Alexandre Muñiz

Come for the welfare check, stay for the welfare checks.

Many people like to laugh at medieval illuminations of stag-snails, oh those funny medieval artists making up anim...

I’ve probably doodled this dozens of times, but I just really like this knot.

OpenAI’s faster Fourier transform is less a mathematical breakthrough and more a malicious exploit of mathematical traditions.

I discovered yesterday that I had been incorrectly assuming that @helsig.bsky.social and @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social were the same person. Apparently there are (at least) two highly creative and talented Daniel Wilsons.

For non-Portlanders, the bridge that the plane flies under is the Hawthorne bridge, which is a favorite of bicyclists because there is very little vertical gain from the approaches on either side. Which means there is also very little clearance to fly under. So, yeah, do not do this.

My oldest child (who lives an hour ahead of me) slid this into the family chat at 6:30 this morning and I was DETERMINED to do it first this year. I am defeated again. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfi9...

#SciArtSeptember #SciArt Day 14. #Crescent Apollonian knot.

When Charlie Brown woke one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a big pumpkin.

Today, @sightline.org's @andersem.bsky.social and @aarporegon.bsky.social presented to the Oregon Senate Housing Committee on the importance of supporting policy efforts to allow more Oregonians to age in place. One key way to make that happen? more elevators! #orleg

I have received news of a perfectly named cafe located on the waterfront of Nova Scotia's capital, if you know what I mean

(the birth of emancipation was Benjamin Franklin Butler, a man who bought his generalship so he could have his army buy its uniforms from his textile mills at a price he set, finding himself in charge of some runaway slaves and saying "i have never given any man a refund and I'm not starting today")

Yay, we're doing quizzes. Welcome to LiveJournal! I think the little Midwestern I have in my PNW English comes from my mom via my grandpa. But there are quirks in my idiolect that the quiz doesn't catch, like the middle syllable in "tomato" rhymes with hat, and "cómoda" instead of dresser.

I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶

This is some of the best historical fantasy out there. (It's a secondary world Rome with magic, but the setting hews a lot closer to our own world than most "secondary world version of country X" fantasy.) And $2.97 for a whole-ass trilogy is a crazy good deal.

New article is out!! admiralcloudberg.medium.com/years-of-sal...

There are 6 ways to place 1 | and 1 – stripe on L4 through cell centers. For Z4, there are 3. Can these pieces tile a 6×6 square with continuous stripes? We're lucky: the total stripe length is a multiple of 6, & the number of crossings works. One unique tiling exists, up to symmetry. #TilingTuesday

The thing about trying to play the nativism card against Trump is that Trump is kicking out brown people, and you're just trying to kick out some beef. There are a lot more bigot voters than there are specifically rancher bigot voters, so I don't see how you can win here.

It's Balatro, and I'm not sure I could survive a whole year eating banana, ice cream and popcorn, and drinking, uh, Splash.

We're having the flooring replaced in the house because my mom is planning on selling it. She reminded me that I picked this linoleum pattern in the laundry room when I was 7. Even then, I liked geometric tilings. #TilingTuesday

Ooh, pretty.

This book is an incredible read. Absolutely brilliant deal go get it now

Soft Rains Day. "Today is August 4, 2026, in the city of Allendale, California. Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills." RIP Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

Today is Venn Day, in celebration of the mathematician John Venn, born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn Diagram.

Resolving ambiguity in order of operations is easy: simply enumerate all possible parsings of a given expression, compute each value, and then average. E.g., for 9-3-3÷3, ((9−3)−3)÷3 = 1 (9−(3−3))÷3 = 3 (9−3)−(3÷3) = 5 9−(3−(3÷3)) = 7 9−((3−3)÷3) = 9 so 9-3-3÷3 = (1+3+5+7+9)/5 = 5. Voilà! 🧮

Some squiggly guys (can you guess the rule?)

In short, there are valuable lessons we can learn about drones & interceptors & magazine depth & mine-sweepers, etc. But the key lesson is: no amount of tactical excellence can salvage strategic incompetence. Who lost the Iran War? The American voter did, that damn fool. And he ought to feel it.

Portland: everyone who is seriously thinking of using our CLEAN ENERGY FUND to bribe our basketball team to not leave town needs to know that our transit agency is on track to cut nearly 1/3 of its service from what it was in 2025. Which is the greater crisis?

Anything other than standard time is pure hubris; the gods stand ready to mete punishment.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

At some point when I was a kid I read that the pupil was a hole in your eye for light. But I interpreted "hole" wrong, and tried to use a pin to see how deep it went. Fortunately, my eyelids were smarter than I was that time.

New blog post on notation for fractional weights in polyform sets: puzzlezapper.com/blog/2026/07... Also, since my posts on my notation system will make more sense if you start from the beginning and read in chronological order, here's a link for that: puzzlezapper.com/blog/tag/not...

Just finished watching 1776 (the musical) with my mom. It was one of my dad's favorite movies, but I don't know if I ever watched straight through the whole thing while he was alive. He'd put it on, and I'd get bored and leave and come back later. I'd always be able to see it with him the next year.

*batteries not included (1987)

Humanities education is important because without it, many amazing shitposts would go over our heads.

This is absolutely lovely and fun. But also maybe spare a moment to consider why the Haiti fans couldn't get treated similarly.

Created using Excel and Krita. #MathArt