Anne Bertucio

At #GDC next week with safety on your mind? Come find me for a chat about the open source tools we've built at @roost.tools for harms like abusive behavior, anti-cheat and fraud, and child safety.

I don't have a lot of swag, but free software for better gaming is a pretty good giveaway.

Thinking of myself as “golden retriever puppy” is much better branding than “stressed out woman of a certain age.”

The problem with Masters sports is that you get better, but your body gets older.

Had my best ski race ever this weekend, but today I can barely lift the coffee to my face.

The fun part about open source is you can check out what you'd be working on right now, or swing by the Discord or a working group meeting and see what working here would be like: github.com/roostorg

If you were laid off from Block (or anywhere) and want to stay remote, @roost.tools is hiring for multiple SWE roles and levels.

If you're the kind of person who's deeply satisfied by figuring out why a service has multiple databases and ripping some out, we might be for you! roost.tools/careers

I have a business profile and nope, you can only search for people open to volunteering and hiring. I think you have to have the special LinkedIn for Recruiters package for that one...It's super frustrating as someone who's just a regular hiring person.

TALK TO ME. HAZ JOBS.

If these are the ones I’m thinking of, they’re more like individual closets than individual stalls. They’re very fancy for airport toilets.

Goodbye, FOSDEM; hello, @protocolsforpublishers.com!

Headed to London with lots of FOSDEM-attendee feedback on what's needed to make online safety easier for independent and decentralized communities (and all the @roost.tools swag I stole from @cassidyjames.com...)

Digital sovereignty and resilience conversations over the last few years have focused on infrastructure — compute, cloud capabilities — but it’s time to add safety to that list of critical digital infrastructure. Great overview on what this means from @aditya.myatproto.social

@cassidyjames.com and I will be at #FOSDEM and will be demoing* Osprey in our talk Sunday morning: fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

*Let's be honest, should we really test the wifi and live demo overlords first thing Sunday morning? Probably not. Probably pre-recorded.

If you're a software versioning nerd, you know your first 1.0.0 is a big deal. 1.0 means a stable project ready to go, and that's been proven by the multiple users who've rolled out Osprey as their real-time investigation tool.

A massive thank you and congratulations to the Osprey contributors!

If you're headed to #FOSDEM and want to talk open source tools for online safety, @christchurchcall.bsky.social and @roost.tools are hosting a lunch meet up on FOSDEM Saturday! Get out of the food truck line cold and meet others interested in OSS for safety: tinyurl.com/fosdemsafetylunch

Just sounds like reinforcement training ;)

“Did not hit pedestrian —> received positive feedback via five finger gesture.”

“Hit pedestrian —> received negative feedback via one finger gesture.”

👋 this friendly face will be there! It’s a really good time. BYOToliet paper is never a bad idea.

Unfortunately I know nothing about chicken development, so if @roost.tools were a dog, we'd still have oversized puppy feet. AND YET we put free online safety tools out in the world, users are running them in production, and there's a community growing around them. A strong start for 11 months in!

To end poverty a bot might need to set up a merch store? Am I following this correctly?

Growth is scrubbing your office coffee mug *before* you leave your desk for the year.

Oh I’ve given up. Headlights on for safety? Err…something?

(But also I’m now deeply protective of my Oiselle Flyout bras. Hand wash my business attire? Nahhhh. Triple delicate VIP treatment for my sports bras? Yes.)

Oh no, no they don’t. And that your favorite ones will be air dry so now you need multiple to rotate…it’s a racket

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.

Hey there! Yup, the post is still open, and UK or EU located is an option!

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

And a big welcome to the inaugural Technical Design Committee. These are the community leaders shepherding @roost.tools projects!

@hailey.at
@tpepper.bsky.social
@tgthorley.bsky.social
Naren Koneru
Dr Rebecca Portnoff
Sam Tozier
Shu Lei
Vinay Rao

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 ...

@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...

Greyhound dog looking head on to camera. Dog is resting with its head on a pillow and tucked into a blanket, and looks annoyed that it’s being woken up.

“You think I’m going to leave my blanket burrito to go pee outside during an Atmospheric River? Am I a joke to you?”

To throw another “off” out: multiple people greet a new dog for first time by smothering their face into the dog’s face? I don’t know any shelter staff that wouldn’t go no no no no no!

What a good write up. I tried to keep tabs on live coverage yesterday and felt like that head tilting dog gif:“Wha…what is happening?!”

Thank you for bringing clarity to the chaos (and for the line “copyright tends to make otherwise reasonable people lose their minds”)

Apologies, should be here: roost.tools/staff-softwa...