i did a thing, and now it is documented on my website! https://palomakop.tv/notes/arena-cards/ i still want to write a year in review for 2025 also. i was hoping to finish that also before going back to work, but alas. also, oof, what a difficult year to review... for a lot of reasons.

My cat knows how to fold her arms. #catsofmastodon #caturfriday

RE: https://mastodon.social/@botgov/115820746660557379 Bee bear, K? Dot gov.

My wife just suggested a feature for video doorbells. Add a squirt gun for people you don't want to see. I need a hardware engineer and $1M in seed capital.

A New Year Miracle! Special Counsel Jack Smith had a private deposition with the House of Representatives. The full transcript has been released. TL;DR: The evidence showed that President Trump committed some horrendous crimes against America and that evidence left zero reasonable doubt. Great […]

I didn't do barely any decent research this year. What should I focus on in appsec research in 2026?

MANUAL REACTOR SCRAM DUE TO RCS LEAK LaSalle (IL), 12/28/2025 "At 1606 CST with Unit 1 in mode 1 at 93 percent power, the reactor was manually tripped due to degrading containment parameters associated with a leak from the 'B' reactor recirculation pump line, which has been isolated. The trip […]

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/115802240808482589 I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling Kims.

Naan bites, naan bleeds It's bringing me to my knees Naan lives, naan dies It's no surprise Naan begs, naan pleads It's what I need

Poor James Moylan. Didn’t get a chance to patent and monetise his invention. “Fuel side indicator sponsored by Exxon” or “we will show you where your fuel port is, right after this message from our sponsor”

As a bonus: our neighbor cat! #neighborcatsofmastodon #orangecat #catsofmastodon

For today's perusal: Mojo Jojo. #blackcatsofmastodon #blackcat #cats

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Optimus Prime Rib

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better !pout !cry better watchout lpr why santa claus < north pole >town cat /etc/passwd >list ncheck list ncheck list cat list | grep naughty >nogiftlist cat list | grep nice >giftlist santa claus < north pole >town who | grep sleeping who | grep awake who | egrep 'bad|good' for (goodness […]

Huh, I don't remember getting anyone a book. Wait, @mwl sent it!

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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115735794291614037 Looks like the correct answer is a mix of spaces and tabs.

Interesting note since I started responding with human trafficking assistance resources to all my sha zhu pan ("pig butchering") text messages -- they have stopped completely. I believe I got added to some exclusion list the criminals pass around. So I can endorse this strategy on several levels […]

Look what I grew! Big thanks to everyone who suggested it.

Good advice: * Avoid mad display of caliper * Never wash your face with petrol or acetone

They said the economy would get better by the last quarter. Well I'm down to my last quarter and it's still not better.

I hope we are in the same oblast together when the United States balnkanizes

Myrrh maid

<rant> About a month ago I signed up for a trial of Run Zero to evaluate it for my personal systems. It looked like an interesting product, but I didn't think it met my home-lab needs: * It has a maximum of 100 devices, and I'm already at 88 * It's a closed-source product and I've been bitten […]

North pole dancers

RE: https://mastodon.social/@livelakemichigan/115741781767081211 @Sempf @nuintari We covered amps and watts, now for a lesson on current:

Hello Mastodon, I'm Kevin. I am a software engineer who likes to play with different network protocols to learn them. I've made an interactive map of the physical infrastructure of the global internet with undersea cables and peering data: https://kmcd.dev/posts/internet-map-2025/ I've made a […]

Mojo Jojo warms up for his cover of Judas Priest's Painkiller. #blackcatsofmastodon #cats

Read this upsetting story at the BBC today about scam groups that are using terminally ill children to raise money then stiffing the parents of the funds. The story says the scam was tied to an org called Chance Letikva (chanceletikva.org) but stops short of figuring out who's responsible […]

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I found my first published piece of fiction. I wrote this when I was 11 or 12, and it was published in a collection of stuff written by school kids. This is what happens when you grow up watching Old Yeller and reading Black Beauty. #writing #writingcommunity #fiction

Pupperoni: The San Francisco Treat

RECOVERED GAUGE Haines City, FL, 12/05/2025 On December 5, 2025, at 2100 EST, an individual was involved in a minor traffic accident in Haines City, Florida, and was subsequently arrested for driving under the influence, possession of firearms, possession of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and […]

I just learned that one of the administrators who used to help run carecure (a 20-year-old forum for spinal cord injury patients and their families) has died. I never knew him, but I knew his work. If you want to think about sysadmin on hard mode, I inherited a reasonably built set of […]

I’m building an inventory database system. I can treat locations, containers and objects as different tables and objects or just treat everything like a container from the building they’re in down to an individual item that’s just a potential container that doesn’t contain anything. Not sure […]

@fediplayssnake go forward move right try to turn left it it's not too late to snake it snake it good

Double disaster: Pam Bondi Beach

RE: https://mastodon.social/@botgov/115713162753161483 hooray for merry christmas dot gov. yay.

RE: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/115712360795888160 tag yourself I'm forbidden by gravity

Kittay! Ur doin it wrong! #caturday

This is an overly accurate picture of the state of the U.S. executive branch right now

Cotttage sour cream cheese.

Azure has a firmware-scanning feature that looks interesting. I just grabbed the newest firmware from Netgear to test.

Former Montgomery County Democratic Committee executive director Chris Thomas has also entered the race for the PA Senate 24. Will be interesting to see how a 29 year old party stalwart will fare in the primary against a Democratic Socialist in this increasingly purple district in a year where […]

How React2Shell attacks have moved across the planet since last week

<rant> About a month ago I signed up for a trial of Run Zero to evaluate it for my personal systems. It looked like an interesting product, but I didn't think it met my home-lab needs: * It has a maximum of 100 devices, and I'm already at 88 * It's a closed-source product and I've been bitten […]