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Tobias Geyer (he/him - Tarabiscoté*e) @the-qa-guy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm not saying that I'm co-hosting the best conference session ever - but it's way up there! This year "Ballgown breakfast" made it into the official program at @agiletdzone.bsky.social 🥰 I'm so glad and honored that I get to host this with @alexschl.bsky.social and @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social

Snipped from a conference program. Headline: Sessions hosted by Tobias Geyer
Three sessions are shown:
- Adventures in performance monitoring
- Designing software that respects every identity
- Ballgown breakfast (hosted together with Alex Schladebeck and Sophie Küster)

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I'm at a family event and got cold feet so I asked my sister to borrow socks. She got me a pair of my nephew's. They are too big. The boy is 9. What are they feeding the kids these days?!

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I just found out that roadrunners are a real thing and that seems to be general knowledge somehow and nobody ever bothered to tell me and I can't even this is the best thing ever. Meep meep.

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Ich versage in meiner Mission, alle Eissorten zu probieren, weil Caramel-Popcorn zu doll Hammer ist. #HeartOverBrain #JavaLand

An ice cream cone with two scoops: one walnut, one caramel Popcorn (yum!)

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Challenge für #JavaLand: Wer schafft es zuerst sich durch alle Eissorten zu probieren ohne Bauchweh zu bekommen? Caramel Popcorn ist jedenfalls schonmal eine klare Empfehlung von mir.

A cup with two scoops of ice cream. One kinda looks like toxic waste

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Ich sag's mal wie es ist. Freizeitpark-Atmosphäre>>Rennstrecken-Atmosphäre. ♥️♥️♥️ #JavaLand #JavaLand2026

Der französische Themenbereich im Europapark Rust, im Vordergrund ein Brunnen mit einer Ballerina-Figur, deren Rock aus Wasser ist, im Hintergrund ein paar französisch aussehende Gebäude und eine komische große Kuppel.

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Happy belated "thank god it's on a Sunday this year so we won't have to do anything about it" day to everyone celebrating! ♥️

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The other local supermarket has just reopened after major renovations and changed the entire layout (which I hate like the next neurosparkly person) but hear me out - they put the chocolate across the aisle from the period products and that's some customer oriented design that I can get behind.

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

My local supermarket has introduced flirt baskets: take a pink one to signal you're open for a flirt. That's a cute idea at first glance, right? Except when all black baskets are taken. Because signalling I'm open to be flirted at when I'm not just doesn't feel *safe*. I guess it's a girl thing.

Two stacks of shopping baskets at my supermarket. One black, one pink.

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

A few years ago, I wrote on twitter (in the before times) about my first ever in-person conference talk. I had had a blackout mid-talk and was saved by a literal angel in the audience who broke my panic freeze by saying "Take your time". Yesterday at a talk, I met her angel colleague. 1/

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I was nearly murdered by the Karneval people at the train stations and the regional trains but now I'm on an ICE train and it's much calmer. However, there's a Bundeswehroffizier and two police men in full uniform sitting around me and I. Must. Not. Compliment. Them. On. Their. Funny. Costumes.

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Currently sobbing because my mum told me #PeppaPig was worried when George got hearing aids and Mama Pig said not to worry he'll find his favourite sound and when he starts speaking, his first word is "Peppa" and idk man PMS is one hell of a drug.

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I've officially entered my villain era except my villain era is just me saying stop being a d*ck towards me when they're being a d*ck towards me.

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Another day, another 1.5 hour delay on a trip with @deutschebahn.com I would have arrived at my destination even later if I hadn't decided to take an earlier train for the first leg of my journey to make the second connecting train. So in total, my journey will be 2 hours longer. Funsies.

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

What not to say to cancer survivors, episode 74756: "You'll just have to accept xyz then." Yeah thanks, Captain Obvious, I know. My whole life is just accepting things then. It's sucks. Let me at least rant about it.

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Happy blue Monday to everyone celebrating, I guess 💙💙💙

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Being the childless one of us three sisters means that at Christmas at my parents', I'm the odd job daughter. I'm prepared for all kinds of "could you real quick?" What I wasn't prepared for was being entrusted with _the talk_. But then 5yo was like "Aunty Sophie, how *do* you make babies?" 1/

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Hey everyone! The days are getting longer again! We made it! ♥️♥️♥️

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting.

BBC
'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed
Emily Atkinson
Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST
2 min read

A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed.

Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat.

Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I knew the universe would punish me one day for being the fun aunty who gives her niblings the annoying toys with sounds and lights for Christmas. I assumed it would be when I have kids of my own. I was wrong. It's today. 1/3

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JavaLand @javaland.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Visit Top Speaker Sophie Küsters presentation "Glue work makes the crew work" at #JavaLand 2026! Learn what glue work means, why it is a necessity for every successful team and cannot be automated or done by AI. 💭 More information about the session: scomp.ly/GV1jaxy

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Decided to fight my winter blues with a bit of dopamine dressing and went for a coral pink and butter yellow combo (it's gorge, trust me). Colleague decided he needed to comment "oh, Sophie is going all in today, colourwise, höhöhö". Dude.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 18/11/2025

The witch made him hot chocolate. "They say I'm strong," he said. "And I am." He took a sip. "They say I can overcome any hardship." "Mm," said the witch. "And I can. I do." The witch said nothing. "But I shouldn't have to!" "No." The witch held the hero as he wept. "No, you shouldn't."

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Influenza Impfluencer. (And COVID Impfluencer!)

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

In light of recent events, I would like to share my personal top three infuriating things that have been mansplained to me: a thread. Friends (current and future) I would love to hear your stories, too! 1/4

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Hey @deutschebahn.com get your shit together. Es kann doch nicht sein, dass das Stellwerk in #Krefeld seit 3 Uhr heute Nacht kaputt ist und alle Anzeigen und die App falsche Infos zeigen, welche Züge fahren (kein) und welche nicht (alle). Grüße aus dem Taxi.

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

One aspect of breast cancer survivorship nobody talks about is sometimes you slather pain ointment on your other boob and then you sit there, topless, freezing and have to wait for the goop to dry and then what.

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I'm just an anonymous conference reviewer, standing in front of a submitter, asking them to please not hide their supporting video behind a "request access to view" thingamabob.

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

The comical tragedy or the tragical comedy of the aunty trying out Pinterest crafts for kids with her nieces, one temper tantrum at a time

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I'll have you know I'm going from 3-monthly check-ups at my oncologist's to 6-monthly check-ups now. #OneInEight #CancerInTheButtKicker #fckcncr #I'mGonnaKeepOnDancingAtThePinkRibbonClub

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

You know what's fun? Because trying to translate between your boomer parents and your gen X brother in law in a political debate and then getting yelled at by both parties because you're clearly the only one who understands what they're on about isn't it.

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

If you're planning to go to @agiletdzone.bsky.social this year (which you absolutely should!), ping me for 150€ discount code! #AgileTestingDays #AgileTD #ATD You can ride unicorns there!

Me in a grey scale 1990s costume, riding a unicorn statue on stage at Agile Testing Days last year

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Being a card bearing member of the amazing aunty society sometimes means ending the evening with splinters in your pointer fingers because the main character of the borrowers that live under granny and grandpa's floorboards mentioned a life long ambition to become a yarn designer, so the... 1/2

A tiny knit scarf of about 1 cm by 8 cm made of mismatched scrap yarn on barbeque skewers resting on my legs

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The nieces have been playing with some family heirloom dollhouse furniture and it had always annoyed me that there was no bedding so I fell into a Pinterest rabbit hole and long story short, there's now a hand-tufted mattress on the bed.

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I know I rant *a lot* about my adventures with healthcare. But I'm just off the phone with my gyno's office and they are just the nicest, friendliest, most helpful and understanding healthcare professionals. 🥹🥹🥹

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Omg. I just walked into an elevator with a "caution! Wet floor!" sign. I hurt myself. Did I slip and fall. No. The sign tipped over when the elevator moved and grazed my leg. The irony. I'm bleeding.

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Yes, and: Me, girly presenting, mentioning my fav SNES game. Them: Ugh, one of those "gamer girls" who "game" for the attention....

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Today I had to write an objection to a letter from the department for disabilities (answering a request from mofoing 18 months ago) that claimed that "regarding my impairment 'loss of breast' healing probation has occurred". 1/2

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Agile Testing Days | Nov. 16 - 19, 2026 @agiletdzone.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱. At #AgileTD, @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social aka Sophie Küster explores “glue work” - the invisible force that makes teams actually work. Because AI can’t onboard your teammate or make your Slack channel feel human. ➡️ tinyurl.com/486t8zsb #GlueWork #Agile #Testing

banner to promote the talk by Sophie Küster at the agile testing days 2025, showing Sophie's picture and the session title "Glue work makes the crew work"

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I literally just checked my calendar to see if I have enough time between meetings for a good cry. #BossBabe

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Last year, I gave myself a second hand Sony alpha 6300 for my birthday. I had planned trips to awesome new places, I had always enjoyed dabbling in photography, and had just left a rough time behind me, so what the heck, I deserved a little treat. 1/

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

That female urge to smack your superiors around the ears when they ask "do you have a minute?" and give ✨zero context✨

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I mentioned to my colleagues that I had encountered a humongous spider and I now needed a big game hunter and/or an exorcist now. One answered "Huh, why?" My talents are wasted here.

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

It's officially dude just walked into the office shirtless degrees Celsius.

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

In the 90s, my sisters and I got a hand-me-down SNES from my aunt's ex-husband. The *one* game we had was Secret of Mana. Today, I got it for the switch and I played it in English for the first time, so I was today years old when I learned that the first monster you encounter is called a Rabite.

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Mlle Sophie Pofie @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

The other day, I asked a doc how likely outcome X is. He said - and I'm not even kidding - "What does it matter to you if it's 20% or 80%? In the end, it's just 50/50 for you: either it happens or it doesn't."

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