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Dawn Gibson Wages @ home 🏡
@bajoranengineer.bsky.social
(She/her) DevRel + Community Advocacy Dir @ Anaconda, ex-Microsoft, The PSF, WagtailCMS, Djangonaut Space. #BlackSky 💍🌈
F, Marry, Kill, start a business with:

- Mrs Claus
- Heat Meiser
- Snow Meiser
- Jack Frost
December 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Oh god its YiR time. I have so much and so little to say.
December 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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#PyLadiesCon picks!

Imogen Wright: How Complex Systems Taught Me To Fail
www.youtube.com/live/MObVZKZ...

Sofia Toro: How to teach your language to #Python (with #CPython!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhFK...

Meagen Voss: Building more accessible Python-powered websites
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrtU...
Keynote - How Complex Systems Taught Me To Fail
YouTube video by PyLadies
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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I despise "on accident". An accident does not have a physical manifestation so you can't put something on it!

Re gift as a verb I do think it has use when the item given was a gift. And this has been around since the mid-90s.
December 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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From growing up in the English Commonwealth and moving to the US as an adult I have plenty.

I can accept American nuance in general BUT

You hung a picture. You hanged a person.
You either lie or lay in bed. Never laid unless you're a chicken.

You prefer. You don't rather; your name isn't Dan. 🧵
Whats your weird English language pet peeve?

Mine, "gift" being used as a verb. I hate it. What happened to "give" ?

"My wife gave me a latte"
"My wife gifted me a latte"

Zero additional clarity or context added.

Its giving... transactional capitalism as a proxy for affection.
December 6, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Whats your weird English language pet peeve?

Mine, "gift" being used as a verb. I hate it. What happened to "give" ?

"My wife gave me a latte"
"My wife gifted me a latte"

Zero additional clarity or context added.

Its giving... transactional capitalism as a proxy for affection.
December 6, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Just learned about @pyladiescon.bsky.social —happening virtually on Fri & Sat Dec 5-6

@bajoran.engineer is one of the keynoters!

Dingding Lu + Gauri Kasar from the Postgres team on Azure are teaching a Postgres workshop about agentic AI & GraphRAG (Sat Dec 6 @ 10am PT) pretalx.com/pyladiescon-...
December 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Thank you Thibaud for guiding us through a #Django PR review. Up next is Saptak walking us through a djangoproject.com PR review.

"Always more fun to be had, even with the smallest of changes" - Thibaud 💯 💜

youtube.com/live/gs6tfw...
🚀 Space Reviewers 👾 Episode 7 - Accessibility Edition
To learn more about Djangonaut Space 🚀 and how to launch your own mission to contribute to the Django ecosystem, visit us at https://djangonaut.spaceLinks:-...
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Brian Tyree Henry need to be in a movie together (doesnt have to be romantic)

I'm tired of them playing supporting characters. I need more more more.
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I think my right arm is going yo be my space arm. All my favorite space ships.

I have a negative band of white space on my left so I'm going to fill in nearly black space band around my right and then the rest of the space will be ships.
November 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
So one if my sleeves are all a bunch of flowers. Its nearly full and I call it my "garden arm".

I did get a Python on my garden arm to celebrate my 10 years in the Python community. I snuck off during PyCon US to get it by myself which felt really fitting.
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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The magnitude of the change over time is striking.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
November 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Introduce yourself with four space ships.
November 28, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Tattoo idea: every time in Star Trek they detached the saucer section

S#E# ##:## [TNG/Generations/Beyond]
November 28, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Watching Next Generation over for the fiddy-lem time and waiting for the November 28th #StarTrek lego set.

Why is there no coundown on the landing page? #LEGO #nerds is this where I wait? Is there a virtual queue I have to get on top buy this item?
November 28, 2025 at 2:59 AM
HugOps to cloudflare this morning.
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Is it just me or are lefty comedians getting more into 2003 abilist and "r word" jokes.

Super gross.
November 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
They stopped printing pennies and I can say after 230 years of them being in make, I have accumulated and retained maybe 6 of them. No pennies in the sofa. Lost the change jugs long ago.
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Canceled a flight and now learning how to play "I'm Just a Bill" on the uke.

Issa self care sprint.
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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We've updated space-missions.com/mission/esca... with the next launch possibility.
ESCAPADE – Space Missions
ESCAPADE, the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, are twin spacecraft that will study the magnetosphere and atmosphere of Mars.
space-missions.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Got a second piercing on my earlobe! I would share a picture, but I literally hate all of them.

Kthx
November 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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People who are newer to Django often do not know about these great resources and the richness of the Django ecosystem. Spread this link please! #python #django www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025...
Five ways to discover Django packages
Posted by Eddy Adegnandjou on Nov. 2, 2025
www.djangoproject.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Kinda obsessed that I can grab coffee, drop off something at the post office and drop off my mail-in ballot all on my usual 20 min dog walk.
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Dammit! My memory. Yall help me find a friend in the trch community who started planning a multilingual conference in Arizona a few years ago.

It didnt Materialize but the language conference was specifically around the meta of building a programming language.

Anyone remember their name?
October 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Inspired by a chat with @bajoran.engineer at #PyTorchCon, I wrote up my thoughts about #Python as a scripting engine for apps.

phildini.dev/python-in-ev...

Shares appreciated, commentary welcome but if you're a jerk I'll block you 😇

Maybe of interest to @anacondainc.bsky.social as well ✨
Python should be in every application - phildini.dev
The best in-app scripting engine is within reach
phildini.dev
October 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM