emma best 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🏳️⚧️ Mxy
@emma.best
Journalist and historian of government, intelligence agencies, and hacking. Whistleblower and co-founder of @DDoSecrets.com. Бáба-Ягá Antifa. (she/they)
Wife of @brazenqueer.bsky.social
Follow me on Mastodon https://kolektiva.social/@Mxy
P.S. Abolish ICE
Wife of @brazenqueer.bsky.social
Follow me on Mastodon https://kolektiva.social/@Mxy
P.S. Abolish ICE
Pinned
Val Broeksmit: A Comically Tragic Spy
Val Broeksmit was a source for and antagonist of the FBI, Congress, FusionGPS, The New York Times, DDoSecrets, and many other journalists.
emma.best
Val Broeksmit was an FBI informant who tried to entrap me and frame me as Phineas Fisher. Along the way, he tried to hack and inform on his enemies, journalists and Epstein.
This is his story.
This is his story.
Hello World,
You could check the context for this post, or you could enjoy it in its purest, rawest, uncut form.
Yours in insomnia,
Emma
P.S. Abolish ICE
You could check the context for this post, or you could enjoy it in its purest, rawest, uncut form.
Yours in insomnia,
Emma
P.S. Abolish ICE
are you saying we should be sending ICE gummi bears that make you poop yourself and huge barrels of lube because that was very, very funny at Malheur
November 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Hello World,
You could check the context for this post, or you could enjoy it in its purest, rawest, uncut form.
Yours in insomnia,
Emma
P.S. Abolish ICE
You could check the context for this post, or you could enjoy it in its purest, rawest, uncut form.
Yours in insomnia,
Emma
P.S. Abolish ICE
Reposted by emma best 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🏳️⚧️ Mxy
Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
Reposted by emma best 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🏳️⚧️ Mxy
Wait uh if you watch through to the end of the clip THEY TRIED TO BUY TACOS FROM A SHOP WHERE THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY KIDNAPPED A WORKER, WHO IS STILL DETAINED
I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served.
F that!
F that!
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Wait uh if you watch through to the end of the clip THEY TRIED TO BUY TACOS FROM A SHOP WHERE THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY KIDNAPPED A WORKER, WHO IS STILL DETAINED
Reposted by emma best 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🏳️⚧️ Mxy
@maggiemayhem.bsky.social Watching your DefCon video from 2018, and it’s inspiring. The discussion on SESTA/FOSTA has aged well. Thank you for your service to the community! unicornriot.ninja/2018/sex-wor...
Sex Work After SESTA/FOSTA: A Discussion With Maggie Mayhem at DEFCON - UNICORN RIOT
Las Vegas, NV – According to sex workers’ rights activist Maggie Mayhem, the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA), and FOSTA, have created a more dangerous environment for sex workers in the Unit...
unicornriot.ninja
November 17, 2025 at 5:21 AM
@maggiemayhem.bsky.social Watching your DefCon video from 2018, and it’s inspiring. The discussion on SESTA/FOSTA has aged well. Thank you for your service to the community! unicornriot.ninja/2018/sex-wor...
Reposted by emma best 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🏳️⚧️ Mxy
This framing saddens me because it totally erases survivors who are sex worker rights activists. The “Equality Model” promoted by this org is the dangerous Nordic Model—deportation of undocumented SWers, coerced legal testimony from SWers, prohibition of SW safety resources, & surveillance of SWers.
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 AM
This framing saddens me because it totally erases survivors who are sex worker rights activists. The “Equality Model” promoted by this org is the dangerous Nordic Model—deportation of undocumented SWers, coerced legal testimony from SWers, prohibition of SW safety resources, & surveillance of SWers.
Reposted by emma best 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🏳️⚧️ Mxy
Supporting the Epstein survivors is important, but please don’t support World Without Exploitation. They advocate for policies that are really harmful to sex workers, like the Nordic Model, which puts sex workers at greater risk of violence and poverty by criminalizing their clients.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Supporting the Epstein survivors is important, but please don’t support World Without Exploitation. They advocate for policies that are really harmful to sex workers, like the Nordic Model, which puts sex workers at greater risk of violence and poverty by criminalizing their clients.
I wish I may
I wish I might
Sleep some tonight
I wish I might
Sleep some tonight
November 17, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I wish I may
I wish I might
Sleep some tonight
I wish I might
Sleep some tonight
Reposted by emma best 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🏳️⚧️ Mxy
People sometimes think these kinds of signs are cringe, but marking territory is important to reinforcing civil society
Weird how many racists like to self-identify themselves as racists.
November 17, 2025 at 2:22 AM
People sometimes think these kinds of signs are cringe, but marking territory is important to reinforcing civil society
Reposted by emma best 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🏳️⚧️ Mxy
/2 I mean, my lede made my point pretty explicitly —. That saying “the system could never be this incompetent or indifferent” is just wrong — but we’re talking about agitated subnormals, not agitated rocket scientists.
November 17, 2025 at 1:24 AM
/2 I mean, my lede made my point pretty explicitly —. That saying “the system could never be this incompetent or indifferent” is just wrong — but we’re talking about agitated subnormals, not agitated rocket scientists.
Reposted by emma best 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🏳️⚧️ Mxy
Got a case now where they refused to give a pretrial detainee his insulin until he fell into diabetic ketoacidosis and died.
Every few months some agitated weirdo gets upset at me over the Atlantic post I did about how the prison system ROUTINELY engages in unimaginable abuse and lets people kill themselves, because they read it as “THERE’S NO WAY EPSTEIN WAS MURDERED”
/1
/1
November 17, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Got a case now where they refused to give a pretrial detainee his insulin until he fell into diabetic ketoacidosis and died.
I would never confirm or deny anything that I knew or didn't know. I don't know anything; but I do think, therefore I am an epistemologist.
November 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I would never confirm or deny anything that I knew or didn't know. I don't know anything; but I do think, therefore I am an epistemologist.
Reposted by emma best 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🏳️⚧️ Mxy
I totally forgot to post about this huge leak from Chinese government linked infosec company KnownSec (a name that makes me think of 2013 Anonymous more than anything else).
www.techradar.com/pro/data-bre...
www.techradar.com/pro/data-bre...
Massive leak exposes Chinese cyber capabilities, including its targets
Leaked documents appear to offer a rare look into China’s cyber ecosystem
www.techradar.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I totally forgot to post about this huge leak from Chinese government linked infosec company KnownSec (a name that makes me think of 2013 Anonymous more than anything else).
www.techradar.com/pro/data-bre...
www.techradar.com/pro/data-bre...
Reposted by emma best 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🏳️⚧️ Mxy
The Cyber Police Department of Ukraine sent this email to me, @zackwhittaker.com, and some other cyber journalists.
Basically, it seems they are asking for help going after hackers expecting journalists to share information we would never share with law enforcement. Nope, this is not how it works.
Basically, it seems they are asking for help going after hackers expecting journalists to share information we would never share with law enforcement. Nope, this is not how it works.
November 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The Cyber Police Department of Ukraine sent this email to me, @zackwhittaker.com, and some other cyber journalists.
Basically, it seems they are asking for help going after hackers expecting journalists to share information we would never share with law enforcement. Nope, this is not how it works.
Basically, it seems they are asking for help going after hackers expecting journalists to share information we would never share with law enforcement. Nope, this is not how it works.
"Lemme just check email before I start working on the short story"
<checks email>
<checks email>
a cartoon character with the words chat is this real on the bottom
Alt: a cartoon character with the words chat is this real on the bottom
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"Lemme just check email before I start working on the short story"
<checks email>
<checks email>
Cards Against Humanity needs to stop writing headlines
November 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Cards Against Humanity needs to stop writing headlines
Any recommendations for historical studies of the **anticipated** development (and hypothetical subsequent consequences) of technology/the internet - and how reality has diverged?
I'm thinking of things like the cybernetic optimism of the late '80s and '90s, but I'm sure it goes deeper than that.
I'm thinking of things like the cybernetic optimism of the late '80s and '90s, but I'm sure it goes deeper than that.
November 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Any recommendations for historical studies of the **anticipated** development (and hypothetical subsequent consequences) of technology/the internet - and how reality has diverged?
I'm thinking of things like the cybernetic optimism of the late '80s and '90s, but I'm sure it goes deeper than that.
I'm thinking of things like the cybernetic optimism of the late '80s and '90s, but I'm sure it goes deeper than that.
Reposted by emma best 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🏳️⚧️ Mxy
And here is your latest edition of this.weekinsecurity.com, featuring stories including: Spyware maker NSO Group is now under U.S. ownership; EU considers weakening GDPR for AI; ClickFix attacks on the rise; U.S. agencies hacked via Cisco bugs, and much more.
🐈⬛ Plus a two-for-one cybercat special 🐈⬛
🐈⬛ Plus a two-for-one cybercat special 🐈⬛
this week in security — november 16 2025 edition
NSO Group now under U.S. ownership, EU considers weakening GDPR for AI, ClickFix attacks on the rise, U.S. agencies hacked via Cisco bugs, and more.
this.weekinsecurity.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
And here is your latest edition of this.weekinsecurity.com, featuring stories including: Spyware maker NSO Group is now under U.S. ownership; EU considers weakening GDPR for AI; ClickFix attacks on the rise; U.S. agencies hacked via Cisco bugs, and much more.
🐈⬛ Plus a two-for-one cybercat special 🐈⬛
🐈⬛ Plus a two-for-one cybercat special 🐈⬛
Reposted by emma best 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🏳️⚧️ Mxy
many hollow shells of people on permanent team-sports mode that don't have any consistent beliefs
November 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
many hollow shells of people on permanent team-sports mode that don't have any consistent beliefs
Piracy is preservation
Property is death
Property is death
November 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Piracy is preservation
Property is death
Property is death
Reposted by emma best 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🏳️⚧️ Mxy
From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte
November 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte
"Our product is DANGEROUS and SEXY, like James Bond" took me out
GenAI companies are always like “HACKERS from CHINA and RUSSIA are using our AI to do incredible HACKING because our AI is so advanced but don’t worry we stopped them and also we won’t be giving any more details at this time just know our product is DANGEROUS and SEXY, like James Bond”
November 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"Our product is DANGEROUS and SEXY, like James Bond" took me out
Reposted by emma best 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🏳️⚧️ Mxy
November 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
"I'm not dead! Could a dead person do this? <rolls over in grave>"
November 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"I'm not dead! Could a dead person do this? <rolls over in grave>"
Not gay as in happy, queer as in capitalism is the enemy.
November 16, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Not gay as in happy, queer as in capitalism is the enemy.