RE: https://techhub.social/@fedicon/116665644723775770 Oh, exciting! I was already hoping to attend #fossy again this year, and getting to attend #fedicon as well would be even better 🤞

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@pythonbynight/116644506412158835 Today is a great day to submit a talk for PyBeach! (Some ideas for topics below) #pybeach #python #losangeles

#rosacea is one of those contrarian conditions where the ingredient that’s a miracle for one person’s rosacea is apocalyptic for another’s, so you go looking for products that are considered good for rosacea and no matter which type of rosacea you have you’ll have to wade through masses of stuff […]

We’re currently clean on FaceSec #everydayiscaturday #catsofmastodon

There's only a week left in the California primary election. Huge shoutout to @robin for putting together a simple guide with some top tier progressive candidates. I second all of her choices, and wanted to add a few for my own district in Alameda county: - Mike Katz for US Rep, 17th district […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AlSweigart/116592712906324330 So very well-deserved! 🥳

I’m on my way home from my first #PyConUS, which was as fun and friendly as I’d expected ❤️🐍❤️. Always great to meet folks IRL whom I’d previously only known through Discord et al (especially so many @pyladies!), and to see folks I’ve been lucky enough to get know before at @pybay#pyconus[…]

I’ve knitted a pair of #Python socks for the #PyLadies Auction @ #PyConUS 2026! They fit a US women’s 7.5-9 shoe or men’s 6-7.5 (about 23.8-25.1 cm foot length, depending on width/instep etc.). The yarn is composed of: 52% Silk 24% Mohair 20% Merino 4% Viscose […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

RE: https://publicidentity.net/@jezdez/116398033532950758 Did you know that the PSF has to pay for most of the hotel rooms reserved around #PyConUS if attendees don't book them? You can help #pyconus be just a tiny bit more of a success by booking a hotel oom through our official channels!

I took my girls (one I birthed and one brought to the family by my eldest ❤️) on the #bayareayarncrawl and we did pretty well! 😁 #yarn #knitting #crochet

Tfw you delete 9 nearly identical photos of your cat but there are still 4 extremely similar ones left because: ⁃ Omg so cute ⁃ Her eyes are slightly more open in this one ⁃ She looks so regal in this other one ⁃ And this one she’s looking in a different […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

You probably don’t really want to game. You actually want to pet The Cat. #everydayiscaturday #catsofmastodon

Listening to @sustainoss talking to @gdayitsjack about PyCon AU (shoutout to a fellow Python conference organizer who doesn’t use Python for work!) and was reminded it’s time to buy my ticket for @NorthBayPython 🥳

Husband was startled when he came home, because there was a stranger with blue hair standing in our bedroom petting the cat. And I know it’s bad to judge a book by its cover, but my first instinct was “Well, a blue-haired cat-petter is probably good people 🤷🏻‍♀️”. They turned out to be a friend […]

There's still time to submit a talk proposal for the UC Open Source Summit 2026, taking place April 22-23, 2026 at The Brower Centre at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)! The deadline to submit is this Sunday, February 15 (end of day anywhere in the world 😊). This year’s theme […]

I’m excited to be at my first #fosdem! I’ve decided to camp in the #socialweb room today. Looking forward to the great talks!

@quintessence Thanks for the great session yesterday, and especially the chat afterwards! 😊

@hazelweakly It was lovely to meet you yesterday and chat after! Thanks for running a great session 😊

RE: https://mastodon.social/@7sleepersmusic/115919557336894164 I’ve been checking in on this periodically for the last couple of years, because my older two children were entitled to citizenship when they were born, then not entitled after April 2009, then entitled again, but my youngest wasn’t […]

Watching last week’s #allcreatures and suddenly there’s Emma Thompson, somehow looking younger than she did in 1995? So I look up the cast, and sure enough, that’s Emma’s daughter. But it’s so disconcerting trying to convince my brain that she’s not Emma. It’s not just that she’s wearing Emma’s […]

I bought a sweater quantity of yarn thinking I could finish it before heading to Europe for a month, but it turns out I was basing that on the amount of #knitting I was getting through in a day *last week*; i.e. a holiday week. 😔

In case any of y’all needed to hear some good purr this Monday Eve ❤️ #catsofmastodon #everydayiscaturday

Me: Mmm, nice cozy knitting day Cat: Cool, I’ll come sit on this knitting resting on your leg so you can’t knit it and also can’t retrieve it because these paws tucked so sweetly beneath me are armed with knit-destroying hooked knives that will be activated by […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

No really, though, why don’t they need fresh air? Can they switch between oxygen and carbon dioxide or what? #catsofmastodon #everydayiscaturday

Oh, you thought “lunchtime” meant “Stop working and eat lunch? I’m afraid you’re quite mistaken—it actually means “Stop working and eat fur.” #catsofmastodon #everydayiscaturday

There's something cruel in how our culture treats in-between times. We have words for achievement and words for burnout, but we lack vocabulary for the necessary pauses that precede new growth. If you say you're "between projects," people assume you've been cast aside. The idea that you […]

I’ve been helping out with editing talk captions ahead of @pyladiescon, so I already know the talks are super fun and interesting! Genuinely, each one taught me something new and useful. ❤️ It starts in just a few minutes, but goes through the weekend (all-virtual talks and lovely live chats in […]

Actual list of stocking stuffer ideas for 18-20 year-old girls: ⁃ Earbuds ⁃ Face masks ⁃ Adorable hand warmers ⁃ Safety whistle/alarm (Merry Christmas, girls! Sorry we couldn’t give you a world you can be safe in, but at least this whistle comes in cute colors! And our product description […]

Little earthquake! 3.6 in San Ramon. It took a few minutes to show up in MyShake and I was starting to think I must have hallucinated it. #sfba

Apple Health gets worried and alerts you if your periods become irregular or stop and you can add in a “cycle factor” from the following: pregnancy, lactation, contraception. That’s it! There are lots of other reasons a person’s periods might stop, but of all the possibilities the only one that […]

First of all an interaction I thought was me helping a person to learn turned out to be me helping copilot to learn which I did not appreciate lol, and even the mergeable part wasn't actually authored by the person, so in what sense would that be a "contribution"..? I take a non judgemental […]

As a member of the Fern Gully generation I was surprised when I grew up and it turned out that whenever something happens like we stumble upon a cave that’s been sealed for 5 million years we don’t go “Shit, sorry, we’ll be off now” and tiptoe away quietly. That every time we’re actually like […]

What I usually see when the alarm goes off ❤️ #catsofmastodon

My daughter was helping me last weekend and laughed and said “Mom, you just pulled out a sparkly `Hello world` sticker from @pyladies that you got at @pybeach while you were fishing in your bag for the key to the @pybay storage unit.” 😁 PyBay is this Saturday! 🥳

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?