According to the new rules, if you and a few friends go to the MDC and you say “where are the maduros” and they don’t let you in then all federal funds for detention and incarceration will be frozen

i recorded like 30 minutes of footage for this 15 minute video. youtu.be/j2_o-YK8tJo?...

🚨📸 Sunset Neighbors — we need your help! Our new District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong wants to hear from you about what Sunset Dunes means to you. While it’s become a beloved community space in the Sunset (on top of being one of SF’s most popular parks), opponents currently have his ear.

This Wednesday is SF Python meetup at @sentry.io ! We'll have one talk from Evan Kohilas and in the spirit of the holidays plenty of time for networking and announcements. See you there! www.meetup.com/sfpython/eve...

ICE took my brother in law. My family is now on the growing list of people that Trump's policies have directly impacted. Things will be challenging for a while – if you can help my sister, Ramiro, and their two little girls in any way, it will be so appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-w...

Every year: Is this year the Year of the Linux desktop? @valvesoftware.com in 2025: Hold my beer / Look under your seats

Today, our new District 4 Supervisor, Alan Wong, was sworn in. As Sunset residents, we know what our neighborhood needs most after a recall, two ballot measures, and a Supervisor appointee resignation: a leader who can show us the way forward, not work to destroy Sunset Dunes.

Broke containment yesterday and now we're onto the hella late yet somehow lazy Kevin Kruse quote dunk phase of the 🦋 drama. 🥱

so painfully sf (spotted in noe valley)

Check out all the talks from @pybay.bsky.social 2025 from this YouTube playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... (They'll be up on PyVideo.org soon too, a website which archives talk recordings from many Python conferences)

Datasette 1.0a20 is out, with an entirely new SQL-powered permissions system. This is by far the most ambitious project I've attempted with the help of coding agents (Claude Code and Codex CLI) - notes on how it works and what I learned along the way: simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/4/d...

The Steering Council has accepted PEP 810 (explicit lazy imports) for Python 3.15! discuss.python.org/t/pep-810-ex... #Python #PEP810 #LazyImports #lazy #Python315

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

Me yelling at the umpires that because Ohtani was taken out as a pitcher he has to be taken out as a hitter too

The announcers keep saying that both teams are almost out of pitchers, but they’re forgetting that pitchers and catchers report soon.

This was a tough but necessary decision - I posted my own notes on this here, from the perspective of a current PSF board member simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/...

I do think we have a pretty good chance of turning gambling into a genuine popular moral crusade 19th century style, because it's becoming a social evil that's destroying young men's lives in particular but also making sports coverage really shit.

🚀 PyBay 2025 is tomorrow, Saturday October 18th! 🎉 We can’t wait to see everyone there for a full day of talks, hallway conversations, and Python-powered fun! 🐍 Grab your coffee, your laptop, and your curiosity. We’ll see you bright and early! ☕💻✨

Whichever way history turns, I have a feeling that this will be a historic photo

For the Mid-Autumn Festival, I translated the 17th century failson, epicure, and memoirist Zhang Dai's account of the annual Mid-Autumn singing competition on Tiger Hill in Suzhou. www.burninghou.se/p/mid-autumn...

Lou Seal doing CPR at the ballpark is just a little too on the nose for the state of the Giants today

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Here is my talk from @pyconau.bsky.social titled "Skill Issue" and with the most perfect thumbnail possible: youtu.be/ND_SPnOynvg

some muni heritage weekending

🚨 Time to get off the fence for PyBay 2025! 🚨 Late Bird pricing for PyBay 2025 kicks in on October 4th. That means you only have a few days left to grab your ticket at the current price. Why wait? Check this Thread 🧵 to get your ticket now!

I had the privilege to work with Joseph H Condon at Bell Labs. (To us he was just "Joe"). His father was Edward U Condon, an important physicist who in time was head of the US's National Bureau of Standards, back when the US government cared about such things....

🎤 Speaker Spotlight: Bernát Gábor “What's new in Python packaging?” Python is now the #1 language on GitHub. In 2024, packaging took huge steps forward to match that success. At PyBay 2025, Bernát Gábor will share the TL;DR on what is new in Python packaging, why uv is leading the way.

🐍PyBay 2025 Speaker Highlight🎤 Brett Slatkin “Do It Yourself: Demystifying the Magic of Dataclasses” dataclasses feel like magic, but they aren’t! Learn how to build their key features yourself, when to use them, and the advanced code-gen tricks that make them work. Details ITT

Blogged: Fine-tuning a VLM for art history in hours, not weeks iconclass-vlm generates museum catalog codes (fun fact: "71H7131" = "Bathsheba with David's letter"!) @hf.co TRL + Jobs = magic ✨ Guide here: danielvanstrien.xyz/posts/2025/i...

Bestseller from @ebakerwhite.bsky.social just dropped wait no (Pre-order your copies, y'all! Out 9/30)

JMW Turner visited Fingal’s Cave on the Scottish island of Staffa in 1831 to record scenery for Lord of the Isles, an illustrated collection of poems by Sir Walter Scott. Fingal’s Cave was named after the hero of the poems of Ossian, a pastiche of northern myths and legends

Context for gerrymandering debate “How responsive/congruent is state policy with state public opinion” is one of the most studied poli sci questions Red & blue states both passed more 'extreme' policy in recent decades. Blue state policy shifts were aligned with state opinion. Red states’ weren’t

Looking forward to SF Python meetup July 16! We'll have "t-strings: A how-to guide" from @jyouyang.bsky.social and "Testing Flask and Quart Apps with Pytest and Playwright" from @pamelafox.bsky.social ! See you there! www.meetup.com/sfpython/eve...

OK I love this so much

Almost 4 months later, here it finally is: uv: Making Python Local Workflows Fast and Boring in 2025 youtube.com/watch?v=TiBI... 1/3

i can’t express how much i stan rick steves

I finally properly published an introductory Python course that I wrote a few years ago, on http://proficientpython.com/ I added interactive quizzes and Pyodide-powered code widgets with doctest runners. Blog post overview: https://blog.pamelafox.org/2025/06/proficient-python-free-interactive.html

Painted in Paris in 1883, 'The Breakfast Table,' exemplifies John Singer Sargent’s regard for the formal innovations of the French impressionists - it also evokes the paintings of Degas and Manet. The sitter peeling an orange whilst reading a book, is Sargent's sister Violet.

Me reading @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social on RCV: Interesting. I am updating my priors on "electability". Me watching the rest of the country learn about RCV in local elections:

RIP to @colemk.bsky.social's notifications right now.

Over the past 48 hours, TikTokers — and BlueSkiers, Threaders, and even Twitterers —  took a cue from 2020 K-Pop stans and reserved tickets to a trump rally they weren't gonna use. www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

A friend just texted me from LA that this was happening at the park she was at

Like BGP and DNS, IAM is also a three-letter curse word. 🙃 status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow...

Shout-out to Intel and OpenVINO and my boy Kevin!

Another great SF Python meetup this Wednesday! See you there! www.meetup.com/sfpython/eve...

Calling all Python people! 👋 The PyBay 2025 Call for Proposals is closing in less than ONE WEEK! Share your knowledge with the Bay Area Python community. Submit your talk by SUNDAY, June 8th: sessionize.com/pybay2025 #Python #PyBay

Willie Brown Middle School is a San Francisco 6-8 in the Bayview District. For the entire ‘24-‘25 school year, I have been driving the 44 O’Shaughnessy bus that stops there right after school gets out. That trip has been the busiest and most challenging part of my working day.

I am disappointed in the AI discourse steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am...