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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 11/09/2026

His office was on the E ring, by the helipad, but on the side that didn’t collapse. I’m profoundly grateful for the additional 19 years we had .

A photo of the American flag hanging down the side of the pentagon, taken days after 9/11

The pentagon 9/11 commemorative pin for those who were in the Pentagon that day.

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 27/05/2026

An evening stroll, everything is in bloom 🌺

A bright pink (fuschia?) rhododendron bloom

A perfect rose blossom, the rose is a white with pink edges

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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 30/04/2026

On my spouse’s nightstand

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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 08/04/2026

OneDrive reminded me of a pic I saved this day in 2020, and it seems relevant to resurface this week.

An adorable pic of a happy Darby overlaid on a crisp image of the moon.

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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 · 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 · 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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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 · 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 · 25/01/2026

Btw, if you bake and *dont* have one of these apple peeler/corer/slicers, put it on your birthday wishlist asap!

A cast iron “johnny apple peeler” by Victoria - it’s a red contraption that has a spinning internal rod, some visible springs, and a couple blades, one for peeling, one for coring and slicing.

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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 25/01/2026

Apparently today is apple crisp.

A shallow orange oval baking dish filled with sliced apples covered in a crumby buttery oatmeal topping. It is yet unbaked.

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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 22/11/2025

New footwear purchase is cat-approved.

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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 19/09/2025

From “On Tyranny” by Timothy Snyder.

Chapter 5
Remember professional ethics.
When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without lawyers, or to hold show trials without judges. Authoritarians need obedient civil servants, and concentration
camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor.

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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 09/09/2025

First international standards working group meeting. #achievementUnlocked

Selfie of me standing next to a sign reading: AAMVA International Conference, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC17/WG-10 meeting

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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 17/08/2025

It’s very helpful to have tall ladders when painting cathedral ceilings….

A view of a room being painted green and white, with two ladders, one a standard 6 foot household ladder, the other an 18 foot tri-ladder usually used for picking fruit. The tall ladder is almost touching the peak of the room’s double-tall ceiling.

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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 02/08/2025

After an extended ride on Dottie today, I built my nerve up to get on Blue Betty, a BMW F650 GS. Dumped it in the driveway, but then went on a nice 20 min ride as well, just to get the feel of it.

A beefy-yet-sleek looking BMW motorcycle with blue paint and black seat and frame.

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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 02/08/2025

Here’s the aforementioned Rebel:

Photo of a little Honda Rebel motorcycle -red gas tank and fenders, black seat. There are other, bigger motorcycles in the background.

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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 14/07/2025

Sitting in a rooftop bar as the thunder and lightning crash all around. I miss DC thunderstorms

A radar image of a massive storm heading into Washington, DC.

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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 19/06/2025

“Ideological flexibility”? That’s impressive work by the headline writers to avoid saying words like hypocrisy, lies, sanctimoniousness, duplicity, mendacity or deception.

A screencap of the NYTimes this morning. The headline is “Record Debt Limit Increase Would Break Republican Precedent” and the subhead reads “A proposed $5 trillion debt limit increase would underscore the ideological flexibility that many Republicans are willing to embrace when they are in power.”

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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 15/06/2025

I’m sure he’ll get labeled “correctly” soon enough. (See attached scale.)

Famous meme of from Family Guy where a cop is holding a color scale from lighter to darker skin. The top three, lighter, pinkish colors are labeled “mentally ill.” The bottom three colors, shades of brown and black, are labeled “terrorist.”

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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 15/06/2025

Who knew the Costco IAM team could make me so happy? This is way better than early admission for executive members! #passkeys

A screenshot from the Costco app saying, “sign in with a passkey, never forget a password again”

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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 15/06/2025

Nice night for the fire pit

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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 11/06/2025

I got this view (picture kind of stinks but it was so impressive “live”) last Friday of three of the Mts in a row, with Hood behind us.

Mt. Adams to the far right, Mt St Helens in the middle, Mt. Rainier upper left.

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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 10/06/2025

It's almost like my prediction from 6 months ago was based on my previous experience with the major platform providers announcing support for key identity infra pieces at their developer conferences.

A screenshot of a slack message that reads:
Libby, Dec 20th, 2024 at 11:24
Re: Apple - they’re also building off of their credential management apis like Google, so we have the general shape of what they’ll do, just not the exact timing of when. My bet would be they’ll announce in June at WWDC.

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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 05/06/2025

Heather Flanagan always makes the world of incomprehensible identity archana understandable, and today she also made me laugh/cry to learn about “Edge for Business.” IYKYK #Identiverse

A slide titled “the rise of enterprise-specific browsers” where an example given includes “Microsoft Edge for Business” So glad to learn the MS marketing engine has not lost its touch.

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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 05/06/2025

Gah - butterflies building for my talk at #Identiverse - first time on a big stage since 2022! Still, I’m super-excited about this content - maybe because it’s what I wanted when I first went down the rabbit hole of VCs.

A stanchion outside a conference center presentation room, listing the topics for the day. One is circled, entitled “Through the digital credentials rabbit hole.”

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Libby Brown @trubludevil.social · 04/06/2025

@sirtwi.st rocking some role-appropriate sneakers and dropping some knowledge around decentralized identity and why VCs are necessary, on #Identiverse day 2!