Kara Sowles Deloss
@feynudibranch.bsky.social
Trash Collector / Open Source Advocate
@ Temporal, prev GitHub, Puppet
Portland, OR
👩💻 open source: funding & sustainability
⚒️ archaeology: respectfully exploring your surroundings
🚮 history via trash
🍓 growing fruit
🎲 RPGS and D&D
🖼️ art & ceramics
@ Temporal, prev GitHub, Puppet
Portland, OR
👩💻 open source: funding & sustainability
⚒️ archaeology: respectfully exploring your surroundings
🚮 history via trash
🍓 growing fruit
🎲 RPGS and D&D
🖼️ art & ceramics
“Each new paper invariably reveals one more wretched malady. Perhaps next year we will learn that Ötzi had pimples or weird-looking knees or just a bad vibe generally.”
FINALLY some good news for Ötzi, thank you @sabs.bsky.social !
FINALLY some good news for Ötzi, thank you @sabs.bsky.social !
today I set the record straight !
defector.com/let-the-reco...
defector.com/let-the-reco...
Let The Record Show That Ötzi Fucked | Defector
Ötzi, the 5,000-something-year-old man found frozen in the Alps, did not have an easy go of it. He was probably murdered, shot from behind with an arrow that missed his vital organs and led to heavy b...
defector.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:46 AM
“Each new paper invariably reveals one more wretched malady. Perhaps next year we will learn that Ötzi had pimples or weird-looking knees or just a bad vibe generally.”
FINALLY some good news for Ötzi, thank you @sabs.bsky.social !
FINALLY some good news for Ötzi, thank you @sabs.bsky.social !
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ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
ICE is afraid of children protesting
“Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”
www.theverge.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
Reposted by Kara Sowles Deloss
People all over Portland, Oregon were impacted by the chemical warfare deployed by the feds tonight. Here’s a thread of some Portlanders experiences who weren’t even at the protest:
Lots and lots of teargas and various other munitions. People yelling for medics. Ambulance came for one person already and there was a brutal arrest amidst all of this
February 2, 2026 at 6:02 AM
People all over Portland, Oregon were impacted by the chemical warfare deployed by the feds tonight. Here’s a thread of some Portlanders experiences who weren’t even at the protest:
Reposted by Kara Sowles Deloss
This is just great advice in general.
Delete more Jira tickets.
Delete more Jira tickets.
February 2, 2026 at 2:01 AM
This is just great advice in general.
Delete more Jira tickets.
Delete more Jira tickets.
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Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks.
They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.
They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.
February 1, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks.
They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.
They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.
Wishing I were at FOSDEM to catch up with folks! I haven’t slept in a month, coincidentally my baby is 1 month old 🥱
January 31, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Wishing I were at FOSDEM to catch up with folks! I haven’t slept in a month, coincidentally my baby is 1 month old 🥱
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So we know AI is making it easier for people to submit low-quality PRs or contributions to projects on GitHub and the team is actively looking at short-term and long-term solutions to try to make this better. Would love your input/feedback github.com/orgs/communi...
Exploring Solutions to Tackle Low-Quality Contributions on GitHub · community · Discussion #185387
Hey everyone, I wanted to provide an update on a critical issue affecting the open source community: the increasing volume of low-quality contributions that is creating significant operational chal...
github.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:29 PM
So we know AI is making it easier for people to submit low-quality PRs or contributions to projects on GitHub and the team is actively looking at short-term and long-term solutions to try to make this better. Would love your input/feedback github.com/orgs/communi...
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neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now
January 17, 2026 at 2:52 PM
neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now
this is why I try not to digest my food (for science)
Scientists managed to extract a high-coverage genome of an extinct woolly rhino from an undigested piece of its flesh found in the stomach of a permafrost-preserved 14kyo wolf pup. 🧪🏺
One of the last woolly rhinos to walk Earth was eaten by a wolf pup — and scientists have now sequenced its genome from the undigested meat
More than 14,000 years ago, a wolf pup ate a piece of woolly rhino. Scientists have analyzed the rhino's DNA to figure out why it went extinct.
www.livescience.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:02 PM
this is why I try not to digest my food (for science)
Is it just the middle of the night or am I reading the implication in the Global Game Jam’s latest newsletter that Epic pushed GGJ to remove their CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license requirements, so that non-open-source Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) submissions are allowed??
globalgamejam.org/news
globalgamejam.org/news
January 7, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Is it just the middle of the night or am I reading the implication in the Global Game Jam’s latest newsletter that Epic pushed GGJ to remove their CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license requirements, so that non-open-source Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) submissions are allowed??
globalgamejam.org/news
globalgamejam.org/news
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Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
wrd.cm
December 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
Just 2 more weeks to go
December 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Just 2 more weeks to go
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I'm an indie author of young adult fantasy in Portland, OR, and I'd love for you to try Fog & Fireflies.
Available at Powell's Hawthorne and Parallel Worlds (if in stock) or online in ebool and audiobook form:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRXLT4RW
Available at Powell's Hawthorne and Parallel Worlds (if in stock) or online in ebool and audiobook form:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRXLT4RW
Fog & Fireflies
Fog & Fireflies - Kindle edition by Lehnen, T.H.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Fog & Fireflies.
www.amazon.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I'm an indie author of young adult fantasy in Portland, OR, and I'd love for you to try Fog & Fireflies.
Available at Powell's Hawthorne and Parallel Worlds (if in stock) or online in ebool and audiobook form:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRXLT4RW
Available at Powell's Hawthorne and Parallel Worlds (if in stock) or online in ebool and audiobook form:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRXLT4RW
Reposted by Kara Sowles Deloss
“This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender” - Pete Seeger’s banjo head seen recently at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
December 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender” - Pete Seeger’s banjo head seen recently at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
Reposted by Kara Sowles Deloss
I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …
simonwillison.net
December 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...
kids cookie decoration night went …well
December 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
kids cookie decoration night went …well
extremely cute baby onesie from my colleagues at Temporal, accurately addressed “to the resident living inside Kara”
December 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
extremely cute baby onesie from my colleagues at Temporal, accurately addressed “to the resident living inside Kara”
Oh good, thank you @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social for writing on the weird AI generated descriptions of posts now happening in Google search.
This has been driving me nuts specifically with the gay dom-com Pillion, whose trailers are getting described as “a woman expressed her devotion to a man” 🤦🏻♀️
This has been driving me nuts specifically with the gay dom-com Pillion, whose trailers are getting described as “a woman expressed her devotion to a man” 🤦🏻♀️
Instagram is creating 2014 Buzzfeed-style SEO headlines for your Instagram posts and guess what? They're often misleading. Thanks to @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social and @mrdang.photos for flagging this to me www.404media.co/instagram-is...
Instagram Is Generating Inaccurate SEO Bait for Your Posts
Instagram is generating headlines for Instagram posts that appear on Google Search results. Users say they are misrepresenting them.
www.404media.co
December 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Oh good, thank you @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social for writing on the weird AI generated descriptions of posts now happening in Google search.
This has been driving me nuts specifically with the gay dom-com Pillion, whose trailers are getting described as “a woman expressed her devotion to a man” 🤦🏻♀️
This has been driving me nuts specifically with the gay dom-com Pillion, whose trailers are getting described as “a woman expressed her devotion to a man” 🤦🏻♀️
Okay archaeologists / egyptologists, I’m curious - is this a legally sellable item by Goodwill?
shopgoodwill.com/item/249644465
Buyers seem to be betting on it being genuine. And the AI description boldly says “The artifact appears crafted in a historical period and exhibits cultural significance”
shopgoodwill.com/item/249644465
Buyers seem to be betting on it being genuine. And the AI description boldly says “The artifact appears crafted in a historical period and exhibits cultural significance”
Used Ancient Bronze Figurine - Female Figure with Headdress and Child
shopgoodwill.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Okay archaeologists / egyptologists, I’m curious - is this a legally sellable item by Goodwill?
shopgoodwill.com/item/249644465
Buyers seem to be betting on it being genuine. And the AI description boldly says “The artifact appears crafted in a historical period and exhibits cultural significance”
shopgoodwill.com/item/249644465
Buyers seem to be betting on it being genuine. And the AI description boldly says “The artifact appears crafted in a historical period and exhibits cultural significance”
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This is one of my favorite traditions that we do on Electron; it’s a great time to both recharge and get caught up on internal maintenance and projects that we might not normally have the time to look into
☃️ As the end of the year draws near, the Electron project will be taking its usual quiet period for December.
Read more on our blog: www.electronjs.org/blog/dec-qui...
Read more on our blog: www.electronjs.org/blog/dec-qui...
December Quiet Month (Dec'25) | Electron
Starting December 1, the Electron project will enter a quiet period before picking back up at full capacity in January 2026. For full details, see the Policies section below.
www.electronjs.org
November 29, 2025 at 5:57 AM
This is one of my favorite traditions that we do on Electron; it’s a great time to both recharge and get caught up on internal maintenance and projects that we might not normally have the time to look into
Thanks @blackgirlbytes.bsky.social for writing about the impact nursing stations can make at conferences 🍼
We ask why are there no women in leadership? or why are there no women speaking at this conference.
The lack of nursing rooms at conference is a contributing factor..imo #blogvent
Here's a blog post about my alarming, but naive experience
dev.to/blackgirlbyt...
The lack of nursing rooms at conference is a contributing factor..imo #blogvent
Here's a blog post about my alarming, but naive experience
dev.to/blackgirlbyt...
Why Every Conference Needs a Nursing Room
I didn’t truly understand the value of a nursing station until my health and career were on the line....
dev.to
December 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Thanks @blackgirlbytes.bsky.social for writing about the impact nursing stations can make at conferences 🍼
the definitive piece on Pantone’s Color of the Year from JP. I will be reading no further pieces, I’m full.
sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...
'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response
Regarding Pantone's decision, and so on, and so forth
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
the definitive piece on Pantone’s Color of the Year from JP. I will be reading no further pieces, I’m full.
tired of sharing my body with a roommate. coffee? he wakes up and kicks my organs long before the caffeine reaches me. no coffee? now I’m asleep (until he wakes up and kicks me). bodies should have a 1 person at a time maximum.
December 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
tired of sharing my body with a roommate. coffee? he wakes up and kicks my organs long before the caffeine reaches me. no coffee? now I’m asleep (until he wakes up and kicks me). bodies should have a 1 person at a time maximum.
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The Google Doodle for today is Tiny Chef, a stopmotion felt celebrity who will improve my Thanksgiving. I click the banner to get their advice.
Google takes me to a pre-written Gemini AI Mode prompt of me asking AI for a cooking plan.
No! No! I want the little felt Chef to tell me their secrets!!
Google takes me to a pre-written Gemini AI Mode prompt of me asking AI for a cooking plan.
No! No! I want the little felt Chef to tell me their secrets!!
November 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The Google Doodle for today is Tiny Chef, a stopmotion felt celebrity who will improve my Thanksgiving. I click the banner to get their advice.
Google takes me to a pre-written Gemini AI Mode prompt of me asking AI for a cooking plan.
No! No! I want the little felt Chef to tell me their secrets!!
Google takes me to a pre-written Gemini AI Mode prompt of me asking AI for a cooking plan.
No! No! I want the little felt Chef to tell me their secrets!!