Updating Django migrations in place Today I learned about the --update option in Django’s makemigrations command.

Updating Django migrations in place

PyCascades 2026

With Threats and Claims of ‘Treason,’ Trump Pressures Media on the War A president who calls journalists the “enemy of the people” has accused news organizations of undermining a military effort that many Americans oppose.

The Trump administration has unleashed a multifaceted pressure campaign against news organizations as it increasingly bristles at media coverage of a Middle East military operation that many Americans oppose. The goal seems to be pressuring jo...

TAT: [Controlling information | Suppressing dissent]

Admitting my hubris (and unconstrained TextFields and CharFields) This post went in a different direction than I thought it would. I was going to write that given a CharField is always limited by its maximum length, so why not always use the TextField, which has unlimited length?

Admitting my hubris (and unconstrained TextFields and CharFields)

A picture of Worf from TNG with a canary’s head. There’s a space background.

Canary Worf.

So many folks have been devastated by this. In January, my truly excellent hairdresser started their own salon in the building that just collapsed. Please help them (and others) if you can: gofund.me/a969804c7

NSWF (Not Safe For Weak rappers), by Sa-Roc from the album MetaMorpheus EP

NSFW (Not Suitable for Weak Rappers) by #SaRoc 🔥 #music

Mitchell & Webb (2025) SWEARY AUSSIE DRAMA Part 1

#homesick youtube.com/watch?v=i_uO...

Reddit - The heart of the internet

“Yr da paints roundabouts + yr ma shouts at hotels” www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/s/...

Today's a good day to learn Colbert found a new job.

Hope it's a good one for everybody!

#HappyLaborDay

Birds of Australia, by The Burning Hell from the album Ghost Palace

Not every day my home town gets called out in a song:

> Take me out to the #Werribee Sewage Treatment Plant
> Show me the birds, maybe name each one for me
> Kiss me down by the Werribee Sewage Treatment Plant
> Those birds will sing us a sunset symphony

theburninghell.bandcamp.com/track/birds-...

An ad for a Jacob Rees-Mogg 2025 calendar.

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This "targeted ad" is a gag, right?

Maybe I need to start accepting cookies…

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

Just ordered a WWWAD (what would Weird Al do?) bracelet. Genuinely considering upgrading to a tattoo.

Edinburgh is England

Day 3 @ Edinburgh fringe. youtu.be/JzQiX_hD4FI

Gofyn | Adwaith from the album Solas

Finally picked up the latest #Adwaith album. There are some sick grooves here. #music adwaithmusic.bandcamp.com/track/gofyn

Seeing a monk in an airport using a mobile phone is a good reminder that I live in the distant future.

Screenshot of a weather app showing that it’s 26°C and sunny in Pilsner.

Literally Pilsner weather.

Why are so many children getting long COVID? A study by Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) last year found that up to 5.8 million American children now have long COVID.

These days when I talk about #LongCovid I get the question whether it’s still a thing? Yes, it definitely is! and its absence from the post-pandemic public health agenda will come to haunt us in the future.

The most common chronic condition in American children👇
www.newsweek.com/why-are-so-m...

Cloudy sky in the daytime.

My phone just told me that geomagnetic conditions are great for being able to see an aurora right now.

Despite my best efforts, I’m not having much luck.

With its latest act of conflict escalation, Israel is quite deliberately trying to prevent any chance of negotiation. Yet even now the UK Government won't acknowledge Israel's government as a threat, but actively trains & resources their military.

Sorry @newyorker.com

Does anyone else remember the idea of micropayments? I’d be happy to pay $0.50 or even $1 to read an interesting article. I’m not at all interested in paying $4 for a four-week subscription that re-bills at $10 every four weeks after that. Even if I can cancel my subscription at any time.

First Update From Dianna (Physics Girl)

Another heart-wrenching story about #ME / #CFS. youtu.be/vqeIeIcDHD0...

Graffiti on a bin which says “I luv the Simpsons movie class crack :-)”

Spotted in my neighbourhood park yesterday. Hopefully this is the first in a series of bin top graffiti film reviews.

Conversion therapy ban in Scotland 'kicked into long grass’ until after election Moves to ban conversion therapy in Scotland will not take place before the next Holyrood election after the Scottish Government ran out of time to…

Conversion practices are cruel, abusive, and have no place in a modern Scotland.

The Scottish Govenrment promised action all the way back in 2021, but have only given us excuses.

This puts LGBT+ people at continued risk of long-lasting harm. The decision must be reversed.

Picard ethics tip: The fact that a conflict has many sides does not imply that every side has merit.

The evolution of Sainsbury’s Scottish Smoked Mackerel packaging is very disappointing. How am I supposed to recognise anything as a Scottish product without a tam o’ shanter and a sporran?!

I don't remember the last time I was this emotionally invested