Kyle Thayer (doomscrolling)

@kylethayer.bsky.social

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This is my account for doomscrolling. My main account is @kylethayer.com.

Panel 1: Signal screenshot: "Yesterday. Michael Waltz added you to the group. Disappearing message time set to 1 week." Panel 2: A board room table with young white professionals using laptops. Except one seat has Sesame Street's giant yellow Big Bird with crayons and paper. The young white professionals are labeled JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, GRU Officer, Michael Waltz. Big Bird is labeled Jeffry Goldberg. Panel 3: Same photo as above, but Pete Hegseth has a speech bubble with the Signal Screenshot: "We are currently Clean on OPSEC. Godspeed to our warriors."
Panel 1: Signal screenshot: "Yesterday. Michael Waltz added you to the group. Disappearing message time set to 1 week." Panel 2: A board room table with young white professionals using laptops. Except one seat has Sesame Street's giant yellow Big Bird with crayons and paper. The young white professionals are labeled JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, GRU Officer, Michael Waltz. Big Bird is labeled Jeffry Goldberg. Panel 3: Same photo as above, but Pete Hegseth has a speech bubble with the Signal Screenshot: "We are currently Clean on OPSEC. Godspeed to our warriors."
xkcd comic: [Cueball is holding up a pointer to a screen with an image of the World Trade Center towers mid-disaster.] Cueball: Based on my analysis, I believe the government faked the plane crash and demolished the WTC north tower with explosives. Cueball: The south tower, in a simultaneous but unrelated plot, was brought down by actual terrorists. [Caption below the panel:] The 9/11 truthers responded poorly to my compromise theory.
Corner of phone error message partly cut off by rounded corner of screen: ...sram record with mode 2 Kdump triggered by 'KERNEL-PANIC' (address:40000000, size: ... ... kernel detected
Sam and Frodo in Rivendell. Sam: "We did what Gandalf wanted didn't we? We got the Ring this far to Rivendell and then I thought, seein' as how you're on the mend, we'd be off soon. Off home." Frodo: "You're right Sam. We did what we set out to do. The Ring will be safe in Rivendell. I am ready to go home."
Me with short hair, Steve Jobs style glasses, a black turtleneck and holding up an old iPod touch
Top free Android apps. Bluesky is #2 after Temu. 3 is Threads, 4 TikTok, 5 WhatApp, 6 Instagram
Drawing of two swans, but horrifying looking because it assumes they are shaped like their skeleton with no feathers, creepy long snake-like necks, and weird arms that end in spear-like points (the wings)
538 polling average on Aug 10, 2024. Harris' numbers are going up, to a +2.3 lead (45.7% to 43.4%). There is an arrow pointing to how in the last little gain, the error bars have finally just barely separated, so Harris is now at ahead by more than the error margin!
ok. (@BtSquared2) I had adderall for the first time recreationally. All my friends were high in some way, but I went home to do laundry and clean my car lmfaoooo got more shit done in two hours than I’d done in two weeks. No one thought it was funny and they told me to get checked out 😭😭 4:26 PM · Aug 6, 2021
The Imperial Bureau of Standards from the Andor show: An endless gray room of open cubicle-like pods, with one sad person in each pod.
Tweet by: Overly Positive Pal (@BtSquared2): I had adderall for the first time recreationally. All my friends were high in some way, but I went home to do laundry and clean my car lmfaoooo got more shit done in two hours than I’d done in two weeks. No one thought it was funny and they told me to get checked out 😭😭 Aug 6, 2021
This brings us to the next thing, which is commonly understood in industrial-grade trust and safety circles, but I think less so on newer networks, which have mostly experienced old-school adversaries—basic scammers and spammers, distributors of illegal and horrible content, and garden-variety amateur Nazis and trolls—which is that although those blunter and less sophisticated harms are still quite bad, the more sophisticated threats that are common on the big centralized platforms are considerably more difficult to identify and root out. And if the people running new networks don’t realize that what we’re seeing right now are the starter levels, they’re going to be way behind the ball when better organized adversaries arrive.