We had a great Wagtail meetup today at DjangoConUS! So glad we got to meet new folks, connect with old friends, and get everyone's feedback on Wagtail! 💜✨

"Website design is my passion." americabydesign.gov

That's a good line! But more importantly, this is sure to be a good course. I had the privilege of receiving some live JavaScript training from Mat and his colleagues about a decade ago, and he's a great teacher.

The DC Cir majority lifts the ban on firing CFPB staff bc there was “no…statement, written or oral, purporting to shut down the CFPB” & noting the gov’t “does not claim the power to ‘shut down’ the CFPB.” But then AG Bondi tweets out: actually, that’s been the plan all along! x.com/agpambondi/s...

I heard there was a secret 'b' Hidden inside a 'blueberry' But you don't really care for GPT do ya It goes like this: a 'b' at first, and fourth and sixth, Whoops, minor error; purported fix, My AI reinventing "blubeberry" Blubeberry 🎶 blubellberry Blurblery

Apropos of… something :)

Thank you 💚 for such a lovely response to Django’s 20th birthday! We received 63 new donations since, of which 12 are recurring 🫶 There’s only a few days left to meet our goal of 200 new donors with $20 or more – can you help us support #Django? #DjangoBirthday

Please enjoy this turtle being given the gift of speed, and immediately using it to chase a kitty

Happy 20th birthday Django! I'm celebrating by publishing an annotated version of the talk I gave about Django's Origins ten years ago at Django's 10th birthday party in Lawrence, Kansas https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/13/django-birthday/

Happy 20th birthday Django! 💝🎂🎉 www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/... Our open source journey started 20 years ago today, on July 13th 2005. Come celebrate this big milestone at one of our many community events this year #Python #Django #OpenSource #DjangoBirthday

My "No amount will be paid to the president directly" and "This lawsuit is completely separate from, and unrelated to, the Skydance transaction" bits of my settlement is raising a lot of questions already answered by my "please don't write in the newspaper that this is a bribe" settlement

This is an overt cash bribe to a sitting president, and we’ve apparently sunk so far that nobody involved feels any shame or questions whether they’ll get away with it.

Seems like most people quoting/replying to this are missing that he said the showers are for the STAFF. "And then, of course, you also have stuff for the staff that work here. So, we've got laundry facilities, we've got showers … there you see the shower and bath facilities."

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in dissent, on the Court's ruling on universal injunctions and birthright citizenship: "The Court’s decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law."

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

Say what? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEW: A data broker owned by major airlines sold domestic US flight data to DHS, telling the dept. not to disclose that, according to records obtained by @404media.co—copublished in partnership with @wired.com. No paywall bc FOIA @josephcox.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/airlin...

"everyone must get back in the office full-time" "help being in this office all the time is ruining my marriage"

Let’s talk about unintended consequences for a minute. I received a message that has me just livid. So remember all the pay cards in government that have been set to a $1 limit so that government employees can’t use them for things like travel? On paper it sounds like this only effects us employees.

Wagtail 7.0 has taken flight! Come have a look at all the things you can do with our newest release. wagtail.org/blog/wagtail...

Lotta people out here on the interwebs assuming everybody has already had time to watch all three hours of Andor that only dropped at 9 p.m. Eastern last night, and I am displeased with that.

To close out jelly bean season on A Boy and His Beans, we have Jet-Puffed brand marshmallow-flavored jelly beans! jellybeans.lol/jet-puffed-j...

Today on A Boy and His Beans, the penultimate review of the season: Jelly Bean Factory's sour collection! jellybeans.lol/jelly-bean-f...

Today on A Boy and His Beans, a capsule review of the new Creamsicle Jelly Beans: jellybeans.lol/creamsicle-j...

Today on A Boy and His Beans, another cereal cross-brand: Fruity Pebbles Jelly Beans! jellybeans.lol/fruity-pebbl...

Today on A Boy and His Beans, it's the ORIGINAL Jelly Bean Factory! jellybeans.lol/jelly-bean-f...

We begin the tenth season at A Boy and His Beans with the return of Mike and Ike, who are now distributing their Mega Mix variety in bean form! jellybeans.lol/mike-and-ike...

A brief thread on alt-text. Alt text is descriptive text that conveys the meaning of an image. It's designed to make visual content accessible to people with vision disabilities. When a person uses assistive technology such as a screen reader, the screen reader will read the onscreen text aloud 1/7

You might ask why an entire nation's worth of computer experts opted out of "let's rewrite the code that handles all of Social Security in a couple months" before now and merely asking the question makes you much smarter than any of the script kiddies calling themselves 'DOGE'.

People should be calling this what it is, which is a crypto bailout. They're cutting cancer research so they can bailout rich, degenerate gamblers bsky.app/profile/ronf...

⚠️ CFPB workers fired weeks ago STILL haven't received the paperwork they need to file unemployment and get health insurance. We're hearing only one employee has been authorized to prepare these separation packets. Sign and share our petition so we can fix this ASAP 🙏 https://buff.ly/41zULgk

i guess it's only okay when elon does it

If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

want to be excruciatingly clear about this: TikTok didn't have to go dark last night and it didn't have to turn back on this morning. both of those were voluntary moves that the law does not directly touch.

Members of the @wagtail.org community have been impacted by the #lafires. Everyone I've made contact with is safe. However, James Ray has lost his home. If you you'd like to help the Ray family get back on their feet, please consider donating to this fundraiser. www.gofundme.com/f/help-bonni...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

@danieljkushner.bsky.social How about some fantasy hockey skeets, eh? ;)

The Shape of Water (2017)

Happy Friday! We celebrated by releasing Wagtail 6.3! ✨ This is our latest LTS release, so we packed a lot of great features into this one. Have a look. 👀

Here’s my endorsement of Kamala Harris. Sometimes you just gotta say it as simply as possible www.theverge.com/24282022/kam...

A statement from Post Guild leadership on the Washington Post's decision to not endorse a presidential candidate

If literally any other federal government employee or contractor did something remotely like this, they’d be at a CIA blacksite in Poland drinking sewer water rn

Hi Folks! We're trying something new for Wagtail Office Hours this week. We're going on a bug hunt! 🐛🐞🦋 Join us Wednesday from 3:30-5:30 EST as we test the new @wagtailcms.bsky.social release candidate together. If you'd like to come, please PM me for the details!

Trump's likely FCC boss apparently didn't like my story about him. But he didn't link to it so that people could find out that a big reason for the delays he's complaining about were actually caused by...him.

I threw together a Django web framework starter pack: go.bsky.app/TCwELYc. DM me if you would like to be included and I'll add you!

If you're exploring alternatives to #WordPress and you want to see @wagtailcms.bsky.social in action, join us tomorrow for What's New in Wagtail. This live webinar is a great chance to see Wagtail for yourself and get your questions answered by our experts. Sign up here:

No bird can resist a Bluesky. 😉 Hello Friends!!! We're here to geek out about #Django and #Python and #content. Let's see where we can fly together, shall we?

If you live in one of these 10 states (AZ, TX AR, MS, FL, GA, TN, KY, IN, OH), today is THE LAST DAY you can register to vote. Even if you think you're registered already, double check to see if your registration is still active. Please do this, it only takes a few minutes. Pass it on.