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Sean Gallagher

@thepacketrat.net
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Birb stalker. Cat tree. Cyber Threat Researcher. Recovering cyber and natsec reporter. Meme war and US Navy veteran. @thepacketrat everywhere since 1994. These posts are not my employers’. falling-anvil.com

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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 7h
Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ — theonion.com/creatively-t...
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Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’
BUENOS AIRES—After exhausting a significant amount of his intellectual energy in a series of company launches, a creatively tapped-out Peter Thiel announced Tuesday a new startup called “Frodo, But Ev...
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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 12h
We're at the "Being asked to model how much fuel instability has cost this year with the expectation that it will worsen next year" stage of recession indicators, just FYI.
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 12h
The Coat Store near me is now a Spirit of Halloween popup. I can't even buy a coat, I have to summon one from the underworld now.
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 29/09/2026
Idaho implements "survival of fittest" strategy to reduce number of future students and save education funds.
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Idaho Capital Sun @idahocapitalsun.com · 29/09/2026
An Idaho judge dismissed a lawsuit from a Boise daycare and parents that sought to block enforcement of a state law that bans daycares from requiring vaccines or medical treatment.
idahocapitalsun.com
Federal judge upholds Idaho law that bans vaccine, medical treatment requirements in daycares • Idaho Capital Sun
The ruling upholds an Idaho law that bans daycares, businesses, governments and schools from mandating vaccines or “medical interventions.
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 28/09/2026
What is “The Equalizer”?
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 28/09/2026
As seen in @theonion.com

HUNDREDS OF COLORS,
ONE
UNBEATABLE TASTE.
Crayola
EVEN MORE
CRAYON COLORS
Nontoxic
NOTAPAID ADVERTISEMENTI
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 28/09/2026
I mean, we went through a screening for our last pet adoption…and then the woman running the rescue got shut down for pet hoarding.
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 28/09/2026
Private rescues. 😬
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 28/09/2026
Well, not an idiot... I mean you don't actually eat crayons do you?
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 28/09/2026
WHAT RESCUES ARE THESE NAME AND SHAME
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 28/09/2026
Visited by a biblically-accurate angel today. #pidgecam #birds
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 27/09/2026
*instead of following the lesson plan
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 26/09/2026
Lost Magic School Bus episode: Ms Frizzle has to take a sick day to take the class pet chameleon to the exotic animal vet, and the sub plays an RFK Jr podcast instead, resulting in the most dangerous field trip ever
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 26/09/2026
Who is Thor Lutefisk?
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 26/09/2026
That is so she can perform at Coachella like Tupac
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 26/09/2026
Who is Pepe Le Nooooo
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 26/09/2026
Who is Antold Schwartzenegger?
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 26/09/2026
What is Eartha Kitt’s Kaboodle?
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 26/09/2026
What is “A Clockwork Orangutan “
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 24/09/2026
What is “the poop”?
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 24/09/2026
What is “home equity”?
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 23/09/2026
What is the Greyhound Passenger Lounge?
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 23/09/2026
Just saw this:
Claude Code

I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company.
Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude.
There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore.
Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.
- voxium (@vOxium)
Original post dated September 20, 2026.
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 23/09/2026
What is “remember to compost”?
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 23/09/2026
What is a Duraincel?
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 23/09/2026
New breakfast cereal just dropped
Deep South India Kerala Mix bag.
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 23/09/2026
What is skanking?
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 23/09/2026
*sighs*
O'REILLY®
The End of Software
Engineering
A practical beginner's guide to starting a career in plumbing. Learn the essential skills and tools to become a confident plumber.
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 21/09/2026
I use Cornell’s apps eBird and Merlin.
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 21/09/2026
Um no
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 20/09/2026
Two weeks into a war with fruit flies. Starting to believe in spontaneous generation.
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 20/09/2026
Forster's Tern For Imaginary Friends
A Forster's Tern at Prime Hook
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 19/09/2026
Who is the AI woman from Ex Machina?
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 19/09/2026
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 19/09/2026
Mitch McConnell Returns To Capitol Hill In Jar Of Formaldehyde — theonion.com/mitch-mcconn...
theonion.com
Mitch McConnell Returns To Capitol Hill In Jar Of Formaldehyde
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 19/09/2026
Summer is almost over.
Cicada sings “WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO REACH YOU
ABOUT YOUR VEHICLE'S EXTENDED WARRANTY”
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 19/09/2026
And when I say “the Irish” it gets very complicated; the Gallaghers were Catholics and my paternal grandmother’s parents were a Presbyterian Scotsman and a daughter of Protestant Irish parents settled in the Bronx.
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 19/09/2026
My mom’s mom came to the US from NE England when she was a child. My mom’s father’s family emigrated from Germany in the very early 1900s. On my dad’s side, the Scots came to the US in the 1890s and the Irish from 1865 onward.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is noteworthy. Again, no compelling evidence supports the COVID lab leak theory. The furin cleavage site present in SARS-CoV2 was perceived as unusual, fueling the lab leak theory. But now we understand that other bat betacoronaviruses have it. 🧪 www.chemistryworld.com/news/does-th...
chemistryworld.com
Does the discovery of a new coronavirus upend the Covid-19 lab-leak hypothesis?
Sequence found in Sars-CoV-2 had never been seen in another bat coronavirus until now
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 19/09/2026
Oh yay www.chemistryworld.com/news/elevate...
chemistryworld.com
Elevated carbon dioxide lets Sars-CoV-2 live far longer in droplets
Study explains why good ventilation lowers transmission of Covid-19
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 19/09/2026
Turns out I am also 0.5% Dothraki.
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 19/09/2026
This Ancestry map gets more intersting every time I look at it. They must have just bought a bunch of data from somebody.
A map of Europe allegedly showing where the poster’s DNA comes from.
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 19/09/2026
The Spanish Armada survivors that would become the Irish Carlos family finally landed in my DNA review lol.
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 19/09/2026
I remember when I was casually investigating whether I could get citizenship in any of the countries my people came from. Apparently I was born too late to be grandfathered, great grandfathered, or colonized.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Pen, watercolor, acrylic paint, black & white charcoal pencil.

One of my favorite pieces from my new book, Spooky Pants. Coming out this October.

A small cabin in the snow surrounded by trees. Two cabin people stand outside holding mugs of hot cider. One of them shouts out, “Big Fella, we got hot apple cider happening over here.” On the other side of the page we see Big Fella, a massive spider emerging from the forest. 

Artist’s note: The spider only has 6 legs.. I made a mistake. However, I did read that some spiders can lose their legs in battle so maybe that’s what happened. Also, this drawing was probably directly inspired by the game Limbo. I love the art direction in it.
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 19/09/2026
Breaking: Mitch & Mickey will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.
Mitch & Mickey from A Mighty Wind
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 19/09/2026
These are just the random thoughts of a guy who majored in International Relations in college and now boops computers to see if they have bad guy sauce on them when not taking photos of birbs. So, you know. An expert.
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 19/09/2026
Otherwise they can join India and become BRICs
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Sean Gallagher @thepacketrat.net · 19/09/2026
Best scenario for the UK right now: a reverse takeover like Burger King did with Tim Horton’s. Become Canada East, adopt Canadian laws and citizenship, gain re-entry into the EU because GB no longer exists. Scots and the Maritimes will get along famously anyway.
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