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Kara Sowles Deloss

@feynudibranch.bsky.social
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Trash Collector / Open Source Advocate @ Temporal, prev GitHub, Puppet Portland, OR 👩‍💻 open source: funding & sustainability ⚒️ archaeology: respectfully exploring your surroundings 🚮 history via trash 🍓 growing fruit 🎲 RPGS and D&D 🖼️ art & ceramics

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Temporal @temporal.io · 10h
Well, this is fun: Temporal just placed number 1 (!) on the GeekWire 200. 🎉 See the list: pulse.ly/9fwu8e1asm
pulse.ly
There’s a new No. 1 on the GeekWire 200 as AI and hardware reshape our Pacific Northwest startup index
Temporal, whose software keeps AI agents running reliably, is the new No. 1 on the GeekWire 200. Companies building AI software and advanced machinery for space, energy and defense lead the Fall 2026 update of our ranking of the Pacific Northwest's top privately held tech startups.
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Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I am thrilled and proud beyond measure to support the amazing workers who create and design the games I and my loved ones have spent a lifetime playing. I implore everybody to sign the petition and signal boost the campaign as far and wide as we can!
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
brand awareness
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 30/09/2026
movingimage.org/event/intern... I will be doing an internet infrastructure walking tour at the Museum of the Moving Image October 10 if you are Astoria adjacent
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Internet Walk – Museum of the Moving Image
Ingrid Burrington, author of Networks of New York, will lead a free hour-long tour around Astoria focused on the tangible infrastructure of the networked world. Using the vernacular of a nature field ...
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026
I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
in contrast
A poster reading QUINCE FEST with little other information on it except a QR code and some art of quince fruit
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
congrats Dusty!!!! pre-ordered immediately!!
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the thing with proposing agentic solutions is that one person's agentic solution is many many people's agentic problem
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
this is why so much stuff is glued / collaged in for us. can’t marker over something i pasted next to it after hehe
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I’ve been there one year now and right after I joined we had a 2.5B valuation round. So I think we can clearly see the value of my contribution is (takes a really long time to do some math) 10 billion dollars
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
what we’re up to over at temporal temporal.io/blog/tempora...
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Temporal raises $550M at a $12.55B valuation as demand grows for reliable AI infrastructure
AI is raising the bar for reliability. See why Temporal's $550M Series E, backed by Lightspeed and others, is built to meet that demand.
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Ian Paul Sieren @ianpaulsieren.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Kerns, Portland, OR #pdx #streetjoy
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 06/09/2026
chucky pig
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ah the quoted post was deleted, but it’s the same image as these: bsky.app/profile/linu...
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
wish I could make it! 🍕
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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We have whittled down all the nominations to our shortlist for the 2026 Tiny Awards! 11 of the most beautiful, interesting, heartfelt, weird, silly websites from the past year, for you to explore and enjoy and vote on - pick your favourite, vote for the winner, TELL THE WORLD! tinyawards.net/vote/
An image of the Tiny Awards logo with the word 'VOTE' underneath it
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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 02/09/2026
I hate AI slop. I hate AI art. I hate AI music. Writing is definitely best left to humans. But in the field of software development, we've hit a revolutionary tipping point. 2026 is the year when the models became good enough to solve hard problems autonomously. this is the new reality.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
theverge.com
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/09/2026
a remarkably effective life hack: just be nice to people it's incredible how much goodwill people will extend to you if you're pleasant to them
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
also a fan of this genre and wow this goes above and beyond. the giant coins, a classic 🥲
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
⚒️ Bronze Age high-tech! Nearly 4,000 years ago, this ingenious stone mould could cast five different sizes of flat axe! Cutting-edge technology from a time when metal was replacing stone, bone and wooden tools! Found in Shropshire in 1961. Shrewsbury Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology
My photo shows a carved stone axe mould made from Carboniferous Grit displayed on a clear acrylic museum stand. It is roughly a cuboid rectangular, weathered stone block with a recessed axe-shaped cavity on the top face and two axe-shaped cavities on the front face (one small, one large). In total there are moulds for five metal flat axes though not all can be seen in my photo. It was found at Walleybourne Brook, Pontesbury/Church Purverbatch, Shropshire, in 1961. Dated to the Bronze Age, 1900-1700 BC.
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Samuel Karp @samuelkarp.com · 18/08/2026
oh I just got this too! (@tianon.bsky.social just linked me here when I sent this to him)
Screenshot of GitHub's issue UI. At the top it says "samuelkarp closed this as completed 1m ago". On the bottom, in the issue comment box, there is a callout that says "This issue was closed 57 years ago. Please consider opening a new issue or a new discussion instead of leaving a comment here."
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
super funny that it's also 57! I hope they never fix what I would dub the "Heinz bug" www.heinz.com/en-IN/our-st...
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The Heinz Story | Heinz
Discover the rich and storied history of Heinz.
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I am once again (every day) begging our industry to stop using slop generative art and go back to paying artists 😭 tech can afford it!
Some seriously discombobulated floppy disks created by generative AI
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
rip van winkle logging back on after the nap to check his PRs :(
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thene @thene.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...
stick a pin in this metaphor

…because these covers are a microcosm of the entire conflict; Walden's book is mostly built on writing and other objects left by Sylvia Drake, Charity Bryant, and others. Her work includes many elements from these records that Cleves does not refer to in her book, and many of her interpretations of those records are different from Cleves's interpretations, often intentionally so. In addition to her historical basis, Walden's book includes fictional dialogue and story elements that are original to her work, some of which are inspired by Walden's own life.
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
thanks for the thorough work here sorting out the mess of claims, really appreciate it
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
i know this is a bug but it still caused me to physically crumble into dust
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
[logging into GitHub] oh my god am i that old already ???
About to comment on an issue on GitHub, but the popup text warns "This issue was closed 57 years ago"
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Why is everyone in tech so sad?” www.noemamag.com/why-is-every...
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Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? | NOEMA
A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
whelp I know what my re-read is this week 🌀
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 06/08/2026
at long last we have created the Uzumaki from the famous Junji Ito manga "don't create the Uzumaki"
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I wrote about the Trojan horse, and what we can learn from her mouth about different cultural attitudes towards deception and violence. As someone comments below, the phrase GIFT ARTICLE is pretty scary in this context.
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Dr. Abigail Desmond @abigaildesmond.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
15,000 years ago, in one of the the earliest settled communities in the world, a child collected fine clay from the slow-moving river by her home. She then committed an act familiar to all inveterate play-doh enthusiasts; rolling and and pinching the squishy clay into tiny round balls.
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
this is the exact intro to the Teen Titans GO movie, perfect film
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🔥😭🔥 (painfully real satire)
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🔥❤️‍🩹🔥 oof, it’s too good
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
the problem with folk songs is my first thought was “oh I always sing the version where the back is blank, I hadn’t heard this one”
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Jey Biddulph @jeyb.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Was so busy I didn't get to post but our deduction game The Incident at Galley House came out yesterday and people seem to be really enjoying it so far. It's been great fun working on it with @eviltrout.com this year and I'm very proud of how it turned out! store.steampowered.com/app/3641000/...
store.steampowered.com
Save 10% on The Incident at Galley House on Steam
In 1936, something terrible happened at Galley House. Decades later, with a strange contraption that reveals echoes of the past, you must uncover the truth behind this grisly mystery.
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Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
the colonial urge to possess what belongs to nobody and belongs to everybody
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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.
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404 Media @404media.co · 11/07/2026
“It might feel like you’re ‘saving time and money,’ but you’re actually slowly turning your brand into something generic like all the other brands out there using AI tools.” www.404media.co/we-are-livin...
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We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’
"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."
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Simon Bralee @simonbralee.com · 04/07/2026
For me, Pete Seeger is one of the archetypal Americans. His introduction to Oh Mary Don’t You Weep from Rainbow Quest has always stayed with me: “right now, some of these pharaohs may get drowned too”. Power is no protection and justice will always win out.
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Pete Seeger, Bernice Reagon & Jean Ritchie "Oh Mary Don't You Weep" (1965)
YouTube video by Gospel World
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Cassidy @cassidoo.co · 30/06/2026
New feature on @github.com! Repo admins can now restrict issue creation to collaborators only. This is a highly requested follow-up to the pull request controls we shipped in Feb, and a step toward giving maintainers more control to help reduce low-quality contribs. github.blog/changelog/20...
github.blog
Restrict issue creation to collaborators only - GitHub Changelog
Repository admins can now restrict issue creation to collaborators with write access. This gives you more control over who can open issues and helps reduce unwanted issue creation, while keeping…
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
she’s beautiful
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
can’t tell yall enough what a breakthrough it was for me to learn from this interview that most people just want to feel like they’re being obeyed they rarely follow up on whether you actually obey them
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The great American state fair being stupid Trump bullshit does legit make me sad, if I’m being honest. A lot of the 250 stuff does. This could have been a really cool and special thing and literally any normal president would have pulled it off.
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I guess she figured out when you’re laid off from something you don’t have to go anymore. Buddy as long as I have a job, you still do!!
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