Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

Stream over, it was fun!! I didn't faint this time? Must be bugged.

TYSM FOR THE RAID @teaqueenros !

When it was our turn we raided into my mod, Lemon! She's playing Luigi's Mansion and is the sweetest person ever, please go check her out > https://www.twitch.tv/lemoncurtsey

An update on a favorite topic of mine: The serial tech investment scammer John Clifton Davies, a.k.a. John Bernard, a.k.a. John Cavendish.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/?s=john+bernard

Davies/Bernard is a self-proclaimed millionaire investor who has bilked countless tech startups. His real name is John Clifton Davies, a U.K. man who absconded from justice before being convicted on multiple counts of fraud in 2015. He ran a series of businesses that purported to offer assistance to struggling companies, but instead robbed them and put them out of business.

Prior to his conviction, Davies served 16 months in jail before being cleared of murdering his third wife on their honeymoon in India.

After fleeing the UK for Ukraine w/ his 4th wife who is from there, Davis/Bernard started scam companies that would pretend to have tens of millions to invest in tech firms. When companies eager for a press release about someone investing in their vision agree to pay for the investor's due diligence fees -- and the due diligence company is owned by the investors, well, you just got scammed. Most victims can't justify the legal costs given the losses, and low likelihood of recovery, and shame, etc.

Pretty sure I just found his newest invention/identity/scam company. It's called CodesToYou, and it purports to offer "full cycle software development" which strikes "your ultimate balance between speed, cost, and quality."

CodesToYou claims you can hire it to produce software for you using smart Ukrainian coders. But from what I've heard so far these people never deliver.

The Who We Are page of CodesToYou has several interesting profiles. For starters, the woman listed and pictured as the marketing team lead -- "Maria Yakovleva" -- is the exact same profile picture and first name used by the LinkedIn profile here, which used to list her experience as part of the executive team for the Private Office of John Bernard. She had a different name then, though: "Mariya Kulikova."

https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-y-84b58248/

Also, the person listed as head of business development, David Bruno, is still the only person I've ever spoken with who had nice things to say about Mr. Davies/Bernard.

In 2015, Mr. Bruno's company SafeSwiss Secure Communications AG bought a company -- SecureSwissData - from Davies/Bernard in an "undisclosed multimillion buyout."

From a 2020 story: “I can confirm that I know John Bernard and have always found him very honourable and straight forward in my dealings with him as an investor,” Bruno said. “To be honest with you, I struggle to believe that he would, or would even need to be, involved in the activity you mentioned, and quite frankly I’ve never heard about those things.”

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/09/due-diligence-that-money-cant-buy/

In Flanders Fields
Written in 1915

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
        In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:...
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

        In Flanders fields.

Meet the N.Y. prosecutor who could bring historic Trump indictment https://t.co/XfZCWRHJ7H

"The source of *all* of these problems is Trump and the Republicans who have—and continue to—enable him. Yet for some reason, we assume that those actions are inevitable and only Democrats have agency." https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/you-dont-like-the-idea-of-the-manhattan

@realTuckFrumper
Alex Jones perp walk is going to be even more satisfying than the orange chump's

If tax evasion laws don’t apply to disgraced twice-impeached former Presidents then the laws against surrounding a chintzy golf club in Florida and burning it to the ground don’t apply to us

Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' bill author facing up to 35 years in prison

https://www.alternet.org/dont-say-gay-author-prison/

#fraud #ppploans #DontSayGay #Floriduh #rondesantis

Soldier's Lullaby

If I die in a war zone,
box me up and send me Home.
Put my medals on my chest,
tell my mom I did my Best.
Tell my dad not to bow,
he won’t get tension from me Now.
Tell my bro to study perfectly,
keys of my bike will be his Permanently.
Tell my sister not to be upset,
her bro will take along sleep after Sunset.
Tell to my nation not to cry,
“Because I’m a soldier Born to Die.”
#Ukraine️

Via @emptywheel

Lordy, there are [transcribed] tapes.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/sources-special-counsel-claims-trump-deliberately-misled-attorneys/story?id=98024191

("Prosecutors in the special counsel's office have presented compelling preliminary evidence that #Trump knowingly and deliberately misled his own attorneys about his retention of classified materials after leaving office...") #JackSmith #legal #documents

Here is the latest edit I did for the image challenges I love to enter on fineartamerica. The theme is Reflections.

https://shelli-fitzpatrick.pixels.com/featured/bird-reflecting-in-a-cats-eye-shelli-fitzpatrick.html

#reflection #MastoArt #FediGiftShop #FediArt #AYearForArt #art #caturdayeveryday

I was kinda hoping that by the year 2023 we’d be past that whole religious fanaticism thing.

But in the US these fuckers are crazier and more dangerous than ever.

my wife's company is trying to convince people to return to the office because one of their executives thinks its embarrassing when clients come by and the offices are empty, anyways, theatre students always need some pocket money and if someone wants to join my exciting new "potemkin village as a service" startup

Them: Come on. It'll be fun

Me:

#thinkingcap

The GOP is threatening to defund the prosecutor about to indict Trump

Good job, Republicans. You found that weaponization of government you were talking about

🏆

Someone’s feeling a bit crazy tonight

#Mia #cats #catsofmastodon

I'm so scared of what things will look like after another 5 to 10 years of this

"I don't think Trump is playing 3 dimensional chess." - Jen Psaki

"I think he can barely play checkers." - Joy Reid #TheReidOut 😂