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Michael W|Warren Lucas
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Author of too many books. Sysadmin. Pet rats, martial arts, gelato. Punch white supremacists and TERFs. https://mwl.io.

Not the gay porn star.
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Cashel would like to remind you that in a world where the Onion owns InfoWars, anything is possible.

Write that book. Release that zero-day. Lick that wire. #petrats #rats
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Cashel is slightly concerned about the new chonk in the house. #petRats #rats
February 14, 2026 at 4:17 PM
This food truck is called "Mr Chef," but if they called it "Indian Granny with Something to Prove" folks would be lined up around the block 😋
February 15, 2026 at 12:57 AM
well, at least I know where I fit on the moral spectrum.

www.smbc-comics.com/comic/moral
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Moral
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Moral
www.smbc-comics.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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(Yes, yes, he should have been there sooner, yes America’s always been like that, etc etc. I know. But people show up when and how they show up, and fresh bodies are worth a little grace.)
February 14, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 9:10 PM
It's Valentine's day?

Love takes out the trash and washes the dishes. Love has your back no matter what you do.

No. Matter. What.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phgh...
Mesh - I Don't Think They Know
YouTube video by Frankeinstein89
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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Omg you guys didn’t have to get me anything for a Valentine’s Day! but that’s so sweet, I love it 🥰
BREAKING: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shuts down due to lack of funding
February 14, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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February 14, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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Roses are red, violets are blue, here's a baby rat pile for you
February 14, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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roses are red
chocolate is nice
read books, punch nazis
moreover, destroy I.C.E.
February 14, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Cashel is slightly concerned about the new chonk in the house. #petRats #rats
February 14, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).
February 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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Amazon showing their "respect" for authors, by slicing up the already inadequate Kindle Unlimited fund so those releasing AI narrated audiobooks get a piece of the pie.

Thus fucking us all over.
February 13, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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Just one of those threads...
This morning, I got distracted while eating cheese because I remembered that the laughing cow is named Elsie and is married to Elmer the cow on the glue labels. To doublecheck that I hadn’t hallucinated that, I looked it up and fell down a dark internet rabbit hole.
February 13, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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"the whole system will crash"

oh no, not the system where only the worst people alive have all the money and use it to buy children to sate their abhorrent desires and everybody else dies poor from cancer or at the hands of the state

not that system

what ever will we do without that system
February 13, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Honeypots for computer geeks.

I feel obliged to say: never punish the behavior you want to see. The CEO should not have said "don't be like Nate." Something like "Nate did good, but could have done better if he'd caught on sooner" would be much better.
Happy Valentine's day, folks. Here's my favorite story about the nerd and the honeypot.
I vaguely recall @megelison.bsky.social telling a story from her fintech days about a shlubby engineer realizing several drinks in that he was being honeypotted by a model and climbing out the bathroom window to escape
February 13, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Lightning Man
YouTube video by Nitzer Ebb - Topic
www.youtube.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"
February 12, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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The city of Ypsilanti, Michigan needs help naming their snowplows. I think we can all agree that "Abolish Ice" is a wonderful name for a snowplow!

Anyway, the form for suggesting names can be found here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
City of Ypsilanti 2026 Snowplow Naming Contest
The City of Ypsilanti is inviting the community to help name our fleet of snowplows! Send us the most creative, fun, and Ypsi-tastic names you can think of, and our team of snowplow drivers will have ...
docs.google.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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#RodentOfTheDay Mexican Gray Squirrel (Sciurus aureogaster)

"Distribution - SW and C Guatemala to Guanajuato to Nayarit and Nuevo Leon (Mexico)."

Photo/Info: mammalsociety.org/image-librar...
February 13, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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Today's #60SecondsOfWIP is out! "Artificially Prolonged, Unnecessarily Stressful."

mwl.io/archives/24574 or your favorite #podcast pusher.
111: Artifically Prolonged, Unnecessarily Stressful
from "OpenZFS Mastery"
mwl.io
February 12, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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Today, please permit me to introduce Fermiere, Fermi for short.

This little guy has a talent for crime. The first time Fermi came out of the cage, he stole the list of cheese names we were picking names from. #petRats #rats
February 12, 2026 at 3:55 PM
"The important thing is that you pick one naming scheme and stick with it, treating violations like a 1980s evangelical discovering their child's secret Dungeons & Dragons stash." #nonotryagain #openzfsmastery

That's a wrap on the disks chapter. I'd appreciate your backing as I write this book.
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February 12, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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Almost there.
February 12, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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Our webinar is 1 week away!
Allan Jude from Klara Inc. and Wendell Wilson from Level1techs will talk about how to build GPU-accelerated modern VDI on Proxmox and ZFS without software lock-in or licensing sprawl.
📅 Feb 18, 8AM PST | 11AM EST
RSVP: na3.hubs.ly/y0jDhV0
February 12, 2026 at 5:46 PM