Jairus Khan
@jairuskhan.bsky.social
Noisemaker, adversary, internet blah blah blah, recovering goth. Formerly @ Mozilla, ISOC.
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Jairus Khan
@jairuskhan.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Re-introductions: I'm Jairus, I do progressive tech/labour/political comms and outreach, and make noisy electronic music. I've worked at Mozilla and ISOC, I don't eat my vegetables, and I live in sunny Nova Scotia with @nataliezed.bsky.social in a house full of records, books, games, and cats.
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Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Ai...
October 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Ai...
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What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart
September 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart
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I BRING GLORIOUS TIDINGS: @jairuskhan.bsky.social's band Antigen Shift has released a single from their upcoming record and it rules: antigenshift.bandcamp.com/track/becaus...
I BRING GLORIOUS TIDINGS: @jairuskhan.bsky.social's band Antigen Shift has released a single from their upcoming record and it rules: antigenshift.bandcamp.com/track/becaus...
Because I Want, by Antigen Shift
track by Antigen Shift
antigenshift.bandcamp.com
August 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I BRING GLORIOUS TIDINGS: @jairuskhan.bsky.social's band Antigen Shift has released a single from their upcoming record and it rules: antigenshift.bandcamp.com/track/becaus...
I BRING GLORIOUS TIDINGS: @jairuskhan.bsky.social's band Antigen Shift has released a single from their upcoming record and it rules: antigenshift.bandcamp.com/track/becaus...
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The Night of the Hunter turns 70 today, on the short list of the movies that forever changed the medium
July 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The Night of the Hunter turns 70 today, on the short list of the movies that forever changed the medium
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It was my birthday on Saturday which means I have an excuse to show you all one of my favourite things: the extremely normal and optimal way that @jairuskhan.bsky.social cuts a birthday cake.
July 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It was my birthday on Saturday which means I have an excuse to show you all one of my favourite things: the extremely normal and optimal way that @jairuskhan.bsky.social cuts a birthday cake.
my kittens are already outsmarting me
gather 'round, it's time for another episodes of "these kittens I have adopted are actually criminal masterminds."
So, about a week ago, one of the four cats in the house barfed up some grass. NBD on it's own, but there was a problem:
there are currently no live plants in this house.
So, about a week ago, one of the four cats in the house barfed up some grass. NBD on it's own, but there was a problem:
there are currently no live plants in this house.
July 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
my kittens are already outsmarting me
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CFP: Call For Proposals: Gothic Blackness: Exploring Ethnogothic, New Black Gothic, and Afro-Gothic Themes in Literature, Film, and Culture
Special Issue of American Gothic Studies
Guest Editor: Dr. DeAnna Daniels, University of Arizona
Proposals due 8/15/25, with essays due 2/1/26
Special Issue of American Gothic Studies
Guest Editor: Dr. DeAnna Daniels, University of Arizona
Proposals due 8/15/25, with essays due 2/1/26
June 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
CFP: Call For Proposals: Gothic Blackness: Exploring Ethnogothic, New Black Gothic, and Afro-Gothic Themes in Literature, Film, and Culture
Special Issue of American Gothic Studies
Guest Editor: Dr. DeAnna Daniels, University of Arizona
Proposals due 8/15/25, with essays due 2/1/26
Special Issue of American Gothic Studies
Guest Editor: Dr. DeAnna Daniels, University of Arizona
Proposals due 8/15/25, with essays due 2/1/26
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So: the “Protect Bathurst / Dufferin” astroturf campaign run by Summerhill Market had videos of a guy talking about the neighborhood & RapidTO proposal. Real grassroots feel. Took a screenshot & put it into google image search. Guess what?
May 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
So: the “Protect Bathurst / Dufferin” astroturf campaign run by Summerhill Market had videos of a guy talking about the neighborhood & RapidTO proposal. Real grassroots feel. Took a screenshot & put it into google image search. Guess what?
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being a knee-jerk cynic doesn't make you more able to detect scams, it makes you less
May 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM
being a knee-jerk cynic doesn't make you more able to detect scams, it makes you less
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a lot of people have this reflexively dismissive and contemptuous attitude towards this technology to the point of refusing to even learn how it works, which is going to be a real problem as this stuff improves, because you are going to need to understand (a little about) how it works to spot it
VEO3
Prompt: “a man doing stand up comedy in a small venue tells a joke (include the joke in the dialogue)”
The video and audio are generated together.
Prompt: “a man doing stand up comedy in a small venue tells a joke (include the joke in the dialogue)”
The video and audio are generated together.
May 21, 2025 at 1:52 AM
a lot of people have this reflexively dismissive and contemptuous attitude towards this technology to the point of refusing to even learn how it works, which is going to be a real problem as this stuff improves, because you are going to need to understand (a little about) how it works to spot it
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I can't believe I used to run wild in the streets as a child and now I have to pay for credit protection
May 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I can't believe I used to run wild in the streets as a child and now I have to pay for credit protection
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Telemssage (410 GB)
ddosecrets.com/article/tele...
Thousands of heap dumps taken May 4, 2025 from TeleMessage, which produces software used to archive encrypted messaging apps such as Signal and WhatsApp. Due to PII in the dataset, the data is only being offered to journalists and researchers.
ddosecrets.com/article/tele...
Thousands of heap dumps taken May 4, 2025 from TeleMessage, which produces software used to archive encrypted messaging apps such as Signal and WhatsApp. Due to PII in the dataset, the data is only being offered to journalists and researchers.
TeleMessage - Distributed Denial of Secrets
A 501(c)(3) dedicated to archiving and publishing hacked and leaked data.
ddosecrets.com
May 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Telemssage (410 GB)
ddosecrets.com/article/tele...
Thousands of heap dumps taken May 4, 2025 from TeleMessage, which produces software used to archive encrypted messaging apps such as Signal and WhatsApp. Due to PII in the dataset, the data is only being offered to journalists and researchers.
ddosecrets.com/article/tele...
Thousands of heap dumps taken May 4, 2025 from TeleMessage, which produces software used to archive encrypted messaging apps such as Signal and WhatsApp. Due to PII in the dataset, the data is only being offered to journalists and researchers.
Our next ANCIENT RECIPE will be Grandma Lena's Oatmeal Cookies, courtesy of Charles Murray and the Winnipeg Mennonite Elementary School. Probably later tonight. The last cookies were more molasses than oatmeal so we're gonna try again.
May 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Our next ANCIENT RECIPE will be Grandma Lena's Oatmeal Cookies, courtesy of Charles Murray and the Winnipeg Mennonite Elementary School. Probably later tonight. The last cookies were more molasses than oatmeal so we're gonna try again.
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these are...so weird? And delicious, i think? all of my senses are confused. they're like incredibly strong and incredibly mild at the same time
The recipe is light on details and the process seems somewhat unhinged to my modern sensibilities but maybe I just don't know the ways of the ancients. In any case, the results!
May 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
these are...so weird? And delicious, i think? all of my senses are confused. they're like incredibly strong and incredibly mild at the same time
Today in ANCIENT RECIPES we are making these Molasses Oatmeal Cookies, courtesy of Mrs. Mark Jodrey of the Pinehurst Community Club in Lunenburg County, NS
May 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Today in ANCIENT RECIPES we are making these Molasses Oatmeal Cookies, courtesy of Mrs. Mark Jodrey of the Pinehurst Community Club in Lunenburg County, NS
NOT NOW, MATHEMATICIANS
Dimension 126 Contains Strangely Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove | Quanta Magazine
A new proof represents the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous shapes in special dimensions.
www.quantamagazine.org
May 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
NOT NOW, MATHEMATICIANS
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Reminder the AfroSurrealism special issue opens to submissions next week on April 15! Calling all poets & prose writers, send us your worlds that slip between the mundane & the uncanny,the ghostly & the futuristic @strangehorizons.bsky.social
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
April 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Reminder the AfroSurrealism special issue opens to submissions next week on April 15! Calling all poets & prose writers, send us your worlds that slip between the mundane & the uncanny,the ghostly & the futuristic @strangehorizons.bsky.social
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
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RIP big George Foreman
a titan of the greatest heavyweight era of all time, won the lineal title twice 20 years apart, and made more money as a pitchman than a boxer
a true original
a titan of the greatest heavyweight era of all time, won the lineal title twice 20 years apart, and made more money as a pitchman than a boxer
a true original
March 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
RIP big George Foreman
a titan of the greatest heavyweight era of all time, won the lineal title twice 20 years apart, and made more money as a pitchman than a boxer
a true original
a titan of the greatest heavyweight era of all time, won the lineal title twice 20 years apart, and made more money as a pitchman than a boxer
a true original
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the senators recoil in horror as a wounded Caesar rises from the floor and a second health bar appears on the screen
March 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
the senators recoil in horror as a wounded Caesar rises from the floor and a second health bar appears on the screen
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So I have to start purging political news from my bluesky feed. I'm sorry, I know there's a lot going on, but this used to be somewhere I came to have fun. I can be miserable anywhere, including twitter. Having nowhere to escape it is harming me. I think it's harming a lot of you too.
March 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
So I have to start purging political news from my bluesky feed. I'm sorry, I know there's a lot going on, but this used to be somewhere I came to have fun. I can be miserable anywhere, including twitter. Having nowhere to escape it is harming me. I think it's harming a lot of you too.
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disturbing uptick in "we post tweets and talk about them." servile behavior tbh. bluesky is not the Greek chorus for the main character action of twitter, that's loser thinking, have some pride. twitter is dead. post bangers. thank you
February 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
disturbing uptick in "we post tweets and talk about them." servile behavior tbh. bluesky is not the Greek chorus for the main character action of twitter, that's loser thinking, have some pride. twitter is dead. post bangers. thank you
jk rowling ass name
February 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
jk rowling ass name
It has been a minute since @nataliezed.bsky.social and I got the cats to sit for portraits.
Say hello to Microfiche, Inky, The Beeper, and Dot Matrix. I'll tell them you did.
Say hello to Microfiche, Inky, The Beeper, and Dot Matrix. I'll tell them you did.
February 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
It has been a minute since @nataliezed.bsky.social and I got the cats to sit for portraits.
Say hello to Microfiche, Inky, The Beeper, and Dot Matrix. I'll tell them you did.
Say hello to Microfiche, Inky, The Beeper, and Dot Matrix. I'll tell them you did.
"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against."
Malcolm X was killed 60 years ago today.
Malcolm X was killed 60 years ago today.
February 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against."
Malcolm X was killed 60 years ago today.
Malcolm X was killed 60 years ago today.