I played women's rugby in college. You get tackled, kicked, stepped on. Do you know what my team less safe? Lack of adequate funding, facilities, coaches & trainers. Do you know what would have only made it more awesome? Trans athletes. Trans people belong in sports.

It's out! As of today you can order the PRINT 2nd edition of Observability Engineering from any major bookseller; no more waiting for preorders. Co-written w/ @charity.wtf, @gmiranda23.bsky.social, @aparker.io & guest authors Buy: www.indiebound.org/book/9781098... or www.amazon.com/Observabilit...

This is clownshoes. If you watch the WNBA, you know it's players like AT and Angel who are often on the receiving end of hard fouls with no consequences, much more than CC. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

Republicans ask WNBA to protect Caitlin Clark from possible ‘racially motivated’ attacks

Eleven Republican politicians have written to the WNBA asking the league to protect Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark from ‘multiple attacks’ on court

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I had been looking for this exact data this election cycle and OF COURSE @molly.wiki is the one who has assembled it into a beautifully designed, easy to navigate website bsky.app/profile/moll...

Molly White@molly.wiki · 2mo ago

I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time. influence.citationneeded.news

Emoji reactions are training treats for humans

It has become unfortunately difficult to buy protein powder without a subscription. Must my little powdered nutrients be part of your MRR chart??

My greatest professional accomplishment of the year: I got my exec & manager teammates saying "point positive," a term from whitewater rafting and kayaking. Meaning: when facing hazards, point people toward where to go/what to do, rather than drawing attention to everything to avoid.

These teams consistently did some of the best reporting at the network. 💔

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 10mo ago

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

Join @swarmia.bsky.social's @rmurphey.bsky.social, @honeycomb.io's @eanakashima.bsky.social, & @nathenharvey.bsky.social for a webinar about: • The impact of AI in engineering orgs • How leaders are driving AI adoption www.swarmia.com/events/dora/ #Swarmia #Honeycomb #GBGB #DORA

AI-assisted software development in research and practice [online event] | Swarmia

Join us on October 28 for an online session with Google Cloud and Honeycomb on what the 2025 DORA report tells us about AI adoption — and how Honeycomb does it in practice.

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"These are Sabrinas. They aren't just a regular shoe. These are my Sunday church basketball sneakers."

This article is such a gorgeous portrait of the Valkyries' first season, AND, it is the most nyt vibe ever. Like it was written by an anthropologist who never watched a WNBA game before this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...

Inside the Most Valuable Team in Women’s Sports

nytimes.com

NEWS: Veronica Burton has been named the 2025 WNBA Most Improved Player.

the "from devops to AI" panel was brilliant. @eanakashima.bsky.social: "people miss how much of devops was about culture... the culture stuff is maybe more important than ever now." David Williams shared how AI is a black box we need observability to understand. bsky.app/profile/hone... #o11yDaySFO

Honeycomb@honeycomb.io · 11mo ago

What a panel with Emily Nakashima, James Bland (AWS), & David Williams (LaunchDarkly)! The role of an SRE is evolving and hard to define. SREs connect many dots in ways LLMs can’t—showing how people and AI must work together to solve complex challenges. Learn more: buff.ly/TwvXfyV #o11ydaySFO

If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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I saw protestors on the I-80 overpass holding signs that said, "ICE TARGETS COLOR, NOT CRIME." And that's the whole game right there. This is about indiscriminately harassing people who look like immigrants, regardless of status.

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 11mo ago

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Can someone from the Valkyries front office explain why the Valks shop has jerseys for two (2) players who rarely/never start and one (1) draftee who didn't actually join the team, but not Temi Fágbénlé who starts every game AND has the most important singing part in the pre-game hype cheer #wnba

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship

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I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?

I don't know who needs to see this, as the saying goes, but platform engineering is not just "devops" or "infra" by another name. Platform engineering is about bringing a product sensibility and design ethos to the infra-shaped technical problem space.

This is heartbreaking and horrible. AmeriCorps jobs are such a low-cost win-win, providing helpful support for the communities, nonprofits, schools, public agencies, etc. and helping young people pay bills and explore possible career paths. bsky.app/profile/moll...

molly taft@mollytaft.com · last yr.

NEW: i spoke with several young AmeriCorps volunteers around the country who were abruptly pulled off projects building homes, readying forests for wildfire season, and working at food banks Tuesday afternoon. they are now on their way home thanks to DOGE cuts —

I'm contacting my senators *right now* to ask them to shoot this hateful garbage down; I'll add my script below if anyone else wants to borrow. bsky.app/profile/erin...

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · last yr.

ALERT! It just broke that tomorrow, the Senate will attempt a procedural vote on a transgender sports ban. It will take 7 Democrats breaking rank in order to have enough votes to pass cloture. Democrats held very strong in the House and only lost two votes. CALL YOUR DEMS! (info in next post)

Do you own a fully electric vehicle (EV) or plug-in hybrid? If so, help me out and take this survey (5-7 min)? I'm doing a project for a marketing class on a new EV charging technology and you'll help us better understand market segments. Grateful for reskeets 🙌🏼 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Survey: Bidirectional EV Charging

We are a group of UC Berkeley students working on a marketing pitch for a new startup focused on bidirectional EV charging. Information gathered in this survey will help us identify the best way to re...

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I used to believe in trans rights just because trans rights are human rights. Later, I came to see that the struggle for trans rights is intertwined with all women's rights and all LGBTQ+ rights. As James Baldwin said, "If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night" (1/3)

I regret to inform you that people have officially started circling back around after the holidays

The "use tail sampling for your traces" advice should probably also come with a strong "you must be this tall to ride this ride" caveat Simple if you have a monolith, challenging if you have a cluster of microservices, jesus take the wheel if you have geo-distributed traces crossing regions

Friends, chaps are leg covers. The default chap form has no butt cover. You do not need to call them “assless chaps.”

I feel like Americans love to analogize sports to business because for many of us, sports was the only time we: 1. worked as a team 2. received constructive criticism and 3. shared a larger mission before being in the labor force. I wish there were more ways for young people to experience these.

If you follow me partly because you are a fan of my employer, @honeycomb.io, you'll be happy to know you can now follow them on BlueSky bsky.app/profile/hone...

Honeycomb@honeycomb.io · 2y ago

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