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Kim Christie @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Really lovely brief exchange with a colleague. Properly decent. Yay.

Kim Christie @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Incidentally, online trolling does actually eventually bleed into people actually getting-fucken-kicked-in. Just so you know.

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Kim Christie @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Still getting clobbered out here on the streets by hate-mobs. The neighbourhoods really let itself go, huh?

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abcdef 🕶️ @onecaliberal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Kaepernick ordeal demonstrated that it is the whole NFL or 99% of it. "If a Nazi is sitting at the table, and ten others are sitting there chatting with him, you have eleven Nazis at the table"

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 25/09/2026

Oldie but goodie: Don't listen to users (watch them!). I can’t count the number of times I had to explain this to well-meaning engineers, who thought the way to good UX was asking users what they prefer. www.nngroup.com/articles/fir...

nngroup.com

First Rule of Usability? Don't Listen to Users

For good UX, watch what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims and speculations about future behavior are unreliable. Users do not know what they want.

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Grace @gracekind.net · 27/09/2026

Advanced AI will be capable of being extremely wise, discerning, understanding, thoughtful, thorough, patient, measured, even-keeled, cooperative, constructive, and fair.

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Vale @vale.rocks · 28/09/2026

My hammer went rogue and started smashing people's heads in! There was nothing I could do. I tried to stop it, but my arm kept swinging it at people. It isn't my fault! It is the hammer's. This is very dangerous. Someone should regulate hammers. (This is a post about AI safety and liability.)

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026

"I installed the Give Away Your Personally Identifying Info app made by the We Love Stealing Your Personally Identifying Info Corp headed by Mr. Steal Your Personally Identifying Info and it gave away all my personally identifying info"

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Kim Christie @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do we know which organisation was apparently spamming roughly 1/3 of all PyPI traffic, and are we sanctioning them? Or am I reading these charts wrong?... pypistats.org/packages/jin... pypistats.org/packages/req... pypistats.org/packages/fas... Huffily yours, me. x

pypistats.org

PyPI Download Stats

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

positive reframing is such a nice tool when you think "I feel like I'm drowning and one or two hard emails away from the burnout knocking me out of commission" you can instead think "honestly I can't believe my nervous system is even functioning at all with all the nonstop horrors lately"

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Kim Christie @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not been hospitalised yet tho, so that's a positive. Also the walk/cycle into work this morning was really nice, and life's being kind in plenty of little ways.

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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

approximately one industry in our civilization has figured out "systematically keep track of things that go wrong, and then systematically try to prevent them from happening again", and this is the result

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Kim Christie @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh, also dealing with a lot of getting properly hate-crime'd at the moment. That's not super wonderful.

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Kim Christie @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Someone actually wrote sensibly about mkdocs and httpx on the lobster site!!

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Tim A. @flipperpa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Here's a better headline for BBC News: IN A LIKELY MARKETING STUNT, OPENAI LAUNCHED A CYBER ATTACK AGAINST HUGGING FACE Everyone using algorithms is responsible for what is done with them. "AI" didn't do this. OpenAI, the company, did this. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack

It is one of the first publicly disclosed cyber-attacks carried out by AI without direct human involvement.

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Stargirl @thea.codes · 22/07/2026

AI is not making open source better. It's not adding to the commons. It's eating projects and maintainers alive and digesting their work into incomprehensible, homogenous goo.

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Kim Christie @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Nothing to see here. Just pydantic trying to unilaterally take ownership of an open source project they don't have rights to. httpx2.pydantic.dev

httpx2.pydantic.dev

HTTPX2

A next-generation HTTP client for Python.

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Kim Christie @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Heya lovies. I’ve got really neat little project in the works and looking at putting together funding for the next stages of development.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Kim Christie @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Today is a good day to let go of it all

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Kim Christie @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

It’s a getting in my own way sort of a day. 😅

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Kim Christie @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

God this world is wonderful tho isn’t it.

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Kim Christie @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Quick cuppa tea and a look at the phone. It’s all going on here.

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Kim Christie @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Look at you. You miraculous fleshy thing, with your capillaries all out on show. How are you even in my kitchen. Incredible. What a morning. Hashtag blessed.

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Kim Christie @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Discovered quote of the day... The only productive way to answer what should I do now is to answer the question ‘who should I become’?

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Kim Christie @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Spring cleaning. www.encode.io ✨👌🏼

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Kim Christie @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Allow me to be cautiously optimistic that there might be a warmer GitHub environment somewhere over the other side of raising the social cost to disruptive users.

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Kim Christie @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

So… I’m well aware that encode needs to catch up on the communication front and I’m working on that. In the interim we could really do with a little more funding to help through a bit of a transitional period. A seasons conference budget would be dearly appreciated / impactful right now.

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Kim Christie @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Some of us would like to work on meaningful projects, together with friends and colleagues. There’s a weird neuroses in OSS land where that gets framed as “status games”.

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Kim Christie @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Oooh I’d forgotten about advent of code. Might give that a go this time around. Any of y`all playing along?

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Kim Christie @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

We've been continuing pushing on towards a 1.0 release of `httpx`. Our latest release (0.28) introduces a couple of deprecations, enabling a more constrained SSL API. www.python-httpx.org/advanced/ssl/ Also see our CHANGELOG.md, in the usual place. 🦋

python-httpx.org

SSL - HTTPX

A next-generation HTTP client for Python.

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