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Lesley Carhart :unverified:
@Lesley Carhart :unverified:

I am eminently qualified to speak from experience about a variety of dumpster fires.

ICS cybersecurity person, @pancakescon organizer, martial artist, marksman, humanist, level 14 Neutral Good rogue, USAF retired. Speaker available for gigs.

Gin connoisseur. Rodent parent. Some dipshit from Chicago. Now an immigrant in Melbourne.

I post *very serious* things about infosec. Thoughts are entirely my own.

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Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and The Castle are both absolutely iconic movies for millennials and Gen X, and I can’t believe I never saw them in America. I mean, Hugo Weaving giving a thoughtful performance on 90s LGBT struggles, in drag, with dialogue on trans life at the time. (Cis actor aside.)
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Lesley Carhart :unverified: · 1w
I can’t think of a relatively mainstream dark comedy of the era that was that fair and kind to a trans character (who -spoilers!!!- ends up with a nice straight boyfriend).
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People don’t get that how far a bit of courtesy and effort goes in job hunts. I have gifted conference passes, party invites, given referrals, certification vouchers, and internships to mentees who showed up and cared. I’ve also permanently blocklisted people who low effort AI spammed, or no showed.
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Lesley Carhart :unverified: · 1w
Just being a ticket desk volunteer for a few hours and being personable at a local BSides goes so much further than 500 Claude spam messages to strangers on LinkedIn…
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I bought a Fjallraven backpack because they were so highly recommended, and I’m sorry, I don’t understand the point and I have massive regrets. Someone needs to sell me the bag I purchased, because it’s not padded well and has no luggage strap or extra security pockets. Why do people buy these?
Lesley Carhart :unverified: · 1w
Someone on BlueSky rightly commented, “Queer rights are just a canary for every other human right there”
Lesley Carhart :unverified: · 1w
Someone should drop major cybersecurity and tech conferences on this tbh.
Yora · 1w
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American exceptionalism is a hell of a drug and psychosis. Try being an immigrant American living somewhere with social medical and telling people it’s actually good and less expensive. The bots and naysayers come screaming out of the woodwork to try to make excuses for why it’s actchully terrible.