snek or feesh?

Have to say, after six years in Davis, the Sacramento Valley seems like an awfully unmermaidy locale.

I'm rejoicing that Penguicon has finally moved away from PyCon weekend for the first time in ages.

Thank you #OLF2025 folks! My materials: github.com/catherinedev...

Might be easier to stop people like Spc. Sarah Beckworth's murderer if you didn't send your domestic terrorism agents off to do political stunts.

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".

Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

Suspect in National Guard attack struggled with 'dark isolation' as community raised concerns Emails obtained by the Associated Press show that the Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard members near the White House had been unraveling for years.

Maybe, just maybe, if the FBI counterterrorism desk hadn't been retasked to chasing abuelitas, somebody might've followed up on the tips...

It seems sort of notable they keep going after people who are both figurative and literal Boy Scouts

This is depressing. The State Dept. posting very literal xenophobia from its official account.

OK, not letting that feeling turn into demoralization. Hammering it into resolve instead.

Good relations between POTUS and the mayor of the USA's largest city are only sensible. I don't want to tease him over the only morsel of sense we've seen from the Administration in months, no matter how he came to it.

If "collective punishment on demographic categories" is how the USA works now, what punishment shall rich old white men receive?

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

"To get a man’s soul and give him nothing in return – that’s what really gladdens Our Father [the Devil]’s heart" - Screwtape Letters #9

Early efforts at ideological manipulation of LLMs were hamhanded and bizarre ("white genocide in South Africa") but clearly the Grok engineers have been hard at work!

A Baptist minister, rather than a (Catholic or Episcopal) priest. Pedantic, I know, but the decidedly non-Southern Baptists of ABCUSA deserve credit when they earn it.

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📣 Keynote Announcement!

We’re thrilled to welcome Abigail Afi Gbadago as a #PyLadiesCon Keynote Speaker! 💜

She’ll present “Beyond Code: Building Careers, Growing Inclusive Communities.” — a talk that reminds us why many of us came for the code but stayed for the community.

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A version of the DC flag in which the two red bars make up the top and bottom bun of a footlong sub. The three stars hover above it like a baffoonish cartoon character who's just been beaned with a sandwich and is about to claim that the fully intact sandwich "exploded."

Sean Dunn should never have to buy his own lunch in this city again.

See you at AcadeCon! I mean, you wouldn't miss it, right?

So... like Infrastructure Week. Eventually a Democrat will take over and do it.

Norms, common sense, and expectation of good faith aren't going to do in the future. Everything, everything is going to have to be carefully airtight law with painfully specific definitions. That's going to a pain but I don't see any alternatives.

IRS to States: Direct File Tool Is a No-Go for Next Tax Season The IRS told its state partners this week that the Biden-era Direct File tool won’t be offered for the 2026 tax filing season.

Yet another way Trump is screwing working families: this was a FREE tool we set up so folks could file taxes directly, without paying an expensive service. So who does cancelling it benefit? The answer is not working Americans, but it sure is big corporations who profit off them.

I guess they decided it must be a Kirk reference because his is the first death they've ever cared about.

Suppose the defense sends a Subway sandwich platter to the jury deliberation room with a note saying "FOOD FIGHT!"

The Trump administration’s lawlessness cannot be ignored.

Period.

Trump apparently thinks that wind turbines cause cancer and nuclear explosions don’t en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_...

"I really don't follow the news. It's too depressing, you know."

Principle, but also wise self-protection. One "I'm a white man and PyCon rejected my talk" or "their Code of Conduct is woke" tweet, boosted by an influencer, could bring a catastrophic clawback of past NSF awards.

I'm a fanatic blood donor, but "give your forever chemicals to somebody else" feels a little less altruistic than I'd like! I guess it's "when it's the least of their concerns"...

(My wife got 2 badly-needed units in Jan - thank you donors!)

I would order that on a shirt - on multiple shirts - if the PSF benefits. (Also sending plain vanilla cash.)

Snek is *all* spine!

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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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He sure spent a lot of time talking about how hard the dementia screening was.