Spirals of illusory yellow

What is Bríngitǒnic?

X-Wing Dice Roller YouTube video by punkUser

Related: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTFa...

This is cool! A way to predict how shapes will land when "tossed". And it's done in way where you can design a shape to have particular probabilities, like a die that mimics two dice or a dragon that lands in one of three ways equally.

hbaktash.github.io/projects/put...

I think the most interesting thing in this chart is how much more likely it is for Fox to have pictures of Biden than it is for CNN, and how that isn't also the case with Trump

Who are the Stuck Temple Violets?

Ancient Poems Record the Decline of a Special Porpoise The Yangtze finless porpoise is near extinction in the wild, but glimpses of its heyday can be found in centuries of Chinese poetry.

What’s happening to my special porpoise! www.404media.co/ancient-poem...

Here's a notebook with some different ways of visualizing how many people are visiting the US and from where.

observablehq.com/@stringerthe...

Iris, Tulips, Jonquils, and Crocuses

Iris, Tulips, Jonquils, and Crocuses www.wikiart.org/en/alma-woodsey-thomas/i...

My kids read *a lot* of ebooks that we currently check out using Libby. Also, we love the public library and don’t want to fleece it. Is there a way we can do it differently as patrons that doesn’t fleece the library?

Beaker as Renee Zellweger on the cover of Harper’s bazaar.

i’m just photoshopping muppets onto the cover of harper’s bazaar: thread

Toasted Sugar Recipe Toasting sugar in a low oven allows it to slowly caramelize. The result is a sort of "granulated caramel" that can be used in any recipe as a one-to-one substitution for plain sugar.

TIL if you toast sugar for a couple of hours at 300F it gets much less sweet (and tastes better and has a lower glycemic index) while retaining its magical baking properties so you can use enough to do this tapioca protection trick and get perfect cherry filling

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Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed Pixelfed said it is "seeing unprecedented levels of traffic."

Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized, open source Instagram competitor that has had skyrocketing signups in recent days: www.404media.co/meta-is-bloc...

@taylorlorenz.bsky.social on #FreeOurFeeds

www.usermag.co/p/freeourfee...

two charts showing the counts of news articles that mention "fires AND los angeles" and "climate change AND los angeles". There is a big jump up on Jan 7, when the fires started. The percentage of news stories mentioning "fires and LA" is about 3%, and the percentage of news stories mentioning "climate change AND LA" is about 0.5%.

Same! This prompted me to check www.mediacloud.org, which I think is meant to help with questions like this. It looks like about 1 out of 6 stories about the fires mention climate change (if I'm using it correctly...)

Schematic diagram: a typist, located in another room, listens to a participant in a user study and types what they say — simulating a speech recognition program.

This paper describes user research on speech recognition software, long before accurate recognition was technologically feasible. dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

This was written over 40 years ago. Technological feasibility doesn't need to get in the way of figuring out if something can be useful!

Yukai Engineering unveils tiny cat robot that blows on hot food and drinks Japanese robotics startup Yukai Engineering has debuted a portable cat-shaped robot that blows air at hot drinks and foods to cool them down at this year's Consumer Electronics Show.

one of the nicer cat-shaped beverage coolers I've seen www.dezeen.com/2025/01/08/y...

This is such a cool idea! Get an inside look into the life and work of an open-source developer and chat about NLP and more. I'll probably hang out in the chat for a bit as well 💙

I made a simple chrome extension to copy the URLs of every tab in the current window to the clipboard github.com/stringertheo...

"La danse (second version)", painting by Henri Matisse. Text says: It's Public Domain Day! Every year on 1 January, the Wikimedia community celebrates the day on which artistic works become free to use once their copyright protection ends.

Every year on 1 January, Public Domain Day celebrates the artistic works that enter the public domain, becoming free for everyone to use, share, and adapt.

Wikimedia volunteers are at the forefront of sharing these works while navigating copyright restrictions. ➡️ w.wiki/CbAe

For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education

Some kind of turquoise sea anemone with purple tips on a tide pool

Different textures of brown kelp

A yellow orange flipper of some kind of kelp

Deep purple rock and a greenish squishy thing

Went to a beach on the northern California coast a couple days ago and it happened to be the lowest tide of the day. Totally alien landscape out there in the crevices, making me dream up ideas for new #weaving projects. #DHmakes

good paintings in the replies

Why would I want be on bluesky? Some thoughts: - #1 reason is as a source for links + finding people who make interesting things. I think of it like a high-volume RSS feed of a link-blog that that’s collectively generated by those I choose to follow. I don't feel the need to comprehensively read it: I can dip into it. If I follow someone, it's not necessarily an "endorsement", just that I get an impression that somebody might add something that I find interesting in the moment to that collective, or is part of an interesting community of people. Be intentional about follows, the choice of who to follow is the main way of influencing this part of my information diet. - A sense of the zeitgeist: overall, and in different communities or different topics (vibe-o-meter). - I really like following funny/weird bots, e.g. "Why can't I hold all these?" on mastodon, Youtube glitch. Anything by Kate Compton or Darius Kazemi. FrontPagesBot. - Sharing things I make/write. I made it, might as well share it. I am bad at this and think I'd like to improve. When I do this, it feels good to get a few likes/reposts. Even when I'm writing primarily to myself, putting a link "out there" feels like a sense of closure. - "Tiny acts of goodness”. I share what I personally think is good/valuable/beautiful/true/funny/thoughtful. Some things I consider it a "public service" to amplify: try to include a highlight or some reason why I think it's worth sharing — but really I'm sharing because I'd love for others to read whatever I'm linking to! - I don't engage in all that much dialog, and it hasn't been very common for people to engage with me in dialog about the stuff I share, so this more overtly "social" part of social media isn't very important to me! I have pretty much all notifications off, and don't like to / am not good at being fast with replies (even to text messages... sorry friends). I'm open to changing that, though. - To tinker with the data. I'm interested in information network

I jotted down these notes a few weeks ago when I was trying to decide if I want to be on here. Sharing in case they're helpful.

It's OK (but not great) at what I put down as my #1 reason, but feels like it's maybe improving.

And I didn't realize sharing links has been penalized. I wonder if that's an intentional choice, or something learned through less engagement?

I also love when people share links with commentary, or even just repost — it amplifies what they consider worth amplifying (and if I'm following someone, I'm curious about that). It also enables things like Nuzzel (RIP) or sill.social

I wish people would post more links to interesting things

I feel like Twitter and LinkedIn and Instagram and TikTok have pushed a lot of people out of the habit of doing that, by penalizing shared links in the various "algorithms"

Bluesky doesn't have that misfeature, thankfully!

Moon – Bartosz Ciechanowski Interactive article about the Moon

Moon – ciechanow.ski/moon/

This had me searching for where I can buy Canadian/European Kit Kats