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🐍 Python dev tools, Bay Area remote
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Me: sends link to myself

Also me: ooh, I got a notification! … Oh 🤦‍♀️
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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I donated (and matched donations with friends) because the PSF has the values and the moral backbone to put humans first and treat everyone in the community with dignity, respect, and opportunity to make the world a better place for each other. 💛💙
https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/115581560407285011
Python Software Foundation (@ThePSF@fosstodon.org)
Attached: 1 image We're already over 80% of our fundraiser goal 🥰 🥰 So many of you have already donated, & the PSF is overflowing with hope & gratitude from your generosity. Want to help us hit 100%+? Repost this & tell us why you donated- your story makes an impact! https://donate.python.org/ #Python #PythonForEveryone
fosstodon.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115493527623089000

This is amazing! But I want to remind others who weren't able to donate now but can in the future or whose US employers use Python, PyPI, etc. but are not PSF sponsors, that this drive covered a little over 2% of the funding that the PSF […]
November 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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I want to note, though, that even with all of this enthusiasm, the PSF is still not as funded as it would have been if they’d compromised their mission and taken the bestringed money offered by the NSF. This is good energy, to get grassroots funding to happen, but we *need* corporate […]
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wandering.shop
November 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Also, one more round of thanks for @glyph @Yhg1s @offby1 and @petrillic for their generous donations that set the goalposts for this campaign. We’re truly blessed to have you all in this community. 🙏
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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We did it! Y'all are absolutely amazing, and together we've matched $17,000, for a total of $34k raised for the PSF.

A personal thank you to everyone who donated, and an extra heap of thanks and gratitude to @glyph for organizing and managing all of this. And of […]

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November 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Update 2025-11-03: thanks to the PSF's boost, we have now received $14622.43; 86.0% of our total match of $17000 . I am hopeful that we can close that 14% gap by tomorrow!
November 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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I am (and I'm sure everyone reading this is) confronted daily with the views of odious, misinformed people who want us, our families, & our friends to die. Those people have wrong, evil ideas. We do not need to be "challenged" further. We do not need to spend *more* of our time on wrong, evil ideas.
November 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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TIL that if Delta wants someone to change seats and they refuse, they’ll first make a passive aggressive announcement from the pilot, and then they’ll deplane everyone in order to to remove them from the flight entirely. 🤪

Today’s lesson brought to you by someone who was ineligible for an exit […]
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November 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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I’m not crying, you’re crying.
November 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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As much as I hate flying out of SFO, I fucking love SFO.
November 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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You have one less reason to not donate to @ThePSF to reward them for standing by their community.

And don’t forget to send your receipt to @glyph - we still have plenty of matching funds to go around!
https://fosstodon.org/@lorenipsum/115470439602513874
Loren (@lorenipsum@fosstodon.org)
@offby1@wandering.shop @glyph@mastodon.social @acdha@code4lib.social @ThePSF STRIPE PAYMENT IS UP, STRIPE PAYMENT IS UP, THIS IS NOT A DRILL https://psfmember.org/civicrm/contribute/transact/?reset=1&id;=2
fosstodon.org
October 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Now that the remaining PNG files have been manually OCR'd, the total stands as follows:

We've raised $9238.74 which is 54.3% of our $17000 total. Once again within 24h of a contributor joining the match we are over half full, but we all stand ready to be maxed out so please keep those donations […]
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mastodon.social
October 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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It's true: I've joined @glyph, @offby1, @amethyst and @petrillic in gift-matching donations to @ThePSF

I've done gift matching before, because I think the PSF is doing tremendous work and I want more people to realize that. I was planning on doing gift matching for the end-of-year, but this way […]
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social.coop
October 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Have you been considering donating, but worried that we might be running out of space? Worry not! A new challenger appears! @Yhg1s has committed ANOTHER $5000 match, raising our total matching funds to $17,000, which (modulo a few additional receipts I need to process) means we are down to 43%.
October 31, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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You can donate using one of the methods here — https://www.python.org/psf/donations/ — or if the methods listed there don't work for you (in particular, if PayPal is a problem and you're not donating enough for a wire transfer) https://github.com/sponsors/psf is also an option.
Support the PSF with a Donation or by becoming a Supporting Member!
The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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You can get more information about what happened with the grant here, and how the PSF is standing up for the community despite the cost: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/python_foundation_abandons_15m_nsf/
Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings
: Foundation says it won't compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would've really helped
www.theregister.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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This week, the #python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5MM NSF grant, due to a requirement that the PSF abandon diversity work.

So I joined forces with Python folks (@offby1, @petrillic, @amethyst) and we're matching up to $12,000 of donations to the PSF. 🧵
October 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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I’m forever grateful to everyone at the PSF for their courage, and I’m colluding with @glyph and friends to match your donations.

Please give if you can — even $5 is appreciated! And send receipts to Glyph! https://www.python.org/psf/donations/
https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115454708761382794
Support the PSF with a Donation or by becoming a Supporting Member!
The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Clearly we have some momentum so I have recruited two additional volunteers contributing to the matching pool: @amethyst is kicking in an additional $1000 to the match and @petrillic is adding $5000. The total contributed still stands at $3973.40 but that is now only 36.1% of the pledged match […]
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mastodon.social
October 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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In light of the PSF's recent loss of an NSF grant and attendant funding shortfall, I will be matching donations up to $5000. Send me your receipts.

Very happy if you've already donated for similar reasons but the point is to motivate *new* donations so be sure the timestamp is after this toot 😉.
October 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM