Al Sweigart
@alsweigart.bsky.social
Author of "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" and other books. Mostly harmless. he/him
How many of you are comfortable writing in the books you own? If you are, are there any times you wouldn't want to do this? Or are you averse to this, even in the books you own?
November 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
How many of you are comfortable writing in the books you own? If you are, are there any times you wouldn't want to do this? Or are you averse to this, even in the books you own?
Silly little website I posted to a subreddit I started: Acronymy, collectively work with others to make an acronym for every word that describes the word. Example, grouping: good round organization using properties in neat gatherings
www.reddit.com/r/sillylittl...
www.reddit.com/r/sillylittl...
From the sillylittlewebsites community on Reddit: Acronymy - Collectively making acronyms out of every word in the dictionary
Posted by AlSweigart - 1 vote and 0 comments
www.reddit.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Silly little website I posted to a subreddit I started: Acronymy, collectively work with others to make an acronym for every word that describes the word. Example, grouping: good round organization using properties in neat gatherings
www.reddit.com/r/sillylittl...
www.reddit.com/r/sillylittl...
One feature I wish Reddit and other discussion sites had was a one-question, fill-in-the-blank quiz to get a mark that shows you read the article. Simple as "Last name of the district attorney in the piece". It's not full proof and could be automated with LLMs, but it could solve 80% of the problem.
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
One feature I wish Reddit and other discussion sites had was a one-question, fill-in-the-blank quiz to get a mark that shows you read the article. Simple as "Last name of the district attorney in the piece". It's not full proof and could be automated with LLMs, but it could solve 80% of the problem.
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Cops are great
November 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Cops are great
Fun little thing on my r/sillylittlewebsites sub: SpaceTypeGenerator.com, a kinetic type generator www.reddit.com/r/sillylittl...
SPACE TYPE GENERATOR
SpaceTypeGenerator.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Fun little thing on my r/sillylittlewebsites sub: SpaceTypeGenerator.com, a kinetic type generator www.reddit.com/r/sillylittl...
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Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
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"Watching the Mamdani campaign from afar during the primary, so many things were impressive, among them the incredible work his online video team was doing. This is my story about how they did it."
defector.com/selling-zohran
defector.com/selling-zohran
Selling Zohran | Defector
On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE...
defector.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"Watching the Mamdani campaign from afar during the primary, so many things were impressive, among them the incredible work his online video team was doing. This is my story about how they did it."
defector.com/selling-zohran
defector.com/selling-zohran
Every vote counts.
If voting didn't make a difference, Republicans wouldn't spend so much effort on voter suppression.
If voting didn't make a difference, Republicans wouldn't spend so much effort on voter suppression.
November 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Every vote counts.
If voting didn't make a difference, Republicans wouldn't spend so much effort on voter suppression.
If voting didn't make a difference, Republicans wouldn't spend so much effort on voter suppression.
I've created a subreddit for small, little, fun websites that don't require registration or have pop ups. Just silly little websites. I'd like you to contribute: www.reddit.com/r/sillylittl...
Silly Little Websites
Old school websites that just have some fun charm. No registration, no social media, no engagement bait.
www.reddit.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I've created a subreddit for small, little, fun websites that don't require registration or have pop ups. Just silly little websites. I'd like you to contribute: www.reddit.com/r/sillylittl...
Search engines are useless and just give me garbage. We're going to have to go old school and publish print book directories of real websites like we did in the 90s.
November 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Search engines are useless and just give me garbage. We're going to have to go old school and publish print book directories of real websites like we did in the 90s.
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Between Gitmo, the Department of "Homeland Security," the Hague Invasion Act, extraordinary rendition, torture gulags, No Child Left Behind, the Patriot Act, and the Great Recession, Bush and Cheney did more to enable the rise of Trump and fascism in the US than almost anyone in the 21st century.
November 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Between Gitmo, the Department of "Homeland Security," the Hague Invasion Act, extraordinary rendition, torture gulags, No Child Left Behind, the Patriot Act, and the Great Recession, Bush and Cheney did more to enable the rise of Trump and fascism in the US than almost anyone in the 21st century.
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how many Americans do you think will understand that CBS was bought by a right wing billionaire and will soon no longer be reliable, if you were to poll them?
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
how many Americans do you think will understand that CBS was bought by a right wing billionaire and will soon no longer be reliable, if you were to poll them?
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“every time theres a republican president the economy collapses” feels like pretty easy messaging on the economy
Congrats to everyone who put Republicans in charge "for the economy," the first three quarters of 2025 already had more layoffs than any of the years in which Biden or Obama was President except 2009 (when Dems were still cleaning up the prior Republican mess).
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“every time theres a republican president the economy collapses” feels like pretty easy messaging on the economy
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Wait, the whole Tylenol lie was just another piece of wildly illegal market manipulation and insider trading?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/b...
Kimberly-Clark Agrees to Buy Kenvue, Maker of Tylenol, for $40 Billion
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Wait, the whole Tylenol lie was just another piece of wildly illegal market manipulation and insider trading?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/b...
It's important to recognize the purple/blue gradient text of AI-generated web apps so you can have an appropriate level of skepticism:
November 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It's important to recognize the purple/blue gradient text of AI-generated web apps so you can have an appropriate level of skepticism:
The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939.
November 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939.
Grocery stores throw out far more food than is shoplifted.
"Why don't shoplifters just take the food from the dumpster then?"
Because they have cameras on the dumpsters and security will be sent out when they see them on the monitors.
This isn't new. Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939:
"Why don't shoplifters just take the food from the dumpster then?"
Because they have cameras on the dumpsters and security will be sent out when they see them on the monitors.
This isn't new. Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939:
November 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Grocery stores throw out far more food than is shoplifted.
"Why don't shoplifters just take the food from the dumpster then?"
Because they have cameras on the dumpsters and security will be sent out when they see them on the monitors.
This isn't new. Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939:
"Why don't shoplifters just take the food from the dumpster then?"
Because they have cameras on the dumpsters and security will be sent out when they see them on the monitors.
This isn't new. Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939:
They do this every year, in every city.
(Also, the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act of 1996 provides protection for people giving away food. So no one has liability as an excuse.)
(Also, the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act of 1996 provides protection for people giving away food. So no one has liability as an excuse.)
I remember years back in Portland they had 3 police officers guard a Fred Meyer dumpster until it was picked up because they tossed a bunch of frozen turkeys away after Thanksgiving.
October 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
They do this every year, in every city.
(Also, the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act of 1996 provides protection for people giving away food. So no one has liability as an excuse.)
(Also, the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act of 1996 provides protection for people giving away food. So no one has liability as an excuse.)
You get thirty people organized to push their carts out the door to a waiting vehicle with covered plates, their security and employees will just watch.
Actually, you could do it with twenty people.
BTW, you ever see how much grocery stores throw in the dumpster *every day*?
Actually, you could do it with twenty people.
BTW, you ever see how much grocery stores throw in the dumpster *every day*?
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
You get thirty people organized to push their carts out the door to a waiting vehicle with covered plates, their security and employees will just watch.
Actually, you could do it with twenty people.
BTW, you ever see how much grocery stores throw in the dumpster *every day*?
Actually, you could do it with twenty people.
BTW, you ever see how much grocery stores throw in the dumpster *every day*?
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There never was a ceasefire.
Despite the enforcement of the ceasefire agreement on 11 October, Israel continues to deny entry to international journalists, except for limited tours organised under the supervision and escort of the Israeli army. euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6...
Israel continues to bar int’l journalists, part of systematic policy to erase evidence of genocide in Gaza
Israel continues to implement a systematic policy aimed at erasing physical evidence of genocide
euromedmonitor.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
There never was a ceasefire.
I love being at a cafe and eavesdropping on two older women and hearing one of them say, "These motherfuckers..."
October 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I love being at a cafe and eavesdropping on two older women and hearing one of them say, "These motherfuckers..."
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Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.
October 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.
If you're voting for Zohran Mamdani, you can vote for him on the Working Family Party and/or Democratic Party. If WFP gets enough votes, they’re automatically on the next ballot in four years. Very important!
October 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
If you're voting for Zohran Mamdani, you can vote for him on the Working Family Party and/or Democratic Party. If WFP gets enough votes, they’re automatically on the next ballot in four years. Very important!