andrew ⓕ lyons
@andrewfordlyons.net
Technologist for the humans and misanthrope for the machines. Works on digital safety and information security for media and good orgs via Internews. Opinions are my own and subject to drift.
NOTE: My skeets are ephemeral and self destruct after a while.
NOTE: My skeets are ephemeral and self destruct after a while.
It's finally at the level to steal jobs.
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
It's finally at the level to steal jobs.
Lol, sure Sarah, it's the phone's fault.
Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz says Jewish students shouldn’t have smartphones until they finish high school — so they don’t see the “carnage” Israel and the U.S. have carried out in Gaza.
Video: Mel via X (@Villgecrazylady)
Video: Mel via X (@Villgecrazylady)
November 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Lol, sure Sarah, it's the phone's fault.
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Okay we all know this kind of sub-skeet just sends people down rabbit holes that lead nowhere good. It took me more effort, to find the search term and then the context and then be profoundly disturbed by both the result and effort required to reach it.
Go to sleep. Now. Do not read further. Turn off your phone. Throw it in the bay. Abandon modernity. Whatever it takes, Do. Not. Look.
i googled that thing that people said not to google and i do not know what i was expecting but sometimes you actually really should listen to your internet friends
November 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Okay we all know this kind of sub-skeet just sends people down rabbit holes that lead nowhere good. It took me more effort, to find the search term and then the context and then be profoundly disturbed by both the result and effort required to reach it.
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"Arms supplier to press murderers welcomes press murderer to DC" This is how you do headlines. Kudos, @freedom.press freedom.press/issues/press...
Arms supplier to press murderers welcomes press murderer to DC
DHS targets journalists for speaking out about Gaza
freedom.press
November 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"Arms supplier to press murderers welcomes press murderer to DC" This is how you do headlines. Kudos, @freedom.press freedom.press/issues/press...
Lol.
Hakeem Jeffries was literally voting for a resolution condemning socialism while this meeting was taking place
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Lol.
Standing next to the president in the Oval Office, Mamdani reiterated that Israel has committed acts of genocide with US support, and did so quickly and frankly while then addressing the huge poverty issues people face in NY (and the country) and people are freaking out over what? A handshake?
November 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Standing next to the president in the Oval Office, Mamdani reiterated that Israel has committed acts of genocide with US support, and did so quickly and frankly while then addressing the huge poverty issues people face in NY (and the country) and people are freaking out over what? A handshake?
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Cool spot line in @nytimes.com on WITNESS’ work helping frontline documenters capture video that is harder to discredit and supporting real-time authentication with journalists and fact-checkers in the age of AI.
Read here: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
Read here: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
Can You Believe the Documentary You’re Watching?
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Cool spot line in @nytimes.com on WITNESS’ work helping frontline documenters capture video that is harder to discredit and supporting real-time authentication with journalists and fact-checkers in the age of AI.
Read here: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
Read here: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
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I laughed
The Five Best Randy Newman Songs To Fuck To
Everyone appreciates Randy Newman’s signature voice as it conveys sardonic song lyrics set to classically arranged pop and folk music, but did you know his music is also great to fuck to? That’s right...
thehardtimes.net
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I laughed
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Choose dignity.
Once lost it is the hardest of things to regain.
America has already lost its.
Once lost it is the hardest of things to regain.
America has already lost its.
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Choose dignity.
Once lost it is the hardest of things to regain.
America has already lost its.
Once lost it is the hardest of things to regain.
America has already lost its.
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“Key Management” is the cryptographic community’s version of “…it’s always DNS”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/126061
#cryptography #iacr
https://alecmuffett.com/article/126061
#cryptography #iacr
“Key Management” is the cryptographic community’s version of “…it’s always DNS”
International Association for Cryptologic Research runs secure vote and then loses the keys so nobody knows what the result is. As one commenter put it: “So a single member can collude to res…
alecmuffett.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“Key Management” is the cryptographic community’s version of “…it’s always DNS”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/126061
#cryptography #iacr
https://alecmuffett.com/article/126061
#cryptography #iacr
We simply cannot have two pubs with the same name in the same city, London mayor!
November 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
We simply cannot have two pubs with the same name in the same city, London mayor!
Ignoring the underlying causes of things is par for the course, really.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today that the fight against climate change was not against the fuels that cause it — only the pollution they emit.
Von der Leyen says EU is not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions
The comment could undermine European countries’ push at COP30 to move away from coal, oil and gas.
www.politico.eu
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Ignoring the underlying causes of things is par for the course, really.
Imperfect = Supporting a campaign of constant bombardment of densely populated, captive civilian centres in Gaza nonstop, with death tolls entering the hundreds of thousands. This is all just a shell game to these people. When you're an ocean away, it's just theory.
Biden basically ended the drone war.
It is better to have imperfect Democrats at the controls of the American war machine than bloodthirsty Republicans who will use it to open a network of secret torture prisons or extra-judicially murder central American fishermen.
It is better to have imperfect Democrats at the controls of the American war machine than bloodthirsty Republicans who will use it to open a network of secret torture prisons or extra-judicially murder central American fishermen.
Biden nearly ended the drone war, and nobody noticed
Why is the White House so silent about this significant achievement?
theweek.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Imperfect = Supporting a campaign of constant bombardment of densely populated, captive civilian centres in Gaza nonstop, with death tolls entering the hundreds of thousands. This is all just a shell game to these people. When you're an ocean away, it's just theory.
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A cool way to keep yourself from having genocide in your nickname is to not have funded and armed a genocide
Leftoids who call Joe Biden “Genocide Joe” are very stupid people who deserve to be ignored for all eternity.
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A cool way to keep yourself from having genocide in your nickname is to not have funded and armed a genocide
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Home Office: How dare people say we are acting like the far-right?
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Home Office: How dare people say we are acting like the far-right?
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
None of my bad jokes inform society. Sad. :-(
In 1982, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott Fahlman suggested using :-) for humorous comments after his colleagues took a joke about mercury seriously. www.wired.com/story/a-comp...
A Computer Science Professor Invented the Emoticon After a Joke Went Wrong
In 1982, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott Fahlman suggested using :-) for humorous comments after his colleagues took a joke about mercury seriously.
www.wired.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
None of my bad jokes inform society. Sad. :-(
The MP for both Clacton and Moscow...
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The MP for both Clacton and Moscow...
“Potentially divisive” is a weird way to categorise hate symbols.
Swastikas, nooses and the Confederate flag are reportedly no longer considered to be hate symbols by the U.S. Coast Guard
Swastika No Longer Hate Symbol Under New U.S. Coast Guard Policy: Report
www.huffpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
“Potentially divisive” is a weird way to categorise hate symbols.
This will end badly.
Waut so some folks in Congress made a video saying yo you don't have to follow illegal orders and the president got so mad he starting tweeting about hanging them, do I have that right?
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This will end badly.
This is only still in year 1.
MacCALLUM: You're implying that Trump might do something they wouldn't want to uphold. What are you talking about?
CROW: The protests at Lafayette Square where he said, 'Can't you just shoot them in the legs'
MacCALLUM: That's not an order. That's a comment
CROW: That's coming from the president
CROW: The protests at Lafayette Square where he said, 'Can't you just shoot them in the legs'
MacCALLUM: That's not an order. That's a comment
CROW: That's coming from the president
November 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This is only still in year 1.
"Things happen" is a line you hear in a Martin Scorsese script delivered by Joe Pesci. Can we just skip ahead to how those movies end?
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"Things happen" is a line you hear in a Martin Scorsese script delivered by Joe Pesci. Can we just skip ahead to how those movies end?