Distributed Dogs of Service

Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift. Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.

Tallie met some other shelties today! And had a very hot walk; she is now totally passed out.

Are you ready? The CFP, call for volunteers, Pros vs. Joes Registration, and room block are all open. Finally, registration is now officially open too. Full details online: https://bsideslv.org/ Join us August 3-5, 2026.

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

Rainy Saturday fetch petered out after a while into Saturday naps

Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube

Me this afternoon: I have 2 hours before my next meeting, I'll call Verizon and surely that will be enough time for them to fix this problem. Me 90 minutes later, escalated through four different phone reps, watching my time-to-next-meeting counter tick down.... 🫠

TGIF from a Serious vs Not Serious bear

Dumb Siri question of the day…. My niece’s name is Ana. Her contact is Ana on my iPhone. If I reply to a text from her using voice control and say “Hi Ana” Siri types it as “Hi Anna”— is there any way to make it spell her name right? This is usually when I’m in my car, so it has to be voice only 🤔

Even sophisticated consumers are generally not expected to be suspicious of hard-to-verify technical claims. If this isn't fixed/can't be fixed, bar associations should issue warnings not to use CoCounsel.

The Librarian of Congress oversees the Congressional Research Service, which handles confidential inquiries from members of Congress. Having any DOJ official, but especially the acting Attorney General, with control over Congressional oversight of the executive is a scary and dangerous prospect.

The CFP is now open, PAL9000 didn't want to be a small shell script. callforpapers.bsides...

Sadness: we had to leave Hawaii Happiness: got Tallie back from the dog sitter! Sadness: while we were gone, our water heater died 😭 Happiness: emergency plumber came out, diagnosed issue, I HAD THE SPARE PART IN A CLOSET (left over from sensor woes in 2019) and installing that fixed it!

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

Plate lunch and more shave ice today

first shave ice of the trip, complete with roosters.

Good night from Oahu

I've been sick this week so I keep forgetting to boost this: Platform Decay, the next Murderbot book, is part of the Preorder 25% off sale at Barnes and Noble: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/platform-d... So is the trade paperback of Queen Demon

No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

DC-> home a few days in Seattle -> Hawaii and I’m definitely feeling the Cayce vibes “She has a peculiar relationship with jet lag… as though her soul, in transit, has lagged behind her body. As though it were still somewhere over the Pacific, or perhaps in Heathrow, waiting to catch up.”

We made it to Hawaii! So so so beautiful here.

Just like trying to measure lines of code for developer productivity, there are so many dumb ways to game this kind of measurement. Find the good metrics are for productivity in your dev environment (features launched? Reports generated? Etc)

I guess some things never change- dropped the small monster off at her dog sitter late last night, went home, fell asleep. Welp, woke up super early this morning to a text asking if we had fed her dinner bc she was doing an extremely convincing “I’m staaaaaarving” routine at 10 pm 🤨😂

since it's National Puppy Day, have some 6 week old Tallie with her brothers

It's already happening. A woman who could not prove her citizenship was arrested and taken away by ICE this morning at SFO.

ATLANTA: "I saw 4 ICE agents within 5 minutes just walking around. One had a 'federal agent' patch, one had an 'ICE' patch, the other two were not clearly marked...They’re in the mezzanine just watching us. Not doing anything that I can tell besides just having a presence...ton of police to help."

trying to get a photo of your sheltie at the farmer market but she's just snarfed up a big chunk of croissant off the pavement

Tallie & I found some cherry trees about to bloom. Happy Friday Bluesky friends!

Back to the vet yesterday bc Tallie didn't want to put any weight on her paw. Good news: just a pulled muscle from her vrooming around like a nutcase. but oh my god it was heart breaking to see her walking around on 3 legs. 😭 (drugs + went to see the doggie PT- she is much much better today)

This data is only “commercially available” because we have inadequate consumer privacy laws. The distinction between “consumer privacy” and government surveillance continues to breakdown: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

ok, Geoducks look weird. Never eaten one. Apple Cider doughnuts aren't weird!? WTF. Sushirritos, which I'd call a sushi burrito, are awesome, not weird. Spam Musubi, also awesome & not weird. Also this Jersey girl has no idea what a "oreo overload" is & refuses to google it.

Also s/law school/high school/ (I’m sure the kids will figure it out but I am curious about what will happen to bar passage rates the next few years)

Here are 4,000 words on the DOGE bro depositions that the gov't got pulled down because the DOGE bros, who defined DEI as getting something "on the basis of something other than merit" and who used ChatGPT to ask "is this DEI?" are being criticized for being totally incompetent dipshits.

In DC for the wedding of two dear friends and I’ve just been hanging out in Shaw (my old neighborhood) doing things I used to & seeing friends. Seattle I love you forever but DC still feels a bit like home 💙 Also Mika is here!

“Danielle Citron, a prominent privacy expert who teaches at the University of Virginia School of Law, topped the ‌ranking for ⁠the second time in as many years. This time she was joined by six other women in the top 10”

I poured Kilkerran 12 into one of these and Kilkerran 8 Bourbon Cask into the other about 20 minutes ago and have since forgotten which was which. Impromptu blind tasting with kindle I suppose.

Tallie's take on waking up early to start the day

I dealt with patching my first XSS issue on Amazon in January 2000. It's *26 years* later and this is still the top ranked security bug. 😒 scotthelme.co.uk/xss-ranked-1...

Whisky nerd lyfe: my pilot husband texted me bc his co-pilot, a bourbon drinker, wants a scotch recommendation for their post-dinner drinks. My go-to "you're a bourbon drinker, you should try" is Dalmore, thanks largely to @bobb2.bsky.social, so we will see if that work here too 😅

Growling & barking in her sleep. I'm always so curious what in the world she's dreaming of when she does that! She only play growls when she's awake- is it a dream play growl? A real one? About what?

Tallie heard that it's almost Friday

Both of my grandfathers were electrical engineers who worked at Bell Labs. Gee, and I wonder why I'm a nerd. 😅 (My mom's dad taught me electrical stuff when we did a home renovation when I was about 8 & he did the wiring for the house. Not just how to wire, but about current & magnetism & etc.)

Spring walkies in West Seattle this afternoon

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Tallie is excited that it's almost Friday

sheltie excitement

it's flurrying here but, alas, not sticking. So here's Tallie last February being quite excited about the snow:

where was this when I had to do bluebook spading for law review???? 🤯

Interesting perspective on the Anthropic Legal Plug In news that everyone freaked out about last week from Nikki Shaver at @legaltechnologyhub.com (full disclosure: this is where I work) www.legaltechnologyhub.com/contents/ant...