Andrea H
@vivaxcogitatio.bsky.social
Class factotum. History nerd. Constant reader. Liberal AF. It's Hobbits we shall be in 2025.
If I weren't so tired I could make a kickass joke about how food is end to end encrypted after you eat it and pooping is unencrypting...
NEW: Your "end-to-end encrypted" poop pictures taken by this $599 (+ subscription) smart toilet camera are actually not end-to-end encrypted.
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techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/e...
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techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/e...
‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted | TechCrunch
Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers' data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.
techcrunch.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
If I weren't so tired I could make a kickass joke about how food is end to end encrypted after you eat it and pooping is unencrypting...
Knowledge as currency that only the tech overlords are allowed to profit / benefit in any way from. Everyone else is just chattel to be manipulated and value extracted from
December 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Knowledge as currency that only the tech overlords are allowed to profit / benefit in any way from. Everyone else is just chattel to be manipulated and value extracted from
True.
There is no coming back from this persecution of people who just want to be themselves freely
There is no coming back from this persecution of people who just want to be themselves freely
The particular version of this which amuses me is the terfs who clearly think when they “win” the rest of us will shake hands, say “well played” and welcome them back into polite society?
the “when all this is over” idea some of them cling to is ridiculous - you’ve re-wired your brain for brief flashes of dopamine from performative cruelty, there is no “over” for you, you’ve robbed your life of joy
December 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
True.
There is no coming back from this persecution of people who just want to be themselves freely
There is no coming back from this persecution of people who just want to be themselves freely
This is outrageous.
Also, in the tsunami of bad things this admin does, I missed somehow that the FL facilities are still open and full of migrants????!!!
Also, in the tsunami of bad things this admin does, I missed somehow that the FL facilities are still open and full of migrants????!!!
December 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This is outrageous.
Also, in the tsunami of bad things this admin does, I missed somehow that the FL facilities are still open and full of migrants????!!!
Also, in the tsunami of bad things this admin does, I missed somehow that the FL facilities are still open and full of migrants????!!!
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This is fucking brilliant @bencollins.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHYb...
1 Onion Subscriber vs 20 Non-Subscribers | Encircled
YouTube video by The Onion
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This is fucking brilliant @bencollins.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHYb...
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The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
December 4, 2025 at 4:32 AM
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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JOURNALIST REQUEST: I'm writing a story about how organizing/joining resistance movements can build community and fight loneliness, particularly in the US.
If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail.
Signal boosts appreciated!
If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail.
Signal boosts appreciated!
December 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
JOURNALIST REQUEST: I'm writing a story about how organizing/joining resistance movements can build community and fight loneliness, particularly in the US.
If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail.
Signal boosts appreciated!
If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail.
Signal boosts appreciated!
The happy squee that I just squeed. Loudly.
A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database.
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals
We created the database in order to challenge assumptions about the lack of professionalism of everyday soldiers.
theconversation.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
The happy squee that I just squeed. Loudly.
The Dead South
CAKE
The Swell Season
John Prine
Hocus Pocus
CAKE
The Swell Season
John Prine
Hocus Pocus
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Depeche Mode
Le Tigre
Underworld
Scissor Sisters
LCD Soundsystem
Orbital
Depeche Mode
Le Tigre
Underworld
Scissor Sisters
LCD Soundsystem
Orbital
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Pixies
Breeders & Nirvana
Bikini Kill
Sonic Youth
Shonen Knife
Pixies
Breeders & Nirvana
Bikini Kill
Sonic Youth
Shonen Knife
December 3, 2025 at 6:34 AM
The Dead South
CAKE
The Swell Season
John Prine
Hocus Pocus
CAKE
The Swell Season
John Prine
Hocus Pocus
sesquipedalian
Let’s all go around the table and say one word we’re thankful for.
December 3, 2025 at 6:31 AM
sesquipedalian
Corruscate
Let’s all go around the table and say one word we’re thankful for.
December 3, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Corruscate
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Yeah, one of the many nightmare scenarios facing us is that a badly led and mostly destroyed intelligence infrastructure fails to prevent a major terrorist attack and that attack is then used as justification to speed up the fascism.
I do in fact stay awake at night sometimes thinking about how the MAGA ghouls are destroying actually-essential counterterrorism efforts in favor of directing resources towards brutalizing elderly taco truck workers
NEW: Oregon could lose nearly $18 million worth of terrorism prevention and emergency funding.
In the past, the money has paid for bomb detectors, law enforcement training and barriers that prevent cars from plowing into crowds.
In the past, the money has paid for bomb detectors, law enforcement training and barriers that prevent cars from plowing into crowds.
December 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Yeah, one of the many nightmare scenarios facing us is that a badly led and mostly destroyed intelligence infrastructure fails to prevent a major terrorist attack and that attack is then used as justification to speed up the fascism.
This is doubly infuriating
This is something.
A police stop is enough to make someone less likely to vote, recent research has found. "Voting is a reflection of our belief that we’re part of the system, that our voice matters."
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This is doubly infuriating
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PLEASE I can't stress enough how important this is.
PRO TIP
If you have YouTubers you like and follow and watch their videos a lot
leave innane/positive comments on their videos. The algo is all fucked up for YT creators and a lot of videos get sent to the void for whatever reason.
I hate doing it, but I've been trying to do it.
If you have YouTubers you like and follow and watch their videos a lot
leave innane/positive comments on their videos. The algo is all fucked up for YT creators and a lot of videos get sent to the void for whatever reason.
I hate doing it, but I've been trying to do it.
December 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
PLEASE I can't stress enough how important this is.
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It’s World AIDS Day, and as the government is pretending it doesn’t exist, I’d like to tell you a story about growing up queer in the 80s/90s when powerful men also liked to pretend AIDS didn’t exist.
It’s about the day I saw the AIDS quilt.
🧵
It’s about the day I saw the AIDS quilt.
🧵
19930918 The AIDS Quilt Comes to Fort Worth
www.rondougherty.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It’s World AIDS Day, and as the government is pretending it doesn’t exist, I’d like to tell you a story about growing up queer in the 80s/90s when powerful men also liked to pretend AIDS didn’t exist.
It’s about the day I saw the AIDS quilt.
🧵
It’s about the day I saw the AIDS quilt.
🧵
This has been an easy scaffolding to build on for nearly all life situations
Pretty much one of my three guiding parenting principles....
~Be curious (question rules) and kind (empathy and being thoughtful- including to yourself)
~Model and cultivate consent /self-advocacy
~Be silly. Have fun. If someone isn't having fun, we leave. No matter how much the tickets were
~Be curious (question rules) and kind (empathy and being thoughtful- including to yourself)
~Model and cultivate consent /self-advocacy
~Be silly. Have fun. If someone isn't having fun, we leave. No matter how much the tickets were
December 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This has been an easy scaffolding to build on for nearly all life situations
Fun w MS Office! /s
Issues: w Copilot /"experiences" off, these are greyed out as options:
~Autosave. autosave!! (Word, Excel)
~Search for Templates, online or locally, after I click NEW (Word)
~Sync in OneNote
Not merely enshitification; MS has CASTRATED the main working features we rely on. FFS
Issues: w Copilot /"experiences" off, these are greyed out as options:
~Autosave. autosave!! (Word, Excel)
~Search for Templates, online or locally, after I click NEW (Word)
~Sync in OneNote
Not merely enshitification; MS has CASTRATED the main working features we rely on. FFS
December 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Fun w MS Office! /s
Issues: w Copilot /"experiences" off, these are greyed out as options:
~Autosave. autosave!! (Word, Excel)
~Search for Templates, online or locally, after I click NEW (Word)
~Sync in OneNote
Not merely enshitification; MS has CASTRATED the main working features we rely on. FFS
Issues: w Copilot /"experiences" off, these are greyed out as options:
~Autosave. autosave!! (Word, Excel)
~Search for Templates, online or locally, after I click NEW (Word)
~Sync in OneNote
Not merely enshitification; MS has CASTRATED the main working features we rely on. FFS
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Evil dogs us. Resistance should celebrate & articulate its implicit call for moral renewal. ICE; MAGA, in all its manifestations; genocide & war; poverty & grotesque levels of inequality; the climate crisis — all are signs of moral decay & corruption. Resistance to them embodies a renewed morality.
We have a practical framework for American resistance. Now we need a spiritual one | Rami Nashashibi
We have a practical framework for American resistance. Now we need a spiritual one | Rami Nashashibi
There is growing understanding that our country is witnessing evil in our public life. Here is a path to confronting it
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Evil dogs us. Resistance should celebrate & articulate its implicit call for moral renewal. ICE; MAGA, in all its manifestations; genocide & war; poverty & grotesque levels of inequality; the climate crisis — all are signs of moral decay & corruption. Resistance to them embodies a renewed morality.
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An important part of arresting the consolidation of authoritarianism is convincing corporations and institutions that Trump will eventually be out of power and at that point they’ll face consequences for their actions and by that standard this is a good sign
Jamie Dimon says JPM hasn't given to the ballroom because "anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful about how anything is perceived." Adds "And also how the next DOJ is going to deal with."
thehill.com/business/559...
thehill.com/business/559...
thehill.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:17 AM
An important part of arresting the consolidation of authoritarianism is convincing corporations and institutions that Trump will eventually be out of power and at that point they’ll face consequences for their actions and by that standard this is a good sign
This
No need to forgive- only leverage and take advantage of.
November 29, 2025 at 6:32 AM
This
I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage."
He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?" And I said, "Littering."
And they all moved away from me on the bench there,
and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things,
till I said,
He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?" And I said, "Littering."
And they all moved away from me on the bench there,
and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things,
till I said,
I didn’t even get nothin. I had to pay $50 and they made me pick up the garbage
Shout-out to everyone on the Group W Bench today.
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage."
He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?" And I said, "Littering."
And they all moved away from me on the bench there,
and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things,
till I said,
He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?" And I said, "Littering."
And they all moved away from me on the bench there,
and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things,
till I said,
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This is how Enron did its accounting (seriously)
On one side of the ledger, we have half a trillion dollars in operating losses expected over the next 5 years.
On the other side of the ledger, we have all the money we'll hypothetically make when the hypothetical technology we imagine comes into existence mostly on its own.
So it's net positive.
On the other side of the ledger, we have all the money we'll hypothetically make when the hypothetical technology we imagine comes into existence mostly on its own.
So it's net positive.
HSBC forecasts that OpenAI is going to have nearly a half trillion in operating losses until 2030
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This is how Enron did its accounting (seriously)
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This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.