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mike tigas

@mike.tig.as

2.6K followers 370 following 51 posts

currently: 👨‍🍼 • previously: technologist at FTC, hacker-journalist at @propublica.org, contrib at @torproject.org (Onion Browser for iOS), TabulaPDF • he/him • chicago • [personal acct] 🌐: mike.tig.as

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mike tigas @mike.tig.as · 07/04/2026

happy 17776 day 🛰️🏈🛰️🏈🛰️

Screenshot of text:

(green) .On April 7th, 2026, people stopped being born. On the same day, people stopped dying, and people stopped aging.

(yellow) .ham cheese. ham cracker. cheese cracker. ham and cheese cracker. ham and cheese

(red) .Why?

(green) . We don't know. Nobody knows.

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mike tigas @mike.tig.as · 09/02/2026

find me a more cursed way to start a sentence

Screenshot of text: “February 6, 2026 - ai.com, a new Al platform founded by Kris Marszalek, co-founder and CEO of Crypto.com, today announced the…”

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mike tigas @mike.tig.as · 11/01/2026

god i love this team and this city

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mike tigas @mike.tig.as · 29/12/2025

excuse me

black & white tuxedo cat, standing on top of a tool + hex wrench set, his white paw resting upon a crescent wrench

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mike tigas @mike.tig.as · 02/11/2025

me explaining daylight saving time to the cat

tuxedo cat swatting a man’s nose (cat paw somewhat motion blurred). the man is recoiling/wincing.

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mike tigas @mike.tig.as · 02/11/2025

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mike tigas @mike.tig.as · 28/10/2025

oh my god, The Tweet is exactly ten years old tonight

screenshot of a Justin Klugh tweet from October 28, 2015:

JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
BUCK: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
BUCK: oh god yes

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mike tigas @mike.tig.as · 05/10/2025

excuse me

tuxedo cat paws standing on top of a newspaper crossword page

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mike tigas @mike.tig.as · 02/10/2025

oops @sarambsimon.bsky.social

Tuxedo cat lounging atop a Costco-themed cardboard cat house / scratcher.

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mike tigas @mike.tig.as · 10/03/2025

#NICAR25 was amazing, but it’s good to be home

a bad tuxedo cat leaning over a plate and attempting to grab a pepperoni from a pizza

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mike tigas @mike.tig.as · 06/03/2025

news nerd friends, i’m at #NICAR25 — come say hi! and in classic fashion, i’m a last-minute add to a session:

Screenshot of a conference program app, showing a session’s info.

Technical tech regulators: The data we use to regulate the most powerful companies in the world

Thursday, Mar 6, 2025
10:15-11:15

Portage Ballroom 3, 4th fl

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mike tigas @mike.tig.as · 05/02/2025

iMessage “fails open” (falls back to insecure SMS/MMS if it has an issue reaching Apple’s server) unless you turn that off as the sender. At mercy of your contacts to do it too for their msgs. Easier to just use Signal rather than worry if my contacts do that.

Screenshot of iOS settings for Messages app. Shows toggle switch for “Send as Text Message”, which is turned off in this screenshot. Helper text below it says:
Send as Text Message when iMessage is unavailable. Text messages will always send as SMS when RCS is unavailable.

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mike tigas @mike.tig.as · 15/12/2024

@sarambsimon.bsky.social

A political compass meme (coordinate plane), in which the vertical axis is BRAIN - NO BRAIN and the horizontal axis is NO CRIMES - CRIMES.

Overlayed in the upper/right quadrant (BRAIN / CRIMES) is the image of a tuxedo cat.

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mike tigas @mike.tig.as · 06/09/2024

oh my god daringfireball.net/2024/09/the_...

Screenshot of text:
I was familiar with most of the 9 browsers included in all 27 countries, and you probably are too. But I’d never heard of Aloha or Onion Browser — and Onion Browser in particular stands out for coming from an individual developer, Mike Tigas. (Onion Browser also stands out for being open source.) Both Aloha and Onion are advertised as “privacy focused”, which seems particularly true for Onion Browser, which is connected to Tor. Aloha includes built-in ad-blocking and a geo-fence skipping VPN.

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mike tigas @mike.tig.as · 14/06/2024

the baseball gods have blessed us

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mike tigas @mike.tig.as · 10/05/2024

if i ever win the lottery i won’t tell anyone but there will be signs

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mike tigas @mike.tig.as · 10/05/2024

oh my god WHAT

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mike tigas @mike.tig.as · 04/02/2024

Wow! Onion Browser is one of the choices in the new "choose your default browser" screen that will be shown to iOS users in the EU: www.macrumors.com/2024/01/26/a... It's WILD that a browser with Tor built-in will be presented as a setup option on a major OS.

Screenshot from macrumors.com article; partial text:

Apple said iPhone users in the EU will be presented with a list of the 12 most popular web browsers from their country's local App Store at the time, and noted that the options will be shown in random order for every user.

Apple shared an alphabetical list of the browsers that will currently be shown in every EU country. It is a very long list, so we have elected to highlight browsers that will be shown in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain as examples.

(Lists for France, Germany, Italy, and Spain follow. All four show "Onion Browser" which is underlined. Screenshot too long for Bluesky alt text.)

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mike tigas @mike.tig.as · 30/10/2023

love to watch a sport

screenshot of an NFL football game being broadcast on Fox, score bug graphic says “[undefined]” for each team

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mike tigas @mike.tig.as · 27/08/2023

thanks, i hate it

i *really* don’t want to alt-text this one

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