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If you're planning on travelling south from Manchester Piccadilly by train in August, be aware that Stockport station is closed for most of the month (2-23) and there will be no trains running through it at all. Given how key Stockport is to that part of the WCML, this will create total chaos and is best avoided if possible.
Also there are no Metrolink trams to Piccadilly from most of the network from this week until mid-August (overlapping with the Stockport work).
"The opposition to climate action is using anti-trans rhetoric to build its base"
"A new analysis shows 80% of anti-trans groups have financial links to the fossil fuel industry, @yessfun reports" - @emorwee (via bsky)
HEATED: Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement
https://heated.world/p/fossil-fuel-billionaires-are-bankrolling
👀✨ Something exciting is coming… 👀✨
Applications for the Django Girls Workshop open on Monday 16th of June!
Whether you’ve never written a line of code or are just starting out, this is your sign to learn, connect and try something new 💻💫
Ready to dive in? Learn more here: https://djangogirls.org/en/pyconuk/
#PyConUK2025 #PythonProgramming #SoftwareEngineering #Python #development #ManchesterTech #DjangoGirls #WomenInTech
It’s new job time! Yesterday was my first day with https://www.tmforum.org/ where I’ll be helping publish Open API standards (described by OpenAPI, I know it’s confusing!) that can be adopted across industries.
First impressions: Enterprise software tools are a very different world!
Last week, at AltCtrl.org, a community gathering focused on the open web, a large group of contributors from the WordPress Ecosystem introduced FAIR, a new federated approach to plugin and... Read More
Them: you should probably use the keyboard layout that matches the actual labels on your keyboard
Me: …
No lies detected. Queer circles are *STACKED* with the kinds of introverts and neurodivergent geniuses who built the internet for fun (and let cishet bros enshitify it for profit -- Hey... Nobody's perfect).
Name any major FOSS project, I'll find you an LGBT person who is or was instumental. Probably several, and probably in my friends network. Maybe even my relationship graph.
For example PHP has... fuck, I lost count. PHP is *really* gay.
At the risk of stating the obvious, please do state the obvious! In two separate meetings this week it seemed like someone was arguing against a proposed change and in both cases, they were actually very supportive of the idea, and had already moved on to talk about what else could be done. Stop. Express your support (you can thank the suggester if you like!) so that it's clear, and THEN you can build on the original suggestion.
In both cases, we nearly ended up not doing the original thing!
Paul
Parents For Future 
PyCon UK
Tadonic the Flautulent
Benjamin Han
SaraMG 🏳️🌈