Laura Santamaria

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

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Save NCAR from being dismantled today! The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.

The Trump Administration's plan to dismantle the @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is senseless & dangerous.

It would weaken weather forecasting, climate research, & the science that keeps people safe.

We urge that this plan be abandoned.

Call Congress to #SaveNCAR today. buff.ly/7ka1BQA

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.

Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.

Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.

Unbelievable.

NCAR is foundational scientific infrastructure. This is escalating the assault on climate science, and there is a direct line between this step and the loss of many human lives.

Climate denialism, empowered by nihilists and know-nothings, undermining science & destroying the evidence that they previously just rejected. Meanwhile, out here in WA, roads are sliding into rivers (an unprecedented weather event) b/c it’s too damn warm to be raining this hard for this long.

Time to repurpose #AGU25 as a mass mobilization in support of NCAR, NSF, NOAA, NASA, USGS, DOE BER, and the Congressional power of the purse.

Key misunderstanding I want to get ahead of: NCAR isn't really a government agency like NIH or NSF. It's one of the largest NSF grants in history, and is given to a non-profit org called UCAR, whose job is to make NCAR exist (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...). That means the buck stops with NSF right now

Does anyone know of a good writeup/course/presentation/etc. for contract negotiations for community-run events like volunteer-led conferences? I'd love to pass it along to various groups I volunteer with (and learn myself) as we get into sponsor contract negotiation season for the coming year.

Regular geometric shapes have a set mathematical definition. There's no way someone can wiggle around that legally. And you can't satisfy the legal reqs on equal pop sizes while somehow carving multiple separate cities into the same district (hello Austin/San Antonio) using a regular geometric shape

So I've had this idea bumping around in my brain forever, and I came across a few posts about gerrymandered districts that made me want to toss this out: What if the law was all districts must be a regular geometric shape such that each state picks one? E.g., state A picks hexagons. Stupid thought?

Definitely considering just driving there and back at this point. It's not a bad drive from my area (though long). It'll mean I get to make it home in the expected timeframe after without much fuss...

Evelyn Osman Today we had some long conversations about Arc Bash and the future of scripting as well as platforms and the rise and fall of Kubernetes.\nThe fall of Kubernetes. Hmm. I'll have Claude write a new one

Want to learn why asking "Why?" is soo important?

How about the future of platform engineering?

We covered a lot in our latest episode of #CloudNativeCompass with hosts @rawkode.dev, @nimbinatus.bsky.social, and our special guest @chipnick.com

Check it out!

The start of a city block, with a bunch of people with flags and signs

Even in small-town Texas. Brief bit from the downtown Fredericksburg #NoKings. Full block full, both sides of Main Street. Lots of honking and cheering

Is it sad that I honestly had to think for a minute to understand this was a joke?

Philadelphia #NoKings

Even before I heard the devastating, horrific news of political assassination in Minnesota, I woke up this morning thinking about Emily Dickinson's great poem "'Hope' is the thing with feathers -"

Lots of people know this beautiful little poem, but fewer, I think(?) realize when it was written. /1

A Garmin share screen that shows stats from a run titled "#NoKings Day Run" on June 14, 2025, at 6:52am. The run was done in 1 hour 06 minutes 12 seconds, burned 436 calories, had an average heart rate of 139 beats per minute, went 4.40 miles, and had an average pace of 15:03 minutes per mile.

Early run for #NoKings day, wearing US colors because the flag is for us (and US!), not a king. Find your your local protest: www.mobilize.us/nokings/map/

#running #nevernotrunning

I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country.

Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest.

Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org

Oh my God David

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DevOpsDays Austin is fast approaching on May 1-2! Our schedule is up, and tickets are selling fast. Join us: devopsdays.org/austin

The DevOpsDays Austin logo with the words "the schedule is live! Get your tickets!" underneath

DevOpsDays Austin is fast approaching on May 1-2! Our schedule is up, and tickets are selling fast. Join us: devopsdays.org/austin

Thank you!!!

I miss you, too :( :( :( Maybe Denver...

So jealous that I'm missing the both of you in one place at one time

Cloud Native Compass | Navigating Kubernetes: Insights, Challenges, and the Release Cycle with Kat Cosgrove In this episode of Cloud Native Compass, hosts David Flanagan and Laura Santamaria dive deep into the complexities of the Kubernetes release cycle with guest Kat Cosgrove. Kat, a sub-project lead f...

The latest episode of #CloudNativeCompass is now out, featuring my wonderful co-host, @nimbinatus.bsky.social, and our fabulous guest, @kat.lol.

We dive into the @kubernetes.io release team and process, check it out!

cloudnativecompass.fm/13

It's an Austin tradition! Join us for the 12 Clouds holiday mega-meetup. It's a night of 5-minute lightning talks. We'd love to have you speak, sponsor, or attend (or all three!):
1. RSVP meetu.ps/e/NgTPW/dr5z...
2. Leave a comment to give a lightning talk.
3. To sponsor, ping me.

YET another bluesky list of k8s folks, this time it's those who directly work in (and members of) various community github orgs.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

If you are one, add a bluesky url in your github profile and poke me to re-run my script.

cc @kubernetes.dev @kubernetes.io #kubecon

An era of uncertainty In mid-January of this year I spoke on a 2024 predictions panel hosted by the excellent folks at Tidelift. The topic was open source software security, and after much excellent discussion from my f…

I wrote I thing in my tech industry analyst capacity at @redmonk.com (apologies for the lack of cats and dragons)
redmonk.com/kfitzpatrick...