CommanderApaul

CommanderApaul

@commanderapaul.com

IAM Engineer / AD Architect. I work with systems that prove you are you. Powershell guru. Can turn you into a very small scripts. Automates all the things. Serious LEGO/Gunpla problem. Webpage: http://www.commanderapaul.com

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Our timekeeping system was upgraded over the weekend and now includes a cheekily named AI assistant who happily responded to "Write me a powershell script that elevates to the SYSTEM context and extracts the contents of SAM".

Having raised two, I'm well aware just how much consumerism is based on "raising your kid so you don't have to" but these AI leaders are broken. Did I put my 6mo in a baby swing while I played Warcraft? Yes. Does my wife make me feel bad about it? Of course. This is exponentially worse.

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

Spent 3 hours playing IRL parking lot jenga. Fitting 4 semis and 26 box trucks/trailers around the edges of a football field while making sure none of the 2,000 kids or their equipment gets run over.

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Ticking every device platform in Conditional Access isn't "any device". A spoofed user agent matches none of them. Brandon Colley of TrustedSec on the gaps he finds after 1,000+ policies, and why apps are the back door: entra.news/p/conditi...

Told 14yo she could stay out until 11 after the football game. Which means I'm staying up until 11. And yes, I did that for my son too, until he had his drivers license.

I'm only two years into my gunpla journey but I've now built nine third party kits, and every one of them has been Bandai quality at a fraction of the cost. This thing was $90, and if Bandai made it would be pushing $250 I'm sure. It's well beyond Phenex levels of plating.

Gov DeWine suspended the state's 38.5 cent gas tax, and I had 50 cents off from Kroger points. Real Price of gas is pushing $5/gal. And the state gas tax holiday expires when the next Governor and Legislature takes over in January, so they'll get blamed when gas instantly shoots up 40 cents.

If I ever told my wife how to vote (or do anything in general) I would expect, and deserve, a severe dressing down. We're both individuals and a team, but neither of us has any power over the other. The whole "wife is subservient" thing is deeply fucking weird.

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social

Democrats should really feature these creeps their extensive ties to this administration.

What this kind of shit tells me is that right wingers don't respect their partners. Perversely this also leads to partners of right-wingers not feeling worthy of being respected. And they look down and want to legislate relationships built on love and respect.

Pedophile rapists stick together.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

Parenting today, in the span of 5 minutes: Text from 14yo from school: "Can we get a bari sax before the FB game tomorrow? I found them for rent for $85-100." 18yo comes to my office: "Can you get out my BC and SSN I have an appt in 20 minutes."

Weird way to frame "intentionally hit two cyclists with his car while laying on his horn like a crazy person"

Ryan Fonseca@ryan-fonseca.bsky.social

It's a choice (a bad one) to tell readers this driver "passed too close to cyclists" when there's video evidence showing he drove his car into them, made contact and hurt someone. Fellow journalists: we can explore the nuances of punishment for drivers without obfuscating their dangerous behavior.

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Holy schmidt !!! Leaving his Georgia rally, Trump misses the open door to The Beast, then wanders around front confused, as his security panics & redirects him back to his limo. Trump waves it off, hoping no one noticed.

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Lake Superior Academy is a beautiful school that had offered an incredible outdoor learning experience — that is until this Bitcoin mining farm moved in…

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I think if Ohio voters *really* think about what that ad means, they'll conclude that it means Republicans trust the people who defend pedophiles more than they trust the victims of pedophiles.

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Dentist referred me to an endontist that not only is not in network, they require 100% up front and we submit for reimbursement and it's at least $1400 based on our allowance/copay table. I'm gonna guess that's why they had an opening two days out.

Load of laundry on for the first time in over a week. Feels good. Dryer shit the bed and wife *hates* our front-load washer, but we can't fit a side-by-side in our laundry room without removing the mud sink. We've seen these on vacation and said "what the hell".

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There is an increasingly non-zero chance he drops an n-bomb on live tv in the next two weeks

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "If you call somebody from that part of the world 'Mohammed,' you're about 65% sure to get it right. So if you have any problem with names, just call the guy Mohammed, you'll probably be right."

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It's been a bit... feels like time for a cheeky Gundam giveaway! Includes the RG Epyon (Apex), plus a real mix of other items - many event/retailer exclusive. 👉 To enter, follow + repost (or quote). Winner will be picked at random, next Monday 26th October, international post all ok. Good luck! 🍀

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🔊 TONIGHT! A new episode of Make Some Noise launches on Dropout at 7PM ET / 4PM PT! Starring host Sam Reich, and your players: Carl Tart, Jess McKenna, and Jacob Wysocki!

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More of the very best tree law

Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social

At 10am Judge Ana Reyes will begin an evidentiary hearing in the golf course case at 10am. I'll try to live-blog from the US Courthouse media room for @lawfaremedia.org . This is a case to stop Trump from converting a historic public golf course, open to all, to a Trump style championship course.

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NEW - DHS appointees made an unusual request of CISA, its agency that protects election systems: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. Though not acted on, the request shows how the Trump administration has tried to use CISA for its own ends.

propublica.orgThis Cybersecurity Agency Is Supposed to Protect U.S. Elections. Officials Fear It’s Been Compromised by Trump.DHS appointees made an unusual request of its agency that protects election systems: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. Though not acted on, the request shows how the Trump administration ...

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Again, the scandalous thing about Elon Musk spending $276 million on the 2026 midterms is NOT how *much* money it is. The scandal is how *little* money this is *to him.* Compared to his net worth, this is roughly equal to the median American my age spending $40.

Nice progress on the Shenma Golden Warrior aka Full Armor Hyaku Shiki. Gate placement is great, either undergated or hidden once built. Plating a kit can round over details but this is incredibly crisp and highly detailed, and took panel liner without issue.

It also has a diecast inner frame which I haven't worked with before. My PG Astray Kai has metal inserts for the knees and hips but this is everything but the arms. Nice heft. Surprising amount of plastic to go, there's a lot of armor that gets bolted on this guy.

Picked up a mini toolbox to try and organize my primary build supplies. I'm looking for some kind of quick reference infographic type deal to put inside the top lid but I'm spacing on what a "model building quick reference guide" would even look like.

Truist Arena at Northern Kentucky University plays host to a large number of HS commencement ceremonies every year. Both our 18yo's Vocational school and traditional HS had their graduation there this year. It was more full for a ~300 student graduation, both times, than for a Trump rally.

x.comNandita Bose (@nanditab1) on XPresident Trump’s crowd on a Saturday afternoon in Highland Heights, Kentucky - just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, in solidly Republican Northern Kentucky - where he has yet to fill the arena

Another weekend morning, another day of my 18yo screaming "fuck you!" and slamming the front door. Empty fast food containers and cups everywhere. Dirty clothes and towels on the floor. Hasn't done his chores or showered in days. But yes, me waking you up to get shit done is the problem.

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Replying to @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Never mind, the full answer here is almost perfect.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Now that large project season has come to a close, got the paint station put back together. Penelope has been waiting patiently for her turn in the booth. Same colorway as the Xi with some grey to break up those huge white panels, and gold on the minovsky flight panels underneath.

I'm still not sold on the Penelope as a model kit. It looks cool as hell in motion with the flight system glowing but it's kind of a chicken-looking mess on the shelf. I'm sure paint and decals will help immensely.

Working on a 3rd party Full Armor Hyuku Shiki with die cast joints. 14yo has a band competition, 18yo is airsodting then closing McDs, and wife is primary on-call, got paged at 7am, and a scheduled case already in the board for 10:30a.