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Laura Langdon

@lauralangdon.io

Open Source Community Manager | Professional Generalist | Team Neurodivergence | Black Lives Matter | SF Bay Area native but also a citizen of 🇨🇦 | Optimizing all the things and raising The Goblins with @brandonlangdon.bsky.social

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Laura Langdon@lauralangdon.io · 3mo ago

While listening to a bit on @ologies.bsky.social about how some wineries don’t have their own vineyards and buy grapes then do their special things with them to make their own special wine, I was knitting with yarn that felt familiar but was from an indie dyer who’s new to me.

Laura Langdon@lauralangdon.io · 3mo ago

I’ve knitted a pair of #Python socks for the #PyLadies Auction @ #PyConUS 2026! They fit a US women’s 7.5-9 shoe or men’s 6-7.5 (about 23.8-25.1 cm foot length, depending on width/instep etc.). The yarn is composed of: 52% Silk 24% Mohair 20% Merino 4% Viscose See some of y’all there!

A pair of socks, one mostly blue with a yellow toe and cuff, and the other yellow with a blue toe and cuff. Each is knit with a snake formed by the texture of the fabric, and the snakes are sticking out their wee tongues. A cat’s back leg is visible in the top right corner of the photo.A pair of socks, one mostly blue with a yellow toe and cuff, and the other yellow with a blue toe and cuff. Each is knit with a snake formed by the texture of the fabric, and the snakes are sticking out their wee tongues. The tip of a cat’s tail and paw peek into the right side of the frame.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Laura Langdon@lauralangdon.io · 8mo ago

Cat: I’ll come sit on this knitting resting on your leg so you can’t knit it and also can’t retrieve it because these paws tucked so sweetly beneath me are armed with knit-destroying hooked knives that will be activated by your pulling the knitting out from below me, which I’ll perceive as a threat

Tabby cat of the brown variety lying on a piece of green knitting (garter stitch with an i-cord edge, of you’re into that kind of thing). Her paws are tucked under her so thoroughly that they’re almost imperceptible, like perhaps this poor limbless creature is actually a potato cosplaying as a cat.
Laura Langdon@lauralangdon.io · 9mo ago

White folks don’t even score 100% *human*; we’re all at least 2% Neanderthal. 🤷🏻‍♀️ In fact, the *only* people who are 100% human are those who have entirely African ancestors, as in their DNA’s never left the African continent. All the rest of us are mixed.

Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · 9mo ago

So here's the Good news/Bad news depending on how racist you are: White people are already extinct. It already happened, hundreds of years ago.🤷🏿‍♂️ bsky.app/profile/mekk... Your great-great-great grand pappy was getting busy before racism was invented. Now none of y'all score 100% on your 23 and me.

Laura Langdon@lauralangdon.io · 9mo ago

No moving necessary, even. We (tech folks) never pulled our kids from their Montessori or Waldorf whatever schools, as tech-free as ever and with low teacher:student ratios. We know.

Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

Laura Langdon@lauralangdon.io · 9mo ago

And also when you’re passing someone on a walkway and they say “How you doing?” you’re supposed to say the exact same thing straight back and keep walking, without ever answering the question. 🤯 I didn’t realize this until like five years ago.

Marco Rogers@polotek.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Did you know that sometimes when people ask you "how are you doing?" they're really asking you to tell them what's been going on with you lately? I didn't *really* understand that until recently. #neurodivergence

Laura Langdon@lauralangdon.io · 10mo ago

The Langdon Lemma (8) got in the car for the school run, searched for “Purple Rain”, and recounted its origin story because he learned about Prince in music class yesterday. I thought @anildash.com would be pleased to hear it. 💜

Laura Langdon@lauralangdon.io · 11mo ago

I was interviewing for a technical writer job with a gov contractor a few years ago and eventually she said “This org supports ICE. You can look them up if you don’t know who they are”. *sounds of screeching tires* I said “I do know who they are, and we can stop right here.” 🙅🏻‍♀️

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.