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 😹

Fellow Californians: for the love of our democracy, vote YES on 50. https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/115414831704663625

Take that @nik https://nkantar.social/@nik/115414725949099333

Key takeaway from Lisa’s talk on free threading. #pybay

Time to see how @chrisjrn goes off the rails talking about guardrails! #pybay

Glyph on codes of conduct: “just do it”. You will gain more in welcoming a diverse set of contributors than anything you would lose from people who grumble about codes of conduct. #PyBay @glyph

Why must you poke my anxieties? #pybay

Eagerly awaiting @glyph‘s announcement of the next conference hashtag #pybay #excavacon

Now announcing PyBay 2026! October 3rd, next year. #pybay

Getting the important bits in up front #pybay

This footage might have been the best thing I've spent money on in a long time. :blob_cat_heart: https://youtube.com/shorts/6r_beNz2XtU

Finally! https://mastodon.social/@fastmail/115375214634975649

An epic end to an epic weekend.

@amethyst the phrase "red motivation" has haunted me since I first read it.

Apropos of absolutely nothing, I’ve been thinking about this story a lot lately. https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

I made my first Ruff release today, where we celebrate the release of Python 3.14 🎉 by stabilizing support for new syntax, and updating the default/oldest supported Python version to 3.10. 🥂 It also includes my first “big” user facing feature for the formatter, which will now preserve all […]

hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes. (this is going to be a very long thread 🧵)

[uspol] It's just killing me (maybe, one day, literally) that every instance of the Discourse around republican ghoulishness is fundamentally rooted in a fascist division of people into "good ones" and "bad ones". we must find a way to *categorically* reject the idea that human rights are […]

[uspol] these things are simply true and good: - trans rights are human rights. - everyone deserves health care. - human movement should not be a crime. it doesn't matter if there are complex philosophical and biological questions about the abstract nature of gender. it doesn't matter if […]

Last call for Curly Beach Beauty! https://fosstodon.org/@pybeach/115322594694639160

Finally have fiber internet for the first time in my life. Shame it had to be through a former monopolist, but anything to give a loud middle finger to Comcast.

🫡 https://nkantar.social/@nik/115278819995924721