Declan

Thread pulling a botnet apart. Summary: - botnet of more than 15k accounts largely targeting LGBTQ users with keyword searches - Using a headline scraper and an LLM to mimic a cynical user Notes and files at the end.

At some point we're going to have to get the advertising/data scraping industry under control. They're just making a mockery of everything now.

Daily sketch 🏚🍁🥷🐈‍⬛️ Can you spot the Cat ? #ink #artsky #sketch

Late daily sketch 🍂🍁🥷🐈‍⬛️ Can you spot the Cat ? #art #ink #sketch

Remembering my dear friend BERNIE WRIGHTSON on what would’ve been his 78th birthday. Everyday I’m reminded how great and talented he was by his original art I’ve hanging all over my studio walls. A constant source of inspiration. Buon Compleanno, brother, I miss you 🖤

Of all the possibilities...is this going to be his 'tax evasion'?

Behold: The US Defense Intelligence Agency has released a report on challenges to security in space, including an NEI image of China’s spaceplane from Maxar, taken in 2024.

Unit 1 #evangelion #fanart #sygnin

Wow. Democracy for Sale nominated for *two* British journalist awards, for our investigations into Slapps and into Palantir Incredible to see a newsletter that’s barely three years old getting so much recognition Huge thanks to all our supporters!! 🎉

My painting SOUTHERN UTAH

Can we refer to Bibi as Waswas now?

Very happy with the new details of the Warm Homes Loan Scheme. I may live up to my bio tomorrow and do a thread on it as it relates to solar PV and batteries. But for now: sleep.

This is good. Encouraging people to save and invest is good. Making it easy is good.

It appears not. Bluesky's servers are just having a moment.

Have I been banned again?

Extremely funny to go "I can't believe the Poles didn't insitute reforms that would have upset Moscow" with a header image of What Happens When You Upset Moscow

Some old plein airs

This is another downside of there being too much money in politics. Political campaigns should be able to afford maybe 2 or 3 leaflets covering their core messages over the course of an election season. This is excessive.

If anyone knows the Owner of that Byron Wan account IRL, please let them know that their account has been hijacked and is currently running a crypto-scam.

I am going to be unapologetic in my "this agrees with me and therefore is immutable truth"-ness. We should renationalize the water system. I like this chap's take on even the creditors being due £0, but I will settle for giving them a small portion of what can be clawed back from TW shareholders.

🎵It's always a good day when we get to talk about Reform UK's finances🎵

I haven't had time to read this yet, but I was listening to some former (US) intelligence people discussing this case a while back. One of them pointed out that bailing those guys so quickly was likely because the police/MI5(or etc) were looking to see who would and wouldn't contact them.

People who ask for all sorts of special work, try to negotiate you down, and then get upset when they learn that you're busy and so can't do their work immediately...

I don't play a lot of games these days, but enjoying the designs and images coming out of Star Wars: Galactic Racer. Reminded me of this old drawing.

Microsoft...oof.

Local councils. Sometimes they're great. Other times they're Bath.

Old laboratory #protheus #artsky #scifi #cyberpunk

I would also very much like the AI spammers to stop. We're not buying a website that looks awful that you vibecoded in 5 minutes for the same price that we can get a proper website. We are also not interested in your fake leads.

The amount of work that arrived over the weekend has me feeling a touch overwhelmed. Not even sure where to begin. If I owe you some form of email or phone call - sorry. I might get to it by Christmas 2038.

Rates of support in Universal Credit are detached from reality. Great to give evidence to APPG for Ending the Need for Food Banks inquiry on this on behalf of @jrf-uk.bsky.social. We need an independent process to help set UC rates based on actual evidence of essential living costs.

Top of the charts for Christmas?

Sarah Morgan, contemporary UK printmaker #WomensArt

Had to put my anger about Trump somewhere so I made this video about Ukraine, Putin and international politics more generally. No guest, basically just a Twitter rant with visuals: youtu.be/cIzqXP2UQSo?...

First time I've done anything like this and I'm obviously bad at cutting etc. but generally speaking, do we think this is too TikToky? A lot of stuff is moving and there are images which I think makes it easier to watch for normies but perhaps I've overdone it? Let me know

Google "Trump orban" for a surprise

Excellent day to not be a nationalist dickhead. Most days are, tbf, but today was better than average. That said, I'm under no illusions that either Lula or the new Serbian gov't are going to live up to any expectations greater than "isn't a fascist" and/or "aren't Putin apologists".

Missing Galem and Shades, I found this old little snippet from when Shades (Galem's raccoon familiar) gained ‘speak with master’ 🦝😨 #OCart #OCsky #pf1e hehe

Character sheets for Matt “Clayface” Hagen for 1993’s Batman: The Animated Series.

Comm for @hinnhawkeye.bsky.social I can’t stop looking at this piece! The muted tones are quite unusual for me, but they look so pleasing and harmonious in this work!😍 #ych #commission

My painting 'Peaceful Rapids' is available as a small art print in my Etsy store. Please visit monicamorrillart.etsy.com for more photos and to view other prints, cards and original paintings!