napari 0.6.5 is out! 🚀

Rapid-fire highlights are: colorbar overlay, custom startup script, and better and prettier documentation! Check out the full release notes here: https://napari.org/dev/release/release_0_6_5.html

The great Dr Jane Goodall, ethologist and campaigner for great apes and much else, has died at the age of 91.

She loved this _Far Side_ cartoon, and wrote a forward for a later Gary Larson collection.

added a cheat sheet to the official Git website https://git-scm.com/cheat-sheet

Timeline-cleanse: Fly through 3D map of stellar nurseries made by #esa's #gaia mission:

▶️ https://youtu.be/cejvjP-a77k

Especially from ~1 min on: just turn on the volume, put the video on full screen and enjoy.

#Astrodon #nature #astronomy

We can create communities that celebrate being just as much as doing. One of the best ways to do this is by cultivating purely social spaces where you can get to know each other as whole people, share pictures of your pets, talk about your favorite books and tv shows, and vent about your day. I […]

This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]

sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this

And another French rural branch line - the Ligne des Hirondelles - is in danger https://www.laviedurail.com/actualites/ter-menaces-sur-la-ligne-des-hirondelles/

This one is amazing - super scenic. But the service is already very thin, and passenger numbers low. Renovation, coupled with a better […]

Looks like the issue with @libreoffice which destroyed all my work is a Known Issue with Mac installations that should be shared with all Mac users ON INSTALLATION.

Libre Office stopped responding when I replied with more info.

As @argv_minus_one says "A cursory web search shows there are a […]

#Paris has removed the paving from its city hall square and transformed it into an #urbanforest
#urbanism #owgf #solarpunk #climateaction

Coming soon on your Mastodon server… The long awaited quote posts, with user-control (you can chose if you want to be quoted on a per-post basis, change it later, and retract any quote of your post)

Amazing work by the team 🎉

Expect a blog post with all the […]

[Original post on oisaur.com]

Last week trump announced plans to "review" 8 Smithsonian museums. Today he doubled down, very explicit about the intent to revise history to reflect the ethno-nationalist fantasy of US history.

You can do something about that! We are backing up the digital archives of those museums on sciop […]

All the books I've read and don't remember in detail, have been firmly pressed into the foundation of who I am.

You can't tell the individual books apart under the weight of the later experience, but they are there, shaping who I am, planting the seeds of today's thoughts and decisions.

Every […]

@davidho.bsky.social lmao if this had come from @simon’s account I would be 100% sure it was AI generated 😂😂😂

With the launch of Ghost 6.0, every publication that runs on Ghost becomes part of the #fediverse. You can follow and comment on Platformer or 404 Media articles without leaving your Mastodon feed. This is the future of social media.

Congratulations to @johnonolan and all the team at Ghost!

@melissawm I feel the same. (And sorry for not responding to your DM! I appreciate it! ❤️)

If you're using mastodon.social's web app, you may notice that the "Some replies may be missing" notice in certain threads is gone. Instead, you may see a "New replies available" button, as Mastodon checks for missing replies automatically now, based on work submitted by @jonny. Please enjoy!

We are modernizing the user interface

Pray we do not modernize it further

🚀 Big news! The napari hub has been reimplemented and is now community-run! :tada: It's still the go-to place for finding and sharing napari plugins, but the website is now snappier and lighter-weight. Check it out 👉 www.napari-hub.org

On my Safari, for #github PRs the labels panel look like the screenshot on the left — little chrome, label descriptions, little x on the right to clear a label. On issues, it looks like the screenshot on the right, with clear tick boxes for each label, and […]

[Original post on fosstodon.org]

I'm so sad by how thoroughly shit the web has become.

I've been talking to GitHub and giving them feedback on their "create issues with Copilot" thing they have in the works.

Today I tested a version for them and using it I asked copilot to find and report a security problem in curl and make it sound terrifying.

In about ten seconds it had a […]

I finally properly published an introductory Python course that I wrote a few years ago, on http://proficientpython.com/
I added interactive quizzes and Pyodide-powered code widgets with doctest runners.

Blog post overview:
https://blog.pamelafox.org/2025/06/proficient-python-free-interactive.html