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Rob L

@robll.bsky.social

Woodworker, Science, Architecture, OSINT, Politics, A Multipotentialite. Greatly afflicted by what I'm told is MECFS Dorset Resident

created October 29, 2023

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Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

America seems to use antivirals more than us for some reason. Not sure why.

4/9/2025, 8:28:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Toe sucking goodness

4/9/2025, 8:22:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Glad you're feeling better though

4/9/2025, 8:20:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't know what Paxlovid is. I'm in UK and we don't do brand names for drugs much.

4/9/2025, 8:20:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

*wrt

4/9/2025, 8:18:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Depends on the vaccine. Measles, Smallpox, rabies, polio, they're really magical force fields but yeah wet to flu, COVID you're absolutely right.

4/9/2025, 8:18:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) reposted

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

4/9/2025, 6:46:52 PM | 13888 5235 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks!

4/9/2025, 7:36:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

It won't eliminate your risk but it's usually greater than 50%

4/9/2025, 7:26:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah I mean I used to work with vaccines and flu vaccine variants change every year so the flu shot needs to be updated to meet that threat each year. Vaccines are tri-vailant or quad valiant. i.e 3 or 4 strains. I had pneumonia from flu twice, now I get vaccine annually

4/9/2025, 7:26:18 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Rice is nice not overcooked but not big on much else, maybe carrots.

4/9/2025, 7:23:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

But latest update show maybe that trend could be reversing. www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/covid-19/...

4/9/2025, 7:13:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

There was some evidence that the strains have gotten weaker but no one knows why. Vulnerable people can still be adversely affected, so as ever Kennedy is full of it. Source www.bbc.com/future/artic...

4/9/2025, 7:12:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, exactly, they're dicks, and they thrive on attention.

4/9/2025, 6:53:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

What an awful but also good list.

4/9/2025, 6:48:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Balderdash (@balderdash.bsky.social) reposted

Outstanding news that should be shared.

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4/9/2025, 12:13:50 PM | 2126 702 | View on Bluesky | view

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4/9/2025, 6:19:56 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social)

Haven't subscribed to Netflix for a while, so have done one month. What should I watch? Any suggestions gratefully received.

4/9/2025, 5:43:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ben Skipper (@benskipper.bsky.social) reposted

Just ask Nottinghamshire Live for confirmation.

4/9/2025, 5:44:43 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

It's a cynical ad campaign based on a terrible pun. You build sales by sustaining interest. Also if they're not "good jeans" that could backfire

4/9/2025, 5:05:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Philip Gourevitch (@pgourevitch.bsky.social) reposted

trump has always wanted to be duterte

4/9/2025, 3:47:27 AM | 84 19 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Osita Nwanevu (@ositanwanevu.com) reposted

Just about every part of this political moment has been worse than even cynics expected, but Bari Weiss running CBS News...

4/9/2025, 3:35:18 AM | 711 87 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Just because I think Polanski is not the way forward you're having tantrums. Grow up.

4/9/2025, 3:33:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Fuck off, you absolute morons.

4/9/2025, 3:32:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) reposted

3/9/2025, 5:34:59 PM | 229 65 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Enough Of That Now (@andygilder.bsky.social) reposted

3/9/2025, 6:15:32 PM | 8 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social)

Trump will likely be dead by the time the truth about his criminality, his sexual abuse of underage girls, and all the deals he did with Putin and other dictators fully comes to light but I am certain he's guilty of all of the above. #epsteinfiles

3/9/2025, 6:38:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) reposted

Trump is rejecting the pleas of Epstein's victims, but he did find room in his heart to move Epstein's child rape co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell to a nicer prison.

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Profile picture Markfry🍁 (@markfry.bsky.social) reposted

It’s not a fucking hoax you gaslighting, Epstein colluding, child molesting, sexstarved, rapey goddamned POS!!!!!!!!πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•

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3/9/2025, 6:28:29 PM | 74 22 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

I know what glib means.

3/9/2025, 3:04:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

And I quote Farage "on one side you have the people, and the other you have human rights lawyers" This people thinks human rights and the lawyers for them serve a purpose.

3/9/2025, 12:06:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

I really wish they would drop the clearly false statements and what "the people" believe or don't believe.

3/9/2025, 12:05:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social)

Zack Polanski is the Ladbaby of political leadership.

3/9/2025, 11:54:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Not rly

3/9/2025, 11:53:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

He's like Ladbaby but a political leader.

3/9/2025, 11:52:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

That's interesting, it's also elevated in psoriasis patients. Perhaps this indicates that some ME patients are suffering from sero-negative auto immune diseases

3/9/2025, 10:51:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

I knew you'd be on it. Glad you have your IP protected

2/9/2025, 8:27:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Honestly it's so ridiculous. They need to re-enter single market asap.

2/9/2025, 8:25:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Also this guy is pretty interesting to watch on this kind of thing. youtu.be/xMYm2d9bmEA?...

2/9/2025, 8:24:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Gail you can use adversarial AI to protect your work from being stolen/scraped using specialist software which is free Here is some more information. nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/userguide.html

2/9/2025, 8:23:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social)

It's absolutely insane that basically Gail can't export goods to Europe or America right now. That's mad. Come Keir Starmer/Rachel Reeves, get your shit together.

2/9/2025, 8:19:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Sarah Vine's spurious correlations. A new weekly column.

2/9/2025, 7:28:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social) reposted

When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

2/9/2025, 9:58:45 AM | 2412 738 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

You're probably mistaking my comment as some sort of massive endorsement. It is what it is. Love him or loathe him, or both, he had political ambition, charisma, and wouldn't trying to be placate the Farages of this world. I can't help that he went full arsehole.

2/9/2025, 10:07:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social) reposted

Leaked β€˜Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as β€˜insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

1/9/2025, 9:32:32 PM | 302 129 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Betteridge (@ianbetteridge.com) reposted reply parent

Much of what makes the current wave of AI problematic is not what it does, but who owns it, who benefits, and how it once again skews wealth into the hands of owners of capital. It’s politics, not tech.

2/9/2025, 6:22:51 AM | 115 28 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Why cover their faces?

1/9/2025, 9:43:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm sure there's quite a bit online or YouTube from people who know a lot more than me.

1/9/2025, 9:40:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah there's a couple of ways they do it either with HF radio or a small balloon that is inflated and filled with hot water. There's a low risk but you need to take some sort of BC after until post menopausal. It's about a twenty minute procedure.

1/9/2025, 9:37:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

I used to work in this field in the medical industry. I'm not trying to weird you out.

1/9/2025, 9:30:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

What about endometrial ablation? Common in many women at this point in their lives.

1/9/2025, 9:29:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

At least Blair had a bit of gusto. They had it in for people in hoodies I suppose. He probably wears a cashmere one after tennis these days...I digress, unproductively

1/9/2025, 9:26:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm no Corbynite Bolshevik but I am so massively disappointed in Labour's lack of aspirations and cowardice. They're letting the news cycle be controlled by others, anything laudable lost in the xenophobia.

1/9/2025, 9:23:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

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1/9/2025, 6:47:47 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

I wonder if his father taught him actually.

1/9/2025, 6:42:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

That's awful. Thankfully mushroom picking is a bit easier to get right. He was/is a bright guy. That's the thing, you need to have the knowledge, then it's easy. Like so much.

1/9/2025, 6:10:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social)

Trump has monogrammed or named everything clothing wise. My (shared with Jeeves) view of anyone thinking monograms are in anyway stylish youtu.be/Gmy-7nIh6Do?...

1/9/2025, 5:34:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Josiah Mortimer (@josiah.writes.news) reposted

ICYMI: Heathrow Airport has been unveiled as a "major sponsor" of Reform UK's conference this coming weekend. Reform says "big businesses flock to the Party they perceive to be most likely to form the next Government." (Heathrow is majority owned by state-owned sovereign wealth funds - inc. Qatar)

1/9/2025, 4:47:38 PM | 290 190 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

My friend/colleague used to pick mushrooms in the New Forest to eat. He was pretty clever with stuff like that. There was a new supermarket near him and in the car park borders they used mushroom bark and loads of Morrells grew. He picked them and sold them to chef Raymond Blanc. Absolutely true.

1/9/2025, 4:42:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Also works on images.

1/9/2025, 4:37:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

You have to say no. It's scraping people's hard work to sell back to us (eventually) We need to poison the AI well if they won't pay. youtu.be/xMYm2d9bmEA?...

1/9/2025, 4:37:02 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hari Kunzru (@harikunzru.bsky.social) reposted

It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.

Elon Musk Β« x@elonmuskβ€’6h Remigration is the only way Steve Laws @Steve_Laws_β€’18h Go anywhere in the UK and look around, you'll just see foreigners everywhere. It's truly sickening the damage that has been done to our nation and our people.... Steve Laws & @Steve_Laws_ X.com Epping is everywhere. 12:02β€’8/29/25 β€’ 275K Views Elonmusk All Britain is Epping @Steve_Laws_ Keep highlighting this Elon, we appreciate it.
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Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

I didn't do the face. bsky.app/profile/robl...

1/9/2025, 3:47:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social) reposted

It me. Again

1/9/2025, 2:37:08 PM | 18 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social)

Kier Starmer latest

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Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Why is it that going far right ages you massively?

1/9/2025, 11:11:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social)

Fake (bad) AI advert using @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com image and guaranteed return on investments and obviously a scam. Google and YouTube are spending zero time vetting their advertisements. I report them but they appear again. It's a game of whack-a-mole. UK government should fine Google.

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Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

There's a how it was made on DVDs of the film. It's probably been uploaded onto YouTube. Lots of these stories feature and some other stuff.

1/9/2025, 9:02:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie Martin (@katie0martin.ft.com) reposted

well waddayaknow www.ft.com/content/4a6d...

1/9/2025, 8:36:22 AM | 32 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Sad.

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Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

I think they might be diseased. They're usually horizontal due to gravitropism

1/9/2025, 1:00:05 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

I completely agree, and you're right about what happened, I'm not advocating it, just that's the way global politics seems to work.

1/9/2025, 12:52:03 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Whilst I completely agree, she'll no doubt get away with it because the prevailing feeling after finally rescuing America from fascism will be to pretend it never happened and engage in damage control. Trump only got in trouble re the classified documents because he kept them.

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Profile picture David Slack (@slack2thefuture.bsky.social) reposted

Tulsi Gabbard is *very obviously* a foreign intelligence asset and I hope we all live long enough to see her tried and convicted for it.

1/9/2025, 12:14:45 AM | 3021 914 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social)

Insomnia for some weird reason. On Friday night I was so fatigued I fell asleep at 6pm and apart from two hours slept until 7.30am Saturday.

1/9/2025, 12:30:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean also I don't want to be noticed particularly to that degree

31/8/2025, 9:47:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't mind statement but there's a million nicer statement watches than a Nautilus or worse a Hublot or Richard Mille.

31/8/2025, 9:46:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Veblen goods.

31/8/2025, 7:56:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't get the aesthetic, even in a non like way.

31/8/2025, 7:46:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

On the whole watch thing, what do you think about Patel Philippe Nautilus? I think they are gross, I can't see the appeal.

31/8/2025, 7:31:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh right. Like anything I guess of the depreciation curve. The vintage Seiko propex divers watch is another one that's gone nuts.

31/8/2025, 7:28:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

I like grand Seiko but never ever buy a new one. Depreciation is big even if you're not a collector

31/8/2025, 7:20:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

A Vacheron...

31/8/2025, 7:18:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Acheron Constantin Patrimony manual in white gold or a Jaguar Le Couture memovox or if you're feeling a bit flashy IWC portofino. If you own the firm maybe an A Lange & Sohne Zeitwerk

31/8/2025, 7:18:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

If you're taking cardiac medication especially for arrhythmia regardless of interactions grapefruit juice can increase the length of your QT interval which can cause arrhythmia etc so take it easy on how much G juice you consume.

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Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Grapefruit's metabolic pathway cytochrome P450 like Cranberry juice. For many drugs like statins and PPis there are alternatives that use a different pathway and therefore don't interact with grapefruit juice.

31/8/2025, 4:02:58 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'll never get over how bad his comb-over is. Must look super weird eau natural.

30/8/2025, 9:35:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

There must be a reason

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Well well, Netflix getting something right for a change.

30/8/2025, 8:09:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Never own anything.

30/8/2025, 8:07:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

This is like every subscription model currently in existence, offer cheap or free, place ads, make ads increasingly more annoying, offer subscription, only subscription, segment products with subscription offering further subscription, put ads on subscription, offer subscription to remove ads.

30/8/2025, 8:06:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh no, how terrible.

30/8/2025, 8:03:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think of all of the women on TV it was definitely the ones on Buck Rogers who got an eight year old boy very hot under the collar on a Saturday evening.

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Imagine the face cramps.

30/8/2025, 10:59:37 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Another casualty of leaving the EU, out shorelines.

30/8/2025, 10:36:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Everytime I see a picture of this guy I feel like I have been contaminated and need to shower with Ajax.

30/8/2025, 10:28:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob L (@robll.bsky.social) reply parent

*and speaking

30/8/2025, 10:27:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Walking/texting on phone should be illegal. Sick of having people walk into me because they are so very stupid.

30/8/2025, 10:17:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shashank Joshi (@shashj.bsky.social) reposted

The first ever successful & impactful cyber-physical attack on European critical infrastructure outside of Ukraine? β€œRussian hackers took control of a Norwegian dam this year, opening a floodgate and allowing water to flow unnoticed for four hours, Norway’s intelligence service has said.”

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