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I like classical music & math/physics and also a billion other things
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@theeternalparadox.substack.com
· Sep 28
holy cheese I should bring back the math guys (comic I drew a long time ago about three stickguys learning math by interacting with imagined physical manifestations of concepts)
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Your daily fortune:
Not every problem can be solved with logic, coins, or daggers. Some can only be solved with potatoes. Lots of potatoes.
Not every problem can be solved with logic, coins, or daggers. Some can only be solved with potatoes. Lots of potatoes.
November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Your daily fortune:
Not every problem can be solved with logic, coins, or daggers. Some can only be solved with potatoes. Lots of potatoes.
Not every problem can be solved with logic, coins, or daggers. Some can only be solved with potatoes. Lots of potatoes.
what I wouldn't give to be able to sit on a high hill with some friends and fully savor a really. Good. Sunset.
October 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
what I wouldn't give to be able to sit on a high hill with some friends and fully savor a really. Good. Sunset.
D'ARVIT guys I really wanted Ruben to pass
(out of context chopin comp posting)
(out of context chopin comp posting)
October 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
D'ARVIT guys I really wanted Ruben to pass
(out of context chopin comp posting)
(out of context chopin comp posting)
I look up: continuous Levi-Civita symbol
I get: math stack exchange post from 9 years ago with ZERO answers
I get: math stack exchange post from 9 years ago with ZERO answers
October 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I look up: continuous Levi-Civita symbol
I get: math stack exchange post from 9 years ago with ZERO answers
I get: math stack exchange post from 9 years ago with ZERO answers
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Saw someone (not a mutual) posting that fig newtons are a lot of work, and I had to refrain from replying "actually, fig newtons are a lot of force; if they're a lot of work, then they're fig joules"
October 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Saw someone (not a mutual) posting that fig newtons are a lot of work, and I had to refrain from replying "actually, fig newtons are a lot of force; if they're a lot of work, then they're fig joules"
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Happy National Poetry Day to all those who celebrate.
This year’s theme is ‘play’ so here’s a poem which plays with some letters. It’s called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’.
This year’s theme is ‘play’ so here’s a poem which plays with some letters. It’s called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’.
![The Problem of Writing Poems
in the Shape of Deciduous Trees
[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:
a comm n
pr ble whe writin
p ems in the shape of decid o s
trees is t at once t ere ar ives the fir t
sti rings of he new aut mn breeze, he
oems will begi to shake hemselves
ge tly ntil their letters loos n
d
like leaves, an
they
start
to
float
down
then
[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]
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[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3hptt3d3jvwahhnl3jvsycc2/bafkreicmofismc32qk26i4leqicdulf6ttgw45p33qtgjzvhfbi5mswgta@jpeg)
October 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Happy National Poetry Day to all those who celebrate.
This year’s theme is ‘play’ so here’s a poem which plays with some letters. It’s called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’.
This year’s theme is ‘play’ so here’s a poem which plays with some letters. It’s called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’.
birdwatchers when they don't see the bird they wanted to see: it's so plover
October 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
birdwatchers when they don't see the bird they wanted to see: it's so plover
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Your daily horoscope:
Approach today like a coloring book - either do what's expected of you, or make your own rules. Picture the sky purple. Color outside the lines. Become ungovernable.
Approach today like a coloring book - either do what's expected of you, or make your own rules. Picture the sky purple. Color outside the lines. Become ungovernable.
September 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Your daily horoscope:
Approach today like a coloring book - either do what's expected of you, or make your own rules. Picture the sky purple. Color outside the lines. Become ungovernable.
Approach today like a coloring book - either do what's expected of you, or make your own rules. Picture the sky purple. Color outside the lines. Become ungovernable.
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There is magic in the air.
There are phantoms in the fog.
There are spirits in the trees, rocks, and rivers.
There are mysteries in misty forests and ruined castles.
There are secrets everywhere, waiting to be noticed.
There are phantoms in the fog.
There are spirits in the trees, rocks, and rivers.
There are mysteries in misty forests and ruined castles.
There are secrets everywhere, waiting to be noticed.
September 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
There is magic in the air.
There are phantoms in the fog.
There are spirits in the trees, rocks, and rivers.
There are mysteries in misty forests and ruined castles.
There are secrets everywhere, waiting to be noticed.
There are phantoms in the fog.
There are spirits in the trees, rocks, and rivers.
There are mysteries in misty forests and ruined castles.
There are secrets everywhere, waiting to be noticed.
if I had a nickel for every time I have done some part in turning a friend who is a programmer into classical music enjoyer, I would have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice
September 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
if I had a nickel for every time I have done some part in turning a friend who is a programmer into classical music enjoyer, I would have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice
holy cheese I should bring back the math guys (comic I drew a long time ago about three stickguys learning math by interacting with imagined physical manifestations of concepts)
September 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
holy cheese I should bring back the math guys (comic I drew a long time ago about three stickguys learning math by interacting with imagined physical manifestations of concepts)
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Shrines are often marked by growths of hiderangeas, huge stands of dark flowers that absorb sunlight and convert it into electricity to run the shrine’s defenses.
September 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Shrines are often marked by growths of hiderangeas, huge stands of dark flowers that absorb sunlight and convert it into electricity to run the shrine’s defenses.
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Put me in the hivemind, punish my simplicity, reduce me to a vertex in your shape. I could build your brainstem, channel dreaming through me, I can be a number or a gate
September 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Put me in the hivemind, punish my simplicity, reduce me to a vertex in your shape. I could build your brainstem, channel dreaming through me, I can be a number or a gate
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The tips of his fingers glow in the dark, like ten twitching candles. Shining capillary red, computers track his motion, and even as he sleeps he traces symbols
September 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The tips of his fingers glow in the dark, like ten twitching candles. Shining capillary red, computers track his motion, and even as he sleeps he traces symbols
the fact that the lcm and gcd are, in fact, dual (as co/products in the category of divisibility among positive integers) makes me feel incredibly pleased and vindicated somehow
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
the fact that the lcm and gcd are, in fact, dual (as co/products in the category of divisibility among positive integers) makes me feel incredibly pleased and vindicated somehow
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stumbled across The Printable Puzzle Project
printed the starter burr set in solid resin; went with translucent colours and ended up with a bunch of unwanted curing from light bleed on the undersides so it’s needed a fair bit of sanding to bring them back to size
www.puzzlehub.org/puzzles/puzz...
printed the starter burr set in solid resin; went with translucent colours and ended up with a bunch of unwanted curing from light bleed on the undersides so it’s needed a fair bit of sanding to bring them back to size
www.puzzlehub.org/puzzles/puzz...
Printable Puzzle Project - Puzzle Sets
These modular sets can be used to make a variety of related puzzles, providing many hours of entertainment from a single print.
www.puzzlehub.org
September 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
stumbled across The Printable Puzzle Project
printed the starter burr set in solid resin; went with translucent colours and ended up with a bunch of unwanted curing from light bleed on the undersides so it’s needed a fair bit of sanding to bring them back to size
www.puzzlehub.org/puzzles/puzz...
printed the starter burr set in solid resin; went with translucent colours and ended up with a bunch of unwanted curing from light bleed on the undersides so it’s needed a fair bit of sanding to bring them back to size
www.puzzlehub.org/puzzles/puzz...
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Broken objects are beautiful because they have been reduced from tools to ornaments—and an ornament is one step closer to a friend
September 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Broken objects are beautiful because they have been reduced from tools to ornaments—and an ornament is one step closer to a friend
aside from lack of skill, nothing appears to be preventing me from roller-skating instead of walking everywhere
September 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
aside from lack of skill, nothing appears to be preventing me from roller-skating instead of walking everywhere
as a math guy awwwww
I'll love you when you've been reduced to points in n-fold space; I'll love you when you're language and exist without a face. I'll love your brain undying, raised by math's unyielding breath—but I will miss your mass and warmth and change and fear and death
September 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
as a math guy awwwww
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I'll love you when you've been reduced to points in n-fold space; I'll love you when you're language and exist without a face. I'll love your brain undying, raised by math's unyielding breath—but I will miss your mass and warmth and change and fear and death
September 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I'll love you when you've been reduced to points in n-fold space; I'll love you when you're language and exist without a face. I'll love your brain undying, raised by math's unyielding breath—but I will miss your mass and warmth and change and fear and death
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I think that, in silhouette against the bright horizon, a herd of stegosauri must have looked like ink-black suns, arched bodies radiating shadowy plates
September 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I think that, in silhouette against the bright horizon, a herd of stegosauri must have looked like ink-black suns, arched bodies radiating shadowy plates
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Happy #HobbitDay to all, and happy birthday to Bilbo and Frodo Baggins of Bag End, Hobbiton. Quite by chance, I'm currently nearing the end of my latest reread of Bilbo's (relevantly-titled) adventure—and soon to embark on Frodo's!
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Happy #HobbitDay to all, and happy birthday to Bilbo and Frodo Baggins of Bag End, Hobbiton. Quite by chance, I'm currently nearing the end of my latest reread of Bilbo's (relevantly-titled) adventure—and soon to embark on Frodo's!
heck yeah I'm going to sloop. taking a snazz. neeping
September 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
heck yeah I'm going to sloop. taking a snazz. neeping
moment of gratitude for the friends who refer to/address me as "legend" or "king" I have never felt cooler in my life
September 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
moment of gratitude for the friends who refer to/address me as "legend" or "king" I have never felt cooler in my life