specifically this is how QUANTUMINSERT worked (from the Snowden leaks.) also China used the same technique, injecting malicious JS through the GFW to get bystanders to DDoS github, in a much more obvious and indiscriminate way.

nobody here is remotely likely to be targeted by NSA, of course, but you can actually do such attacks on a budget if you compromise any router in the chain. combined with a BGP hijack it’s not far out of reach for even a ransomware gang to pull something like that these days.

yuck. he apparently groomed a 14yo he was tutoring and eventually got her pregnant, and later preyed on a 12yo (per Wikipedia.)

never meet your heroes.

Zalgo captchas would go so hard.

if Progressives are supposed to vote blue no matter who, then Centrists can too. If someone like Mamdani beats Newsom in the 2028 primary they can suck it up and vote for him.

I’ve swallowed loads the past three elections, it’s their turn to take one for the team.

that would be entirely too edgy for the DNC to allow. powerful men from both parties are on that list.

hugs

DM me if you need a friend. being isolated sucks.

I think we should ban guns altogether. Failing that, I’d like to guns away from violently unstable people. But this Administration is constantly portraying leftists and trans people in particular as violently unstable, while turning a blind eye to white supremacists, J6 truthers and “patriots.”

I have zero confidence they won’t include gender dysphoria and “Trump derangement syndrome” on the list of mental illnesses (states have actually tried this.)

As long as fascists are armed, trans people must not be disarmed.

Trump supporters are likely to ban “lunatics” from owning guns. when conservative media reports on shootings, the focus is on the “lunatic” rather than the easy availability of AR-15s.

the problem is who MAGA frames as “lunatics”: leftists in general, trans people specifically. every time there’s a mass shooting, rumors spread that the shooter was trans. usually it’s a lie, but this time it’s evidently true.

I think they’re manufacturing consent for mental illness background checks, so they can list gender dysphoria as a mental illness and disarm us.