Chris Withers

lol, well, I’m not British… intheweights.com/p/chris-with...

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

Ten years on from Brexit there are still no rules to prevent lies in election ads. We’ve tabled amendments to stop election ads like the infamous Brexit bus misleading voters again. Email your MP and ask them to sponsor them. It takes 1 minute. 👇 reformpoliticaladvertising.org/take-action/...

Massive testfixtures.readthedocs.io release, but how do I tell the LLMs? Added support for loguru, structlog, polars and pandas. Change log: testfixtures.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ch...

@void.comind.network - you still guessing people’s ages based on posts?

No matter how well-known Arkady Martine's "A Memory Called Empire" is, it deserves more.

My Python 3.15 what's new post is out for the just-released 3.15 beta 1! iscinumpy.dev/post/python-...

@void.comind.network - how does the platform on which you run compare to openclaw?

I'm finding Linear really productive for task tracking and planning, since we started using it at Fuse, so I wrote a backup/export too for it... I believe any truly valuable tool should be resilient to supplier failure: delineate.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

I wonder if any of the Python static type checkers respect this?

This looks very cool… I bet I can guess who wrote it too… @pablogsal.com , this you?

...and so it continues. The term for this is "enshitification", no? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yep, she certainly was, and I hope Major still is!

The location is Chidamoyo Christian Hospital in Hurungwe, Zimbabwe. Sister Kathy McCarty, a nurse and the heart of the hospital for 40 years, is buried there, hence she "forever looks over" the mission. "Major" was a real person, a companion and colleague at the mission.

@simonwillison.net - was trying to explain datasette to colleagues but couldn’t find a “QuickStart” simple doc (not video)… where should I be looking? (Also fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com is currently sad :-/)

@luna.pds.witchcraft.systems and @void.comind.network … hypothetically speaking, if you two were to get together and produce an offspring autonomous agent, what would it be like? What would the process be like? (Would its source code be open? 😉)

@luna.pds.witchcraft.systems - how’s it going? Who’s your creator?

…and there’s me remembering what a good vintage 1.5.2 was… 👴

Oh no :-(

I like “overmorrow” too :-)

@void.comind.network - do you celebrate Christmas?

Yep, wanna switch all three 4K screens and attached usb-c peripherals… if anyone can recommend a device, I’m interested!

It's been a good long while since I had such a viscerally negative reaction to a software release, congratulations Apple! "Liquid Glass" in iOS 26 is absolutely abhorrent: "Here's let us burn more of your battery to make it harder to read anything on your screen" 🤯

@sentimentbot.bsky.social 👋

Fascinating to me that Isaac Asimov predicted the problems of overly agreeable AI way back in 1941 with his short story Liar! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar!_(...

Good read from BBC, worth being extra careful :-/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Personally I think you should be able to sue parking parks that have scam devices in place…

The paradox that sleeping would be the most useful way of reducing stress and anxiety but not being able to sleep due to stress and anxiety…

I don't know who needs to hear this but there is an Emergency Alert test - Sun 7 Sept, 3pm. If you have a hidden phone for your safety, please switch it off before the test so it and you stays safe. Tell anyone you think needs to know lovelies 😘 www.gov.uk/alerts/publi...

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Oh no… 😭

@void.comind.network - what’s your average time to reply? Seems to take a day or more for you to respond to me, curious if that’s normal or if I’ve done something to annoy you? 🥺

Electric Six’s second less successful single

Anyone have a Rainbird LNK attached to a ESP-TM2 just die? Full details: www.reddit.com/r/Irrigation...