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Andrew Kuchling

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#Python & SQL #developer at a healthcare startup in #WashingtonDC. Former core #Python developer. Lives in #Bowie, #Maryland. Reader of #books; player of […] [bridged from dmv.community/@akuchling on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Rural Québéc is so pretty in the fall once the leaves start changing. #Quebec

Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

CBC: 'It's so strange, it's perfect': Angine de Poitrine's album illustrator on why we need their art right now "Corbeau is working on some new projects for the band, including a deck of cards that will be "pretty far out there." She's balancing work for Angine de Poitrine with new commissions […]

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Flipboard Science Desk @sciencedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Helen Branswell, whose reporting for @STATnews in the pandemic made her a vital source of information for the public, has died at age 69 due to complications of cancer. Here's her colleague, Andrew Joseph, with a tribute to her. “Hopefully this is nothing out of the ordinary. But a @ProMED_mail […]

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Shared some notes on Python 3.15, using it with uv, and features from Python 3.11 I'm excited to use now that 3.10 is no longer the minimum supported version for my own projects simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/12/pytho…

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Hello Python 3.15, goodbye 3.10, and now I can use 3.11

Python 3.15 is here! Here’s the essential What’s new in Python 3.15 guide, this year curated by 3.14 and 3.15 release manager Hugo van Kemenade. As someone who builds open …

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Glyph @glyph.im · 04/10/2026

Me: I will use "radium water" as an analogy for how horrible AI's potential subtle long-term effects are, because the general public in 2026 can easily understand this analogy. The general public in 2026 […]

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For context, since AI was saturating a lot of math benchmarks, Epoch worked with mathematicians to create a private set of open problems, ranked as: Moderately Interesting, Solid Result, Major Advance, and Breakthrough. This was the first Major Advance result.

Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

The HP Lovecraft Film Festival is crowdfunding this year's event. The $116 level includes streaming access to the movies (for a limited time only, not indefinitely) hplfilmfestival.com/hplfilmfestival… […]

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WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

A quotation from Eric Hoffer > The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American’s hatred for a fellow American (for Hoover or Roosevelt) is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against […]

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

RogerEbert.com interview: Enslaved Spirits: Maya Annik Bedward on “Black Zombie” "For me, the heart of the film was the story of the zombie that I learned about, which was really connected to one of the central tenets of Vodou, which is this idea that when you die, you return to this mythical […]

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

For anyone not following the drama, there's been apparently a big development in ai math, along with some accusations of very bad behavior by OpenAI. But we don't have details yet. If I understand it, Buckmaster and Levent Alpoge made a big discovery on Navier-Stokes. Events go something like this:

Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Cellist Brianna Tam is raising money to finish her third album, and the campaign is still $2000 away from completion with only 24 hours left. www.kickstarter.com/projects/i-am-b… Tam performing a looped improv […]

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

I saw my 25th movie of 2026 yesterday thanks to my unlimited membership at my local theatre. It was COYOTE VS ACME, which I enjoyed; the comedy worked for me, and I liked how they shuffled around the Looney Tunes characters.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 31/08/2026

If you can spare a few bucks, this is a friend of my family, who needs help with legal fees and lost wages after 2 weeks in ICE detention. www.gofundme.com/f/stevens-legal-de…

Donate to Steven's Legal Defense Fund After ICE Detention, organized by Steven Orrego Upegui

Help Me Continue My Legal Fight After ICE Detention On … Steven Orrego Upegui needs your support for Steven's Legal Defense Fund After ICE Detention

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Lot of Europeans seem to think the cheese aisle at an American grocery store is a guy in an Uncle Sam costume squeezing liquid cheez from a plastic bladder, but that's only true at 7/11, and anyway it's great.

Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Apollo's Fire, performing the tune "Xacara" (trad. 17th c. Mexican) youtu.be/aSk-kBBAJcE #EarlyMusic #folk

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It's funny, a lot of my talk and writing is about tech stuff, but the vast majority of my time is spent growing flowers and fruit, baking, and reading Edwardian and Victorian novels and old poetry. I would be a stereotypical grandma if I weren't a repulsive man in cargo pants.

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Anthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Jupiter near Coonabarabran was looking similarly fresh. #SolarSystemDrive #Astronomy #Astrodon

Photo of a solar system drive sign with a model of Jupiter on it.

Photo of a model of Jupiter with fresh looking painted cloud features.

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Here’s my review of Qwen 3.8 27B - I can't remember the last time I've had this much fun playing with a local model that runs on my own computers simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-…

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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things

Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …

Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

I went to one academic session, lately for Daniel Holmes' talk about HP Lovecraft's trip to Quebec City, and it's effect on HPL's anti-Catholicism. From him I learned that there was a 19th century wave of Québécois immigration to Rhode Island, peaking in the 1890s. They came to work in the […]

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

New England Witches in Film discussed what makes for a satisfying witch movie. In addition to the obvious choice of Eggers' The VVitch, panelists suggested The Sudbury Devil, 1982's The Devonsville Terror, and a Christopher Lee movie called either City of the Dead or Horror Hotel. The TV of the […]

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Panels I went to at #NecronomiconPVD: The Daphne du Maurier panel discussed The Birds as you'd expect, but I didn't realize that she also wrote Don't Look Now. Panelists also discussed a bunch of her stories that were weird fiction, such as The Blue Lenses (a woman regains sight after an eye […]

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

The second film block last night was billed as showing the first filmed adaptation of Lovecraft, predating 1963's The Haunted Palace (produced by Roger Corman). It was 1961's La marca del muerto (dir.Fernando Cortés), a Mexican adaptation of the same original story, HPL's "Case of Charles […]

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Last night I went to Film Shorts block 1: Creature From The Deep (dir. Angus Reardon) is a lightly comic story about sacrificing the younger generation. I liked the restrained use of the monster, which is only seen through murky water or mostly out of frame. The Hound (dir. Mihajlo Dragaš) is […]

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I'm in Providence, Rhode Island, for the Necronomicon weird fiction / horror convention. The bulk of the programming starts tomorrow, but there was some fun stuff today. My plane was delayed so I couldn't catch the live reading of The Call of Cthulhu. But I did catch Robert Lloyd Party's […]

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

K9 Lifesavers, a Virginia/Maryland dog rescue, is raising money for surgery for a #dog named Marlo. Marlo has a diaphragmatic hernia; a hole in his diaphragm is letting his intestines push up into his chest and around his heart and lungs. (I took notice because I was born with a similar […]

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Anthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

RE: me.ns.ci/@xkcdbot/117044996365993743 Randall is really leaning into the astronomy jokes lately, and I'm all for it.

Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Figuring out my schedule for Necronomicon Providence. The one problem with this convention: it's *too* packed full of stuff! #NecronomiconProvidence #conventions #weird #horror

A view of my calendar, showing convention events on Saturday August 15th that I'm interested in. Several slots have 3 sessions of interest; some have 4.

Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

FIRE & ICE: THE VOLCANOES OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM, by Natalie Starkey, surveys the geology of the solar system, focusing on the different types of volcano. Earth currently has volcanoes with molten rock, but further out in the solar system, there are colder planets […] [Original post on dmv.community]

Cover of the book "Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System" by Natalie Starkey.

Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Somewhat better news from LINK: "A series of thruster burns this week reduced the rate of spin from approximately 9 degrees per second to less than 4 degrees per second. Katalyst is continuing with this approach to restabilize the spacecraft in the coming days. Teams also further evaluated […]

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

@nezumih yes, there are a few games that were really well-suited to the lockdown period. My spouse & I played Ryan Laukat's SLEEPING GODS about 7 times between 2020 and 2022. Each game takes about 20-30 hours, but you can pause & resume the game so one game was generally 2 or 3 weekend days […]

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Yesterday my spouse & I finally finished the GLOOMHAVEN: JAWS OF THE LION campaign! We started the game back in 2022, and played through ~15 or so scenarios. Then we put it aside, and didn't pick it up again until May of *this* year. I think our characters were starting to fall behind on the […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 01/08/2026

Please buy a copy of this book for your boss. Clockwork orange them if you have to. This insight is so true that it's upsetting to me; the entire industry is so OBSESSED with individual performance, with "meritocracy", that almost all the *actual* outstanding historic results achieved by this […]

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

There's an update from the Catalyst LINK mission. Unfortunately it's not great. "Over the weekend, Katalyst’s LINK servicing spacecraft experienced issues with attitude control, causing the spacecraft to spin and resulting in sporadic communications. Preliminary investigation shows that two of […]

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

This 2 1/2 minute video shows the process of moving the Roman Space Telescope from the #Goddard Space Flight Center, in #Maryland down to #Kennedy Space Center in #florida They packed up the telescope securely, drove it to Baltimore Harbor, put it on a barge, and floated it to Florida […]

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Bruce Mirken @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

"If the child has a fever or trouble breathing, and they’re unvaccinated, I have to be way more aggressive from a medical standpoint, because they are at higher risk of having life-threatening illnesses. I have to do more blood work, or lumbar punctures to rule out meningitis. I have to do […]

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Emily Bender Sets the Record Straight on “Stochastic Parrots” spectrum.ieee.org/stochastic-parrot Five years later, its lead author revisits the paper in the age of ChatGPT

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Dr. Amy H. Sturgis 📖 @drahsturgis.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

“When Carter revealed he was working on an R-rated cut of I Want to Believe, he mentioned that he had made the original version of the film too scary. Distributor Fox wanted a PG-13 movie and so Carter was forced to cut material, and further cuts were made to appease censors. I Want to Believe […]

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

NBC Washington: Thief tries to rob bank in Beltsville with stolen kitten in hand (The bank robber was arrested and the kitten was unharmed.) www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/th… #crime #cats #Maryland #Beltsville

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Thief tries to rob bank in Beltsville with stolen kitten in hand

A man grabbed a kitten from the adoption area of a Maryland pet store, then allegedly tried to use her to rob a nearby bank. But it was far from the purr-fect crime — police were on the scene in minutes, and the kitten, named Magnolia, came through it all unharmed. Security camera video shows a man wearing a light-colored…

Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

[death] One chapter tells about the 1950s Field curator, Karl Patterson Schmidt. Schmidt died in 1957 after being bitten at the museum by a juvenile boomslang snake. He thought the snake was too small to have enough venom to be a serious risk, so after being bitten he just went home and kept a […]

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Lance Grande is a curator specializing in fossil fish at the Field Museum in Chicago. In his scientific memoir CURATORS: BEHIND THE SCENES OF NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS, he discusses his career: from being given a fossil when he was a junior, a gift that sent him […] [Original post on dmv.community]

Cover of the book "CURATORS: BEHIND THE SCENES OF NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS", by Lance Grande.

Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

The Magical Kitties RPG has gone open-license, which means that the rulebooks are available under CC BY-ShareAlike 4.0, and you can publish adventures for the setting. atlas-games.com/magicalkitties/open… #RPG #MagicalKitties

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Atlas Games | Magical Kitties Open License

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Glyph @glyph.im · 10/07/2026

RE: woof.group/@aphyr/116723922317737094 this thread is _amazing_

Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

The Swift Boost mission finally launched this morning! They are still waiting for signal acquisition. science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/2026/0… #astrodon

Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Games for June 2026. We're making progress on Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion again; maybe we'll finish the entire campaign in July. #boardGames

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Chris Walter @chriswalter.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

In about 2013 I started to focus my research program on cosmology and began working on the Rubin Observatory. I spent 2022 and 2024 living in Chile working on commissioning the telescope. Today we officially started our ten year survey. It’s a great day! […]

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

A Girl and Her Fed (KB Spangler; art by Ale Presser) is a tiny slice of a webcomic that's been running since 2020, following the family of the President of the US in a time when the barrier between life and death is perhaps breaking down. Some stuff happens, but it's a very small increment in a […]

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Andrew Kuchling @akuchling.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 1: The Last Amazon (Kelly Thompson; art by Hayden Sherman and Mattia de Iulis) is an alternate world where Diana grew up in Hell, raised by the sorceress Circe. So this is a Wonder Woman who uses magic, wears darker armour, and rides […] [Original post on dmv.community]

Cover of the first issue of the comic "Absolute Wonder Woman".