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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 11/10/2026

Getting ready for my upcoming race in the only way my ADHD brain understands: applying track decals to my new helmet 😹

Photo of the back side of my helmet, colored purple and pink with silver detailing. Around the base I’ve added a purple and pink Drift SF sticker, along with decals for various tracks I’ve raced on. On the left side, tracks include Buttonwillow and Thunderhill West, as well as a segment of Highway 9, jokingly referred to as Nine-burgring.

Photo of the back right side of my helmet. On this side, track decals include Laguna Seca, Thunderhill East, and Sonoma. There is a large empty space where I intend to place a Road America decal in two weeks time.

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Chris is. @offby1.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

I wanted to write something wise about the evolution of our understanding of consent and sexual violence but nothing I could put to words does it better than this comic: pizzacakecomic.com/post/83002240277…

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 10/10/2026

Canonically Correct Pythonista Breakfast

My plate of breakfast, with scrambled eggs, some slices of well cooked spam, and a slice of buttered toast. Not pictured is my daily Diet Mt Dew 😹

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 08/10/2026

I love pairing this with Esc-h to shelve the command, run ‘man <command>’, and then unshelve the command again. Even better is that if you have a piped command, it knows which part of the command your cursor is on and shows the appropriate man page. :blobfoxcomputer:

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 07/10/2026

It’s a bit of a wild trip writing green field code for work, reading documentation for upstream libraries I’m using, and seeing them recommend using OSS libraries that I wrote. Like oh shit, I’m supposed to be an expert at this? 😹

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 07/10/2026

LOL, spent five minutes trying to figure out where some debug logging was coming from, assuming that it was part of the database ORM I'm using and wondering why I couldn't silence it, only to dig deeper and realize it's coming from the async database driver below the ORM — you know, the open […]

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 07/10/2026

My home internet finally came back around 30 minutes ago, just shy of *35 hours* of downtime. 😮‍💨

Screenshot from my Unifi router dashboard: "Internet disconnected from Oct 6, 2:23:46 AM to Oct 7 11:18:52 AM"

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 07/10/2026

My fiber internet has already been completely out for 14 hours today, and AT&T is now saying it will be restored *tomorrow night* 🤯🤬

Screenshot from the AT&T internet portal: "There's an outage affecting service in your area. [...] Your service should be fully restored by Wed 10/07/2026 08:00 PM PDT". I have scribbled a lot of red lines under the day.

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TinyStart for macOS @tinystart.app · 06/10/2026

:tinystart: TinyStart v1.5 is out now! Still a tiny Mac launcher, still very fast, and still €5 Except now you can also : • Press Tab to switch between Launcher and Emoji picker • Pin apps, folders, and links • Pin Emoji • Reorder pins • Insert Emoji without leaving the picker • Reorder […]

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 05/10/2026

And yet, nothing bums me out more than seeing my work gobbled up as training data for soulless machines to reproduce a dozen hollow facsimiles in hundreds of meaningless requests for more extruded text. To see issues and PRs on my projects to make some change without any attempt or capability of […]

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 05/10/2026

Some days all of my open source effort feels like it was pointless. Other days, I’m looking up documentation on how to do something with a database in Python, and I find blog posts and documentation pages that casually use or list my aiosqlite package alongside all of the other hallmark […]

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Chris is. @offby1.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I came back from a conference with a cold; I’m masking at home so my partner doesn’t pick it up. It’s not just for COVID.

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Cyborg K9 🌹 @cyborgk9.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You can pay for this with a credit card, but don't dare think of commissioning art of consenting adults having fun sexually, credit card companies (and PayPal) will de-bank you. Our systems are so screwed up. :/

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Emma @emmatyping.dev · 04/10/2026

I had a wonderful time yesterday at #pybay2026. So fun to see friends I hadn't in months and meet new people! Here are the slides from the talk I gave "The Path to Introducing Rust in CPython" emmatyping.dev/talks/pybay-...

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026

I implore all cis people to read this.

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PyBay @pybay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

⏳ The countdown is on: PyBay 2026 is only 1 days away! Tickets are moving fast and you won’t want to miss the biggest Python event on the West Coast this year. 🎟️ pybay.org/get-tickets/ 🎟️ Make sure you give this post a 👍 Like this if you’re planning to attend 🔁 Repost with colleagues #PyBay2026

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PyBay @pybay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

⏳ The countdown is on: PyBay 2026 is only 2 days away! Tickets are moving fast and you won’t want to miss the biggest Python event on the West Coast this year. 🎟️ pybay.org/get-tickets/ 🎟️ Make sure you give this post a 👍 Like this if you’re planning to attend 🔁 Repost with colleagues #PyBay2026

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 01/10/2026

The greatest of vibes: waiting at a light in your sleek 1990 300ZX with the T-tops open on a nice sunny day, the 1990 hit song Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) starts playing, and someone drives by in their eternally cool mid-90’s MkIV Supra. :blobcatpat: Not so great vibes: someone […]

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 26/09/2026

A pox on every website that refuses to show a password field until *after * you enter an email address, thereby preventing my browser from offering to autofill anything from my password manager.

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

:blobfoxdrakedislike: CLOSEDWONTFIX :blobfoxdrakelike: CLOSEDSLOP

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 25/09/2026

My brain has crossed the rubicon. Not even my nightmares are safe from being made worse with LLMs.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 24/09/2026

The day is getting better

Photo of a package I just received stamped with the UN 3481 label for packages containing lithium ion batteries

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 23/09/2026

So the folks behind Star Citizen have introduced a space ship, then introduced an updated version/model of that space ship, then deprecated the old space ship, and now are re-releasing the "classic" version of it ... all while never actually "releasing" the game that I pledged for 14 years ago […]

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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026

Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 19/09/2026

Just over *two weeks* to go before #PyBay 2026, happening on October 3rd at UCSF Mission Bay. We've got an excellent lineup of speakers, including: @gaborbernat @emmatyping @pamelafox @brianokken @coderanger and so many more! Thanks to our generous sponsors […] [Original post on toots.n7.gg]

PyBay 2026, October 3rd, in San Francisco. 11th Annual Regional PyBay Conference. For the community by the community.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 18/09/2026

Oh NOW you want my opinion on the ridiculously overpriced VR headset that was too heavy and where you refused to embrace popular VR use cases for until it was too late so I just put it on top of my *other* horribly expensive monument to Apple Design? Ok

Screenshot from my email client, of an email from Apple Market Research, with the subject “Tell us about Apple Vision Pro”

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 17/09/2026

Oh boy, I have once again won the opportunity to spend more money! 😹

Email from Valve saying I’m “officially in the reservation queue for Steam Frame”

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Glyph @glyph.im · 17/09/2026

RE: framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/117281447… unironically, unashamedly do this. call your friends, ask them for help. and when they say “wait did you ask me just to replace your AI” say yes. say you’ll owe them one but you appreciate them so much more than AI. and show up for them […]

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Chris is. @offby1.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

If tomorrow someone proved that being gay (or being straight) is a choice and that someone can simply choose not to be ... I would still support every single person, straight, gay, bi (hi!) or otherwise, to be who they chose to be. You don't have to be born that way to be valid.

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kuraine @lena.fyi · 14/09/2026

with all the conversation lately about unseen data harvesting, ar glasses & new vr tech, "ai", etc etc... it's once again the perfect time to read my kinetic novel ESC. store.steampowered.com/app/1318800/...

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ESC on Steam

An interactive novel about identity, roleplay, and dreams.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/09/2026

No candidate, regardless of party, will ever get my vote if they call me a "biological man" and advocate for laws targeting my community. Its that simple.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 13/09/2026

So if you find yourself feeling dependent upon AI because you're "not good enough", not like the prominent critics who you are putting on a pedestal, then allow me to paraphrase this famous exhortation from the philosopher Kamina: "Don't believe in yourself! Believe in me! Believe in the me who […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 13/09/2026

Second, the way you get to be a "good programmer" (on any one of the multivariate axes upon one can be such a thing) is to practice a lot, and AI deprives you of practice. So it might be momentarily helping you to *avoid embarrassment* but you're basically just bluffing your way through a […]

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Mario Munoz @pythonbynight.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I spent the last several days writing this. When I started, I felt like maybe the title was a bit of a hyperbole, even though I feel like my point is well argued. But then again, you have people working in this industry saying that they are building a weapon of mass destruction that could […]

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 12/09/2026

First time in many years that I haven’t set an alarm to preorder an iPhone. Weird.

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 10/09/2026

You say you have to support the fashy software stack because that’s where the majority of AI users are going. Gee. I wonder why the majority of AI users are picking the fashy software stack for their “projects”. 🤔

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

the AI was a grandmaster chess player until it being horrible at chess became a meme the AI is an incredible mathematician in countless breathless papers but every time you ask it a basic math question it fucks it up badly the AI is just a tool until you refuse to use it, then it’s a […]

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

the AI is on the cusp of AGI except when the topic is all the moral issues around enslaving a sentient being and doubt that an AI god is even possible, then the goal was never AGI at all and you’re silly for thinking that’s still a thing the AI is a transformative tool that creates unique […]

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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Remember, their record profits are your unpaid wages

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 04/09/2026

The girl will happily leave Ohio, but Ohio won’t leave the girl.

Screenshot from the MyDialect quiz site, saying I talk most like someone from Colorado, despite never having lived there. It includes a color scale map of the states, showing that my dialect roughly matches a large swath of territory from the entire west coast, into Colorado, and then continuing across the Midwest into the western portion of Ohio, where I was born and raised.

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

YOU DON'T "CONSUME" ART MOTHERFUCKER. YOU EXPERIENCE IT. YOU FEEL IT. YOU ENGAGE WITH IT. YOU WRESTLE WITH IT. YOU LIVE IT. ART ISN'T A LITTLE MORSEL YOU GOBBLE UP.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Sean Killeen @seankilleen.com · 03/09/2026

FWIW I'm actively investigating moving our corporate subscription. Hoping others will too. If I do move it, I'll write about how so that others might take the same path. (most of our inertia is around the way we use the product, BitWarden looks to be good competition there)

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 03/09/2026

Sadly, I don’t think 1Password will give a fuck even if we all cancel our susbscriptiens. They haven’t wanted our business for years now, ever since tasting the blood of corporate volume subscriptions. If anything they’re probably happy to have fewer pesky tech savvy customers to deal with […]

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 01/09/2026

I voted :blobfoxcomputer:

Confirmation that my vote for the Python Software Foundation Board of Directors was received.

Confirmation that my vote for the Python Packaging Council was received.

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🌑 @fell.energy · 01/09/2026

i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs

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