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• Post #3492954

  https://epicenter-nyc.com/queens-diy-democracy-nyc-voting/ A Q&A with me (edited & condensed) about the neighborhood outreach table I've been running for more than a year https://harihareswara.net/posts/2025/you-can-just-show-up/ , my election recommendations, and DIY.

• Post #3095671

  https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20260604-french-iranian-author-marjane-satrapi-author-of-persepolis-dies-at-56 I'm sad that Marjane Satrapi has died. I have often come across the quote below. Before reposting it, I wanted to verify it. And I found out it's from a 2005 Salon interview https://www.salon.com/2005/04/24/satrapi_2/ -- during the time I worked at Salon! A neat coincidence for me.

• Post #2503280

  I'm currently rereading "The Blue Place" by Nicola Griffith @Nicolaz , the first in the Aud series https://nicolagriffith.com/aud-torvingen/ of lesbian noir novels. Lots of systems explanations - about woodworking, organized crime, Atlanta traffic, sculpture garden design, police work, forgery, and more - through the viewpoint of our narrator, who is phenomenally observant about all things except her own interior state and about a friend's tenderness toward her....

• Post #2317931

  On my way to the @HellGate #HellGateNYC launch party for "Courts of Contempt" https://courtsofcontempt.hellgatenyc.com/ - a magnificent multifaceted exposé of judicial corruption in #NYC. I made a quick handout to distribute to attendees who live in Queens, about sketchy judge & District Leader candidates on the primary ballot. Find me to get one!

• Post #2298314

  #nyc https://youtu.be/jAGd9FOOc6Y This 1:34 video from the New York City mayor's office is .... the blending of historical and contemporary, grounding modern arguments in past successes the assertions about what makes a city successful and exemplary the valorization of blue-collar *and white-collar* public service the celebration of the subway not just as a transit method but as a public space the sentimentality and aspiration

• Post #1590080

  Yesterday @leonardr and I celebrated our twenty-year wedding anniversary. We married in a tiny ceremony (3 guests) in New York City's Central Park, at the lookout point at the top of the Shakespeare Garden. 1/n

• Post #1458259

  As you read, play, watch, and otherwise enjoy #scifi, #fantasy, #horror, and other genre fiction this year, maybe you'll come across a work that explores or expands our understanding of gender. If so, please let the Otherwise Award jury know, so they can consider it! Anyone can nominate through our public recommendation form: https://otherwiseaward.org/award/2026-otherwise-awards/2026-otherwise-awards-recommendations :boosts_appreciated:

• Post #1090675

  @cjhuitt I just recommended "The Hard Quarry" again and reread it. Looking forward to reading more of your fiction in the future!

• Post #1052600

  I'm proud of my spouse @leonardr for his decades of service to the world. The #Python Software Foundation recently recognized some of that service by naming him a @ThePSF Fellow, and giving him the Community Service Award. A few photos of the ceremony at #PyConUS 2025: https://harihareswara.net/posts/2025/congratulating-leonard-psf-award/

• Post #1036980

  https://lwn.net/Articles/1065908/ "Turbulence at The Document Foundation" (TDF @tdforg being the home of LibreOffice @libreoffice ) Lots of ongoing discussion in fora at https://community.documentfoundation.org/c/board-discuss/26 .

• Post #961929

  This year will be the 20th anniversary of @leonardr's #Python screen-scraping tool Beautiful Soup. https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2024/celebrate-beautiful-soups-20th-anniversary/ Please contact me if you'd like to contribute to the celebration by any of: * contributing to a "how Beautiful Soup was important to my life or career" anthology * helping edit and publish that anthology * funding printing the book * throwing or speaking at a party on or around...

• Post #957712

  https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/calendar/ #USpol weather forecast: gusts of election news from Arkansas expected in a couple weeks, then from Georgia, New Jersey, and Virginia in April

• Post #957711

  Index page from https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb5dy4&seq=12 Roswell Alphonzo Benedict's 1901 book titled: "Tam, Tom and Tim's Discussion of Free Trade as a Remedy for Trusts, The Money Question, Imperialism, The Colonial Question (Does the Constitution Follow the Flag?), Tariff Revision & Reciprocity"

• Post #957709

  boosting @beth4ma.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy for #NYC people to know: "Folks in New York! I’m going to be in town next weekend and we’re meeting up at The Crown Inn in Brooklyn. Join us in building a progressive movement where AI works for all of us! RSVP here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/meetbeth3-21 " My friend Beth Andres-Beck, a software engineer, is running for Congress in Massachusetts. Want to talk with them about the software policies in their platform https://be...

• Post #957708

  RE: https://social.coop/@brainwane/116234851164336328 This is today!

• Post #957704

  am fiddling with a few elements from the International Year of Natural Fibres anthem @leonardr and I developed in 2009 https://www.crummy.com/2009/12/31/0 to possibly turn them into a jingle for free child care for 2-year-olds in New York City https://nyc.gov/jingle

• Post #797421

  At #PyConUS this year I learned that the most enduring one-line quote from my 2024 keynote https://harihareswara.net/posts/2024/references-pycon-us-keynote/ -- the one multiple people quoted back to me, one offhandedly in the midst of talking about their own career -- was: Infrastructure is a way we take care of each other at scale. (from the start of the talk) or Infrastructure is how we care for each other at scale. (from the end)

• Post #785623

  One thing I appreciate about serving on the board of @OtherwiseAward : we can use our platform to help bring more attention to new works by people whose works we've honored in the past https://otherwiseaward.org/2026/03/eligible-2025-works-by-past-winners-fellows Some of these are short stories you can read for free online! #SpeculativeFiction #books #sff