Richard Hewitt
@rhewitt.bsky.social
Information Security Manager for the world’s most fabulous retailer🛡️ | Tequila lover 🥃 | Ableton Tinkerer 🎛️ | More cats please 🐈 Views my own.
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easiest way to leave earth
June 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
easiest way to leave earth
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Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...
Scientists at Loughborough University create 'world's smallest violin'
The violin is smaller than a human hair and has "laid the groundwork" for future research.
www.bbc.com
June 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The only appropriate thing to do here is flood this thing with lettuce pictures.
Fwee speeeeech amirite Liz?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Fwee speeeeech amirite Liz?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Liz Truss to launch ‘uncensored’ social network to counter mainstream media
Former PM says she wants to protect free speech after being ‘cut off at the knees’ by ‘the elite’ while at No 10
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The only appropriate thing to do here is flood this thing with lettuce pictures.
Fwee speeeeech amirite Liz?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Fwee speeeeech amirite Liz?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Another one off the list.
When you just made a deal that will keep the Empire out of here forever
April 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Another one off the list.
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.
April 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.
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Donald Trump just put a 10 percent tariff on the Heard Island and McDonald, which has a population of zero people and is inhabited only by penguins.
April 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Donald Trump just put a 10 percent tariff on the Heard Island and McDonald, which has a population of zero people and is inhabited only by penguins.
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Europe is such a tough place to do business.
Here we see a French Court completely devaluing a previously valuable asset into which the Russian government invested millions.
Here we see a French Court completely devaluing a previously valuable asset into which the Russian government invested millions.
FRENCH COURT SAYS CRIMES COMMITTED BY MARINE LE PEN, DEFENDANTS, MERIT IMMEDIATE BAN FROM PUBLIC OFFICE
March 31, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Europe is such a tough place to do business.
Here we see a French Court completely devaluing a previously valuable asset into which the Russian government invested millions.
Here we see a French Court completely devaluing a previously valuable asset into which the Russian government invested millions.
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"What do you mean 'good luck with the polar bear'? Where are you going?"
March 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"What do you mean 'good luck with the polar bear'? Where are you going?"
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Not quite sure which is stupider, being the Defense Secretary who carelessly gives top secret military information to a journalist--or being the President who makes sure the public knows this humiliating mishap happened and where the journalist published his account of it.
March 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Not quite sure which is stupider, being the Defense Secretary who carelessly gives top secret military information to a journalist--or being the President who makes sure the public knows this humiliating mishap happened and where the journalist published his account of it.
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Last month I did a little experiment.
I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.
The results were...interesting...
[Thread]
I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.
The results were...interesting...
[Thread]
March 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Last month I did a little experiment.
I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.
The results were...interesting...
[Thread]
I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.
The results were...interesting...
[Thread]
So, tell us more about the worm that ate your brain
RFK Jr on the measles vaccine: "There are adverse events from the vaccine. It does cause deaths every year. It causes all the illnesses that measles itself cause."
March 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
So, tell us more about the worm that ate your brain
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Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
March 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
Everywhere else in the world: Amazing! A vaccine that can defeat COVID!
USA: A course of leeches is the only thing we can prescribe right now…
USA: A course of leeches is the only thing we can prescribe right now…
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️
March 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Everywhere else in the world: Amazing! A vaccine that can defeat COVID!
USA: A course of leeches is the only thing we can prescribe right now…
USA: A course of leeches is the only thing we can prescribe right now…
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JUST IN: The head of the US African Development Foundation is suing Peter Marocco and DOGE — and he is describing in detail the standoff in which he blocked DOGE from entering the agency's offices.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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March 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
JUST IN: The head of the US African Development Foundation is suing Peter Marocco and DOGE — and he is describing in detail the standoff in which he blocked DOGE from entering the agency's offices.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Not all heroes wear capes
Enjoying the pettiness of not letting Teslas out at junctions
March 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Not all heroes wear capes
Guess the Cold War is over then. Didn’t expect it to end by the United States surrendering however…
Breaking news: U.S. sides with Russia to vote against a U.N. resolution condemning Moscow for the Ukraine war.
Washington’s dramatic shift on the conflict marks a major break with its European allies and coincides with the Trump administration’s bid to repair relations with the Kremlin.
Washington’s dramatic shift on the conflict marks a major break with its European allies and coincides with the Trump administration’s bid to repair relations with the Kremlin.
U.S. votes against U.N. resolution condemning Russia for Ukraine war
Washington’s shift on the Ukraine war marks a major break with European allies and comes as the Trump administration aims to repair relations with Russia.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Guess the Cold War is over then. Didn’t expect it to end by the United States surrendering however…
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Jamelle Bouie is correct here, in my view. Using the phrase “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico” – the name first applied to that body of water in 1550 – has nothing to do with national pride or ideology and only to do with obedience to Tr•mp.
#Obedience
#Führerprinzip
#Obedience
#Führerprinzip
my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator
Trump’s decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico may be upsetting to some, writes @giladedelman.bsky.social, but “in a democracy, values are determined by majority rule, and they don’t shift in only one direction. They can shift back”:
February 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Jamelle Bouie is correct here, in my view. Using the phrase “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico” – the name first applied to that body of water in 1550 – has nothing to do with national pride or ideology and only to do with obedience to Tr•mp.
#Obedience
#Führerprinzip
#Obedience
#Führerprinzip
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So these dudes just pushed past security? And folks are unable to physically remove them? These dudes?
February 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
So these dudes just pushed past security? And folks are unable to physically remove them? These dudes?
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What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.
February 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.
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The crashing ignorance, the stupidity of Musk. USAid has saved untold lives across the globe. It portrayed America and its values in a brilliant light to so many people. And it was a huge source of soft power.
February 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The crashing ignorance, the stupidity of Musk. USAid has saved untold lives across the globe. It portrayed America and its values in a brilliant light to so many people. And it was a huge source of soft power.
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Musk claims the authority to personally destroy an independent federal agency.
February 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Musk claims the authority to personally destroy an independent federal agency.
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Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum up at NSA. /1
February 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum up at NSA. /1