Cassidy James Blaede
@cassidyjames.com
Building open communities and useful, usable tech for good. More at blaede.family/@cassidy
@roost.tools community manager
@gnome.org director
Previously: partners & community at Endless; co-founder at elementary; UX at System76
@roost.tools community manager
@gnome.org director
Previously: partners & community at Endless; co-founder at elementary; UX at System76
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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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Donate to GNOME
Donate to the GNOME Foundation and make a difference to GNOME
donate.gnome.org
December 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Because @labeler.hailey.at is fairly low stakes and is merely a community tool (not something we run in production), I've gone ahead and made the ruleset that drives it public. Hopefully serves as a good reference for writing Osprey rules.
GitHub - haileyok/atproto-ruleset: An Osprey ruleset made for moderating Bluesky and other ATProto applications
An Osprey ruleset made for moderating Bluesky and other ATProto applications - haileyok/atproto-ruleset
github.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Because @labeler.hailey.at is fairly low stakes and is merely a community tool (not something we run in production), I've gone ahead and made the ruleset that drives it public. Hopefully serves as a good reference for writing Osprey rules.
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The Board is united by a belief that keeping the internet safe requires open, transparent, & community-governed infrastructure. With their guidance, ROOST will continue building shared, open safety tools that support developers, researchers, platforms, & civil society working in the public interest.
December 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The Board is united by a belief that keeping the internet safe requires open, transparent, & community-governed infrastructure. With their guidance, ROOST will continue building shared, open safety tools that support developers, researchers, platforms, & civil society working in the public interest.
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We’re proud to share an important milestone for ROOST: the formation of our inaugural Board of Directors! This Board brings together leaders across open source, technology, public policy, civil society, and national security.
roost.tools/blog/roost-w...
roost.tools/blog/roost-w...
ROOST Welcomes Inaugural Board of Directors to Guide Mission and Long-Term Governance
Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
roost.tools
December 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We’re proud to share an important milestone for ROOST: the formation of our inaugural Board of Directors! This Board brings together leaders across open source, technology, public policy, civil society, and national security.
roost.tools/blog/roost-w...
roost.tools/blog/roost-w...
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a sample of what commonly happens with coordinated spam networks. we see that these accounts are all starting up with similar bios and all posting some sort of political/news content
December 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
a sample of what commonly happens with coordinated spam networks. we see that these accounts are all starting up with similar bios and all posting some sort of political/news content
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When the core primitives of trust and safety infrastructure are open source, everyone gets to experiment, tweak, and make it work for them, like @hailey.at just did.
First community labeler taking actions on atproto using @roost.tools’s Osprey. entire Ozone and Osprey stack running on a $50/m OVH machine, with up to seven days of full firehose backfill for investigating patterns and exploring the network.
December 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
When the core primitives of trust and safety infrastructure are open source, everyone gets to experiment, tweak, and make it work for them, like @hailey.at just did.
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First community labeler taking actions on atproto using @roost.tools’s Osprey. entire Ozone and Osprey stack running on a $50/m OVH machine, with up to seven days of full firehose backfill for investigating patterns and exploring the network.
December 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
First community labeler taking actions on atproto using @roost.tools’s Osprey. entire Ozone and Osprey stack running on a $50/m OVH machine, with up to seven days of full firehose backfill for investigating patterns and exploring the network.
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Microsoft keeps airing big flashy commercials showing people using Copilot on Windows to do all kinds of things... and we keep making @superantonio64.bsky.social test those exact prompts and discovering nothing actually works www.theverge.com/report/84705...
Microsoft’s holiday Copilot ad is wrapped in empty promises
I don’t want Copilot for Christmas.
www.theverge.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Microsoft keeps airing big flashy commercials showing people using Copilot on Windows to do all kinds of things... and we keep making @superantonio64.bsky.social test those exact prompts and discovering nothing actually works www.theverge.com/report/84705...
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Hi friends! It's the last Installer of the year, and I want to know: what's your favorite new thing of the year? (Or at least A favorite.) Doesn't even have to be new to everyone, just new to you — what'd you read / watch / listen to / buy / cover in chocolate this year that you absolutely loved?
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Hi friends! It's the last Installer of the year, and I want to know: what's your favorite new thing of the year? (Or at least A favorite.) Doesn't even have to be new to everyone, just new to you — what'd you read / watch / listen to / buy / cover in chocolate this year that you absolutely loved?
This post is for @sri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, from Buffer. 😉 The OG cross-poster which has really nice features for modern federated and decentralized social media!
December 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
This post is for @sri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, from Buffer. 😉 The OG cross-poster which has really nice features for modern federated and decentralized social media!
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One amazing thing about 2025 is that, if you start up an Apple product, it forces you to choose between _three different_ window mangers, but if you start up a clean install of a current version of Linux, it just chooses good defaults for you.
December 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
One amazing thing about 2025 is that, if you start up an Apple product, it forces you to choose between _three different_ window mangers, but if you start up a clean install of a current version of Linux, it just chooses good defaults for you.
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If you’re a Python, Go, or Rust dev and have an interest in open source development and/or trust and safety at any scale, you should absolutely take a look at this! All the ROOST folks and community are absolutely amazing.
We got good feedback on the job description, which Diffie* has incorporated. TL;DR: If you've architected data-intensive systems and are familiar with an infrastructure-level language like Python, Go, or Rust we want to hear from you! roost.tools/staff-softwa...
*supervised my typing from the couch
*supervised my typing from the couch
December 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
If you’re a Python, Go, or Rust dev and have an interest in open source development and/or trust and safety at any scale, you should absolutely take a look at this! All the ROOST folks and community are absolutely amazing.
Bluesky peeps who come across Mastodon/fediverse accounts that are bridged (i.e. using Bridgy Fed), how do you feel about them and their posts? I have my thoughts/opinions, but am curious what the general vibes are.
Please reshare widely, I’m trying to get input from more than just my followers. 🙏
Please reshare widely, I’m trying to get input from more than just my followers. 🙏
December 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Bluesky peeps who come across Mastodon/fediverse accounts that are bridged (i.e. using Bridgy Fed), how do you feel about them and their posts? I have my thoughts/opinions, but am curious what the general vibes are.
Please reshare widely, I’m trying to get input from more than just my followers. 🙏
Please reshare widely, I’m trying to get input from more than just my followers. 🙏
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We are also very excited that @hailey.at is part of our Technical Design Committee! The initial TDC was selected by ROOSTers, but we aim to hold elections in the future. Along with community feedback and ROOST staff priorities, the TDC will help advise on our projects and priorities.
We have just published our initial roadmap and announced our inaugural Technical Design Committee. We want to hear from all of you if we're focusing on the right things and what you think of our roadmap!
Drop a comment in the GitHub discussion linked in the blog.
roost.tools/blog/introdu...
Drop a comment in the GitHub discussion linked in the blog.
roost.tools/blog/introdu...
Introducing ROOST's Roadmap & Inaugural Technical Design Committee
Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
roost.tools
December 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
We are also very excited that @hailey.at is part of our Technical Design Committee! The initial TDC was selected by ROOSTers, but we aim to hold elections in the future. Along with community feedback and ROOST staff priorities, the TDC will help advise on our projects and priorities.
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we have removed the scrolljacking behavior on the @roost.tools site! thank you to the many many many many many many many people who let us know about it
December 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
we have removed the scrolljacking behavior on the @roost.tools site! thank you to the many many many many many many many people who let us know about it
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We have an open source development legend joining the TDC as well: @tpepper.bsky.social! Tim brings 30 years of experience all across the software stack and we're incredibly grateful he is spending some time making sure our projects are quality OSS projects
We have just published our initial roadmap and announced our inaugural Technical Design Committee. We want to hear from all of you if we're focusing on the right things and what you think of our roadmap!
Drop a comment in the GitHub discussion linked in the blog.
roost.tools/blog/introdu...
Drop a comment in the GitHub discussion linked in the blog.
roost.tools/blog/introdu...
Introducing ROOST's Roadmap & Inaugural Technical Design Committee
Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
roost.tools
December 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
We have an open source development legend joining the TDC as well: @tpepper.bsky.social! Tim brings 30 years of experience all across the software stack and we're incredibly grateful he is spending some time making sure our projects are quality OSS projects
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We got good feedback on the job description, which Diffie* has incorporated. TL;DR: If you've architected data-intensive systems and are familiar with an infrastructure-level language like Python, Go, or Rust we want to hear from you! roost.tools/staff-softwa...
*supervised my typing from the couch
*supervised my typing from the couch
December 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
We got good feedback on the job description, which Diffie* has incorporated. TL;DR: If you've architected data-intensive systems and are familiar with an infrastructure-level language like Python, Go, or Rust we want to hear from you! roost.tools/staff-softwa...
*supervised my typing from the couch
*supervised my typing from the couch
December 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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What do you think robust open online safety tools should be? Contribute to @roost.tools ‘s new roadmap on GitHub!
We have just published our initial roadmap and announced our inaugural Technical Design Committee. We want to hear from all of you if we're focusing on the right things and what you think of our roadmap!
Drop a comment in the GitHub discussion linked in the blog.
roost.tools/blog/introdu...
Drop a comment in the GitHub discussion linked in the blog.
roost.tools/blog/introdu...
Introducing ROOST's Roadmap & Inaugural Technical Design Committee
Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
roost.tools
December 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
What do you think robust open online safety tools should be? Contribute to @roost.tools ‘s new roadmap on GitHub!
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@roost.tools isn't just openly licensing our tools, but also openly developing them. We just released an initial draft of the ROOST tooling roadmap, but it's just that -- a draft. If you're interested in OSS trust and safety tools, now's the time to shape what gets built! github.com/orgs/roostor...
ROOST Project Roadmap now available: share your feedback! · roostorg · Discussion #44
Hey ROOSTers, community members, partners, and other Internet friends! The ROOST Project Roadmap is now publicly available—and in true open source fashion, it's hosted right here on GitHub, on our ...
github.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
@roost.tools isn't just openly licensing our tools, but also openly developing them. We just released an initial draft of the ROOST tooling roadmap, but it's just that -- a draft. If you're interested in OSS trust and safety tools, now's the time to shape what gets built! github.com/orgs/roostor...
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One thing that stuck out to me was how often I heard "It's so nice to know I'm not alone in this."
Working in online safety can feel isolating, and there aren't enough spaces where builders can come together and reach for the limits of what's possible, together. This is what OSS is all about!
Working in online safety can feel isolating, and there aren't enough spaces where builders can come together and reach for the limits of what's possible, together. This is what OSS is all about!
On Monday, @hf.co , OpenAI, and ROOST hosted the first Open Safeguard Hackathon. The room was filled with people who care deeply about safety, working together to explore and test gpt-oss-safeguard. Check out the ROOST Model Community for some of the projects github.com/roostorg/mod...
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
One thing that stuck out to me was how often I heard "It's so nice to know I'm not alone in this."
Working in online safety can feel isolating, and there aren't enough spaces where builders can come together and reach for the limits of what's possible, together. This is what OSS is all about!
Working in online safety can feel isolating, and there aren't enough spaces where builders can come together and reach for the limits of what's possible, together. This is what OSS is all about!
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Stipple Studio v1
Today I'm releasing the initial version of my stippling tool. It's still a bit of a work in progress, so let me know if you encounter bugs.
Show me what you make with it!
caidan.dev/portfolio/st...
Today I'm releasing the initial version of my stippling tool. It's still a bit of a work in progress, so let me know if you encounter bugs.
Show me what you make with it!
caidan.dev/portfolio/st...
Stipple Studio
Interactive stippling tool with real-time visualization of the image processing pipeline
caidan.dev
December 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Stipple Studio v1
Today I'm releasing the initial version of my stippling tool. It's still a bit of a work in progress, so let me know if you encounter bugs.
Show me what you make with it!
caidan.dev/portfolio/st...
Today I'm releasing the initial version of my stippling tool. It's still a bit of a work in progress, so let me know if you encounter bugs.
Show me what you make with it!
caidan.dev/portfolio/st...
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Our initial roadmap for @roost.tools is now public! We have a lot of work planned, and we are pretty excited about it. Let us know what you think.
roost.tools/blog/introdu...
Check it out here: github.com/roostorg/com...
Give us your feedback and suggestions here: github.com/orgs/roostor...
roost.tools/blog/introdu...
Check it out here: github.com/roostorg/com...
Give us your feedback and suggestions here: github.com/orgs/roostor...
Introducing ROOST's Roadmap & Inaugural Technical Design Committee
Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
roost.tools
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Our initial roadmap for @roost.tools is now public! We have a lot of work planned, and we are pretty excited about it. Let us know what you think.
roost.tools/blog/introdu...
Check it out here: github.com/roostorg/com...
Give us your feedback and suggestions here: github.com/orgs/roostor...
roost.tools/blog/introdu...
Check it out here: github.com/roostorg/com...
Give us your feedback and suggestions here: github.com/orgs/roostor...
Reposted by Cassidy James Blaede
We have just published our initial roadmap and announced our inaugural Technical Design Committee. We want to hear from all of you if we're focusing on the right things and what you think of our roadmap!
Drop a comment in the GitHub discussion linked in the blog.
roost.tools/blog/introdu...
Drop a comment in the GitHub discussion linked in the blog.
roost.tools/blog/introdu...
Introducing ROOST's Roadmap & Inaugural Technical Design Committee
Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
roost.tools
December 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
We have just published our initial roadmap and announced our inaugural Technical Design Committee. We want to hear from all of you if we're focusing on the right things and what you think of our roadmap!
Drop a comment in the GitHub discussion linked in the blog.
roost.tools/blog/introdu...
Drop a comment in the GitHub discussion linked in the blog.
roost.tools/blog/introdu...