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December 1, 2025 at 3:36 AM

k☭wagata

@kuwagata.bsky.social

I always thought it was kind of funny that the 4channer types liked to depict Donald as the Emperor of Man, who contemporaneously with when the tabletop is played, is not the golden warrior they would paste his head on

December 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM

k☭wagata

@kuwagata.bsky.social

Findr icon

noé @celechii.itch.io · 2d

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far

i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

comparison between apple's finder icon and mine. apple's is the split blue and white smiley face, mine is two blue and white anime girls making out

comparison between discord's icon and mine. mine is like a screaming cat on a blue/purple slimy background

comparison between celsys's clip studio paint icon and mine. mine is similar but rotated with some comic styling and pink and blue highlights

comparison between mozilla's firefox icon and mine. mine is similar but looks closer to the old firefox icon and brings back the little arm and gives the fox a cute little smiley face

November 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM

k☭wagata

@kuwagata.bsky.social

Watching the new Defunctland and was Stitch's Picture Phone the first vtuber

November 30, 2025 at 5:18 AM

k☭wagata

@kuwagata.bsky.social

I frankly do not get the appeal of Stranger Things even before the set up of the Soviets being the bad guys or two of the people on the show being zionists

It just seems like 80s fake nostalgia for people who were either not born or barely born during the 80s

November 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM

k☭wagata

@kuwagata.bsky.social

Watching the Defunctland video and

Wait is that why HAL 9000 sings Daisy Bell when David has yanked out most of their intelligence units; they're reverting back to the early IBM unit which was programmed to sing

November 29, 2025 at 3:39 AM

k☭wagata

@kuwagata.bsky.social

Is that actually the name of the public housing complex in Hong Kong or is it the KTVU OZ 214 crash pilot name embarrassment again

November 29, 2025 at 3:05 AM

k☭wagata

@kuwagata.bsky.social

I still think from time to time how good this version of "We Both Reached for the Gun" from 2021 is

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCWB...

2021 '시카고' 프레스콜 We Both Reached For the Gun 민경아 최재림

YouTube video by NEWSTAGE뉴스테이지

www.youtube.com

November 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM

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Schmidt Ocean Institute

@schmidtocean.bsky.social

Spectacular strawberry squid! Histioteuthis squid w/massively asymmetrical eyes: 1 larger for viewing the silhouettes of predators & prey above, & 1 smaller eye for capturing glimmers of bioluminescent snacks below. #AsgardArchea - 730m - ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute

November 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM

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Cyber-Piper

@roodypatooti.bsky.social

Guy who has heard other guys refer to their wives as "ball and chain" and "battle-axe" and wrongfully assumed you can refer to your wife as any medieval weapon: oh there's my beautiful Lucerne hammer

October 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM

k☭wagata

@kuwagata.bsky.social

Topology (and related origami mathematics) is like literally an extremely practical branch of mathematics for engineering

monoidal sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 3d

ruin your thanksgiving by reading new york magazine's take on mathematics

The Ten Most
Ridiculous-Sounding
Math Classes Currently
Offered at Liberal-Arts
Colleges
By Jessica Pressler, Janelle Zara, and Emily Watkins Rachel Stein andAviva Shen OCT. 19, 2010
Every year, liberal-arts majors anxiously scour their college's course listings looking for classes that will fulfill their math requirement but aren't so, you know, math-y. Here's what they're signed up for this year.
10. Topology: The Nature of Shape and Space: "In geometry we ask: How big is it? How long is it? But in topology we ask: Is it [Sarah Lawrence
9. The Mathematies of Chance: "Most topics are introduced ina case-study fashion, usually by reading an article in a current periodical such as the New York Times. [Bard]

8. Mathematics in Many Cultures: "Mathematical ideas are found in many cultures, among both literate and non-literate peoples. This course examines both mathematics and the role it plays in the cultures. Examples chosen from the mathematical ideas of present-day peoples of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, as well as historic Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Islam and China." [Pomona]
7. The Magic of Numbers: "This course will explore the beauty and mystery of mathematics through a study of the patterns and properties of the natural numbers 1, 2, [and] 3." [Harvard
6. Models of Life: In particular, we will ask such questions as: How do you model the growth of a population of animals? How can you model the growth of a tree? How do sunflowers and seashells grow?" [Kenyon]

5. Mathematical Origamist's Toolkit: "Topics include modular origami and how this models the creation of polyhedra and coloring of graphs, comparison of origami-axiomatic constructions to straight-edge and compass constructions, the combinatorics of possible crease patterns, the mathematics of origami design (circle packing, optimization), matrix models for paperfolding, spherical geometry, Descartes' Theorem, and Gaussian curvature." [Hampshire]
4. Mathematics and Narrative: "Many literary works (Arcadia, Proof, and Uncle Petros and the Goldbach Conjecture) use mathematics as an integral part of their narrative. Movie and television narratives such as Good Will Hunting and Numb3rs are also mathematically based. Nonfiction works about mathematics and mathematical biographies like Chaos, Fermat's Enigma, and A Beautiful Mind provide further examples of the connection between mathematics and narrative." [Vassar]

3. Borges and Mathematics: "Jorge Luis Borges was one of the most important writers of the 20th century. Many of his short stories and essays were concerned with philosophical, metaphysical, and mathematical questions. The thesis motivating this course is that if we know the mathematies that Borges referred to, then we will read him differently, and we will read him better." [Bennington 2. Mathematics and Science as Art in Contemporary Theatre: "Playwrights such as Tom Stoppard, Rinne Groff, Michael Frayn, and others have effectively explored mathematical and scientific themes for artistic purposes. Through readings and exercises, and by conducting labs and staging scenes, this class will gain some first-hand insight into the complementary ways in which science and art aim to seek out their respective truths." [Middlebury]
1. Meaning, Math, And Motion: "Quoting a charming articulation by Kinsman (a mathematician-turned-oceanographer, in the preface to Wind Waves): "To the beginner, science is a conversation that has been in progress for a very long time. Our collective work is to catch up on the conversation. [Evergreen]
This is why Asia is winning, by the way.

November 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM

k☭wagata

@kuwagata.bsky.social

chuffed.org/project/kawt...

November 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM

k☭wagata

@kuwagata.bsky.social

Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild

• Waitomo Cave Weta (Pachyramma waitomoensis)
• Siebold's Dragonfly (Anotogaster sieboldii)
• Asian Giant Hornet (Vespa mandarinia)
• Paper Kite Butterfly (caterpillar) (Idea leuconoe)
• Long spined urchin (Diadema sp.)

Smeesh 🌿 Illustrator for hire @asmeesh.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:

• Bull moose
• Bull elk
• Snowy owl
• Humpback whale
• Black bear (I biked into him)

Sarah Smith - Nature Artwork @doedryadart.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:

- Moose
-Black Bear
- Boreal Chickadee
- Fisher
- Mink Frog

November 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM

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ash s.🔜 MICE 2025!!!

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My commissions are open! 🦃I'm doing both:

-Icons
-Pet Portraits
-$35 each, +$10 per pet/character

10"x10", 300 dpi, 10 slots available! Link to commission me here: ko-fi.com/ashszymanik/commissions

November 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM

k☭wagata

@kuwagata.bsky.social

I wonder if there's any paleontologists which also are sport fisherpersons, and think about how they would land a Dunkleosteus or Anomalocaris

November 28, 2025 at 6:47 AM

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Jeff VanderMeer

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social

happy, um, thanks giving?

November 27, 2025
The "infamous scene of Lowry [redacting] [Redacted]" reminded me to take my Thanksgiving roast out of the freezer to defrost.

a smell that had always been there. It was an amazing smell, like
vanilla and lavender but not fru- fucking- fru cloyfucking. No,
wait, it was a savory smell, like chicken in a pot of spices, the
simmering scent of that, rising from the stove, curling into the
living room on a cold fall day. A taste- bud- tingling smell . . .
coming from the dead- skin husk fucking cast- off wax- dribbling
fi gure fucker hidden inside that improbable possible jacket. Se-
cret, self- contained, solitary as an oyster.
Shit. It smelled so good and nary a fucking small woodland
creature he’d manage to bag, even since free of the Southern
Reach’s fucked- up policy on the matter. A good broth on a winter’s
day. The way the broth would bubble with those golden bubbles,
each one on the surface breaking open to add to a salivating scent.
If the pile smelled that good . . . maybe it would taste fucking
great, too, and any texture infi rmities just the price to be fucking
paid for, fi nally, getting a good meal in this hovel, this shithole,
this bed- and- breakfast from hell he would not be fucking recom-
mending to anyone.
His mouth watered and he teared up. Oh, it was such a fuck-
ing succulent smell, it would have to be a taste of manna. It
would taste like moist chicken breast or slow- marinated pork,
where the meat just fell off the bone. It could be the chicken
from the fi rst- fi rst expedition, Whitby’s chicken, and he would
still eat the fuck out of it. Yes, just think of it as a fowl. A fattened
fowl could be a lighthouse and a delicious gorge. Don’t be
disgruntled or discouraged by what it looked like— if a thing
camoufl aged itself, that was nothing to do with him.
He reached his hand out and touched the remembered ac-
cordion fl ubber- sweat of the foot part, the tangled shank- of- leg
part . . . and found that now it had the perfect crispy texture of
the skin on a perfectly cooked turkey. That golden glazed mag-
nifi cence …

November 28, 2025 at 4:19 AM

k☭wagata

@kuwagata.bsky.social

Going on a cousin walk with my "Ghost Bird" clone

November 28, 2025 at 4:15 AM

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Kendra, normal version

@kendrawcandraw.bsky.social

Going in a cousin walk with my Annihilation (2018) doppelgänger

November 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM

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MOTH👑MONARCH ain't dead yet

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