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catloaf.bsky.social
Cats | Tech | Video Games | 🏳️‍🌈 Currently in the Netherlands. I mostly lurk, just like I did on Twitter, the Lost App. I play way too many RPGs. I am not actually a cat.
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My first official newsletter post. Please go easy on me. I’d be grateful for sharing as I get this off the ground. data-and-politics.ghost.io/data-and-pol...

Muhsin Hendricks, the world’s first openly gay Imam, was murdered yesterday. His work supporting LGBTQ Muslims had led to numerous threats against his life. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

I built a tool to help protect text against surveillance and fingerprinting. It detects hidden markers, special characters, and patterns that could be used to track the writer.

I have an incredibly talented recent PhD graduate in ML for high performance computing who, given the current science funding uncertainties, is having trouble landing a next step. She has a tight timeline because of her visa. Does anyone have a postdoc or research position I can pass her way?

Apparently when someone says ‘you sure you want a tattoo, if it’s a mistake it’s with you forever’ it’s rude to then gesture wildly at their baby

No matter what anyone else says, your handle will always be valid to us. 💕

most cutting thing you can say is "who's this clown?" because it implies they're a) a clown & b) not even one of the better-known clowns

I deleted what was formerly known as twitter. A weight has been lifted.

Born just in time to listen to synth wave and write JavaScript

just learned what "rizz" means, and was told i have it

Frankly it’s embarrassing that film distributors insist on sticking with the archaic ‘text at the bottom’ format for subtitles when the technology now exists to have the words appear in speech bubbles next to the characters’ heads

my baby got pixelated 💗

If you spend 3 days automating something and it saves you ten minutes a month, you probably shouldn't have automated that thing. Asking someone _else_ to automate that thing for you doesn't make it better.