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Tom McKay

@catturd2.bsky.social
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tech/cybersecurity reporter, contributor @Gizmodo. my credentials are clear: I have never given $50k in a shoebox to fake CIA guys.

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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The year is 2026. Honky Park is now a memorial. There is a giant animatronic of JD Vance's head that says "it's ok to be White" as you pass the gates that say Woke Will Set You Free
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
its called The Cool Zone and you need buproprion to enjoy it
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Shouldn't this say the ostensible location of Bitcoin City
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
this might sound crazy but would emulating a theater screen help? i remember that the vr headset would sometimes give me motion sickness, but not the mode for incompatible games where you're in a seat in a theater watching yourself play the game. could having the screen within a screen help?
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
i mean
 identical depiction (homer simpson)
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I told you all there was a save gloryhole.
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
wait a minute. god dammit. that is the villain of the game getting head with the lament configuration
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
[snaps to attention] yes sir mr leviathan sir!
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
is anyone gonna point out the BDSM sex cult leader's persona is corny as fuck
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
(you escape into the cult's cover/recruitment operation which is a bdsm club full of seemingly sex-positive normies)
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
it's kinda fucked up you don't warn this nice lady to get out
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I AM AN OFFICIAL X PAYMENT PROCESSOR. YOU CAN SEND ME VALUE AND I WILL PROCESS IT
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Of interest: this undated mugshot of Jackson looks like he got the rough treatment by the local welcome wagon, though could be lighting/damage to the paper.
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That instead appears to be a year later, 1937, when authorities executed Roscoe "Red" Jackson in Galena, Missouri before a crowd of 400 people. The NYT called this a "select group," but all available evidence indicates a spectacle. www.newspapers.com/article/west...
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A correction on two articles on the Pentagon plan to execute Nidal Malik Hasan on a livestream. Despite many citations to the contrary (including AP archives) Rainey Bethea was not the last convict to be publicly executed in the US. gizmodo.com/fcc-chair-br... gizmodo.com/the-pentagon...
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
sir, this is a schizophrenia outpatient treatment center
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hegseth is bringing back lynching voyeurism gizmodo.com/fcc-chair-br...
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ah, finally. proof that i am smarter than cinephiles.
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Some context on the last state sanctioned public execution in the US gizmodo.com/the-pentagon... @gizmodo.com
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
from me @gizmodo.com Peter Thiel: You Know Who Else Wants to Regulate AI? The Antichrist gizmodo.com/peter-thiel-...
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a good article, but I am getting pretty sick of people confidently predicting Trump can't do the stupid thing because rules
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"super super rangers.. power rangers! super cyber rangers... rangerrrrrsss! [AI guitar power chord that is slightly off key]"
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
literally the first time ive ever seen something and earnestly thought "lol money printer go brrrr"
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i may have accidentally built an entire Zephon modkit that lets you overwrite or override any feature in the game and completes every feature of a unit for you so long as you have some base game/cc by attribution/custom model(s)
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm going to give you... one hundred dollars
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
from me @gizmodo.com ICE Is Reportedly Putting ICE Observers, Protesters in a Palantir Database gizmodo.com/ice-reported...
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
these people are very stupid
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
christ
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've helpfully outlined the Pentagon's choice of experts to write a new report on the future of the U.S. military. The Future of War Is These Four Jerks, Apparently: gizmodo.com/the-future-o...
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"I'm a Hapsburg!"
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't often feel the British legal system is superior, but where's our judge to impose prior restraint on the press and then lock away Michael Tracey for five years without the need for a jury??
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
good lord not sure i've ever seen a bigger red flag in a person than Michael Tracey boiling over into apoplectic rage at the idea of prosecuting alleged gang rapists
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lord humungus looking at his boxEpstein in the box
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
hell y eah google. thank you google
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
huh. that's weird
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bill Gates Suggests He's the Man to Convince Donald Trump to Regulate AI gizmodo.com/bill-gates-s...
Why would he be a good envoy to Trump? In his words: “I hope that, given my life’s work in the field, my saying how unique and different this is and how concerned ‌I ⁠am, will add to what [Trump’s] hearing from other people.”

Incidentally, Gates met with Trump in August 2025 to try to talk him out of continuing to eviscerate U.S. government funding of critical health programs around the world. Later that year, he told Politico, “In my dialogue with President Trump, he clearly cares about these issues and wants to find a generous level for the spending so that the U.S. won’t be responsible for these big increases.”It did not work. The Trump administration has continued to seek and implement massive cuts to foreign aid as well as attempt to divert billions of dollars in global health programs to other priorities like closing out USAID contracts during this year’s government shutdown. In August, the Washington Post reported that the administration had secretly negotiated to continue slashing tens of billions of dollars in health funds through 2030, including money already appropriated by Congress.

Clearly, at least one lesson is remaining unlearned here.
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Not sure this was the best wording for the clapback, Pink
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
lol
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
No fucking way
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
IT/OT convergence
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As a tech journalist, paid partnership
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
SCOTUS ruled that Trump can share DHS database with states looking to purge voters because a 90-day rule protects voters, but... cmon gizmodo.com/scotus-allow...
It’s worth noting that Trump and his allies in Congress have sought to weaken or eliminate the 90-day period, while the Republican National Committee has a lawsuit before the Supreme Court seeking to carve out a mile-wide exception for purges of alleged noncitizens. That case is ongoing and arguments won’t be held until at least December.

However, the Department of Justice has filed a brief supporting the case, and SCOTUS could theoretically grant the plaintiffs an emergency filing allowing it to go into effect before the midterms. The court has recently taken to issuing unsigned shadow docket decisions intervening on Trump’s behalf in a number of cases, and this decision follows a long string of others where experts predicted Trump’s defeat in court as an obvious outcome only for him to win out.
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i see it
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
for a second in townfall i thought the protagonist was going to have a scottish accent and was like "OK did no one notice this guy looks like the Red Team Demoman"
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
asked google why i couldnt see 4k resolution in silent hill townfall and it launched into a gamer rage rant lol
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
starvation is fundamentally english in nature
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is literally just how Google works all the AI did is add some text
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
gee i wonder how they got the lumber schooners to do that
wiki page on mercer girlswiki page on mercer girlswiki page on mercer girls where mercer "convinced crewmen on lumber schooners to transport them for free"
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