Stephen Cobb
@scobb.net
Researcher of tech risk, AI, cybercrime, ethics. MSc. CISSP. He/him. Partner of amazing Chey. Carer. NHS volunteer. Coventrian. UK/US citizen. #FBPE. Pro truth, gender equity. Agin Trump, Musk, Tories. There be cats. Profile=Lola+Me. linktr.ee/StephenCobb
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Stephen Cobb
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Cybercrime & Health
Content related to cybercrime's impact on human health and why online is a high crime neighborhood, part of the digital exposome
scobbs.blogspot.com
If you're new to me and/or Bluesky, here's the kind of work I do: Explain the risks posed by technology, like the way that going online harms human health. But I try to make my first post of the day a cat or sky or tree pic. #CyberSecurity #CyberCrime #Caturday #Cats #AI #TechEthics #StaySayOnline
Have a good evening blue sky people!
The sun has already gone down here in middle England.
#Sunset #Photography #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography #Gratitude
The sun has already gone down here in middle England.
#Sunset #Photography #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography #Gratitude
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Have a good evening blue sky people!
The sun has already gone down here in middle England.
#Sunset #Photography #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography #Gratitude
The sun has already gone down here in middle England.
#Sunset #Photography #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography #Gratitude
"What a luxury it is not to have to think about being assaulted while you go about your day, to feel safe in a rideshare, loiter in a park, relax in a bar..." The impact of male supremacy deftly crystalized by @sorayachemaly.bsky.social in "All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy"
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"What a luxury it is not to have to think about being assaulted while you go about your day, to feel safe in a rideshare, loiter in a park, relax in a bar..." The impact of male supremacy deftly crystalized by @sorayachemaly.bsky.social in "All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy"
Good morning blue sky people! Here’s a glimpse of dawn loving between the houses as seen from our suburban kitchen window. Hope you have a wonderful day.
November 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Good morning blue sky people! Here’s a glimpse of dawn loving between the houses as seen from our suburban kitchen window. Hope you have a wonderful day.
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They misspelled "will"
Trump’s Climate Policies Could Cause Mass Death of Global Poor, Analysis Warns www.commondreams.org/news/trump-c...
Trump’s Climate Policies Could Cause Mass Death of Global Poor, Analysis Warns | Common Dreams
A new analysis finds that Trump's shredding of climate action may cause 1.3 million more deaths from heat worldwide over the next 80 years. That's on top of 83 million who are already expected to die ...
www.commondreams.org
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
They misspelled "will"
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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E-X-A-C-T-L-Y ! 🤫🐽
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
E-X-A-C-T-L-Y ! 🤫🐽
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This really feels like a conversation we should be having about Members of Parliament, too
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This really feels like a conversation we should be having about Members of Parliament, too
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HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!
Medical Republic: 'Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint'
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical Republic
A massive global study links the chronic pain condition to 26 genes associated with brain signalling, marking a turning point in understanding its biological roots.
www.medicalrepublic.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!
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! Chuck @schumer.senate.gov asks unanimous consent that the Senate immediately read and pass the bill to release the Epstein files, un-amended, "as soon as it comes over from the House." No objections. Motion succeeds. Bill is deemed to the Senate unanimously, will go to Trump to become law.
November 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
! Chuck @schumer.senate.gov asks unanimous consent that the Senate immediately read and pass the bill to release the Epstein files, un-amended, "as soon as it comes over from the House." No objections. Motion succeeds. Bill is deemed to the Senate unanimously, will go to Trump to become law.
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This is bullshit! What are the charges?
📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
November 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This is bullshit! What are the charges?
📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
One more reason that right now is the time to get busy dismantling male supremacy, before yet more humans are harmed by Monsters of Misogyny like the Tates and the Trumps.
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
One more reason that right now is the time to get busy dismantling male supremacy, before yet more humans are harmed by Monsters of Misogyny like the Tates and the Trumps.
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F*CK TRUMP F*CK ICE
AND IF YOU LIKE FELON/MAGA/ICE
F*CK YOU TOO!!!
🖕🏻🤬🖕🏻😤🖕🏻
🔥 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH 🔥
AND IF YOU LIKE FELON/MAGA/ICE
F*CK YOU TOO!!!
🖕🏻🤬🖕🏻😤🖕🏻
🔥 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH 🔥
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
F*CK TRUMP F*CK ICE
AND IF YOU LIKE FELON/MAGA/ICE
F*CK YOU TOO!!!
🖕🏻🤬🖕🏻😤🖕🏻
🔥 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH 🔥
AND IF YOU LIKE FELON/MAGA/ICE
F*CK YOU TOO!!!
🖕🏻🤬🖕🏻😤🖕🏻
🔥 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH 🔥
Any UK reporters wondering what online services the latest Cloudflare outage took down? Here's my screengrab of the error as seen at Patient Access, which handles prescription refills and medical records access for millions of Brits (run by EMIS (now Optum) at patientaccess.com). #Outage #Cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Any UK reporters wondering what online services the latest Cloudflare outage took down? Here's my screengrab of the error as seen at Patient Access, which handles prescription refills and medical records access for millions of Brits (run by EMIS (now Optum) at patientaccess.com). #Outage #Cloudflare
Let's play the "VPN Fun with Cloudflare" game. Tunnel to a random country, e.g. Spain, and see Cloudflare error location.
Competitive version for offices. Name a country, place bets on city name, then VPN to that country. Here's Tunnel Bear landing in Spain. If you said Madrid, you're a winner!
Competitive version for offices. Name a country, place bets on city name, then VPN to that country. Here's Tunnel Bear landing in Spain. If you said Madrid, you're a winner!
November 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Let's play the "VPN Fun with Cloudflare" game. Tunnel to a random country, e.g. Spain, and see Cloudflare error location.
Competitive version for offices. Name a country, place bets on city name, then VPN to that country. Here's Tunnel Bear landing in Spain. If you said Madrid, you're a winner!
Competitive version for offices. Name a country, place bets on city name, then VPN to that country. Here's Tunnel Bear landing in Spain. If you said Madrid, you're a winner!
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happy cloudflare outage day to all who celebrate
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM
happy cloudflare outage day to all who celebrate
Handy tip for IT departments currently fielding questions about X not working, where X equals X.com and a bunch of other stuff like Claude.AI — it's a Cloudflare issue.
#AI #AIResilience #AIAvailability #AIRisk
#AI #AIResilience #AIAvailability #AIRisk
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Handy tip for IT departments currently fielding questions about X not working, where X equals X.com and a bunch of other stuff like Claude.AI — it's a Cloudflare issue.
#AI #AIResilience #AIAvailability #AIRisk
#AI #AIResilience #AIAvailability #AIRisk
The “Kelly defence” may turn out to be the sick twisted way that MAGAs make their peace with the Trump-Epstein thing: One part “Those girls were not SO young” and two parts “They went along with it” = “Lots of fuss about nothing”
Megyn Kelly’s comments justifying the pedophiliac preferences of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have not been condemned by her platform SiriusXM.
SiriusXM Refuses to Comment on Megyn Kelly’s Pedophile Defense
Kelly said Epstein wasn’t an “actual pedophile” because he preyed on “barely legal” children.
trib.al
November 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The “Kelly defence” may turn out to be the sick twisted way that MAGAs make their peace with the Trump-Epstein thing: One part “Those girls were not SO young” and two parts “They went along with it” = “Lots of fuss about nothing”
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You won't see anything more embarrassing today.
Guaranteed
Guaranteed
The Trump administration wants you to stop watching the BBC and watch GB News instead. Meanwhile this is what passes for “journalism” on GB News…
November 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
You won't see anything more embarrassing today.
Guaranteed
Guaranteed
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ICYMI - Epstein survivors dropped a warning shot at Congress. No more delays, no more cover ups, the truth is closing in.
#SaveHealthcareNotPedophiles
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@houserepublicans.bsky.social
#SaveHealthcareNotPedophiles
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@houserepublicans.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
ICYMI - Epstein survivors dropped a warning shot at Congress. No more delays, no more cover ups, the truth is closing in.
#SaveHealthcareNotPedophiles
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@houserepublicans.bsky.social
#SaveHealthcareNotPedophiles
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@houserepublicans.bsky.social
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So much in the world would be so different if men could just be normal about women.
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
So much in the world would be so different if men could just be normal about women.
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Of all my posts, this is the one that I wish would be shared widely. I hope people will donate to Bryan's legal defense, but even if you don't, it's important to be aware of the human rights horrors that are going on around us on a daily basis.
Please help Bryan, a decent and hardworking person who was just kidnapped off the street in DC. He has been in this country since he was a child. He has a business and a family. He does not deserve such shameful cruelty. Please share.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-bryan...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-bryan...
Donate to Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom, organized by Kira Tewalt
Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom
My name is Kira, and I’m asking for your help on… Kira Tewalt needs your support for Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom
www.gofundme.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Of all my posts, this is the one that I wish would be shared widely. I hope people will donate to Bryan's legal defense, but even if you don't, it's important to be aware of the human rights horrors that are going on around us on a daily basis.
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Thank You so much for the mention.
STILL cannot believe this fool is the “head” of anything, let alone a country.
STILL cannot believe this fool is the “head” of anything, let alone a country.
November 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Thank You so much for the mention.
STILL cannot believe this fool is the “head” of anything, let alone a country.
STILL cannot believe this fool is the “head” of anything, let alone a country.
Yep, the invention of cryptocurrency was such a huge leap forward for mankind, or at least the kind of man who loves drifting, cheating, stealing, scamming, and fucking over other people.
The Trump's self-serving crypto deals reveal a new level of billionaire exploitation of the presidency and corruption.
www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
The Trumps’ New Crypto Money Maker: Deals With Themselves
The $750 million circular transaction—with the same party as buyer and seller—is more common in the crypto world than in traditional finance.
www.wsj.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Yep, the invention of cryptocurrency was such a huge leap forward for mankind, or at least the kind of man who loves drifting, cheating, stealing, scamming, and fucking over other people.