Got more rough news about my furry soulmate today. Something still hadn't been sitting right with me for weeks. So we went to the vet again. They found a tumor on her urethra. I am glad to finally have more answers, but I am heartbroken at the fact we have even less time now... 💔

I don't care what you think, but the Sims 3 is absolutely trash. Uninstalled it.

Happy divorciversary to myself. All those years ago I didn't know how life would look the next year, 5 or even more for me. After being told repeated I wouldn't make it without them, I think I am not only surviving but thriving without them. No matter what life threw at me since then!

I have studied each vibe of the most used social media apps. Meta = boomers & politics LinkedIn = fake it till you make it Instagram = fake but aesthetic Pinterest = vision board Twitter/X = complaints HQ Reddit = anon complaints HQ TikTok = funny, messy, opinionated, & cringe Bluesky = semi-chill

Welcome to 2025's job market where it is still possible to make over 80K a year, but you won't get benefits or medical insurance. Are you kidding me? It makes far more sense to freelance for me. At least I can somewhat expense medical insurance premiums on my tax return.

It rained all day yesterday, and this is how I used my free will. 13 year old me would be screaming and crying happy tears. "What do you mean we can play the OG Sims in our own house?! We have a colorful office to get cozy and play it in too?!" Make younger you proud. That's the whole point.

Picking myself up and getting my life back together on a random Monday in October. LFG!

One of the hardest things to face is the reality is that we are all on borrowed time here. It's even more heartbreaking to be told and have to face that I am a lot less borrowed time than I thought I was with my furry soulmate now. I just hope I can make it through it all this time. 💔

Since I never seem to see anyone's posts in my feed half the time, I am gradually just turning on notifications for individual people as I go. So I if start engaging a lot more with your content, then that would be why. I am still specifically curating my feed here. Le sigh.

The tarot people and tin foil hatters are back on my fyp on TikTok. Either there is about to be a collective crash out or it'll just be me. This level of delulu is a lot even for me. Stay tuned...

3 things I have decided on today: 1. I am re-joining Twitter. Why? Because not everyone migrated over. 🙄 2. I am going to just share my thoughts in posts unfiltered. 3. I am going to keep going in the career direction I am currently until the money runs out completely. Why? Can't get an FTE job.

Some of ya'll asked for an all black hoodie since I opened my small boutique within the past month. So, here you go! This black half-zip hoodie should arrive by the 24th of October. I absolutely swear by these hoodies and have for years!! If you want to pre-order one, let me know!

The amount of jobs that have wasted my ever-loving time over the past 7 weeks with their "we want someone with more experience" in marketing is such BS. I've been in-house and external facing. I can confirm that a lot of companies haven't a clue what they are doing. It's all corporate cosplay. 🙄

I have officially been TikTok influenced and bought a mechanical keyboard. The first one was a total fail and got returned. The second one that just arrived this evening has a much more silent and creamy sound to it. Not to mention the rainbow back light is so cool. I'm in love! 😍

Friend: "hey I got free tickets to this event where I live. Want to come for a short visit?" Me: "say less. you don't have to ask me twice." Also me: "train booked. hotel booked. see you in a few weeks!" Do I have the money for it right now? No, not really. Do I care right now? Also, no.

Anyone have recs on low-cost courses & certs to explore to get back into a cybersecurity role? I have a TryHackMe subscription & looking at Practical OSINT with TCM (for security research). I am looking for more options to get back into a direct role in cybersecurity. Drop some of your recs please!

After 5 interviews & waiting over 3 weeks, I didn't get the role at Huntress that I was hoping to land. To say I am already exhausted by job hunting would be an understatement currently. The reality is I want the income and job stability, but it doesn't look like that's in the cards for me now.

Today would have been my 12th wedding anniversary. A few of the rare images left popped up on Facebook. It put me in a somber mood. Why? Because I lost nearly everyone in the divorce except my matron of honor. We're still friends. I feel it's the price I had to pay to choose myself, heal, and leave.

Currently still barely have a voice this week. Feel free to revel in it or provide sympathy. I don't mind either way. But I will remind you all to wash your fucking hands and mask up again this Fall because it's germy out here.

Naturally, a minority of the population out there is like, "omg why is everyone making this a huge joke?" Oh... IDK...Maybe because we have a circus government admin run by clowns., humor is the only way to endure any of it. Let us have this! Now shush, my rapture news update and GRWM is back on.

I just saw a comment earlier on TikTok saying, " Do I need a real ID for this rapture or do I gotta go stand in line at the DMV for one tomorrow?" Now I cannot stop laughing every 5 minutes about it. These comments are giving me life again since I have no voice right now... 🤒🤧😷

"Oh! You thought this was going to continue to be free. Sorry, but it won't be."

Self preservation/isolation era now loading now... 🐚 If it would stop being 90+ degrees outside, that would be even more lovely.

Live your life and conduct yourself so that if you're gunned down in public nobody feels the need to tell others that it's inappropriate to celebrate your death.

I don't feel any particular joy in Charlie Kirk getting shot. It's not the sort of thing I celebrate. But I also struggle to care when someone gets the very thing they've wished for openly, on multiple occasions, in multiple iterations, for literal years, b/c they thought it would be someone else.

I'm going to say the quiet part out loud. Not stating compensation on your job listings and then advising me the salary band is 60 - 70K for a role with a Senior in the title is a colossal joke. Don't tell me you have 600 million ARR and then only want to pay a measly $60K for a senior-level role.

After I got home yesterday afternoon, I had a nap, showered, unpacked, did laundry, went to the store for groceries this week, and was in bed before 11 PM. Who the hell is this because it's not me!

EVERYONE IN CHICAGOLAND: Save this number in your phone. If you see an ICE raid: 1. Ask the the person their name 2. Ask who to call to let them know they’ve been taken by ICE 3. Tell them to not say anything 4. Call this number to report the arrest If possible video it

You know it was a good weekend when you really tear up once the train pulls away from station to head back home from Chicago after @blueteamcon.com. Aside from the event, what I loved most of all was the full tables and great convos with dear friends. 💚

I would love to see hacker/infosec cons say please don’t use AI images. AI is theft from artists If we are talking about building community let’s support other communities as well and artists are hurt by AI images

"Don't get mad, but..." is often a one-way ticket of you revoking yourself from having any access to my life at all. Maybe be honest from the get-go and don't do things that would be viewed as shady to me in the first place. I'm just saying. Do better people. It's not that hard.

People think they know me until they need to be put in time out with me. I don't take kindly to fake or manipulation in any capacity. Never have nor ever will. Come correct or either keep yourself the hell away from me. Thank you.

If you are attending @blueteamcon.com this weekend, we'll be recording an episode live in the unconference track at 10:00am Sunday morning!! If you have questions about response drills and tabletop exercises, stop by and ask them on the show!

Do I know anyone in Phoenix AZ looking for work? I need a technician/entry-level person who is interested in hardware and software and loves to learn. You'd be working with a Sr Factory Test Engineer building and maintaining test fixtures.

This is a one up from the Wells Fargo incidents of employees being found deceased at their desks. 👀😳

Anyone want a slice of @zerotrustbarbie.bsky.social's diet pizza casserole?

Are we there yet?! 🙄

Everyone is so loud on their phone on this train. Have you heard of texting because these conversations are embrassing! Omg 😳🙄

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I want to get back into a direct security role. Honestly, I am ready to go back to threat intel & OSINT research world. I love writing in this space, but it's no longer fun for me. I need to move it back to just freelance only. I am giving it all one last chance. Drop your learning recs, please!

I hope one day I can stop being so angry at the world. Maybe one day, but that won't be today or any real long stint of time anytime soon.

Former employer (multi-million dollar company): "We can't pay out your severance and COBRA reimbursement until the 15th." Yet you had a check to me for 2 days of work in 2 days... Don't do business with them. They don't really care about employees. That "Best in KLAS" award is as fake as they are.

Is anyone interested in doing the river boat tour again for @blueteamcon.com this week? I would love to do it again this year, if possible. Unfortunately, ya'll need to source for your own tickets this time. I am broke and unemployed currently. Let me know if anyone is interested.

"Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity. We should not be operating out of a place of hate for anyone." —Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey

I don't know what I have done to deserve such good people in my life, but I am grateful I have. People who were in my life back before my mom's passing were the types that let my ex-husband nearly rob me of everything I had. When I say I am so not used to people showing up for me in life, I mean it.

Cathy Ullman: The Power of Active Defense

If I were a cybersecurity company, I wouldn't hire this dude for even 5 cents. Likely couldn't tell you what OSINT means without Googling it. This is 100% the type of misguided and egotistical marketing grifters plug on LinkedIn and then get mad at you for calling them out in the comments.

Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast