Kee Hinckley

@nazgul@infosec.exchange
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Passionate about making social media a safe place for everyone.


SWE with a BA in Anthropology.
Four decades on social media.
From Bell Labs intern to Meta TL in Scaled Human Review (it doesn’t). Currently consulting.
Previously nazgul, mooshjan, and coyotetoo (a long time ago) on Twitter. they/she

See pinned post for more details.

Banner Art: ©️ Shadi Fotouhi. Four self-portraits of my daughter depicting various medications and the emotions they are meant to treat.


Pronounsthey/she
LocationSwinomish Tribal Reservation (non-native, on land sold during the Dawes Act attempt to break up the reservations)
OccupationRetired, writing SF&F, and tech and social commentary
Kee Hinckley6h ago
And my wife wrote a nice piece for the local paper on Why We Celebrate Pride.
https://laconnercommunitynews.org/2025/06/16/opinion-why-do-we-celebrate-pride/
OPINION: Why do we celebrate Pride?

This month, La Conner Thrives Association is presenting a series of Pride events to celebrate LGBTQIA2S+ visibility in our community. Importantly, while most of these events are new, we follow in t…

La Conner Community News
Kee Hinckley6h ago
La Conner Pride Drag Show was a big success!
https://laconnercommunitynews.org/2025/06/16/la-conner-pride-drag-show-raises-funds-celebrates-inclusion/
La Conner Pride Drag Show raises funds, celebrates inclusion

La Conner’s Pride Drag Show delivered glitter, glam, and heart—raising $1,700 for inclusion and LGBTQIA2S+ youth.

La Conner Community News
Kee HinckleyJun 10
Lars WirzeniusJun 10

Some days one encounters an essay that's seeping so much wisdom that one wants to rub it against one's head in the hope that one may grow wiser oneself. Or read and re-read it it with time and attention and try to understand it via more traditional methods. Today for me it's "Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a huge risk" by @baldur

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trusting-your-own-judgement-on-ai/

Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a huge risk

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Kee HinckleyJun 10
Verdant Square NetworkJun 10

Rapid City Unveils Indian Boarding School Memorial: A Step Toward Healing https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/rapid-city-unveils-indian-boarding-school-memorial-a-step-toward-healing

#indigenous #nativenews #VSN

Kee HinckleyJun 10
mccJun 10
After the crash the primary usage of "AI" will be for generating fake online presences with acceptable bland politics so that you can cross borders https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/114655975804850106
Kee HinckleyJun 10
CykonotJun 9

Hong Kong protestors say:

"Do Not Split."

Do not condemn the people on your side who embrace tactics you disagree with.

Do. Not. Split.
#doNotSplit

Kee HinckleyJun 10

We finished setting up the La Conner & Swinomish Library display on Stonewall and why we celebrate Pride.

The library staff have told us that multiple people from the town and outside have already stopped by just to see the exhibit and the reaction has been overwhelmingly positive and emotional

So proud of my wife Mollie Pepper for doing the research and writing, Tillinghast Postal for the amazing graphics, and the library for supporting us and extending their book collection to include even more LGBTQIA2S+ books for adults and kids.

Kee HinckleyJun 10
It's Raining Them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H285MJRP_Mo
Mila Jam - It's Raining Them (Official Music Video)

YouTube
Kee HinckleyJun 10
The Gender Binary Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9AnRFaWivc
Just Me (The Gender Binary Blues) OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

YouTube
Kee HinckleyJun 9
Erin ReedJun 9
1. In a major ruling, a federal court has ruled that Trump's executive orders banning funding to orgs that promote "gender ideology" is likely unconstitutional. This will help protect or restore funding for LGBT centers who are plaintiffs. Subscribe to support our journalism. Order inside story.

Federal Court Rules Trump "Gen...
Federal Court Rules Trump "Gender Ideology" Funding Ban Likely Unconstitutional

The decision is limited to the plaintiffs, and could be used to further restore funding to transgender research and care.

Erin In The Morning
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CykonotJun 9

Hong Kong protestors say:

"Do Not Split."

Do not condemn the people on your side who embrace tactics you disagree with.

Do. Not. Split.
#doNotSplit

Show threadmillennial falconJun 9
@cykonot understood. jesus christ I cant believe I needed to be told.
Show threadtvaughanJun 10
@falcennial @cykonot Same. I’m convinced. Thanks for sharing this.
Show threadCaliCarolJun 9

@cykonot
#doNotSplit

What a time to be alive.

Show threadfireflyJun 9
@cykonot The one thing HKers weren't very good at, was building lasting offline support networks though.
Lots of kids (due to trying to stay anonymous) were left to deal with the results of their experiences on their own.
Show threadcontrasocialJun 9

@firefly @cykonot

This is why the Chinese government recognized the need to isolate, control and surveil their country's internet to such an extreme, to stamp out any potential it has to bring people together in common cause.

Show threadSiderea, Sibylla BostoniensisJun 11

@firefly Left to deal how? Can you say more?

(Also any pointers to accounts of these issues with examples super welcome. I am in a position to do something about this, educate me.)

@cykonot

Show threadfireflyJun 11

@siderea @cykonot Sorry, but many accounts on twitter from that time went silent already a few years ago, due to the dangers now.
There was a gap between the younger people and their parents views. Many lied to protect themselves, their fellow protestors and their families too. During protests people coordinated. But on location and anonymously via various means.

I was just (an also foreign) observer. Am not at liberty to tell you more.

Show threadfireflyJun 11
@siderea If you mean experiences: There are a few hk films, that deal with issues and trauma: "night is young", there is one short film about the polytechnic university siege ( but don't think it is in circulation), student suicide rates have been climbing since 2019 in hk.
A few (in comparison) were prosecuted.
And I remember that they started reminding each other to drink water and (each on their own) to watch their mental health.
Right now. There is a feeling of hopeless and helplessness.
Show threadfireflyJun 11
@siderea https://hongkongfp.com/2019/12/15/ptsd-protests-violence-hong-kongs-streets-impacts-mental-health/
PTSD and protests: How the violence on Hong Kong’s streets impacts mental health

The first panic attack took place two weeks after Sarah (not her real name) was caught in the middle of an evening protest in Admiralty on September 29, during which multiple rounds of tear-gas were fired by the police. “I’ve never felt afraid for my life. I’ve always been brave,” she told HKFP. “I’ve always […]

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
Show threadcontrasocialJun 9

@cykonot

There's a lot to be learned from the HK protests.

They were really disciplined and smart, but at a disadvantage because the city was isolated from a highly propagandized and brainwashed mainland population that was cheering on the brutalization of the protestors

In the US we see acts of protest springing up in multiple cities already, that is a good sign, maga is the minority and while they are just as brutal and fascist as the CCP, they're much less efficient right now. Organize.

Show threadRhinos Worry MeJun 9

@cykonot

"Our people have made the mistake of confusing the methods with the objectives. As long as we agree on objectives, we should never fall out with each other just because we believe in different methods or tactics or strategy to reach a common goal."
- Malcolm X

Show threadPoloniousmonkJun 9

@cykonot

Yeah. You against nazis? You're on my side. All I need to know.

Show threadtom jenningsJun 9

@cykonot

That's really smart.

Show threadDJ🌞Jun 9
@cykonot is there a full text version of this? if so, could you link to it please?
Show threadCykonotJun 9
@infosecdj https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/opinion/hong-kong-protests-extradition-china.html
Opinion | Hong Kong’s Protesters Are Resisting China With Anarchy and Principle

The movement is leaderless but not chaotic. It self-regulates even as it constantly reinvents itself.

The New York Times
Show threadOutOfSpace 不割席Jun 9
@cykonot 不割席
Show threadMary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!Jun 9

@cykonot
That's how the people at the protests behave-- all of us together.

Now if only everybody would act like that!

Show threadgretaredJun 9
@cykonot love this. where is this from? I’d like to share elsewhere.
Show threadLevkaJun 9

@cykonot

#diversityoftactics

"Let every man work for the abolition of slavery in his own way. I would help all and hinder none." -- Frederick Douglass

Show threadExtra_Special_CarbonJun 10

@cykonot Yeah. I have a lot of trepidation about this. This is one turning point of many. I don’t think we win this one. I think the wise move is to retreat, and regroup when we find an effective move.

Trump is going to become vulnerable as his economics play out, and Russia starts to lose without our help. Europe is ascends, and America is sets. We have friends, we just have to let them emerge.

Show threadCatherine is not giving up.Jun 10
@Extra_Special_Carbon @cykonot I’m not certain retreat will be an option.
Show threadNull HypothesisJun 10
@cykonot
Solidarity.
Show threaddalloJun 10

@cykonot
Dans le genre les zapatistes parlent de la diversite des tactiques

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversit%C3%A9_des_tactiques

Diversité des tactiques — Wikipédia

Show thread*_jayropeJun 10
@Cykonot Do not split seems a wise idea for one, however the use or deliberate non-use of force also seems too actively divisive to survive within that idea.
The use of force is, luckily after all, practised by particular minorities on either side of a conflict. Either side is bargaining between moral and efficiency and realisation of their idea, and in that regard actively self-isolating from #donotsplit. Let's leave them there.
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