Hi, I'm Alice 🌹 Watson (they/them), a: 🌈 #Queer, 🦜 #Poly, 🍳 #Pansexual, 🧠 #ActuallyAutistic, ⚛ #Atheist, ⚧️ #Enby in 🌲 #Seattle. 💁🏼‍♀️ #NotAGirl

ALT: @alice_watson
Founder: @AltAfterDark

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😍 Yay:
🌈 #LGBTQ+
🔏 #DataPrivacy
🕵 #InfoSec
🧠 #Psychology
🔓 #Locksport
📸 #NSFW #Photography
🐧 #Linux
😸 #Cats
🦯 #Accessibility
🤘 #Punk
✅ #fedi22
💞 @taedryn

🤬 Nay:
👮🏼‍♂️ #Fascism
💰 #Capitalism
🤡 #Bigots
🔫 #Guns

Mom. Punk. Environmentalist. | Gen Xer on the cusp of elder Millennialness (331ppm) | Am I breaking up w tech bc of tech bros and climate disaster? Yes. | Prospective ABSN student | InfoSec nerd on the side | Here for community, climate justice, women's health, politics, feedback loops, space exploration, ocean activism, bike love and all the laughs possible.

Header image is a medieval illustration of a crocodile letting an Egyptian plover clean its teeth. Avatar is a selfie of me lying down, as usual, but with cat-eye eyeliner and silver hair shaved on the sides and longish on top. #journalism #disability #TransRights

Most posts auto-delete after 3 months, so grab that meme when you see it! :)

Teacher, Mother, Lover. Says good morning in the evening!

Admin of aus.social. Direct action charity founder. Cloud/Cybersecurity/Infosec engineer.

(I'm a professional standup comedian and any toots should not be used as evidence of crimes, and all confessions are jokes)

#fedi22

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Security researcher. Network traffic analysis. Machine learning. Malware. Attacks. AI. stratosphereips.org

he/his
Director of Information Security at 4DMedical.
I work primarily in #infosec, #IT, and #SaaS infrastructure.
ex #USDS (fired by #DOGE)
Dad, old-school hacker, Righteous Indignation Man. Opinions are my own. Follow my blog at @jikblog.
#COVID #CovidIsNotOver #USPol #MAPol #BosPoli #Boston #MA #politics #linux #FOSS #OpenSource #ConsumerActivism #privacy #programmer #hacker #fedi22 #resist https://justmytoots.com/@jik@federate.social

Security ops engineer for DomainTools, DT Investigations researcher, former congressional sysadmin, writer, voracious reader. he/him. Fan of good trouble. Opinions here mine only. No LLM content from me, all flaws detected are human-generated. Autistic/depressed/anxious/hungry.

#infosec #cybersecurity #privacy #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent

security engineer, holistic tester, quality enabler, agile experimenter, sociotechnical symmathecist, team glue. volleyball player, game lover, story escapist. she/her.

#tech #security #CyberSecurity #SecurityEngineering #ProdSec #AppSec #DevSecOps #testing #quality #development #software #collaboration #pairing #EnsembleProgramming #EnsembleTesting #SoftwareTeaming #agile #experimenting #sociotechnical

Hacker at heart | Discovered KRACK and FragAttacks | Prof. Computer Science at @KU_Leuven (Belgium) | Did Postdoc at NYUAD | Network Security & Applied Crypto | Open to consultancy

Leading online #policy & #enforcement for 40 years. I left as head of Safety and Advocacy for #OkCupid after 9 years with #MatchGroup where I worked in T&S, data governance, legal compliance, DEI, realistic wellness, and ethics then became a #Whistleblower

Formerly worked in IT Security. Probably the world's first non-US-government hacker-catcher, head of commercial security for British Telecom, 2nd (and longest serving) #IRC Operator outside of Finland - And all that #MUD & #MIST stuff.

My pinned posts are on: https://mstdn.social/@Lorry/
It seems weird to repost them on this switched account :)

Why I left Match Group?

. https://bit.ly/okcupid-safety-1
. https://bit.ly/okcupid-safety-2
. https://bit.ly/okcupid-safety-3
. https://bit.ly/dating-site-ripoff

You get the idea!

. First article I wrote online that still exists: 1988
. Oldest email address I use daily: 1989
. First Phrack hate: 1991 (Phrack 35)
. Oldest domain name: 1992
. First academic paper on social media: 1992

Unemployable tech burnout whomst likes working on distributed systems, games, music, and other weird art things.

This is my 'work' account where I post mostly about my progress, frustrations, and occasional achievements in personal projects.

I *work* as an engineer at an IT security company, but I don't post about it here.

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Allegedly I'm a writer (q4 2026 👀), you should bully me to write more.

I'm also working on a hardware description language for circuit combinators in Factorio and experimenting with UI widgets in the Bevy engine because I want to write my own text editor one day.
Feel free to @ me about them or any other projects you might have seen me contribute to.

The revolution starts in your heart 🏴

🔹My hdl🔹https://codeberg.org/kookie/basil-lang
🔸My text editor🔸https://codeberg.org/kookie/teksus
🔸'My' mesh project🔸https://codeberg.org/irdest/irdest
🔹My music🔹https://breadmachine.bandcamp.com

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Infosec Lurker | Technical Debt Collector

It's not for fun, or any sense of community.
It's just trying to dull the pain.

Hi, I'm Alice 🌹 Watson (they/them), a: 🌈 #Queer, 🦜 #Poly, 🍳 #Pansexual, 🧠 #ActuallyAutistic, ⚛ #Atheist, ⚧️ #Enby in 🌲 #Seattle. 💁🏼‍♀️ #NotAGirl

ALT: @alice
Founder: @AltAfterDark

🩵🩷🤍

😍 Yay:
🌈 #LGBTQ+
🔏 #DataPrivacy
🕵 #InfoSec
🧠 #Psychology
🔓 #Locksport
📸 #NSFW #Photography
🐧 #Linux
😸 #Cats
🦯 #Accessibility
🤘 #Punk
✅ #fedi22
💞 @taedryn

🤬 Nay:
👮🏼‍♂️ #Fascism
💰 #Capitalism
🤡 #Bigots
🔫 #Guns

Offensive Security Professional | Phillip Wylie Show & The Hacker Factory Podcast Host | The Pentester Blueprint concept creator & coauthor | @TribeOfHackers Red Team

Contributor with the #Fedora Project Marketing Team. I'm into tech, #Linux, #OpenSource, as well as #privacy and #security.

Proud Aurora and Fedora user!

This is a personal account. Views are my own.

Posts will automatically delete after 2 years.

#NonBinary #Enby #Demiboy #HeThem #Gay #LGBT

#GenX #ISTJT #Introvert #Perfectionist #Overthinker #HSP #Leftie

#ActuallyAutistic #SensoryOverload #Insecurity #InferiorityComplex #Anxiety #Depression

#Sustainability #AntiConsumerism #NoSingleUsePackaging #SayNoToPlastic #CircularEconomy #GreenTransport #RenewableEnergy #LitterPicking #Womble

#Technology #Railways #Weather #SocialHistory #Nature #Countryside

#Equity #SocialJustice #Wellbeing #AntiBullying

#FBPR #GTTO #AntiCapitalism

Software Engineer & Writer in DevPubs @  • A #NewYorker in SF • ex-Wall St’er • Foodie • #Coffee roaster • #Maker • W2DHM • Opinions are mine, not my employer’s • Born at 318.43 ppm

Pro-tip: “LLMs generate statistically probable responses to prompts, not factual answers to questions.”

Outside of my day job, I’m thinking about #FoodInsecurity, #ClimateChange, and #cities. I experiment with #hydroponics, #UrbanAgriculture, and #SensorNetworks to try and create more #ResilientCommunities.

Software since 1998.

Anti-DEI is white supremacy. Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. LGBT+ rights are human rights. Healthcare, security, a decent income, and housing with dignity are human rights. Abortion is healthcare. Science is our best hope as a species. Kindness and empathy are the noblest of human traits.

I block assholes and bigots.

He/him.

Profile photo credit: Krishna Manda

Also known as trufae, author of @radareorg 🌱

I am an admin of The Union Place, and a proud AWU-CWA Local 9009 #Union member.

I'm a Staff SRE at Google, but all opinions are my own, and this account and instance are in no way sponsored by or associated with Google.

I'm always open to answering questions, so just ask!

#Labor and #Union Starter Pack: https://fedidevs.com/s/NTMy/

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