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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Unpopular opinion: these are two of the unsung heroes of the LOTR genre.

The original animated Hobbit and Return of the King. I will admit the Hobbit was the real unsung hero here as it was all hand painted and has an artistic feel that the later Return Of the King didn't quite achieve. But they were both better than the live action animation of the two towers which was frankly pretty awful.

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Is it time to bring back the Zoot Suit but this time with it permeating all social strata and groups?

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

One for the pen testers. 😉

Graffiti with the words "Hack the World" in a stylised font used by taggers.

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

When on the borders of Devon and Cornwall, one must learn to swing both ways.

Two cream tea scones. One with jam first, the other with cream first. Which is right? Who really cares, they are just delicious.

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

AI will change the world.... it will enable marketing that no one wanted. I wonder how much power and water went into making this.

A friendly looking poo floating in a toilet with large puppy like eyes and a cheeky grin. In the original 90 second video it blinks and maybe even waves from the bowl. It's nightmare fuel mixed with Disney.

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A Stanislov Holy cartoon from 1970. As apt today as it was then I would think.

The top frame shows two line drawn people on an island digging up from.the middle to build the starts of towers.

The middle frame shows the island divided entirely as the towers rise.

The bottom frame shows the two towers firing cannons at each other from the tops of the towers. The island has disappeared.

The top frame shows the towers full of holes and beginning to crumble.

The middle frame shows only low tower sections on the sea with the two figures beginning to be submerged.

The bottom frame shows both figures sat together dejected on a pile of cannonballs in middle of a sea. There is no island and no resource left.

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

RIP Desmond Morris whose books inspired my interest into my niche field of my career. He was one of those scientists who changed the way we perceived other animals and ourselves as a species.

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026

It's time for another LLM image generation thread, because they're humourous. If you just want to see the images and don't care about joining in the snark, you can find this at tautology.org.uk/blog/2026/03... 1/35

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LLM Image Generation: Space – Tautology’s Blog

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Found during a walk in the woods.

A rock with some mixed fossils, that appear to be plants of some form. The poster is unaware.

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Don't make me tap the sign....

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

This family photo has been in the album since I was born and is of my mom aged 5... It still gives me nightmares... "He knows when you are sleeping... he knows when you're awake..."

Scary Santa is an old sepia tome photo from the 1950s. His eyes stare through your very soul and his hand is the size of a child's head.

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

"Adversarial poetry" anyone? The once was an AI in the cloud. The makers were all very proud. When asked for illumination, It often gave a hallucination, But the answers were still used by the crowd.

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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Affective science has lost an extraordinary member of our community: Dr. Paul Ekman, who passed peacefully at home at the age of 91 on Monday. Dr. Ekman's pioneering cross-cultural research on the interpretation of facial expressions in emotional terms...(1)

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life" - Socrates I am reminded of this wisdom as I sit reading the paper with a cup of coffee and contemplating the day before it runs away with itself and it becomes tomorrow.

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Photos from Bsides Cymru 2025. Credit to D Zilderberg. Many thanks for taking them. www.flickr.com/gp/zilberber...

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

A bit of rural exploring today.

A photo from inside the witches tower near pontyclun. Looking upwards, the optical illusion is one of being in the bottom of a well.

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BSides London @bsideslondon.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Our newest Welsh cousins, Bsides Aberystwyth, will be holding their inaugural event on the 22nd November, & their CFP is now open! bsidesaberystwyth.org/call-for-pap... Pob lwc i BSides Aberystwyth, cefnogwch nhw gyda'u digwyddiad cyntaf! #Security #Bsides #Aberystwyth #BsidesAberystwyth2025

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a red dragon on a green and white flag

ALT: a red dragon on a green and white flag

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Headline Vs. where my mind goes upon reading it.

Headline reads "octopus now a much bigger problem than feared".

A "colossal octopus" attacking ship, pen and wash by Pierre Denys-Montfort, engraved by Étienne Claude Voysard

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

I'll take "things that should not be* for 250 please Bob.

Headline that describes someone's vision to turn the life of Lemmy from motorhead into a version of Dickens a Christmas carol.

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Cunningham's Axiom - posting any answer is effective enough to stop people looking further. 😉

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

RIP Ozzy. Your music defined a great part of my younger life. You shall be missed 😭

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BSides London @bsideslondon.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Let's try something different, there is one, (yes!) just one #BSidesLDN2025 Gold sponsorship space left to fill! Don't be the one to make London the dinosaur sad, you simply have to sponsor us... bsides.london/s/Bsides-Lon... #Security #BSides #London #SponsorShip

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

It's the future (apparently)... Which of these "futuristic" cars would you choose?

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Seems Victoria's Secret Has been handed a cyber wedgie by data knickers.

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Today's game is to turn my day out into a hunt for images that follow a pattern akin to a children's book. So. "A man went to Bath and did the math. To find thirteen images along his path. All need to be in order and follow the flow. Can he make it the end? We don't know."

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

The crime here is reheating it. Just pour it over ice and enjoy.* *I feel this may be a provocative post.

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

First year infosec student sits next to me on a train... Begins to inform me (random stranger) about infosec and to teach me the ways of the force. 🤣 Train journeys never change, and continue to be the best places for anecdotes.

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Who knew that a gift shop fridge magnet would turn into a political approach.

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Meet Count Squirrella. His cape is at the dry cleaners. 😉

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Them: "I think you'll like this book, you're into all that security and risk stuff." Me: "yeah...something like that"

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Congress can (still) stop this any time it wants.

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The US no longer needs an April's Fool day... They have elected an "all year round" one instead. 😬

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I reach for glass, a phantom pane. To glimpse the world, to feel the rain. But only air, a chilling draught. A vacant space, a broken craft.

A hole in the wall where a window should be. A replacement is forthcoming, but the chill is severe at present.

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Pen Test Partners @pentestpartners.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Benefiting newbies, experts, and everyone in between, cybersecurity community groups are an excellent way to network and learn 💻 ... Our latest blog post by Nick Simpson looks at how you can find UK groups, including OWASP, DEF CON groups, 2600 and more: www.pentestpartners.com/security-blo...

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Pen Test Partners @pentestpartners.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Our Sam Macdonald presented a talk on dealing with imposter syndrome at BSides Kent last weekend. #BSidesKent #CyberCommunity #BSides #MentalHealth #ImposterSyndrome #Conference

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

A bit of pre-internet, influencer, faux science. Things change, yet remain the same.

Aldous Huxley's book "The art of seeing", now debunked science.

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Wayne May ScamSurvivors.com @scamsurvivors.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

We're looking to do one final Skype scammer call session before it shuts down. If you're interested in joining in, let me know.

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Who knew the release of the JFK files would reveal ancient vikings were the culprits all along. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD
...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Let's have an NDA friendly social engineering war story: AKA - The first time I "robbed" a bank. This was about 10 years ago and this was a job to try and SE my way into three branches. I was allowed to choose and focussed on smaller branches in smaller towns. Something that might not exist today

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Pen Test Partners @pentestpartners.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Our Warren Houghton is back at it again with Nerding Out with Viktor. Warren shares fascinating insights into how he successfully infiltrates secure spaces and bypasses sophisticated defences. Watch the full episode here: vpetersson.com/podcast/S02E...

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

My 15 milliseconds of famous fingers. 🤣🤣🤣

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DEF CON @defcon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Chris Hadnagy vs. DEF CON Lawsuit update 2025/02/24 It’s been a while since our last update - a lot has been going on behind the scenes - and with the discovery phase complete we have filed a motion for summary judgement asking the court to dismiss his lawsuit.

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Tom Roberts @tbroberts02.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

When you work in infosec and read a headline that means something completely different.

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Lisa Forte @lisaforte.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

On bbc news last night explaining why, in my opinion, blanket back doors into encrypted services harm the average law abiding citizen more than they “help stop the bad guys” - sorry uk gov, i vehemently disagree with your order to Apple.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Fraudsters are setting up fake banks on Companies House - here's how we found 16 in three minutes... using an automated tool we've just made freely available. Thread:

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Pen Test Partners @pentestpartners.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

When the dust settles after a cyber breach, the spotlight is on tech fixes. But what about the other aspects that can make or break your recovery? These 10 actions go beyond tech fixes to protect your future resilience, reputation, and relationships. 👉 www.pentestpartners.com/security-blo...

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