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  Well, today was my last day working at Meta. (I'll be on garden leave for the next few months.) Meta consolidating outside the Netherlands and me being unwilling to move means we're parting ways. I'm sad to go because the Python folks at Meta are stellar, and the work on Free-threaded Python, lazy imports and CinderX has been fantastic. Say what you will about Meta as a company, but the open-source support continues to be excellent. Garden leave notwithstanding, I am now in the mark...

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  The #Python Steering Council is collecting questions for the PyCon US 2026 Keynote this Sunday. If you have things you'd like the Steering Council to answer in public -- interesting or enganging or fun or ridiculous questions all welcome -- please fill out this form. https://bit.ly/pysc-2026

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  @robin @freakboy3742 not trying to defend callous inattentive people here, but I will say there are forms of "name blindness" that make these mistakes easy to make, specifically with "ambiguous" names. For me it seems my brain stores and looks up names as a whole, which makes it much harder to split off the first name. I literally have had that problem with Russell 😅 I apparently have him stored as "RussellKeithMagee", but not as "R...

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  Use #Python at all? I would like to do a silly thing, which I hope will bring amusement to others as well as me (if it works out). If you wouldn't mind, please fill out this form, and boost for reach: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRgC-YWEriHW_rbcBY9jWJf35w3bPxP01Mg5EAu25lOyPAeg/viewform

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  The Python Software Foundation @ThePSF is having its Fall Fundraiser (https://www.python.org/psf/donations/2022-q4-drive/). I care a lot about the PSF and the work it does and supports, so I'm going to implore everyone to participate, and also I'll be matching donations: https://matcher.pyfound.org/match/16/ In fact, Google will match my donations, so it'll have 3x impact! Small thread on why it matters 👇 #Python #fundraiser