Cat Stack
@cattystack.bsky.social
I'm a little bit country and a little bit rock 'n roll. Writer, security engineer, peripatetic. Still somewhat optimistic but not sure about what. From SF, CA. Now I live in Europe.
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Welp. Got my airline tickets for Vegas (from Amsterdam) in early August. DefCon here I come!
June 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Welp. Got my airline tickets for Vegas (from Amsterdam) in early August. DefCon here I come!
www.reuters.com/world/us/mus.... Imagine needing threat models to assume anything associated with the federal government could be hostile to other western democracies. Encrypt everything, esp. if you are a gov't worker. Harddrives, emails, attachments, everything.
reuters.com
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February 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
www.reuters.com/world/us/mus.... Imagine needing threat models to assume anything associated with the federal government could be hostile to other western democracies. Encrypt everything, esp. if you are a gov't worker. Harddrives, emails, attachments, everything.
Of all the evil things I imagined, I forgot to put cutting off health care to Americans and Medicaid payments to hospitals on the list. The ensuring "only people with money have access to education" was on the list though. I wonder what will happen when all the Trump people find Medicare is next?
January 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Of all the evil things I imagined, I forgot to put cutting off health care to Americans and Medicaid payments to hospitals on the list. The ensuring "only people with money have access to education" was on the list though. I wonder what will happen when all the Trump people find Medicare is next?
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We now know UnitedHealth—under Brian Thompson—illegally overcharged cancer patients for meds by more than 1000%.
What we don't know is how many cancer patients died or were financially ruined as a result?
What we demand to know is why that act isn't deemed corporate murder & where are the arrests?
What we don't know is how many cancer patients died or were financially ruined as a result?
What we demand to know is why that act isn't deemed corporate murder & where are the arrests?
January 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
We now know UnitedHealth—under Brian Thompson—illegally overcharged cancer patients for meds by more than 1000%.
What we don't know is how many cancer patients died or were financially ruined as a result?
What we demand to know is why that act isn't deemed corporate murder & where are the arrests?
What we don't know is how many cancer patients died or were financially ruined as a result?
What we demand to know is why that act isn't deemed corporate murder & where are the arrests?
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Congratulations to America on our new co-founding father!
Donald Trump absolutely HATES the “President Musk” meme with a passion.
Let’s keep spreading it.
Let’s keep spreading it.
December 22, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Congratulations to America on our new co-founding father!
As much as I love watching the MAGA crowd tearing each other down, it's obviously not good to bring more H1B's into the mix right now. Again, people are struggling to find jobs. Musk likely just wants to bring spies and unpaid laborers in because let's run the USA like a corrupt business.
December 28, 2024 at 2:21 PM
As much as I love watching the MAGA crowd tearing each other down, it's obviously not good to bring more H1B's into the mix right now. Again, people are struggling to find jobs. Musk likely just wants to bring spies and unpaid laborers in because let's run the USA like a corrupt business.
I found this mix somewhere. It's helping all the dark weather warm interior Dutch split pea ham bone soup simmering with introspective walks and writing things down and being with a loved one and digging deep one feels this time of year while living on a canal.....
www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...
www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...
Folk Show: Episode 89 (A Winter Mix)
The latest Folk Show has a fair sprinkling of winter throughout with other music that just seemed to suit the mood. It features Dick Gaughan, Stephanie Hladowski (who guests on the track by A Hawk and...
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December 22, 2024 at 5:27 PM
I found this mix somewhere. It's helping all the dark weather warm interior Dutch split pea ham bone soup simmering with introspective walks and writing things down and being with a loved one and digging deep one feels this time of year while living on a canal.....
www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...
www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...
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Make New Utrecht more like old Utrecht
Utrecht, Netherlands gets a lot of well-deserved attention for its best-practice urban biking. Don’t forget though, it’s also just a gorgeous, historic, dense, human-scaled walkable city for people. HT @luccampbell.bsky.social #Dutch
December 22, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Make New Utrecht more like old Utrecht
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“I haven’t written a single poem
in months.
I’ve lived humbly, reading the paper,
pondering the riddle of power
and the reasons for obedience.
I’ve watched sunsets
(crimson, anxious),
I’ve heard the birds grow quiet
and night’s muteness.”
Adam Zagajewski
[Tr Clare Cavanagh]
#poetry
in months.
I’ve lived humbly, reading the paper,
pondering the riddle of power
and the reasons for obedience.
I’ve watched sunsets
(crimson, anxious),
I’ve heard the birds grow quiet
and night’s muteness.”
Adam Zagajewski
[Tr Clare Cavanagh]
#poetry
![“I haven’t written a single poem
in months.
I’ve lived humbly, reading the paper,
pondering the riddle of power
and the reasons for obedience.
I’ve watched sunsets
(crimson, anxious),
I’ve heard the birds grow quiet
and night’s muteness.”
Adam Zagajewski
[Tr Clare Cavanagh]
#poetry](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6yfkw6l57enjybdxgjnd5v4x/bafkreiddok7ultepxx33umqdefbyv7rvp4pk6j6xxn6wdyr6xpn77rc35q@jpeg)
December 21, 2024 at 12:59 PM
“I haven’t written a single poem
in months.
I’ve lived humbly, reading the paper,
pondering the riddle of power
and the reasons for obedience.
I’ve watched sunsets
(crimson, anxious),
I’ve heard the birds grow quiet
and night’s muteness.”
Adam Zagajewski
[Tr Clare Cavanagh]
#poetry
in months.
I’ve lived humbly, reading the paper,
pondering the riddle of power
and the reasons for obedience.
I’ve watched sunsets
(crimson, anxious),
I’ve heard the birds grow quiet
and night’s muteness.”
Adam Zagajewski
[Tr Clare Cavanagh]
#poetry
I've got a number of friends struggling with the US job market right now and I know exactly how that feels. We seem to be getting worse and worse with every downturn, and I've survived a few of them just barely. www.marketwatch.com/story/findin...
Finding a job now is harder than any time since the pandemic. Is it a bad omen?
Americans say it’s the toughest time to find a job in at least three years. When will it get better?
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December 21, 2024 at 12:42 PM
I've got a number of friends struggling with the US job market right now and I know exactly how that feels. We seem to be getting worse and worse with every downturn, and I've survived a few of them just barely. www.marketwatch.com/story/findin...
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Coming in early for #smallpoemsunday from @tomsnarsky.bsky.social, but every time I read the little poems he posts, they make me want to write one.
December 14, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Coming in early for #smallpoemsunday from @tomsnarsky.bsky.social, but every time I read the little poems he posts, they make me want to write one.
I'm finally doing the winter time nerdy thing...like building a home lab to study for two security certs I want by spring. I got a tiny Beelink Mini PC and plan on virtualizing all the things. It takes my mind off impending doom as the Dutch keep worrying aloud about an impending Russian invasion.
December 14, 2024 at 4:31 PM
I'm finally doing the winter time nerdy thing...like building a home lab to study for two security certs I want by spring. I got a tiny Beelink Mini PC and plan on virtualizing all the things. It takes my mind off impending doom as the Dutch keep worrying aloud about an impending Russian invasion.
I had an ex-husband who was flatly denied for any treatment for his Stage 4 Melanoma (Kaiser) because they wanted to take a “wait and see” approach. He’s still alive thanks to getting into the right experimental trial. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Luigi Mangione Wrote Online About a Spine Disorder. Other Patients Say It's Hell
Luigie Mangione, charged with murder of health insurance executive, evidently suffers from spondylolisthesis, which is painful and hard to treat.
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December 14, 2024 at 11:48 AM
I had an ex-husband who was flatly denied for any treatment for his Stage 4 Melanoma (Kaiser) because they wanted to take a “wait and see” approach. He’s still alive thanks to getting into the right experimental trial. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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If you ask me, this would have been a much better choice for Time’s Person of the Year.
December 14, 2024 at 12:20 AM
If you ask me, this would have been a much better choice for Time’s Person of the Year.
And another new collage. It’s making the long nights a bit shorter when painting and doing collages.
November 27, 2024 at 1:14 AM
And another new collage. It’s making the long nights a bit shorter when painting and doing collages.
Dark at 4:30 in the afternoon. Rain and cold. Good for staying in on a Saturday and starting a new collage while listening to an audio book. Hygge!
November 24, 2024 at 12:49 AM
Dark at 4:30 in the afternoon. Rain and cold. Good for staying in on a Saturday and starting a new collage while listening to an audio book. Hygge!
New poems from Ana Doina, a friend from an online literary salon and list serve (Cafe Blue) that has limped along sine the mid 90s. It spawned some excellent writers…
www.odyssey.pm/contributors...?
www.odyssey.pm/contributors...?
Ana Doina | Mediterranean Poetry
The problem with Ithaka “Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is what you’re destined for. But don’t hurry the journey at all” —C.P. Cavafy, “Ithaka”…
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November 20, 2024 at 10:48 PM
New poems from Ana Doina, a friend from an online literary salon and list serve (Cafe Blue) that has limped along sine the mid 90s. It spawned some excellent writers…
www.odyssey.pm/contributors...?
www.odyssey.pm/contributors...?
One of the benefits of living in Ireland for a few years, was getting more exposure to writers like Kevin Barry. If you are unfamiliar, www.newyorker.com/magazine/201....
Fjord of Killary
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November 19, 2024 at 11:50 AM
One of the benefits of living in Ireland for a few years, was getting more exposure to writers like Kevin Barry. If you are unfamiliar, www.newyorker.com/magazine/201....
I'm simply enjoying being connected back to a writing community where I can sift through new poems I admire and like without too much work to find them. I didn't think it would be possible again. Found this one today while sipping my morning coffee.
I’m over the moon to be in the new issue of voicemail poems!! here’s a small snippet from “Poem” and a link to the issue, chock full of luminaries: voicemailpoems.org/2024/11/12/p...
November 13, 2024 at 8:46 AM
I'm simply enjoying being connected back to a writing community where I can sift through new poems I admire and like without too much work to find them. I didn't think it would be possible again. Found this one today while sipping my morning coffee.
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With all the new folks coming over to Bluesky, I thought I'd get in on the Starter Pack bandwagon. So here's a (probably very incomplete) starter pack of Glass poets! Do yourself a solid and follow them all 😎
go.bsky.app/EicS1Aa
go.bsky.app/EicS1Aa
November 11, 2024 at 1:47 AM
With all the new folks coming over to Bluesky, I thought I'd get in on the Starter Pack bandwagon. So here's a (probably very incomplete) starter pack of Glass poets! Do yourself a solid and follow them all 😎
go.bsky.app/EicS1Aa
go.bsky.app/EicS1Aa
The starter packs are brilliant! Makes it very ease to jump right in.
November 12, 2024 at 8:52 PM
The starter packs are brilliant! Makes it very ease to jump right in.
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Denis Johnson, The Stars at Noon
November 10, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Denis Johnson, The Stars at Noon
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