Happy Thanksgiving 🍽 from the Hexagon (France) I celebrated on my own in the kitchen yesterday, and made gooey pumpkin chocolate brownies for the office today.

You’re the hero of your own story. A super villain is going to destroy the world. You team up with your evil nemesis to take him down… Then they fail at the most basic task, and it’s like, why did you sell your soul to root for this person? That’s me supporting City tonight against Newcastle. 😓

I was thinking the same thing. How can Alisson focus on the ball with this view behind it?

And Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 make history in a very exciting game against Denmark 🇩🇰 ! As a Christensen, it was stressful to see Rasmus Kristensen get a red, but fun to see Andreas Christensen assist Dorgu’s equalizer. As a #MUFC fan, it was fun to see our guys do well (why did we let you leave, McTominay ? 😢)

Ran my first ever 10k today in the HOKA Paris Centre race. It took me a little over an hour (but only a little 😉), so I kept my brain busy with the @empirepoduk.bsky.social podcast ❤️. Then I hiked up to Gare du Nord for a well-deserved thali and South Indian coffee.

I can’t get into Python GUI libraries. I tried a few today to solve a problem (displaying images and updating a DuckDB database), but ultimately whipped up a little Flask app instead. Browsers just seem easier and more straightforward. Still waiting for a library / Python project to change my mind.

As a Manchester United fan, it’s gonna sound weird… but I’m really hoping City win today. Someone has to keep Arsenal from winning the title. In these trying times, we need to come together, and save the world from Arteta’s smugness. Sunderland did their duty yesterday 🫡

Always try to score 😕 #MUFC A. Don’t count on later opportunities. B. Even a blocked shot can rebound to another opportunity. C. Don’t base your strategy on never conceding. The only thing for certain in front of the net is that the team who doesn’t keep creating chances and trying will not score.

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Amorim’s 3-4-3 3 points today 4th in the table 3 wins in a row! #MUFC

A real live Lupin

Dickens (pre-Christmas Carol / any big success), sitting for a portrait painted by a fellow activist in the 19th-century fight against child poverty, artist Margaret Gillie. Her story ❤️ www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Betrayed by “git stash” today. Send snacks.

Since the new iOS, is the iPhone slower to unlock? Other latency issues seem improved. But unlocking… idk. Seems slowed down.

Had my first course of bombarde tonight 😁

Well-researched and well-sourced article. Plus, I didn’t know about the collection downtown (will check it out now!) www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

I started a new job today (first one outside academia) and I completely lost track of the transfer market mayhem. These millionaire sports people’s last-minute, literally 11th-hour negotiations and document write-ups throws me back to academia and school papers. Can’t wait to catch up!

Doing research for fun, I stumbled on this transcription of accounts the Senate published of witnesses to the attempted shooting of the king, Louis-Philippe, around Christmas in 1836. It's such a rich resource, featuring testimonies from different classes of Parisians! www.senat.fr/fileadmin/im...

Party A: I want £70. Party B: I’ll pay £25. [party A drops their price to £60.] Reporters: The parties found a “happy medium” at £40. Me: No they didn’t! Party A got fleeced. Sort your maths out. — Postscript: Manchester United suck at financial planning and their negotiators suck at negotiating.

WTF? This is Grimsby. Grimsby!! We spent all that money this summer. We (the fans) have given Amorim so much leeway and grace. I still believe in him… But WTF? The first 2 of this season’s 38 games were bad results, but we push through it. We found hope in the performances. But this? It’s Grimsby!!

I was watching Spurs and didn’t see but… what on earth happened with West Ham today? What is that result?

So excited for the new #EPL SEASON 2025-2026! My #FPL Midwestern Wanderers are here! Both we and #MUFC are both gonna bring it 🏆 Also, with everything going on, I love that the biggest question on my mind for the next few days: Bruno or Mbeumo? Love football.

My eye keeps on twitchin’, twitchin’, twitchin’… into the future?

Cynthia Erivo came to Cleveland Orchestra’s summer home, Blossom, to perform mostly pop, jazz, and a few Broadway tunes arranged for orchestra to a crowd of 20k. There was no Wicked, which I think is sad for all the little girls who came out (dressed up). But she sang the hell out of Feeling Good.

Another day of traveling.

A big, beautiful, complex conceptual model of how a "story" is manifested in various versions, languages, (parts of) witnesses, etc. by @katkel.bsky.social & @jbcamps.bsky.social. A delicious, nutritious alphabet soup of CRM-CIDOC, FRBR, LRMOO (look 'em all up!) #DH2025

This part of Lisbon is under the path of a lot of airplanes. Some people find it hard not to notice #DH2025

At the Museu de Lisboa, I learned the Portuguese crown located their capital to Rio de Janeiro (1807-1821). It’s the 1st European capital outside Europe! French 🇫🇷 & Spanish 🇪🇸 forces were advancing. So, with English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿support, the royal court quickly packed up their ships and crossed the Atlantic.

En route to #DH2025 Lisbon.

The thing about sports fandom is that you have no control and it matters as much as you let it matter in your world, which is kinda true for a lot of non-sports things. This is a good thing. This kind of disappointment is good. It’s part of what makes winning fun. Also true for a lot of things.

There are 2 finals today: Wimbledon men’s singles 🎾 and the new “Club” World Cup ⚽️ One’s a prestigious tournament showcasing the sport’s peak performers, the 1st and 2nd best in the world. The other is a fake match-up between the 4th best team in England’s league versus the best in Europe, PSG

This is the worst start to a final I’ve ever seen. It’s hard to watch. #Wimbledon Losing the first set doesn’t have to matter, if Anisimova can then win the next games and sets. But this is all mental. I don’t know what she’s gonna do.

Rough loss for Fritz. The margins are so close this year at #Wimbledon and he came very, very close to beating Alcaraz. Really sucks. (I love Carols! But gotta root for the underdog / 🇺🇸)

I can’t believe what Anisimova did today. That’s just incredible, taking on the #1. I wish the best for her going into the final on Saturday, now that my favorite Belinda Bencic was knocked out. #Wimbledon I watched in person Jessica Pegula lose at RG last year. So I’m all team 🇺🇸 with Amanda

I love Campus Condorcet. Love it, but… I did receive THREE emails today, to the same address, politely asking if I want to stay on their list serv this year. I think it’s a good example of lists that feed other lists. The message is the same.

As a Manchester United fan and a Parisian, I’m excited for PSG and I hope they show Chelsea FC what’s what in the final. And because I think this tournament is wasteful and bad for the players’ health, I hope PSG make their dominance so uncontested it’s boring.

Sabalenka does it! I enjoyed listening to the end on BBC Radio (BBC Sounds App)—a great alternative while at work and/or without access to a stream. #Wimbledon I like Sabalenka, but I’m rooting for Amanda Anisimova 🇺🇸 if she makes it to the semis.

Don’t meant to add more bummer news to this platform, but this is near to me. If your gov aren’t actively reforming their energy infrastructure and systemically reducing greenhouse gasses their orgs & citizens emit, they’re failing. A child died at Versailles on Tuesday. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ever since the heat wave earlier this week, I haven’t seen a mosquito. Is it possible our local French mosquitoes fled / didn’t survive? We’re leaving the window open at night and it’s like an eerie mosquito ghost town. Like there was a reckoning, or they’re waiting for the right moment to ambush.

3:30 AM. Real feel = 28 C. We survived the peak (40 C) 10 hours ago, but when things don’t cool down at night, it’s rough. A fan can only do so much.

A while ago, I drew a set of maps for Simon Doubleday's book on 11th C. León and Galicia (a book project he inherited from Bernard Reilly). I've written about the maps and the book over on my patreon. It's free and publicly available, so give it a read! www.patreon.com/posts/fuzzy-...

New murals just dropped. #Clichy Le festival d’art urbain C.A.P.S. a lieu ce week-end à Clichy, mais je ne sais pas si ces nouveaux en font partie. En tout cas, c’est un super ajout sur mon chemin vers l’Aldi.

Faith Kipyegon 🇰🇪 is here in Paris 🇫🇷 today, one of her favorite places to run, to try to break her own world record and run the first sub-4-minute mile. We’re getting a lucky one-day reprieve from the heatwave today, so I hope this is a good omen for her!

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower was published in 1993 and starts in 2024—a 31-year leap. Are creators imagining futures that are closer or further away? Explore a *new* dataset of 2.5k narrative works set in the future, each tagged with its release year and setting. doi.org/10.18737/552...

Two incredible positions at the Digitale Mozart-Edition in Salzburg: • Web Developer (m/w/d) – 30-35 hours/week, permanent position • Digital Humanities Expert (m/w/d) – 20-30 hours/week, permanent position More info at: dme.mozarteum.at/en/about-us/... #DigitalHumanities

I finished The Residence (excellent comedy!) and was both touched and intrigued that they dedicated the show to the late Andre Braugher. Throughout, Uzo Aduba’s performance reminded me of Braugher’s classic deadpan. But I wonder what other connections he’d have to the project / first season.

I’ve been developing a #FastAPI that depends on a #Kuzu graph DB. If anyone online sees this and has an example that they’d like to share of a FastAPI that depends on a graph DB (Kuzu or Neo4j, for example), I’d love to see it! My work here is very much in progress: github.com/LostMa-ERC/h...

The pope today, presumably speaking to Manchester United fans. #MUFC

The simple boredom of a summer cold… Too tired to get up and do anything interesting, but not tired enough to keep sleeping—mixed with a little self quarantine. 😷