in recent times I have been "adored," called "clinically insane," considered a "mastermind," and generally told that I am "the strangest person ever" by the same friend, and I think that's all you need to know about me

Your daily fortune: Not every problem can be solved with logic, coins, or daggers. Some can only be solved with potatoes. Lots of potatoes.

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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)

I look up: continuous Levi-Civita symbol I get: math stack exchange post from 9 years ago with ZERO answers

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"

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’.

birdwatchers when they don't see the bird they wanted to see: it's so plover

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.

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.

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)

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

moment of gratitude for the friends who refer to/address me as "legend" or "king" I have never felt cooler in my life

Yes, I'm a writer. Weary Recluse Inventing Too many Endless Realities

self fulfilling prophecies as a path to self fulfilment

if "I am" -> "I'm" why not "I was" -> "I's"

I have written many stories. They are inside this book, TALISNAM. Read it, and it will always be part of you! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPVNPL2T

A petal is terrified before it learns to open. In plant-speak, the word for blossoming is most closely translated as "fledging"; first-bloom as thrilling as first-flight

nethackathon starts this friday! nethackathon.org

Animals of the grasslands gather at the watering sphere: a giant, suspended droplet, which slowly floats across the plains, replenished by storms

gotta love it when my eyes are reopened to the wonders of our own world

Bewildering that, somehow, I still haven't internalised quite how effectively I can treat the pain of feeling unheard about something by writing a poem. Works every time. I can stew on something for two years and then at some point I write a poem and just like that it feels like "There. It is said."

time is stored in the future

I am seeking referrals to surgical mathematicians capable of performing numerectomies. I would like to pry the number three out of my soul

@bakery.bsky.social print bakery print bakery print bakery print

what's the biggest number you can think of? "2" (the topologist) "Europe's current debt IN RUBLES" (the professor) "BB²(37) up-arrow BB²(37), where there are BB²(37) up-arrows" (the rest of us, trying to be ridiculous)

one of the funnier things as a classical musician is that you can get inconsequentially copyrighted for playing a piece. for instance, yesterday's stream got smacked for chopin 7.1 and they think it's Zimerman's recording??? wow, I didn't even play it very well xd

Dear friends: I have been productive & am able to share with you my FOURTH piece today :) this was a collaboration, in a way; check it out if you so desire! youtu.be/iDYXzXQ2ZbU?...

Okay people my third piece of the year dropped and it's really fun, if I may say so myself 💃💃💃 check it out :) youtu.be/YgZAGg8Y8lA?...

Something I have been doing for a few months: reading @ctrlcreep.bsky.social 's Fragnemt out loud to my nasturtium Alek. Halfway through Figment now. I feel like a preacher every time

Becoming the husk and not the jewels, the silk and not the moth. Slipping into a vessel to change, and becoming the vessel instead; a cup to hold forgotten flame, a crust around the dead

magic system idea: when you use magic, the spell consumes a fixed amount of energy, but the number wraps around rather than zeroing out. the specific number you are on has magical effects.

okay guys it turns out I was so busy I missed every prelim other than the one going on right now 🥲 but I got an NIFC shout-out when they spotted me so hehe hehe he hehehehe

War between the optometrists, prescribing glasses so powerful you can see god, and the psychiatrists, begging them to stop prescribing glasses that let people see god

I should have listened to Amy Beach sooner (one listen of "Ah, Love, But a Day" and I was blown away)

The children play neither deeply outside (in the woods) nor deeply inside (in private mindrealms); they instead play in the liminal shallows of the fenced yard or the screen