iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New Yorkers, at what stage does the Ramones’ Rockaway Beach chorus stop kicking around your brain when waiting on the A line?

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think I’m on cortado number 7…I almost…don’t want any more coffee? Didn’t know that was possible!

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Had to do some emergency flight reshuffling, and now the Timeshift app says I get to drink coffee from 8am to 10pm. This is the coffee enablement I've been searching for since 15.

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Two of my repeated (but favorite!) conversations at TrustCon were about how other trust and safety organizations can open source some of their work, and how to _actually_ consume open source software. You hit the download button and then..? Now written up, and with slightly better artisanal visuals

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Artisanal visuals coming soon to a blog post near you. User data gets stored in a layer cake, don’t you know?

Whimsical ink doodle depicting software being downloaded, hosted, and run for online safety services

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Making a last minute trip across the Atlantic and itineraries might leave me with an open night in London in a few weeks... There was some budding interest in open source solutions for online safety at @protocolsforpublishers.com; worth a meetup/show-and-tell on the topic?

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I haven’t had enough coffee yet to bring anything serious to the internet, so here’s a good dog to start Monday.

Greyhound dog looking into the camera smiling, revealing cartoonish teeth.

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“Fast skiers are made in the summer, fast skiers are made in the summer…” she says while dragging her unmotivated body to the weight room

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I see AI has moved on from "load bearing" to "shape while the concrete is still wet." What school of construction did these machines go to that we're pouring concrete without a mold?

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I've been doing paperwork with "State of Delaware" headers this week, and I can't open these documents without hearing Dropkick screaming "to the State of Massachusetts!" Someone had to know this was kicking around in my brain, and now you do, dear internet.

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Is it happy? Is it angry? Does it just want to tell you about the freedoms of open source and steal your fries? Never felt more seen by an animal bot account.

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Lukewarm take: the OpenAI and Huggingface incident is interesting because of how many steps were involved, but it isn’t about “what do we do with AI?” It was a chain of exploits that were found and kicked off the (imperfect but) established vulnerability response processes for both companies.

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

If you’re curious about this open source and free tools thing people keep talking about at #TrustCon, join @julietshen.bsky.social and I at 12:15pm today for the open source lunch meetup. Bring all your questions, requests, and ideas!

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Charging all my batteries (literal and metaphorical) for #TrustCon next week. Holler if you want to talk about what ROOST is up to, or open source for safety more broadly!

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We’re serious about our mission, we’re just having a lot of fun doing it. (Runs to see if shipment of toy eggs has arrived…)

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The number of "candidates" with Outlook email addresses living in a Texas suburb is...something. Oh, ROOST is hiring for a marketing manager and software engineers, by the way! roost.tools/careers If you really do use Outlook from a Texas suburb, just put some human sounding bits in there, okay?

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Careers | ROOST

Join the team at ROOST and help build open source safety infrastructure.

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

What I *have* been up to: - Mila released an OSS suicide prevention safeguard with @roost.tools - Trying to figure out if my tomatoes are over or under watered - It’s summertime amateur sports league season

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I haven’t been social media-ing much these days, but today is this distinguished gentleman’s 12th birthday. He’s now spent 3 times more living a life of spoiled luxury than he spent at the racetrack, and I think we’re both grateful for that.

Greyhound dog wearing a silly party hat, laying in a park smiling.

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Gate agent is making boarding announcements with the same tone you’d use to assure toddlers at a birthday party they *will* get a cupcake, but it’s not time yet. It appears to be highly effective.

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

@julietshen.bsky.social talking on the livestream about the research that went into founding @roost.tools, which highlighted child safety tools as one of the most challenging workflows to get right, and a toolset with very little transparency www.youtube.com/live/0faGLzU...

A video livestream presentation with a slide of the DIRE framework for trust and safety workflows: Detection, Investigation, Review, and Enforcement.

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ROOST @roost.tools · 11/06/2026

Happening Today! We're doing a live demo of what Coop 1.0 actually looks like in use, both for admins setting it up and the moderators helping keep your platform safe day-to-day. Starts at 11am ET / 8am PT / 5pm CET roost.tools/coop#livestr...

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Coop

Coop is an open source review tool that enables organizations of all sizes to implement scaled review and automated safety solutions.

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Join the @roost.tools crew on Thursday to see the Coop content review console in action and hear from some of the #opensource contributors who made this release possible. If you're just getting started in #trustandsafety, or feeling overwhelmed by manual review spreadsheets, Coop is where to start!

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

...and here I thought the AI scribble was going to cover me for not having the French keyboard on

Screenshot where "edition francaise" has been typed. An AI pop-up says to "Improve word choice" by changing it to, "French edition," switching the language from French to English.

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

If you’re not in the weeds on online safety: - models are (and have been) how to classify potentially harmful content - but they’re expensive and come with their own harm and behavior definitions - this one is cheap, open source, and responds to *your* content policies Huge kudos to Zentropi!

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I just tried to make an aeropress without any grounds, so it must be the end of the week.

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

TL;DR on AI-assisted or agentic coding: Some things change; some things stay the same. The same: - Code sent for review needs to be *reviewable* - Trust but verify, all the way through your SDLC - Getting far "off main" accrues technical debt - Risk tolerance informs where and how you experiment

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Late for work because I couldn’t stop typing about the economic realities of open source maintenance on LinkedIn dot com. TL;DR: stipends won’t save us. What worked out of post-Sunburst funding (similar spike to Mythos) was full-time jobs that supported security work long term.

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I don’t think wool flats are very good for racking and stacking…

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Cassidy James @cassidyjames.com · 02/04/2026

I’m working to standardize how we do community working groups/office hours at @roost.tools, including the nitty gritty like: • scheduling/reminders • agenda sharing • notetaking • noting/following up on action items Community peeps, what are YOUR tips? What tools are clutch? What should we avoid?

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"The open secret of child safety is that no one can say how well [CSAM detection models] work...When we cannot know what these systems work well for, who they are failing, and where there are gaps that may be augmented in other ways, we risk harming those who are most vulnerable online."

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

If you're an open source lover and infrastructure person (aka were roaming the halls of #KubeCon or will find all the storage and data pipeline talks at #ATmosphereConf), @roost.tools is looking for you! We've got fully remote, Infrastructure Engineering roles now open: roost.tools/infrastructu...

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Infrastructure Engineer | ROOST Careers

Join ROOST as an Infrastructure Engineer to build safety infrastructure for the AI era.

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

This is the face of a dog who can hear the downpour outside and would rather get a UTI than leave his blanket nest for that.

Close up of greyhound dog wrapped in a fuzzy blanket

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

We hear a lot of, "I really just need..." when we ask developers about their platform safety challenges. While some are platform-specific (so won't be shared w/o permission), so many are universal requests. We started a "safety tools wishlist" for more ideas and upvotes: github.com/orgs/roostor...

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The OSS Safety Tooling Wishlist 🎁 · roostorg · Discussion #50

We often hear (and ask!) what's on people's "safety tooling wishlist." Creating a living list for requests, ideas, and upvotes!

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

There is only one correct answer to this question: “The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in.”

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

A lot of good conversations at #GDC2026 about what game developers are struggling with in making safe play experiences and protecting their users ❤️

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

At #GDC next week with safety on your mind? Come find me for a chat about the open source tools we've built at @roost.tools for harms like abusive behavior, anti-cheat and fraud, and child safety. I don't have a lot of swag, but free software for better gaming is a pretty good giveaway.

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The problem with Masters sports is that you get better, but your body gets older. Had my best ski race ever this weekend, but today I can barely lift the coffee to my face.

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

If you were laid off from Block (or anywhere) and want to stay remote, @roost.tools is hiring for multiple SWE roles and levels. If you're the kind of person who's deeply satisfied by figuring out why a service has multiple databases and ripping some out, we might be for you! roost.tools/careers

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Careers | ROOST

Join the team at ROOST and help shape the future of open-source online safety.

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Goodbye, FOSDEM; hello, @protocolsforpublishers.com! Headed to London with lots of FOSDEM-attendee feedback on what's needed to make online safety easier for independent and decentralized communities (and all the @roost.tools swag I stole from @cassidyjames.com...)

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Digital sovereignty and resilience conversations over the last few years have focused on infrastructure — compute, cloud capabilities — but it’s time to add safety to that list of critical digital infrastructure. Great overview on what this means from @aditya.myatproto.social

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

@cassidyjames.com and I will be at #FOSDEM and will be demoing* Osprey in our talk Sunday morning: fosdem.org/2026/schedul... *Let's be honest, should we really test the wifi and live demo overlords first thing Sunday morning? Probably not. Probably pre-recorded.

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FOSDEM 2026 - Stop Reinventing in Isolation: Bringing Open Source to Trust & Safety Infrastructure

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

If you're a software versioning nerd, you know your first 1.0.0 is a big deal. 1.0 means a stable project ready to go, and that's been proven by the multiple users who've rolled out Osprey as their real-time investigation tool. A massive thank you and congratulations to the Osprey contributors!

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

If you're headed to #FOSDEM and want to talk open source tools for online safety, @christchurchcall.bsky.social and @roost.tools are hosting a lunch meet up on FOSDEM Saturday! Get out of the food truck line cold and meet others interested in OSS for safety: tinyurl.com/fosdemsafetylunch

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Unfortunately I know nothing about chicken development, so if @roost.tools were a dog, we'd still have oversized puppy feet. AND YET we put free online safety tools out in the world, users are running them in production, and there's a community growing around them. A strong start for 11 months in!

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Growth is scrubbing your office coffee mug *before* you leave your desk for the year.

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

When the core primitives of trust and safety infrastructure are open source, everyone gets to experiment, tweak, and make it work for them, like @hailey.at just did.

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

We got good feedback on the job description, which Diffie* has incorporated. TL;DR: If you've architected data-intensive systems and are familiar with an infrastructure-level language like Python, Go, or Rust we want to hear from you! roost.tools/staff-softwa... *supervised my typing from the couch

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Staff Software Engineer | ROOST Careers

Join ROOST as a Staff Software Engineer to build safety infrastructure for the AI era.

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

@roost.tools isn't just openly licensing our tools, but also openly developing them. We just released an initial draft of the ROOST tooling roadmap, but it's just that -- a draft. If you're interested in OSS trust and safety tools, now's the time to shape what gets built! github.com/orgs/roostor...

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ROOST Project Roadmap now available: share your feedback! · roostorg · Discussion #44

Hey ROOSTers, community members, partners, and other Internet friends! The ROOST Project Roadmap is now publicly available—and in true open source fashion, it's hosted right here on GitHub, on our ...

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

“You think I’m going to leave my blanket burrito to go pee outside during an Atmospheric River? Am I a joke to you?”

Greyhound dog looking head on to camera. Dog is resting with its head on a pillow and tucked into a blanket, and looks annoyed that it’s being woken up.

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

This is Diffie. He’d like to be your coworker. Paws are no good for filling out job applications, though, so YOU’LL have to apply to the open software engineering roles at @roost.tools roost.tools/staff-softwa... (don’t fit the level? Apply anyways to express your interest in upcoming openings)

Greyhound dog looking straight on to camera. He has a cartoonish smile.

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