
🫖Carbon-based lifeform running on tea & quietly brilliant ideas. Mostly tea if we're being honest 🖊️Author 💼Cybersec 🧠Neurodivergent ✨INFJ #BBNYA2026 Judge
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I remember this indeed.😁
Reason we had to wait for the PC to be safe to turn off was that the hard drive was similar to a record player. If the power was cut off, the head ("needle") would crash into the spinning disc, gouging it like a scratched record/CD, damaging it forever.
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REMINDER. Criticising men’s behaviour isn’t misandry. Women calling out sexism aren’t oppressing you. Misogyny kills women. Being criticised hurts your feelings. Get a grip.
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Thank you so much to whoever is reading Secondhand on Kindle Unlimited! 🎃
If you enjoy…
🍂 Short Stories
🍂 Vampires
🍂 Ghosts
🍂 Aliens
🍂 Halloween Stores
🍂 Halloween Baking Shows
This might just be the perfect collection for you!! And for the week before Halloween! 🧡
With everything going on with BioWare right now, I feel like I finally have to confess...
I actually loved Mass Effect: Andromeda. 💫🪐
There. I said it.
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If you voted today, I think you’re awesome and should treat yourself to a book! 💛💛💛
It’s adrenaline-fuelled “frustrated excitement”. 😼
Cat spots prey ➔ Adrenaline spikes, gets excited for a kill ➔ Jaw flexes to practice the kill bite ➔ Realises it can’t reach the prey ➔ Vocalises frustration mid-flex to burn off the adrenaline. 🙀
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Yoda says if you don’t find time to write today, it’s okay. Mondays are for sleeping anyway. 💚
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Gorgeous cover, but whatever you do, the title is unreadable.
Nine times out of ten it's the font. Thin, condensed, or overly decorative type vanishes at thumbnail size — exactly where buyers first see your book.
Quick fix: pick a typeface with weight and clean shapes, then shrink the cover to thumbnail. If the title still reads at a glance, you're good.
Do you remember when you joined X? I do! The platform wasn’t flooded with toxicity, hate, or conspiracy nuts back then. 🙄😆 #MyXAnniversary
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Blue says not every writing session will go the way you want it to, but that doesn’t mean you’re a bad writer. Keep trying. Keep going. Keep writing. 💙
This is unfortunately a lot more widespread than people realise.
A company I used to work at used CompanyName1 (I can’t say the name) as a password to a critically important back-end system. No 2FA. Until I forced them to change it all. Lucky that I got there before hackers did.
A hacker accessed Denmark's national ID database.
8.8 million records.
the password was "123456".
The administrator account at Pays ApS, a 2-person IT company with legal access to the country's central civil registration database used 123456 as its password.
at least three accounts did.
including the admin.
and the hacker was in for 21 days and 17 hours.
The Danish digital affairs minister called it an "extremely serious incident."
In the week after the breach became public, Danes setting up credit fraud alerts went from 250,000 to nearly 970,000.
the hacker told the newspaper Politiken the access wasn't difficult.
The CPR contains names, addresses, national ID numbers, church membership, and legal incapacitation records for 11 million people.
protected by 123456.
at a 2-person company.
that had legal access to it.
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Two days ago I launched my online shop, and already I’ve had sixteen orders!
HUGE thank you to everyone who bought something already. 😊
Here are two of my most popular designs so far: The heron & the emperor moth. More coming soon…
etsy.com/uk/shop/MagpieAndMi…
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Yoda says your time will come, even if it sometimes feels like it never will. 💚
This is a ClickFix (or TerminalFix) scam.
🤷 Not new, but it's the first time I've come across one.
Part of me admires the sheer gall and ingenuity of giving me instructions on how to infect my own PC.
A bigger part of me is p*ssed off on behalf of those who'll fall for it.
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Yoda says your characters would never give up on you, so don’t give up on them. Tell their story. You got this. 💚





































