Elfi, known bug enjoyer @elfi@pixie.town

Three days until November!

If you were planning on doing #NaNoWriMo or have in the past, you may have just recently found out that the organization officially closed down earlier this year.

With amazingly good timing, I actually launched my own alternative site a year ago, #WritingMonth:

https://writingmonth.org

Writing Month allows you to set your own goal with various types and tracking method and work in any month while placing a strong emphasis on community and writing with your buddies. Feature development is a little slow as I'm currently finishing up my senior year of uni (🤞) but y'all's community support has been fantastic and I know things will only get better from here.

If you'd like to write a bit with us this November—with whatever goal you find feasible—I'd encourage you to give it a try! Feel free to send me a buddy request: https://writingmonth.org/~amin/

(Boosts are very welcome.)

funny puppy let out a witty remark #mastoart

Huge kudos to the PSF for standing on principle and making a difficult decision.

> "Ultimately, however, the value of the work and the size of the grant were not more important than practicing our values and retaining the freedom to support every part of our community. The PSF Board voted unanimously to withdraw our application."

With so many orgs going "no politics" or straight up obsequiousness to those in power, #Python stewards and community continue to impress.

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html

What if the sun was demonic and also had too many eyes

#MastoArt #DarkArt #Sketchbook #TraditionalArt #Pencil #Drawing

I was just looking at my webserver logs while sipping coffee (as one does) and I noticed that one of my websites was receiving requests for a js file which I had prototyped but never actually deployed.

The script tag is present in the page, but it's commented out. I investigated, and it seems that scrapers see that tag and are trying to grab it even though it's completely non-functional. I guess they just want every bit of code they can find to help train an LLM.

This seems like a promising pattern for catching scrapers that pretend to be normal browsers.

EDIT: I wrote a blog post about it: https://cryptography.dog/blog/AI-scrapers-request-commented-scripts/

📢 COMRADES NEEDED NEXT SATURDAY 📢

On the 1st of November, TERFs are gathering in London to mandate legal enforcement of the wildly transphobic UK Supreme court interpretation to the Equality Act

Why does this demo matter specifically❓

In the UK is at an all time high, and violence against trans people is on the rise. This will be the first demo by this TERF group in months. We need to show them that their hate is not welcome in London, nor anywhere in this country.

📍 WHERE IS IT? 📍
Victoria Embankment Parks
Fleet Air Arm Memorial
SW1A 2EX

⏰ WHEN IS IT? 🗓️
Please be there by 12pm on the day
We won't move off immediately, but please allow time to form up a bloc.

Safety:
There will be people on Welfare, and multiple medics.
Wear a mask, and drink plenty of water.
Try to bring a friend, and leave with someone else.

Please share this graphic and forward this message to comrades. Join this groupchat if you intend on coming.

https://signal.group/#CjQKIEcCc8A9zgHlQy981Yb4VCb4_SvwL9_wW0gVpgijSsSmEhCyZIhD70iyZfPCBri2hzPF

This is your reminder that if a food pantry would help you, you should definitely go to one.

Food pantries, like libraries, keep numbers of how many people they help. Numbers help them get funding. You are not taking from anyone; you are helping the food pantry exist.

It's that time of year. Make sure you're ready.

#halloween #witches

Shouldn’t need to say this but apparently anti-transmasc shit is going around

Trans men are men

Trans men are wonderful

Support and cherish trans men in our community, as well as transmasc non-binary people

If you are against transmasc people, fuck off

Edit: if you are gonna reply to this attempting to insinuate I’m somehow being sexist to transfems or anything like that, recognize I am transfem and I personally have seen people in trans communities talk shit about transmascs in multiple communities on the internet. I’m not entertaining discussion on “who is saying this” because it has been a problem that has repeated. I’m done.