Elderly* curmudgeon caught in affectionate face-meld with human half her age, next on #caturday News At Nine *16 year-old

You’d think the cable’s loop exists to indicate “Cat’s face goes here”. #catsofmastodon #catandkeeb #ergomechkeyboards

So true 😭 Also I can hear this image 😁 @xyla https://shitpost.trade/@xyla/115310603490897961

Exactly this 💯 #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent

I do wish that instead of readers having LLMs summarize stuff that writers would put a TL;DR at the top instead. Like I’m sure it’s a masterpiece and every detail is vital and nuanced but most people aren’t going to read it all anyway (I know. I’m sorry 💔), so you might as well provide a summary […]

if you're interested in helping with Project Improve Git Documentation, I'm still looking for beta readers! Here's a signup form: https://forms.gle/QP5NUcvPQV6W7DCJ9 I'd love signups from anyone who uses Git on the command line, isn't 100% comfortable with it, and who would be interested in […]

Is there already an app for this: adult #adhd friends & family relationship maintenance. Plug in a list of friends (ideally, select from contacts app) and automate reminders to schedule meeting up, calling, or scheduling group events, so you don't forget to see people for 8 years at a time

Two lists I keep in #obsidian that punch way above their weight in saving me headspace and/or money ⁃ Things to Try Sometime: the kind of thing I used to keep open in a tab because I totally want to do them but not today (and yes, I do back and try some of them later!) ⁃ Things I HAVE Tried […]

Hi @vagrantc! I’m the community manager for the University of California OSPO network, and we met at FOSSY last month. I'm part of CURIOSS—a group of academic OSPO folks—and I thought Reproducible Builds might be a useful tool for our research software projects, so I wondered if you'd be […]

For those of us who simply don’t vibe with competitions: is there a hackathon format that isn’t competitive? Even “For social good” ones seem to involve teams competing to come up with the most innovative idea. For my brain it makes more sense for teams to come up with ideas and then share […]

Watching the #python documentary and playing “Count the #SplitKeyboards” 🩷 (Truly my people!)

Coming soon on your Mastodon server… The long awaited quote posts, with user-control (you can chose if you want to be quoted on a per-post basis, change it later, and retract any quote of your post) Amazing work by the team 🎉 Expect a blog post with all the […] [Original post on oisaur.com]

TIL it’s standard procedure to do a uterine biopsy *without anesthetic*. What the FUCK? Inserting an IUD without anesthetic is bad enough, but a biopsy?! #fuckthepatriarchy

i hate to ask for help this way but being an immigrant is incredibly expensive and difficult (and that's all i'll say about that for now) throw me a few bucks and i'll send you some whales or birds (postcards or photo prints) https://ko-fi.com/popagandhi #photography #mutualaid #Birds #whales […]

＃ U+FF03 FULLWIDTH NUMBER SIGN - is the "Japanese Hashtag". BlueSky treats it equivalent to #. Mastodon does not. Who is right?

@deponentVMB @nasamuffin Brandon the Enabler had this waiting for me when I got home from FOSSY, so I think I’m finally succumbing?

Something I don’t see mentioned when articles talk about transit ridership having mostly/entirely recovered in other metros but not in the Bay Area: BART is so much more expensive than train systems in other cities. Like in NYC it’s $2.90 to go anywhere and there’s a $34/week cap on what you can […]

Aww. The #portland airport train started screaming on a bit of the section that goes down the middle of the freeway and for a second I thought I was back in the Land of the Howling BART trains already. 😁

With the launch of Ghost 6.0, every publication that runs on Ghost becomes part of the #fediverse. You can follow and comment on Platformer or 404 Media articles without leaving your Mastodon feed. This is the future of social media. Congratulations to @johnonolan and all the team at Ghost!

I’m intensely curious now which database of languages @pyladiescon is using for their volunteer form. ❤️😁❤️ I wondered how far back it goes, and I don’t know enough to answer that question precisely but I found “Proto-Indo-European", so really quite far back.

I’m speaking about what we've learned while spinning up a network of #academicospos for the #scienceofcommunity track at #fossy on Friday! I can’t wait to meet more people working in this space and hear what they're up to. 😊 https://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/344/

I’m looking forward to #fossy this week but WTF is this? 😭

[Loose baby teeth] The Langdon Lemma (8) has a pretty short list of acceptable foods (#Neurosparkly), and one of the entries is frozen chicken nuggets *in their frozen state*. He’s had a loose tooth and can’t stand to feel them wiggle, though, so for the last six or so weeks he’s only accepted […]

New BART holiday sweaters. I like the red and green ones: https://www.railgoods.com/2025-holiday-sweater-adult-green.html #sanfrancisco #bayarea #BART #transit #uglysweaters

[uspol] People who aren’t hardworking or innocent or good workers also deserve not to die from being chased by ICE

PyLadies CFP is now open! https://conference.pyladies.com/2025-pyladiescon-cfp-launch/

Both @MonaApp beta and stable Mona are crashing for me on iOS Beta 3 (feedback sent through TestFlight, but posting here in case anyone’s wondering if it’s just them). 

Good morning from this nest of baby barn swallows

Would be great if the department that is the single largest line item in my city’s budget (ostensibly because people value safety) could station people to direct folks with fireworks away from the dry creek beds and such, but since keeping the city safe isn’t actually what the police do they’re […]

The grandmother next to me just declined her granddaughter's request to call her mother, saying: "No, she's on vacation." Kid: "Vacation from what?" Grandma: "... From you." 😂😂😂

#sfo has three multi-user bathrooms lined up in the same annex: men’s, women’s, and triangle. I paused to try to figure out whether using the triangle one as a cis woman would be showing that gender inclusivity is normal and fine (maybe especially since I'm a cis woman?), or if it would be me […]

Shout-out to the dude who showed up for jury duty wearing an "Office of Cannabis" jacket. I wouldn't mind serving on a jury, but I wish there were a screening step earlier on in voir dire so that I don't sit for days waiting for a prosecutor to be like "You think the police and prosecution are […]

I visited the library at UC Santa Barbara last week and found their bathroom solution simple and lovely. Nearly all were all-gender (there was a sign that there were gender-specific bathrooms on one floor), and each one had a sign that said either: - Stalls and urinals - Stalls only This is […]

Glendale, which is a city in LA County, just canceled its contract with ICE. Because protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting […] [Original post on social.coop]

Tfw a 10,000 sqft house with private movie theater, chandelier the size of a car and a foyer that isn't dwarfed by it, 5-car garage, pool, etc. *in Hollywood* is cheaper per square foot than a soulless unrenovated ranch house on a small lot in your incredibly basic suburb that happens to be in […]

I had to clear #frogs out of this chair before I sat down, and the very instant I stood up this frog leapt back up like "Bitch, this is my chair."

When I've just replied to someone's email and achieved inbox zero, but they reply to my reply a minute later.

The future is decentralized, and composed of communities! Such a good interview with @rudyfraser.com about building BlackSky. ❤️ https://dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/rudy-fraser @mike

[Yesterday I learned I maybe should have been a spider] - Trapdoor spiders can chill in their houses for a year at a time without having to figure out what/who to have for dinner - And they can just nope out on summer entirely, stopping up the entrances to their burrows until cool weather […]

Happy "Maybe we should replace the projector with a short-throw one so we can have a ceiling fan" season to all who celebrate! 🥵

"play is only play if it's self directed" has just set off a lot of lightbulbs about my school's mandatory sports program 🤔 #pyconus

We conference organizers who are also software engineers love building tools that help us run events instead of using spreadsheets all the way down. @mariatta talked at the #PyConUS community organizers summit about the portal software she and the #PyLadies […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Oh. This explains a lot. https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar/114523079084491418

Really feeling for Amanda from @whitecoatcaptioning, our wonderful captioner, who has to type out all of these variations of "enshit-" in the middle of this breathless talk from @pluralistic. AMAZING JOB. #pyconus.

Me: sets up a virtual coffee for people to come ask questions about OSS stuff Person: *shows up 15 minutes in and says "Hello"* Me: *startled AF, shrieks, knocks things over* "OMG I'm so sorry, I'd forgotten I'm in a Zoom, hi." #communitymanagement

Saw this and thought of @futurebird and everyone else on Team #introvert ❤️ https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIu3SVRNCCc/ #neurodivergent #AuDHD #actuallyautistic Alt text here, since I can't put it on the link: five white dudes in pajamas and loungewear playing keyboards and drums, dancing […]

It’s important to pay attention to the fact that there are simultaneous efforts to criminalize mask-wearing by citizens and to standardize the wearing of face-obscuring gaiters by people purporting to be law enforcement.

The positive thing that came out of this was "Project Afro" which I created to improve the content on the people and culture of the African Diaspora on the wikipedia. Check it out, there are many articles that need more eyes on them […]

Did you know children's shoes are almost always wider than women's shoes? 🙃 In US sizing the largest Youth sizes are equivalent in length to the smallest Women's sizes, but have more room in the toe box. I didn't know this until I tried on my kid's shoes! So either shoe manufacturers think […]