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allison
@allisonturner.bsky.social
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digital artificer and security witch. PhDropout. everything for everyone. class traitor to silicon valley. anarchist. (she || they). fuck nazis, terfs, and those who defend them.
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programming out of context for the day, C++ edition
Picture of a computer screen showing text that reads: "Notes Friendship is not transitive Friendship is not inherited"
November 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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this song (MTV Get Off the Air by Dead Kennedys) was written to be about MTV and its effects on engagement with music as an art form and subculture, but it's 150% relevant to the conversation about GenAI- and LLM-produced content
Lyrics to "MTV Get Off the Air" by Dead Kennedys [Intro, repeats in background] Fun, fun, fun in the fluffy chair Flame up the herb, wolf down the beer [Spoken Intro] Hi, I'm your video DJ! I always talk like I'm wigged out on quaaludes I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go My job is to help destroy what's left of your imagination [Spoken Intro continues] By feeding you endless doses Of sugar-coated mindless garbage So, don't create; be sedate Be a vegetable at home and thwack on that dial If we have our way, even you will believe This is the future of rock and roll [Shouted musical intro] MTV, get off the air!
November 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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out of context Linux kernel
Picture of a computer screen listing function names "kill_me_now", "kill_me_maybe", and "kill_me_never"
October 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Screenshot of a tweet from @6thgrade4ever on 3 September 2021. Tweet says: "the most consequential figures in the tech world are half guys like steve jobs and bill gates and half some guy named ronald who maintains a unix tool called 'runk' which stands for Ronald's Universal Number Kounter and handles all math for every machine on earth"
September 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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out of context hacker magazine quote for the day
Picture of a document open on a computer screen. Highlighted in red, the section title is "Hooking for profit: our first backdoor"
September 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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finished the night watch sequence, am now onto book 2 of the moist von lipwig sequence, and this is my favorite #discworld meme so far
screenshot of a Tumblr post by username mickmercury (or username thebibliosphere, one or the other reblogged it) Text reads: "Vetinari: this is my awful son and if I don't let him take over another major branch of government every year to keep him busy he's going to start doing crimes again Vimes, exasperated: couldn't you just give him a fucking rubix cube"
September 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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trent reznor you little freak
Screenshot of a music-playing application which displays lyrics as the song plays. The song currently playing is "The Collector" by Nine Inch Nails. The displayed lyrics are: "I'm trying to fit it all inside I'm trying to open my mouth wide I'm trying not to choke inside I am a good boy and I will swallow it all"
September 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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people should do more documentation easter eggs so I can giggle at my desk
Screenshot of an API documentation page. Under the heading "Required Methods", the notation for entry "fn last_result(&self)" says "CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES; THIS IS MY LAST Feedback::is_interesting run"
August 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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@libro.fm rules - $16 for 4 audiobooks from my wishlist cuz they were on sale, *and* my 30% member discount gets applied on top of the sale, *and* i still have 2 credits left to use for the month 😎
Screenshot of an online shopping cart subtotal calculation. It reads: "Price: $47.24, Sale price: $9.99, Member discount: -$3.00, Total: $6.99" Screenshot of an online shopping cart subtotal calculation. It reads: "Subtotal: $121.43, Discount: -$105.37, Tax(0.0%): $0.00, Total(USD): $16.06"
April 30, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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#SanDiego folks, come take a #StopTheBleed workshop at the Che Cafe!

April 18th 3pm to 5pm at 3035 Theatre District Drive, La Jolla. Parking is limited!
A red flyer depicting 2 white stick figures: one is injured, and the other rushes over to them with a medical kit to assist. Text reads: Stop the Bleed Workshop April 18th 3pm to 5pm at the Che Cafe ** Please be aware that this training focuses on responding to traumatic bleeding situations. If you are sensitive to discussions of injury or blood, please participate at your comfort level.
April 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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surprisingly heartwarming dedication to The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference, 2nd edition
A picture of a PDF page which reads "To those who care for people and mankind"
February 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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the humans in the movie:
A screen capture from the cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants, where Squidward grimaces and says "oh no, he's hot!"
July 25, 2023 at 1:44 PM
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Update on UCSD's crackdown on academic labor organizers:

UCPD searched a 4th person's home, for "Evidence of membership or affiliation with any university organization […] to include any reference to 'UAW' or 'AFSCME'" on any electronic or paper sources.
Screenshot of a tweet reading: "In case anyone still thought this was about "graffiti"—UC is clearly misusing their private police to target unions. Last night they searched a member’s home for: “Evidence of membership or affiliation with any university organization […] to include any reference to "UAW"" And then includes a photo from what we assume is a warrant document, seen in the companion image of this Bsky post a photo from what we assume is a warrant document. The highlighted portion of the document reads: "Evidence of membership or affiliation with any university organization, paraphernalia to include any reference to "UAW" or "AFSCME", and any drawings, writings, objects or graffiti depicting names, initials, logos, monikers, slogans, or mention of UAW or AFSCME membership or affiliation, activity or identity, whether memorialized electronically, digitally (including the central processing unit/hard drive, floppy disk, CD-ROM or another electronic storage medium) or on paper in books, sketch pads, tablets, notebooks, and the like;"
July 20, 2023 at 3:44 AM
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when he has a rumbly in his tummy that only hands (or feet, or faces) will satisfy
A screencapture of the video "Llamas with Hats", where a cartoon llama is saying "Caaaaarl!! That kills people!!"
July 9, 2023 at 3:28 PM
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this is Karl Marx, AKA Komrade Kat. he is a goblin from the street who bites toes
a cat laid in the crook of a person's arm with his eyes closed (he sleepin) a cat wrapped in a fluffy blanket holding a toy squirrel with his paw a cat sitting on a shelf with the tip of his tongue stuck out a cat laying across the back of a leather desk chair, his front legs draped down the sides of the chair back
July 9, 2023 at 3:19 PM
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I repeat this one to myself every time I'm looking for apartments
Bugs Bunny in a tuxedo next to the text "I wish all landlords a very getting a real job"
July 6, 2023 at 2:19 PM
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Anytime a loved one tries to tell me I don't have to do the nice thing for them
Map of Japan and the Chinese coast, overlaid with the text "how bout I do anyway?"
July 6, 2023 at 2:07 PM