Michael K
@meekay.bsky.social
#Philly adjacent.
Software guy #Java, #Node, #TypeScript, #Python, #AWS, #Kubernetes.
Progressive #Democrat.
Enthusiast of #aviation, #trains, and #transit.
#StandWithUkraine
Software guy #Java, #Node, #TypeScript, #Python, #AWS, #Kubernetes.
Progressive #Democrat.
Enthusiast of #aviation, #trains, and #transit.
#StandWithUkraine
Me: I would like to be able to focus and be productive today.
A national pharmacy-slash-health insurance company: Death comes for us all, but some sooner than others. Reply HELP for help or STOP to cancel.
A national pharmacy-slash-health insurance company: Death comes for us all, but some sooner than others. Reply HELP for help or STOP to cancel.
December 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Me: I would like to be able to focus and be productive today.
A national pharmacy-slash-health insurance company: Death comes for us all, but some sooner than others. Reply HELP for help or STOP to cancel.
A national pharmacy-slash-health insurance company: Death comes for us all, but some sooner than others. Reply HELP for help or STOP to cancel.
Reposted by Michael K
Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
lyra.horse
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
The good news is we get to put Kubernetes on our resumés.
The bad news is we have to work with Kubernetes.
The bad news is we have to work with Kubernetes.
December 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The good news is we get to put Kubernetes on our resumés.
The bad news is we have to work with Kubernetes.
The bad news is we have to work with Kubernetes.
Everyone: What I need, more than anything, is some reliability in my life.
AI bros: Good news, we've invented a computer that stops working or gives bad results when it feels sad. We're putting it in cars!
AI bros: Good news, we've invented a computer that stops working or gives bad results when it feels sad. We're putting it in cars!
December 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Everyone: What I need, more than anything, is some reliability in my life.
AI bros: Good news, we've invented a computer that stops working or gives bad results when it feels sad. We're putting it in cars!
AI bros: Good news, we've invented a computer that stops working or gives bad results when it feels sad. We're putting it in cars!
Promise: AI will make us more efficient!
Reality: Every 8 hours I get an email complaining that I have not yet started a mandatory training that is scheduled for a live session a week from now.
Reality: Every 8 hours I get an email complaining that I have not yet started a mandatory training that is scheduled for a live session a week from now.
December 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Promise: AI will make us more efficient!
Reality: Every 8 hours I get an email complaining that I have not yet started a mandatory training that is scheduled for a live session a week from now.
Reality: Every 8 hours I get an email complaining that I have not yet started a mandatory training that is scheduled for a live session a week from now.
A closed laptop at 11:44pm, but it's running Windows 11:
"Hey!" *chime* "I'm almost out of power!" *chime* "You should probably put me to sleep!" *chime* "Somebody?" *chime*
"Hey!" *chime* "I'm almost out of power!" *chime* "You should probably put me to sleep!" *chime* "Somebody?" *chime*
December 3, 2025 at 4:46 AM
A closed laptop at 11:44pm, but it's running Windows 11:
"Hey!" *chime* "I'm almost out of power!" *chime* "You should probably put me to sleep!" *chime* "Somebody?" *chime*
"Hey!" *chime* "I'm almost out of power!" *chime* "You should probably put me to sleep!" *chime* "Somebody?" *chime*
Reposted by Michael K
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
How Thanksgiving is going so far:
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
How Thanksgiving is going so far:
Who do you trust more: The guy who flew combat in Iraq, went to SPACE four times, and supported his wife's recovery after she was shot in the head; or
November 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Who do you trust more: The guy who flew combat in Iraq, went to SPACE four times, and supported his wife's recovery after she was shot in the head; or
Reposted by Michael K
Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment.
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment.
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
Have you ever noticed how Trump always seems to think the person making the phone call is the one doing the work?
Trump on Susie Wiles: "She can take out a country -- destroy -- take out a country with one phone call. That's power. I don't know if I could do that, but she could."
November 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Have you ever noticed how Trump always seems to think the person making the phone call is the one doing the work?
If we move our entire customer-facing business to the cloud it will only cost us *checks notes* three days of revenue in two months!
November 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
If we move our entire customer-facing business to the cloud it will only cost us *checks notes* three days of revenue in two months!
Science Fiction fans: "Praxis-effect explosions look cool, but don't really happen in space."
Science Fact: "With the FORS2 data, the astronomers found that the initial blast of material was shaped like an olive."
www.eso.org/public/news/...
Science Fact: "With the FORS2 data, the astronomers found that the initial blast of material was shaped like an olive."
www.eso.org/public/news/...
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Science Fiction fans: "Praxis-effect explosions look cool, but don't really happen in space."
Science Fact: "With the FORS2 data, the astronomers found that the initial blast of material was shaped like an olive."
www.eso.org/public/news/...
Science Fact: "With the FORS2 data, the astronomers found that the initial blast of material was shaped like an olive."
www.eso.org/public/news/...
I’m not normally a conspiracy theorist, but I’m starting to think maybe Epstein didn’t really kill himself.
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I’m not normally a conspiracy theorist, but I’m starting to think maybe Epstein didn’t really kill himself.
what the fuck
Kevin Hassett on the October jobs report: "We'll maybe be able to concoct something, but we'll never actually know for sure what the unemployment rate was in October."
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
what the fuck
Any computer is a steam machine if you use it wrong enough.
November 13, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Any computer is a steam machine if you use it wrong enough.
What kind of stupid-ass operating system doesn't put the laptop to sleep when you close the lid!?
November 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
What kind of stupid-ass operating system doesn't put the laptop to sleep when you close the lid!?
It is CHONKY SQUIRREL season!
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It is CHONKY SQUIRREL season!
Reposted by Michael K
This has not gotten much attention, but it should.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This has not gotten much attention, but it should.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
Please explain how canceling 10% of all airline flights because air traffic controllers have been working 60-hour weeks without pay for 1½ months is helping our economy.
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Please explain how canceling 10% of all airline flights because air traffic controllers have been working 60-hour weeks without pay for 1½ months is helping our economy.
Reposted by Michael K
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
Government shutdown: US Army tells soldiers in Germany to go to the food bank www.euronews.com/2025/11/05/g...
US Army advises food bank to soldiers in Germany amid pay uncertainty
US soldiers in Germany may not receive November pay amid the prolonged US government shutdown. Emergency funds covered October salaries, but future payments are uncertain.
www.euronews.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Government shutdown: US Army tells soldiers in Germany to go to the food bank www.euronews.com/2025/11/05/g...
It's the day after a massive Democratic electoral victory, which means I've got James Fucking Carville in my DMs talking about how terrible everything is and demanding money.
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
It's the day after a massive Democratic electoral victory, which means I've got James Fucking Carville in my DMs talking about how terrible everything is and demanding money.
“I've never wished a man dead,
but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”
—Clarence Darrow
but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”
—Clarence Darrow
November 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
“I've never wished a man dead,
but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”
—Clarence Darrow
but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”
—Clarence Darrow