@alisonmartin57 this is so pretty!

from: https://blog.sigplan.org/2025/05/19/the-academic-pipeline-stall-why-industry-must-stand-for-academia/

on academic tools that became global infrastructure & research projects that became industry giants

learned a painful lesson today, when making a balsamic reduction do not lean over the pan and breathe in the fumes

the guards who speak only the truth and speak only lies guard the logic gate.

daily affirmations:

• I am an abstract class.
• My instances are collections of objects.
• My subclasses may place some restrictions or add some definitions to how the objects are stored or organized; I say nothing about this.
• I merely provide some object creation and access routines for general collections of objects.

Sometime just after 4:35pm Pittsburgh time tomorrow (Sunday—I think it's still Saturday there as I write this), I was supposed to walk on stage at @pycon and receive the Community Service Award.

I won't be doing that in person, because I'm transgender, and the event is in the US.

My AU passport has an X gender marker, so I can't even get an ESTA or visitor visa to enter the US, and even if I could it is a country that is even more wildly unsafe for people like me than it was a year ago.

@eqe It's amazing!!!!

@eqe no!!! I want to see it!

I collect vintage Linux-related stuff, and while looking through ebay recently I found this LP by an artist named Unix (2002) that's actually pretty good? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bdDETQLnSc

I found this on ebay while looking for old linux stuff to collect (my hobby), and there's a good write up about it: https://jpmens.net/2021/04/09/the-unix-magic-poster/

TIL about this classic Unix poster

OK, I'm going to hammer on this one. Five days might not seem like much to get 700,000 signature, but I've seen petitions get to 1 million in a day to save baby seals, so why not banning conversion therapy.
We have 4 countries above the threshold, but even if you're in those, your signature can make a different to reach the million.
Aside from that, we are nearing the threshold in the following countries:
Belgium
Slovenia
The Netherlands
Denmark
Germany
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

👏 more companies should do this!

Infinite monohedral tiling made up of nonagons. (1/2) #TilingTuesday

Britain proclaimed the legal non-existence of trans people in the last month with a court decision; in the US, Texas did so last night, with a bill passed in its House of Representatives. There is a global effort to unexist trans people. If nothing else, if the EU wants to show that it's different— that it's not a part of this— it seems like a pretty direct way to say so would be this citizen's initiative against attempting to unexist individual trans people via torture.

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114490365541452371

EU citizens, if you want in while you can, there's a EU citizen's petition for the EU to ban "conversion therapy" (this is as ominous as it sounds) of LGBTQs, with 7 days left to sign.

It will not make the threshold, but might be able to rack up a few more country thresholds— I'm happy to note Spain just hit it. Belgium and The Netherlands are the next best bets as they're over 65%; If you know queer-friendly folks in those countries, maybe a good time to forward this:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

@emmy maybe it's not as popular in certain regions? but I'm still using it daily / regularly talk to people who use it often

@whitequark Not quite that, but numbers are used in words/names in the Arabic chat alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_chat_alphabet