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Libby Brown

@trubludevil.social
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Product manager. Mom. 🪪Digital Wallet, verifiable digital credentials, and 🫆 passkey enthusiast. Ex-Microsoft. Duke fan. Dweller of Seattle exurbia.

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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 29/09/2026
At long last!!
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 29/09/2026
Oh, this headline writer definitely won the daily competition for “drives most clicks to a science story.” 🤣 (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/s...
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In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life (Gift Article)
A scrappy science project led to a significant discovery: two new species of a rare organism that could elucidate a fundamental transition in the history of life on our planet.
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Eiji Kitamura / えーじ @agektmr.com · 15/09/2026
Importing and exporting passkeys and passwords is now available on Android. This resolves the security risks of legacy plaintext CSV exports and the inability to migrate passkeys across providers through secure, OS-level peer-to-peer data transfer.
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 11/09/2026
My dad survived the Pentagon attack on 9/11. Before he died in Dec 2020, he wrote his military career biography - seriously, it’s a whole edited, bound production, this man loved his career in military public health. The following is his brief remembrance of the day.
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threddy 🦖 @threddyrex.org · 02/09/2026
Blepster Timeline
[PANEL 1 - Sam and Freddy chatting in the office.]

Sam: Half of my Blepster timeline is folks announcing they've been promoted.

Freddy: What's the other half?

Sam: Folks announcing they've been fired.
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 24/08/2026
Life as a military brat plus a love of roadtrips = lots of the country covered. (I used Greg’s definitions.)
A map of the US showing states where I’ve lived/visited/passed through.
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 24/08/2026
Name your fave Disney princess. (Wrong answers only.)
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Daria: Overcome with Emotion
Alt: Daria: Overcome with Emotion
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 14/08/2026
Know that to care intensively, united, is to carry both pain-dark horror for today & a profound, daring hope for tomorrow.
For Alex Jeffrey Pretti
Murdered by I.C.E January 24, 2026
by Amanda Gorman
We wake with
no words, just woe
& wound. Our own country shoot ing us in the back is not just brutal ity; it's jarring betrayal; not enforcement, but execution. A message: Love your people er you will die. Yet our greatest threat isn't the outsiders among us, but those among us who never look within. Fear not the those without papers, but those without conscience. Know that to care intensively, united, is to carry both pain-dark horror for today & a profound, daring hope for tomorrow. We can feel we have nothing to give, & still 
belove this world wait ing, trembling to change. If we cannot find words, may we find the will; if we ever lose hope, may we never lose our humanity. The only undying thing is mercy, the courage to open
ourselves like doors, hug our neighbor, & save one more bright, impossible life.
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 14/08/2026
Mercy
Mercy
after Nikki Giovanni
She asks me to kill the spider.
Instead, I get the most peaceful weapons I can find.
I take a cup and a napkin.
I catch the spider, put it outside and allow it to walk away.
If I am ever caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, just being alive and not bothering anyone,
I hope I am greeted with the same kind of mercy.
- Rudy Francisco
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 12/08/2026
By Danusha Laméris.
The Watch
At night, my husband takes it off
puts it on the dresser beside his wallet and keys
laying down, for a moment, the accoutrements of manhood.
Sometimes, when he’s not looking, I pick it up
savor the weight, the dark face, ticked with silver
the brown, ostrich leather band with its little goosebumps
raised as the flesh is raised in pleasure.
He had wanted a watch and was pleased when I gave it to him.
And since we’ve been together ten years
it seemed like the occasion for the gift of a watch
a recognition of the intricate achievements
of marriage, its many negotiations and nameless triumphs.
But tonight, when I saw it lying there among
his crumpled receipts and scattered pennies
I thought of my brother’s wife coming home
from the coroner carrying his rings, his watch
in a clear, ziplock bag, and how we sat at the table
and emptied them into our palms
their slight pressure all that remained of him.
How odd the way a watch keeps going
even after the heart has stopped. My grandfather
was a watchmaker and spent his life in Holland
leaning over a clean, well-lit table, a surgeon of time
attending to the inner workings: spring,
escapement, balance wheel. I can’t take it back,
the way the man I love is already disappearing
into this mechanism of metal and hide,
this accountant of hours
that holds, with such precise indifference,
all the minutes of his life.
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 12/08/2026
I’ll take “things I wish I didn’t know existed” for $1000, Alex….
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 16/07/2026
Hegseth comes out in support of gender affirming hormone treatment. 🙄 www.msn.com/en-us/health...
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MSN
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Luis Villa @lu.is · 14/07/2026
it is wild that “screenshot some text and drop it into a chat window” is often the lowest-friction way to share information between apps now.
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 14/07/2026
Oh, this is less good… “On Feb. 1, 2027, Microsoft will retire Microsoft-provided telecom delivery … and will no longer offer SMS and voice as a native MS Entra capability. Organizations that still require [them] will have the option … of our telecom partners through the MS Security Store. “
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 14/07/2026
Ooh, this is good! “Beginning September 1, 2026, Microsoft will begin rolling out passkeys as the default authentication experience in Microsoft Entra ID.” www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...
microsoft.com
Microsoft Entra ID security updates: Passkeys are the default authentication method in Entra ID | Microsoft Security Blog
Starting September 1, 2026, passkeys will become the default authentication experience in Microsoft Entra. Read more about how to prepare.
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 13/07/2026
I ate all the Bing cherries the ice-cold ones fresh from the fruit market the ones I absolutely knew you would have enjoyed too Forgive me I have no room for dinner they were so dark so juicy and so perfect
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 11/07/2026
Happy National Pina Colada Day! (Or so I’m told.)
A couple of pina coladas on the rocks, garnished with pineapple chunks and leaves.
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 10/07/2026
A little poetry to end your day. poets.org/poem/small-k...
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Small Kindnesses
I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walkdown a crowded aisle, people pull in their legsto let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”when someone sneezes, a leftoverfrom the Bubonic plag...
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 09/07/2026
BEST STAR TREK CAPTAIN. WRONG ANSWERS ONLY.
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Christopher Plummer in Black and White
Alt: Christopher Plummer, as Captain Von Trapp, looking skeptical, in a Black and White gif.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The stage is falling apart at the rehearsal for Freedom 250's July 4th celebration.
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 25/06/2026
akrites.org
Linux Foundation and Industry Leaders Launch Akrites to Defend Critical Open Source Software Against AI-Enabled Cyber Threats – Akrites
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 18/06/2026
Holy S**t, I forgot I was talking about verifiable digital credentials as necessary for account recovery and identity verification back in 2021.
A screenshot of my presentation to the APAC Authenticate virtual summit in 2021 - the last bullet on my slide reads, “Verifiable Credentials for workforce use case”
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 16/06/2026
Go @rmondello.com go! It was 4+ years ago I first heard them talk about getting rid of passwords, and it’s so impressive how far Apple, and the whole industry, has come towards that goal! #Identiverse
A capture of the Identiverse keynote presentation with Ricky Mondello, his simple slide says “Replace passwords as the default credential on the web”
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 16/06/2026
I love identity nerd summer camp. #identiverse
Selfie in front of the Identiverse conference sign
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threddy 🦖 @threddyrex.org · 27/05/2026
my pds supports passkeys, just throwing that out there
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 27/05/2026
An evening stroll, everything is in bloom 🌺
A bright pink (fuschia?) rhododendron bloomA perfect rose blossom, the rose is a white with pink edges
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 26/05/2026
These blondies, with no nuts added, and a smidge extra salt, won the approval of a half dozen teenagers today. Winning. www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/blon...
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Blondies
Brown sugar adds a deeply caramelized flavor to these chewy, rich blondie bars. Get baking today with King Arthur.
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 13/05/2026
I’ve had fun building this the past couple of days. AddMyId.info
addmyid.info
AddMyID — Add your digital ID to your phone
Learn how to add your state digital ID, mDL, or digital passport to Apple Wallet, Google Wallet, or your state app.
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 11/05/2026
Slightly increase a band. They Are Giants.
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 30/04/2026
Cowards. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/b...
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Fidelity and Vanguard Won’t Allow Donations to Southern Poverty Law Center
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Tim Cappalli @timcappalli.me · 21/04/2026
I'm working to aggregate some common questions about #passkeys, both from non-technical and technical perspectives. These will be used in an end user facing site in the future. Any and all feedback is welcome. forms.gle/wmaydkzmUp2e... (also would appreciate some reposts to widen the audience)
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 07/04/2026
I hope in a future life, I can come back as a domesticated house cat who gets to nap all day in sunbeams.
A black & white cat is snoozing in a black & white cat bed. A sun beam is pouring over his white belly and upside down head. Not pictured- gentle snoring.
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 30/03/2026
Well, fudge. (Only she didn’t say Fudge.)
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 28/03/2026
Boom lifts make tree cleanup after a storm so much more fun.
A heavy-topped pink-blooming tree towers above a tractor towing a boom lift. The tree is about to get the trim it’s needed for 5+ years.
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 26/03/2026
Someone decided to have breakfast right outside my office window.
A deer, reaching its neck up to eat berries on a tall green shrub, is framed by a window pane with a view of a yellow legal pad in the foreground. The deer is no more than 6 ft away from the photographer.
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 23/03/2026
Where are those DOGE “wE’re SaVInG the GOverNMeNt MoNEY” teenagers when you need them?
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 05/03/2026
I made the mistake of getting up to grab some lunch. 😩
A calico cat looks smugly up from a desk chair.
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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
i hope she has to catch a commercial flight home from nashville and gets stuck in a middle seat between two dog owners
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 03/03/2026
“Righteousness and rhetoric, regardless of how fervent, is no substitute for political- and legislative-process.” Say it louder for everyone who slept through Civics and US History/US Gov classes.
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 27/02/2026
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
A ferry is crossing Puget Sound at sunset. The sky is mostly orange.
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 14/02/2026
Over the past 6+ months at work, I’ve gotten to experiment a lot with AI - where it can be most beneficial, what tasks can be automated, how to write prompts effectively etc. The output is getting noticeably better. If you haven’t been exploring in your area, read this. shumer.dev/something-bi...
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Something Big Is Happening
A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 12/02/2026
Asking ChatGPT to help you set up Claude Code feels… well, maybe sleazy is the right word? 😆
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 10/02/2026
Sending my wish out to the void that passkeys for Bluesky become a broadly supported feature…
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 10/02/2026
A thought-provoking piece (gift article): www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way.
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 10/02/2026
Age verification? My first computer was a Timex.
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 09/02/2026
Copilot, tell me about the Fair Credit and Reporting Act.
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 07/02/2026
Let’s go, Duke! #GTHC
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 04/02/2026
I appreciate banking with USAA.
Notification from USAA bank offering 0% interest loans to eligible members impacted by government shutdown
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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 03/02/2026
Let’s give MAGA something they should support - a return to the 1950’s! More specifically, Eisenhower era income tax rates.
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