Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

What a freakin’ clown show!

I will be speaking (about DevSecOps) at the Columbia DevOps meetup on January 19th, virtually, for free. Y'all are invited!

https://www.meetup.com/devops-columbia/events/289310754/

Via @Brandi_Buchman :

There is now a $500K reward for information leading to the arrest of the person who placed pipe bombs in Washington, D.C. near the HQs of the RNC and DNC. The 2nd anniversary of the Capitol attack is just two days away

Couples! Pinto mare, Aiyana and her boyfriend enjoy a quiet drink at the local waterhole. This couple has been together since the roundup of 2021. They aren't often seen very far apart. As we approach the season of love...

Give Art Not Candy: https://fon-denton.pixels.com/featured/aiyana-and-boyfriend-fon-denton.html

#WildHorses #WildHorsePhotographs #HorsesOfMastodon #MastoHorse #Horse #Horses #ArtMatters #Equine #Animals #Nature #Onaqui #Mustangs #Utah #Photography #SupportArtists #PhotographyIsArt #ShopSmall

The GOP's crisis is not an occasion for Democratic schadenfreude. Without two parties capable of governing, our democracy is even more imperiled.

George Santos confessed to buying clothes and shoes with stolen checks: Brazilian case documents

CNN obtained 150 pages worth of case documents, including a statement Santos gave to police two years later, that showed he used stolen checks and a fake ID with the checkbook owner's name and his own photo to make purchases at a shop outside Rio de Janeiro

#MOG
https://www.rawstory.com/george-santos-theft/

Fine. I'll be House Speaker.

Donald Trump--the man who waged a failed coup and incited the Jan 6 terrorist attack--is now calling on Republicans in the House to support Kevin McCarthy. This is like Bin Laden after 9/11 calling on Al Qaeda members to be more united.

Baktash Amini resigned from his Kabul University on 21 Dec., stating,

"I am an academic and the only way I could express protest was by [leaving] a system that discriminates against women.”

At least 60 Afghan academics have resigned to protest the Taliban's ban on women in higher education.

I think of all the academics and journalists who remain on Twitter as Musk opens the site to those attacking vulnerable minorities, e.g., Jews, LGBTQ people, etc.

#Afghanistan

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jan/04/afghan-men-quit-university-jobs-after-ban-on-women

"A group of Chinese researchers have just published a paper claiming that they can—although they have not yet done so—break 2048-bit RSA. This is something to take seriously."

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/01/breaking-rsa-with-a-quantum-computer.html

•No leader
•No platform
•No plan
•No bills ready to go

Pelosi had HR 1 ready within hours of the first day and never lost a vote. The parties are not the same. The Republicans aren’t even a party anymore.

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
"Today, the Republicans took over the House of Representatives.
The first thing they did was to remove the metal detectors that were installed after the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. "

The GOP loves: guns, pushing lies to fit their agenda, grand meaningless shows of power, and ensuring white males are in power. The people that voted for these sycophants need be called out. #GOP #andybiggs #laurenboebart #McCarthy #gaetz #mtgreene

4 January 1909 | A German, Walter Degen, was born in Mörchingen. A locksmith.

In Auschwitz from 21 August 1941.
No. 20285
In May 1942 transferred to Mauthausen. Fate unknown.

One of at least 77 prisoners persecuted for their sexual orientation. Another 25 could have been initially arrested for their real or alleged homosexuality, but had a different category. Some scholars speak of up to 140 prisoners persecuted for their sexual orientation.

#Auschwitz #history #ww2 #Nazis #gay #lgbt

There's nothing comfortable on this desk.
The only soft spot is.. you're looking at it. Jasper, the #Cat uses the full body overlap to hide phones and keys and things you've been looking for all morning.

#CatsOfMastodon

I remain conflicted when companies that hired comment spammers who successfully slipped through Techdirt's comment spam defenses... then reach out to me begging me to delete the comments because Google is punishing them for spamming.

Normally we delete any spam comment as soon as we see it. But watching the companies who hired the spammers squirm... is also appealing.

In a normal country, a "Soldiers' Mothers" group would function as an anti-war organization, lobbying for responsible utilization of precious military lives.

In Russia, "Soldiers' Mothers" is angry that MORE aren't dying in Ukraine.