Laura Langdon
@lauralangdon.io
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
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
December 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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
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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...
cassidoo.co/post/dot-git...
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!
cassidoo.co
December 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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...
cassidoo.co/post/dot-git...
No really, though, why don’t they need fresh air? Can they switch between oxygen and carbon dioxide or what?
December 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
No really, though, why don’t they need fresh air? Can they switch between oxygen and carbon dioxide or what?
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.
So here's the Good news/Bad news depending on how racist you are:
White people are already extinct. It already happened, hundreds of years ago.🤷🏿♂️
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Your great-great-great grand pappy was getting busy before racism was invented. Now none of y'all score 100% on your 23 and me.
White people are already extinct. It already happened, hundreds of years ago.🤷🏿♂️
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Your great-great-great grand pappy was getting busy before racism was invented. Now none of y'all score 100% on your 23 and me.
Elon Musk has tweeted nonstop about white babies, white genocide, population decline, and fertility rates for the past week.
This is what it's all about, folks. The supervillain plot is tweeted in real time.
White supremacy. Fear. Anxiety. Hatred. A loathing of diversity.
This is what it's all about, folks. The supervillain plot is tweeted in real time.
White supremacy. Fear. Anxiety. Hatred. A loathing of diversity.
December 6, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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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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.
The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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.
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/
2025.conference.pyladies.com/en/
PyLadiesCon 2025 - The global online PyLadies Conference
PyLadiesCon 2025 - The global online PyLadies Conference
2025.conference.pyladies.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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/
2025.conference.pyladies.com/en/
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It's streaming! It's streaming!
I’m sad i missed the screening of Macbeth with David Tennant and Cush Jumbo and I hope it starts streaming somewhere soon. In the meantime I’ll rewatch Denzel and Fran McDormand’s Macbeth which is SO GOOD
December 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
It's streaming! It's streaming!
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.
Did you know that sometimes when people ask you "how are you doing?" they're really asking you to tell them what's been going on with you lately? I didn't *really* understand that until recently. #neurodivergence
December 4, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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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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
Unsurprisingly, they recommend video doorbells, despite little independent research indicating that they reduce package theft.
CNET Survey: 1 in 7 US Adults Are Victims of Porch Piracy. We Know How to Prevent It
Among trends uncovered in the 2025 survey, I share my best home security tips to help stop your package theft worries this holiday season.
www.cnet.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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
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. 💜
November 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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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This is a very good sign about his understanding of what good governance involves
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
Lina Khan to co-chair NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team | TechCrunch
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
techcrunch.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This is a very good sign about his understanding of what good governance involves
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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
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Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
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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.
I resent rich people who take away the funds for food stamps to buy another yacht.
November 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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.
I resent rich people who take away the funds for food stamps to buy another yacht.
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🤖 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...
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...
October 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🤖 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...
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...
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! 🥳
PyBay is this Saturday! 🥳
October 16, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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! 🥳
PyBay is this Saturday! 🥳
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Has anyone done “Chipotles are just smoked jalapeños” yet?
I was probably at least 30 before I found out that pickles were just pickled cucumbers, not an entirely different thing.
Folks, get in here. We’re admitting all the dumb wrong shit we believed until we were way too old.
October 13, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Has anyone done “Chipotles are just smoked jalapeños” yet?
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.” 🙅🏻♀️
*sounds of screeching tires*
I said “I do know who they are, and we can stop right here.” 🙅🏻♀️
Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.
Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:
When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.
When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.
October 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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.” 🙅🏻♀️
*sounds of screeching tires*
I said “I do know who they are, and we can stop right here.” 🙅🏻♀️
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Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid
October 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid
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you can migrate to blacksky
non-black users have the choice of "myatproto.social" or "cryptoanarchy.network" handles
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non-black users have the choice of "myatproto.social" or "cryptoanarchy.network" handles
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I just don’t know where else to go? Won’t do Meta, and won’t do X. Guess I could try Mastodon again, don’t want to if I can help it.
October 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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...
non-black users have the choice of "myatproto.social" or "cryptoanarchy.network" handles
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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
YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS
PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
September 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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
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 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-...
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-...
September 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
🐍 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-...
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-...