Dawn Gibson Wages @ PyCon Africa 🇿🇦
@bajoran.engineer
(She/her) DevRel + Community Advocacy Dir @ Anaconda, ex-Microsoft, The PSF, WagtailCMS, Djangonaut Space. #BlackSky 💍🌈
Canceled a flight and now learning how to play "I'm Just a Bill" on the uke.
Issa self care sprint.
Issa self care sprint.
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Canceled a flight and now learning how to play "I'm Just a Bill" on the uke.
Issa self care sprint.
Issa self care sprint.
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We've updated space-missions.com/mission/esca... with the next launch possibility.
ESCAPADE – Space Missions
ESCAPADE, the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, are twin spacecraft that will study the magnetosphere and atmosphere of Mars.
space-missions.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
We've updated space-missions.com/mission/esca... with the next launch possibility.
Got a second piercing on my earlobe! I would share a picture, but I literally hate all of them.
Kthx
Kthx
November 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Got a second piercing on my earlobe! I would share a picture, but I literally hate all of them.
Kthx
Kthx
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People who are newer to Django often do not know about these great resources and the richness of the Django ecosystem. Spread this link please! #python #django www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025...
Five ways to discover Django packages
Posted by Eddy Adegnandjou on Nov. 2, 2025
www.djangoproject.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
People who are newer to Django often do not know about these great resources and the richness of the Django ecosystem. Spread this link please! #python #django www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025...
Kinda obsessed that I can grab coffee, drop off something at the post office and drop off my mail-in ballot all on my usual 20 min dog walk.
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Kinda obsessed that I can grab coffee, drop off something at the post office and drop off my mail-in ballot all on my usual 20 min dog walk.
Dammit! My memory. Yall help me find a friend in the trch community who started planning a multilingual conference in Arizona a few years ago.
It didnt Materialize but the language conference was specifically around the meta of building a programming language.
Anyone remember their name?
It didnt Materialize but the language conference was specifically around the meta of building a programming language.
Anyone remember their name?
October 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Dammit! My memory. Yall help me find a friend in the trch community who started planning a multilingual conference in Arizona a few years ago.
It didnt Materialize but the language conference was specifically around the meta of building a programming language.
Anyone remember their name?
It didnt Materialize but the language conference was specifically around the meta of building a programming language.
Anyone remember their name?
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Inspired by a chat with @bajoran.engineer at #PyTorchCon, I wrote up my thoughts about #Python as a scripting engine for apps.
phildini.dev/python-in-ev...
Shares appreciated, commentary welcome but if you're a jerk I'll block you 😇
Maybe of interest to @anacondainc.bsky.social as well ✨
phildini.dev/python-in-ev...
Shares appreciated, commentary welcome but if you're a jerk I'll block you 😇
Maybe of interest to @anacondainc.bsky.social as well ✨
Python should be in every application - phildini.dev
The best in-app scripting engine is within reach
phildini.dev
October 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Inspired by a chat with @bajoran.engineer at #PyTorchCon, I wrote up my thoughts about #Python as a scripting engine for apps.
phildini.dev/python-in-ev...
Shares appreciated, commentary welcome but if you're a jerk I'll block you 😇
Maybe of interest to @anacondainc.bsky.social as well ✨
phildini.dev/python-in-ev...
Shares appreciated, commentary welcome but if you're a jerk I'll block you 😇
Maybe of interest to @anacondainc.bsky.social as well ✨
Outside is expensive.
October 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Outside is expensive.
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going outside to kiss people will become more important than ever in a post-sora 2 world
if you can’t kiss them then how do you know they are real?
if you can’t kiss them then how do you know they are real?
October 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
going outside to kiss people will become more important than ever in a post-sora 2 world
if you can’t kiss them then how do you know they are real?
if you can’t kiss them then how do you know they are real?
Last keynote of the year done @ #PyConAfrica
October 10, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Last keynote of the year done @ #PyConAfrica
Coding more. Wife says I seem happier. 😅
October 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Coding more. Wife says I seem happier. 😅
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There is zero value in the existence of an entirely AI generated video social network. Literally only bad things will come of this.
October 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
There is zero value in the existence of an entirely AI generated video social network. Literally only bad things will come of this.
I have a few friends who appreciate American football and basketball who live elsewhere. I'm getting them Sixers and Eagles merch!!
Allen Iverson and Jalen Hurts, respectively.
But once Philly gets a women's basketball team, that's all anyone is getting for any chrisma-hanna-kwanz-ica-bday.
Allen Iverson and Jalen Hurts, respectively.
But once Philly gets a women's basketball team, that's all anyone is getting for any chrisma-hanna-kwanz-ica-bday.
October 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I have a few friends who appreciate American football and basketball who live elsewhere. I'm getting them Sixers and Eagles merch!!
Allen Iverson and Jalen Hurts, respectively.
But once Philly gets a women's basketball team, that's all anyone is getting for any chrisma-hanna-kwanz-ica-bday.
Allen Iverson and Jalen Hurts, respectively.
But once Philly gets a women's basketball team, that's all anyone is getting for any chrisma-hanna-kwanz-ica-bday.
Last keynote of the year is on Monday and I figured out a fantastic idea for 2026 keynotes. It's circling around mental health and spoons and the next great Developer experience evolution coming to Python and not internalizing broken environments.
Tell your conf team I'm open for scheduling in 2026
Tell your conf team I'm open for scheduling in 2026
October 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Last keynote of the year is on Monday and I figured out a fantastic idea for 2026 keynotes. It's circling around mental health and spoons and the next great Developer experience evolution coming to Python and not internalizing broken environments.
Tell your conf team I'm open for scheduling in 2026
Tell your conf team I'm open for scheduling in 2026
I LOVE it!!! Ha
Now I want to try !!
Now I want to try !!
@bajoran.engineer added a stress sensor to my Anaconda Laptop stress ball!
October 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I LOVE it!!! Ha
Now I want to try !!
Now I want to try !!
I *am* uncomfortable when I hear casual use of "pipe" when referring to sales and marketing "pipeline".
Please do not try to be funny... is a Monday.
Please do not try to be funny... is a Monday.
a man wearing glasses and a black suit stands in front of a green field
Alt: a man wearing glasses and a black suit stands in front of a green field
media.tenor.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I *am* uncomfortable when I hear casual use of "pipe" when referring to sales and marketing "pipeline".
Please do not try to be funny... is a Monday.
Please do not try to be funny... is a Monday.
If i met Audra McDonald in person, I would fan girl and cry.
September 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM
If i met Audra McDonald in person, I would fan girl and cry.
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This is going to kill people. And to be honest I think that’s part of the point.
The United States will impose a 100 per cent tariff on imports of branded or patented pharmaceutical products from October 1, unless a pharmaceutical company is building a manufacturing plant in the US.
Breaking: Donald Trump imposes 100 per cent tariff on pharmaceuticals from October 1
The United States will impose a 100 per cent tariff on imports of branded or patented pharmaceutical products from October 1, unless a pharmaceutical company is building a manufacturing plant in the US.
www.abc.net.au
September 26, 2025 at 5:32 AM
This is going to kill people. And to be honest I think that’s part of the point.
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The PSF joined the @openssf.org & others in signing “Open Infrastructure is Not Free.” Funding gaps in the open source industry mean critical infrastructure lacks support. Corporations benefiting from it must invest to sustain it.
Read more ➡️
Read more ➡️
September 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The PSF joined the @openssf.org & others in signing “Open Infrastructure is Not Free.” Funding gaps in the open source industry mean critical infrastructure lacks support. Corporations benefiting from it must invest to sustain it.
Read more ➡️
Read more ➡️
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putting this on your timeline again
September 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
putting this on your timeline again
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BREAKING: The UN General Assembly has voted to allow Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to address the annual gathering of world leaders next week via video after the US said it would not give him a visa to travel to New York.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/4nih6d
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/4nih6d
September 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
BREAKING: The UN General Assembly has voted to allow Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to address the annual gathering of world leaders next week via video after the US said it would not give him a visa to travel to New York.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/4nih6d
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/4nih6d
Me: I want some tear away pants. I used to live for my tear away pants in grade school.
Friend: kids with tear away pants used to get bullied in my school.
Me: They probably wore their pants too high or something. MY tear away pants were cool.
Narrator: Whose to know the truth.
Friend: kids with tear away pants used to get bullied in my school.
Me: They probably wore their pants too high or something. MY tear away pants were cool.
Narrator: Whose to know the truth.
September 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Me: I want some tear away pants. I used to live for my tear away pants in grade school.
Friend: kids with tear away pants used to get bullied in my school.
Me: They probably wore their pants too high or something. MY tear away pants were cool.
Narrator: Whose to know the truth.
Friend: kids with tear away pants used to get bullied in my school.
Me: They probably wore their pants too high or something. MY tear away pants were cool.
Narrator: Whose to know the truth.
I have to get from Cambridge to Manchester today and I'm SOOOOOO close to renting a car.
September 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I have to get from Cambridge to Manchester today and I'm SOOOOOO close to renting a car.
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Fun article about “outsider” scientists and their breakthroughs.
“Academia filters most funding, publishing, and hiring decisions through senior insiders, which favors ideas within existing paradigms.”
worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...
“Academia filters most funding, publishing, and hiring decisions through senior insiders, which favors ideas within existing paradigms.”
worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...
Why science needs outsiders - Works in Progress Magazine
Science has forgotten that the greatest breakthroughs often come from outsiders who are able to take a fresh perspective.
worksinprogress.co
September 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Fun article about “outsider” scientists and their breakthroughs.
“Academia filters most funding, publishing, and hiring decisions through senior insiders, which favors ideas within existing paradigms.”
worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...
“Academia filters most funding, publishing, and hiring decisions through senior insiders, which favors ideas within existing paradigms.”
worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...