Lorena Nicole
@lorenanicole.bsky.social
#Chicago #Latinx #technologist 👩🏻💻 cat mama to 3 floofy 🐈⬛🐈🐈⬛ Maine Coons, lover of #Python 🐍, #educator 👩🏽🏫 & public speaker, #Fitness buff 🥊🏃🏽♀️🧗🏽♀️, #OrdCamp nerd, Champion of #EthicalTech, down with the left. Forget the rest.
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Where is the best UI to follow the flotilla updates? I need to understand humanity is decent still … eeee!
September 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Where is the best UI to follow the flotilla updates? I need to understand humanity is decent still … eeee!
Goodbye Disney+ and helllllloooo NPR+!
September 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Goodbye Disney+ and helllllloooo NPR+!
Congrats @jezdez.dev @simonwillison.net and the rest of @thepsf.bsky.social BoD election! Always excited to see so many amazing community members names! #python 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍
September 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Congrats @jezdez.dev @simonwillison.net and the rest of @thepsf.bsky.social BoD election! Always excited to see so many amazing community members names! #python 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍
Hatred shared - I hated myself for being so bullied. Like gum in hair where I had to get a buzz cut, people peed on my gym clothes, etc. Got upset my name es español because I am latine. But I some how still held on to these people and … this is what #ignorance #power looks like
September 15, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Hatred shared - I hated myself for being so bullied. Like gum in hair where I had to get a buzz cut, people peed on my gym clothes, etc. Got upset my name es español because I am latine. But I some how still held on to these people and … this is what #ignorance #power looks like
Calling all #Python folks who care about immigration safety I have been building a module and need y’all’s help because I have a few states and cities but I also have it translated. #migra #immigration
September 15, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Calling all #Python folks who care about immigration safety I have been building a module and need y’all’s help because I have a few states and cities but I also have it translated. #migra #immigration
I am growing in my frustración aka ire of tech based non profits not even comenting about the inhumane cruel gross misconduct of certain parties. Stand up. It’s your time. Y’all’s did during the initial Ukaine invasion. #tech #technology
a drawing of a person holding a compass with the words moral compass be like
ALT: a drawing of a person holding a compass with the words moral compass be like
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September 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I am growing in my frustración aka ire of tech based non profits not even comenting about the inhumane cruel gross misconduct of certain parties. Stand up. It’s your time. Y’all’s did during the initial Ukaine invasion. #tech #technology
What y’all’s take on the use of #AI and it’s use on the environment? Genuinely curious.
#programming #automation #environment
#programming #automation #environment
September 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
What y’all’s take on the use of #AI and it’s use on the environment? Genuinely curious.
#programming #automation #environment
#programming #automation #environment
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To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.
September 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.
How y’all’s holding up? Here is a very cute video of my baby house lion - Red XIV #mainecoons #mentalhealrh #cats
September 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
How y’all’s holding up? Here is a very cute video of my baby house lion - Red XIV #mainecoons #mentalhealrh #cats
Welp.
This Supreme Court order puts people at grave risk, allowing federal agents in Southern California to target individuals because of their race, how they speak, the jobs they work, or just being at a bus stop or the car wash when ICE agents decide to raid a place.
Today, in a devastating setback for communities in the southland, SCOTUS granted the Trump administration’s request to resume its racist raids across Southern California while our case continues.
We’re prepared to continue fighting for our immigrant loved ones and the Constitution.
We’re prepared to continue fighting for our immigrant loved ones and the Constitution.
September 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Welp.
Helicopter hovering has started. Okay so I’ll post … #democracy #noking
September 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Helicopter hovering has started. Okay so I’ll post … #democracy #noking
I am tired of organizers talking about AI and its use in tech. I am tired we gave up on making people
Safe. I tired of not doing the good work because I alone cannot. Also, I am tired.
Safe. I tired of not doing the good work because I alone cannot. Also, I am tired.
September 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I am tired of organizers talking about AI and its use in tech. I am tired we gave up on making people
Safe. I tired of not doing the good work because I alone cannot. Also, I am tired.
Safe. I tired of not doing the good work because I alone cannot. Also, I am tired.
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If I see the salt truck video one more time I'm going to lose my fucking mind.
They're not being used to block the city off from ICE. They're walling off the Taste of Chicago. The city uses salt trucks as temporary infrastructure.
They're not being used to block the city off from ICE. They're walling off the Taste of Chicago. The city uses salt trucks as temporary infrastructure.
September 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
If I see the salt truck video one more time I'm going to lose my fucking mind.
They're not being used to block the city off from ICE. They're walling off the Taste of Chicago. The city uses salt trucks as temporary infrastructure.
They're not being used to block the city off from ICE. They're walling off the Taste of Chicago. The city uses salt trucks as temporary infrastructure.
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Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
September 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
A dear friend got me the cutest Axolotl light and I cannot sleep because my head is full of good trouble to quote a really awesome powerful leader … ai might just knit but my partner is sleeping like a truck on me. So alas here I be.
September 7, 2025 at 8:20 AM
A dear friend got me the cutest Axolotl light and I cannot sleep because my head is full of good trouble to quote a really awesome powerful leader … ai might just knit but my partner is sleeping like a truck on me. So alas here I be.
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The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.
The crowd has no beginning and no end as it begins its march to the White House
September 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.
Piggies gonna be piggies.
Also: If you ever wondered what Nazi collaborator dinners looked like...
September 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Piggies gonna be piggies.
Proud of MI ESPOSO and fighting for #CHICAGO also I voted for @thepsf.bsky.social and proud of that too. And did a talk with local youth about the dangers of AI on the environment … and boxed. And ran 10k. All in a day of me.
September 7, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Proud of MI ESPOSO and fighting for #CHICAGO also I voted for @thepsf.bsky.social and proud of that too. And did a talk with local youth about the dangers of AI on the environment … and boxed. And ran 10k. All in a day of me.
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Heads up, Chicago friends.
It's a good time to review your rights & carry passports, etc. if you have them:
It's a good time to review your rights & carry passports, etc. if you have them:
August 30, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Heads up, Chicago friends.
It's a good time to review your rights & carry passports, etc. if you have them:
It's a good time to review your rights & carry passports, etc. if you have them:
Be still my environment free hugging tree loving heart …
Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week.
newatlas.com/energy/large...
newatlas.com/energy/large...
August 30, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Be still my environment free hugging tree loving heart …
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One of the inciting incidents in After the War by @genesisoflegend.bsky.social, myself, @claudiacanginiart.bsky.social and a legion of other amazing creators is the discovery of an archive of society changing information on a very, very old interstellar comet.
I love stuff like this:)
I love stuff like this:)
The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a shot of a comet visiting our solar system from another star. Discovered last month by a telescope in Chile, the comet (known as 3I-Atlas) predates our solar system by more than three billion years.
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#ShareGoodNewsToo
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#ShareGoodNewsToo
Newly discovered interstellar object 'may be oldest comet ever seen'
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August 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
One of the inciting incidents in After the War by @genesisoflegend.bsky.social, myself, @claudiacanginiart.bsky.social and a legion of other amazing creators is the discovery of an archive of society changing information on a very, very old interstellar comet.
I love stuff like this:)
I love stuff like this:)
👏🏼 This 👏🏽 should 👏🏿 not 👏🏻 be 👏🏾 our 👏 new 👏🏿 normal.
It's 2025. We have actual concentration camps, and a white nationalist setting US immigration policy, and the majority of white people surveyed say that they support how Trump is "handling immigration."🤦🏿♂️
And I *still* have white folk in my mentions saying "I don't think that many support it? 🤡
And I *still* have white folk in my mentions saying "I don't think that many support it? 🤡
August 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
👏🏼 This 👏🏽 should 👏🏿 not 👏🏻 be 👏🏾 our 👏 new 👏🏿 normal.
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Found @sirosen.net, myself and @jaraco.com in the background of the shot at 00:50:00 of the #Python documentary!
This was at the #Packaging Summit at #PyConUS 2025: youtu.be/GfH4QL4VqJ0?...
This was at the #Packaging Summit at #PyConUS 2025: youtu.be/GfH4QL4VqJ0?...
August 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Found @sirosen.net, myself and @jaraco.com in the background of the shot at 00:50:00 of the #Python documentary!
This was at the #Packaging Summit at #PyConUS 2025: youtu.be/GfH4QL4VqJ0?...
This was at the #Packaging Summit at #PyConUS 2025: youtu.be/GfH4QL4VqJ0?...
My HOME #Chicago under threat from a gigante … bebé? No. Babies are better. From … a wombat? Nah they better. More like a racist misogynoistic privileged etc. If you are coming for #DjangoCon be aware 🧊 & National Guard are - under said joke of a human - expected to be here soon like before/on 9/5.
August 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
My HOME #Chicago under threat from a gigante … bebé? No. Babies are better. From … a wombat? Nah they better. More like a racist misogynoistic privileged etc. If you are coming for #DjangoCon be aware 🧊 & National Guard are - under said joke of a human - expected to be here soon like before/on 9/5.
