If you are interviewing for a remote job, do everyone a favour and get a proper headset. They're like, £15 and it'll ensure that you're actually understood on the call. Seriously, if you're doing any remote work at all, you really can't rely on the mic built into your laptop.

RE: https://phpc.social/@sarah/115564894475006510 I'm going to bookmark this and send it to every prospective employer that tries to get me to do one of those horrid HackerRank tests.

If your school or workplace uses Exchange for email, accessing it with Thunderbird just got easier! Our blog post has all the details on getting connected. Additional features, like calendar and address book, are in the works! #thunderbird #exchange […]

- Copilot was forced to nearly every MS user without their consent - Gemini starts each time an Android user touch his smartphone main button - Whatsapp users suddenly interact with an AI they can’t disable - Firefox will soon have its own AI - Even myself, as a @protonprivacy and @kagihq user […]

I love this so much. Very #solarpunk: A guerrilla gardener installs a pop-up wetland in the LA River https://www.npr.org/2025/11/17/nx-s1-5589228/garden-environment-restoration-ecology-la-river-guerrilla

OH: "You can see why I font touch [tech], I understand with a tree."

What a photograph. “Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…” Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

"Sunshine on the other line". I love it. https://www.jeremyville.com/products/sunshine-on-the-other-line

Not all delivery trucks are justifiable in cities. We can create jobs, boost sustainable transportation, and create safer streets with better infrastructure through cargo bike logistics. The solutions, designs, and tools already exist. All we seem to lack is the political will to implement them.

These people seem like they're doing Good work and they could use a talented nerd to help them out: https://globalcanopy.org/jobs/cp-full-stack-developer/ #python

New Pepper & Carrot episode! I love how wholesome and beautifully drawn these are: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomic/ep39_The-Tavern.html #pepperandcarrot

Astronomers have unveiled the world’s most detailed radio image of the Milky Way. Compiled from over 150 nights of observations with Western Australia’s Murchison Widefield Array, the map catalogues 98,000 radio sources, revealing star-forming regions, supernova remnants and pulsars, with ten […]

I'm going through a long series of job applications today and.... my nerds, we need to talk about your CVs. It's bad enough that people are using GPT to wite their cover letters and summaries, but no one seems to be paying any attention to things like layout, spacing, and typeface. Most of […]

WOW ❝ In Denmark, the “right of integrity means that even in cases where you are allowed to make use of a work, you are not allowed to change it or use it in a way or in a context that infringes the author’s literary or artistic reputation or uniqueness,” a resource for Danish researchers noted […]

I'm watching my 6 year old play with her 4 year old friend, building a little wooden train track frantically placing fragments while a motorised train crawls along. They cheer when they get one in place to keep the train going, and then hurry back when they realise there's more to do. They're […]

Honest Government Ad | Watch out, Canada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6Hmp9ndkI #cdnpoli

Tabloid: the clickbait headline programming language https://tabloid.vercel.app/ I both love and hate this.

TheCambridge & South Cambridgeshire Green Party AGM is coming up. If you want to work together to fix things rather than go the Reform route and tear it all down, you should come! […]

@404mediaco bringing the shade lol #uspol https://www.404media.co/nancy-pelosi-one-of-the-greatest-wall-street-investors-of-all-time-announces-retirement/

This thread makes me so sad: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446 The goal of open source should be to empower people, not to make them feel like they have no agency and their work doesn't matter.

Hey there fellow nerds, ready for a niche blog post about something that I think is important and seemingly no one else cares about? I got you covered: "The Case for Standardised Time Range Variable Names" https://danielquinn.org/blog/the-case-for-standardised-time-range-variable-names/ #python

Watching #zohranmamdani's celebration speech, I am seriously inspired. Motherfucker opens with a quote from Eugene Debbs and just keeps going, talking about the city they're going to build together, and ripping into Trump as a "despot" and outlining not just how they can stop him, but how they […]

Exiting #python news! Lazy imports are gonna be a thing! https://lwn.net/Articles/1044844/

Not only did they make it the next generation's problem, but they've spent their whole lives making it worse. Via https://www.sirbeeves.com/comics #climatechange

With everything moving to subscription-based pricing in the last 10 years, everything is *SO* much more expensive. It used to be that you could by ${SOFTWARE} for a fixed price: $5-$150 and it'd come with patches & updates, but now everything is "just" $5/month $5/month is fucking pricey kids […]

I am always seeing news stories about men getting caught not wearing pants (trousers) on webcam or seeing them openly fantasize about not having to wear pants. I have to conclude y’all find them extremely uncomfortable. May I suggest: skirts? Pants were invented to make it easier to ride horses […]

I went to the first #codebar Cambridge in 2 years last night. There were 7 of us there, and 3 of us had a #fairphone 4! Not a Fairphone 6, not even a 5. We're all running last-last-last-last year's model because it still works great, is repairable and (as one person pointed out) upgradeable […]

This is fucking amazing

My old employers are hiring technical talent in the UK. Fully remote / hybrid (London). * Senior Data Engineer * Senior Security Engineer (Developer) * Engineering Manager - (Genetic Data) And several more. Great team with an amazing mission. All the jobs are listed at […]

Happy Halloween!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@webology/115458056967624999 https://www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/

Stop Citing AI https://stopcitingai.com/

She gets it: https://substack.com/@michaelmezzatesta/note/c-170798525

America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/29/americas-super-rich-running-down-planet-safe-climate-spaces-oxfam Exclusive: Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the […]

#tomellison gives brilliant voice to #wikipedia zinging #academics. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology "Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology…global academic, scientific, and pro-fact community. I suppose you’ve come to say […]

"Table 19" was a delightful movie. If you're looking for something feel-good and fun, here you go: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1412528/

The absolute legends at the Python Software Foundations have turned down $1.5 million in US government funding because that country is so terrified of DEI that they're making funding conditional on being as backward as they are: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html […]

This long-form interview between Adam Conover and Cory Doctorow is really quite good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1EKQidRooc

Have you seen "Common Side Effects" yet? It's really pretty great: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28093628/

Accepting US car standards would risk European lives, warn cities and civil society https://www.ecf.com/en/news/accepting-us-car-standards-would-risk-european-lives-warn-cities-and-civil-society/ #fuckcars

This is happening in EVERY COUNTRY. Tell your kids / friends / family to stop watching the stupid short videos that are just "sensationalist" garbage content. https://youtu.be/jEWhmQjeh_I #japan #drama #respect #immigration #politics #youtube #garbage #abroadinjapan

Hey UK-based data nerds! You should come work with me: https://cfpenergy.recruitee.com/o/data-engineer-4 Our tech stack: #python #kafka #kubernetes, and #clickhouse #FediHire #getfedihired

Elon Musk is having a very bad week. The man who bought Twitter for $44 billion to secure unaccountable power over public discourse is discovering what unaccountable power actually looks like when wielded by someone who understands dominance even better than he does. Trump just stripped SpaceX […]

The problem with our political leaders is that they lack the conviction of Chrisjen Avasarala: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A98vqgBsoxQ

Ha! https://isitdns.com/

Turns out that restarting my k8s cluster during a Docker outage was a bad idea: https://www.dockerstatus.com/

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“Meanwhile, the e-bike market is skyrocketing… The question now is: Do officials double down on deadly car-centric urban design, or do they rethink cities to encourage people to ditch four wheels for two?” Via @grist.org And do we let elected leaders keep doing the wrong things for our cities?

I tried to diff two 30gb text files and managed to get Linux to impersonate Windows!