Jeff Forcier

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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The Python Software Foundation just had to pass on a US$1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation for PyPI maintenance. One condition of the funding was that the PSF drop any DEI efforts, and if this condition is violated, they can claw back the money. (As if security would be a broad […]

it remains utterly baffling to me that a party whose leadership is historically unpopular with its base gets a generational political talent who is actually resonating with people and instead of thanking their lucky stars they’re like WE MUST STOP THIS MAN AT ALL COSTS

Scientists: *frantically filing high-priority tickets asserting we will all die unless we severely curtail emissions*
Capital, which owns the bug tracker: *mass edits, marks all WONTFIX*
https://chaos.social/@weirdunits/115422190809040259

Zohran Mamdani: I want to make housing and transportation affordable for the common person

Andrew Cuomo: if you elect Zohran we will have 10 9/11s a day

Curtis Sliwa: The events of Godzilla 1998 actually happened and I lead the team of French mercenaries that killed her babies in MSG

Has Cabel Sasser ever MC’d an office party called “Disco! At The Panic”?

in Wilkes Barre today the cops were there and to my genuine surprise the only thing they did was pull over a MAGA jeep whose driver had been shouting at the crowd

You can easily block the official MAGA government accounts here. Do not engage them. Do not give them what they want.

I think he means the truly mini ones that are like half an inch across or whatever. Or did we get a tub of those too? 😋

Box of El Condor Pasta spaghetti, with Symboli Rudolf off to the side, arms crossed and looking pleased with her latest dad joke masterpiece

Symboli Rudolf must be stopped #Umamusme

This generic acetaminophen had an Amtrak ACS-64, four Amfleet 1 cars, a Conrail EMD GP15-1, and some Conrail rolling stock in it. The problem is more serious than I thought.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

"Wet Dog" scented candle

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in case you're not sure who dhh is, he's a danish counterstrike player and race car owner who writes essays like "i am smarter than you" and "foreigners bad"

rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast

A veteran operative whose career runs the gamut of modern Democratic politics, Mr. Jentleson has had his own ideological journey. He worked for the John Kerry 2004 and John Edwards 2008 presidential campaigns before supporting Senator Elizabeth Warren in 2020. Later he served as chief of staff to Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania before the two had a public and bitter falling-out over the senator’s health.

Lol. I read the article about the new centrist think tank, and my goodness, why would anyone back this guy who seems to... not be very good at his job?

All of your candidates failed to generate excitement in the base and lost, except for the one who did, but then flipped on everything immediately.

Even even though the former childhood star is usually able to get away from his famous past in France, Culkin did share a funny story about a Parisian cafe that was using his name as its Wi-Fi password. The actor explained that when he walked into the cafe, a woman handed him a "Home Alone"-era photo of himself on a card. “A waitress just gave it to me and walked away -- their Wi-Fi code was 'Macaulay Culkin,"' the actor said. "When she came back, I said, 'I like your Wi-Fi code.' She goes, 'Thank you,' and I say, 'C'est moi.' She turned white and brought over the owner of the place, who said, 'I knew you'd come here someday.'"

Once again thinking about Macaulay Culkin walking into the Parisian café where the wifi password was “Macaulay Culkin” and the owner saying “I knew you’d come here someday”

the current shinkansen go around 200mph and sometimes u can stand in a train station as one goes by without stopping and it is just incredible how fast it is moving even though they probably even slow down a bit to go thru the station

At least PAX isn't in Spokane! Yikes.

I write a lot about miserable game development stories, so it sure was a pleasure to hear that one of the reasons Silksong took so long was that Team Cherry is having too much fun making it and didn't want to stop

was just discussing “AI” with a coworker and realized this:

if i had wanted to use english to program complex systems that run nondeterministically, i would’ve gone into law

But one commuter town outside New York City is slicing through red tape and building thousands of new apartments. New Rochelle has completed more than 4,500 new housing units over the past decade. Another 6,500 units are either in the pipeline or the planning stages for the next several years. Those 11,000 new units would represent a 37% increase in the number of New Rochelle apartments compared with 10 years ago. About a 40-minute train ride to Midtown Manhattan, this suburb of more than 85,000 remains one of the few places offering relative affordability in the notoriously expensive New York City metro area. New Rochelle median rents are only 1.6% higher than in 2020, well below the 25% or higher increases in New York City and outer markets like New Jersey's Newark, Hoboken and Jersey City, according to Apartment List. New Rochelle's median rent actually declined 2% from 2020 to 2023, while median rent nationally was surging at a double-digit rate.

Begging you to just build more housing

The Iron Sheik o @the_ironsheik HULK HOGAN MAY HAVE BEEN A DUMB SON OF A BITCH IN THE RING BUT OUTSIDE THE RING HE WAS ALSO A DUMB SON OF A BITCH

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

Celebrating VLC.

VLC is amazing software. It is an inspiration to many of us.

Window Heat Pumps Could Change the Game A new report from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy has some exciting data for anyone attempting to retrofit a multifamily building.

NYC experimented with new window heat pump models in some public housing units. in winter, "The window unit-heated apartments used a whopping 87% less energy than the rest of the building’s steam-heated apartments did, cutting energy costs per household in half."

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day 1 of playing umamusume: horse girl run fast. yay

day 5 of playing umamusume: ok so i consulted the github support card tier list calculator, these sr mlb cards outperform base level ssrs, for max compatibility with oguri i can loop vodka/daiwa/grass to grind legacy/sub-legacy 3☆ stat sparks,