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yay water

time to drink water woo hoo yay

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whatever else you have to say about katy perry i do have to say "do you ever feel like a plastic bag" is maybe one of the all time funniest ways to start a song

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well here we are

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+ bonus

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also im 99% sure the thing between him and the girl he cheated on me with is done too so HAHA MOTHERFUCKER!

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so i ended up responding but i think i did it in a funny way

mind you: i have never sent this man anything less than a full sentence. he told me at one point that he loved texting me bc i sent paragraphs and that they were always fun to read, so to respond w just a single word felt very power movey

what doesnt kill you will text you four months later like nothing happened :)

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DOGE appeared to ignore standard security practices

Berulis says he was told by colleagues that DOGE employees demanded the highest level of access, what are called "tenant owner level" accounts inside the independent agency's computer systems. Those offer essentially unrestricted permission to read, copy and alter data, according to Berulis' disclosure to Congress.

When an IT staffer suggested a streamlined process to activate those accounts in a way that would let their activities be tracked, in accordance with NLRB security policies, the IT staffers were told to stay out of DOGE's way, the disclosure continues. For cybersecurity professionals, a failure to log activity is a cardinal sin and contradicts best practices. "That was a huge red flag," said Berulis. "That's something that you just don't do. It violates every core concept of security and best practice." According to the disclosure, someone had disabled controls that would prevent insecure or unauthorized mobile devices from logging on to the system without the proper security settings. There was an interface exposed to the public internet, potentially allowing malicious actors access to their systems. Internal alerting and monitoring systems were found to be manually turned off. Multifactor authentication was disabled. Berulis tracked sensitive data leaving the agency's NxGen case management system "nucleus," inside the NLRB system. Then, he saw a large spike in outbound traffic leaving the network itself. That kind of spike is extremely unusual, he explained in the disclosure, because data almost never directly leaves from the NLRB's databases. "If he didn't know the backstory, any [chief information security officer] worth his salt would look at network activity like this and assume it's a nation-state attack from China or Russia," said Jake Braun, a former White House cyber official. In fact, in the minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password, according to Berulis.

The NLRB's data is extremely sensitive and has little to do with DOGE's cost-cutting mission

DOGE's intentions with regard to the NLRB data remain unclear. Many of the systems DOGE embedded itself in across the rest of the government have payment or employment data — information that DOGE could use to evaluate which grants and programs to halt and whom to fire.

But the NxGen case management system is very different.

It houses information about ongoing, contested labor cases, lists of union activists, internal case notes, personal information from Social Security numbers to home addresses, proprietary corporate data and more information that never gets published openly. Access to that data is protected by numerous federal laws, including the Privacy Act. "There is nothing that I can see about what DOGE is doing that follows any of the standard procedures for how you do an audit that has integrity and that's meaningful and will actually produce results that serve the normal auditing function, which is to look for fraud, waste and abuse," said Sharon Block, the executive director of Harvard Law School's Center for Labor and a Just Economy and a former NLRB board member.

I cannot overstate how bad this was. The NLRB database holds volumes of highly sensitive data including "confidential information about employees who want to form unions to proprietary business information."

Combine this with every other federal database DOGE has accessed and consider what they all have in common and the inescapable conclusion is that DOGE is engaged in a domestic intelligence gathering operation of unprecedented magnitude both in its scope and in the level of individualized information it is compiling.

This is a level of information gathering on a state's own population that can only be described as totalitarian, a word I will use in spite of its problematic history because it is the only word in the English language that describes this specific thing as such.

I don't have anything else to say. This is worse than almost anything I could have predicted and I'm an OG political doomer.

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gaining quite the follower base

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*gets bodychecked while playing women's lacrosse and breaks my nose* this is perfectly normal if the person who did this to me was born with the Moon Goddess Innocence Genitals but misogynistic violence if the person who did this to me was born with the Violent Penetration Genitals

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pope gone

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Smoke |SINNERS 2025

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what if the new pope is problematic :/

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La Veuve by Robert Demachy, circa 1900 ~

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rambling under the cut

it was something taylor related which like makes sense bc thats probably the thing he knows will work best in enticing me to talk to him and like i wanted to. i wanted to so so so so so fucking badly

but i cannot be just his friend. like i know i cant. there will always be some small stupid part of me that would want more with him and i would never be able to get that so why even bother putting myself through that pain if i already know how its going to end??? theres no way in hell i could stand bynand watch him date someone else bc i would always want to be that person. maybe its childish but like i just cannot do that to myself

but at the same time i miss his friendship so much like it feels physical sometimes. like i can feel a hole at my side that he used to fill but doesnt anymore. i will see something that reminds me of him and even now lile four months later i have to stop myself from grabbing my phone to take a picture to send to him. i miss his stupid jokes and his memes and his unhinged podcast recs and i miss him so so much

so im like stuck in between a rock and a hard place and then he does this. and its like every ounce of hurt ive felt the past four months just came rushing back in. and i still want to fucking respond to him!!!!!!

i just. i hate it here. i hate that we got to this point and i wish we never fucked around and i wish he didnt text me

what doesnt kill you will text you four months later like nothing happened :)