Dark Cartographer

Yet again my simultaneous interest in latin cases and the space shuttle thermal protection system has led to a faux pas

it makes me really happy that the farsi word for big is bozorg, thats basically onomatopoeia for the concept of bigness

I’m thinking of a number between 1 and 39402006196394479212279040100143613805079739270465446667948293404245721771497210611414266254884915640806627990306815

Ancient Greek Coins With Octopuses 🐙

One of my favorite Muppet stories is how more than once, when Kermit was on a talk show, the production crew was confused by how bad the sound was for Kermit only to realize that they had put the mic on Kermit, because of course you would put the mic on Kermit.

[carefully crafting a letter to the deans explaining that the entirety of history from 5000BCE to 1945 is still worth hiring ~1.5 professors to teach about because actually it laid a lot of the intellectual and practical groundwork for the compressed air thrusters that have transformed our world]

Update your app for Spooky Season. 👻🦇🧙‍♀️🎃

A thing about running LLMs on top of everything is that the everything they're on top of is a mess

[Kurt Russell shoots a dog] This is why we can’t have nice Thing

There are numerous elevators

Robin’s been doing fascinating visualization work in this area, such that I am now not only invested emotionally in NESO’s B4/B5 onshore reinforcement schedule, but also pronouncing “schedule” properly

Dorothy Sayers’ motorcycle is up for auction: cars.bonhams.com/auction/3204...

I just learned that the 3 asterisks on a line that appear in novels to denote a change of scene or context is called a dinkus.

Illustration from Elements of astronomy - John Davis, 1868

made a friend today

Itō Jakuchū's 'Frog' of 1790 for me is the iconic image of numbed uncomfortable bafflement at the predicament of existence in the coming modern world, much as Munch's 'Scream' expressed it through horror.

Staying in touch with my inner child by shaking the parmesan cheese until no pasta is visible

Start by offering little miniature vans to warhammer enthusiasts and then slowly give them bigger ones over time

8 hours for sleep, 8 hours for work, 8 hours to get ready for tomorrow

It's important to stay carbohydrated

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

I picked the wrong week to carve a stone stele commemorating the only two polyhedra with this property

What Is It like to Be an AT-AT?

Show: The Simpsons Language: Japanese

I’m of two minds about Julian Jaynes

Today I learned there are only two known polyhedra in which each face shares an edge with every other face. One of them being the timeless beauty of the tetrahedron and the other one being whatever the heck this is

Every river in Canada, drawn only by its own water, every day since Jan 2025. The country thaws: about 46,000 m³/s to the sea in late winter, 244,000 at the June snowmelt peak, a fivefold swing. GloFAS data via @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social #rivers #Canada

Having difficulty keeping a neutral view of the Kennedy Center news as I was once in my youth compelled to sing onstage there for television, which I was not expecting and did not enjoy.

the humiliation ritual of a forced OS upgrade

Drawing Knotted in the Manner of a Net https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483137

You found an Esoteric Scrying Cone! It’s most intelligible when you’re EXHAUSTED. +2 WIS -1 INT -1 CHA

Some are born morning person, some achieve morning person, and some have morning person thrust upon them

Really good chicken helmet. Best chicken helmet I’ve ever seen maybe.

Summer’s over so as is traditional I will be moving from my beach body to my bog body

but for real there is no meaning in the Large Context Collider, even the best faith gets repackaged into bad faith sausage, it’s a trap

sorry I can't make it today, I accidentally tried a new tea that smells like Sleep No More and I need to sit and stare out a window

time is one of the more unlikely things for an ocarina to be of

I can only imagine what kind of five-alarm nonsense is happening inside vfx houses right now.

the negotiations didn’t have a smooth solution in finite time #teamturbulence