The most monstrous lie that I regularly tell myself is "I'll get that work done while I'm on the plane."

Sometimes I read the threads that experienced activists write about how to behave at protests because it reminds me that the kinds of replies I get when I give digital privacy/security advice aren't just for me.

We are 9 days into 2026 and my New Years' Resolution to just let people be wrong on the internet is already is truly testing the limits of my willpower.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution for digital safety at protests. You need to decide in advance what your goals are, what is important for you to protect, and what is likely to happen to you, and threat model accordingly.

But if it is important to you to maintain your anonymity at a protest, consider leaving your phone at home, or at least turning it on/off only once you are well out of the neighborhood.

There are other reasons you might want to take a cheap/disposable/burner phone to a protest, such as making sure that if you are arrested, the police don't seize/break/confiscate your main phone.

If you don't want ICE to know you were at a protest, taking a burner phone is not going to help you stay anonymous if you go home afterwards. https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phone…

NYT reports that the TSA is giving ICE a list of every person who's to be taking a domestic flight inside the US so ICE can run it through their database looking for targets. I'm not a lawyer, but I feel like the 4th Amendment has something to say about this. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/politics/immigratio…

I don't dress for the male gaze. I dress for a women who are old enough to be my mother, wear oversized jewelry, and say things like "I'd dye my hair that color."

"A soldier knows what to do when they encounter another soldier. But an air-humping frog?" @sarahjeong.bsky.social on the shitposting/aura farming era of American politics. https://www.theverge.com/policy/798491/frog-portland-trum…

As the prophecy foretold, a major platform's third-party age verification system has been hacked and hackers had access to the government ID images of Discord's users. https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/disco…