Ugh 😩 I met my new doctor today, had my yearly exam, and got three vaccines. Now I feel like shit from the jabs, and lemme tell you...

I'd get them again in a fucking heartbeat, because science and social responsibility fucking rock 🤘

Just so EVERYONE understands this:

Moderna has a flu shot. It works. It works well. It is safe. It is safe in people with compromised immune systems (like cancer patients!).

Trump’s nutjob at FDA, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appears to have ordered FDA to refuse to even accept the application to review the shot for approval.

RFK wants to kill your grandma. Fuck RFK.

“What do you have to hide?“

Everything.

Full stop. Period.

Every. Thing.

What I had for breakfast is my choice to put out in the world.

Who I love, who my friends are, what we talk about, the books I read, the websites I visit, my favourite animal, my choice of shoelaces.

It. Does. Not. Matter. How. “Big”. Or “Small”.

Every. Thing.

It’s all up to me to decide who I want to share anything with.

#privacy #surveillance

"Google handed over a trove of personal data about a student and journalist to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in response to a subpoena that had not been approved by a judge.

The search giant provided ICE with the usernames, physical addresses, and an itemized list of services associated with the Google account of Amandla Thomas-Johnson, a British student and journalist who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024.

Google also turned over Thomas-Johnson’s IP addresses, phone numbers, subscriber numbers and identities, and credit card and bank account numbers linked to his account."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/google-sent-personal-and-financial-information-of-student-journalist-to-ice/

#USPol

I’m actually shocked that folks I speak to here in Ireland are still planning holidays in the USA.

Here’s a testimonial you might not find on Tripadvisor:

“like a concentration camp, absolute hell” – Seamus Culleton

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/irish-man-seamus-culleton-ice-detention

Seriously, what’re you all thinking? DO. NOT. VISIT. THE. USA. FFS!

#Ireland #USA #ICE #fascism

I'm not old, exactly.

I've just been doing Old Computer Shit since back when it was New Computer Shit

“Neil, I don’t understand why you self-host so much. You’re so old fashioned, you should be using the cloud it is so much better”

Also

“Neil, the service I was using for $x has shut down without notice and $y has changed it terms of service and wants to scan my content to train its AI and $z is changing its subscription model to charge me loads more - what would you do?”

I can't remember if I cried
When my `-f root` hit an ACL line
But something touched me deep inside…

The day the telnet died

On January 14, 2026, global telnet traffic observed by the GreyNoise Global Observation Grid fell off a cliff. A 59% sustained reduction, eighteen ASNs going completely silent, five countries vanishing (telnet-wise) from our data entirely. Six days later, CVE-2026-24061 dropped. Coincidence is one explanation.

https://www.labs.greynoise.io/grimoire/2026-02-10-telnet-falls-silent/