Notices by Rachael Ludwick (r343l@freeradical.zone)

@kingrat Yeah when poetry came out I like it a lot. Our team has moved over to pdm mostly but just hit a blocking bug (see other replies) that the only way to workaround is rip out pdm or downgrade python to 3.12.6 (from 3.12.7).

@inthehands We have a bunch of cargo bikes -- my retires mom has a big front box trike, partner has a pakster (front box) and we had to just give up and got a shed just for bikes (we don't have a garage.) The storage issues with ebikes are real and since they are often pricy bikes few are going to want to lock up outdoors (even if there is a place to). A lot of apartment buildings have car parking but not bike, etc. It is a real challenge. Thank you for sharing yours.

@inthehands @michael_w_busch @GottaLaff As frequently pointed out, there are more conservative and republican voters in California than anywhere but Texas -- and more liberal & democratic voters in Texas than anywhere but California. And none of those voters get any real vote or is there a need for candidates to appeal to those voters.

@inthehands probably would depend on language and the common conventions of that language community which, uh, maybe not great.

I read some social media this morning about national politics which made me mad. Instead of tooting the details I'm going to write some local elected officials about issues that matter and that they can do something about.

I must admit I just listened to most of AOC's insta live (https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9l41vgOAGj/) -- wish there was a transcript I could link instead -- but as someone who spent like 20
hours a week of my life in the last couple months of the 2016 election volunteering for the Clinton campaign (while holding a full time startup job!), it is fucking depressing watching the utter lack of realism the elite powerful types seem to have about how process and door knocking and enthusiasm works.

Also AOC is very good at communicating in a way that doesn't come off as over confident but also still assertive and value oriented.

In the U.S. and want to make it less likely that authoritarians will take even more power? Here are ways to help:
- Contribute to the Harris campaign. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/social-bfp-july-2024-v2
- Contribute to progressive orgs that do get out the vote. E.g. http://vot-pac.com/l/Y9KJAu
- Resist fascism in your local community: join your library foundation, find local candidates to support, join a local community org that supports immigrants, queer people, the poor, etc.
- Support unions.

If you have friends or relatives in swing or republican leading states, People magazine, of all places, published a readable overview of the policy plans of people who worked in trump's previous admin or likely to in a new one. That is reporting on the real stakes of the presidential election. https://people.com/what-is-project-2025-inside-far-right-plan-trump-presidency-8622964 #uspol

Pocket having its in-app share link wrap with their url annoys me. So what alternate link saving options are there that:

- work on iOS and Mac (and ideally sync between them)
- let me import / export history
- ideally cache a copy
- support a "reader" mode so it strips out ads and irrelevant to content sections
- isn't tracking me or using my data

I feel this road is going to end with self-hosting. 😂

@kingrat @Andres4NY am I weird that I just leave it all on? Like I don't really want to work on a team that's still using $OldAndUncommon but if the right job came along and that was part of the job it'd be fine. That section of the resume is getting long but I just shorten the older jobs more and more.

Just absolutely cool stuff the government does and offers up for free. https://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov/ #government #ag

@lapt0r @mekkaokereke @jonathanpeterson @lesley @inthehands I graduated from the university of arizona (tucson) in 2001 with a CS degree. It had intro courses that had to be done before “applying” for the major. There was an event to “welcome” the new CS majors who passed. There were maybe 50-60 of us and maybe 5 women in the room. They appear to have some version of this system still in place checking their website.

@emilygorcenski I can’t even make a joke. It is just so tiresome how little grace or care folks are willing to grant to the other folk around them when we are all fundamentally going to make mistakes small and large and that’s okay. We can’t fix any of the horrors of the world constantly tearing down. :/

@webbureaucrat @kensanata (a) those forms are actually hard to get families to do for a variety of reasons including embarrassment, literacy, being busy & losing/forgetting, being afraid of the immigration police, etc. (b) even when students get free / reduced lunch it’s often a thing that marks the kid and can feel degrading. I was a free lunch kid. It made me feel bad about myself for no good reason.

We should have free food for all kids. It’s easier & no forms or degradation require.