Take Care of Yourself🫂Feb 24, 2025
BrianKrebs

What's the best thing you've read today? Mine's this, from Marisa Kabas on bsky:

"This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source."

"Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs."

Spoiler: It's a video of Trump sucking on Elon's toes, with text over top that says: "Long live the real king."

https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3liwlwvvq6k2s

Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social)

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Bluesky Social
Feb 24, 2025 at 4:28pmWeb
Show threadBrianKrebsFeb 24, 2025
Imagine if employees at every federal agency did these pranks with the same theme (but different video) all the time? It wouldn't take long for Trump to get mad and take Elmo down a peg a two.
Show threadAlexanderMarsFeb 24, 2025
@briankrebs pretty sure Trump is just letting Elmo dig his own grave in the court of public opinion. Let the guy run roughshod over the government getting what Trump wants out of it. When the outrage is too much, throw Elmo under the bus. When the MAGA base is screaming about their canceled SS and VA benefits, Trump can swoop in and play saviour, blame the filthy immigrant billionaire. It's so clumsy and obvious, right outta trumps playbook.
Show threadVärldens bästa Kille™Feb 24, 2025

@briankrebs I think you’re absolutely right.

After that (or rather simultaneously): Trump being played like a cheap fiddle by Putin. Trump the puppet, Putin the puppeteer. Putin the strategist and Trump the fool.

You can’t shame the shameless, but you can always count on the narcissist being narcissistic.

Show threadJayFeb 24, 2025
@briankrebs Pictures of Trump as a dog being lead on a leash by Musk might get under his skin; he is incredibly dismissive of dogs.
Show threadAlun JonesFeb 24, 2025
@briankrebs remind him that Elon's a technical sooooper genius, so any technical foulups like this are by Elon's direct approval.
Show threadVissFeb 24, 2025
@briankrebs this was very satisfying to come across this morning :D
Show threadAmber Feb 24, 2025
@briankrebs I’m cackling jfc lmao
Show threadrk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallyFeb 24, 2025

@briankrebs

This is some V for Vendetta shit. I love it.

Show threadMy camera shoots fascistsFeb 24, 2025

@briankrebs

Deded me 💀💀💀💀
Absolutely epic, epic trolling.

I normally don't boost anything from blue sky, but I will make an exception this morning.

Show threadṫẎℭỚ◎ᾔ ṫ◎ℳFeb 24, 2025
@briankrebs Remember😆 I copy & posted the video📺 to you from X before & everyone on #mastodon Replies   That 2 left feet,👣 try again🤷🏼 I didn't make it.  https://infosec.exchange/@TycoonTom/114022860776928332
ṫẎℭỚ◎ᾔ ṫ◎ℳ (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image @briankrebs #DOGE #musk #trump😆

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Show threadCybeardSecFeb 24, 2025
@briankrebs This is a perfect example of why sometimes it's worth it to click "Show anyway" on filtered posts
Show threadJaredFeb 24, 2025
@briankrebs I think Dazzle and Penguin succinctly sum my feelings after clicking that link.
Show threadSpace HoboFeb 24, 2025
@briankrebs
The best thing is WaPo describing it as "possibly" AI-generated, like maybe they actually filmed that for some reason!
Show threadJohn DetersFeb 24, 2025

@spacehobo @briankrebs I suppose it's possible that it's real, as long as it's possible that Elon also has two left feet.
Of course I'm no forensic video expert, so that's just an opinion, not proof.

But for once it's nice to see their waffle-words used for good instead of masking evil, like they usually do.

Show threadCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠Feb 24, 2025
@briankrebs The opposite of finger licking good is toe sucking evil.
Show threadAllan ChowFeb 24, 2025
@catsalad @briankrebs this is when the kids say "bro, wtf"
Show threadrk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallyFeb 24, 2025

@catsalad @briankrebs

…go on…

Show threadTansy Hoskins 🍉 🍉Feb 24, 2025

@catsalad @briankrebs

🤣

Show threadNuclear OatmealFeb 24, 2025

@catsalad @briankrebs

And when CatSalad showed up to the pearly gates, St. Peter just looked at them and pointed to the Red Bus.

Show threadCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠Feb 24, 2025
@NuclearOatmeal @briankrebs The express ride!
Show threadDio9sysFeb 24, 2025
@catsalad @briankrebs delete this
Show threadvxoFeb 24, 2025
@Dio9sys @catsalad @briankrebs never this goes right in the new library of alexandria
Show threadTess, Joint Chief of StiffFeb 24, 2025
@catsalad @briankrebs Writtin Directino strikes again.
Show threadKarel Brits 🔻Feb 24, 2025
@briankrebs too bad Elon seems to have two left feet.
Show threadLog 🪵Feb 24, 2025
@karelbrits @briankrebs I never suspected him of being able to dance.
Show threadDavid CollantesFeb 24, 2025
@karelbrits @briankrebs that’s perfect! They also took a swing at AI. 😂
Show threadJeff AtwoodFeb 24, 2025
@briankrebs omg Krebs this is amazing more of this please
Show threadErosBlog Bacchus has moved!Feb 24, 2025

@briankrebs Because Mastodon posts tend to be ephemeral and because I no longer trust corporate social media AT ALL for any kind of longer-term curation of politically-sensitive material of cultural importance, I have captured Marisa's video and Bluesky post on Erosblog:

https://www.erosblog.com/2025/02/24/sucking-the-kings-toes/

#ToeSucking #Trump #Musk #King #RealKing #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #FootFetish #Toes #Sucking #HUD #RTO #ReturnToOffice #ToeFetish #AI #Fake #Celeb #CelebrityFake

Show threadVoid of Tranquillity 🔞Feb 24, 2025
@ErosBlog @briankrebs I feel kind of bad for the person who discovers a new kink this way
Show threadErosBlog Bacchus has moved!Feb 24, 2025
@void Absolutely! And yet everybody with a closet full of kinks has at least one that they got in a fucked-up way. If people are introspective and honest with themselves they can often unpack, repack, and enjoy kinks like that eventually, separate from the early weird baggage.
Show threadVoid of Tranquillity 🔞Feb 24, 2025

@ErosBlog

eroticised trauma hi-five

Show thread@richh has movedFeb 24, 2025
@ErosBlog @briankrebs I look forward to Trump not being able to visit any Government building without something like that happening whilst he’s there. “I now declare this building op…”, as the giant video wall behind him cuts to something graphic… bonus points if mainstream media can’t use the footage because it’s not permissible for broadcasts. Starve him of publicity.
Show threadErosBlog Bacchus has moved!Feb 26, 2025

@briankrebs It looks like my impulse to memorialize this on ErosBlog was a sound one; Marisa's post on BlueSky has already been deleted.

https://www.404media.co/bluesky-deletes-ai-protest-video-of-trump-sucking-musks-toes-calls-it-non-consensual-explicit-material/

Bluesky Deletes AI Protest Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes, Calls It 'Non-Consensual Explicit Material'

Bluesky has deleted the most viral post reporting on an internal government protest agains the President of the United States and the world's richest man.

404 Media
Show threadKrystynaFeb 26, 2025

@ErosBlog @briankrebs

And it starts

Show threadyuhasz01Feb 26, 2025

@ErosBlog @briankrebs

Bluesky showing its real colors when it comes to freedom of expression.

Bluesky management: ahhh ....we protected our status with the current regime. Appeasement is so easy......

Show threadRobert George 𓇳𓃀𓁹𓏏𓇥𓆓𓀀Feb 26, 2025
@briankrebs @ErosBlog the post seems to be restored
Show threadErosBlog Bacchus has moved!Feb 26, 2025
@rrgeorge @briankrebs Robert, the 404 Media article did say that the takedown had been appealed.
Show threadBrianKrebsFeb 26, 2025
@ErosBlog @rrgeorge i couldn't read it. did it say appealed or reversed?
Show threadErosBlog Bacchus has moved!Feb 26, 2025
@briankrebs @rrgeorge The 404 article says "Kabas is challenging the deletion."
Show threadRobert George 𓇳𓃀𓁹𓏏𓇥𓆓𓀀Feb 26, 2025
@ErosBlog yeah, it says that it’s being challenged, not that it was successful. But it appears that it was, since I can see the link @briankrebs originally posted. (I don’t have a bsky account, so I don’t know if it’s different for folks that are logged in)
Show threadErosBlog Bacchus has moved!Feb 26, 2025
@rrgeorge @briankrebs Robert, reporting on these stories is like shooting at a constantly moving target. Yesterday, Marisa's post at BlueSky was up. Then BlueSky took it down. Then she appealed. Then 404 reported, and asked BlueSky for comment. Then I posted. Then the link came back up. We may or may not see further comment from Marisa, or BlueSky, or an update from 404. These stories evolve in real time. That's why real journalists (which I am not) earn real salaries covering them well.
Show threadRobert George 𓇳𓃀𓁹𓏏𓇥𓆓𓀀Feb 26, 2025
@ErosBlog @briankrebs 100% agree.
I was just adding commentary that it appears the challenge was successful (at least, currently)
I also appreciate the foresight to memorialize the original post as you did, because you never know with these things, these days.
Show threadstux⚡️Feb 26, 2025
@ErosBlog @briankrebs You mean this video? 😮
Show threadWinter TrabexFeb 26, 2025

@stux @ErosBlog @briankrebs

I didn't notice it before, but they got the feet wrong on purpose to let you know it was AI.

Show threadErosBlog Bacchus has moved!Feb 26, 2025
@trabex Winter, I'm careful not to infer motives on too little evidence. We don't know that the wrong feet were deliberate; bad feet are a common AI screwup and they may have merely accepted it because it's funny, say. But sure, the bad feet are at least evidence that nobody was trying to make the video persuasive or deceptive. In this sense AI video is the new caricature. It's an artform, not a representational medium.
Show threadT2RFeb 26, 2025
@ErosBlog @briankrebs We all should just repost it over and over again making it impossible to take down.
Show threadErosBlog Bacchus has moved!Feb 26, 2025

@T2R @briankrebs TR2, one of the things I don't understand very well about Mastodon (which may only have to do with my instance) is that posts seem to be very ephemeral. A few months later, media in particular is likely not to load even if the post is still there.

So, while I have big love for the censorship resistance that the fediverse provides, I still believe there's a role for independent websites like mine where stuff that gets posted can be expected to persist for 5, 10, or 20 years.

Show threadT2RFeb 26, 2025
@ErosBlog @briankrebs Eros I agree and I prefer non-corporate controlled sites for persistence. But it's a double edged sword in terms of site security, maintenance, and someone footing that bill for 20yrs. Personally I hate social media. I'm just here to bitch and moan, stir the pot, and look for open source intelligence for infosec stuff here.
Show threadCarnildoFeb 26, 2025
@ErosBlog @briankrebs Not surprised: stripped of its context, it looks like foot-fetish porn. What do you think the odds are of an underpaid moderator in a third-world country being aware of the nuances of American politics?
Show threadErosBlog Bacchus has moved!Feb 26, 2025
@briankrebs Now I see that 404 Media has updated their story: "Update: After this article was published, Bluesky restored Kabas' post and told 404 Media the following: "This was a case of our moderators applying the policy for non-consensual AI content strictly. After re-evaluating the newsworthy context, the moderation team is reinstating those posts.""
Show threadDrinkerFeb 26, 2025
@ErosBlog @briankrebs
Bluesky is a shity place honestly, when i start using it, I was marked as spammer XD
Show threadSiffFeb 27, 2025
@ErosBlog @briankrebs It is consensual, all right…
Show threadLog 🪵Feb 24, 2025
@briankrebs This is a great trolling vector, since so many federally-managed buildings have screens installed in common areas. Back when I was subjected to them, they were always playing Fox News, but the Anonymous screenjack channel is much better aligned with my views.
Show threadJay 🇺🇦Feb 24, 2025
@briankrebs Amazing. Absolutely beautiful.
Show threadMichael BaconFeb 24, 2025

@briankrebs

Best thing I've read about the worst video I've seen . . .

Show threadCryptomonFeb 25, 2025
@briankrebs why has Elon two left feet?!?