Look I'm really tired and busy right now. Can we do the rapture later?

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

AUTISM IS CAUSED BY [spins wheel]

So if you’re a member of Professionals Australia they have a member-run Discord you can join. If you can’t find your way in then PM me and I’ll hook you up.

"The blessing and the curse of a computer is that it does exactly what you tell it to." Sam Altman: "But what if it _didn't_?"

The best drinking sessions are amongst the best people. They know who they are.

Brisbane, August 26-30, see you next #pyconau! (That's Wednesday-Sunday with main conf Thu-Sat)

In terms of asking people in power - there's a public submission open in response to the Productivity Commission's report - re: @benno.au at #PyConAU bsky.app/profile/dani...

Trump’s going to pardon Kirk from being dead, isn’t he.

It me?!

Kiwi PyCon 2025 keynote reveal! 🎉 We’re stoked to welcome Benno Rice — long-time Pythonista, open source contributor, and all-around thoughtful human. 👉 kiwipycon.nz/keynote-benn...

Man, talk about tilting at windmills. Utopian Left at its finest.

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What they said in the meeting: "SecScan" What I heard: "Sex Can"

If anyone wanted to explain to me how you get a synthesiser to make the sound used in the bass line of Front 242's "Headhunter" I'd love to know. One of the all-time banger bass lines in every way.

Well after reading a bunch of posts from someone running in the PSF board election I have a new "don't be that guy".

Has anyone asked Claude for a solution to the Halting Problem yet?

Mr. 14's friend: "SILKSONG SILKSONG OMG SILKSONG" Mr. 14: "Yeah, I finished it already." Mr. 14's friend: "YOU WHAT?! ... Oh you bastard." I have trained him well.

If the UK ever does go back into the EU would it be called "re-brentry"?

[in court] British Judge: [banging gavel] i say i say court is now in session old bean Linehan: i reject the authority of this court Linehan: this is a trans court Linehan: i can tell by the fringe on the flag

Australian Nationalist Propaganda.

Mr. Roberts-Smith *was* the plaintiff in this case: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Gonna do a modern Yes, Minister where they open an airport with a massive car park but no runways.

OH: "Don't page me, bro!"

🎶 GAMMONS GATHERED IN THEIR MASSES

I’m loving Ade Edmondson in Alien: Earth.

If these two told me they'd seen me across the billiard room and really dug my vibe, the word "maybe" would cease to exist.

Golang waiter, opening a bottle of Function Result: "Would sir care to test if err is nil?"

BRING BACK TRONC

Jonathan Bonathan Joviathan post skeet

When the single-threaded sync version of the process takes so long that you manage to recode it to be parallel and async and finish running the new version before the original one completes...

Ok, actual @nogodsnomayors.com ITEM alert: Introducing the Melbourne Star, meant to be our version of the London Eye and affectionately known by locals as the Failwheel: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbour...

The "Underpants Gnomes" episode of South Park first aired closer to JFK's "we choose to go to the Moon" speech than to today.

You know you've been listening to too much @nogodsnomayors.com when you're in a work meeting and someone mentions having an item and you have to almost physically restrain yourself from going "Item! ITEM!".

Oh hello. I just got a phishing email that that claimed I needed to verify my PyPI email address but I noticed (thankfully) that the address it had sent me to was not pypi.org but pypj (yes, that's a j) .org. It very nearly got me. Be careful folks.

Tim Minchin should follow Tom Lehrer's lead. I don't mean by dying per se, more in shutting up for 60-odd years and just enjoying what you have.

A dream I know that will never happen: Getting to do some kind of talk/podcast/whatever thing with @andrewhickey.500songs.com about the Melbourne Little Band Scene and early Hunters & Collectors, the origins of Dead Can Dance, and all that cool stuff.

Banger.

I am writing words today. Words that are going into a talk. A talk called Skill Issue that I'm going to be presenting at @pyconau.bsky.social! You can also get 10% off a ticket using this URL: pretix.eu/pyconau/2025...

Now _this_ is @quinnypig.com: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXPp...

"This man is not a man of honour... no highly esteemed man is commemorated here... nothing valued is here."

Donald Trump Stop Making Gavin Newsom Cool Challenge 2025 [highly challenging]

It's no longer all happening for Linda Yaccarino on X, the Everything App: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

"The bell-end of the bell curve."

[youth pastor voice] “You know, there was someone else once who ignored all previous instructions…”

[youth pastor voice] “You know, there was someone else once who ignored all previous instructions…”

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You know what, fuck it. I've never been to @kiwipycon.nz but this year I'm damn well going. Ticket fkn booked.

Me: "Of course women can't be good rulers." Mr. 13: "Why not?" Me: "They don't have centimetre markings on them." Mr. 13: "... ... ... oh for fuck's sake, Dad."

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