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Kevin Riggle
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Principal @ http://complexsystems.group. I keep people safe on the internet (trying). Looking at the world with an “anarchist squint” 🏳️‍🌈 @ kevinriggle@ioc.exchange
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Thank you for the Christmas card @sky.skymarchini.net !
Picture of cards on a fridge held on by magnets. The cards referenced in the post are a Christmas card of stylized pine trees in the colors of the Pride flag on a snowy landscape with the caption “Peace everywhere, for everyone, always.” The other card is a picture card with various photos of Sky Marchini and snapshots from what I assume are his travels in 2025. There’s also a small, stylized screen print of a Negroni, labeled as such, and a magnet that says “Eat Your Feels” featuring a drawing of a tired looking cat lying under a stack of pancakes
December 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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As I say every night, on this night (or thereabouts): May tomorrow be brighter.
An art installation from the Brooklyn Botanical Garden’s Lightscape event. White lanterns hang on strings from bright green metal stalks, suggesting a large lily-of-the-valley
December 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Seen in Brooklyn

(tired and would love alt text assistance ngl)
December 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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A close-up of a mosaic which reads GIVING THEM STRUCTUR
December 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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–Leo Marks
The life that I have Is all that I have And the life that I have Is yours. The love that I have Of the life that I have Is yours and yours and yours. A sleep I shall have A rest I shall have Yet death will be but a pause. For the peace of my years In the long green grass Will be yours and yours and yours.!!!
December 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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I'm just gonna leave this here.
Idris Elba reclining on a couch with white pillows, wearing a white linen suit and looking INCREDIBLY good.
December 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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You mean the shit I compulsively turn off as soon as you email me about it
Email from Google Workspace: "The pricing for your Google Workspace Business Starter subscription will change beginning January 3, 2026 Dear Google Workspace administrator, We’re writing to inform you of the price change that will go into effect for your Google Workspace Business Starter subscription on or after January 3, 2026. The updated subscription pricing reflects the *significant added AI value* (highlighted), as well as the many new features we have introduced and are launching to Google Workspace editions. Learn more.
December 4, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Big ups for this version from my mom
Cranberry Orange Relish Makes 2½ cups 1 (12 oz.) bag cranberries 1 orange ¾ cup + 2Tbsp sugar 1. Sort and wash cranberries. Cut orange into 8 sections, leave peels on, but remove seeds. 2. Coarsely chop ½ the cranberries and ½ the orange in a food processor. Empty tub into a bowl. Repeat chopping of remaining cranberries and oranges. Put into the bowl, also. 3. Mix in the sugar until well blended. 4. Refrigerate covered until ready to serve. Best if it chills for an hour or 2 before serving.
November 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Vaguely disappointed the figure in the inset isn’t
A blobbish figure with a speech bubble reading “oh no”, from the webcomic where this is a thing
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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human centipede
November 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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This has appeared in my Chrome window. How do I make it go away?
Screenshot of a Google Chrome window showing a prominent "Gemini" button in the upper right corner.
November 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Tweet from Kellen Sparver (@kellansparver) on 6/28/2021: “The old-timer looks at you matter-of-factly and says, “I’ve seen signifiers ride the wind like clouds, leaving the fields and the trees and every living thing stripped bare of meaning in their wake”
November 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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The existing terrible internet of slapfights and low-grade trolling is
A picture of a WW2-era airplane with red dots on the wingtips, on the wings and the body where the wings meet the plane, and on the tail. From Wikipedia: 'This hypothetical pattern of damage of surviving aircraft shows locations where they can sustain damage and still return home. If the aircraft was reinforced in the most commonly hit areas, this would be a result of survivorship bias because crucial data from fatally damaged planes was being ignored; those hit in other places did not survive. In other terms, “We need to reinforce the other parts, because they made the other planes unable to return.”'
November 15, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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This is a ChatGPT mockup and not exactly what I had in mind but better than the three things I got before or the ostensible SVG of this that it gave me after
A T-shirt that says "Competence is Woke" in LGBT Pride flag colors
November 11, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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In case people are curious what I'm working on, I'm noodling on a tool for helping develop and publish intent specifications which I'm calling Keystone
A screenshot of a web app. There's a ton of text so I apologize for not transcribing it all. The important parts are: 1) The app is called Keystone (with a nice logo of two architectural columns with an arch connecting them); 2) the current project is "TCAS Example"; 3) the left sidebar has a taxonomy of "Goals", "Losses", "Misbehaviors" etc., and then a list of Documents beneath it; 4) the current document (with its table of contents expanded in the sidebar) is "TCAS Intent Spec"; and 5) We are currently looking at a section called "Level 1: System Level Goals, Requirements, Constraints"; and 6) the text of a chapter called "Introduction" is displayed underneath. There are various add/edit/delete buttons also where appropriate.
November 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Like what the fuck is this shit. This is a paid commercial product. The original PDF is perfectly readable to a human.
Screenshot of the original PDF showing perfectly readable text. I don't have alt text for it because, well, see parent post. Screenshot of complete garbage OCR'd text. All errors in the alt text are regrettably also present in the screenshot. "This sa+rip1e intent specification for THAT was produced by Nancy T eveson (T evels 1 and 2) and .hon Reese (T evels fi and 4). We have built on the RñMT specification produced by ourselves, Mats Heimdahl, and Holly Hildreth for the FAA, but we have changed the notation and modeling language and have expanded the spec- ification to include the entire MOPS Volume 1 and 2 (published by the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics) along with additional information. This specification is an example of an Intent Specification and should not be used to provide information about any real implementation of TCAS or any current version"
November 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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In doing this, Caesar laid the foundations for the political geography of modern Europe, as well as slaughtering up to a million people over the whole region. It would be wrong to imagine that the Gauls were peace-loving innocents brutally trampled by Caesar’s forces. One Greek visitor in the early first century BCE had been shocked to find enemy heads casually pinned up at the entrance to Gallic houses, though he conceded that, after a while, one got used to the sight; and Gallic mercenaries had done good business in Italy until the power of Rome had closed their market. Yet the mass killing of those who stood in Caesar’s way was more than even some Romans could take. Cato, driven partly no doubt by his enmity of Caesar and speaking from partisan as well as humanitarian motives, suggested that he should be handed over for trial to those tribes whose women and children he had put to death. Pliny the Elder, trying later to arrive at a headcount of Caesar’s victims, seems
October 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Basic Conference Travel Cybersecurity Advice free-dissociation.co...
October 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Also every engineer. (Beavers=nature’s engineers.) This is the ring I wear
A long haired guinea pig eats a pepper from a hand with a silver beaver ring
October 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Well this is an exciting phish
Email purporting to be from 1Password. Subject: "Your Account Password Compromised" Text: Security Alert " Security Alert VaultTower has detected that your vault password was compromised in a recent data breach. Your data remains secure within your 1Password vault, but we strongly recommend updating your password as soon as possible to prevent unauthorized access. To protect your account, please sign in and change your vault password immediately." Button says: "Sign in to 1Password", but the link is to on (dash) pass (dash) word (dot) com.
October 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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A screenshot of an email from Food Bank for New York City to me thanking me for a $100 recurring donation.
October 23, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Heads up, sockpuppet-like behavior detected from @dhul-qarnayn.bsky.social @jazzpomegranate.com
A screenshot of a thread showing two identical posts less than 30 seconds apart from @dhul-qarnayn.bsky.social / @jazzpomegranate.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Whoops
A screenshot showing two identical posts less than thirty seconds apart from two different users (@dhul-qarnayn.bsky.social and @jazzpomegranate.com)
October 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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October 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Slack, I'm a single-channel guest, maybe don't go leaking total message volume to me? Especially above a link that doesn't work because I don't have permissions to view the page in question?
A screenshot of an email from Slack. (Not included in the screenshot, but the subject line of the message is "You've got 2 unread messages") Under the Slack logo, there's section bar indicating the (redacted) name of the specific Slack, "12 members", "(fire emoji) Your team has sent 139 messages recently," and a button to "View all unread messages". Below that, the heading "New messages in #(redacted channel name)"
October 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM