Every set of microwave cooking directions references wattage. No microwave oven anywhere displays its wattage.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Wishing all the globalists a meaningful Yom Kippur and an easy fast.

That meeting could’ve been a leaked signal chat

Congress should award Trump the Medal of Honor for his heroic service as an FBI informant. But they'll need the details from the Epstein files to do that.

Our billionaire President put an airline lobbyist in charge of the Department of Transportation. So no, this is not a surprise.

Every single person in America knows this is a lie. Anyone who buys anything knows it’s a lie.

Tomorrow (9/1). Stop the billionaire takeover. More than 1,000 protests nationwide. Find one near you. MayDayStrong.org.

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire

I love this americabydesign.fail

They fired all my friends who were experts at doing this so that they could hire corrupt vendors to do this poorly

nerdy urge to write a package to convert between `datetime.date(957,3,1)` and 'March 1, third year of the reign of Eadwig All-Fair'

TIL you can pipe raw markdown to `python -m rich.markdown -` and it'll render it beautifully on the command line

My yesterday: - Seek new home insurer; ours dropped us now that Tornado Alley has expanded into western Ohio - Pay OHGOP's $200/yr fine for EV drivers - Rage Against the Regime

I would be a bad Jedi because - I would not pause dramatically after activating my lightsaber - Instead of "I must face him alone" I would say "yeah, he looks nasty, help me out here"

Alan Cumming on bathroom bills: "Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."

Exclusive: I have confirmed that the federal government is still refusing to process permit applications for land-based wind projects almost six months into the Trump administration. Not just offshore. It threatens untold billions of capital investments in the United States. via @heatmap.news

TFW you find you're unexpectedly sharing a cafeteria with the Sarajevo Philharmonic Actually, this is the first time I've had that feeling #dayton

#PyConUS ends with the traditional Volleyball Sprint

On my way to PyCon! Yes, *to* #PyConUS The escaped cat who prompted our early departure from sprints... returned ten minutes after our arrival at home. My beloved Christie talked me into the extravagant self-indulgence of driving all the way back to finish sprinting.

Come learn more about @pyohio.org, the FREE annual Python community conference based in Ohio at the community showcase at #PyConUS! We have stickers! PyOhio is July 26-27 in Cleveland, OH.

It's quite something to see a journalist who cut their teeth in Lawrence pre-Django talking about eventually learning to code, and then building out journalism tooling in Django. It's amazing seeing how much good has come out of one reasonably small newspaper. #pyconus

@geoffhing.bsky.social describing why criminal justice data journalism often needs to be local or state scale. Fits my experience exposing FBI data back at @alt18f.bsky.social‬; dense variety in agencies and their data keeping (or not). #PyConUS

Chelnik won the PyLadies auction! #PyConUS

To avoid @mason.dev's "regex or line noise" game in your actual code... use re.VERBOSE, line breaks and comments! #PyConUS

@kattni.bsky.social at #PyConUS pointing out that different cultures around humor can be confusing in serious communication, like talking about community standards violations. I often fall back on the "humor defuses tension" principle and should restrain that reflex sometimes.

I cannot describe how charming @roguelynn.com's cartoon crows are. #PyConUS

How dare @takanory mention <ruby> at #PyConUS? :) slides.takanory.net/slides/20250...

*Great* lineup for this year's #PyOhio, including me on uv. www.pyohio.org/2025/program...

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

Just thinking about the time I worked at 18F and received a call from the GSA Ethics Office because a vendor at a conference I keynoted gave all speakers a complimentary portable phone charger. It was deemed to be worth $35 in value & thus a violation of the Emoluments Clause, so I had to return it.

@bcmerchant.bsky.social has an excellent writeup of these events: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-mass-f...

There isn't much time left to submit a talk to #PyOhio! pretalx.com/pyohio-2025/... The PyOhio #CFP is open through April 27th Anywhere on Earth! And if you're working on submitting a talk to PyOhio this week, why not submit it to a number of other conferences:

Released on #PyCon Friday, seriously? You know, we humans can't use a subprocess to watch media while attending conference talks or fending off combat bots. OK, I'm going to put a watch party on the Sunday evening Open Space board.

A corrupt, authoritarian government seizes an innocent man, tortures and jails him on trumped-up charges that change during a manipulated "legal" process. The prisoner is left at the mercy of dehumanizing politicians & jailers to do with what they please. Holy Week then. America now.

t-strings are coming! peps.python.org/pep-0750/ discuss.python.org/t/pep750-tem...

I think Cory Doctorow nailed here

We've been busy rescuing our old blog so that it can continue to serve as a resource for anyone who wants it. We'll be spotlighting a few top posts over the coming weeks, but wanted you to know that this content is available—along with our guides to agile development, accessibility, and more.

You could always find payment and spending info on GSA and spending.gov. This is not new information.

First, 18F guides! 18f.org/guides/ • how we build high-quality software cheaply • avoid vendor lock-in, save $ • design for real human needs • write in plan language • work in the open This is what DOGE does not want you to know. They deleted 18F because they can't deliver like we can. 2/7

# uv run -p 3.14 python -m venv venv # source venv/bin/activate (venv) # 𝜋thon Python 3.14.0a5 (main, Mar 11 2025, 17:16:35) [GCC 6.3.0 20170516] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> Happy #piday

I feel terrible for inviting Mexican and Canadian Pythonistas to PyConUS this year. Wondering what we American Pythonistas can do for the ones who choose to come despite everything. Wish it wasn't too late to move PyConUS 2026-27. I'd return to Montreal in a heartbeat.

The United States is a post-legal country.

My years with 18F will always be the highlight of my career. My coworkers' skill, dedication, heart, and maturity thrilled me every day. 18F was patriotism at its very best.

former colleagues from 18F have asked me to share this open letter widely - please pass on 🙏 🇺🇸 💻💪 18f.org

E_MUCH_EXCITE 🤩 us.pycon.org/2025/about/k...

Love to you forever, USDS. Civil servants to the end. God save the United States. apnews.com/article/doge...