Seattle holidays we celebrate: Copper River King Salmon arrives Cherry blossoms in February Post 9-PM sunsets in the Spring Larches in the mountains Café au Lait Dinner Plate Dahlias at the Farmer's Market

I look forward to AI figuring out what the heck to click in the Entra or InTune portals instead of me. Hopefully it's better than CoPilot, because that one is just a time waster. 🫥 (I mean, or Microsoft could make the millions of admin options easier to manage with better presets? 🤔)

If you, like me, grew up eating Italian Deli cookies and miss them horribly in Seattle, I have a fix for you. Tremonte’s even made a special batch of rainbow sprinkle cookies for me because I was missing them from my childhood so much 😋 tremontesseattle.com

Tallie says this is great September weather for exploring Seattle

iphone camera vs shaking dog for your Friday

Attacks against F/OSS projects & leveraging package management infrastructure are on the rise. If you maintain any F/OSS project, maybe go enable 2FA now & be cautious when clicking links.

It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.

Must read. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.

the Google Images Person/Pets labeler gods have seen fit to give us a weekend gift, another photo in the Tallie Butts album. I'm undecided about whether this one is a misfire. I think yes, we can't really see her butt?

We had nosework class tonight! Complete with a fun discussion about how herding dogs in particular are notorious for inventing their own rules for nosework. One of Tallie's mainstays: you cannot put a hide in the middle of a flight of stairs. Reader, you can guess what our trainer did.... 😜

Well that was a delightful Friday morning surprise! Our neighbor was out pruning her dahlias as Tallie & I were on our walk and gave us a gorgeous bouquet as we walked by 🥰

So much wonderfulness in PNW/Cascades but this chilling frog in Heart lake takes the cake

It's roasty here in Seattle, but we had signed up for a nosework trial months ago so we went anyway. I was ready to pull Tallie if she didn't want to run, but she was SO VOCAL that she wanted to WORK PLEASE. Goofball. Anyway, she got her ORT title today! Here is Asgard's Highland Skye, CGC TKN ORT 🎉

if you're not from or have never been to new york i cannot stress enough how normal the subway is 99% of the time. kids take it to school. everyone is basically chill. you learn to be in proximity with harmless weirdos or minor irritations pretty quick. for all its issues it's an incredible thing

We built the internet with duct tape 😜 (not a knock on Kerberos or OAUTH, but as a 90s web developer... yeah. we figured things out as we needed them.)

I am not saying that all the popular dog-loving accounts of bluesky should reskeet this thread of adorable pups that make everyone happy but I am also not not saying this

the wild shetland sheepdog, seeking to avoid bedtime, brings a new toy to the hoomans

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

From the ACLU Washington, DC Chapter in case there are still laws:

Ignore them and walk on. They do not have the right to do this. It isn’t the border. If they won’t let you leave that’s a 4th Amendment violation. www.acludc.org/know-your-ri...

When I worked in NYC post 9/11, NYPD would periodically do bag checks. I & a lot of folks walked a lot extra to avoid allowing our bags to be searched on principle. I remember this as a Big Thing. Here's states with Stop and Identify laws, DC is not on there: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_an...

US border agents searched 14,899 electronic devices at US borders between April-June -- includes phones/computers/cameras/other electronics. Last year they searched 46,362 devices total. Basic search means scrolling through phone; advanced search involves extracting reams of data with forensic tools

Missed my Burner Phone 101 workshop at the Brooklyn Public Library? Here’s the companion write-up, with discussion highlights and updated slides: rebeccawilliams.info/burner-phone...

Save the date: I’m teaching Burner Phone 101 at the Brooklyn Central Library on Saturday, August 16, 2025, from 1:00 to 2:30 pm. Come through to learn about the full spectrum of “burner phone” options.

Me in the spring booking DC trip in September: "great, maybe the weather will be cooler can't wait to see friends" Me now looking at rapidly approaching departure date: "WTF this former DC resident & civil liberties lawyer is going to spend the weekend even more furious" 🤬

They don’t care about crime. Period.

Dinner is chicken gyros & will feature these chopped up with red onion from our CSA. I almost didn't plant any tomatoes this year but there were seedlings at our Farmer's Market in June & I figured I'd try this Jasper one.

“A nation consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.” — @greatdismal.bsky.social

I found some sunflowers that were Tallie height today. It took me 3 treats to bribe her into sitting near them so I could get a photo showing how they were her height, so... Look! short sunflowers near a short sheltie!

Micromanaging the day-to-day affairs of D.C. is not what voters elected the president and members of Congress in their home states to accomplish. We need D.C. statehood NOW: dcstatehoodnow.org

Tallie made a Whole Foods employee's day when we turned up at curbside pickup. "Parking space: none Car description: other" probably looks a bit suspicious but then they came to the sidewalk and found this fuzzbrain helping me get groceries.

happy Friday bluesky friends

I worked in downtown Newark for 4 years and lived in DC for years right after that. Both of those were completely fine. I never had any problems going to get lunch or commuting in the evening in Newark. I walked around DC at 11 PM alone just fine. I'm a short white girl. These folks are pussies.

I live in Seattle now. But I used to live blocks from here & walked through there All The Time. 😡 WTF.

In line at the checkpoint frantically eating whatever sandwiches I have on me so I don't get arrested for possession of a deadly weapon

best use of eggshell skull rule ever

This will make it harder for groups like the @ACLU.org to organize public comment campaigns. Cutting off this access limits organizing power and is another step in a wave of anti-democratic, techno-fascist measures. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4486...

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is: (me getting smooches from Nugget right before my Shmoo talk)

One of the great joys of working on healthcare: so many people have very strong opinions about what HIPAA is, what it covers, what it allows and doesn't allow. They are occasionally correct but often not. It's fun. </s>

TELL ME ABOUT YOUR DOG!!! The Giant Database of Dogs is a data collection project for classroom use. 6 quick questions to help students learn statistics! ALL good puppers are welcome! buff.ly/f6weaUE (please share widely!) (pics for tax, of course!)

HACK THE PLANET

"Weightlifting is an act of pleasure as resistance." 💪

A new photo in the Tallie's Butt auto-generated album! It is a Tallie Butt and an Abbey Butt, so... good job google photos image labeler?

NEW: "The electronic case filing system used by the federal judiciary has been breached in a sweeping cyber intrusion that is believed to have exposed sensitive court data across multiple U.S. states, according to two people with knowledge of the incident."

“Sorry, we temporarily lost part of the constitution via an erroneous merge conflict. Habeas Corpus will be restored shortly”

Hey @nedpyle.com I have a hacker joke for you that I just heard at @bsideslv.org 😇 How did the Hacker get away from the FBI? A: he ransomware! 🤪😜😝

Hallway/evening con BSides continues to be the best con. Smattering of last 24 hours: pitfalls in porting to Azure; early detection of phishing/malware campaigns; unit tests vs static analysis and why code coverage stats can backfire; moving shift left into Infra as Code. So many lovely chats. 💙

Traditional post-talk lap swim is done