Pride Month in US Libraries: How to Prepare and Help Track Targeted Attacks in 2026 bookriot.com/how-to-prepa...

👏California becomes first state to provide a month of free diapers to all newborns | www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #ProudCalifornian

I did a sidequest this week, inspired by @dascho.bsky.social to mitigate some of the namespace risks presented by #llms, #agentic coding, and #mcp servers. The result was SquatGuard, planting plastic flowers to protect the hive. You can read about it here: phildini.dev/slopsquattin...

Discovered a Cool™ #npm bug today: If you try to publish a package from the CLI but you've done `npm adduser` for your account on a different machine, the error you get doesn't say anything about auth, you get a 404. Microsoft: "We didn't _just_ break #github!"

Over the weekend I released ✨`orbpondering` ✨ A #python library for #astrology and #tarot It uses JPL data to create a seed which it feeds into the draw. Usable as a CLI and a library for your own purposes, under BSD-3 github.com/phildini/orb... PRs welcome, boosts appreciated, CoC enforced 💫

My #nbpy talk is now live, which many thanks to @aeracode.org and the whole @northbaypython.org team for getting these out so quickly. This was the hardest talk I've ever had to write, and I hope people enjoy it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HrE...

Hello #NBPy if you enjoyed my talk thank you! I will be around after conf and wherever the afterparty ends up being, and I love talking about #CivicTech. A better world is possible; come ask me how 🙇

Returning to the stage is @phildini.net to present Running Resistance Tech on a Shoestring ✊ pretalx.northbaypython.org/nbpy-2026/ta... #NBPy

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

evergreen

bird count bird count birrrrrrd counnnnnnnnt (can you tell I'm excited to spot the birds?)

This Saturday during @northbaypython.org I'm going to be counting the bird species I spot at #ReisRiverRanch as part of the Bay Birding Challenge, which raises money for the Golden Gate Bird Alliance in addition to generating some cool conservation data about the 9 bay area counties' birds!

The wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again, and this weekend I am heading to speak at @northbaypython.org . While there, I'm going to raising money for the Golden Gate Bird Alliance by counting bird species in Petaluma.

There's a key technical problem over at @civic.band. I have blogged about it, and would appreciate reads and shares. It's the most #CivicTech and #OpenData problem I've ever worked on. meta.civic.band/archive/the-...

If anyone is still looking for a team for the Bay Birdathon, I think we have some extra room on my team, the Aight Herons! Today is the last day to sign up, but lmk if you'd like the link! Some of us will be birding from @northbaypython.org , which always has incredible birds to spot during breaks!

I think the thing that would really heal the nation right now is if @jonbois.bsky.social released 20021

Sometimes you're casually adding new sites to @civic.band and you add some city in #Massachusetts you've never heard of and then you've added 5000 more documents to the index 😂 The well of #CivicData is so deep and so wide and we've only started dipping our toes in.

Yay! Congratulations to everyone, especially my county librarian, Deb Sica, who I've been very fortunate to get to know through my work with our Library Advisory Commission. Her dedication to patron access, privacy, and inclusion ensure that our unincorporated areas are as supported as our cities.

Attie.ai now more unpopular than ICE

Whoever at @patreon.com realized at 9pm on a Friday six-and-a-half years after I left that I was still a maintainer on the #python package: Good catch, and I just want to talk, ok?

I am very drunk. What’s up?

Before I go and make one, has anyone made a #SearXNG engine for this hellsite yet?

Check out CivicBand, a new project assembling local government meeting minutes and documents to make them easily searchable! 📜✨ Discover more at civic.band #OpenData #CivicTech

Making twenty accounts. Ten with various trans marked bios, ten as bland as a conservative Thanksgiving turkey. Opening up Polymarket for bids on bans.

Hey, if you're going to be #scale23x, I'll be there exhibiting @civic.band , the civic data / #OpenData nonprofit I've been working on. It would be great to see you, please stop by!

heads up to Oakland folks: Highwire Coffee is union busting. I recommend emailing the ceo: [email protected]

This guy's not blue collar or working class, and it's fucking weird the way Pod Save America is all in on him no matter what. There are better options, kids. Mr. Nazi Tattoo is cosplaying the working man and fuck him.

Just making sure I come back and share this. It's going into a workshop (being released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) to be presented around Australia + online over the next 5 weeks. The facilitators notes (WIP) refer more specifically to your thread (to accurately quote). 2026.pycon.org.au/cfp/workshops

Does “ignore all previous instructions” meet the #xkcd password rule?

Two for one special on #CampaignFinance transparency: #Ventura (going back to 2023) and #VenturaCounty (going back to 2014): https://ventura.ca.civic.band https://ventura-county.ca.civic.band #OpenData

It's extremely hard not to think, as I pre-schedule dozens of social posts for @civic.band, that I could be not doing this and instead working on more Campaign Finance sites or vote record extraction if someone just paid us.

Currently working through #Cary #NorthCarolina for @civic.band Over 4000 documents going back to 1939. I love when an archive goes deep like this. What was the average City Council talking about during WWII? Vietnam? 9/11?

Transparency includes knowing who's funding campaigns. We've added #CampaignFinance data for #SutterCounty, going back to 2022: https://sutter-county.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

am I the only one around here who still believes in cancel culture www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefan...

the time is RIPE for gilbert & sullivan revivals!!!! they are tiktokcore!!!! they are basically musical letterkenny!!!!!!!!

If you're watching the #California governor's race, the #CampaignFinance data from #SantaClara County might be of interest to you. We just added that data going back to 2004: https://santaclara-county.ca.civic.band

Two weeks from today, exactly, we'll be in the Expo Hall at SCALE 23x -- Workshops, real conversations, and practical sessions across open source, security, and cloud native. We'd love to say hi if you're there, and if you're on the fence you can use the code CIVIC for 50% off a pass.

a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing

We've recently started adding #CampaignFinance data to all the #CivicBand sites in #California where we can get that data easily. We now have data for #SanJoaquin county going back to 2012 https://sanjoaquin-county.ca.civic.band/

For those not fully in on the joke, the German far-left party (KPD) denounced the center-left party (SPD) as “social fascists” and believed allowing the Nazis to win would better set up conditions for a Marxist revolution. The leader behind this strategy wound up executed in a concentration camp.

everything is securities fraud

It took all week to get here, but I'm so close to having election finance data for California in @civic.band #OpenData #CivicTech

Bluesky working so hard to become twitter: Just got pig-butchering message spam.

Are any of my followers #FallenLondon players?

I wonder if my interest/obsession in civic meetings was awoken by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Define zero. bsky.app/profile/did:...

👏👏 Check out @phildini.net’s @civic.band! It tracks 150+ municipalities in Canada & the US, making their agendas & minutes queryable & searchable. Civic.band What an important, necessary & useful contribution to democracy—can’t wait to see how y’all change the world with it!

If we all start going "That isn't Donald Trump, that's clearly a body double" I bet we can make everyone in the White House lose their minds within a week. But we have to _commit_ to it.

Hey if you’re looking to try/retry/find a home on the ActivityPub/mastodon shaped part of the fediverse, I will personally help you get set up, move followers, block assholes, etc I have no interest in debating the merit of bsky-v-mastodon, purely offering help. Reskeets welcome ✨

My friend was once telling me something about Darwin and paused in the middle of the sentence to specify "Charles" like who the hell else would I be thinking of? Jeremy Darwin? Angelina Darwin? huh??????