Notices by Kevin Rothrock (kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange)

when microblogging, it's important to mix in enough shitposts so that neither you nor the readers know when you're being honest or serious

ребята, что, по-вашему, означают инструкции: “путин, где ты сука, освободи мне место”?

In a new interview, RT's Margo Simonyan describes her forthcoming apocalypse novel, and it sounds like a masterpiece of crap storytelling. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/11/15/at-the-margaritas-of-madness

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s nominee for U.S. national intelligence director, is named on the enemies list run by the Myrotvorets doxxing website, where she’s described as “an accomplice of Russian war criminals” and “probably a Russian intel agent.” https://myrotvorets.center/criminal/gabbard-tulsi/

Turns out the Chepiga family got new identities after ole "123-meter spire-loving" Anatoly was outed as a GRU agent. His wife has used the new surname for the past five years to register cars and buy plane tickets. https://www.agents.media/semya-podozrevaemogo-v-otravlenii-skripalej-smenila-familiyu/

Once State Duma lawmakers get their way, only religious actors, ie celibate clergy members, will be able to talk publicly about not having kids. Child-free Russians, it's on you to found a Church of Disposable Income! https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/11/12/russian-lawmakers-amend-child-free-propaganda-ban-to-exempt-religious-celibacy

Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov’s stormtroopers reportedly abducted the cousin of the late separatist leader Dzhokhar Dudayev today, possibly just because he shared photos of Dudayev on Instagram. Nervous much, Ramzan? https://t.me/IADAT/17668?single

Another invasion hero (and possibly a pardoned sex offender) returns home to Russia and kills. This time, the victim was an 11-year-old girl in Nizhny Tagil. The suspect is a 40-year-old Ukraine war veteran named Vladimir. https://zona.media/news/2024/09/03/ubijstvo

CSAM = child sexual abuse material. Telegram implicitly allows it in private groups and direct messages. Telegram won't work with the police even if it's found on public channels. https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/addressing-distribution-illicit-sexual-content-minors-online

Elon Musk must be thinking twice about any upcoming European travel.

The Coordination Center for TLD RU confirms that it’s working on the “technical problem affecting the .RU zone associated with the global DNSSEC infrastructure,” and service should be restored “soon.” https://t.me/fontankaspb/51445

Following a Bloomberg report that Chinese state banks are stepping up due diligence on funding to Russian clients to avoid U.S. secondary sanctions, Putin’s spokesman says it’s all “very sensitive,” harrumph, no comment. https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/65a64feb9a794706152b90f1

there is no quitessential Threads po—

State Duma deputy Alexander Khinstein doesn’t want anyone to forget what a good little anti-LGBT crusader he is, and so he’s filed a police report against a book publisher for selling a Ukrainian comic strip about pansexual pigeons. https://zona.media/news/2023/12/20/eksmo

Japan has expanded its sanctions against Russia for the invasion/occupation of Ukraine (designating 100 more companies and individuals) and announced a ban on the import of diamonds from Russia, effective on January 1, 2024. https://www.mofa.go.jp/press/release/pressite_000001_00050.html

Rest in peace, Captain Raymond Holt. https://www.cbr.com/andre-braugher-dead/

many of us are currently grieving over the loss of our dear meme where Death is playing a claw machine and always grabbing the wrong person. please be respectful in your comments and remember our fragile state of mind.

Russian officials doing their best to make it unethical even to set foot in Russia as a foreigner: Internal Affairs Ministry proposes mandatory ‘loyalty agreement’ for international visitors

https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/11/29/russia-s-internal-affairs-ministry-proposes-mandatory-loyalty-agreement-for-foreign-visitors

@seanbala you’ve already thought about this longer than i did

@seanbala the underlying logic is alien to me