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David Penfold

@davep@infosec.exchange

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23.8K Posts

Does IT stuff. Vegan and anarchism curious.

Likes permaculture, infosec, Tranmere Rovers. But mainly bad jokes stolen from https://www.justthetalk.co.uk/thehaven/17468/urgent-i-need-a-good-joke-right-now

Also unreasonably fond of BPMN.

Officially not right in the noggin #ʘ‿ʘ

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David Penfold

6h ago

McNadoMD 1d ago

So some guys ICE alleges are here illegally allegedly rammed an ICE vehicle, and an ICE agent fired on their vehicle. They got away (so far).

Good. Fuck ICE.

Don’t want to get rammed? Don’t send people to a torture prison in El Salvador. Thing is, cops arresting folks goes peacefully much of the time because people think the system has some guardrails. If people think they’re gonna get sent to a death camp, they have less to lose by fighting back. FAFO.

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6h ago

luke 7h ago

lol at this response to a “man on the street” interview with protestors at the Tesla diner

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trickykat Jul 3

the impact of a dad joke can be measured on a sighsmograph

Local news

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/08/01/oregon-beaver-conservation-animals-law-wildfire-house-bill-3464-3932/

Oregon increasing beaver protections to help salmon, slow wildfires

Oregon just passed its second beaver protection law in as many years. The hope is that a bigger beaver population will help salmon, slow wildfires and also safeguard drinking water.

OPB

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7h ago

Michelle Jun 6

Today, I fight
The head rush
Of blood,
The rust in my
Bones, the dust
Of men I loved
On a shelf,
The many
Darknesses
Of an ordinary
Life.

#poetry

David Penfold

7h ago

Could it be that Putin's real kompromat on Trump was about Epstein or similar behaviour and now Trump thinks it can't hurt him he feels Putin has no hold over him? Probably not, but it's a weird world.

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7h ago

Simon Evans 1d ago

This slope on this chart is INSANE

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myrmepropagandist 7h ago

she is so done with me. I'm filling the bowl again. #PicaTheCat

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Ian Campbell 7h ago

Has your perspective or personal posture changed toward LLMs and generative AI this year? Please, boost for reach.

	I see LLMs more positively than I used to.
	I see LLMs more negatively than I used to.
	My positive views on LLMs have not changed.
	My negative views on LLMs have not changed.

Poll ends at Aug 8 at 11:12pm.

holy shit, lol

luna, only carbon now Jul 11

a thing over on bluesky reminded me of the first telephone i ever used, which looked something like this

and as an aside, i fucking love niche websites like this

https://telephonesuk.org.uk/phones-1960-80/

https://britishtelephones.com/t746.htm

(I'm pretty sure the one my parents had was the model 746 anyway, the pictures of that one match up with my memory most closely - and it was definitely bright red, no doubt about that)

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crobi Jul 11

@luna I still remember our phone it was a classic bell phone with the bell Atlantic logo

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TinyExplosions 🐾Jul 11

@luna Milton Keynes museum has a great telephony section where they have a load of old phones wired into an exchange. Great for the kids to learn how it “used” to behave. Epic websites too -thanks for sharing!

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Snaprails Jul 12

@TinyExplosions @luna If you’re down in the South East of England then This Museum Is Not Obsolete in Ramsgate has one as well.
As well as many, many other things of interest 🙂

https://this-museum-is-not-obsolete.com/

This Museum Is (Not) Obsolete

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Impossible Umbrella

Jul 12

@luna Thank you for that link! Very cool. ❤️ My first telephone experience was one of these - in exactly this colour (I remember it well), complete with the party-line button.

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JT Leskinen Jul 12

@luna @Extelec We found a similar phone while cleaning out a youth club basement a few years ago, and obviously we rewired it so youngsters could plug it in to their smartphones and make calls using it 😀

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Snaprails Jul 12

@luna grr, some annoying (or left-handed) person has replaced the receiver the wrong way round 😁

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