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Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to

2026-02-07

This is Dan (a guy). Dan accidentally moved the rug 3 inches to the left. And this is Marble (a grey cat). Marble has been staring at where the rug used to be for 45 minutes.

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"We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist." – #JamesBaldwin #BlackHistory

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I keep reading Letter From a Birmingham Jail. Dr. King lays out the purpose of a protest. I can't help but notice how divorced the #NoKings movement is from those tenants.

If a protest doesn't have a call to action or a means of pressure to bring decision makers to the negotiating table, then it's not a protest. It's a gathering.

I fear so much of mainstream "direct action" is a way to keep us busy and feeling accomplished. We don't know any better because we don't have real activist leaders.

Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action.
Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116026203763840613

this is art & literature wrapped in a toot

#Milano2026 #penisgate

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Later this year, Apple plans to release the first folding iPhone, a follow-up to 2025’s folding CEO.

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I don't want to laugh at someone's real distress but this IS very funny ...

Reddit : r/LegalAdviceUK

u/PerfectHumor216.

Title : An Al chat-assist created and offered a customer an 80% off offer. Customer has now placed an order of £8,000+

"Small business in England.

Website has a chat Al to help customers navigate the website and it can be used to log orders/take contact details from customers.

A customer was chatting with it and managed to convince the Al to give them a 25% discount, then he negotiated with the Al up to an 80% discount.

He then placed an order for thousands of pounds worth of stuff. Like, I'm going to be losing thousands on my material costs alone.

I've written to my customer to cancel it and they responded that they will be taking me to small claims court if I fail to honour the order. They've given me 3 days to respond.

Can I ignore this?"

Reply : Gulbasaur.
Top 1% Commenter

"Cancel the order, refund anything in full and don't let a chatbot make financial decisions for you."

Reply by original poster:

"Already refunded.

Chatbot isn't supposed to be making financial decisions. It's supposed to be answering customer questions between 6pm and 9am when I'm not around.

It's worked fine for 6+ months, then this guy spent an hour chatting with it, talked it into showing how good it was at maths and percentages, diverted the conversation to percentage discounts off a theoretical order, then acted impressed by it.

The chatbot then generated him a completely fake discount code and an offer for 25% off, later rising to 80% off as it tried to impress him."

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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@haveibeenpwned/116026340538299104

just had the urge to let y’all know, i love that Mastodon allows me to filter all #substack links behind a CW that says: “substack is run by nazis”

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In addition to trafficking and raping countless girls and women, Jeffrey Epstein was a pillar of the anti-trans movement. So many of the science influencers spreading bigotry got major help from Epstein.

Lots more in this must-read article: https://transnews.network/p/epstein-backed-prominent-anti-trans-figures

#lgbtqia #trans #epstein

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Fellow Doomscrollers, I have created a "fun" game for you to play! I call it: Reply Guy BINJO. Click on any popular post on the fediverse and start filling in the squares!

A digital card in the style of a Bingo game called “Reply Guy Binjo.” The first column is titled “Bigotry” and includes squares for slut shaming, fat shaming, casual misgyny, ableism, and “Strange comment about OP’s appearance.” Next column is titled “I’m right.” First square is the word “they’re” with an asterisk. Then, pedant arguing the use of a single word, asking for source on a common widely-known fact, unsolicited advice, and “Layman’s attempt to educate an expert in the subject. The third column is titled, “No, me.” Quotes are “You shouldn’t be happy, because some people are suffering,” and “Not all men.” Middle free square is marked with a “Well, actually.” After that: Deliberately misreading OP to farm outrage or gain clout, and “String of multiple 500-character replies.” The fourth column is titled, “Just” and is a series of quotes: Just asking questions. Just start your own server. Just use Linux. Just block, mute, or defederate them. Just move to a different city or country. Last column is titled “Oblivious.”: Personal story that has nothing to do with OP’s topic. Link to hour-long YouTube video that doesn’t relate to OP’s topic. Quotes: “I’ve never seen it, so it doesn’t happen,” and “Here, I googled this for you. Last square: Comment so strange and vague that you can’t tell if they agree or if they want to start a fight.

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Learning that white people in Minneapolis are putting Mexican flags on their cars, to make ICE waste their time pulling them over (instead of migrants.)

This is a very cool thing, and precisely the kind of "total oppositional" thinking people need to be doing right now to meaningfully disrupt the fascist project in whatever ways they can. Obviously you're not toppling Hitler by putting a flag on your car, but we need to be thinking about ways to make doing fascism COST more, everywhere.

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switched my editor font to maple mono and i like it https://font.subf.dev/en/

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When I saw the other journalists that were nominated, I didn't think there was a chance (e.g. ProPublica was nominated for their excellent investigative reporting uncovering the Pentagon's reliance on Chinese contractors for cloud work). I'm very flattered to be in such great company. Thank you to the Institute for Security and Technology (IST) for this award.

Last night's IST gala at the National Press Club was a stroll down memory lane in many ways. Ran into people I haven't seen in person for ages, and most of them have been involved in shaping cybersecurity policy for 25+ years.

It was also bittersweet because I spent a lot of time at the Press Club as a reporter at The Washington Post, and I'm still livid about the insanity of the 300 or so WaPo journalists who lost their jobs this week.

I'm particularly mystified by the decimation of the Post's Metro staff; despite its stature as a top source of national and international news, The Washington Post has always maintained a strong focus on what's going on in the DC area. When they merged washingtonpost.com with the dead tree edition in 2009 and eliminated my job, the mantra of the company was they wanted to be THE source of news about what's happening in the Nation's Capital, and how policy being made in DC affects the rest of the world. Here's part of what I told the audience last night:

"I was horrified this week to see The Washington Post lay off 300 of its 800 remaining journalists -- the third major staff reduction in as many years. A lot of the cuts are deeply affecting the foreign and local metro staff; it's easy to forget the Watergate scandal started as a metro story. Probably we need several hundred more reporters digging into what this administration is doing, because Watergate frankly can't hold a candle to it all."

"I'm hoping all of the post-Posties will land in a better place soon, but I also hope they can keep doing their important work regardless of where it comes from. And I will continue to advocate for, support and encourage anyone who wants to go the independent route. I think journalism is going to be just fine for now, but I'm not sure I share the same view about many traditional news organizations. I hear from a lot of reporters considering the going out on their own worry about not having a big publication name to automatically open doors for them, or watch their backs legally, and those are certainly big adjustments of going solo. But you know what makes all that worth it? When you're breaking news that forces important people to answer hard questions, and the gatekeepers go, wait, who are you with again?"

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7425373027145752577/?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A(activity%3A7425373027145752577%2C7425575747831947264)&dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A(7425575747831947264%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7425373027145752577)

A LinkedIn post from the Institute for Security and Technology (IST). The post includes a photo of me in a black suit and red tie accepting an award last night.

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🏆 The Cyber Policy Award™ for Excellence in Journalism goes to Krebs on Security’s Brian Krebs for significant contributions to the strategic and tactical understanding of cyber criminality.

Congratulations Brian!

🏆 Learn more about the hashtag#CyberPolicyAwards, the annual celebration of excellence in cyber policy community, featuring open nominations and selection of winners by an independent panel of judges: www.cyberpolicyawards.org

@briankrebs Congrats!

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#3204 - Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

A black-and-white comic showing a large 2×2 chart (a square divided into four boxes).

Columns: “Are dinosaurs” and “Are not dinosaurs”
Rows: “Seem like dinosaurs” and “Don’t seem like dinosaurs”
The cells are filled with black silhouettes of animals and other things.

Top-left box (seem like / are dinosaurs): five classic dinosaurs: a stegosaurus-like animal with back plates, a triceratops-like animal with a frill and horns, a big two-legged theropod, a small raptor-like dinosaur, and a long-necked, long-tailed sauropod.

Top-right box (seem like / are not dinosaurs): black silhouettes of animals often associated with dinosaurs: a long streamlined marine reptile, a flying pterosaur, a long-necked creature with flippers (plesiosaur-like), a tall long-necked animal standing upright, and a sail-backed creature (dimetrodon-like).

Bottom-left box (don’t seem like / are dinosaurs): black silhouettes of birds and bird-like shapes: a penguin, a long-legged ostrich-like bird, a duck-like bird, a flying bird silhouette, and a long-necked, long-tailed bird-like figure with long legs.

Bottom-right box (don’t seem like / are not dinosaurs): black silhouettes of a squirrel, a stapler, a pineapple, a stick-figure person with arms raised, and a bicycle.

Hidden text: "Staplers are actually in Pseudosuchia, making them more closely related to crocodiles than to dinosaurs."

Damn you, #Friday! You were supposed to free us from #Monday's #tyranny! Not join in its oppression!!!

As my ex-roommate used to say (a little too often, tbh): Is it beer:30 yet?

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pork levels are critical

(100%) ■■■■■■■■■■

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Like, "people should do a general strike, but only if the fascism affects me and my party during an election."

What?

What the fuck is wrong with these people?

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Please share with me a good, non-US based place to host a website. 🙏🏻 Retoot for reach.

#FediAsk #WebHosting

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The Democratic senator Ruben Gallego has proposed that, should Donald Trump try to sabotage the midterm elections, Americans should respond with a general strike that would “grind the country to a halt”.

WHAT THE FUCK MY DUDE WHY NOT JUST DO IT NOW YOU FUCKING PRICK?

HOLY SHIT WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE SO FUCKING USELESS DEMS?

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