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We just gave $1,000,000 to Open Source maintainers at @sentry.io, up from $750K last year! 🎉️ And this month the @opensourcepledge.com turns 2. Its 37 member companies have now paid $8,421,535 to the people who build the software we all rely on. Read on to find out where the money went.

I am looking forward to this so much!

I cycled past @heriotwattuni.bsky.social today and again there is no safe way to cycle there. Women and girls are excluded from active travel. Note: I took the dark and off road and quiet canal path.

5. The best way of pushing a book to a kid is to say it isn't suitable. "You won't understand it." "It's rude." "It's far too challenging for someone your age." Then, just leave the book around somewhere they can reach it.

I'm sure that just as soon as we're done throwing the transgender community under the bus the Right will cease its odious attacks on discrete and insular minorities

A sticker to place anywhere. Like hand dryers, toilet bowls, soap dispensers, alarm keypads, coffee machines, thermostats, pedestrian crossing buttons, BBQs, park benches, parking meters... As well as staplers, pens, potatoes, bricks, brooms, lunch, potplants and speed humps.

We've put together information and resources to help you stay safe and support each other in the wake of increasing anti-migrant activity. No one deserves to be threatened for seeking safety. Everyone deserves a safe place to call home. Find out more: https://ow.ly/ss5850ZKoL3

It's pronounced "beergut."

That’s wisdom, right there

I think the American left should start accusing second amendment gun nuts as being Marxists.

Here's a free suggestion for the #BBC: instead of this nonsense about "YouTube-style user-generated content", simply open iPlayer up for (paying) access from overseas. It is literally free money! www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

In what looks suspiciously like a rerun of Keir Stamer's time as Labour leader & PM ... Andy Burnham supports excellent policies Gets elected Ditches excellent promises "Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I don't normally feel affected by celebrity deaths, but Dolly Parton feels different, somehow. She was the best of us all. RIP Dolly, you absolute legend ❤️

this is one of my all time favorite tweets and if you'll forgive me being a serious tennis nerd about it for a second, tennis is one of those sports where it's really difficult to overstate how many levels there are between you and the pros (mini thread)

xAI shipped Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 yesterday. 82.9% on the AA speech-to-speech index, 0.70s to first audio, top agentic score on the board. The interesting part is at the bottom of the announcement, and it costs you money.

Thought for the day: It never ceases to amaze me how today's techbros' vision of the future they want defaults to fully automated leopard-face-chomping neo-feudalism rather than fully automated luxury gay space communism.

Super excited to be at #EuroPython2026 but a bit alarmed by the Programme flames 🔥🔥

So! Who do I know who's at #EuroPython2026?

I now have to put on reading glasses to play on my Nintendo Switch. This is not the future I was expecting.

Paris consistently racks as number one for attractiveness to tourists globally in the Euromonitor study (I’ll share a link in the the next post), but in volume terms it’s no slouch either - it’s in the top ten for international visitors too. It’s awesome to have such a visible city as this example.

🦀🐍 The Rust Summit is coming to #EuroPython2026! July 13th, Kraków. A full day of deep-dive technical discussions on Rust × Python, native extensions, production performance, and real-world best practices. Hands-on experience sharing with developers who've been there, organized by @cheuk.dev

Or, get this ... a notification when you try to approve/commit code you haven't bothered to read: "Are you sure you don't want to read this code first, Dave?"

Labour seems to have internalised the Supreme Court judgment as though it was a damning referendum loss that saw the public reject its position, rather than a plainly incorrect reading of a single point of law

I'm not sure I understand this meme.

Working on a new talk/video and I have harnessed the power of impossibly large neural networks to reliably always output one thing: cheese or onion?

Trey always manages to take a topic you think you know and make you think about it a different way. His articles always make me a slightly better programmer.

Since @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social abandoned us 💔, it took us much longer to plan but thanks to David Lord it’s happening: The annual #PyConUS 5K will take place tomorrow (5/16) 7am in front of the Hyatt Regency. us.pycon.org/2026/schedul...

Sold!

Traveling to your first #PyConUS today? I have a blog post for you (that's also available in audio form at the top of the page): trey.io/first-pycon The audio version is ~35 minutes long, but if you're in a hurry, it's quite understandable at 1.5x speed. You can also download the audio file.

This year's PyCon UK has been cancelled, but we're looking for a Conference Director to make PyCon UK 2027 happen - could it be you? Full details of what the role involves and how to apply here: buff.ly/j4cVItY #PyCon #Python #PyConUK #Community

Hilariously, both "trump" and "blow off" are British slang for farting.

It’s Terry Pratchett Day! My favourite author, who gave me an escape when I needed it, inspired me to be a better person, and taught me the value of truth, justice, freedom, reasonably priced love, and a hard boiled egg. “When in doubt, choose to live.” 📚💙 #TerryPratchettDay

Hello if you are in the bay area over the weekend and are interested in technology and how it affects actual people, may I recommend popping up to Petaluma for @NorthBayPython.org? It's this weekend! Talks and tickets: northbaypython.org (We'll waive ticket costs on request too, if you need it!)

The gh CLI now has telemetry: "As agentic adoption of GitHub CLI grows, our team needs visibility..." Opt out with any of: export GH_TELEMETRY=false # any falsy value: 0, false, disabled export DO_NOT_TRACK=true gh config set telemetry disabled cli.github.com/telemetry #GitHub #CLI #telemetry

📢 PyCon UK cancelled for 2026 Sadly we've been unable to find a Conference Director, so there won't be a PyCon UK this year. If you (or someone you know) would be interested in taking on that role for 2027, or if you'd like to know some more about it, please get in touch at pyconuk@uk.python.org.