I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

I like my cities to be sittable, shittable, and public transittable.

🔭 Eye on the Milky Way Image Credit & Copyright: Miguel Claro (TWAN, Dark Sky Alqueva) ap260419

Three years of Kuberoke and I finally sat down to figure out: What is it about Karaoke that people love so much? And how do we deal with this unforeseen success? Excited to share this inaugural post on my new blog: LianThinksThings lianmakesthings.dev/blog/26-04-0...

Was just asked to assess my German skills for a potential role as they require C1/C2 level German. Folks, I made it. Turns out you CAN take the Germany out of the girl.

The personas of platform stakeholders, if we understand those we see how we can gain higher reach and who we should focus on for increasing love and value

Developers are clients to services, but contributors to platforms. @lianmakesthings.bsky.social #PlatEngDay

It’s @lianmakesthings.bsky.social on the stage at #KubeCon Platform Engineering Day 💙 Sharing lessons learned in DevRel that can be applied to your internal platform

Join me on Monday at 1:20pm to talk all things platform adoption 🚀 colocatedeventseu2026.sched.com/event/2DY5r

We hope you all enjoyed Cloud Native Rejekts yesterday! ❤️ There was so many great talks, amazing discussions and lots of laughs with new and old friends. This is why we do it - the community, the people, the connections.

Wooo! @rejekts.io is about to kick off! 🎉 If you're not able to be here you can join us virtually via the live streams: 📺 Room 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmVN... 📺 Room 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O8p... 🗓️ Schedule: cloud-native-rejekts-eu-2026.sessionize.com/schedule/day...

Fascism hasn't risen. We keep pretending that some of these CEOs and VCs started as good people, and then were turned into internet trolls and then fascists, by some malevolent external force. They literally published books about what they wanted to do before all of this. But y'all didn't care.

Der nationale Aktionsplan "Queer leben" war das einzige bundesweite Förderprojekt für queere Projekte. Er wurde von der Bundesregierung eingestellt. Mach mit und unterstütze die queere Community in Deutschland – unterzeichne die Petition! weact.campact.de/petitions/ak...

Watch the rest with @lianmakesthings.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDIl...

So excited to be speaking at Platform Engineering Day in Amsterdam 🚀 The work that I'm doing is the culmination of my work and everything I've learned as Cloud Native consultant, DevRel and Platform Engineer for the past decade. And I cannot wait to share it with all of you ✨ sched.co/2DY5r

"They run experiments and describe their findings in narrowly focused documents. They do not outline sinister plans for human exploitation and regulatory evasion in writing." Clearly, @caseynewton.bsky.social hasn't read a lot of enterprise code.

Kuberoke is coming home to Amsterdam, bigger and better than ever! 🎤 ✨ Help us make it happen! Tell your friends, coworkers and bosses (especially those with marketing budget!) Open for sponsorship now 💙

🔭 M1: The Crab Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Alan Chen apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...

And don’t forget to KEEP YOUR ACCEPTANCE TO YOURSELF until they publish the schedule 🤫

Science evolves, but consensus matters. Don’t confuse openness to revision with carte blanche for misinformation. Settled science exists - and it matters for policy and public trust. Read the full article here: www.livescience.com/... 10/10

😁 I love seeing 3 of my dear friends giving the keynotes at @kcduk.bsky.social day 2! 💙 Great work @lianmakesthings.bsky.social @mccune.org.uk @wiggitywhitney.bsky.social 🎉

Day 2 of @kcduk.bsky.social and @lianmakesthings.bsky.social is explaining how platform engineering replaced the DevOps walk of confusion with a canyon of confusion.

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

The administration is not powerful enough to crack down on all opposition to fascism. In all likelihood, this is chiefly a performative measure intended to intimidate people. It will only be possible to impose fascist control on this society as a whole if people stop resisting. Keep fighting. 🏴

Their bad-faith game of denial is destroying our ability to respond to the collapse of civil society. They behave constantly in ways that actively destabilize our institutions and endanger our peace, and then, when the worst happens, affect mock outrage anyone would see their transparent motive.

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Feel like this security concept wasn’t quite thought through

6 days left for your Rejekts proposal... just one day of programming this year, so competition for spots will be tighter than usual!

Which kind of former coder are you: baking bread, too many synthesizers, or woodworking?

Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people. Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.

There’s no question that the Catholic Church has deep flaws. But at a time when we need allies to fight AI, its moral framing of the issue, grounded in real-world problems instead of sci-fi fantasies, could be useful in building a larger coalition against AI. www.disconnect.blog/p/will-pope-...

Later this month, @techwontsave.us turns five years old. It’s hard to believe I’ve been making the show for this long! Over that time I’ve interviewed hundreds of guests to spread critical perspectives on tech far and wide — and I know it’s had an impact.

We're getting close! Only 12 more days until Kuberoke! Check out this video to hear why our Chief Karaoke Officer @lianmakesthings.dev started Kuberoke and what song she is planning to sing!

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

It’s opening weekend! 🥳🎉 www.heaproductions.nl/onceuponamat...

Current mood

Registrations for Kuberoke are now open! Join us on April 2nd for a night of musical splendour 🎤✨ 📝 We heard your feedback and changed the registration flow. All you need is to sign up and bring the QR code + your KubeCon lanyard 🕘 Doors open at 9 pm, last admission at 0:30am. ti.to/kuberoke/kub...

🎼🪕MEET THE MINSTREL (Cast Pea) Get ready to hear the dulcet tones of Wesley Curtis in cast Pea as he unfolds the true events behind the fairytale.... 📸: Cheryl Hart photography #OnceUponAMattress #MusicalTheatre #Amsterdam #HappilyEverAfter #TossACoin

The venue is fantastic, and we can't wait to welcome you all to Kuberoke in April! ❤️ 🎤

POV: you’re running a k8s platform with multiple tenants.

We've prepared a zine version of our text "It’s Safer in the Front." Please print and distribute! crimethinc.com/zines/its-sa... “Counterintuitive though it is, in a confusing situation, often the best—if not safest—place to be is the front lines, so you can see what is going on around you.” 🏴

Hi friends, as some of you know, I dabble in musical theatre from time to time. And I have a show coming up, end of March in Amsterdam. We’re going to have 10 performances in total over the span of 3 weeks, so no excuses 😅 The show is family-friendly, we even have some kids on the cast 👀

🎉 New Conference Party! 🎉 ✨ KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 - Kuberoke ✨ Direct Link: https://kuberoke.love/events/spring-party-london-2025/ More at: https://conf.party #Conference #Party #Social #ConfParty

#KubeCon London is fast approaching and we're busy getting ready for a new installation of #Kuberoke to go along with it! 🎉 We're still working on the details so keep an eye on the website for registration. I hope you have your list of favourite songs ready! 🎶 kuberoke.love/events/sprin...

So yeah, one of my sessions was accepted 🎉 kccnceu2025.sched.com/event/1tx9w/...