3.5 of 5 stars to The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

Oh my god indeed

THE MONKEYS SUCCEEDED! For a fun time, run this in #rstats See the full #rstats code here: gist.github.com/andrewheiss/... There are 13 seeds between 1 and 200,000,000 that do this!

Finally got around to trying webrios and it's so neat to be able to run #rstats on iOS! apps.apple.com/us/app/webri...

Finally got around to trying webrios and it's so neat to be able to run #rstats on iOS! apps.apple.com/us/app/webri...

running an in-class paper-based exam this evening (thanks llms) and instead of printing out the blank exam questions, I printed out copies and copies of the *answer key* fortunately realized it as I was walking to the classroom and had time to run back and reprint everything 😂🙃

getting so much done today with bsky not working

THE MONKEYS SUCCEEDED! For a fun time, run this in #rstats See the full #rstats code here: gist.github.com/andrewheiss/... There are 13 seeds between 1 and 200,000,000 that do this!

heck yeah

5 of 5 stars to Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

what

HR1: The Damnatio Memoriae Act of 2029

This book is gorgeously written and SO SAD

4-year-old decided to get up for the day at 3:30 AM and all day has insisted that she’s not tired, but she just sat down on the couch and—20 seconds later—she’s out

Cool news for the tiny sliver of people who use Positron/VS Code and Typora on macOS: the latest version of Typora added a new VS Code extension for opening Markdown flavored files in Typora: support.typora.io/Open-in-Typo... That makes this post here a lot easier! #rstats #databs

I've been using random seeds for years but I have no idea how they work. Seeds somehow(?) make the same random numbers? So I figured it out! New post includes an interactive PRNG generator, lava lamps, lottery fraud, @random.org, Chaucer, and Minecraft #rstats www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2026/04...

Cool news for the tiny sliver of people who use Positron/VS Code and Typora on macOS: the latest version of Typora added a new VS Code extension for opening Markdown flavored files in Typora: support.typora.io/Open-in-Typo... That makes this post here a lot easier! #rstats #databs

I've been using random seeds for years but I have no idea how they work. Seeds somehow(?) make the same random numbers? So I figured it out! New post includes an interactive PRNG generator, lava lamps, lottery fraud, @random.org, Chaucer, and Minecraft #rstats www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2026/04...

Low odds but a real chance Trump inspires a genuine schism between the American Heresy and the rest Christianity

I doubt that Pope Leo XIV will lose any sleep over this, before he begins his pilgrimage to Africa tomorrow. But the rest of us should. Because it is unhinged, uncharitable and unchristian. Is there no bottom to this moral squalor?

😭😭 it’s like poetry; they rhyme 😭

:sobbing: the taxation of trade routes is in dispute ::

uh what TRUMP: EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, UNITED STATES NAVY WILL BEGIN PROCESS OF BLOCKADING ANY AND ALL SHIPS TRYING TO ENTER, OR LEAVE, STRAIT OF HORMUZ.

What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

I've always been curious about how seeds *actually* work when generating random numbers, so I decided to figure it out for class yesterday and it's actually REALLY NEAT AND MAGICAL. Check out this little Excel file I made to show how a seed can creates a set of pseudo random numbers

I've always been curious about how seeds *actually* work when generating random numbers, so I decided to figure it out for class yesterday and it's actually REALLY NEAT AND MAGICAL. Check out this little Excel file I made to show how a seed can creates a set of pseudo random numbers

Strong first episode for the new series of @taskmaster.tv

3.65 of 5 stars to The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali I probably would have liked this more had I not read it right after *Martyr*

Oh man same. In practice I only use it for setting timers, turning off lights, and things like “Siri how many grams are in 1.5 cups of flour” bc my mental model for transcribing Actual Words is 2002-era Dragon NaturallySpeaking, but there’s a whole world of voice things I could/should be doing 🤷‍♂️

it’s a daft punk night for research work

An anti-pope based in Texas is the only result from this broadly terrible decade in politics that would make me laugh.

governor abbott took away our rainbow crosswalks but we replaced them with much more visible rainbow sidewalks, and some businesses have followed suit (one added rainbow exterior stairs)

Oman receiving revenue for doing nothing

Two weeks to remove him. Now.

Statement from Aragachi on Twitter. Last sentence is key IMO.

"it's giving war crime" in a southern accent is just going to play on loop in my head the rest of the day

You know what? I'll admit it. The credible threat by a madman to wipe out a nation of 90 million people for basically no reason (presumably using nuclear weapons) successfully distracted me. I am now distracted.

you have to get him out of office and you have to do it today even if it gets blocked you force an impeachment vote right now how else can you live with yourself if he follows through with this and you didn’t do everything you could to stop it

love too wake up to see both a stunning picture of earthrise from the moon and a pronouncement of genocide from the mad king

Not specifying which civilization has big Monkey's Paw energy

i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you

do we honestly have no way of ending a presidency for posting “a whole civilization will die tonight”

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official". We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort: (1/)

What a beautiful moment.

Reid Wiseman on #Artemis II: "We have Earth out window 4 and Moon out window 3... the Moon is about 3-4 times the size of the Earth and it is almost full, and the Earth is just a small crescent out there... it's magnificent... such a majestic view out here" Mission Control: "Amaze, amaze, amaze!"

Curiously, after one of the loud phone watchers left, the other immediately pulled out wired headphones and plugged them in??