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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Confused why the DPAC room only has a band for the first couple of hours. But could have been worse, some band could have used Hellvetica for a font. Content warning: horrific keming.

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I thought to myself "Of course we can tell you the history!" but... hmm... I asked on r/boston for you, this is interesting enough we might get some answers. www.reddit.com/r/boston/com...

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Is today the day I quit the Zuckerberg doomscrolling machine? Maybe, since apparently it no longer likes my login. Is any social media worth it these days? Who knows? :theshadow:

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a man in a batman costume with a yellow bat logo

ALT: a man in a batman costume with a yellow bat logo

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Watching #Fallout S2E6, thinking how the Scientist could sooo much be like The Cheese Man from #Buffy!

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Fingers crossed your new cat vet stays good! 😍 We've been lucky - there's a cat-only practice here. 😺 Cat lovers: your cats need dental care! 🪥 Enzymatic toothpaste and crunchy dental food really do help, and yes, pay for kitty dental cleaning (if they still have teeth). Maeve yawns!

Closeup photo of a black cat yawning at you. The cat is sitting down, facing you, on top of a white and green couch. The cat is looking right at you, whiskers akimbo, yawning widely with a big pink tounge.
Not easily visible are all the missing teeth, taken out by the shelter vet after a previous owner neglected to provide kitty dental care. The cat is in a wonderful forever home now!

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Was just about to say "But isn't belt color functional?!?"

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Hey #TechLaw, #SoftwareLicensing skies: what do y'all think of #Multiboard's new 'Community Promise'? Actually enforceable or no? Closer or further from "open" in terms of licensing? www.multiboard.io/community-pr...

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Community Promise — Multiboard

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Wait - is there a "cuteness" manual for what an Ordinary Observer would think?!? 😸 As noted elsethread, it totally depends on the doggo (or cat, if you can find one that would deign to wear it) cuteness factor.

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

"Humanity isn't ready for the internet we've built." 😿

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU, I"VE GOT A PAW IN MY EAR. #SiameseCat #cats

Photograph of two Siamese cats sleeping together. The one on the right is darker colored and larger; curled with head and feet pointing to the left. The lighter one on the left is curled the opposite way, with their head on top of the other's dark feet, and their back foot on top of the dark one's head, right by it's ear.

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Reclaim the internet for it's original purpose: #cats And #kindness.

Cat photograph. A lilac point Siamese cat is sleeping stretched out on a tan carpeted cat bed. The cat is facing you with it's eyes closed and a smile. They are stretched out with legs off to the left of photo, and the tail is lazily curled off to the right of the photo. The cat's name was Pálinka.

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Ned Batchelder @nedbat.com · 18/11/2025

How much is your company spending to support the Python Software Foundation? For comparison, how much do they spend for tips on expensed meals? The PSF runs PyPI, where pip installs from. You depend on PyPI. Fund the PSF. Tip your server! www.python.org/psf/sponsors...

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Sponsor the PSF

The official home of the Python Programming Language

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

FOIA released government documents are too boring for ya? Then watch Deutchland 83, an amazingly detailed and engaging story of NATO's Able Archer 83 - but from the East German side, through the eyes of a disillusioned spy. Then go read the real FOIA record! www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/deutschla...

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Deutschland 83: Deutschland 83 | Rotten Tomatoes

Discover reviews, ratings, and trailers for Deutschland 83: Deutschland 83 on Rotten Tomatoes. Stay updated with critic and audience scores today!

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

We were just describing how The Witcher seasons 2/3 how Dandelion really shines, both dramatically and comedically, and then comparing him to Autolycus, King of Thieves as a great sidekick.

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

#DrSeuss was such an interesting wit. I never actually considered until today that the Cat never actually gets In The Hat - which is the more obvious meaning of the words. Brilliant.

Cartoon image from the book The Cat In The Hat: on a blue background, there's a black outline of a smiling mischevous cat, wearing a red bow-tie and the epynonimous white-and-red striped top hat.

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

It's only Title Cased Open Source if it's listed on the OSI website; otherwise it's just Ponies Openly Sharing Source -Yippee! (POSSY) 🐴

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

complaining on social media works 😮 🧐 no, not really now new error, let's debug 🤔 bundle show rubocop ... ...Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib... 😭😭😭

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

i'm just a guy trying to write some ruby to give away as #opensource spending my whole day cursing 🤬 vscode shopify ruby lsp rubocop unknown switches --name-only wrong shell macos launcher bundle not found 😿 HOW DOES SOFTWARE EVER WORK 😭 is it just me? what did I do wrong 😭😭😭

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

My grandfather volunteered to fight the original N*zis at Bastogne, and lost a wrist and a small part of his soul in combat, fighting to protect truth and freedom. Please, let's not have to do that again. 😢

Formal black and white photograph of a man in uniform.
The man is facing the camera, with short dark hair, prominent ears and nose, and dark eyes. He is wearing a West Point Military Academy cadet's uniform, which is gray with a high collar, and several lines of plain buttons across the front. There is no rank other than Cadet.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 13/10/2025

What's Your Wayback? We've archived 1 trillion pages. Now we need your help! Share the top 5 web pages or sites you want to preserve for future generations. We'll start: 1️⃣ The first ever web page at CERN 2️⃣ Wikipedia 3️⃣ GeoCities 4️⃣ WebArchive 96 5️⃣ Wayback Machine 🔗 ⬇️ #Wayback1T #WhatsYourWayback

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

If I’m not how you hoped And I’m not how you hoped Forgive my Northern attitude Oh, I was raised out in the cold If the sun don’t rise Till the summertime Forgive my Northern attitude Oh, I was raised on little light Thanks for telling our story, Noah.

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Forgot to post my daily COVID test for #Monktoberfest! Yay for events everyone can feel safe at, plus shiny stickers. 😮

Photo of Corey Quinn’s shiny sticker with a negative COVID test. Duck approved.

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

“You have the agency to decide how you treat other people you interact with.” And doing so thoughtfully, with kindness, and respect - which has always been a key message from #Monktoberfest 💗

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

🔬 "What we observe bserve is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning" - Werner Heisenberg Feels very applicable to neuroscience, and to many ways we measure technical and organizational structures as well. #Monktoberfest always helps you think in new ways.

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Good Morning #Monktoberfest here in lovely and peaceful #PortlandME! 🦞 Today’s Hawaiian shirt in front of the local iconic statue.

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

"What are historians if not gossips of the dead?" Spilling the tea on Boston and New England revolutionary history. Although www.nps.gov/mima probably won't have staff for visitors this week... 8-( newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-story-of...

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The Story of the Boston Tea Party in Myth and Reality - New England Historical Society

The story of the Boston Tea Party has been told and retold over the centuries -- but much of the story is flat-out wrong.

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Can confirm; the Chief Duckinator 😮 uttered these very words in public. Always nice when family still takes you in on your travels to #Monktoberfest.

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Today’s Hawaiian shirt at #Monktoberfest dinner, along with the amazeballs @northerneclectic.bsky.social

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

💻 “Technical debt always charges interest.” #Monktoberfest 🦞

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Good Evening #Monktoberfest and #PortlandME! Had a wicked sweet hahboh cruise with today's Hawaiian shirt.

Photo of Shane wearing a red and white flower pattern vintage Tommy Bahama Hawaiian shirt, looking at the camera, standing next to a painting of a lighthouse in Maine.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

🏎️ Driving up tomorrow afternoon. 🦞 Wondering about the implications of those of us without any skills in art being able to use AI to create some form of art, no matter how sloppy it is.

AI GENERATED SLOP: Gemini 2.5 Flash:
"Create an image in the style of F1: The Movie, showing a stylized Dan Levy from the Shitt's Creek television show, driving an electric blue colored BMW i4 M series sedan. In the background are pine trees from Portland, Maine and the runway of the Portland International Jetport. Just visible in the backseat of the BMW is a cooler with a lobster climbing out of the cooler."
Ooops, sorry, forgot about the beer. And dunno where the Rosebudd productions came from, but it's a priceless addition!

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Hmm... 🤖 what is the intersections of design patents and media depictions/characters? 📽️ If a hypothetical STARRY WARES major movie came out with a robot star that was clearly based on that patent, is there a legal claim? Or only if the movie also sells toys based on the design? 🤔

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Trademarks are very different from copyright - but often confused in non-lawyer circles, so no surprise. 😸 There was a notable 2020 plagarisim (i.e. copyright) case between Parker and Dunn, but that's different. Trademark policy (which isn't law, just their claims): inktober.com/trademarkinfo

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Trademark Info — Inktober

This is a work-in-progress. As Frequently Asked Questions we will be updating this page accordingly.

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Combine with "Sally" by Asimov. But thinking about clock cycles really changes how you perceive time, especially when telling from a first-sedan perspective. 🚘

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Thanks for the article and all your past work on bundler and the Ruby ecosystem. Good luck with the #trademark registration; that's a critical part of keeping an open governance community.

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

🏷️ Reason #3.7.2 why it's critical to clearly and publicly define your #OpenSource project #Governance, for code, distributions, trademarks, and domain names. And, of course, not breaking norms and cosplaying a public charity while bowing to a sole sponsor over the community. 😢

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Apache Software Foundation (The ASF) @apache.org · 13/09/2025

Get a look at our new logo's debut at the 2025 #CommunityOverCode youtu.be/Tm2rsiA3Zbs?...

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Community Over Code 2025! New logo!

YouTube video by The ASF

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Hey Shane, glad to meet you at #CommuntyOverCode today, especially after that inspiring UN Open Source keynote! Always glad to see teams from vendors that "get" open source showing up and truly helping do the work. Signed, - Shane 🤩

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Apache Software Foundation (The ASF) @apache.org · 11/09/2025

🚨 Breaking News from Community Over Code 🚨 Introducing The ASF’s New Logo buff.ly/DzgT82w #CommunityOverCode #opensource

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FOSS Backstage @foss-backstage.de · 01/09/2025

Our Call for Participation for FOSS Backstage is now officially open! Find all the important information you need at a glance in our new blog post. Read the blog post: 26.foss-backstage.de... Submit your proposal: 26.foss-backstage.de...

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Call for Participation is now open! – FOSS Backstage 2026

Learn about our Call for Participation and how you can become an active part of FOSS Backstage 2026.

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

But what if you - now hear me out - draft it up, then see what @sogrady.org thinks before publishing it? That should give plenty of time to ponder if you really want it out there or not. 😆 (also, now intensely curiuos what it is!)

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

#GenX sitting here drinking fancy AF cocktails and rolling our eyes. Then again, we do that to everyone. Anyway, if you bring us treats you can sit with us and we might say something wise - or at least amusing. Or not. What-𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳.

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

There are two kinds of people in the world: - Those who would do exactly what Joel did - Those who don't understand it - Those without children #TLOU #SoftwareJoke

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Reminder folks 📣 keep your passwords secure, keep your systems updated, and use 2FA/MFA wherever you can. And when security geeks say "Oh, sh*t, we need to fix this", listen to them! #CVE arstechnica.com/security/202...

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CVE, global source of cybersecurity info, was hours from being cut by DHS

Board members have launched a nonprofit to take over the program from MITRE.

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Shane Curcuru @shanecurcuru.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Obviously, GenX grew up in a time utter crap job market, so many turned to sales, because lead generation was one of... What? Not that kind of lead? Nevermind.

Meme photograph of Mrs. Emily Litella, a fictional character on Saturday Night Live in the 1970's played by actress Gilda Radner.
Emily is facing the camera, with her hair pulled back, and a strange smile on her face behind her horn rim glasses. Emily is wearing a red top with a white and black polka-dot collar.
The bottom of the photo has the meme text: "NEVER MIND!" which was one of Emily's catchphrases when she misunderstood something.

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