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Tobias Geyer (he/him - Tarabiscoté*e)

@the-qa-guy.bsky.social
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Whenever I'm close, things reveal that they're broken - and sometimes that was not my intention. Expect posts about software testing, public speaking, parenting, sports (running & pole) and fashion. Genderqueer. Haus Tarabiscoté*e 🪻🖤

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PureNeugier @pureneugier311.bsky.social · 5h
CN Krebs Auch wenn Frauen am häufigsten betroffen sind: Brustkrebs fragt nicht nach dem Geschlecht. Regelmäßig abtasten sollte sich jede*r. #Pinktober
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Brooklyn Rousseau's Lonely Heart @glamgothcollective.eurosky.social · 6h
THERE IS NO TRANS DEBATE
THERE ARE TRANS PEOPLE AND THERE ARE FASCISTS WHO WISH TO DOMINATE
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ELIMINATE TRANS PEOPLE
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Ginny got baptized by Tyler Joseph twice @taeminified.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
kind reminder to do your breast self-exam.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Liz Tarabiscoté*e @boesesliz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wer My Body, my choice nur auf das körperliche Selbstbestimmungsrecht von (endo cis) Frauen bezieht, ist verlogen, heuchlerisch und macht eine Forderung, die universell gelten muss zur Verhandlungssache und bringt sie damit für alle in Gefahr.
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Liz Tarabiscoté*e @boesesliz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Zum #safeAbortionDay ein paar Erinnerungen: Schwangerschaftsabbrüche lassen sich verbieten aber nicht verhindern. Verbote verhindern den Zugang zu sicheren Abbrüchen. Sichere Schwangerschaftsabbrüche müssen für ALLE zugänglich sein, die einen brauchen. Das sind oft Frauen, aber nicht nur.
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Tobias Geyer (he/him - Tarabiscoté*e) @the-qa-guy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Assuming I wanted to buy 100 pride pins and have them shipped to the UK - where would I do that? Does anyone have a favourite seller? Ideally queer owned or somehow connected to the LGBTQIA+ community
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Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I STILL have this ticket to give away. No chains attached. BUT: The conference is this Thursday #TinyRuby #Ruby #FreeTicket
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, working at a desk. A brain next to her says, "We need to take breaks!"
The second panel zooms in on Sarah's face. She is annoyed. She says, "What if I don't listen to you?"
The third panel shows the brain smiling.
The fourth panel shows the brain reaching towards a lever. The brain says, "I'LL MAKE YOU."
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Chris Armstrong @christovskia.blog · 26/09/2026
I want to move my family's cloud photo storage from Google Photos. I get a lot of ads for Amazon Prime Photos, but I feel that is really no better. So I'm now looking at Proton. Anyone used it?
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Princess Space Catt 💙 @spacecatt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
First they came for the trans people.. And I absolutely spoke the fuck out because the playbook was obvious
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NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments
Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
these are not “autonomous” attacks: they are failures by humans to implement appropriate controls for the computers acting on their behalf, and we must not forget it.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵
evitable
adjective
uk  /ˈev.ɪ.tə.bəl/ us  /ˈev.ə.t̬ə.bəl/

able to be avoided or prevented:
He believes that world war is evitable.
Inevitable suffering due to persecution is to be distinguished from evitable sickness.
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#unspirational
scenic landscape photo featuring lush green and yellow terraced rice fields winding up dynamic mountain slopes under a vibrant pink and orange sunset sky. 

"It's Never Too Late To Crawl Back to Bed"

MyBodyIsTryingToKillMe.com
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Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I still have a #tinyrubyconf (➙ tinyruby.fi) ticket to give away for free. #Ruby #Helsinki If you want it DM me. 👍
tinyruby.fi
tiny ruby #{conf}
A tiny Ruby conference in Helsinki, Finland. Now in its second year.
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Tobias Geyer (he/him - Tarabiscoté*e) @the-qa-guy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wednesday is my day off. I started doing it because I need time for myself to calm down and to recharge. The last few months Wednesday was filled with all kinds of chores and my battery got dangerously low. This week I put my own needs first and went for a long walk in the woods alone. I feel better
A narrow path in the woods. The sun is shining from above, illuminating leaves
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Daphne Tarabiscoté*e ("independent researcher" era) @freihanddenker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What it's like to have ADHD: my spoken sentences have footnotes
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Anna Katharina Mangold @feministconlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hab ich das richtig verstanden: Das Hauptthema ist der angebliche Antisemitismus von kleinen Teilen der Linken und nicht der dokumentierte Faschismus der gesamten AfD?!
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
r/crafts has banned all Harry Potter-related crafts due to JK Rowling’s anti-trans bigotry, after a 53-41 vote
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From the crafts community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the crafts community
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Heike Kleffner @heikekleffner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In Gedanken & Solidarität bei all jenen in #MV, für die das Wahlergebnis wirklich existenziell ist, weil es um ihre Zukunft und/oder körperliche Unversehrtheit geht: als Person of Colour, Antifaschist*in, nichtrechte Teenager oder Lehrer*in, Kind mit Behinderung, Gewerkschafter*in uvm. #KipppunktOst
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Tobias Geyer (he/him - Tarabiscoté*e) @the-qa-guy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Today my 14yo son celebrated his birthday with five friends who are one to two years older than him. He explicitly asked for us to leave the flat. When we came back unannounced one friend was playing my wifes piano, two others played Lego and the rest talked. Everything went better than expected 💜
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Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Some people argue AI will be so smart it will “solve” climate change. We already have smart people who solved climate change. The oil industry spent BILLIONS making sure we ignored them. Smart is not enough. AI won’t save us from ourselves. Laws protect people, the environment & our future.
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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The same cover, but with the "say 'i am alive'" AI meme pasted on top of it after 10000 hours in MSPaint
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A Rachel for all seasons (she/her) @nerak3l.eurosky.social · 21/03/2026
Pray for us now and in the hour when we really should have gone to bed ages ago
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Doc Impossible @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In case you need to hear it: The world is burning, fascism has surged, and ain't none of us gonna live forever. Do The Thing. If it's not harming someone, Do The Thing, even if it's weird or pervy or scary or weird or kinda fucked up. Don't die wondering.
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Raquel 🌈✨ @aistear.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Blumineck lo ha vuelto a hacer 🥹 le aplaudo hasta que se me caigan las manos, bravo. "Be masculine, be feminine, be neither, or be both. But be kind."
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Gitte Klitgaard @nativewired.com · 15/09/2026
This was a great conversation and good additions from the online people :)
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mr. Bedtime @InternetHippo

I stepped away from my computer for a moment. When I returned, it was building something. I did not ask it to do this. We're not ready for what's coming

(picture of windows 3d pipes screen saver)
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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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Tobias Geyer (he/him - Tarabiscoté*e) @the-qa-guy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The morning starts with the office coffee machine insisting that there's a finger on the touch screen - when there's no finger near the machine. Either there's a undercoffeinated ghost haunting the office or the machine is broken
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Sascha @medienmonolog.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Friendly reminder, dass ein generisches Femininum gar kein so smarter, feministischer Move ist, sondern einfach nur nichtbinäre Personen weiterhin unsichtbar macht. Gezeichnet, euer unsichtbarer Sascha
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Geschlechtsfreibeuter*in @queerbildung.social · 14/09/2026
Seit dem Beschluss 2003 durften trans Athlet*innen bei Olympischen Spielen antreten. In mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten und über zahlreiche Sommer- und Winterspiele hinweg hat genau eine offen trans Frau tatsächlich an einem olympischen Wettkampf teilgenommen. Laurel Hubbard 2021.
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 14/09/2026
Turkish police raid gay bars and LGBTQ+ homes in ‘family values’ crackdown
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Turkish police raid gay bars and LGBTQ+ homes in 'family values' crackdown
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Kristoffer Nordström @kristoffernord.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What's the most confidently wrong thing an AI has ever told you about your own code, or your own testing? Answer that and you're in the draw for a free Agile Testing Days ticket. Potsdam, 16-19 Nov, or an online pass if you can't travel. Closes Wed. forms.gle/WxSoJiVhKKxj...
forms.gle
Win a ticket to Agile Testing Days 2026
I'm an ambassador for Agile Testing Days this year, which mostly means I get to give away a ticket. Potsdam, 16-19 November 2026. To enter, answer one question. That's it. The prize is an on-site co...
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Doc Impossible @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just a thought, but: I'm pretty sure that the nonsense "push to slow AI's development by regulating it" crap we're hearing from AI CEOs is mostly because they're out of new training data for models, and therefore cannot meaningfully improve the models from where they are now.
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My field is embarrassing. Tech Translation: the «AI will kill everyone» guy is saying that the scene in Terminator 3 when they are in the old bunker in the mountain, will happen. Where Skynet has escaped and is running «everywhere». Except AI needs hardware nobody has outside of AI data centers.
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Madame Simone @madame-simone.de · 13/09/2026
Hamburger, holt euren Arsch vom Sofa wenn ihr könnt, und kommt zur Gegendemo! People of Hamburg, get your arses off the sofa if you can, and come to the counter-demonstration!
Ein Banner mit den Farben der trans Flagge quer über einen orangen Hintergrund. Darüber steht:  Gegendemo zur "Transmedizin macht krank"- Kundgebung.
Darunter steht:
Wann und wo?
Vor der Europapassage 
Ballindamm 40
20.09.2026, 11 - 14 Uhr 
Rechts unten Logos von: Jusos Hamburg und Grüne Jugend Hamburg


A banner in the colours of the trans flag across an orange background. Above it reads:  Counter-demonstration against the ‘Trans medicine makes you ill’ rally.
Below it reads:
When and where?
In front of the Europapassage 
Ballindamm 40
20 September 2026, 11 am – 2 pm 
At the bottom right: logos of Jusos Hamburg and Grüne Jugend Hamburg
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
my worry about ai isn’t that it will become sentient, it’s that the cognitive impact of outsourcing critical thinking to computers combined with the proliferation of slop making it increasingly challenging to validate information will dissolve society’s already-tenuous grasp on consensus reality
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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is exactly the outcome that the “gender-critical” movement, which is directing the EHRC, wanted. A situation in which trans people cannot exist in the workplace - or anywhere else in public - at all.
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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's World Suicide Prevention Day. I've been there. If you need help, PLEASE reach out and seek help. There's no weakness in that. I'm glad I did. We're grateful you're here. You ain't a burden, you ain't alone. You're valued and loved. It gets better, one day at a time. You got this. You matter.
Text on a white background in which we see pictures of arms engaged in a hug, a smiley face, an ear, and two people sitting next to each other.

The text reads:

btw,
a hug is suicide prevention
a smile is suicide prevention
listening is suicide prevention
sitting with someone is suicide prevention
talking about mental health is suicide prevention
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Felicia 'Liz’ Ewert @feliciaewert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ich sage nicht, dass faschos ankündigen was sie vor haben, aber www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/sieg...

TAGESSPIEGEL

„Sachsen-Anhalts AfD-Spitzenkandidat
Ulrich Siegmund hat bei einer Pressekonferenz die Haltung seiner Partei zur Aufrüstung in Deutschland beschrieben - und diese in Verbindung mit Migrationspolitik gestellt. „Unsere Position ist ganz klar. Wir verteufeln nicht pauschal die Produktion von Rüstungsgütern, weil wir bei späteren Remigrations- und Abschiebeoffensiven natürlich entsprechende Hilfsmittel brauchen. Auch im Sinne der inneren Sicherheit", sagte
Siegmund.“
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Doc Impossible @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is 100% correct And also The underlying issue, which I think most cis people don't recognize, is that the folks who think that these things are reasonable think *all trans peoples'* identities are fundamentally fraudulent. Or more simply: most cis people think trans people are just liars.
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Tobias Geyer (he/him - Tarabiscoté*e) @the-qa-guy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The product I'm testing validates a data model and reports errors. As of now there are three places where the amount of errors is shown. They all show different values for the same data model. 😭 We have explanations for two of the values but the third one is a mystery 😭😭 #ThisIsFine
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Tobias Geyer (he/him - Tarabiscoté*e) @the-qa-guy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is what "do a backflip" looks like as a #pole dancer 😁 Kinda proud of that move at the end
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Sascha @medienmonolog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Wenn eine Person zum ersten Mal auf einen CSD geht, was würdest du der Person für Tipps, Tricks und Dos/Dont's mitgeben wollen?
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Simon Tomes @simontomes.com · 10/09/2026
AI;DR
A dictionary-style definition graphic with black and red text on a white background. At the top is large bold text reading "AI;DR" with a red semicolon. Below it reads: "abbr. AI; didn't read. Reply earned when AI-written text is sent with zero human-editing. 'You didn't bother to edit it, so I won't bother to read it.'" The bottom right corner features the handle "@rickmanelius".
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Madame Simone @madame-simone.de · 10/09/2026
Remember Germans: at 11.00 today, your mobile phones will start beeping and wailing. It’s National Warning Day. I live not far from the local fire station, which tests its sirens once a month, but anyone who gets easily startled should be prepared for the noise.
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Anna Berg @bergdame.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Wichtiger Hinweis vom Frauenrat bezüglich des kommenden Warntags: wenn ihr als zB gewaltbetroffene Person ein geheimes (zusätzliches) Handy habt, dann kann das auch Alarm schlagen. Macht es am besten in den Flugmodus.
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Lisi Hocke @lisihocke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It was a true honor to get invited to the Application Security Podcast that I've been listening to for ages. 🤩 The conversation is now available, so if you want to learn more about what makes #SecurityChampions programs more likely to succeed, check it out! appsecpodcast.com/security-cha... #AppSec
appsecpodcast.com
Security Champions
What makes a security champions program successful—and why do so many fail? Lisi Hocke explains how psychological safety, cognitive load, power sources, and…
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