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:python: 💪
https://phire.place/@phire/115520806034064246

“The Python people are doing a great job.

As I was putting the finishing touches on this essay, news broke out that the Python Software Foundation withdrew a $1.5 million grant proposal (archive) from the US government. The board was forced to withdraw their application (archive) because the NSF’s new agreement language would harm their ability to support women, queers, and ethnic minorities who are apart of the community of Python programmers.

Simply put, the money would have forced them to go against their values, so they chose not to accept it.

That’s baller.

The Python community is much larger than Ruby’s, so arguably they have a greater base to draw from. Their ability to run a foundation at all is less existentially threatened. But the reason they chose to do this, the reason they could do it at all, is because of how the PSF is structured. The PSF’s governance structure is community-owned.

You can sense the difference just by comparing the PSF’s website with Ruby Central’s.

On the PSF’s website, right in the top header, there’s a nav element labeled “Membership” that tells you how to participate in PSF elections. If you contribute your money, or volunteer your time you get a vote. Easy.”

November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM

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We did it! Y'all are absolutely amazing, and together we've matched $17,000, for a total of $34k raised for the PSF.

A personal thank you to everyone who donated, and an extra heap of thanks and gratitude to @glyph for organizing and managing all of this. And of […]

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Screenshot of my donation receipt to the PSF for $1000 plus the 3% to cover processing fees.

November 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM

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I’m not crying, you’re crying.

Photo of SFO’s Dia De Las Muertes display in the middle of the Harvey Milk Terminal. The center piece depicts two skeletons embracing each other, one with a flower attached to its skull. The display is absolutely covered in hundreds of post-it notes with notes of remembrance to lost loved ones.

A closer shot of the sea of post-it notes surrounding and covering every facet of the display. Peaking through the notes are some dressed up skeletons, LED candles, and photos of those who have passed on.

November 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM

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As much as I hate flying out of SFO, I fucking love SFO.

Title card of a museum exhibit in the Harvey Milk Terminal, titled Women of Afrofuturism.

A display case filled with artwork and memorabilia celebrating black women in science fiction, including books, vinyl albums, a retro futuristic space helmet, and hyper color portraits. Center stage in Nichelle Nichols as Utica from Star Trek.

A display case with multiple outfits highlighting black women clothing designers.

November 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM

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@nik maybe consider an option for Starmunder to ignore started projects from my own user or orgs, or from projects I’ve contributed to? This feedback brought to you by 2 of 5 projects being clearly mine 😹

Screenshot of a Starminder email where the first two projects are both created by me. Later projects include ones I’ve contributed to.

October 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM

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Fellow Californians: for the love of our democracy, vote YES on 50.
https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/115414831704663625

Photo of my “I voted” sticker for this year’s election cycle.

October 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM

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Key takeaway from Lisa’s talk on free threading. #pybay

Slide with nothing but the words “Threads are hard”

October 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM

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Time to see how @chrisjrn goes off the rails talking about guardrails!
#pybay

Chris standing at the podium with his slides titled “Guardrails”

October 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM

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Why must you poke my anxieties? #pybay

Slide reading “how do you know your code is worth others’ time?”

October 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM

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Eagerly awaiting @glyph‘s announcement of the next conference hashtag #pybay #excavacon

Title slide for Glyph’s next talk, Scaling Open Source Up and Down

October 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM

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Now announcing PyBay 2026! October 3rd, next year. #pybay

October 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM

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Getting the important bits in up front
#pybay

Slide with code of conduct, find someone with an orange lanyard or email conduct@pybay.com

October 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM

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An epic end to an epic weekend.

My yellow Nissan Z, with the headlights turned on, in front of a yellow sunset with grey, orange, and pink tinged clouds filling the sky above the horizon. My car is in the paddock of Thunderhill West raceway, and still has a tow hook and number decals attached from my time on track.

October 13, 2025 at 4:38 AM

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Finally have fiber internet for the first time in my life. Shame it had to be through a former monopolist, but anything to give a loud middle finger to Comcast.

Screenshot of a speed test from my router showing symmetric 2.3 gigabit per second download and upload speeds, with a latency of 5 milliseconds.

September 30, 2025 at 4:14 AM

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They shipped it like this. And this isn’t just a random bug; it happened on both phones that I set up with iOS 26. 😑

September 24, 2025 at 4:34 AM

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[uspol shitpost]

@glyph

September 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM

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Costume vs Inspiration

We met a friend for dinner at a sushi restaurant. Our friend gifted us a black bird figure made of textiles wearing a black cat costume. It’s standing proudly in front of a painting of a black cat eating sushi.

September 22, 2025 at 2:59 AM

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@overcastfm just in case you haven’t seen this yet, iOS 26 on iPad with reduce transparency enabled and dark mode, produces some weird behavior in the buttons on a podcast when pressing the delete button.

September 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM

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Run – don't walk!! – to get yourself a @pybeach shirt before this curly beach beauty is gone forever!

https://www.customink.com/fundraising/pybeach-2025-t-shirt

Image of the PyBeach t-shirt design, featuring a cute, blue, curly snake wearing sunglasses relaxing in a floating inner tube, on the water, with a palm tree. It’s stylized in Python blue and yellow, with black lines to indicate waves and wind. The PyBeach name and the year 2025 is included in the design.

September 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM

Amethyst 🌸

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Got my first-ever award for my Z at the yearly ZONC car show!

$A laser etched glass cube sitting on the hood of my bright yellow car and refracting light outwards. Inscribed in the cube is the ZONC club logo and the text “2nd place”. Pikachu is peaking into frame from the passenger seat of my car.$ Me accepting my award, standing next to one of the ZONC organizers. Behind us is a pair of Z32 300ZX models from the early 90’s, one bright red and one metallic grey.