Daisy Leigh
@asteracute.bsky.social
Conference organiser emeritus (PyCon AU), computer puppygirl. Narrm/Melbourne.
I am more active at @daisy@cloudisland.nz on Mastodon, and this account is mostly reposts from there, but I do try to pay attention to replies and stuff on here too.
I am more active at @daisy@cloudisland.nz on Mastodon, and this account is mostly reposts from there, but I do try to pay attention to replies and stuff on here too.
least favourite thing: online stores that pre-check the “Send me news and offers from this store” checkbox, and then when you manually uncheck it, they spam you anyway
January 12, 2026 at 7:52 PM
least favourite thing: online stores that pre-check the “Send me news and offers from this store” checkbox, and then when you manually uncheck it, they spam you anyway
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Alright I did it! Please share this link with anyone you think may be into me: forms.gle/6k7jNydbv1uP...
January 2, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Alright I did it! Please share this link with anyone you think may be into me: forms.gle/6k7jNydbv1uP...
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there should be a "good morning" feed on bluesky where you're not immediately thrown headfirst into the worst news imaginable while you're still half asleep
January 3, 2026 at 12:11 PM
there should be a "good morning" feed on bluesky where you're not immediately thrown headfirst into the worst news imaginable while you're still half asleep
Dunno what it says about my life that I found out about the Venezuela thing from a lesbian hookup discord but it definitely says _something_
January 4, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Dunno what it says about my life that I found out about the Venezuela thing from a lesbian hookup discord but it definitely says _something_
booty call but it’s for cuddles
January 3, 2026 at 8:45 AM
booty call but it’s for cuddles
You know you’re dealing with a company with exceptional customer support systems and processes when you email them, and then they email you back asking you to give them your email address.
January 1, 2026 at 6:57 AM
You know you’re dealing with a company with exceptional customer support systems and processes when you email them, and then they email you back asking you to give them your email address.
the girls I’m spending new years with are comparing their coin collections
December 31, 2025 at 9:57 AM
the girls I’m spending new years with are comparing their coin collections
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Excited for this new 2026 annual planner, a purchase which will completely transform my habits and personality.
December 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Excited for this new 2026 annual planner, a purchase which will completely transform my habits and personality.
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Good! An early insight of human centered design is that it was possible to reduce airplane crashes by introducing tactile switches and toggle that did not create confusion or require people to take their eyes away from their core tasks donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-origin...
December 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Good! An early insight of human centered design is that it was possible to reduce airplane crashes by introducing tactile switches and toggle that did not create confusion or require people to take their eyes away from their core tasks donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-origin...
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"FEDERAL AGENTS NOT PERMITTED ON PREMISES"
"NEIGHBORS SAY ICE OUT!"
"LOVE THY NEIGHBOR RESIST"
"PRIVATE PROPERTY NO ICE OR CBP ACCESS"
South Minneapolis, December 2025
"NEIGHBORS SAY ICE OUT!"
"LOVE THY NEIGHBOR RESIST"
"PRIVATE PROPERTY NO ICE OR CBP ACCESS"
South Minneapolis, December 2025
December 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
"FEDERAL AGENTS NOT PERMITTED ON PREMISES"
"NEIGHBORS SAY ICE OUT!"
"LOVE THY NEIGHBOR RESIST"
"PRIVATE PROPERTY NO ICE OR CBP ACCESS"
South Minneapolis, December 2025
"NEIGHBORS SAY ICE OUT!"
"LOVE THY NEIGHBOR RESIST"
"PRIVATE PROPERTY NO ICE OR CBP ACCESS"
South Minneapolis, December 2025
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The US has had the most combative, organized and social movement oriented working class in the West over the last fifteen years, there are whole national street mvmts people have completely forgotten about (OccupyICE, anybody?) and anyone who fails to name this assessing the political situation 🚮
I’ve said it and I believe it is true
There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed
There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed
December 28, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The US has had the most combative, organized and social movement oriented working class in the West over the last fifteen years, there are whole national street mvmts people have completely forgotten about (OccupyICE, anybody?) and anyone who fails to name this assessing the political situation 🚮
there is a certain Type Of Guy™︎ that I need a name for
⁃ effective altruism
⁃ nuclear power is the future
⁃ libertarian or at least adjacent to it
⁃ relationship anarchist but in a shit way
⁃ has a “this is what a feminist looks like” t-shirt that he very much does not live up to
⁃ effective altruism
⁃ nuclear power is the future
⁃ libertarian or at least adjacent to it
⁃ relationship anarchist but in a shit way
⁃ has a “this is what a feminist looks like” t-shirt that he very much does not live up to
December 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
there is a certain Type Of Guy™︎ that I need a name for
⁃ effective altruism
⁃ nuclear power is the future
⁃ libertarian or at least adjacent to it
⁃ relationship anarchist but in a shit way
⁃ has a “this is what a feminist looks like” t-shirt that he very much does not live up to
⁃ effective altruism
⁃ nuclear power is the future
⁃ libertarian or at least adjacent to it
⁃ relationship anarchist but in a shit way
⁃ has a “this is what a feminist looks like” t-shirt that he very much does not live up to
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Pumpkin Spice Religious Society Of Friends
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Pumpkin Spice Religious Society Of Friends
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It's not just the gun lobby. The entire global illiberal right *despise* the Australian 1996 gun reforms, because they're held up as an example of a govt acting in response to popular feeling. Thus the efforts to block any additional ones, and even try to say "oh well, they failed, reverse them"
December 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
It's not just the gun lobby. The entire global illiberal right *despise* the Australian 1996 gun reforms, because they're held up as an example of a govt acting in response to popular feeling. Thus the efforts to block any additional ones, and even try to say "oh well, they failed, reverse them"
My lead engineer, who has a New Zealand accent: “do you have a big ticket to track all of the work on [project]?”
Me: “Not at the moment— wait, can you say ‘big ticket’ again?”
Her: “…no”
Me: “Not at the moment— wait, can you say ‘big ticket’ again?”
Her: “…no”
December 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
My lead engineer, who has a New Zealand accent: “do you have a big ticket to track all of the work on [project]?”
Me: “Not at the moment— wait, can you say ‘big ticket’ again?”
Her: “…no”
Me: “Not at the moment— wait, can you say ‘big ticket’ again?”
Her: “…no”
My metamour literally just said to me “are you familiar with Faith, the shitposter?” in the exact tone of voice that one use to might bring up the works of a famous philosopher or poet
December 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
My metamour literally just said to me “are you familiar with Faith, the shitposter?” in the exact tone of voice that one use to might bring up the works of a famous philosopher or poet
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What the fuck are we actually voting for, here? The fucking MAJORITY of Democrat Representatives just fell immediately in line to expand funding to TRUMP'S fucking military AND establish federal regulation of sex.
115 democrats just voted to establish the first federal statutory definition of sex, which could now be used to
• charge fraud for using documents that misrepresent “sex”
• reverse all federal records gender markers
• sue a future gov’t for attempting to rescind trump’s anti-trans exec orders
• charge fraud for using documents that misrepresent “sex”
• reverse all federal records gender markers
• sue a future gov’t for attempting to rescind trump’s anti-trans exec orders
As Trump drags us into an Iraq-style war in Venezuela, 312 members of the House — including 115 Democrats — just voted to authorize over $900 billion in military spending.
December 11, 2025 at 4:13 AM
What the fuck are we actually voting for, here? The fucking MAJORITY of Democrat Representatives just fell immediately in line to expand funding to TRUMP'S fucking military AND establish federal regulation of sex.
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“I want to be a crappy parent but I want the court to force my kid to love me anyway,” the divorced conservative dad story
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.
archive.ph/Tmthz
archive.ph/Tmthz
December 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
“I want to be a crappy parent but I want the court to force my kid to love me anyway,” the divorced conservative dad story
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When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.
December 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.
Has anyone else who uses AirPods Pro 2 for videoconferencing on a Mac noticed that the people on the other end are reporting problems with your microphone as of firmware 8B21 (the currently-latest one)?
December 10, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Has anyone else who uses AirPods Pro 2 for videoconferencing on a Mac noticed that the people on the other end are reporting problems with your microphone as of firmware 8B21 (the currently-latest one)?
One of the things I’ve realised recently about generative AI is that it’s not actually a nose beans situation.
December 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
One of the things I’ve realised recently about generative AI is that it’s not actually a nose beans situation.
Does anyone know of a good native macOS email client? Like Sparrow but not acquired and killed by Google. Or Mimestream but not Gmail-only. Or Spark but not trying to shove AI down my throat.
December 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Does anyone know of a good native macOS email client? Like Sparrow but not acquired and killed by Google. Or Mimestream but not Gmail-only. Or Spark but not trying to shove AI down my throat.
Today’s count of people who’d rather stand up on the tram than sit next to a trans woman: 7
December 2, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Today’s count of people who’d rather stand up on the tram than sit next to a trans woman: 7
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“According to Lebanese reports, US officials fear that the bomb could fall into Russian or Chinese hands.”
I’m sorry, but what the fuck is going on? Is the USA seriously just asking a country to give back a bomb that someone bombed them with?!?
I’m sorry, but what the fuck is going on? Is the USA seriously just asking a country to give back a bomb that someone bombed them with?!?
November 30, 2025 at 3:47 AM
“According to Lebanese reports, US officials fear that the bomb could fall into Russian or Chinese hands.”
I’m sorry, but what the fuck is going on? Is the USA seriously just asking a country to give back a bomb that someone bombed them with?!?
I’m sorry, but what the fuck is going on? Is the USA seriously just asking a country to give back a bomb that someone bombed them with?!?
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Pumpkin Spice Hobart
November 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Pumpkin Spice Hobart