Tobey Aumann (they/them)
@tobeyblaze.bsky.social
Chaotic Neutral DevOps Cleric.
Will exchange expertise for currency.
Will exchange expertise for currency.
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Good morning, what can you do if you live in NYC? You can commit to talking to your City Council member about our public libraries. Please sign up and we will get back to you re: what to do: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
September 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Good morning, what can you do if you live in NYC? You can commit to talking to your City Council member about our public libraries. Please sign up and we will get back to you re: what to do: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
You are my people if you also enjoy clicking Random on XKCD for a jaunt through memory lane deplicator.github.io/xkcd-time-at...
xkcd Time - At Your Pace
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September 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
You are my people if you also enjoy clicking Random on XKCD for a jaunt through memory lane deplicator.github.io/xkcd-time-at...
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Attention #AcademicSky Everyone is talking about books, but thousands of academic journals were also pirated and are entitled to up to $3,000 *per pirated volume!!!* if editors submit titles to join the suit. Incredible opportunity for underfunded journals to get some $$! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky
September 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Attention #AcademicSky Everyone is talking about books, but thousands of academic journals were also pirated and are entitled to up to $3,000 *per pirated volume!!!* if editors submit titles to join the suit. Incredible opportunity for underfunded journals to get some $$! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky
Improvised a light table with tubelox and old IKEA finds so that the older kiddo could draw a map on graph paper for a new version of his board game. Currently plays a bit like a cross between Risk and DnD. Next parent job is to nudge toward collab instead of world domination.
September 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Improvised a light table with tubelox and old IKEA finds so that the older kiddo could draw a map on graph paper for a new version of his board game. Currently plays a bit like a cross between Risk and DnD. Next parent job is to nudge toward collab instead of world domination.
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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.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Said goodbye to our old lady baby cat this weekend. Other slightly older cat cannot resist being the center of any board game we attempt.
September 9, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Said goodbye to our old lady baby cat this weekend. Other slightly older cat cannot resist being the center of any board game we attempt.
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Every conference should have a track dedicated to Gen AI applications. A whole track with all the Gen AI talks. Over there. Down the hall. Yep. Keep going. Just a bit farther. Okay, yeah now open the door. Uh-huh. Now close the door behind you.
YEP RIGHT THERE.
YEP RIGHT THERE.
September 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Every conference should have a track dedicated to Gen AI applications. A whole track with all the Gen AI talks. Over there. Down the hall. Yep. Keep going. Just a bit farther. Okay, yeah now open the door. Uh-huh. Now close the door behind you.
YEP RIGHT THERE.
YEP RIGHT THERE.
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I always love those lists of "35 under 35," but as I get older, I find that I would love to know about innovations/art from people over 65. "65 over 65" please. Elders have incredible ideas that are the result of having seen the full lifecycle of previous ideas and learned from it.
September 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I always love those lists of "35 under 35," but as I get older, I find that I would love to know about innovations/art from people over 65. "65 over 65" please. Elders have incredible ideas that are the result of having seen the full lifecycle of previous ideas and learned from it.
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wild how people want to get rid of autistic trans people and think that the Internet would still work
August 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
wild how people want to get rid of autistic trans people and think that the Internet would still work
You too can be part of ensuring the security and safety of those around you. I'm giving a talk tomorrow 9 July at 11 Eastern about how to do this on software teams but you can apply it wherever you care about.
agilealliance.org/event/divide...
agilealliance.org/event/divide...
Divide and Conquer: Practicing Security as One Agile Team | Agile Alliance
In an environment increasingly focused on the “efficiency” of software development, it's often tempting to divide and conquer challenges, pushing security responsibilities to specialists. But what if ...
agilealliance.org
July 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
You too can be part of ensuring the security and safety of those around you. I'm giving a talk tomorrow 9 July at 11 Eastern about how to do this on software teams but you can apply it wherever you care about.
agilealliance.org/event/divide...
agilealliance.org/event/divide...
Every morning, open to awareness of suffering and its causes and conditions; at the same time be open to the experience of happiness and its causes conditions. Act accordingly and you will reduce suffering in the world without the distraction of judging yourself against some imaginary future you
June 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Every morning, open to awareness of suffering and its causes and conditions; at the same time be open to the experience of happiness and its causes conditions. Act accordingly and you will reduce suffering in the world without the distraction of judging yourself against some imaginary future you
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To put into perspective how astronomically high 87% is...
In 2012, 87% of Black men voted for Obama. Republicans like the way immigration is "being handled" as much as Black men liked Obama.
🤔I swear, I don't think some of y'all even talk to Trump voters before you claim that they don't like this.
In 2012, 87% of Black men voted for Obama. Republicans like the way immigration is "being handled" as much as Black men liked Obama.
🤔I swear, I don't think some of y'all even talk to Trump voters before you claim that they don't like this.
June 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
To put into perspective how astronomically high 87% is...
In 2012, 87% of Black men voted for Obama. Republicans like the way immigration is "being handled" as much as Black men liked Obama.
🤔I swear, I don't think some of y'all even talk to Trump voters before you claim that they don't like this.
In 2012, 87% of Black men voted for Obama. Republicans like the way immigration is "being handled" as much as Black men liked Obama.
🤔I swear, I don't think some of y'all even talk to Trump voters before you claim that they don't like this.
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I now offer an optional half-day workshop with every keynote talk. The workshop can be on any topic for which I have published a slide deck (which is
quite a lot!).
Get in touch: matthewskelton.com/keynotes
quite a lot!).
Get in touch: matthewskelton.com/keynotes
Keynotes — Matthew Skelton
with Matthew Skelton, co-author of ‘Team Topologies’ and originator of Adapt Together™
matthewskelton.com
June 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I now offer an optional half-day workshop with every keynote talk. The workshop can be on any topic for which I have published a slide deck (which is
quite a lot!).
Get in touch: matthewskelton.com/keynotes
quite a lot!).
Get in touch: matthewskelton.com/keynotes
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Lots of talk today about the demise of BlueSky. For whatever it's worth, it's been a boon to indie publishers like us. Twitter and Facebook have pretty much silenced us, so the engagement here has, and continues to be, wonderful.
June 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Lots of talk today about the demise of BlueSky. For whatever it's worth, it's been a boon to indie publishers like us. Twitter and Facebook have pretty much silenced us, so the engagement here has, and continues to be, wonderful.
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But none of that will happen.🤷🏿♂️
Because in the US, we have absolutely no authority to hold cops accountable for this stuff.
Because both Dems and GOP like having a police force that can crush Black protest without accountability.
Like I said, racism is just fascism practiced on Black people first.
Because in the US, we have absolutely no authority to hold cops accountable for this stuff.
Because both Dems and GOP like having a police force that can crush Black protest without accountability.
Like I said, racism is just fascism practiced on Black people first.
this is incredibly illegal and the cops are out of control
this guy should be gone from the force immediately and prosecuted, it’s all on camera
this guy should be gone from the force immediately and prosecuted, it’s all on camera
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
But none of that will happen.🤷🏿♂️
Because in the US, we have absolutely no authority to hold cops accountable for this stuff.
Because both Dems and GOP like having a police force that can crush Black protest without accountability.
Like I said, racism is just fascism practiced on Black people first.
Because in the US, we have absolutely no authority to hold cops accountable for this stuff.
Because both Dems and GOP like having a police force that can crush Black protest without accountability.
Like I said, racism is just fascism practiced on Black people first.
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HBO’s Silicon Valley on vibe coding in 2019. I miss this show.
June 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
HBO’s Silicon Valley on vibe coding in 2019. I miss this show.
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You don't need to be sure "the next right thing" is categorically, objectively the next "right" thing. Recovery involves LOTS of educated guesses. Just do your best, pay attention, remember your recovery goals today, & course correct as you go.
Easy does it. You've got this.
Easy does it. You've got this.
June 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
You don't need to be sure "the next right thing" is categorically, objectively the next "right" thing. Recovery involves LOTS of educated guesses. Just do your best, pay attention, remember your recovery goals today, & course correct as you go.
Easy does it. You've got this.
Easy does it. You've got this.
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I realise this is a bit underspecified: in both pottery and calligraphy, you stabilise the arm and loosen the wrist to achieve more stable and finer control and responsiveness.
Tension at the edges makes for more friction and chaotic instability.
Looseness at the edges allows more adaptation.
Tension at the edges makes for more friction and chaotic instability.
Looseness at the edges allows more adaptation.
May 30, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I realise this is a bit underspecified: in both pottery and calligraphy, you stabilise the arm and loosen the wrist to achieve more stable and finer control and responsiveness.
Tension at the edges makes for more friction and chaotic instability.
Looseness at the edges allows more adaptation.
Tension at the edges makes for more friction and chaotic instability.
Looseness at the edges allows more adaptation.
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I'm looking forward to DDD Europe next week! I'm leading a hands-on workshop, Expanding Your Design Heuristics one Experiment at a Time... where we'll be designing experiments and learning about sharing/collecting our design heuristics.
2025.dddeurope.com
2025.dddeurope.com
DDD Europe 2025 - Software Modelling & Design Conference
2025.dddeurope.com
May 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I'm looking forward to DDD Europe next week! I'm leading a hands-on workshop, Expanding Your Design Heuristics one Experiment at a Time... where we'll be designing experiments and learning about sharing/collecting our design heuristics.
2025.dddeurope.com
2025.dddeurope.com
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The tech job market is brutal, especially if you're part of a marginalized group.
I'd like to offer a free practice technical interview to anyone who is BIPOC or trans and looking for a job. You can book time with me here:
calendly.com/tthurium-lau...
I'd like to offer a free practice technical interview to anyone who is BIPOC or trans and looking for a job. You can book time with me here:
calendly.com/tthurium-lau...
Tech Interview Coaching - Tilde Thurium
BIPOC or trans? Looking to brush up on technical interviewing? I'd like to help!During my 10+ years in tech, I've interviewed hundreds of engineers. I can offer practice interviews covering the follow...
calendly.com
May 24, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The tech job market is brutal, especially if you're part of a marginalized group.
I'd like to offer a free practice technical interview to anyone who is BIPOC or trans and looking for a job. You can book time with me here:
calendly.com/tthurium-lau...
I'd like to offer a free practice technical interview to anyone who is BIPOC or trans and looking for a job. You can book time with me here:
calendly.com/tthurium-lau...
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Happy to share that for #GivingTuesday I've created my 5th (!) edition of Ryan's Community Giving Guide for SE Michigan. Please share widely, and let me know if you discover/donate to someone new through this work - it really helps!
You can grab the full PDF version at www.henyard.com/giving
You can grab the full PDF version at www.henyard.com/giving
December 3, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Happy to share that for #GivingTuesday I've created my 5th (!) edition of Ryan's Community Giving Guide for SE Michigan. Please share widely, and let me know if you discover/donate to someone new through this work - it really helps!
You can grab the full PDF version at www.henyard.com/giving
You can grab the full PDF version at www.henyard.com/giving
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vaccines cause adults
Vaccines save lives.
And no, they do not cause autism.
And no, they do not cause autism.
April 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
vaccines cause adults
1min 43sec in and already @ashcoleman.bsky.social is dropping diamonds:"Boundaries are for ourselves not for other people." This isn't your ave entrepreneurship podcast open.spotify.com/episode/7ewK...
Ep 1 | Redefining Entrepreneurship: From Corporate Conditioning to Creative Freedom
Choose Courage Inc. · Episode
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April 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
1min 43sec in and already @ashcoleman.bsky.social is dropping diamonds:"Boundaries are for ourselves not for other people." This isn't your ave entrepreneurship podcast open.spotify.com/episode/7ewK...