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Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 1h

You need to remember, these aren't very bright guys and things got out of hand.

Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 2h

I've seen that there are people out there who can arrange their bookshelves in tasteful, minimalist, aesthetically pleasing ways, but I am just not one of them. Mine look like I went to a university's going-out-of-business sale and bought the lot.

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Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 22h

These were elite-tier Halloween candy, definitely remember snagging a few from my kids' trick-or-treat haul.

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Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 22h

Imagine a world where a single Democratic politician said anything nearly as offensive about, say, Mississippi, as the average GOP Congressman talking about American cities.

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Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 1d

We had to retire "what was your childhood phone number" as a password reset question at an old gig because so many of our younger employees had no idea.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 1d

REMINDER: This month's Infosec 716 meetup is tomorrow night, and is a hybrid event -- we'll be live on Discord as usual, but also meeting in person at the Bit Haven hacker space in the Tri Main Building. Come hang out with the local hacker community!

www.meetup.com/infosec-716/...

Infosec 716 October Meetup, Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

NOTE: Rather than being a purely virtual event as we usually have, **this month's meetup will be a hybrid event**. It will still be broadcast on the Infosec 716 Discord ser

www.meetup.com

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Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 1d

The Canadian Passport

Reposted by Matthew Gracie

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 1d

"Look at our young, energetic candidate! Why, she's barely old enough to start withdrawing from a 401k account!"

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Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 1d

Burning three first round picks for EJ Manuel and Glass Feet Watkins. Just brutal stuff.

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Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 1d

Can't pick up the Bills game on the antenna tonight and I'm kind of okay with that.

Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 1d

That's the amazing thing, you third rate reality show castoff, people are willing to hate you for free and spend their own money to make sure you know it.

Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 2d

Our local fast food taco chain pays that much.

Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 2d

Yea the salaries I’m seeing for SOC are -grim-. I saw someone post 40k today, after all that education

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Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Columbo Day to all who celebrate.

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Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 2d

Asking all of the people lining up to hand you cash "why are you canceling me it's so cruel"

Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody ever says anything about GenX and I'm pretty okay with it.

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Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 2d

I want this on a flag.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 2d

That's some catch, that Catch 22.

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Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 3d

Didn't patch the Fortigate.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 3d

World leader in "there's one guy who needs to see this ad and we know exactly where he gets off the train".

Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 3d

Washington Metro advertising remains undefeated.

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Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 3d

It's like a Joseph Heller character escaped from the Holodeck.

Joshua "The Crypt" Keep(er) @jekeep.bsky.social · 3d

The far-right mouthpiece who told young men to clean up their place while in front of his very clearly messy home, now has contracted an illness from all the mold in his home.

If you wrote such a fascist character in a story it would be deemed a silly caricature.

Jordan Peterson diagnosed with chronic condition after exposure to mold

Peterson's daughter said her father has a "genetic predisposition that causes the immune system to have an inability to identify and detoxify mold."

www.newsweek.com

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Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 3d

Get them in the Hammock District.

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Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 3d

There should be a bicycling component to the driver's license road test for exactly that reason.

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Matthew Gracie @infosecgoon.bsky.social · 3d

My arachno-syndicalist commune is more of a web.

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