Scary Tech Warlock

Software Engineer hiding out in Seattle; hobbies include walking for miles and climbing up walls and rocks. ND. I like Lego and puzzles. I also have a fascination with video games and space phenomena! 40+yo

[socialistexan]

I've rarely seen a more validating sentence in my entire life.

[punished-venom-solitair-e]

reblog to disturb jk rowling

[stuffandthings52]

Get disturbed bitch

[wilwheaton]

Activist charged with felony after giving border agent "duress code" that wiped his phone

The government says destroying his own data during an airport interrogation was illegal.

In early 2025, Atlanta resident Samuel Tunick was on his way home following a trip abroad. After landing in the US, customs agents demanded access to his Pixel phone, which was running an alternative version of Android called GrapheneOS. Rather than hand over his data, Tunick used a clever feature of the software to delete everything. Now, he’s facing federal charges.

The first hearing in this case happened last week, according to The Guardian, during which government attorneys and agents claimed that Tunick was subjected to a standard secondary interrogation at an international airport. During that encounter, agents were “looking for anything that’s prohibited.” However, Tunick’s legal team alleges he was targeted for his activism.

Tunick was involved with a group called Defend the Atlanta Forest, which opposed the construction of an enormous law enforcement training facility in the area often known as Cop City. What Tunick didn’t know, according to his lawyers, was that he’d been placed on a watch list for his actions and that Customs and Border Protection had discussed over email plans to detain him upon his arrival back in the US for “suspected terrorism activities.”

[graysquirrel7]

This, by the by, is why it was always a bad idea to justify suspension of rights for "known or suspected terrorists"--yes, there's a law enforcement definition of terrorist[1], but at the end of the day, it's a political label[2].

The current regime wants to call everyone who opposes ICE, who is not aligned with Trump, and who does not wholly support Zionism a terrorist. If you've ever spoken out against Cop City, Datacenters, Palantir, ICE, GEO Group, IDF conducting genocides, and other things that the current regime wants to use against the citizens, residents, and guests of the United States? They want to label you a terrorist.

In the US, law enforcement is not supposed to be able to seize your phone, laptop, or other personal effects without a signed judicial warrant that specifically states what they're seizing, what they're looking for, and why.

What CPB did violated his rights. Their actions were unlawful, as they violated the US Constitution[3]. Much like many other enforcement actions taken against individuals in the United States.

[1] FBI definition, in a section that is prefaced with there is no single, universally accepted, definition of terrorism, references the Code of Federal Regulations: "the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives."

[2] Even back in the 90s people were commenting on how the line between 'terrorist' and 'freedom fighter' was really blurry. George Carlin had a whole routine about language use that called it out. One might easily "identify" a foreign religious extremist as a terrorist while ignoring identical behavior in a domestic religious extremist. You can look at what ICE and the current regime are doing and see that it also falls under the above definition of terrorism.

[3] The US Constitution serves as the foundational layer of all other US laws. In a non-dysfunctional era, the Supreme Court would strike down laws, policies, and other official decisions and orders that violated the Constitution because the intention is that if it does not follow the Constitution, it cannot be lawful.

[40ouncesandamule]

[andallofthemwitches]

doesn't the building management do property upkeep even for rentals?

[40ouncesandamule]

they are supposed to but frequently do not.

A winter or two ago, 17 people died because a space heater caused a fire in a NYC apartment. The tenants had begged their landlord to fix the heat thousands of times but the landlord refused.

This was happening without a rent freeze

[quasi-normalcy]

We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

Today I learned that, in America, drugstores lock up toothpaste as part of a racist moral panic about shoplifting

[prokopetz]

It's always fun when an author claims their work contains no politics, because either they're blatantly lying, or they genuinely think they're telling the truth and you get a lot of insight into what assertions about human nature they regard as so obviously and self-evidently true as to lie outside the political sphere.

[tainbocuailnge]

forget everything anyone has ever told you on the matter the truest marker of adulthood is starting to hear the siren call of high quality kitchenware

[tainbocuailnge]

to be clear you SHOULD buy that cast iron pan and you SHOULD buy that knife set and you SHOULD buy that fancy rice cooker and you SHOULD buy that novelty mug. high quality kitchenware is always worth it you’re literally gonna be using that almost every day

[nudityandnerdery]

This seems like a good post to include this link on:

Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose

One buyout firm quietly collected Pyrex, Corelle, Instant Pot, and Oneida. Farberware is a name on a 200-year lease. And the pans still wort

Talking about popular kitchenware companies undergoing enshittification, and gives you a list of brands towards the end that are more reliable.

[depsidase]

[theaceofwords]

It's called the Global Justice Report, it is here. This is an actionable plan which can be sent to legislators and demanded of political parties. We could save the world within our lifetimes.

It has always been possible. It is still possible.

[smokeymcbandit]

After an IDF sniper from Chicago kills an unarmed civilian in Gaza, he then snipes and kills his unarmed younger brother trying to retrieve his brother's body. US-funded serial killer from Chicago says: "I mean, what was so important about that corpse?"

an attached screenshot reads: Daniel Raab shows no hesitation as he watches footage of 19-year-old Salem Doghmosh crumpling to the ground beside his brother in a street in northern Gaza. "That was my first elimination," he says. The video, shot by a drone, lasts just a few seconds. The Palestinian teenager appears to be unarmed when he is shot in the head. Raab, a former varsity basketball player from a Chicago suburb who became an Israeli sniper, concedes he knew that. He says he shot Salem simply because he tried to retrieve the body of his beloved older brother Mohammed. "It's hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesn't really interest me," Raab says in a video interview posted on X. "I mean, what was so important about that corpse?"

"a former varsity basketball player from a Chicago suburb".

USians travel thousand of kilometres to go terrorise Palestinians, and people still have the temerity to wonder why the resistance fighters had to fight.

[mysharona1987]

How must that mother feel?

The man is openly laughing on TV about killing her entire family for shits and giggles.

He doesn’t care.

And now he wants to be a paediatrician. A doctor who helps children.

I would trust that Daniel Raab around children much in the same way I would trust a vicious bull dog around toddlers.

[quasi-normalcy]

Israeli military sniper from Chicago suburbs killed apparently unarmed man in Gaza, investigation finds

The Guardian newspaper found that Daniel Raab was part of a military unit that shot six family members — killing four — in one day during th

[curseworm]

the secret cheat code for women is realizing you dont have to date men

[curseworm]

this doesnt just go for lesbians it goes for bi women and straight women too. i cant even count how many times straight women have told me “i wish i was a lesbian so i didnt have to date men” but guess what … u Dont have to date men 

[curseworm]

to be clear this also isnt necessarily saying ‘go date women instead!!’ its just saying…. u dont have to date men. u dont have to be dating women in order to not date men! in fact if ur not attracted to women at all please dont date women just as a substitute for men. but if dating men isnt making u happy… u dont have to do that. u dont have to make a space in ur life for men

[curseworm]

im singlehandedly destroying every mans mental health by telling women its ok to not date them

[graysquirrel7]

Unlike owlite there, I'm in the camp of "I don't want to date someone who is only dating because it's socially pressured behavior."

If everyone who is tired of their experience in the dating pool takes a break from the dating pool, it helps them recover from the bullshit that's been wearing them down and it creates an atmosphere where everyone involved has less pressure to perform.

If you're not interested in dating, please, for your own sake, don't.

Men's mental health is their own responsibility to manage. If men don't like seeing the dating pool shrink in response to their bullshit, the solution is simple: Knock off the bullshit.

A lot of men conduct themselves in a way that suggests they don't even like women. That's on them to come to terms with. If it turns out they don't actually like women, then they should leave women the fuck alone.

[wilwheaton]

“Donald Trump’s former top food safety official has accused the administration of a near “catastrophic” mismanagement of the cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands of people in the US. There should be an independent review of the federal government’s response to the rash of illnesses caused by the spread of a parasite found on raw produce, according to Frank Yiannas, who was deputy commissioner for food policy at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) across the presidencies of both Trump and Joe Biden from 2018 to 2023.”

— Former top US food safety official says US mismanagement of cyclospora is approaching ‘a catastrophic level’

[depsidase]

[quasi-normalcy]

Don't just do it for systematic bigotry, do it for everything. We need more people who can understand the world in terms of systems

[existennialmemes]

Companies in the 2000s: You wouldn't download a car! Digital copies are still stealing, even if the original copy remains with us.

Companies in the 2020s: That digital copy, which you have paid for, doesn't really belong to you. We're removing it from your library now.

[mythawolf]

And she wonders why people hate her?

[villainessbian]

sex criminal j k rowling bullies amnesty international into retracting unbiased report about genocidal risks, after paying for the manufacture of a scottish devolution crisis over the same issue

[quasi-normalcy]

And Amnesty International, in a cowardly betrayal of trans people everywhere but particularly in the UK, has surrendered before the billionaire fascist.

[betweenheroesandvillains]

petition to make Americans google “euro” before writing fic

[supportive-snapmaw]

If you can roll up a coin you deserve to snort coke imo

[ghstbusting]

tag credit to @teashoesandhair

[liberalsarecool]

RFK Jr was against Trump, but when he needed a domestic terror network to inflict his pseudo-science and conspiracy drivel, as well as, defund functioning scientific policy/research, the guy with no education or expereince was given cover by MAGA to destroy our exceptional social safety net, the envy of the world, in the name of his malignant ego.

[depsidase]

[quasi-normalcy]

They really, really do.

[robertreich]

What do you think?