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“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

There's still time to submit a talk proposal for the UC Open Source Summit 2026, taking place April 22-23, 2026 at The Brower Centre at @ucbids.bsky.social! The deadline to submit is this Sunday, February 15 (end of day anywhere in the world 😊).

ucospo.net/events/uc-op...

Right. The point is not “it matters extra because it’s a citizen,” the point is “we either hang together or we will all hang separately.”

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Tabby cat of the brown variety lying on a piece of green knitting (garter stitch with an i-cord edge, of you’re into that kind of thing). Her paws are tucked under her so thoroughly that they’re almost imperceptible, like perhaps this poor limbless creature is actually a potato cosplaying as a cat.

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

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!

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...

TIL Rick Steves is an excellent human. ❤️ I’m going to have to go check out his stuff now.

Striped tabby cat of the brown variety sleeping in loaf formation with her face plopped directly and deeply down into nubbly white blanket. Two skeins of yarn are right next to her, the tag of one of them partially tucked under her face and ear.

No really, though, why don’t they need fresh air? Can they switch between oxygen and carbon dioxide or what?

I saw a post back then that pointed out she’d lost most of a month to all the leap years so in *reality* she did live to 100 (plus a couple of weeks).

Actual, literal “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain”, wow.

Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbr...

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.

To my friends from LiveJournal I still think about you Wonder if you finally quit, Do you still speak to your mom? I remember when you went to Japan How you swore you'd never forgive him. I can't remember to take my meds but I remember you wanted to live on a houseboat. It's a strange intimacy, all of us unspooling across decades of internet space Like balls of yarn leaving a trail behind us of everywhere and everyone we've ever been I hope you got your houseboat. I hope you got everything. -Hayley DeRoche

♥️

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.

Japan Human washing machine cleans head to toe in 15 mins Mirai Human Washing Machine: A luxury capsule that washes and dries your whole body in 15 minutes hits the market in Japan.

Saw this just yesterday!

interestingengineering.com/innovation/h...

PyLadiesCon 2025 - The global online PyLadies Conference PyLadiesCon 2025 - The global online PyLadies Conference

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/

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.

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. 💜

This is a very good sign about his understanding of what good governance involves

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

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.

Ornate line drawing of a fence and gate, with fleur de lis tips. The gate says CONSENT where the family name usually is.

🤖 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...

Red sticker with holographic silver text that reads “Hello, world. WE RUN IT.” Between the two sentences is an icon featuring the head of a femme with dark hair in a side part and glasses.

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! 🥳

A photo of three people in inflatable frog suits outside an ICE detention center in Portland, overlaid with an excerpt from Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

Has anyone done “Chipotles are just smoked jalapeños” yet?