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TheMagicalC

@cwg1231.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Amateur radio and physical security enjoyer, computer hater and hacker. Born onto the front lines of the fight for accessibility in education. Musician, maker, and […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ defcon.social/@cwg1231, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
@WeirdWriter Every YouTube Channel does have an RSS Feed, as you might know. Not a perfect solution but it might help. channelsurfer.tv/tools/youtube-rss-…
channelsurfer.tv
YouTube RSS Feed Generator & Channel ID Finder
Turn any YouTube channel or playlist into its public RSS feed URL, right in your browser.
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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 18/09/2026
Talk like a pirate day: “please seed, I’m stuck at 68%”
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
That "ChatGPT is reinventing the bronze age bicameral mind" meme sent me on a long journey to learn about the bicameral mind hypothesis, and while I think that Julian Jaynes way overstated an idea and its implications to untenable extremes, there's a fundamentally true idea in there (that […]
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b @mrrp.place · 15/09/2026
youtube captions constantly have hallucinations now and it's so frustrating ,, someone in a video said a URL and the captions said a completely different but semantically related URL?? and also in a different video someone said the name of a US president and the captions said the name of a […]
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TheMagicalC @cwg1231.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
@bookwyrm I'm getting a server error trying to sign into bookwyrm
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Li ~ Crystal System @li.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
the heritage of computers is a gay guy using it to hack nazi encryption btw
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
The year is 2026. Nobody wants a gamified experience on a website. Don’t give me a badge. Don’t even perceive me
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b @mrrp.place · 10/09/2026
on this kirkiversary i'm thinking about the two times when TPUSA tried tabling at reed college to convince students to start a local chapter , and utterly failed because they didn't get any kind of prior approval to be there, so campus security kicked them out within 15 minutes of them setting […]
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0x4d6165 (Julie) @0x4d6165.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
[pol, mainstream feminism becoming more conservative] it's wild watching mainstream feminism regress from "free the nipple" and "women's sports are sexist we should just have sports" to "we should ban all porn and lewd content" and "women's sports exist because women are delicate little flowers […]
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Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
This is the big LG television surveillance documentary story GN have been working on for a couple of months, and that they previewed a few days ago. The complete pervasiveness of spying upon not just you and what you watch but _every person and every device around every set_ is genuinely […]
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
"another sandbox escape" "sandbox escape or you didn't really box the sand to begin with?" "... they were restricted to contacting specific domain names but had write access to their own /etc/hosts"
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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
How Hard Could Getting Voter ID Be? Read more cartoons! ---> #PoliCartoon Help us make more! ----> patreon.com/barry
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON

This cartoon has four panels, each showing a different scene. In addition, there’s a small “kicker” panel under the fourth panel.

PANEL 1

The panel shows a counter at a fast food restaurant. We can see a couple of customers, and a couple of workers. The workers are wearing hats that very vaguely resemble hamburger buns. A sign on the wall shows a smiling hamburger with eyes, below the caption “Soilent Green YUM.” A smaller sign says “SAFETY” in larger letters followed by tiny print, which says “is a word we use a lot so you can’t sue us.”

The worker at the cash register is turning to speak directly to the reader.

WORKER: To get an official photo I.D., I have to go to the nearest government office, which is 90 miles away, and I don’t have a car, and even if I did my boss won’t give me a weekday off.

PANEL 2

We’re in what looks like someone’s back yard. In the foreground is a garden, with some sort of plant being grown in tidy rows. An elderly woman is kneeling on the ground in front of the garden, wearing a floppy straw hat, an apron with a floral patter, and holding a trowel. She speaks directly to the reader.

WOMAN: I can’t get I.D. without a birth certificate. But when I was born home births didn’t get birth certificates.

PANEL 3

A mover wearing jeans and a black tank top is carrying a sofa as he’s talking to the reader. 
MOVER: The state charges $60 for a driver’s license…. but first I’d need a copy of my birth certificate, which is $30. I can’t afford 90 dollars to vote!

PANEL 4

This panel shows the interior of a coffee shop. A man and a woman sit together at a table. They're both looking at their devices, him annoyed, her dismissive.
MAN: Why wouldn’t anyone be able to get an I.D.? Idiots!
WOMAN: People like that don’t deserve to vote.

SMALL KICKER PANEL UNDER THE BOTTOM OF THE CARTOON
The man from panel 4 yelling at Barry
MAN: If it’s easy for me it must be easy for everybody! That’s just science!
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Matt Cengia @mattcen.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
"You don't just care *about* something; you care *for* it." -- @daedalus #PyConAU
Care is an *activity *. Care is *work*.
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seb @sebastian.jittr.click.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026
i tried sebsite.pw/88x31/iaminawebbutton.we…
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Amber :neodog_box: @puppygirlhornypost2.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026
waiting for the day one of my friends has a gpu die on them so i can pull out this image
man holding another man's shoulder with a grin. it is covered in gpu artifacts indicating a dead gpu
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Hazelnoot @fedi.hazelnoot.dev · 20/08/2026
I don't like transphobia, and I don't like censorship either. So here's a local mirror of amnesty international's reports.
enby.life
Amnesty International Reports on the Gender Critical Movement
Local mirror of Amnesty International's censored reports on the Gender Critical movement and its rising threat to safety and freedom in the United Kingdom.
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TheMagicalC @cwg1231.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
What in the hot fresh kentucky fried fuck is this? To get a 10% off coupon, they want me to agree to robocalls and binding arbitration?
A dialogue box from the Supply Co razors website titled "Finish signing up for texts to activate 10% off." In fine print, it says "By providing your number and clicking the button you agree to receive recurring auto-dialed marketing SMS (including cart reminders; AI content; artificial or prerecorded voices) and our Terms of Service (including arbitration). Consent is not required to purchase. Msg & data rates may apply. Msg frequency varies. Reply HELP for help; STOP to opt out. View Privacy Policy."
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b @mrrp.place · 24/08/2026
covid levels in the US aren't looking great rn,,, if you stopped masking a while ago, now's a great time to start again!! (and if you are in portland and need masks, dm me and i can get some to you!)
image from People's CDC titled "According to WastewaterSCAN "medium" levels in the Midwest and "high" levels in all other regions". it contains a map titled "WastewaterSCAN COVID Wastewater Map" (date accessed: 8/21/26) with states colored according to the wastewater levels described in the title
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zimward @zimward.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026
Aaaand manjaro once again managed to not renew their TLS certs. wonder if they just never set up a certbot or if it broke. honestly if you can't keep your TLS certs valid one probably shouldn't publish a linux distribution
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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b @mrrp.place · 23/08/2026
me when i'm keeping an eye on the statistic for the lowest number of a certain species of fish observed in the lake: garmin watch
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 21/08/2026
"If trans people want a boycott of The New York Times, where's the call to do so?" Here is a declaration laying out how the NYT is a key driver of trans genocide, why boycotts work and why anyone who gives a damn about trans lives and rights must boycott The New York Times.
transnews.network
Boycott The New York Times
For years The New York Times has relentlessly pushed anti-trans propaganda, playing a significant role in the escalating genocide against us. It's far past time for a call to action: anyone who cares ...
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Riley @foxgirlriley.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
Waff ​:neofox_floof:​
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zimward @zimward.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
do americans play NTSCworld instead of PALworld?
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rain of memes :spinny_cat_pan: :spinny_cat_nb: @link.js.meowingwo.men.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026
Arch Linux logo but it says "Windows Server"
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sodiboo :pride_heart: @sodiboo.gaysex.cloud · 21/08/2026
@cadey@pony.social with alt text
A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST ALWAYS DO THE HACKING HAHA WHAT ARe they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
[US Pol: Public Service and Low Hanging Fruit] Simplifying permitting processes and getting rid of old illogical laws is "low hanging fruit" there isn't any lobby or group that likes this stuff, but for decades no one could be bothered to fix it because the small vendors aren't a powerful […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
Conservative president Ronald Reagan famously said “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help.” Mamdani is making those nine words terrifying in a new way for conservatives. If he keeps succeeding more people might stop laughing […]
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Lina Lastname @lina.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
new blog post! lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa i hijacked some telephone infrastructure of a few islands over the span of multiple months; and accidentally logged information of a few hundreds of thousands of phone calls going to military bases in the process.. it's a really really […]
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TheMagicalC @cwg1231.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
[uspol, complaining about electoral college] I'm like 5 seconds away from writing an opinion piece saying that every legislator not pushing for some kind of ranked choice voting is genuinely opposed to democracy (hello voting system nerds I know the differences between ranked choice voting […]
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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
Whether you think software development is 90% coding, 90% testing and debugging, or 90% politics says a lot.
@ScarletAstrorum on X:

every creative hobby has its own ‘90% sanding’: 

sewing – 90% ironing
baking – 90% measuring
fermentation – 90% waiting.

Quoting @Duderichy: 
woodworking sounds really cool until you find out it’s 90% sanding.
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Site Reliability Enby @siterelenby.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
Biblically accurate manual transmission RE: precisioncrab.com/objects/3af7bfc1-…
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 20/08/2026
Calling on fediverse moderators: if you see a post that kind of, sort of borders on racism, but you're not really too sure: yep, you're definitely dealing with a racist. Learn about dog whistles. Get a Black person on your moderation team. None of the redesigns and user experience tweaks will […]
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Amber :neodog_box: @puppygirlhornypost2.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026
real. fuck your ai overview
a transparentish cat with a background gradient with the text "I do not want the ai overview. I want to read six wikipedia pages as good intended.
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TheMagicalC @cwg1231.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026
I wish all bots that close "stale" issues a very die.
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026
New Yorkers are a cheap date. All you need to do is say you love our terrible sports teams, fill some potholes, clean some graffiti and say someone will help with the kids and everyone goes nuts. Anyway this is communism. I hope you are all happy.
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alex 🍂 @paracausalex.siren-vibes.ts.net · 13/08/2026
you dont need the plastic tie thingy for bagels in a plastic bag because you can just twist the end of the bag and shove it in the hole of the bagel completely unsexually
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sodiboo :pride_heart: @sodiboo.gaysex.cloud · 08/05/2026
once upon a time i made this mod for a game. it's a settings API so i drew a shitty cog wheel in MS paint for the icon. it's done with a mouse so the lines don't look good at all. it's not even centered. programmer art, etc. anyways so later on someone makes a fork of my mod i guess. and for […]
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sodiboo :pride_heart: @sodiboo.gaysex.cloud · 13/08/2026
compilers famously love to optimize away all your code to make it execute faster without changing behavior, which is usually great news. but also, famously, sometimes the "slow" speed is _the_ desirable behavior in cryptographic algorithms. it is, to my understanding, generally accepted that […]
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Feditips @feditips.mastodon.social.fraudulent.link.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026
the latest mastodon update has added a feature that allows you to mail a pipe bomb to any of your mutuals #feditips
A screenshot of the menu that mastodon has on on profiles. The highlighted option says "Send this user a pipe bomb"
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b @mrrp.place · 10/08/2026
just found out that the pixel camera app has a setting that allows you to manually change which camera it uses so it doesn't jump back and forth between lenses when you're trying to take a photo !!!!
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DEF CON @defcon.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026
OK, who did this.
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TheMagicalC @cwg1231.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026
Torrenting something and I have one peer uploading at about 500 B/s. Girl are you sending this shit over morse code? what is happening over there?
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alex 🍂 @paracausalex.siren-vibes.ts.net · 10/08/2026
░░░░░░███████ ]▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ Bob is building an army ..▂▄▅█████████▅▄▃▂. ☻/ This tank & Bob are against Google+ [███████████████████]. /▌ Copy and Paste this all over ◥⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙◤. /\ Youtube if you are with us
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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026
`git blame`, or as they say in france, `g'accuse`
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:privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 08/08/2026
Fopsicle
A young red fox licking a Popsicle.
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b @mrrp.place · 09/08/2026
was at harbor freight earlier today and wanted to get a stud finder , but the only brand they carried was the one that vandalized wikipedia a year or so ago to add a ton of advertising for their company to the "stud finder" page :( so i did not buy one however i will say, having to do cleanup […]
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