iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I have missed a LOT. Congrats on the move! I'm super jealous. Hawaii was my favorite place to live, minus the terrible school situation. Have an absolute blast!

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've been enjoying Magic Earth. It's privacy-first, which feels refreshing.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🤣 But no seriously, fuck bootlickers.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

When @withenoughcoffee.bsky.social and I start discussing the Apple dog collar of ecosystem and right to repair.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We are a family of lettuce eaters, and today we had to have a conversation about Trump Diarrhea, which is the last set of words I ever thought I'd need to utter. Ass COVID is a good name for it, too, but I think AD puts a better point on why we're discussing this at all. So anyway, how's your week?

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

About 40 min sitting on the freeway. We've all turned off our engines, except for some people who can apparently afford to waste $6/gal gas.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Have been in park on I-5 for 15min so far.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Hey so if you’re a man with an XX partner or child that you care about, I need you to read this thread because shit is not going to change unless cis men start not being okay with this stuff.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

TIL my husband had never heard of read Knock Knock Motherfucker, so I had to enlighten him. It's nice that there are still moments of surprise and "oh, you must have been deployed and therefore not of this culture" in our post-retirement lives.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

And finally, the one where I'm going to be hard-pressed not to yarp about ethics in AI, even though we're supposed to say "responsible AI". Spicy. #lfnw2026

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Next up... My opportunity to get spicy about being burned out and then laid off and then realizing I don't actually hate being a dev! #lfnw2026

When the Terminal Goes Quiet: Navigating Burnout, Depression, and Loss of Joy in Tech, Saturday, 4/25/2026, 3:00pm in Bellingham, WA.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Oh, hey, so I'm speaking a few times this weekend at LinuxFest NW. Come on down now, y'hear? First up: Witches in the Server Room, or the Power of Rebellion with @withenoughcoffee.bsky.social

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I finished listening to Lucy Cooke's Bitch: On the Female of the Species, and the funny, engaging, hopeful way she engages with the science of sex is amazing. I nearly cried through the end, starting with the clownfish (after Nemo's dad's missing transformation). Fuck yeah, Lucy Cooke.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Oh, Huesera was such a gut punch. I loved it.

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Dana @thatdana.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Thinking just this week about how I would love another @tananarivedue.bsky.social novel. This is the best news!! 📚💙

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

See? Proof of your vast intellect. I had not tried a reboot, but I'll give it a shot.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

@usrbinkat.io delivered a fantastic devops talk at #scale23x, and now my brain is full.

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

you’re unemployed. Your marriage is in shambles. You can’t see a doctor. Your water pressure is low because of the data center. Your son is addicted to sports gambling. But you’ve decided to focus your anger on trans girls in sports. There are 4 in your entire state 🥴

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Murder. Fuck ICE. Fuck this regime. And fuck anyone who voted for these pud tugging fuckwits or decided not to vote at all. They're all complicit.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Tonight is the annual Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever watch.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Whoa, sir. That's a lot of days.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Maybe it's not obvious, but my work computer is a Mac because the Windows or you-slick-em Linux laptops didn't have enough go-go juice for the development I needed to do. I'm counting down the days until I can upgrade to a new laptop that doesn't suck (Linux).

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

To be fair, my first development happened in BASIC on an Apple IIc, but ffs the world became a better place when Linus gifted us his kernel. Why the fuck did the industry go backward? What happened? Was it LSD? Or not enough LSD? Or the wrong flavor of LSD? WTF, y'all?

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Totally random question as I sit here on my Linux machine and think back over my tech-then-not-tech-then-back-to-tech career. What the everloving fuck happened in my not-tech period where everyone shifted from developing on Linux to developing on Macs?

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Much hiding did, indeed, happen. And then the next day, it was Teh Onslaught as my company's annual conference necessitated ass-on-fire levels of go, which usually means all the people-ing.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I'm grateful for the opportunity to speak in front of larger than expected crowds, but now I can haz no people time? I mean, except for returning to work right away...

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

It's the last night at Grace Hopper Celebration, and time is warping to make it seem like last month, but also just yesterday, that I joined with an amazing crew of coworkers to deliver two sessions. The topics of female rage and promoting diversity by rejecting binaries were well-received.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I forgot that rush you get when the code you're wrangling just... works. Did not expect a win since I'm learning C# as I go on this project, but hot damn. Please, sir, may I have another?

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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

"This is all a distraction." No, this is fascism. This is an authoritarian regime that is becoming more controlling every day. They're dismantling aspects of the government they don't like while funneling money into concentration camps and a giant army of masked gestapo members.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

How many Scovilles does it take to get to the center of a coronavirus particle? Asking for me because i don't have time for this shit.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Democrats run on this simple platform: The GOP is a party of pedophiles and people who protect pedophiles. They send the military to take over American cities. They use your taxpayer money to build concentration camps and employ kidnappers. These things are true.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Why are vet appointments so expensive? They didn't used to be this bad.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

My new tea corner, where I keep several cups' worth of loose teas in yogurt jars and unwrapped teabags in tins. The extra loose tea goes in the tea cabinet for jar refills. Wrapped teabags are in a drawer. We'll see how well this works.

A tidy but alarming tea setup in jars and tins.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I'm excited about WorldCon this week. It's extra awesome that I just have to ride the light rail to get to it. Since I usually walk about 12-15k steps every day I'm at the convention center, I expect to be in great pain when I hit the rheumatologist the next week. Worth it, tho.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Why did no one tell me how amazing a quesadilla is with Serrano freshly picked from your potted plant?

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

TFW when you're minding your own damn business and unexpectedly walk by a relic on the table. Dying to know if these had manuscripts on them and whether they survived...

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I love this for you! I'd love to see an Underground Kirstin fighting fascism one paintbrush stroke and one how-to-scheme-like-the-rich tip at a time.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

If I'm moving on, I want to do something good. Like, socially good. Connecting people in a healthy way, FOSS, tech justice, games for good, etc. Or else I want to grow a goatee and become Evil KL and be an absolute menace.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I feel like it's time for a change of pace. Or maybe new career direction. So much layoff. So much omgwtf.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I'll throw in the bookstore, too. They were put way out of the way, had no signage, and almost no announcements of events. I cannot imagine how much money the vendors lost this weekend. After seeing this, I'd never recommend vending next year, but I hope some will (if there's a next year).

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I'm at Geekfest NW! This is my view. Hanging with @clayvermulm.bsky.social, the coolest of the cool.

Geekfest NW from the Artsans Cloud City bookstop.

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I'm still entry-level. Yes, that experience was broken up by a lot of Navy life. Still, I'm sitting here asking myself if you still call it imposter syndrome when you actually are an imposter. 😂🫠

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Kerri-Leigh Grady @klgrady.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I'm applying to be a mentee in a new program, and the application asked me how many years of experience I have in tech specifically and professionally. I counted 11 years in tech if I ignore the 2ish years I was self-employed/at a startup. 16 total years total professionally.

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