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Schuyler

@mrtowne.bsky.social
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Historian & Anthropologist of security technologies, once great lockpicker, now just a great dad. Impossible to overstate how much I think about locks...

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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 6h
Fist pumped that last line. Have all the fun.
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 6h
YESSSSSSSS perfect way to describe this
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A lost oblique strategy has been found!
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oooo, we shredded all the copies while scanning, sry 💔
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Book club?
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hyyyyyyyype
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hah, that's gotta kill as a fraction :P
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I Hope This Email Finds You @thisemailfindsyou.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I hope this email finds you within reach of my castle, I will hunt you like a beast.
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good for you. As my handle was "Shoebox", I reached out to Hallmark greeting cards and offered to give them my account so I could be fully done with it without worrying about anyone ever picking it up. Worked fine, but buncha people worried I was dead for a minute.
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ca-mus Ca-mus Ca-MUUUUUUUUUUUUS!
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Amazing I'm collaborating on a thing with a high school Latin teacher atm (locks of the ancient world) and was delighted to see she had titled the project "Let's Lock In!" I'm sure her students are similarly embarrassed, but ego death is good for the soul :)
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ooo yes, great show, and may I recommend these few episodes of the incredible podcast Gayest Episode Ever: www.gayestepisodeever.com/episodes/tag...
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designing women — Episodes — Gayest Episode Ever
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We had a recurring thin column buried in our local newspaper with that constant headline. The rhyme was enough for me to read the names and single sentence descriptions of the individuals turning 40 each week even though I was, myself, still in single digits
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Love you both, parasocial as that may be, the two of you made something truly incredible. Thank you for every single episode.
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Not only that, but early hacker (& personal hero), René Carmille, reprogrammed those fuckers computers & saved thousands of lives. History let's us see patterns, know why things are, & sometimes find our role models. I had the pleasure of talking about him on Mysteries at the Museum years ago:
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is a very good joke
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mine own epitaph
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Appreciate the reality check. I remember being AMAZED by the very early shadowy shapes from fMRI "reading" a while ago.
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is how I feel about the tentative method in lockpicking First described in the 1770s, it eventually overtakes every attempt to protect against it. Locks invented hundreds of years later fall to it. Just takes the right person designing the right tool to carry out the method on the new lock.
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Existentially exhausted
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fingers firmly crossed for you both
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think you should go for it. 1: I've enjoyed the handful of times we've chatted on here 2: People with burdens are often less burdensome to other people with burdens. Sure, a chance you wind up drowning in each other's problems, but more likely you commiserate & contextualize. Both very helpful.
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh Alex I'm so sorry :(
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
♡♡
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That rules
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Till their last dying day
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It is allowed
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I hope I get to do the things I love & am good at a little more than I do now. I'm finding it hard to go from flexing 20 years of expertise for one hard but wonderful weekend (teaching lock stuff last week) back to feeling barely competent at a job I'm happy to have but struggling to enjoy.
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh, mine would have loved that
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James O’Loughlin @jamesoloughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ross: And Duncan's horses — a thing most strange and certain — Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race, Turned wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out, Contending 'gainst obedience, as they would make war with mankind. Old Man: tis said they ate each other Ross: Fuuuuuuuuuck
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Holy shit 😂
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Truly the softest shirt. I love it so much
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That protect trans youth shirt is the comfiest I've owned in ages, so normally I'd say that, but the abolish ice is so on theme
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The number of things I've learned about myself from filling out what I expected to be boring surveys is wild. Still happening at 42. So hard to know what normal is when your data set on any given life experience has an N of 1, you know?
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You are the dopest
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it's Halloween name charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 25/09/2026
"Why do you need cis people to be the ones to stand up for you?"
screenshot from Control Resonant. Dylan Faden stands in a fight ready stance, weapon in hand, in an open area with no apparent features. text above him reads "Cannot Transition During Combat"
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That's dope!!
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My answer was typically "you are a moody late teen reaching deeper into the 4AD catalogue than you likely want" But I still stared at the ceiling often enough thinking my big thoughts while "the serpents egg" rolled along in the background.
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
😁
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Look for me on stage!
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
😁 dog I WISH
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I do hope some of y'all listen to bbno$ (baby no money) The music is so good and the musician is wonderfully unproblematic.
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As angry as I get scrolling, I also feel such real and deep love for y'all. At least we are here together. ♡
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Very cool research. Apparently, we have two brain organs that work together. Stanford researchers: “We’ve shown for the first time that the front of the brain arises from a totally different progenitor cell than the back of the brain”
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tragediegh is SENDING me
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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ditto, was, in fact, revisiting that childhood treat when sick once, and forgot to return the butter dish to the cabinet from where I had been preparing and eating my sugar bread. I have not heard the end of my wife finding the entire butter dish in the bed when she got home :P
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Scott Purdy @scottpurdy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As we begin to head into Spooky Season, let this serve as your annual reminder that Zombie by The Cranberries is not a Halloween song, but Can’t Fight the Moonlight by Leann Rimes is.
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