Don’t forget maintainers this month! I’m not doing anything for #MaintainerMonth this year because I’m currently on maternity leave myself from Temporal, but I’ll see y’all next time around 😘

Happy Mothers Day. Every year I soak in Julia Ward Howe’s stirring Mothers Day Proclamation, and dream that “women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of council.” Every word in it aches differently now that I have children. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%...

Watching David Attenborough get highly deserved praised for his century is reminding me: There is no crisis of masculinity, as such. We have plenty of positive male role models in our society. They just aren’t being pushed into young men’s feeds by nihilistic ad networks and social platforms.

A limerick. Based on a true story.

Oh good I’m glad GitHub is addressing their urgent issues by (checks notes) …doing layoffs again today

I’m fine with fully developed adults using whatever tools at work. But how am I supposed to protect my children’s emerging brains from this

maybe I think about the inscrutable engineering pitches in this show too much “Keep it simple. We bolster 12 husked nuts to each girdle-jerry, while flex tandems press a task apparatus of 10 vertically composited patch-hamplers and pin flam-fastened pan traps at both maiden-apexes of the jim-joist”

instinctively thought this was a Leslie Claret engineering bit from Patriot (tv 2015-2018)

this is furthering my gold dental care desires in dangerous ways

"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!

They should invent a term for when someone misrepresents themselves to lure a victim into a false relationship as part of a scam.

Well this is delightful: a woman getting her Masters in Archives and Preservation reached out to me because she's creating a digital collection of pictures of birds on statue heads taken from around the world. You can submit yours here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

NEWS 📣 The Sovereign Tech Agency is launching the Sovereign Tech Standards network today, a new program designed to bring open source maintainers directly into global standards development. www.sovereign.tech/news/join-so...

Made my first ever mosaic!! Based on an “unswept floor” Roman mosaic in the Vatican’s museum - the remnants of a feast with a mouse nibbling on them. Fruits by Brittany Knotek. #mosaic #mosaicmonday

Woa, a Thisby Thestoop animated film?! This book is clever and dark and deeply atmospheric, love to see this news.

a very special last post for a very special event

Maternity leave in the US isn’t ever long enough, but with a good employer, it’s still long enough to forget your work computer password and panic for a full week before recalling it at 2am

zaslav tried to take this from us but he COULDNT it is too powerful

Secret URLs. Special webpages. People learning how to send letters again. And way more mail than we ever expected. A goofy idea that turned into one of the most fulfilling things we've ever done: www.gamefile.news/p/panic-mail...

Sitting here crying while after getting WhatsApped the photo on the right, so let me tell you a little story about how we got here from the photo on the left and why repatriation research matters!

The hungry red panda at the Prospect Park Zoo? Adorable. The HungryPanda delivery app scamming small businesses? Not adorable. So they will be paying $580,000 back. We'll keep pursuing companies that take advantage of New Yorkers, and we'll keep asking if we can pet a red panda just for a second.

I had hoped to avoid this — but my job search is taking longer than expected, and Chris lost his job unexpectedly. I'm now fundraising so that I can afford gender affirming care and surgery scheduled for October 8th! Donate at: riley.pub/fundraiser Every bit helps and I welcome boosts. Thank you ❤️‍🩹

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The idea that bright, wild color is something you outgrow is a damaging lie society tells us. This unspoken rule, that enjoying intense, clashing colors makes you childish, is pure bullshit. The depression palette trend has only gotten worse because it saves corpos money. We gotta end it.

@musicologyduck.bsky.social lol @ that banner with the huge hands, because Lincoln did NOT wear a wedding ring. Maybe the AI wasn’t aware.

Annihilation (2018)

Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

Been discussing lately the use of milk drinking in movies as a villain tell. This is uh too on-the-nose. (I drink a lot of milk and am NOT a villain)

Archaeologists reveal the role of women in an early historic lumber camp in NE Oregon @bobmuckle.bsky.social 🏺#archaeology www.opb.org/article/2026...

VERMIS III – Old Curses & Buried Horrors by Plastiboo is here!!! A pure act of world-building inspired by old dungeon crawler games. What will be left of you at the end of your journeys? floatingworldcomics.com/shop/comic-b...

In 2024, I wrote my dissertation on Value Creation in DevRel. Converting it into a blog series has been on my list ever since, and I finally started 👀 https://chrisreddington.com/blog/devrel-value-creation/

🎉 Applications for the Sovereign Tech Fellowship are officially open! What’s new? For the first time, community managers, and technical writers can apply alongside open source maintainers until April 6, 2026, to become Fellows.

(me eating anything with honey in springtime): I hope ants are good for you 🐜

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Junji Ito’s Uzumaki

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

@sarahebond.bsky.social reviewed a new book about The Met’s 2022 polychromy exhibition that highlights the foremost scholars studying polychromy today. It marks an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with white supremacy.

Low-quality AI PRs are a serious threat to the open source ecosystem, which is precarious already due to lack of funding. Truly sucks to see maintainers like @akien.bsky.social, who have put so much work into making OSS projects welcoming, have to deal with this junk deluge.

life with a newborn [normal person]: if I try to sleep, the baby wakes up if I try to identify the date of this 19th century general staff military button, I don’t get any sleep

In a heartbreaking day for those of us who appreciate nominative determinism, this C17 account of works at Chester Castle lists a carpenter named Richard Plumm, a plasterer called Thomas Cooper, and a stonemason named William Woods.

if he means it can automate bullying then, sure thing

Calling all #Python maintainers: The #PyConUS 2026 Maintainers Summit CFP is open! Topics include: GenAI in OSS, security, community building, developer workflows & more. First-time speakers & underrepresented voices especially encouraged! Learn more: us.pycon.org/2026/events/...

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

“Each new paper invariably reveals one more wretched malady. Perhaps next year we will learn that Ötzi had pimples or weird-looking knees or just a bad vibe generally.” FINALLY some good news for Ötzi, thank you @sabs.bsky.social !

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

This is just great advice in general. Delete more Jira tickets.

Wishing I were at FOSDEM to catch up with folks! I haven’t slept in a month, coincidentally my baby is 1 month old 🥱

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

this is why I try not to digest my food (for science)