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Sean Gallagher
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Birb stalker. Cat tree. Cyber Threat Researcher. Recovering cyber and natsec reporter. Meme war and US Navy veteran.

@thepacketrat everywhere since 1994. These posts are not my employers’. https://falling-anvil.com
Pinned
General quarters, general quarters.
It was a hard day.
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Is this:

* a pig butchering lure
* a DPRK lure
* an AI-generated sales lure
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Reposted by Sean Gallagher
GOP seeks to revoke NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani’s citizenship; experts say they must prove false claims in his application.
Republicans push to strip Zohran Mamdani of US citizenship. Is it possible?
GOP seeks to revoke NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani’s citizenship; experts say they must prove false claims in his application.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Java is close to 16 years old, as far as we can reckon. He was a kitteen when he chose me, tapping me on the shoulder from behind from his enclosure at the SPCA. He gives no fucks anymore. He has been in decline for over a year, and now he doesn’t even complain when I pick him up.
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Meanwhile, getting the last details together for my mom going into assisted living, and my 15-year old cat is close to going to Cathalla. This coming week will be all feels, all the time. (Dad’s post-amputation rehab continues.)
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Cross platform marketing reaching its ultimate form. Things are bananas.
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Next in WSJ: “I visited the reserve where rich people hunt the poor with crossbows to unwind.”

www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
I Tried the Track Where Rich People Drive 150 Miles an Hour to Unwind
Members of this club pay a small fortune for free rein of an F1 circuit. I was a member for a day.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Anticipation.
November 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Going nuts.
November 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Stolen from a friend on another platform .
November 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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February 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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🤎💚🧡🤍
March 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
“CAN HAZ STICK” #birdoftheday
November 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Light at end of tunnel? Or oncoming train?
November 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
When nobody checks the final copy before ship
November 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Reposted by Sean Gallagher
Look upon my works, ye mighty
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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THAT'S A WRAP
🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Truth in advertising
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
HEY! GOT ANY GRRRRRAPES?
November 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
If you ever feel overwhelmed
By what life is throwing your way
Look up at the moon
And realize that you
Are looking at a rock
Spinning round the rock you’re on
That is spinning around
A fusing ball of gas
Which is one of hundreds of billions
Orbiting a supermassive black hole.
Feel better?
November 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Reposted by Sean Gallagher
Legendary to see Blacksky represented at the IETF (internet engineering task force)

They’re the architects of the modern internet who designed the standards of how computers talk to each other

TY @torrho.blacksky.team for representing our team as atproto works through the standardization process
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Reposted by Sean Gallagher
Clinton's also been working on @slavecodes.org, a catalog of historic slave codes in US law. For example:
1860 District of Columbia Slave Code | Slave Codes
The Last Major Slave Code in the U.S.
slavecodes.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM