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Laura Langdon

@lauralangdon.io
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Open Source Community Manager | Professional Generalist | Team Neurodivergence | Black Lives Matter | SF Bay Area native but also a citizen of 🇨🇦 | Optimizing all the things and raising The Goblins with @brandonlangdon.bsky.social

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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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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 07/06/2026
I used to, too. But if you have ADHD and find yourself lingering in autism subreddits and tumblers (and own a map store you got by being hand-picked by the Willy Wonka of maps FFS 😉), you might be well on your way along the late 30s ADHD -> autism pipeline. www.psychiatry.org/news-room/ap...
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When Autism and ADHD Occur Together
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are neurodevelopmental disorders. Both affect brain development. These two conditions frequently occur together. An i...
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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 06/06/2026
I mean. 😁 Just saying! bsky.app/profile/mapc...
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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 · 28/05/2026
We’re currently clean on FaceSec #cats #EverydayIsCaturday
Brown tabby sleeping fully curled up with her tail wrapping under her head as she buries her face under a paw and pulls it so, so tight. No facial features are discernible beneath the Security Paw.
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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 27/05/2026
I was thinking it might be that it’s the same yarn base as one used by a dyer I’ve bought from before, and I was like “Oh hey.”
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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
And kind of a trip to hear Travis Oliphant refer several times to work Paul Dubois did in the 90s on Numerical Python, when in the 90s I only knew Paul as “Friend’s dad who drives us to the movies and helps with Mortal Kombat”!
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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 18/05/2026
and to see folks I’ve been lucky enough to get know before at @pybay.bsky.social, @northbaypython.org, or @pybeach.bsky.social. 2/3
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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.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. The tip of a cat’s tail and paw peek into the right side of the frame.
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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 07/03/2026
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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 · 21/12/2025
TIL Rick Steves is an excellent human. ❤️ I’m going to have to go check out his stuff now.
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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 · 12/12/2025
I saw a post back then that pointed out she’d lost most of a month to all the leap years so in *reality* she did live to 100 (plus a couple of weeks).
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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 08/12/2025
Actual, literal “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain”, wow.
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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 06/12/2025
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbr...
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Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans - Wikipedia
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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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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
♥️
To my friends from LiveJournal

I still think about you Wonder if you finally quit, Do you still speak to your mom?

I remember when you went to Japan How you swore you'd never forgive him.

I can't remember to take my meds but I remember you wanted to live on a houseboat. It's a strange intimacy, all of us unspooling across decades of internet space Like balls of yarn leaving a trail behind us of everywhere and everyone we've ever been

I hope you got your houseboat.

I hope you got everything.

-Hayley DeRoche
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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
Saw this just yesterday! interestingengineering.com/innovation/h...
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Japan Human washing machine cleans head to toe in 15 mins
Mirai Human Washing Machine: A luxury capsule that washes and dries your whole body in 15 minutes hits the market in Japan.
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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
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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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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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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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
A photo of three people in inflatable frog suits outside an ICE detention center in Portland, overlaid with an excerpt from Exodus 8:2-6

"But if you refuse to let them go, I will
plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on
your people and on all your officials."
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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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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 06/10/2025
If they’ve already moved their data to a different Personal Data Storage (PDS), then their posts and relationships are preserved. AFAIK atm the AppView is harder to replicate but several groups like Blacksky especially are on it. bsky.app/profile/shar... is way better informed than I, though!
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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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Laura Langdon @lauralangdon.io · 03/10/2025
“Consumption” was tuberculosis and RFK loves that raw milk, so… yes. 🙃
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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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