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PyBay @pybay.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Only 4 days left to get an early bird ticket to PyBay 2026! buff.ly/tqqS8hN

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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 05/06/2026

Commentary | Ranked-choice voting would reduce the fragmentation that makes these chaotic primaries possible. cal.news/3PMSThw 📝 Daniel Wolf 📸 J.W. Hendricks

Gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra spoke to supporters at his election watch party in Los Angeles on June 2, 2026. Photo by J.W. Hendricks for CalMatters

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 27/05/2026

While listening to a bit on @ologies.bsky.social about how some wineries don’t have their own vineyards and buy grapes then do their special things with them to make their own special wine, I was knitting with yarn that felt familiar but was from an indie dyer who’s new to me.

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 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.com, 1/3

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 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 See some of y’all there!

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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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 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 @ucbids.bsky.social! The deadline to submit is this Sunday, February 15 (end of day anywhere in the world 😊). ucospo.net/events/uc-op...

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University of California Open Summit (UC Open) 2026

The Second Annual UC Open celebrating open source throughout the UC system: 22 & 23 April 2026 – UC Berkeley

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Right. The point is not “it matters extra because it’s a citizen,” the point is “we either hang together or we will all hang separately.”

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 24/12/2025

Cat: 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 your pulling the knitting out from below me, which I’ll perceive as a threat

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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Jono Yeong @jonathanyeong.com · 22/12/2025

TIL creating a .github repository will share configurations across all your repos. Very neat! Thanks for sharing it @cassidoo.co cassidoo.co/post/dot-git...

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Configure your repositories with .github

The .github folder (and .github repository) is special for customizing your projects to your liking. Here's what you can do!

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 13/12/2025

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

Striped tabby cat 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 her face and ear.

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 06/12/2025

White folks don’t even score 100% *human*; we’re all at least 2% Neanderthal. 🤷🏻‍♀️ In fact, the *only* people who are 100% human are those who have entirely African ancestors, as in their DNA’s never left the African continent. All the rest of us are mixed.

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 05/12/2025

No moving necessary, even. We (tech folks) never pulled our kids from their Montessori or Waldorf whatever schools, as tech-free as ever and with low teacher:student ratios. We know.

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 05/12/2025

I’ve been helping with talk captions ahead of @pyladiescon.bsky.social so I already know the talks are super fun and interesting! Genuinely, each one taught me something new and useful. ❤️ 2025.conference.pyladies.com/en/

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PyLadiesCon 2025 - The global online PyLadies Conference

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 04/12/2025

It's streaming! It's streaming!

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 04/12/2025

And also when you’re passing someone on a walkway and they say “How you doing?” you’re supposed to say the exact same thing straight back and keep walking, without ever answering the question. 🤯 I didn’t realize this until like five years ago.

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booscotron @boscotron.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Yeah we know how to prevent it: make sure people have a safe place to live and plenty of food to eat so they don't have to resort to theft to survive

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 06/11/2025

The Langdon Lemma (8) got in the car for the school run, searched for “Purple Rain”, and recounted its origin story because he learned about Prince in music class yesterday. I thought @anildash.com would be pleased to hear it. 💜

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 05/11/2025

This is a very good sign about his understanding of what good governance involves

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zach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I don't resent poor people who use food stamps to buy another soft drink. I resent rich people who take away the funds for food stamps to buy another yacht.

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

🤖 Did you know your voice might be cloned without your consent from just *one sentence* of audio? That's not great. So with @frimelle.bsky.social, we brainstormed a new idea for developers who want to curb malicious use: ✨The Voice Consent Gate.✨ Details, code, here: huggingface.co/blog/voice-c...

Ornate line drawing of a fence and gate, with fleur de lis tips. The gate says CONSENT where the family name usually is.

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 16/10/2025

My kid was helping me last weekend and laughed and said “Mom, you just pulled out a sparkly `Hello world` sticker from @pyladiescon.bsky.social that you got at @pybeach.bsky.social while you were fishing in your bag for the key to the @pybay.bsky.social 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.io · 13/10/2025

Has anyone done “Chipotles are just smoked jalapeños” yet?

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 13/10/2025

I was interviewing for a technical writer job with a gov contractor a few years ago and eventually she said “This org supports ICE. You can look them up if you don’t know who they are”. *sounds of screeching tires* I said “I do know who they are, and we can stop right here.” 🙅🏻‍♀️

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 10/10/2025

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · 03/10/2025

you can migrate to blacksky non-black users have the choice of "myatproto.social" or "cryptoanarchy.network" handles sources and additional information under this video thread hereby blacksky.community/profile/shar...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 30/09/2025

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

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PyBay @pybay.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

🐍 PyBay 2025 Talk 🎤: Maggie Moss “Increasing Types in Large Codebases with Pyrefly and AI Tooling” Typed Python at scale: learn how Meta built Pyrefly to boost coverage, improve dev experience, and scale typing across huge codebases. 📅 Oct 18th | 🌐 pybay.org | 🎟️ pretix.eu/bapya/pybay-...

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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 16/09/2025

Google controls Streetview data. They spent billions to collect it and they'll happily sell it to you. But with Mapillary, everyone can add to the data and use it as they please for free or nearly free. @openstreetmap.bsky.social is a major partner- it's like Wikipedia for maps!

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PyBay @pybay.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

🐍PyBay 2025 Speaker Highlight🎤 Alla Barbalat “AI, IP, and Your Code: What Developers Need to Know” Who owns AI-generated code? What risks exist around copyright and training data? Alla will unpack the legal landscape and share best practices for developers. Details ITT 🧵

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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 12/09/2025

Migrate to BlackSky instructions: 1. tektite.cc, disable 2FA 2. Login w/ real pw NOT app pw 3. Click migrate to blacksky button 4. Add handle, new pw, use dropdown if non-Black user 5. Click Migrate 6. When done transferring, enter code sent to your email 7. Complete! blacksky.community is site

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PyBay @pybay.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

🎤 Speaker Spotlight: Bernát Gábor “What's new in Python packaging?” Python is now the #1 language on GitHub. In 2024, packaging took huge steps forward to match that success. At PyBay 2025, Bernát Gábor will share the TL;DR on what is new in Python packaging, why uv is leading the way.

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PyBay @pybay.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

🎤 PyBay Speaker Spotlight: Guido van Rossum Structured RAG > RAG. 🔹 Faster, smarter Q&A across text + images 🔹 Basis for long-term AI memory 🔹 New Python library coming this summer Catch the talk + demos at #PyBay2025! 🎟 pretix.eu/bapya/pybay-...

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PyBay @pybay.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

🐍PyBay 2025 Speaker Highlight🎤 Chris Neugebauer “Guardrails: An alternative view of safely working in Python” 📍 Catch this session at PyBay 2025 in San Francisco on October 18th, 2025 🎟️ Tickets: pretix.eu/bapya/pybay-... #PyBay #Python #PyBay2025

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PyBay @pybay.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

🐍PyBay 2025 Speaker Highlight🎤 Pamela Fox “Just because AI can write your tests... should it?” 📍 Oct. 18, 2025, San Francisco, CA: pybay.org 🎟️ Tickets: pretix.eu/bapya/pybay-... #PyBay #Python #PyBay2025

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PyBay @pybay.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

🐍 PyBay 2025 Spotlight: Lisa Roach “Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire: Converting Multiprocessed code to Free-Threading” 📍 Oct. 18th in San Francisco, CA 🎟️ Tickets: pretix.eu/bapya/pybay-...

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 22/08/2025

💯 I was at a show where a mosh pit opened behind me and started to pin me against the stage, and some random dude managed to get his body between the pit and me and braced himself around me and against the stage. Then other folks noticed too and helped him get me safely out. ❤️

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PyBay @pybay.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

🐍 PyBay 2025 Spotlight: Munachimso (Muna) Nwaiwu “Python's Role in Resilient Network Infrastructure: From Automation to Validation” 📍 Oct. 18th; San Francisco, CA 🎟️ Tickets: pretix.eu/bapya/pybay-...

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Kai (he/they) had top surgery 🏳️‍⚧️ @thegrumpyenby.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

We’re definitely still looking and if you’re an experienced frontend dev who wants to contribute to an open-source tech project that supports a small but impactful humanitarian aid org, then you should most certainly shoot us a message!

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 13/08/2025

TIL it’s standard procedure to do a uterine biopsy *without anesthetic*. Inserting an IUD without anesthetic is bad enough, but a biopsy?! #FuckThePatriarchy Also fuck white supremacy and ableism because they’ve done and still do worse to Black women and women of color, and disabled women.

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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 30/07/2025

I’m speaking about what we've learned while spinning up a network of #AcademicOSPOs for the #ScienceOfCommunity track at #FOSSY on Friday! I can’t wait to meet more people working in this space and hear what they're up to. 😊 2025.fossy.us/schedule/pre...

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FOSSY 2025 | Presentation: From Campus to Network: Creating the UC System-Wide OSPO Initiative

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

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The Sameer Project | Instagram | Linktree

We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,

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