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🏳️‍🌈 Lian Li 李莲 ✊🏿

@lianmakesthings.bsky.social
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She/her Cloud Native Human, Chief Karaoke Officer, Actor, Comedian
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Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just spotted a really specific #opsec role with @amnesty.org They're hiring an Investigator for Arms & Armed conflict. Experience with armed conflict investigation needed. Can be based in Dakar, Johannesburg, London, Mexico City or Nairobi. To £66k (for London) Apply by Oct 6th
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Amnesty International Careers
Amnesty International Careers, Jobs, Search and Apply
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FOSDEM @fosdem.org · 14/09/2026
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FOSDEM 2027 Call for Stands
🚀 FOSDEM 2027: Showcase Your Open-Source Project to the World
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 07/07/2026
I'm glad that Belgians got the real, local, American experience!🇺🇸 * Some right-wing weirdo tries to cheat to give your opponent an unfair advantage " Through your own hard work, you overcome the opposition, despite the game-rigging * Your victory is now used as evidence that "The System Works!🤡"
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖
A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
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Yum Yum Podcast @yumyumpodcast.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Evelyn 💗 @evieevolving.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I like my cities to be sittable, shittable, and public transittable.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 19/04/2026
🔭 Eye on the Milky Way Image Credit & Copyright: Miguel Claro (TWAN, Dark Sky Alqueva) ap260419
The image shows land on the left and a star filled
sky on the right. Prominent in the sky is the band of our
Milky Way Galaxy. On the left is a small circular lake 
that reflects some of the stars in the sky. Together, 
the land and lake look like an eye lookout out at the 
Milky Way. 
Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
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🏳️‍🌈 Lian Li 李莲 ✊🏿 @lianmakesthings.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Three years of Kuberoke and I finally sat down to figure out: What is it about Karaoke that people love so much? And how do we deal with this unforeseen success? Excited to share this inaugural post on my new blog: LianThinksThings lianmakesthings.dev/blog/26-04-0...
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🏳️‍🌈 Lian Li 李莲 ✊🏿 @lianmakesthings.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Was just asked to assess my German skills for a potential role as they require C1/C2 level German. Folks, I made it. Turns out you CAN take the Germany out of the girl.
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Jessica Andersson @solidtubez.com · 23/03/2026
The personas of platform stakeholders, if we understand those we see how we can gain higher reach and who we should focus on for increasing love and value
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Jessica Andersson @solidtubez.com · 23/03/2026
Developers are clients to services, but contributors to platforms. @lianmakesthings.bsky.social #PlatEngDay
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Hannah Foxwell @hannahfoxwell.net · 23/03/2026
It’s @lianmakesthings.bsky.social on the stage at #KubeCon Platform Engineering Day 💙 Sharing lessons learned in DevRel that can be applied to your internal platform
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🏳️‍🌈 Lian Li 李莲 ✊🏿 @lianmakesthings.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Join me on Monday at 1:20pm to talk all things platform adoption 🚀 colocatedeventseu2026.sched.com/event/2DY5r
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CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2026: A Practical Guide To Inner Sourcing Your...
View more about this event at CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2026
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Cloud Native Rejekts @rejekts.io · 22/03/2026
We hope you all enjoyed Cloud Native Rejekts yesterday! ❤️ There was so many great talks, amazing discussions and lots of laughs with new and old friends. This is why we do it - the community, the people, the connections.
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Marcus Noble @averagemarcus.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Wooo! @rejekts.io is about to kick off! 🎉 If you're not able to be here you can join us virtually via the live streams: 📺 Room 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmVN... 📺 Room 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O8p... 🗓️ Schedule: cloud-native-rejekts-eu-2026.sessionize.com/schedule/day...
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Cloud Native Rejekts EU 2026
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 20/03/2026
Fascism hasn't risen. We keep pretending that some of these CEOs and VCs started as good people, and then were turned into internet trolls and then fascists, by some malevolent external force. They literally published books about what they wanted to do before all of this. But y'all didn't care.
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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Der nationale Aktionsplan "Queer leben" war das einzige bundesweite Förderprojekt für queere Projekte. Er wurde von der Bundesregierung eingestellt. Mach mit und unterstütze die queere Community in Deutschland – unterzeichne die Petition! weact.campact.de/petitions/ak...
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Aktionsplan “Queer leben” zurückholen!
Das Familienministerium hat auf eine schriftliche Frage des Linken-Abgeordneten Maik Brückner lapidar geantwortet, dass der nationale Aktionsplan „Queer leben“ ein Projekt der vergangenen Legislaturpe...
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Coté @cote.io · 12/01/2026
Watch the rest with @lianmakesthings.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDIl...
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🏳️‍🌈 Lian Li 李莲 ✊🏿 @lianmakesthings.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
So excited to be speaking at Platform Engineering Day in Amsterdam 🚀 The work that I'm doing is the culmination of my work and everything I've learned as Cloud Native consultant, DevRel and Platform Engineer for the past decade. And I cannot wait to share it with all of you ✨ sched.co/2DY5r
A Practical Guide To Inner Sourcing Your IDP - Lian Li, lianmakesthings

Monday March 23, 2026 13:20 - 13:45
CET

Bridging the gap between developers and platform teams is hard.
Scattered documentation, fragmented language and hidden knowledge leave developers frustrated, while platform teams struggle to understand what devs really need. Treating platforms as products is a start, but treating them like open source projects unlocks real collaboration, allowing developers to contribute and maintain features.
In my roles as Developer Advocate and platform engineer, I have years of experience working with highly bureaucratic organisations helping to improve developer experience and adoption.
In this talk, I’ll share concrete steps to identify contribution opportunities, set up maintainable processes, and measure engagement. You’ll leave inspired with ideas to boost adoption, reduce friction, and turn your platform into a collaborative, thriving ecosystem.
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🏳️‍🌈 Lian Li 李莲 ✊🏿 @lianmakesthings.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
"They run experiments and describe their findings in narrowly focused documents. They do not outline sinister plans for human exploitation and regulatory evasion in writing." Clearly, @caseynewton.bsky.social hasn't read a lot of enterprise code.
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🏳️‍🌈 Lian Li 李莲 ✊🏿 @lianmakesthings.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Kuberoke is coming home to Amsterdam, bigger and better than ever! 🎤 ✨ Help us make it happen! Tell your friends, coworkers and bosses (especially those with marketing budget!) Open for sponsorship now 💙
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 29/12/2025
🔭 M1: The Crab Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Alan Chen apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...
A dark starfield surrounds a colorful nebula filled with tangled filaments. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
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🏳️‍🌈 Lian Li 李莲 ✊🏿 @lianmakesthings.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
And don’t forget to KEEP YOUR ACCEPTANCE TO YOURSELF until they publish the schedule 🤫
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 18/11/2025
"the Myth of "Consensual" Internet - Isn't There Somebody You Forgot to Ask?"

"I CONSENT" ~ Browser 
"I CONSENT" ~ Host 
"I DON'T!" ~ Cloudflare
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Thomas Fuchs 🫯 @thomasfuchs.at · 31/10/2025
Meme showing six logical operators illustrated with jack-o'-lantern images. 

trick OR treat 
trick AND treat 
trick XOR treat 
trick NOR treat 
trick NAND treat 
trick XNOR treat
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Science evolves, but consensus matters. Don’t confuse openness to revision with carte blanche for misinformation. Settled science exists - and it matters for policy and public trust. Read the full article here: www.livescience.com/... 10/10
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There is such a thing as 'settled science' — anyone who says otherwise is trying to manipulate you
How bad-faith arguments sow doubt by weaponizing scientific humility.
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Marcus Noble @averagemarcus.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
😁 I love seeing 3 of my dear friends giving the keynotes at @kcduk.bsky.social day 2! 💙 Great work @lianmakesthings.bsky.social @mccune.org.uk @wiggitywhitney.bsky.social 🎉
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Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 22/10/2025
Day 2 of @kcduk.bsky.social and @lianmakesthings.bsky.social is explaining how platform engineering replaced the DevOps walk of confusion with a canyon of confusion.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.
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Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books
A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 22/09/2025
The administration is not powerful enough to crack down on all opposition to fascism. In all likelihood, this is chiefly a performative measure intended to intimidate people. It will only be possible to impose fascist control on this society as a whole if people stop resisting. Keep fighting. 🏴
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It's Safer in the Front
Faced with intensifying repression and state violence, there is an understandable inclination to seek safety by avoiding confrontation. But this is not always the most effective strategy.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Their bad-faith game of denial is destroying our ability to respond to the collapse of civil society. They behave constantly in ways that actively destabilize our institutions and endanger our peace, and then, when the worst happens, affect mock outrage anyone would see their transparent motive.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...
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Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way
The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 06/09/2025
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.
theatlantic.com
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.
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🏳️‍🌈 Lian Li 李莲 ✊🏿 @lianmakesthings.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Feel like this security concept wasn’t quite thought through
Table where one leg was secured to a rain pipe with a bike chain
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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
6 days left for your Rejekts proposal... just one day of programming this year, so competition for spots will be tighter than usual!
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23/06/2024
Which kind of former coder are you: baking bread, too many synthesizers, or woodworking?
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/05/2025
Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people. Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 15/05/2025
There’s no question that the Catholic Church has deep flaws. But at a time when we need allies to fight AI, its moral framing of the issue, grounded in real-world problems instead of sci-fi fantasies, could be useful in building a larger coalition against AI. www.disconnect.blog/p/will-pope-...
We can’t fool ourselves about the drawbacks of the Catholic Church. It continues to advocate conservative approaches on abortion and the treatment of transgender people, with mention of the “unborn” coming up in the note on AI. Yet, at a moment when Silicon Valley is deploying so much to try to force AI on the whole of society and steamroll regulatory attempts to put even the lightest guardrails on their ambitions, the Pope’s concern about the impacts of the technology could be useful in building a wider coalition to oppose them.

In the same way that Pope Francis’ encyclical on climate change brought an important spiritual and moral dimension to the argument to accelerate environmental action, an effort by Pope Leo to do something similar on AI with a focus on its tangible impacts could be a welcome contribution. Even Francis’ climate arguments remain relevant, given the environmental consequences of the hyperscale data center buildout powering the AI boom. Tech critics reading Antiqua et nova might be surprised to find the leaders of the Catholic Church relying less on faith than the AI boosters trying to build their sci-fi futures and bring computer gods into being.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 05/04/2025
Later this month, @techwontsave.us turns five years old. It’s hard to believe I’ve been making the show for this long! Over that time I’ve interviewed hundreds of guests to spread critical perspectives on tech far and wide — and I know it’s had an impact.
Tech Won't Save Us is turning 5 years old
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Kuberoke @kuberoke.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We're getting close! Only 12 more days until Kuberoke! Check out this video to hear why our Chief Karaoke Officer @lianmakesthings.dev started Kuberoke and what song she is planning to sing!
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
Prague, 23 November 1911
Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie,
Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say.
But I am so enraged by the base manner in which the public is presently daring to concern itself with you!? that I absolutely must give vent to this feeling. However, I am convinced that you consistently despise this rabble, whether it obsequiously lavishes respect on you or whether it attempts to satiate its lust for sensationalism!
I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels. Anyone who does not number among these reptiles is certainly happy, now as before, that we have such personages among us as you, and Langevin(3) too, real people with whom one feels privileged to be in contact. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom i
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🏳️‍🌈 Lian Li 李莲 ✊🏿 @lianmakesthings.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
It’s opening weekend! 🥳🎉 www.heaproductions.nl/onceuponamat...
Three very attractive knights in theatre costumes
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🏳️‍🌈 Lian Li 李莲 ✊🏿 @lianmakesthings.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Current mood
Got commit message reads “just hardcore this shit I guess”
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Kuberoke @kuberoke.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Registrations for Kuberoke are now open! Join us on April 2nd for a night of musical splendour 🎤✨ 📝 We heard your feedback and changed the registration flow. All you need is to sign up and bring the QR code + your KubeCon lanyard 🕘 Doors open at 9 pm, last admission at 0:30am. ti.to/kuberoke/kub...
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Kuberoke Spring Party London 2025
That Cloud Native conference is coming to London and to celebrate the occasion, we are hosting a Karaoke party on Wednesday April 2, 9pm - 2am at Be At One, London. Doors open 9pm and close 0:30am. Pl...
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Happily Ever After Productions Amsterdam @heaproductions.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
🎼🪕MEET THE MINSTREL (Cast Pea) Get ready to hear the dulcet tones of Wesley Curtis in cast Pea as he unfolds the true events behind the fairytale.... 📸: Cheryl Hart photography #OnceUponAMattress #MusicalTheatre #Amsterdam #HappilyEverAfter #TossACoin
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🏳️‍🌈 Lian Li 李莲 ✊🏿 @lianmakesthings.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The venue is fantastic, and we can't wait to welcome you all to Kuberoke in April! ❤️ 🎤
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🏳️‍🌈 Lian Li 李莲 ✊🏿 @lianmakesthings.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
POV: you’re running a k8s platform with multiple tenants.
A kubernetes themed valentines card that reads “roses are red, violets are blue, sharing is caring, but stop hogging my cpu”
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 07/02/2025
We've prepared a zine version of our text "It’s Safer in the Front." Please print and distribute! crimethinc.com/zines/its-sa... “Counterintuitive though it is, in a confusing situation, often the best—if not safest—place to be is the front lines, so you can see what is going on around you.” 🏴
A screenshot of the cover of a zine titled "It’s Safer in the Front."
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🏳️‍🌈 Lian Li 李莲 ✊🏿 @lianmakesthings.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Hi friends, as some of you know, I dabble in musical theatre from time to time. And I have a show coming up, end of March in Amsterdam. We’re going to have 10 performances in total over the span of 3 weeks, so no excuses 😅 The show is family-friendly, we even have some kids on the cast 👀
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Once Upon A Mattress — Happily Ever After Productions
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