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Shane Curcuru
@shanecurcuru.bsky.social
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Father, husband, 20+ years ASF, punny guy. We have cats. He/him. #Trademarks #OpenSource
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#DrSeuss was such an interesting wit. I never actually considered until today that the Cat never actually gets In The Hat - which is the more obvious meaning of the words. Brilliant.
Cartoon image from the book The Cat In The Hat: on a blue background, there's a black outline of a smiling mischevous cat, wearing a red bow-tie and the epynonimous white-and-red striped top hat.
November 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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My grandfather volunteered to fight the original N*zis at Bastogne, and lost a wrist and a small part of his soul in combat, fighting to protect truth and freedom.

Please, let's not have to do that again. 😢
Formal black and white photograph of a man in uniform. The man is facing the camera, with short dark hair, prominent ears and nose, and dark eyes. He is wearing a West Point Military Academy cadet's uniform, which is gray with a high collar, and several lines of plain buttons across the front. There is no rank other than Cadet.
October 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Forgot to post my daily COVID test for #Monktoberfest! Yay for events everyone can feel safe at, plus shiny stickers. 😮
Photo of Corey Quinn’s shiny sticker with a negative COVID test. Duck approved.
October 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Good Morning #Monktoberfest here in lovely and peaceful #PortlandME! 🦞 Today’s Hawaiian shirt in front of the local iconic statue.
October 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Today’s Hawaiian shirt at #Monktoberfest dinner, along with the amazeballs @northerneclectic.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Good Evening #Monktoberfest and #PortlandME! Had a wicked sweet hahboh cruise with today's Hawaiian shirt.
Photo of Shane wearing a red and white flower pattern vintage Tommy Bahama Hawaiian shirt, looking at the camera, standing next to a painting of a lighthouse in Maine.
October 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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🏎️ Driving up tomorrow afternoon. 🦞
Wondering about the implications of those of us without any skills in art being able to use AI to create some form of art, no matter how sloppy it is.
AI GENERATED SLOP: Gemini 2.5 Flash: "Create an image in the style of F1: The Movie, showing a stylized Dan Levy from the Shitt's Creek television show, driving an electric blue colored BMW i4 M series sedan. In the background are pine trees from Portland, Maine and the runway of the Portland International Jetport. Just visible in the backseat of the BMW is a cooler with a lobster climbing out of the cooler." Ooops, sorry, forgot about the beer. And dunno where the Rosebudd productions came from, but it's a priceless addition!
September 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Obviously, GenX grew up in a time utter crap job market, so many turned to sales, because lead generation was one of...

What?

Not that kind of lead?

Nevermind.
Meme photograph of Mrs. Emily Litella, a fictional character on Saturday Night Live in the 1970's played by actress Gilda Radner. Emily is facing the camera, with her hair pulled back, and a strange smile on her face behind her horn rim glasses. Emily is wearing a red top with a white and black polka-dot collar. The bottom of the photo has the meme text: "NEVER MIND!" which was one of Emily's catchphrases when she misunderstood something.
March 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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I know it doesn't really help much, but it's something...

Post more cats; fulfill the original purpose of the internet.
Photograph of a cat in a basket. You are looking downwards at a cute Siamese cat that is looking up at you, and just starting to open their mouth to miaow. The cat's head is slightly tilted, and their tail is curled around one side of them as they sit up. They are sitting in the middle of an empty white plastic laundry basket, claiming it all for themselves.
February 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Love the chair! We always have other junk in the way; next time I buy furniture I need to coordinate it with our Siamese...
Photo of two Siamese cats lying on a green couch. The first cat is lying from left to right, looking at the camera, and leaning on a red crocheted heart-shaped pillow. The second cat is lying along side them, with his head turned around to look back at the camera with sleepy eyes. They are lying along a green floral pillowcase that is covering their heated cat bed.
January 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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At #OpenForumAcademy, our keynote by Katharina Meyer of DIIF includes so many key quotes on how to do #OpenSource #funding right, with my favorite:
"How can open source be supported financially without disrupting the peer production culture and incentives of communities building it?"
Photo of a conference slide discussing "List of underexplored issues developed after a workshop of scholars and practicioners (2017)"
November 14, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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Konstantin Vinogradov at #OpenForumAcademy asking one really simple (if hard!) question:

How can we use the university endowment model to sustainably fund OSS maintenance?

Just one of many aspects to the #OpenSource #Sustainability question:
https://buff.ly/3Z4DHy4
Photo of a slide that primarily says "How can we use the endowment model to sustainably fund OSS maintenance?"
November 13, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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#OpenForumAcademy hitting (one of) the nails around #funding in #OpenSource #Sustainability. The Open@RIT program did amazing work taking academic grants to use them to holistically help FOSS projects. But when they asked for more funding, grantors simply say "we don't do grants that way".
Photo of a slide projected on a screen, titled "The Last Conceptual Mismatch", where the key quote is: "We're not set up to fund programs like that. We only provide direct financial support for individual projects." [just because that's how we've always done it]
November 13, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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#OpenForumAcademy starts off with both a great overview of the history of #OpenSource, both socially/policy wise, but includes some deep technical cuts. When was the last time you used cvs for source control?
November 13, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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Today's Hawaiian shirt, attending @OpenForumAcad here in my hometown Boston! Excited to see all the research topics covering #OpenSource issues in the next two days.

Looking for collaborators on the FOSS Foundation Metadata directory! https://buff.ly/3UPKusC
Photograph of Shane wearing today's Hawaiian shirt, a medium blue with bold green and purple flower pattern. I'm wearing my badge for the OpenForumAcademy conference I'm attending, and holding up a napkin from the event hall - the Harvard Business School.
November 13, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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Meet Pálinka and Tokaji (the darker one).
Photograph of two Siamese cats. They are lying side by side on a green couch, and are each kinda smooshed up against a dark red heart shaped pillow. The lighter cat in the back is sitting more up and looking at you; the darker cat in the front has his eyes mostly closed and is turned partly towards you. Very cute.
July 12, 2023 at 12:53 AM
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Remember everyone: the #OpenSource supply chain is people - maintainers, coders, testers, writers, and yes, even the companies that help build all those FOSS products inside your computers...
Movie still meme image from Soylent Green. The still image shows Charlton Heston in the iconic scene from the end of the movie, facing the camera, with his mouth open in a yell. Meme text says: THE SUPPLY CHAIN IS PEOPLE
July 5, 2023 at 6:21 PM
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Oh hai bluesky! Let's get turning social media upside-down as soon as we get up from a catnap... #CatsOfBluesky
Photograph of two Siamese cats lying on a green couch. They are both stretched out long-ways, with their paws in each other's tummy. The darker cat on the left is facing up but still asleep. The ligher cat on the right has a huge yawn as they look at you. Very cute!
July 5, 2023 at 6:16 PM