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As the person with DCTV head... Which hallway of lockers should I avoid?

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Somebody call DCTV and ask if we can get a picture in picture of Mount's reactions to all this? #dragonconmasquerade

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You should go to Momocon. This year there were practically as many of those as Carls here. (And that was a really good one!)

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Thanks, I spent 5,000 seconds carefully tracing 11 billion sequin pixels by hand.

He started explaining just as I clicked send. :-D

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The sound was out at the beginning of #dragonconmasquerade... Did they explain why Anson Mount is dressed for the 90s hip hop special edition of Bake-Off?

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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I don't know how to watch Masquerade without a bingo card! 😭

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Somehow I've seen the Wendy's Super Bar come up multiple times in the last week. Does that mean the 90s nostalgia wave will get them to bring it back?

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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Is it me, or have Gmail spam filters have gotten really aggressive lately? I feel like I'm repeatedly missing real things that it has trashed.

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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"Non-manifold geometry" is my new least favorite phrase.

Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

There's a computer games museum in Berlin. (Always fun to see your childhood in a museum!) At one exhibit, you can play Zork. (You can play a lot of things.) In case you were wondering... nope, kids these days cannot play Zork.

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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Happy #UNESCO #WorldHeritageDay! The German Commission for UNESCO started this celebration for the 55 German World Heritage sites 21 years ago, and I'm lucky enough to be spending this week in Berlin where 3 of them in are.

Thank you for coming to my complaint thread. 😱

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And finally, it's mine because it's on my phone. You don't need to start the app name with "my."

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Probably a cruise line. Which one? Who knows.

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If your app is related to a city, like say, its public transit, please use the name of the city. I have no idea what cities these are for, and on one occasion, I nearly bought a day pass for the wrong city.

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Marriott, I'll let this go if you pick one or the other. But don't use Bonvoy for the image and Marriott for the name.

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Delta, you belong under D. This makes me crazy every time I fly.

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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Dear app developers, I beg you. Name it what it is. A 🧵 of frustration and annoyances:

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I was skeptical that it was more parental nostalgia bait from the headline, but it actually sounds great. My kids are well beyond this age, but this is pretty cool. www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

nytimes.com

Parents Are Lining Up to Pay $100 for Tin Can’s Screenless, App-Free “Landline”

This simple home phone for kids is evoking nostalgia in millennial parents while giving them a choice beyond the smart device.

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Apache Software Foundation (The ASF) @apache.org · 07/04/2026

🚨 NEWS 🚨 The Apache Software Foundation Announces $1.5M Donation from Anthropic buff.ly/7bqBmU0 #AI #opensource #cloudnative #DataInfrastructure #ArtificialIntelligence

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 31/03/2026

Blocking archives risks harming the public record. Some news organizations are restricting access to the #WaybackMachine over fears of AI scraping. Mark Graham explains why these concerns are unfounded. Get the story on Techdirt 🔗 www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p... @mark.bsky.social #techdirt

techdirt.com

Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is.

Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Ar…

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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I've always been the kind of person who finishes slides right before the event... Maybe right before the talk. But dang, if you're doing talks about AI, you pretty much /have/ to be that person now.

Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

- The Straight State (Margot Canadäy) - For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of Experts Advice to Women (Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English)

Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

- A Woman’s Place Is in the Brewhouse: A Forgotten History of Alewives, Brewsters, Witches, and CEOs (Tara Nurin) - Woman’s Place is at the Typewriter (Margery Davies) - Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power (Clare Hunter) 🧵

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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Bonus reading list for folks t my Women+ in Open Source talk (or anyone else wandering by who needs a new book!)" - The Computer Boys Take Over (Nathan Ensmenger) - Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England (Judith Bennett) - The Last Secret Agent (Pippa Latour) 🧵

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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Next on the list of AI-slop annoyances: When I travel or will need to say a name or a place in a language I don't speak, I try to find a video to hear a native speaker (or at least someone knowledgeable!) so I say it right. A sea of unexamined AI-generated videos is making this increasingly hard.

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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The best thing about the internet is (nearly) free access to endless quantities of information about anything I could possibly want to learn about. The worst thing about the internet is that I do not have enough lifetimes for every rabbit hole that catches my eye.

Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

How much Slack do I need to buy to get them to stop playing commercials with the message notification sound over and over in the Olympics??

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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I learned yesterday that Ghostbusters in French is SOS Fantômes, which is funny enough, but Frozen Empire is La Menace de Glace, which is just what we call January/February in North Carolina.

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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

IMO it is embarrassing in 2026 for a tech story to put "open source" in scare quotes and equate it with free-of-cost. At least the tools actually are open source licensed. From the NYT:

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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Highly recommend this episode of Radio Atlantic if you want to think about what happened at the Washington Post, and what's happening to journalism more broadly. open.spotify.com/episode/44Kd...

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How Jeff Bezos Broke The Washington Post

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OpenForum Europe @openforumeurope.org · 30/01/2026

In her final remarks, @suehle.bsky.social of @apache.org emphasises collaboration as a key driver of open source. It both builds and relies on collaboration across companies, communities and geopolitical borders.

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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Everybody needs to save one penny so Lincoln's head can tell us if our tires need to be replaced.

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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Can you imagine the amount of time that has collectively been wasted arguing about what platform to use based largely on personal preferences? Here's the new rule: The person who schedules the meeting gets to pick the platform. The person who starts the shared doc gets to pick the platform.

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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Remote work is fraught with unanticipated hazards. Like when somebody else on the call also has an LG dryer, and you think your laundry is done but then remember you weren't doing laundry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tblP...

youtube.com

LG Front Load Washer "Love Song"

YouTube video by Mark LeVang

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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Never once have I been to Paris and the catacombs been open. Is this a Bielefeld situation? There are no catacombs.

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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Pick a decade and watch MTV the old way. What comes on comes on. That's it. Occasionally some vintage ads for ambiance, but not ads like website ad revenue. wantmymtv.vercel.app

wantmymtv.vercel.app

MTV REWIND - I Want My MTV

Celebrating 44 years of continuous music videos. Stream classic music videos 24/7.

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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

If shiny #costumes are your thing, I hit the Art of the Disney Costume exhibit before it left SC. Didn't take pics of everything, but got a lot of the end battle variant of the Red Queen that I made the regular version of years ago... maybe it's time to do this one? photos.app.goo.gl/QPFTSS6vJyXr...

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Disney costume exhibit · Friday, Jan 2 📸

Shared album · Tap to view!

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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

TIL the most delightful word. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feghoot

en.wikipedia.org

Feghoot - Wikipedia

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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Why have I not seen a Golden Girls version of KPop Demon Hunters "Golden"? This is out there, right?

Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Pennsylvania is the state where the most objects are dropped for New Year's Eve, including a crayon, Pac-Man, a 100-pound stick of bologna, a pair of yellow pants,a rhombicuboctahedron, and a 400-pound Peep. If you can still say "rhombicuboctahedron" at 12:05, you can have another drink.

Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Psh, like I'm gonna let a box tell me what I can and can't do.