Christopher Neugebauer
@chrisjrn.fyi
Man about the world; Expatriated Tasmanian living in California; conference organiser: (@NorthBayPython.org) previously (PyCon AU) and linux.conf.au; #python fan; multiple @python.org hats; queer; 💜 @robin.riley.pub
see also: @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi
see also: @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi
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Christopher Neugebauer
@chrisjrn.fyi
· Nov 28
Still trying to figure out managing both Bluesky and Mastodon. Social Network proliferation is icky.
In the meantime, I'm cross-posting as @fedi.chrisjrn.com at the moment, so follow me there to get more (most?) of my posts (and follow @ap.brid.gy if you want to actually interact with that account)
In the meantime, I'm cross-posting as @fedi.chrisjrn.com at the moment, so follow me there to get more (most?) of my posts (and follow @ap.brid.gy if you want to actually interact with that account)
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The PSF's 2025 end-of-year fundraiser is live 🐍🚀
#Python is for everyone—and it takes everyone to keep it thriving. Support the PSF, the Python community, and the language we love.
Join in today 💛💙 donate.python.org
#PythonForEveryone
#Python is for everyone—and it takes everyone to keep it thriving. Support the PSF, the Python community, and the language we love.
Join in today 💛💙 donate.python.org
#PythonForEveryone
PSF Fundraiser 2025
The Python Software Foundation is the charitable organization behind the Python programming language.
donate.python.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The PSF's 2025 end-of-year fundraiser is live 🐍🚀
#Python is for everyone—and it takes everyone to keep it thriving. Support the PSF, the Python community, and the language we love.
Join in today 💛💙 donate.python.org
#PythonForEveryone
#Python is for everyone—and it takes everyone to keep it thriving. Support the PSF, the Python community, and the language we love.
Join in today 💛💙 donate.python.org
#PythonForEveryone
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On the one hand, being on @ThePSF's board means some of my most consequential discussions of the day happen before I even get to have breakfast.
On the other hand, breakfast was freshly baked bread that I could put in the oven before today's meeting even started, so I can't complain too much.
On the other hand, breakfast was freshly baked bread that I could put in the oven before today's meeting even started, so I can't complain too much.
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
On the one hand, being on @ThePSF's board means some of my most consequential discussions of the day happen before I even get to have breakfast.
On the other hand, breakfast was freshly baked bread that I could put in the oven before today's meeting even started, so I can't complain too much.
On the other hand, breakfast was freshly baked bread that I could put in the oven before today's meeting even started, so I can't complain too much.
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Having a visual of how *dangerous* big cars are is so validating.
Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC
Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.
It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.
It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Having a visual of how *dangerous* big cars are is so validating.
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apparently it's task manager's (yes, the windows one) 30th birthday, so here's dave plummer talking about how he created it as a side project that ended up shipping, plus some interesting hidden features
I Wrote Task Manager — 30 Years Later, the Secrets You Never Knew
YouTube video by Dave's Garage
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
apparently it's task manager's (yes, the windows one) 30th birthday, so here's dave plummer talking about how he created it as a side project that ended up shipping, plus some interesting hidden features
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you can't just bring back austin powers. the franchise wrote itself into a corner after he volunteered to stay behind forever in the shagadelic dimension to save foxxy and vanessa. they already brought him back once without explaining how he escaped from fembot island, the audience won't buy it
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
you can't just bring back austin powers. the franchise wrote itself into a corner after he volunteered to stay behind forever in the shagadelic dimension to save foxxy and vanessa. they already brought him back once without explaining how he escaped from fembot island, the audience won't buy it
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so, today I got the surgery center where I got my deviated septum fixed to send me an itemized bill so I could submit to my FSA for reimbursement
my out of pocket cost: $473
what my insurance paid: $4258
what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
my out of pocket cost: $473
what my insurance paid: $4258
what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
I was at an event yesterday where Rand Paul spoke via video and talked about how great it was to send ACA money "directly to the people" so that they could work collectively to get better deals on health care.
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
so, today I got the surgery center where I got my deviated septum fixed to send me an itemized bill so I could submit to my FSA for reimbursement
my out of pocket cost: $473
what my insurance paid: $4258
what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
my out of pocket cost: $473
what my insurance paid: $4258
what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
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Do you or someone you know need a giant box of N95 masks?
440 pack of 3M 9205+ for $30
www.amazon.com/Aura-Particu...
Shipping was slow, but from Woot.com, which means they came through the direct supply chain 3M established with Amazon after Amazon had some "selling counterfeits" issues.
440 pack of 3M 9205+ for $30
www.amazon.com/Aura-Particu...
Shipping was slow, but from Woot.com, which means they came through the direct supply chain 3M established with Amazon after Amazon had some "selling counterfeits" issues.
Amazon.com: 3M Aura Particulate Respirator 9205+, N95, Pack of 440 Disposable Respirators, Individually Wrapped, 3 Panel Flat Fold Design Allows for Facial Movements, Comfortable, NIOSH Approved : Too...
Amazon.com: 3M Aura Particulate Respirator 9205+, N95, Pack of 440 Disposable Respirators, Individually Wrapped, 3 Panel Flat Fold Design Allows for Facial Movements, Comfortable, NIOSH Approved : Too...
www.amazon.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Do you or someone you know need a giant box of N95 masks?
440 pack of 3M 9205+ for $30
www.amazon.com/Aura-Particu...
Shipping was slow, but from Woot.com, which means they came through the direct supply chain 3M established with Amazon after Amazon had some "selling counterfeits" issues.
440 pack of 3M 9205+ for $30
www.amazon.com/Aura-Particu...
Shipping was slow, but from Woot.com, which means they came through the direct supply chain 3M established with Amazon after Amazon had some "selling counterfeits" issues.
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Stay tuned! We’ll be launching our end-of-year fundraiser this week and we hope you enjoy what we have prepared to share with you 🤗 if you’ve already donated and you’re a member, you can still take part by sharing our posts on social media & with your regional and project-based #Python communities!
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Stay tuned! We’ll be launching our end-of-year fundraiser this week and we hope you enjoy what we have prepared to share with you 🤗 if you’ve already donated and you’re a member, you can still take part by sharing our posts on social media & with your regional and project-based #Python communities!
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Here we are again: stunned & full of hope, because of you–each of you wonderful humans in the #Python community. Since we shared the news about our withdrawal from the NSF grant opportunity two weeks ago, we've received >$160,000 in donations across 1,937 donors, which includes 313 new Members–WOW!
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Here we are again: stunned & full of hope, because of you–each of you wonderful humans in the #Python community. Since we shared the news about our withdrawal from the NSF grant opportunity two weeks ago, we've received >$160,000 in donations across 1,937 donors, which includes 313 new Members–WOW!
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gotta get good news wherever you can find it.
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
gotta get good news wherever you can find it.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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I've never had an issue with "gifted kid burnout," but man oh MAN, "gifted kid aversion to not being immediately good at something right away" has been a lifelong struggle.
I cling to my incremental gains in coding/gamedev and Japanese like a fucking life raft.
I cling to my incremental gains in coding/gamedev and Japanese like a fucking life raft.
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I've never had an issue with "gifted kid burnout," but man oh MAN, "gifted kid aversion to not being immediately good at something right away" has been a lifelong struggle.
I cling to my incremental gains in coding/gamedev and Japanese like a fucking life raft.
I cling to my incremental gains in coding/gamedev and Japanese like a fucking life raft.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Has anyone asked Ozi Batla for comment?
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Has anyone asked Ozi Batla for comment?
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I know it's in bad taste to speculate on this, but when two women are the best of friends for decades, never marry again (divorced from brief marriages that led to children), and then build a shared lavish mausoleum to be buried in together with their families, one can't help but wonder
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I know it's in bad taste to speculate on this, but when two women are the best of friends for decades, never marry again (divorced from brief marriages that led to children), and then build a shared lavish mausoleum to be buried in together with their families, one can't help but wonder
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I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS
Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark
Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap
The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name
He did this six times
Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel
Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark
Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap
The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name
He did this six times
Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel
what did ruth mean when she said her steakhouse was "chris"
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS
Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark
Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap
The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name
He did this six times
Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel
Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark
Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap
The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name
He did this six times
Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel
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state legislators should be paid more. otherwise the legislatures are full of dilettantes, cranks, and nepobabies. this is why you keep hearing about the craziest fucking state laws
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
state legislators should be paid more. otherwise the legislatures are full of dilettantes, cranks, and nepobabies. this is why you keep hearing about the craziest fucking state laws
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Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning
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Spanberger’s GOP foe spent 57% of her ad budget on anti-trans attacks. Spanberger focused on the economy. You see what won. trib.al/fkMmsR4
The simple truth told time and time again in the polls: The public doesn’t care about trans issues. Voters care deeply about the economy, inflation, & prices.
The simple truth told time and time again in the polls: The public doesn’t care about trans issues. Voters care deeply about the economy, inflation, & prices.
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Spanberger’s GOP foe spent 57% of her ad budget on anti-trans attacks. Spanberger focused on the economy. You see what won. trib.al/fkMmsR4
The simple truth told time and time again in the polls: The public doesn’t care about trans issues. Voters care deeply about the economy, inflation, & prices.
The simple truth told time and time again in the polls: The public doesn’t care about trans issues. Voters care deeply about the economy, inflation, & prices.
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Q: Did Ross Douthat ruin the NYT?
A: No, it was always that bad.
A: No, it was always that bad.
November 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Q: Did Ross Douthat ruin the NYT?
A: No, it was always that bad.
A: No, it was always that bad.
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Ah, there it is. Adverse shadow docket decision from SCOTUS on passports for trans and nonbinary people.
Looking forward to hearing what @lambdalegal.org has to say, and then what the advice is for those of us who are impacted.
Looking forward to hearing what @lambdalegal.org has to say, and then what the advice is for those of us who are impacted.
NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.
Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends
equal protection principles than displaying their country of
birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to
a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential
treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to
establish that the Government’s choice to display biological
sex “lack[s] any purpose other than a bare . . . desire to
harm a politically unpopular group.” Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the
State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by de-
clining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress ex-
pressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiacrtgoecxjy5y7ojz7xzbun4c4nwutjcvqn4qb4p25ldpt6va5lu@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Ah, there it is. Adverse shadow docket decision from SCOTUS on passports for trans and nonbinary people.
Looking forward to hearing what @lambdalegal.org has to say, and then what the advice is for those of us who are impacted.
Looking forward to hearing what @lambdalegal.org has to say, and then what the advice is for those of us who are impacted.
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Found guilty of buttery
🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
November 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Found guilty of buttery
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🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
November 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty