Got to see @lukeoneil47.bsky.social kick off his tour last night for “We Had It Coming” at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social and it was a great time.

Apropos of nothing else, if this guy was a Nazi he'd already have a six-figure funded GoFundMe and a job with a VC firm.

I got work to stop making me do "5-Why" postmortems because I always make the fifth why "Capitalism". Maybe that can help someone else.

Did I miss a @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Hellworld piece on the drama unfolding at Market Basket? I had to find out from an Instagram reel like a goddamned fool!

In a stunning moment of erotic fervour, calculator demands BOOBS.

Me, a grownup commenting about the news: "This is just like Dr. Mindbender betraying Cobra Commander in GI Joe Season 2, Episode 1 Arise, Serpentor, Arise"

Of all the insane ads you encounter on the DC metro, like for missiles and death rays and nonsense, the ICE recruitment ads that have started popping up everywhere are straight up Paul Verhoeven Starship Troopers bullshit.

Status Update: to paraphrase a favorite movie, "Princeton can use a dog like Joel."

Tentative strong agree (unless Matt Patricia winds up bringing back smallpox).

Spent all this week going through a CMMC audit and I feel like I'm trying to get a dog accepted to college.

Feels weird to point out that the Insane Clown Posse's DC March of the Juggalos in 2017 was because of this issue. Law enforcement considered ICP tattoos and even albums in home as evidence of gang membership and used it to violate probation and in custody hearings.

We're hiring a Director for the Privacy & Data Governance unit; you'd be working directly with me FYI www.aclu.org/careers/appl...

Watching the livestream of Haider's first show for Tom Ford and it's very nice; distinct Ford silhouettes with the sexiness slider pushed a few stops to the left.

Exchange Admins are going to get a whole lot of "report Phishing" alerts and my guess is that they get the whole mail campaign quarantined.

If you ever find yourself wanting to cook S.O.S. for 100 people but the administration removed the Armed Forces Recipe Service manual, just know I've got you covered.

About 20 years ago I had to scope out this 4 month, 15 country tour for USAID to pen test bases all over Africa and the Middle East. I worried about who I was going to assign until word of the project leaked and two people on my team burst in to begged to be assigned and I was so relieved.

I did my taxes last week the earliest I've ever done them because the idea that the IRS might not be functioning normally in a few months actually crossed my mind.

I was very fortunate to be able to cover today's Children's National Hospital protest after seeing @erinpalmerdc.bsky.social repost @jael.bsky.social's post last night. The turnout was heartening. Photos are here: chrisgale.photo/childrens-na...

Scrolling through White House EO's looking for one halting CMMC audits like a kid after a snowstorm looking for their school on the tv crawl.

Walking around downtown and this must be what New Yorkers feel like the weekend of SantaCon.

Oh wow, this is definitely my favorite of these year-end recaps.

My parents had a cartoon hanging in our kitchen of a guy with his head up his ass and a caption reading "Your problem is quite obvious." Every time they went on vacation I immediately took it down because I hated looking at it and every time they came home they'd find it and put it back up.

I've made very little (but not zero!) progress on extracting myself from my toxic work environment. As local rat Colin Sullivan said "If we're not gonna make it, it's gotta be you that gets out, cause I'm not capable. I'm fucking Irish, I'll deal with something being wrong for the rest of my life."

two new infosec roles at ACLU, tell your friends/apply * www.aclu.org/careers/appl... * www.aclu.org/careers/appl...

I look forward to the eventual banned word list accreting to include such hits as "while one equals one" "until the heat-death of the universe"