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Sean Gallagher 
@thepacketrat
Threat researcher , emeritus IT/Natsec editor, cat tree, birb paparrazo. On Mastodon x3, Instagram, CoSo and others (see web link)
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BREAKING: the Charles Village Pub in Towson has โdecided to decline the use of the venueโ for the Jan. 6 fundraiser scheduled for tomorrow. The event was cohosted by the Republican Women of Baltimore County and the Patriots Club of America.
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1980s Peugeot exec: โHow can we out-Reagan American car companies?โ
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People ask me, "how can I recover the crypto I lost to a scammer?" The answer is usually, "You can't."
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TFW you are reviewing your credit card statements and realize an AWS service you thought you shut down has charged you $3k just sitting idle.
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They won! See 's #SundayTODAY piece this morning on , a group of musicians aged 12 to 22 who just upset giants of classical music. #Grammys
today.com/video/meet-the
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Congrats Best Orchestral Performance winner - 'Works By Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman' @mikerepper, conductor (@NYYouthSymphony) #GRAMMYs
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Attention, nous recevons de nombreux signalements liรฉs ร cette campagne ! A traiter en urgence ! twitter.com/CERT_FR/statusโฆ
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So yeah if youโre a reporter and you schedule an interview and then donโt show up or at least warn the interviewee that you need to reschedule, youโre not doing reporter right. Even if your editor kills the story, at least send an email.
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Iโm a biologist, but Iโve got a bone to pick with how woodpeckers are named.
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I'm a Mainland Chinese citizen, high profile, and at risk. @Vice broke a written agreement not to discuss my relationships or personal life- they never do with men in tech they interview. In the end, the speculation in their article directly resulted in my being Outed. twitter.com/marimoomilk/stโฆ
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I'm guessing the French literally gassing Haitians in their ships might have had something to do with their being "Francophobic"
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Um no. But it sounds like a great opportunity to troll fascists.
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ChatGPT must have read the opening of my 1986 term paper.
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What FSB reports 9 out of 10 dissidents say before โfalling out of windowsโ
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Since "Chinese Spy Balloon" is trending: In 1945, the crew of USS New York spotted a sphere that they thought might be a Japanese balloon weapon. The captain ordered it shot down but none of the guns could score a hit. Finally, a navigator realized they were attacking Venus.
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LOL this will do absolutely jack shit to stop the scam bots (which are largely using the reverse engineered private API anyway, and if they arenโt already, they will) while absolutely destroying everyone who made a fun little bot that keeps people engaged. $100/mo?! What?
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Then sheโll have a troika pack.
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This is the end for both the bots you love and the bots you hate.
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Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 
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I regret to inform everyone that this cat was unable to disengage FSD before the car swerved into the opposing lane of traffic and passed away when the Tesla burst into flames
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Friend sent me this video of a cat driving a Tesla. Now I gotta film Luna driving one. The competition is on. 
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Oh look they're talking about my work life
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Some research from my colleague on pig butchering apps that made it into Apple's and Google's app stores. I've got some follow-ups of my own coming on this, and I'll be talking about two specific cases at 's RISE USA event Feb 8.
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Weโve been tracking pig butchering (sha zhu pan) scams for 2+ years, and have seen many fake apps used to fool victims into โinvestingโ cryptocurrency in fake markets. But we recently found a new twist: scammers managed to get their fake apps published on Appleโs App Store. /1
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Santos steps down from House panels amid ethics issues (from )
He now has time to find the real killers and clear his name.
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A new intro'd bill in Arizona would criminalize drag in presence of a minor as a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison and a requirement to register as a sex offender. The bill defines drag as just singing and dancing while wearing make-up.
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Going through my photo archive to get it back down below 1TB in the cloud, found trash can lid Captain America at Otakon 2013.
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It has been 11 years since I left an unanswered voice mail for my brother that will never be answered. I wish he had picked up.
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โLet me just scootch in hereโฆIโve been trying to reach you about your cawโs extended warrantyโ (throwback bird pix)
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Hey do you know anyone who could help me figure out what kind of shite my great grandfather saw as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 8th ( and subsequently probably the 7th ) Brigade of the Durham Light Infantry (commissioned October 1914)?
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I plead the Fifth.
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What air defense doing
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We all have days like that Rex.
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And most of the rest is the photos from birbing that you didn't curate, you moron
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TFW you've filled up your iCloud's 1 TB data allowance and you realize 50% of it is shoulder cat selfies
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Those feet tho
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Lower dam at Loch Raven lose
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Cromwell Valley list.
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Red-tail hawk has entered the Slack
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