Jessica
thund3rh4wk.bsky.social
Jessica
@thund3rh4wk.bsky.social
InfoSec professional, geek, gamer, gardener, avid reader, amateur photographer, occasional world traveler, crochet and houseplant enthusiast, cyborg.

Formerly on the dumpster fire site as @Thund3r_H4wk, @jlbuckridge on Instagram.
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worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Begging Microsoft to stop autofilling words in my word docs and emails - I didn't ABSOLUTELY CRUSH Mavis Beacon in elementary and middle school just for you to do it for me, I know how to type, leave me alone!!!
February 4, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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February 3, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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holy shit
In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.
February 3, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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BERNIE SANDERS: Do vaccines cause autism?

BHATTACHARYA: I do not believe that the measles vaccine causes autism

SANDERS: Nah. Uh uh. I didn't ask measles. Do vaccines cause autism?

BHATTACHARYA: I have not seen a study that suggests any single vaccine causes autism
February 3, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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They want us working earlier and til we die to pay for their tax cuts for the rich. Supervillains.
February 3, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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Not pictured: Haruki Murakami’s wife, or indeed whoever is cooking, cleaning, paying bills, running errands, doing the laundry, answering emails, etc

like yea his routine is goals, but let’s not lie to ourselves about all the invisible work others are doing to enable him to have that routine
January 29, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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"Just gotta get through this week," he said, every week
January 30, 2026 at 4:02 AM
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❤️
January 30, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
January 28, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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me? oh yeah, fine. I'm doing great. just sort of left my body for a second to observe the current moment and my place in it from a high angle, sort of like what I imagine you'd see from a spy satellite? but one that can look through time? but yeah, I'll have that report done by the end of the day
January 27, 2026 at 5:26 PM
I will never stop resenting companies that named themselves after things from the Tolkien legendarium, because they're always awful, but I have to admit this one is probably the most on the nose...
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com

"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."

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Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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It’s always funny when palantir employees discover that they work at palantir
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com

"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."

Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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tonight's mood
January 27, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
January 26, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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chat,
January 24, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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I can't wait until there's a world where there aren't headlines like this. Why should we care? Why should we feel any responsibility for retailers? What is with this upside down capitalism bullshit?
January 21, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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If people don't actually use the shitty AI we keep violently thrusting at them, the bubble will pop, and our wasteful investments into water guzzling, anti-human infrastructure will bankrupt us. Despite spouting shit about free markets/consumer first, we have decided you WILL use our slopgorithms.
January 20, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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This is a more accurate metric of impending bad weather than the Waffle House Index
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was spotted earlier today, January 20, 2026, on a plane heading to Laguna Beach as the state of Texas braces for a rare ice threat and arctic cold front.
January 21, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
January 20, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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I read “principal of least privilege” and now I’m wondering what their office looks like and what they would have on their desk
January 21, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”
AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst
AI may or may not excel at a lot of things, but from an economic standpoint, it's definitely not making us more productive.
futurism.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:52 AM
It's nice to see Bluesky get its own main character of the day.
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 21, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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I'd say at least half of the news lines that I read when I wake up in the morning now read like text-based exposition you find lying around in Fallout games.
January 20, 2026 at 7:16 AM