If discussing OSS sustainability sounds like a fun time, you're in luck! Thursday, 29 January at 10:00-11:30am CET, myself and @quintessence.bsky.social will be hosting a Guided Discussion / Birds-of-a-Feather at #chaosscon to talk about these very topics! Come join us!

Guided Discussion/BoF: Sustainability of Open Source Foundations and Communities

Thu Jan 29, 2026 10:00 - 11:30 (Time zone: Brussels)

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Turn off auto play. Immediately. You do not have to look for it. You do not have to watch or share it if you see it. Take care of yourself & your friends.

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.meow@dotmeow.org · 9mo ago

So!! Tomorrow!! At 7PM Central European Time (that's 1PM EST) we will be doing a Q&A Livestream on Twitch! Please go ahead and follow/turn on notifications for the account. This will be our first but definitely not our last (or only) way to keep you all informed :3 twitch.com/dotmeowfound...

If you're at #39C3 this year you can drop by milliways to get your Congress Exclusive challenge coin... RIGHT MEOW~ just ask for TQ, wordloc or Aeryn :)

Can't believe we're engaging in such #lesbaru erasure, on the week of @krisnova.net's birthday no less 😔

Random contextless question: so we have the "lolsob" emoji, is there an emoji mashup for LOL and Eternal Shriek / The Scream? 😂 😱 🤔

This past #caturday was having some word fun and IIUC it looks like some Germans with pets refer to themselves as "dosenöffner", or "can-openers"? (Can anyone confirm?) And I was reminded of this really, really old Sesame Street skit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxSJ...

Classic Sesame Street - Cat's Can

A funny cartoon by Dan Haskett. Gotta love the various ways he tries to open the can.

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As we continue to watch events unfold, in addition to discussing the events themselves there are also a lot of other conversations we need to have. One of them is: How Do We Talk About, What We Don't Talk About? 1/N

Oh also: who is enjoying some great pride events this month? It's a great time, for those who are able, to remember our joy and humanity.

Fellow Whovians: who watched the latest season????

Seeking backgrounds to use on my (many many) meetings for this month. What are people's favorite pride backgrounds? Bonus points if there are books or bookcases, cause those bring me joy

Today I am a member of today's Lucky 10,000 (ref: XKCD). I finally learned word for a specific joke pattern in English: eggcorn en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn... Quote Skeet: winning example for anyone in today's Lucky 10,000. bsky.app/profile/furi...

Eggcorn - Wikipedia

An eggcorn is the alteration of a word or phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements,[1] creating a new phrase which is plausible when used in the same…

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Because hope is for everyone. People are stepping up, and it's wonderful to see. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...

Annie Andrews Launch Video: "Unafraid"

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Due to the nature of brains, I always think of posts at times I don't actually want to be posting on the internet. Testing out some old (and new) tooling to separate this a bit.

It's really easy to know if Someone Is About To Do A Thing when they say "I don't mean to sound Y, but ..." type sentences. They load the intent into the structure. But do you know enough about different hateful ideologies to recognize them unaided? An exercise: hachyderm.io/@quintessenc...

Emelia's expertise is invaluable to us at #nivenly and #hachyderm and many Fedi communities (whether they know it or not). She works on highly intricate problems and creates equally intricate solutions. Donations support her ongoing work for collective benefit. She also does contracting work. ❤️

Emelia@thisismissem.social · last yr.

So a not too well known thing about me: I'm the co-author of the Client ID Metadata Documents internet draft that Bluesky / AT Proto uses for OAuth. This document came about due to my work on Mastodon's OAuth implementation. If you'd like to support my work: support.thisismissem.social

Watching current events and reflecting on some other things, I made a long post about disenfranchised vs enfranchised communication patterns: hachyderm.io/@quintessenc...

So news in the United States is breaking "at the speed of information". As I watched the back and forth regarding @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social 's @npr.org article about DOGE and labor data, I thought it was great time to talk about how to validate and attribute. hachyderm.io/@quintessenc...

H/T to @quintessence.bsky.social for showing me this video. I hadn't seen it before. Well worth the watch. A good overview of topics I don't know enough about: agender and asexual people.

Regarding the MITRE / CVE news: this looks legit, can anyone confirm? www.thecvefoundation.org

CVE Foundation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 16, 2025 CVE Foundation Launched to Secure the Future of the CVE Program [Bremerton, Washington] – The CVE Foundation has been formally established to ensure the long-term ...

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We are looking for a motivated and detail-oriented working student to support our impact evaluation efforts through data collection, analysis, and visualization. As part of our research and policy team, you'll play a key role in helping us measure and communicate the outcomes of our work. Details ⤵️

Job: Working Student (all genders) | Sovereign Tech Agency

Our team is growing, that’s why the Sovereign Tech Agency is looking for a working student to join the Research & Policy team.

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20,000 in ruby red Utah on their feet, in community, and ready to organize for a better world. A better world is possible.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last yr.

Strong moment from AOC’s speech in Utah

Gentle Reminder! 1 April is upon us. So please: * Have fun! * Don't choose pranks that are triggers to your friends or people in general ❤️‍🩹 Also since a lot of places get ... Really Into It ... be wary of any press releases, blog posts, articles, podcasts, etc. in this 48 hr window. ❤️

A gentle reminder to the current discourse re: is Signal secure? Especially those not in tech. If you've ever called someone and been told "hey wrong number", or texted someone and received the same, you've made the error in the headlines. It is something to address, but encryption can't fix that.

God there is so much going I literally forgot it is pi day. π 🥧

Moments of joy thread: what are some smol ways you have found joy over the past few weeks? I'll start. I neglected my Diamine Inkvent Calendar for being too busy, which means I've been able to tinker with pens and inks. Lovely time. For the curious (not my blog) writingatlarge.com/2024/12/27/d...

Diamine Inkvent 2024 Summary

For the introduction post to 2024’s Inkvent, see this post. Diamine Inkvent 2024 Black Edition is the fifth edition of their Inkvent calendars, and I’m sorry to say that it’s by far the…

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Look at those beautiful floofy feet!

Rosemary Mosco@rosemarymosco.com · 2y ago

I took a very long drive for some round birds. These are Willow Ptarmigans up in Quebec, aka Awebo birds. I love them so much.

Made a post about communities, and specifically about how communities are how we survive hard times and thrive in abundance. Full brain dump longer than allotted character length here, so: hachyderm.io/@quintessenc...

-= We hoped we never had to do this but here we are and we now have to do this. =- American trans humans are under threat and like in 1930s Germany, they now have to GTFO of their home country. We have decided we need to collect some information on the possible ways out. So we made a wiki.