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Danny Palmer

@dannypalmer.bsky.social

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Cybersecurity journalist and technology writer. Welsh. SE London. AuDHD. Also likely to post about games, rugby, F1, wrestling, history & the cat. I have a Simpsons reference for every occasion.

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 12d

It's October, so that means it's Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

Please be aware of cybersecurity. Thank you.

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 4m

Going to the dentist. 😐

Lisa Simpson looks on in mild horror at 'the gouger' - one of the tools her Dentist shows her.

Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 2h

The future is great, huh?

"A software update to Jeep 4xE models caused major malfunctions over the weekend – leaving many owners stranded and some in danger after their power failed."

www.thestack.technology/jeep-softwar...

Jeep software update bricks vehicles

“Please exercise extreme caution”

www.thestack.technology

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 4h

Accurate. 👀

Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 6h

Monday again, is it?

Lisa Simpson looking tired and pessimistic as she sits with a textbook.

While I do have things to be getting on with, I'm lacking structure and starting them is hard. Also, I have to go to the dentist today (really could do with those invoices being paid to me, lads...)

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 19h

Catching up with #AEW Collision update: I enjoyed seeing Willow beat the snot out of FTR. 😄 🤼‍♂️

Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 21h

Perhaps it should be seven. As a tribute to Blake's 7, the late 70s British sci-fi.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake%2...

Blake's 7 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 21h

Weebl & Bob. They are weebls. Bob, the smaller weebl, is expressing his love for pie. "mmmmm! pie" he says.

Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 22h

I chose the flavours of the pies and the wedding cake at mine. Very important.

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 23h

I see the Americans are having a pop at British food again.

Squidward from Spongebob "Daring today, aren't we?" meme.

But at least the Americans have remembered other nations also use this website. Maybe.

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 23h

Excellent culinary decision.

Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 23h

Oh, same.

Plus, I figure it's bad form for me to tell my therapist about my feelings around freelancing and my struggles with assertiveness around payments (and pitching) ... then not pay as soon as she sends her invoice!

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Still waiting to be paid for a bunch of these. The absolute worst thing about freelancing. 🥲

Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 16d

Me, waiting on various invoices for work to be paid when all my bills are due to go out next week.

The Angry Man pointing at his hand meme. Cropped from The Village Politicians painting by John Lewis Krimmel, c. 1819

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/29386

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Catching up with #AEW Collision and knowing what's to come from the reports earlier in the week, watching the Kota Ibushi v Josh Alexander match with a sense of dread. 🫣 🤼‍♂️

Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Do you want to spend a little bit of your Sunday reading about Chinese cyberespionage? Of course you do...

Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 3d

Well chuffed to make my debut for Assured Intelligence with this piece examining the Brickstorm backdoor, the cyber geopolitics behind it and what businesses need to know to protect against it.

assured.co.uk/2025/ai-auto...

AI Autopsy: Shining a Light on the Brickstorm Backdoor • Assured

Danny Palmer explores the latest ways China is trying to get its hands on Western IP.

assured.co.uk

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Careful, they'll be waking up soon...

(But yes)

Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

We were home by 10pm, of course.

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MJ Mackenzie @redheadmuppet.bsky.social · 1d

“The kids can call you Hoju.”

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

This is why my plush, pre-dinosaur, prehistoric ancient plated fish I've had since I was 8 lives on a high shelf. (Away from the bad cat)

Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

All the ❤️ for you, Natalia.

Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I see anything about him, I remember how that bad was the favourite band of one of my uni flatmates. A lot probably due to her and them being Welsh. But still. 💀

Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

After this, wife and I went back to our realm of SE London and I had a nice cask ale from the local taproom. (And it was reasonably priced)

Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Met my 'from outside of London' sisters and their friends at a bar in Victoria.

It's 6pm. The music is blasting like it's a nightclub. Despite all the banging tunes being from the 00s, I feel ancient.

"Behold the ravages of age" and old woman tells Bart and Lisa.

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Highly aware of this these days, especially as I'm now the highest point of Homer's timey wimey age (39).

Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

This is the dilemma. Went to one with my dad in Cardiff the other week. Obscenely cheap.

Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

This is correct.

But it's more than the £1 a pint for a Blackthorn on a Monday night, mind.

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