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kat cosgrove

@kat.lol

@dixie3flatline from twitter head of dev advocacy @ minimus.io kubernetes release team subproject lead, sig docs tech lead, uwubernetes, edinburgh via memphis she/they

created April 22, 2023

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Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

Unfortunately I think this is actually not an option for me, I have a lot of obsolete hardware that I still use. The hoard is mostly spare data or power cables for shit like my VCR/laserdisc/old game consoles

6/9/2025, 8:12:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

god only knows. the cable board is a mystery. it gives you what you need, if you come to it with a pure heart and good intentions

6/9/2025, 6:49:28 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

there's a serial port mouse in there

6/9/2025, 6:46:50 PM | 33 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol)

just packed a large box of random obsolete cables. it's lived in three countries and three states but one time something i needed was in there, so it makes the cut once again

6/9/2025, 6:46:32 PM | 60 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

Thank you, this is super helpful!

6/9/2025, 5:53:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

alllll the way back to the US. I'm shipping a pallet, so space isn't an issue. each tier can go into its own box if that's better, i just really don't want to risk having to rebuild it. took forfuckingever

6/9/2025, 5:48:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

like fully take it apart? this thing took me all of LOTR and Hobbit extended editions and all but the last episode of S1 of Rings of Power to build 😩

6/9/2025, 5:45:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reposted reply parent

sauron is a lot of things but not even he fucks kids

6/9/2025, 5:41:31 PM | 18 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

sauron is a lot of things but not even he fucks kids

6/9/2025, 5:41:31 PM | 18 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

it comes apart into three tiers but like, what's the best way to make sure this thing doesn't fall apart in transit? is just cocooning it in a metric fuckton of bubble wrap sufficient? am i allowed to super glue the wimpy bits in place

6/9/2025, 5:40:49 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol)

hey uh, how do you pack and move assembled Lego sets this large

A photo of the Lego Barad-dur against a white wall
6/9/2025, 5:39:48 PM | 21 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

Lol yeah I cook a lot, so I do like a bougie kitchen

5/9/2025, 1:13:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

(I'm American, I brought that opener with me when I moved to Scotland 3 years ago. I used it a ton in the US.)

5/9/2025, 12:47:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

I respect the commitment but that is WILD lol

3/9/2025, 10:38:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

Imagine being surprised that a well-known monster enjoyer, whose body of work includes several examples of the monster being a sympathetic character, has made a movie where the monster is a sympathetic character out of the book that arguably defined the genre

3/9/2025, 10:35:50 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

Do we think this guy knows that Animal Farm is a satirical allegory for Stalin's communism and the Russian revolution

3/9/2025, 10:07:47 AM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol)

Whenever someone tries to tell you that media literacy is dead with the youth, show them this review where a fully grown adult misses the glaringly obvious point of one of the most popular works of fiction of all time

3/9/2025, 10:04:57 AM | 61 13 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Coldwater 📦💥 (@lookitup.baby) reposted

There is an especially photogenic bear on the bear cam right now

2/9/2025, 12:05:20 AM | 342 58 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol)

nini.cece

2/9/2025, 12:02:50 PM | 53 15 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

Yeah

1/9/2025, 7:22:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol)

Not to fearmonger, but considering the state of reproductive rights in the US and Oura's new partnership with Palantir, I don't think anyone with a uterus should be using one. Or any other device that can track your period.

1/9/2025, 6:27:02 PM | 361 91 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

could do saturday morning, depending on the state of my hangover!

31/8/2025, 4:55:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

I'll be in your town for a concert friday!

31/8/2025, 4:51:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

oh fuck yeah

31/8/2025, 4:11:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

Yeah nextdoor and craigslist aren't a thing. I'll try FB, thanks!

31/8/2025, 3:28:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol)

Where do people sell shit online these days? Facebook marketplace? I have a bunch of stuff to get rid of before I move

31/8/2025, 3:25:16 PM | 9 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Simon HB (@norock.bsky.social) reposted

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival
31/8/2025, 12:07:55 PM | 24728 4677 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

Legit I just walked out of my local Tesco Express and half the bread aisle is soft, packaged bread like she describes here lol

31/8/2025, 2:40:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

Anyway I love woke bread

31/8/2025, 2:37:24 PM | 22 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

Also, the sourdough here is bland and ass. Simultaneously the driest and gummiest sourdough I've ever had. If that was my first impression of sourdough I'd probably hate it too

31/8/2025, 2:35:21 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol)

Extremely funny that one of the things Europeans love to (wrongly) rag on Americans for is our bread, and yet here's one yearning for a loaf of white bread (which they absolutely do have here, I know because I just walked out of a Tesco)

31/8/2025, 2:34:33 PM | 24 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

No worries!

31/8/2025, 6:40:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

Well it's a live update, so of course you wouldn't see what we were seeing 24 hours ago if you click it now.

31/8/2025, 5:43:47 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

it's dragoncon weekend too, so it's likely some people really are posting from an overcrowded shared hotel room with costume parts and liquor bottles everywhere

30/8/2025, 6:17:03 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

it's probably nothing but a girl can dream, you know?

30/8/2025, 6:10:58 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol)

Folks someone appears to be having a pizza party at the Pentagon www.pizzint.watch

30/8/2025, 6:05:45 AM | 64 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

true 🙃

30/8/2025, 5:52:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

it's an upgrade from a dude who fucks kids, at least

30/8/2025, 5:51:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol)

I have the destiel meme locked and loaded for when It actually happens

30/8/2025, 5:48:27 AM | 23 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

both zevs are valid

29/8/2025, 10:39:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

you found it lmao

29/8/2025, 10:30:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

yeah i saw that and went "maybe i'm not woke"

29/8/2025, 10:28:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

saw someone on tiktok arguing that walkable cities are fatphobic

29/8/2025, 10:28:05 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

can i offer you even more outrageous discourse to distract you

29/8/2025, 10:26:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

29/8/2025, 8:53:28 PM | 28501 9010 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

cool so I guess you can all just call me the fuckin crypt keeper

29/8/2025, 9:04:18 PM | 27 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

Oh man I forgot about that, might rewatch it

28/8/2025, 8:47:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

more often than I'd like to admit lmao

28/8/2025, 8:32:58 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

We kinda got it with him and Claudia Black ending up on Stargate after Farscape got cancelled

28/8/2025, 8:32:29 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

Lmao I am watching Farscape right now

28/8/2025, 8:31:45 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

The GOAT of corny, horny sci-fi, no question. I had a massive crush on Kai

28/8/2025, 8:30:03 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol)

Bring back corny sci-fi. I want 9 seasons of a human ending up in space with a rag-tag group of dysfunctional aliens and shitty practical effects. Each season needs to have a goofy comic relief episode. The human must have wild sexual tension with an alien who looks human but isn't

28/8/2025, 8:27:55 PM | 61 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Minimus (@minimusio.bsky.social) reposted

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28/8/2025, 2:56:41 PM | 5 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bethany Black (@bethanyblack.bsky.social) reposted

Don’t want to sound like a conspiracy theorist but I don’t believe for a second that beavers built this out of vacuum cleaners

A picture of the Hoover Dam
28/8/2025, 9:23:25 AM | 311 61 | View on Bluesky | view

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28/8/2025, 6:49:44 AM | 33 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol)

OH: "Gorgeous women like you guys" cc: @natali.rip

27/8/2025, 9:47:13 PM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

I hope you enjoyed our whisky! Shame Mississippi is being shitty, I don't think bsky has a choice right now :(

23/8/2025, 11:10:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

Yes #Tennessee

23/8/2025, 10:58:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

ok cool, thanks. i'm trying to be more astrology aware in order to annoy men

22/8/2025, 9:22:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

ok so after the 25th i can blame shit on mercury?

22/8/2025, 9:13:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

he would NEVER

22/8/2025, 6:52:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

yeah that'll do it, thanks

22/8/2025, 6:28:23 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

can i somehow blame the moon for this

22/8/2025, 6:24:51 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Miriam (@miriamboosh.bsky.social) reposted

“But they came here illegally” ON GOD i don’t care

22/8/2025, 1:38:53 PM | 2058 545 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

you can't get menthols in europe so this is a real boon

22/8/2025, 6:20:03 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

it has been a real motherfucker of a week but i did just find an unopened pack of newport shorts in a purse I haven't used in a while, so things are looking up???

22/8/2025, 6:16:47 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol)

dude is mercury full of gatorade or whatever the astrology girlies say or something

22/8/2025, 6:15:14 PM | 80 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Minimus (@minimusio.bsky.social) reposted

🍽️❤️ Cannibalism as a metaphor for love… and what that means for open source. If you missed it during Black Hat, Kat Cosgrove dug into cannibalism in pop culture and and why passion can sometimes eat projects alive. @kat.lol 📺 Watch the talk here: hubs.la/Q03DTWL90

21/8/2025, 5:31:57 PM | 4 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol)

I've been having a rough week and this really cheered me up

21/8/2025, 2:55:31 PM | 31 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

That's an absolutely outrageous amount of rent for what it is, hard pass

21/8/2025, 2:27:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol)

Do I know any rich people in need of an ornamental hermit? Ideally somewhere mountainous but a sufficiently mossy forest will do.

21/8/2025, 12:13:40 PM | 57 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

lol you are the second person following that page to send me that, the other is an IRL friend. super weird when my online poster life intersects with my real life

20/8/2025, 7:40:07 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol)

This doesn't help with the furry allegations

20/8/2025, 4:09:56 PM | 29 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

Me me me

19/8/2025, 6:40:41 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Epler (@eplerjc.bsky.social) reposted

computers were better when they were transluscent machines feared us more when we could see their insides

19/8/2025, 4:18:57 AM | 1281 200 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

Yeah I've heard that too, and two of my cats are hella old so I'm trying to make the trip as short as possible. A little hop to Frankfurt to switch airlines is fine but a detour through Canada is a no-go.

18/8/2025, 9:14:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

I'll keep you posted on the details of moving pets back. Gonna try to fly with them in-cabin, which I think limits you to KLM in economy out of the UK, but Lufthansa *allegedly* allows them in business class so I'm going to try switching in Frankfurt.

18/8/2025, 9:04:22 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

That's so hard. You're being very brave

18/8/2025, 7:49:01 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

You are more than welcome to! I love eating like an actual raccoon

17/8/2025, 10:30:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

A shocking number of people have asked "but what about your cats???" I moved the cats here, and they're moving back with me. Don't worry, I wouldn't leave them behind.

17/8/2025, 8:40:41 PM | 42 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol)

Some personal news: I'm moving back to the US. This isn't sad for me, and I don't want to hear any weird judgy comments about it. See y'all in the next few months!

17/8/2025, 8:24:45 PM | 101 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

they got any flights on the menu?

16/8/2025, 5:29:26 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

Prickly pears in italy????? Delicious

16/8/2025, 10:05:48 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol)

Yeah actually I work in cybersecurity now so I can call it work when I pander to furries online instead of just calling it being chronically online

15/8/2025, 11:44:53 PM | 67 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

<3 That was a shitty couple of days but I'm so glad we could all be there for each other

15/8/2025, 11:34:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

If I've gotta go to a friend's funeral, I'm going to make the best of it

15/8/2025, 11:27:18 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol)

I'm so sorry but if you are my friend and you are a dog girl and you let me give your eulogy I WILL use this

15/8/2025, 11:26:20 PM | 93 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

ilu2

15/8/2025, 10:59:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

your mom is mysterious and important

15/8/2025, 10:53:55 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

Because your original take (that ESO deserves to be Incubating) is so off that I can't imagine committing to it this hard without benefit. You said they deserve Incubation despite what they did and then argued about it for a day. Am I now to understand that you didn't really mean that?

15/8/2025, 8:18:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

I am genuinely baffled that you are so committed to vilifying the TOC because they refused to level up a project after that project BLACKMAILED THEIR USERS. The poor behavior here is on the adopters for not helping to maintain it, not the TOC. What do you gain here? There has to be something.

15/8/2025, 7:42:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

Someone sent me a friend request on Zoom and it startled me so bad I damned near jumped out of my skin

14/8/2025, 10:48:38 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

Hold on now, are these not still a thing? I have one with a magnet on the back so it stays stuck to the fridge. The only reason it's not currently on my fridge is because fridges in the UK often have a cabinet door on the outside, and so are not magnetic.

14/8/2025, 10:44:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

You're gonna spend 98% of the film wondering what the fuck I mean by that and then it's all going to make sense

14/8/2025, 10:42:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

Extremely NOT CUTE

14/8/2025, 10:42:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hey so also get the T-DAP again, my ex husband got fucking whooping cough at 37 and spent six months regularly coughing until he threw up

14/8/2025, 10:25:28 PM | 25 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

(yes, I know why, and yes, I know about the hot dogs)

14/8/2025, 10:23:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Weapons is in fact a two hour long Whitest Kids U Know skit [complimentary]

14/8/2025, 10:22:57 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

What do you get out of dying on this hill? If you have a problem with the way the levels work that's fine, but in this specific case, it's absolutely not an issue of bureaucracy and red tape.

14/8/2025, 6:52:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) reply parent

You are repeatedly ignoring the specific issue at hand here: the project maintainers threatened to stop releases because they lack the maintainers to handle it. That is unhealthy. The TOC cannot recommend an unhealthy project that could fall over at any time. There is no other way to look at it.

14/8/2025, 6:51:32 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view