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Poinsettia topologist
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Fool, mortal.

He/they.

Also: https://mastodon.social/@joranwei
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"make invalid states unrepresentable" pales in comparison to my strategy of assuming the state will always be valid
November 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Please read our statement, share it with your networks, and support us if you can. www.python.org/sponsors/app... psfmember.org/civicrm/cont...
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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In the end, it wasn’t a hard decision for the PSF to put our community and our values first, but it does mean we lost out on this large funding source. Donations and sponsorships will help us fill the gap, so we can continue supporting the Python ecosystem and living our values.
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Those whom I pass on the trail are known as Trailures. They are likely to hurt themselves and ought stay home reading about trails, not hiking them

Those whom pass me are known as Trailhards. They've sacrificed their humanity to hike marginally better than me. One must imagine them miserable
August 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Mahmoud Khalil is finally home with his beautiful wife and newborn son.

Each one of the 104 days he spent detained was a grave injustice.

From the moment of his detention, @ccrjustice.org + @aclu.org engaged my office as we worked closely to help secure his release. They did remarkable work here.
Mahmoud Khalil emerges from airport security with his wife Noor and newborn, legal team and Rep. AOC.
June 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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“a game engine is any software that can execute Lua scripts”
May 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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unfortunately, this is still how i feel
March 31, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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In 1905, my great-grandfather helped @stevevladeck.bsky.social's great-grandfather escape arrest by Imperial Russian police who didn't like his speech.

120 years later, Steve has the best summary I've seen of key legal questions the case of Mahmoud Khalil:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/131-five-q...
131. Five Questions About the Khalil Case
The government's arrest and detention of a pro-Palestinian Columbia student (and green card holder) raises difficult questions about both technical immigration statutes and the First Amendment.
www.stevevladeck.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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I wrote a blog post on hardening Virtualization-Based Security enclaves. Check it out!
Everything Old Is New Again: Hardening the Trust Boundary of VBS Enclaves | Microsoft Community Hub
Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) enclaves use the hypervisor’s virtual trust levels (VTLs) to isolate regions of memory and code execution within a...
techcommunity.microsoft.com
March 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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They’re putting a new object in my enclosure tomorrow. Supposed to be pretty enriching. Might check it out
January 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Can’t help but parse this as a perpetual motion machine. Hook-stoked fire.
how I’m trying to live
December 2, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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[having done something so catastrophically wrong it immediately killed the computer] if i do it again but a little bit differently maybe this time it will be good
November 20, 2024 at 12:05 AM
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dreamt last night i came across a book in a pond titled "Learn Lisp in Exactly 53 Days Using Only Screws"
November 17, 2024 at 10:07 PM