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tom mckay

@catturd2.bsky.social

senior cybersecurity newsletter writer for Pluralsight EXPLOIT: https://www.pluralsightnews.com/

created April 27, 2023

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

Conspiracy theorizing is fundamentally narcissistic-- "pay attention to me! I alone of the millions of observers know the hidden truth"-- but it gets a bit more 🙄 when AI is involved

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

[soeaking at the emergency town meeting] I don't get why everyone is so concerned that all the dinosaurs broke out of Dinosaur Park. dinosaurs are cool and would be my friend

31/8/2025, 3:27:25 AM | 21 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

what the fuck. why is there a terrifying derp bird. this is so fucked up

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31/8/2025, 2:38:14 AM | 28 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

my wife turned into a pillar of the community. sorry to hear about yours though.

31/8/2025, 2:35:08 AM | 86 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

"I am the most prized of Yakub's children."

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31/8/2025, 2:32:47 AM | 49 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

[shaking fist] YAAAAAKKKKKUUUUUUUUUUBBB!!!!!

31/8/2025, 2:31:42 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

the funniest thing when Donald Trump dies will be all the Fox News people lamenting he died "so young"

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Profile picture Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) reposted

I will never forget saying to a group of professional JD Vance loyalists shortly after the 2024 election that his fortunes largely depend on how Trump is perceived by voters after another 4 years and some of them got legitimately mad at me lol thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reposted

Hi, it's me, Slackbot. Donald Trump is dead. Employees do NOT have the rest of the day off

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Profile picture Brendel (@brendelbored.bsky.social) reposted

Nope sorry it’s the hats!

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social • 2h Trust in the media really started to go down when reporters stopped wearing
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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

Trump dead SEO Switch rumors when does fall start Kelce gay

30/8/2025, 3:23:28 AM | 26 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

Siri, Trump dead SEO game Google social post

30/8/2025, 3:20:21 AM | 31 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

cackling

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30/8/2025, 3:05:40 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

Hi, it's me, Slackbot. Donald Trump is dead. Employees do NOT have the rest of the day off

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30/8/2025, 2:31:30 AM | 61 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

fuck I just realized

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29/8/2025, 3:46:57 AM | 25 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

Easy to be flippant about this blowhard's opinions but they and the feds have descended on bar areas and gentrifying neighborhoods in droves. This is just straight up making shit up.

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

Ask me how I know you're a shut-in

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28/8/2025, 12:12:40 AM | 52 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

NiN 2025 tour light show is insane

27/8/2025, 3:07:45 AM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

also it was just such a high stakes yet lazy lie. who does that

27/8/2025, 12:25:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

I tend to find that it's never a good sign when some online figure develops into a labyrinthine personal mythos

27/8/2025, 12:15:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

The leeching will continue until the children improve

26/8/2025, 11:32:52 PM | 20 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

www.npr.org/2024/08/15/g...

26/8/2025, 11:17:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

this is an absolutely insane statement from OpenAI. why would you be like "yeah we've learned it sometimes helps people commit suicide"

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Profile picture Nikki McCann RamĂ­rez (@nikkimcr.bsky.social) reposted

Trump lays out how his invasions of major Democratic cities in order to tackle "crime" is actually just the GOP midterm strategy.

26/8/2025, 6:53:34 PM | 394 139 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

pretty rare for someone to inflame basically the entire right and attract an unbelievable amount of invective from literal billionaires, then just kind of flame out just as hard on the left/liberal axis. that's talent

26/8/2025, 10:40:10 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

what you are all missing is that as an influencer, Taylor Lorenz's posts are innately virtuous, and free of bourgeois conceptions of "ethics"

26/8/2025, 10:26:51 PM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

she's already been caught red handed lying about professional ethics once before

26/8/2025, 10:22:46 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes what?

26/8/2025, 9:28:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hannah gais (@hannahgais.bsky.social) reposted

In its alleged fight against antisemitism, the Trump administration has relied on two groups with murky funders—one of which is in Israel. Here's my deep dive @thebaffler.com into Canary Mission and Betar, two extreme Zionist groups at the heart of Trump's crackdown. thebaffler.com/latest/for-b...

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

what is? who?

24/8/2025, 6:31:04 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

who is

24/8/2025, 6:03:33 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

Tom's Mom

24/8/2025, 6:02:45 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm Tom

24/8/2025, 5:58:15 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

wrong

24/8/2025, 6:23:39 AM | 50 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

"what if you had to bend over to get the reacharound"

24/8/2025, 5:27:25 AM | 20 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

I was slightly misled phys.org/news/2025-08...

24/8/2025, 4:49:04 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

THEY SOLD THE FUCKING SPACE SHUTTLE???

24/8/2025, 4:29:32 AM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

Ozempic Face here is really riding high on doing a $30 chargeback to someone's OnlyFans

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Profile picture hannah gais (@hannahgais.bsky.social) reposted

With all due respect to the New York Times, the only reason anyone outside the movement knows Kevin DeAnna writes under the pseudonym is me. I outed him in 2020. You can read on his central role in the alt-right here: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha... www.splcenter.org/resources/gu...

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

for sale baby shoes. comes with baby

23/8/2025, 9:52:58 PM | 36 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

excuse me, what about my testicles?

23/8/2025, 7:42:55 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hannah gais (@hannahgais.bsky.social) reposted

Yeah, I’m a right-winger. I believe in power, tradition, hegemony, and hierarchy. Men these days have the testicular fortitude of a gnat. And I am going to FUCKING CHAIN MYSELF while SOBBING to a CRACKER BARREL for being woke.

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Profile picture Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted

Game on.

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

I have no insight here, but if I was forced to speculate with a gun to my head, I'd guess they're dragnetting for feds to take credit

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

from what I saw MPD was being pretty active supporting feds- a block away they pulled this car over for no apparent reason (got very excited during the very comprehensive search until they realized they'd found a paintball gun)

23/8/2025, 5:03:10 AM | 95 34 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

How else are they gonna play stickball?

23/8/2025, 4:55:44 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture amanda moore 🐢 (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) reposted

FBI agents assist(?) MPD in conducting an arrest at 10 and U in DC. Bystanders say it’s for marijuana.

23/8/2025, 3:48:58 AM | 156 57 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

like the tech stack was built for-us-by-us by bully capitalism! it is naive to believe you can defang it!

23/8/2025, 3:53:57 AM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

I guess, if you wanted to view technology very abstractly and ideally, you could give a six year old a little handheld computer to introduce them to the technology they will use throughout their life. But a cell phone?? Connected to the modern internet/tech ecosystem??? Are you fucking kidding me

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SABTF Trooper SABTF Shield Trooper SABTF Gunner SABTF Shotgun Sergeant SABTF Technician SABTF Elite SABTF Gardener

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

SATBF is honestly a great villain acronym

23/8/2025, 2:56:28 AM | 14 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

we should start calling the feds and troops in DC "crisis actors"

23/8/2025, 2:23:40 AM | 41 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

YOU DIDN'T GET PAID?????

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

these fuckin goombas are everywhere on 14th St

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

dell you lying piece of shit you wanted a chicken fried steak before

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Profile picture Thee BlackSky👨🏾‍🍳 (@xavierbeloved.bsky.social) reposted

This important cuz they gon come for our HBCUs next

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

hey, hold on that for a second- we've got one more joining via zoom

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

hey guys, thank you all for joining me at this deposition. now if you would, please put your right hands on the bible and repeat after me: "I never witnessed Donald Trump in any inappropriate setting in any way"

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Profile picture Alex Zalben (@azalben.bsky.social) reposted

I know there's a lot of controversy about the Cracker Barrel logo, so I worked up a new option that should be good with everyone... The barrel is back, but it's now guarded by Scubble, The Cracker Goblin. I also worked up a new slogan for the company!

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

You feel wet every time you watch liberals on TV?

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Profile picture Gore Vidal Sassoon (@jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social) reposted

Counterpoint: no it doesn’t you fuckin moron

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

looks like he was playing golf and only applied makeup to the part thats uncovered tbh

23/8/2025, 12:22:46 AM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Pearkes (@peark.es) reposted

The framing Bloomberg ran with on the Intel story is absolutely ridiculous. I’m not sure if it was the reporters or the editor but I chose the latter for some feedback. Embarrassing stuff.

US Takes Nearly 10% Intel Stake, Clinching Unorthodox Deal (3) Summary by Bloomberg Al • The US government will receive 433.3 million shares of common stock in Intel Corp., representing 9.9% of the fully diluted common shares, as part of an $8.9 billion investment. • The investment is funded by grants from the US Chips and Science Act and Secure Enclave program, and the government will be a passive owner with no board seat or governance rights. • President Donald Trump described the transaction as a image
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Profile picture Evan Greer (@evangreer.bsky.social) reposted

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

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Profile picture Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) (@iwriteok.bsky.social) reposted

Ed's got a significant scoop here, an under-the-hood look at GPT5 that suggests why it feels like such a step back to users. The incompetence from OpenAI here is truly remarkable.

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Profile picture Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell.bsky.social) reposted

Here’s what appears to be a little girl shackled at the wrists and ankles boarding an ICE flight on Avelo Airlines yesterday. Seattle (Boeing Field) to Mesa, AZ, an ICE detention hub. Not one of those men helped her up the stairs. Courtesy @lalabote.bsky.social

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Profile picture hannah gais (@hannahgais.bsky.social) reposted

It genuinely amazes me that Rod Dreher—who is of the people who helped mainstream "Camp of the Saints" in the United States, taking it out of the domain of niche white nationalist blogs and to major pubs—doesn't see any connection to between it and what we're dealing with today.

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

Protest in Columbia Heights DC against Trump takeover

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Profile picture Alex Koma (@alexkoma.bsky.social) reposted

Video of a scary scene in Adams Morgan last night is making the rounds on DC listservs. The feds (presumably ICE) seemed to be making immigration/traffic stops. When protesters started shouting, one pointed his Taser at them until other protesters tried to deescalate things...

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

verkaufen, verkaufen, verkaufen

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

I wasn't disagreeing!

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

stuck in a loop of not reading a book for a month then having to reread 30 pages to remember what's going on and forgetting to continue reading the book

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

yeah i think the thing you're neglecting to mention here is those weirdos are running the US federal government

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Profile picture The New York Times (@nytimes.com) reposted

It was a horrifying tale that spread fear around a Colorado state park: An attacker stabbed a wildlife ranger and ran away, prompting a manhunt and an evacuation of the park. But in reality, the ranger had injured himself and orchestrated an “elaborate hoax” claiming there was an attacker.

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

in retrospect, it is just completely incredible that Donald Trump didn't have a cameo in Who Framed Roger Rabbit trying to grab Jessica Rabbit's tits

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Profile picture Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) reposted

A screenshot from Fox News' Jesse Watters Primetime There is video playing of a black cat and a brownish orange stripey cat kinda cuddling up The chyron reads
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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

Not terrorism unless it spreads to a Tesla in the lot.

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

weird, just got a silver alert about some senile guy wandering in DC

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

If you asked Rufo he'd say he's shaping a narrative and its effectiveness is all that matters lol

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

Yeah, if anything, the Chris Rufos of the world are basically telling brands "catering to conservatives is really bad idea, they will backstab you for clout"

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

I'm noticing a lot of tech guys with no connection to AI development or research referring to the AI field as "we". like, they're trying to steal AI valor. lol

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

These guys have crawled up their own ass so far they think the echo is crowds clapping.

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

quite literally fairy tails

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

the reason those on here are making fun of me is because I am being Gang Stalked by the Park Slope DSA

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

as a show of almost obscene magnanimity, no less

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

I really do think my favorite little thing you can do in Rogue Trader is order your guards to pelt orphans with treats

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Profile picture Jacqueline Sweet (@jsweetli.bsky.social) reposted

Story in two parts

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Taylor Lorenz watching TikTok at full volume in the movie theater to support woke rights

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I don't think a mute is gonna get you out of this one andy

20/8/2025, 2:53:28 AM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

its a really striking example of Commander Tom would kick his army's ass

20/8/2025, 2:45:21 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

what do you mean they're firing little wood sticks at us

20/8/2025, 2:37:01 AM | 51 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

when are people gonna realize this guy is just making shit up

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

you use a flexible roman maniple, genius

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

Very few liberals in DC would be owning a rifle or shotgun, this seems much more like an invite to right wingers from other states

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

It is hard to see this as anything but trying to make a Rittenhouse thing happen in DC. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social)

"but the 5% will take over!" www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/generative_ai_zero_return_95_percent

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Profile picture tom mckay (@catturd2.bsky.social) reply parent

oh cool these were all automatically set to yes even though I disabled activity data on the account level

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