honestly, what better distraction from _all this_ than hanging out on a ranch in the nearest middle of nowhere available to the rest of the bay area meet good people; hear some good talks*; return energised to deal with _all that_ *talks need to be submitted first […]

hello! happy thursday! there's 3ish weeks (give or take a day) until we'll be closing talk submissions for this year. we'd definitely like to hear from you (also you, in case you're reading)! details & forms etc: https://pretalx.northbaypython.org/nbpy-2026/cfp #python #nbpy #websitesoonipromise

RE: https://social.northbaypython.org/@NorthBayPython/115911813583660171 Sunday is also a great day to do this

I vote, and I don’t want ICE agents to be better trained; I want them arrested, tried, and convicted.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bigzaphod/115905555960257245 I’m almost 41, and I’ve been waiting a third of my life for Star Citizen to “release” so they can send me the physical goods they promised me during their crowdfunding campaign back in 2012… 🤪

oops someone pointed out that ths above post is very us-centric, and they want to know what's in it for them. um. no stressing out about deadlines? the satisfaction of knowing you've made the program team's job easier/more interesting? contentment from having put a good idea to words?

one month until our submissions deadline, but did you know you can submit a talk proposal _today_? we get to know that we're reaching people, we stress less about having a program to fill, _and_ we get some fun stuff to read! submit your talk ideas today! […]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@itworldcup/115876971087866954 Clearly setting up for a Rust vs Python final

I remember when this section of MicroCenter took up half of the building.

@amethyst IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION A) we'd actually prefer your crazier talks b) they *definitely* do not need to mention Python. Well-rounded Python developers need to know things that aren't Python too!

RE: https://social.northbaypython.org/@NorthBayPython/115861794229890398 As you head into the weekend, think about sharing something cool with all the excellent folks who attend North Bay Python. I know you all have some amazing talk ideas banging around — I’ve been on committees for half a […]

hello! chris is on vacation (no new website yet), but apparently time waits for no conference, and it's time for us to ask you what you want to talk about! Do you want to speak at California's hyper-local barn-based Python conference? Please send us your talk ideas! […]

Imagine how different things could be if we had unionized tech workers ten years ago when we actually had the power to demand it. 🤔

Got some holiday Lego builds of our own done this year, all sets that have been sitting unopened for multiple years. The ISS had a surprising amount of fiddly, painful repetition, to the point where I had to stop around 3/4 of the way and resume the next day once my fingers had healed. 😅

Merry Christmas y’all 🎄

It’s been a good year for the Python community, and I feel proud to be a part of it! 💜 :python: https://mastodon.social/@hugovk/115728919261574003

https://nebula.tv/videos/people-make-games-why-were-boycotting-xbox-and-maybe-you-should-too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj10537yi4&pp=ygURcGVvcGxlIG1ha2UgZ2FtZXM%3D

SqlAlchemy reached into my library's internals to daemonize a thread managing asyncio queues rather than correctly clean up their connections. The code comment says “You'll thank us later”. I am not thanking them later. https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/issues/13039

Especially when said humiliation rituals involve getting called "sir" a dozen times or more https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115702894264172662

Me: sends link to myself Also me: ooh, I got a notification! … Oh 🤦‍♀️

I donated (and matched donations with friends) because the PSF has the values and the moral backbone to put humans first and treat everyone in the community with dignity, respect, and opportunity to make the world a better place for each other. 💛💙 https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/115581560407285011

What's horrifying about this graph is that we're emitting CO2 from fossil hydrocarbons NOW at four times the rate we were when I was a child, and twice the rate we were in 1972, when we already knew that #ClimateChange was an existential problem. Source […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Absolutely astounded. Thank you, Anonymous, for your incredible show of support. 💜 https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/115548943544117252

:python: 💪 https://phire.place/@phire/115520806034064246

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115493527623089000 This is amazing! But I want to remind others who weren't able to donate now but can in the future or whose US employers use Python, PyPI, etc. but are not PSF sponsors, that this drive covered a little over 2% of the funding that the PSF […]

I want to note, though, that even with all of this enthusiasm, the PSF is still not as funded as it would have been if they’d compromised their mission and taken the bestringed money offered by the NSF. This is good energy, to get grassroots funding to happen, but we *need* corporate […]

We did it! Y'all are absolutely amazing, and together we've matched $17,000, for a total of $34k raised for the PSF. A personal thank you to everyone who donated, and an extra heap of thanks and gratitude to @glyph for organizing and managing all of this. And of […] [Original post on toots.n7.gg]

Update 2025-11-03: thanks to the PSF's boost, we have now received $14622.43; 86.0% of our total match of $17000 . I am hopeful that we can close that 14% gap by tomorrow!

I am (and I'm sure everyone reading this is) confronted daily with the views of odious, misinformed people who want us, our families, & our friends to die. Those people have wrong, evil ideas. We do not need to be "challenged" further. We do not need to spend *more* of our time on wrong, evil ideas.

TIL that if Delta wants someone to change seats and they refuse, they’ll first make a passive aggressive announcement from the pilot, and then they’ll deplane everyone in order to to remove them from the flight entirely. 🤪 Today’s lesson brought to you by someone who was ineligible for an exit […]

Update for 2025-11-2: we are currently at $12047.97; 70.9% of the way through our $17000 matching fund. Max us out, folks. Keep it coming. The match will be computed on 11/4 AOE, so you still have a little time, but not THAT much!. (I should note: if you've already given, please just share […]

I’m not crying, you’re crying.

As much as I hate flying out of SFO, I fucking love SFO.

That’s a theme I can truly appreciate 💜 https://mastodon.social/@georgically/115478540185097128

You have one less reason to not donate to @ThePSF to reward them for standing by their community. And don’t forget to send your receipt to @glyph - we still have plenty of matching funds to go around! https://fosstodon.org/@lorenipsum/115470439602513874

Now that the remaining PNG files have been manually OCR'd, the total stands as follows: We've raised $9238.74 which is 54.3% of our $17000 total. Once again within 24h of a contributor joining the match we are over half full, but we all stand ready to be maxed out so please keep those donations […]

It's true: I've joined @glyph, @offby1, @amethyst and @petrillic in gift-matching donations to @ThePSF I've done gift matching before, because I think the PSF is doing tremendous work and I want more people to realize that. I was planning on doing gift matching for the end-of-year, but this way […]

We might be moving goalposts here, but I promise it’s for a great reason! https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115466516407084902

You can donate using one of the methods here — https://www.python.org/psf/donations/ — or if the methods listed there don't work for you (in particular, if PayPal is a problem and you're not donating enough for a wire transfer) https://github.com/sponsors/psf is also an option.

You can get more information about what happened with the grant here, and how the PSF is standing up for the community despite the cost: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/python_foundation_abandons_15m_nsf/

This week, the #python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5MM NSF grant, due to a requirement that the PSF abandon diversity work. So I joined forces with Python folks (@offby1, @petrillic, @amethyst) and we're matching up to $12,000 of donations to the PSF. 🧵

I’m forever grateful to everyone at the PSF for their courage, and I’m colluding with @glyph and friends to match your donations. Please give if you can — even $5 is appreciated! And send receipts to Glyph! https://www.python.org/psf/donations/ https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115454708761382794

Clearly we have some momentum so I have recruited two additional volunteers contributing to the matching pool: @amethyst is kicking in an additional $1000 to the match and @petrillic is adding $5000. The total contributed still stands at $3973.40 but that is now only 36.1% of the pledged match […]

In light of the PSF's recent loss of an NSF grant and attendant funding shortfall, I will be matching donations up to $5000. Send me your receipts. Very happy if you've already donated for similar reasons but the point is to motivate *new* donations so be sure the timestamp is after this toot 😉.

I just boosted a bunch of stuff about this, most of which puts the focus on the PSF's correct moral calculus here, and that's where most the focus should be. But there's unfortunately another, tougher lesson: you cannot be a Republican and support the Python community […]

I mentioned in my @pybay welcome – #python's vendor-neutral governance is what's made Python be successful at keeping up (and keeping ahead) of the tech industry for 30 years. @ThePSF cannot serve private interests. We can only support what's good for the language and growing its community. And […]

Being a charitable nonprofit in the US means committing to an actual ethical position that's written into the mission, and being on the board of such a nonprofit means committing to those ethical positions. Even (especially?) when there's money on the line that advances some other part of the […]

I whole-heartedly commend the PSF for this decision. https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/115446659188615376

Finally got my updated Covid booster. Had to bend the “90 days since infection” guidance a little bit, because I’m traveling at the beginning of November. I’ll never get over how amazing this technology is, nor how hard the conservatives are trying to fight its very existence. Get your vaccines […]

@nik maybe consider an option for Starmunder to ignore started projects from my own user or orgs, or from projects I’ve contributed to? This feedback brought to you by 2 of 5 projects being clearly mine 😹