Laura Abbott

It’s time to dress up babies as vegetables

Nancy 10/13/26

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

computers are now battlefields

Wish someone would release patches for my vulnerabilities

Gonna be thousands of phpBB forums going up in smoke

🚨 Six WebPKI Intermediate CAs are compromised. This is bigger than Heartbleed, but a client-side issue. Anything that verifies certificates against public roots, like most TLS clients, is/was affected. Details, live test, patched versions and workarounds at emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com Act now.

This week's comic: Pumpkinmojis foxtrot.com/2026/10/18/p...

KPop Demon Hunters is better than Digimon.

I didn’t know the WSJ was posting Crusader Kings guides

Portrait from Upfront

I have since privately received information that the lack of credit was in bad faith, and that this was a blatant and intentional ripoff. I'm not the only one disheartened by the lack of due credit.

NEW: Yeah, not good

pringles urn. discuss

lately i’ve seen a lot of people complain that their roombas have started wielding swords. “how did it get one? i don’t even own a sword!” i don’t know man, you probably had one you just forgot about. stop being weird and just chill

I think southwest was trying to be helpful in rebooking me but I also kind of think I could have made my original flight set

bumped into an incredible website gavin-theobald.uk/HTML/Pentagr...

retvrn

Why the East Coast storm is a nor’easter and not a hurricane.

Hardest part: finding a protocol to use for this joke (SAML fans pls don't kill me)

Particle board, particle board There’s a big pile on the office floor What in the world are we saving it for? Nobody knows Particle board

“School choice” means few, if any, choices for parents of disabled students. In Florida, home to the nation’s largest voucher programs, we found that more than half of private schools say they do not serve students with any type of disabilities.

drew lock

“commitment to excellence” is such a funny slogan. i feel like that’s kinda what everyone shoots for. nobody ever goes “oh we’re committed to mediocrity”

one thing the ai era makes me miss is really shitty bespoke photoshops you used to get just the lowest effort garbage imaginable made by people who have opened the program three times in their entire life, but it had some charm to it and now they just generate the same bullshit as everyone else

Huge congratulations to the US-based Wikimedia Foundation employees who voted with 92% support in favor of unionizing, and shoutout to the tireless work of the organizers.

23 YEARS AGO TODAY, @mrweebl.bsky.social posted BADGERS to @Newgrounds.com

JUST SCHEDULED FLU & COVID VACCINES 4 THIS *RIDICULUS* HUMAN BODY EYE INHABIT THATS RITE 2026/2027 COVID VACCINE IS NOW AVAILABLE

Honestly never thought I'd see the day Eve actually moved on from Python 2.7. www.eveonline.com/news/view/th...

just wanted you to see my pan ❤️

RIP to a legend