to drive 9+ hrs to our vacation because the idea of flying (which I’ve never previously had an issue with) made me queasy with anxiety. 😬
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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 · 24/02/2025
No. He’d have to remember an accurate number. 💅🏻
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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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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Neurodivergent.
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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 think it depends. When the person is ND or dealing with an unusual amount of stress, etc. that can make time and task management extra challenging. HOWEVER: The above is context, not justification. If you feel that this indicates low prioritization, that's telling.
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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 · 06/02/2025
I think there is something to be said for the flag (especially flag swag - forgive the rhyme) as something of a shibboleth. I have this kneejerk reaction where I find myself trying to determine if they’re patriotic or nationalistic. I’m neutral on the flag itself. The issue for me is the why.
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
As an American who already had severe anxiety, I’m dreading the reveal. As an infuriated bitch who loves transparency for the greater good - especially paired with spite - I’m thrilled.
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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 · 05/02/2025
Fun fact: If you are/know/love someone who prefers graphic novels, a LOT of these books have graphic novel versions - On Tyranny, Animal Farm, 1984, Parable of the Sower, etc.
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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 · 04/02/2025
Loud talkers annoy me, but the whisper ASMR makes me have such a visceral reaction. Tbh, most ASMR squicks me, but for some reason, the whispering is the worst for me. Right up there with loud chewing.
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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 best(?) part of this is that I am not a Disney Adult to any degree whatsoever. I have not seen a Toy Story film in at least 3 years, and only because my kids were watching. No idea what sparked this train of thought before 8am, but B (also not a Disney Adult) found the non-sequitur hilarious.
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Alternatively, there’s some sort of toy dictator living in a bunker somewhere trying to prevent toys from engaging humans because that might end the dictatorship somehow. WHAT IF THERE IS A TOY DICTATOR SOWING DIVISION?! THIS CANNOT STAND!
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
So I have a few thoughts: Toys probably function as if each location is a cell group. Toys could be self-organizing and perhaps each cell runs on anarcho-communism. This doesn’t really explain the universal rules for not moving around humans. Is it self-preservation somehow?
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
How are all the toys globally aware of these rules? How are they communicating them to one another? Especially since these rules would have been in place (presumably) since the creation of the first toys ages ago.
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
WHO IS CREATING AND ENFORCING THE RULES?! B suggested Buzz since he’s a space ranger, but he didn’t even think he was a toy at first AND being a space ranger is probably more like being a park ranger with a bigger jurisdiction. Additionally…
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
B pointed out that sheriffs can be appointed. His specific example was the sheriff of Nottingham. This, ofc, brings up the following question: Who is the toy king? ALSO! Woody is a toy based on a tv character that is a sheriff, which means he may not ACTUALLY be a sheriff, which brings me back to…
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cat-attack (she/her) @cat-attack.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
They have explicit rules about toys not doing shit in front of people. Who made these rules? Who enforces them? Is it Woody? He’s a sheriff, after all. Was he elected? Who runs the elections? Do they have a BOE? Are there other government officials? Are there toy senators? Is there a toy SCOTUS?
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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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