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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

@sue This reminds me of @BajoranEngineer’s talk at #PyConUS last month, in which there were several intentionally wrong things and each time we encountered one the audience was encouraged to cheer. Hooray for mistakes! ❤️

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

RE: techhub.social/@fedicon/11666564472… Oh, exciting! I was already hoping to attend #FOSSY again this year, and getting to attend #FediCon as well would be even better 🤞

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Mario Munoz @pythonbynight.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@pythonbynight/1166445… Today is a great day to submit a talk for PyBeach! (Some ideas for topics below) #PyBeach #Python #LosAngeles

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

#rosacea is one of those contrarian conditions where the ingredient that’s a miracle for one person’s rosacea is apocalyptic for another’s, so you go looking for products that are considered good for rosacea and no matter which type of rosacea you have you’ll have to wade through masses of stuff […]

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 27/05/2026

There's only a week left in the California primary election. Huge shoutout to @robin for putting together a simple guide with some top tier progressive candidates. I second all of her choices, and wanted to add a few for my own district in Alameda county: - Mike Katz for US Rep, 17th district […]

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

I’m on my way home from my first #PyConUS, which was as fun and friendly as I’d expected ❤️🐍❤️. Always great to meet folks IRL whom I’d previously only known through Discord et al (especially so many @pyladies!), and to see folks I’ve been lucky enough to get know before at @pybay […]

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

I’ve knitted a pair of #Python socks for the #PyLadies Auction @ #PyConUS 2026! They fit a US women’s 7.5-9 shoe or men’s 6-7.5 (about 23.8-25.1 cm foot length, depending on width/instep etc.). The yarn is composed of: 52% Silk 24% Mohair 20% Merino 4% Viscose […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A pair of socks, one mostly blue with a yellow toe and cuff, and the other yellow with a blue toe and cuff. Each is knit with a snake formed by the texture of the fabric, and the snakes are sticking out their wee tongues. A cat’s back leg is visible in the top right corner of the photo.

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 14/04/2026

RE: publicidentity.net/@jezdez/11639803… Did you know that the PSF has to pay for most of the hotel rooms reserved around #PyConUS if attendees don't book them? You can help #PyConUS be just a tiny bit more of a success by booking a hotel oom through our official channels!

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

I took my girls (one I birthed and one brought to the family by my eldest ❤️) on the #BayAreaYarnCrawl and we did pretty well! 😁 #Yarn #knitting #crochet

Coffee table almost completely covered in skeins of yarn in just about every color. There’s also a pair of tiny purple scissors, a pair of earrings with itty bitty skeins of yarn dangling, and a small box of t-pins

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

Tfw you delete 9 nearly identical photos of your cat but there are still 4 extremely similar ones left because: ⁃ Omg so cute ⁃ Her eyes are slightly more open in this one ⁃ She looks so regal in this other one ⁃ And this one she’s looking in a different […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Standard issue tabby cat lying on a person’s torso, eyes closed as she enjoys scritches

Standard issue tabby cat lying on a person’s torso, eyes just half-closed as she enjoys scritches

Standard issue tabby cat lying on a person’s torso, looking alert but content and as though she might issue a decree at any moment

Standard issue tabby cat lying on a person’s torso, looking regal but facing the other way this time

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

You probably don’t really want to game. You actually want to pet The Cat. #EveryDayIsCaturday #CatsOfMastodon

Man lying on his back on a bed gaming on a Steam Deck. But a brown tabby cat is sitting up on his chest and rubbing her face on his wrist, so he has to hold the Steam Deck far up above his face.

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

Listening to @sustainoss talking to @gdayitsjack about PyCon AU (shoutout to a fellow Python conference organizer who doesn’t use Python for work!) and was reminded it’s time to buy my ticket for @NorthBayPython 🥳

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026

Husband was startled when he came home, because there was a stranger with blue hair standing in our bedroom petting the cat. And I know it’s bad to judge a book by its cover, but my first instinct was “Well, a blue-haired cat-petter is probably good people 🤷🏻‍♀️”. They turned out to be a friend […]

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026

There's still time to submit a talk proposal for the UC Open Source Summit 2026, taking place April 22-23, 2026 at The Brower Centre at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)! The deadline to submit is this Sunday, February 15 (end of day anywhere in the world 😊). This year’s theme […]

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

I’m excited to be at my first #FOSDEM! I’ve decided to camp in the #SocialWeb room today. Looking forward to the great talks!

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

@quintessence Thanks for the great session yesterday, and especially the chat afterwards! 😊

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

@hazelweakly It was lovely to meet you yesterday and chat after! Thanks for running a great session 😊

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@7sleepersmusic/115… I’ve been checking in on this periodically for the last couple of years, because my older two children were entitled to citizenship when they were born, then not entitled after April 2009, then entitled again, but my youngest wasn’t […]

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2026

Watching last week’s #AllCreatures and suddenly there’s Emma Thompson, somehow looking younger than she did in 1995? So I look up the cast, and sure enough, that’s Emma’s daughter. But it’s so disconcerting trying to convince my brain that she’s not Emma. It’s not just that she’s wearing Emma’s […]

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

I bought a sweater quantity of yarn thinking I could finish it before heading to Europe for a month, but it turns out I was basing that on the amount of #knitting I was getting through in a day *last week*; i.e. a holiday week. 😔

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2026

In case any of y’all needed to hear some good purr this Monday Eve ❤️ #CatsOfMastodon #EveryDayIsCaturday

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

@skinnylatte “After 3 weeks of consistent $action I’ve managed to push it to: $number of $thing… so I’m happy with the gains.” I loved how much this sentence sounded like it was about deadlifts or whatever but was actually soy milk.

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025

Me: Mmm, nice cozy knitting day Cat: Cool, I’ll come sit on this knitting resting on your leg so you can’t knit it and also can’t retrieve it because these paws tucked so sweetly beneath me are armed with knit-destroying hooked knives that will be activated by […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Tabby cat of the brown variety lying on a piece of green knitting (garter stitch with an i-cord edge, of you’re into that kind of thing). Her paws are tucked under her so thoroughly that they’re almost imperceptible, like perhaps this poor limbless creature is actually a potato cosplaying as a cat.

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025

@sundogplanets Prairie people feeling claustrophobic in mountains makes complete sense to me, because I’m a person who’d never felt agoraphobic until I was on a prairie the first time and thought I might fall over from the flat emptiness (brains are weird 🤷🏻‍♀️). Got back home to where my […]

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025

No really, though, why don’t they need fresh air? Can they switch between oxygen and carbon dioxide or what? #CatsOfMastodon #EveryDayIsCaturday

Striped tabby of the brown variety sleeping in loaf formation with her face plopped directly and deeply down into nubbly white blanket. Two skeins of yarn are right next to her, the tag of one of them partially tucked under face and ear.

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/12/2025

Oh, you thought “lunchtime” meant “Stop working and eat lunch? I’m afraid you’re quite mistaken—it actually means “Stop working and eat fur.” #CatsOfMastodon #EveryDayIsCaturday

Tabby of the brown variety draped across a woman’s chest, pressed right up against her face and covering it from the nose down. The cat’s expression is unabashed and slightly smug. She knows she’s being inconvenient.

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2025

There's something cruel in how our culture treats in-between times. We have words for achievement and words for burnout, but we lack vocabulary for the necessary pauses that precede new growth. If you say you're "between projects," people assume you've been cast aside. The idea that you […]

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025

I’ve been helping out with editing talk captions ahead of @pyladiescon, so I already know the talks are super fun and interesting! Genuinely, each one taught me something new and useful. ❤️ It starts in just a few minutes, but goes through the weekend (all-virtual talks and lovely live chats in […]

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2025

Actual list of stocking stuffer ideas for 18-20 year-old girls: ⁃ Earbuds ⁃ Face masks ⁃ Adorable hand warmers ⁃ Safety whistle/alarm (Merry Christmas, girls! Sorry we couldn’t give you a world you can be safe in, but at least this whistle comes in cute colors! And our product description […]

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025

Little earthquake! 3.6 in San Ramon. It took a few minutes to show up in MyShake and I was starting to think I must have hallucinated it. #sfba

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025

Apple Health gets worried and alerts you if your periods become irregular or stop and you can add in a “cycle factor” from the following: pregnancy, lactation, contraception. That’s it! There are lots of other reasons a person’s periods might stop, but of all the possibilities the only one that […]

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Sue Smith @sue.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025

First of all an interaction I thought was me helping a person to learn turned out to be me helping copilot to learn which I did not appreciate lol, and even the mergeable part wasn't actually authored by the person, so in what sense would that be a "contribution"..? I take a non judgemental […]

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025

@skinnylatte Somewhere else on the mental images spectrum, I had to learn that when neurotypicals say “Wow, how long has it been?” they actually don’t want to know the date when we met last, where we were, what they were wearing, what the light looked like, etc. It’s a very detailed snapshot, or […]

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025

@sue I kept my em-dashes and I’m keeping my section headings and bulleted lists. 😤

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2025

@chrisjrn I came home once with a book on sed and awk and my dad picked it up idly and said “You’re learning awk? You know the ‘a’ in awk is for Aho, my dorm mate for a summer when we were interns at Bell.”

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

@skinnylatte And for so many of (especially on Mastodon) it’s cat-owned-nerd-ship 😁

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

As a member of the Fern Gully generation I was surprised when I grew up and it turned out that whenever something happens like we stumble upon a cave that’s been sealed for 5 million years we don’t go “Shit, sorry, we’ll be off now” and tiptoe away quietly. That every time we’re actually like […]

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

What I usually see when the alarm goes off ❤️ #CatsOfMastodon

Tabby in shades of brown sleeping on a human who’s sleeping on his side. The cat is balanced such that she’s up on the human’s side, cradled gently in the valley between his shoulder and hip. Both of their faces are pointed away from the camera but they’ve clearly been sleeping like this for some time.

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

My daughter was helping me last weekend and laughed and said “Mom, you just pulled out a sparkly `Hello world` sticker from @pyladies that you got at @pybeach while you were fishing in your bag for the key to the @pybay storage unit.” 😁 PyBay is this Saturday! 🥳

Red sticker with holographic silver text that reads “Hello, world. WE RUN IT.” Between the two sentences is an icon featuring the head of a femme with dark hair in a side part and glasses.

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

Elderly* curmudgeon caught in affectionate face-meld with human half her age, next on #Caturday News At Nine *16 year-old

Standard tabby lying on fuzzy sage green blanket next to a young human with fluffy blonde hair and blue headphones. The human’s head is looking out from under a white duvet and the faces of the two are fully pressed together. We can’t see their faces, but something about the way the cat holds her ears gives a sense that she’s thoroughly pleased by the arrangement.

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

You’d think the cable’s loop exists to indicate “Cat’s face goes here”. #CatsOfMastodon #CatAndKeeb #ErgoMechKeyboards

Canonical tabby lying on a white duvet. Closer to the camera a split keyboard steeply tented is mounted on a small board with a trackpad between the keyboard halves, and a white cable loops off the board. The cat’s face rests perfectly within the loop.

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2025

@skinnylatte Nice, you even have a soundtrack! (Being a Millennial, I can’t read “How did it end up like this?” without hearing The Killers 😁)

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2025

@glyph Wait, shouldn’t we get to decide for ourselves how we’d like to be referred to? Did I miss a vote on this? 1) I don’t feel diminutized by being referred to as “wife” 2) I honestly hear gay folks use “wife” more often than straight folks these days?

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2025

@andypiper Did you spot any chatty duelists at the top?

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