Fascinating read from Dijkstra from 1978 (while ignoring some other annoying stuff in there): www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcr... "when judging the relative merits of programming languages, some still seem to equate "the ease of programming" with the ease of making undetected mistakes."

Happy 10 year anniversary of Inky the octopus’s escape from the National Aquarium of NZ

We didn’t just break ground we laid the foundation for a dream 17 years in the making. It will soon be more than a site; it will be a sanctuary for our TGI family to heal, lead, and thrive. This historic moment belongs to every leader and ally who refused to stop building a world where we are safe.

Plenigu enketilon pri bitlibroj! Esperanto-USA starigas novan eldonejon, Guteto—nomo kiu omaĝas la agadon de Morojo (Myrtle Douglas) kiu eldonis propran sciencfikcian fanzinon nomitan Guteto inter 1941 kaj 1946. EUSA esploras eldoni bitlibrojn, do enketas pri la kutimoj kaj preferoj de E-legantoj.

Gah, I love Chris Duffy

he aha te soylent kakariki? He tāngata, he tāngata, he tāngata

Every time I bike past this sign, my brain thinks it’s a warning to watch out for bears

Haven't read it yet, but I was captivated for a full 1h45m by this YouTube documentary about a Doom (video game) custom level that was mysteriously published online and turned out to be much more--a beautiful work of non-linear narrative inspired by HoL (sorry, spoiler) which is how I learned of HoL

Tell me your favorite thing about the moon. It can be a science fact, a childhood memory, a dream you are still working toward…no rules, just the Moon

Alright everyone, ahead of Artemis tomorrow, what do we think the best lunar craters are? My top 3 are easily Orientale, Schrödinger, and Tycho:

Playlist for tomorrow's Artemis II launch? You betcha! What's your favorite Moon or spaceflight song? youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I'll also state on TDOV that beginning tomorrow you can watch a series of films directed by trans people on the Criterion channel. We programmed this series with love and with hope.

Oh! I was unaware this existed

People near Philly, please go to this, because I cannot

For Pride month I am posting photos and videos of the Queer Big Apple Corps band. At a time when our protections are being threatened, we must be out loud and proud. Here we are being just that in Queens on Sunday. youtu.be/OF7bmVlDRkY?...

I've published the Kiwi PyCon 2025 Academic Track Proceedings. Fun to be the editor of a proceedings, and to have shepherded this process through. Looking forward to doing the same at PyConAU this coming August. www.burntfen.com/2026-02-10/k...

Renee is back! 🎙️ Her first episode of 2026 explores chronic illness and relationships with NZ Author Laura Wolf. Next, hear from Renee’s husband @objectivereality.bsky.social on their evolving relationship. Listen now: bit.ly/sick_and_tir... and find more at mpr.nz/show/sickand...

Camp Lilac is a summer camp for trans and gender diverse youth in the midwest. You can vote for them to receive money in the annual P4A charity drive. Applications are also open for July/August sessions, if you know any young trans folks who’d be interested

Aside from Verilog, SystemVerilog, and VHDL, they also received submissions in Hardcaml, Chisel, Spade, Bluespec, Veryl, Clash, Spinal HDL, PipelineC, “and even someone’s own experimental HDL language”

Finally catching up on this episode, that coincidentally mentions bias-variance trade-off, which I’m just this week writing about in my thesis

The Riff Raff Cam is live again! The statue has been returned to Embassy Park, Hamilton, with an official unveiling festival this Saturday — watch the cam around 8:30pm to see Richard O’Brien himself do the honours! riffraffstatue.org

The crowdfunding campaign for queer intergenerational story FLY BY MS MAGPIE is now LIVE! Find out more and contribute: www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj... #supportindiefilm

🤡Come on down to CRAAAAAZY SAPLING’S merch emporium! Everything is on sale for Bandcamp Friday. We got CDs and 7”s for $5. T-shirts (double sided) are $11.37. All original artwork is up to half off. This is Sapling's 10th year and we're raising funds for Secret Projects. saplingband.bandcamp.com

The band is getting ready for The Ego & The Oracle: a musical show where we invite the audience to ask a question of the oracle and then spin the wheel to find the song that answers it. Shawn Peters interprets the results. #somervillema #bostonmusicscene #theburren youtube.com/shorts/l0HzT...

Next Friday the 13th! "The Ego & The Oracle" is live musical fortune-telling by Jim's Big Ego! 7pm at The Burren (Davis Square, Somerville). Tickets at tickets.24hourmusic.com/eventperform...

NZ Bug of the Year is open! but can we talk about how satisfying this insect’s name is? bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz

The difficulty of using Bluesky from Aotearoa New Zealand is that my Boston friends won’t see anything I post unless I post in the morning, but if I don’t post it now when I’m thinking about it, it won’t get posted, because I’ll immediately forget

Student-of-image-processing things: I'm wondering if I can set up a program to detect interesting motion on the new kākāpō egg cam (ignoring little flying insects, but alerting me when a kākāpō arrives or the egg moves) www.youtube.com/live/BfGL7A2...

If you're in Te Papaieoa and want to learn to roller skate, Swamp City Roller Derby have an open-skate day on 1 Feb (Rātapu, 2:30-4:30pm, koha) to have a taste and meet our team and then a 6-week course on Sundays from 15 Feb. To register interest and receive email updates: linktr.ee/swampcityrol...

Ben is starting a YouTube channel and if you like cool perceptual science explained clearly, you'll definitely want to subscribe.

BOOKS TO READ IF YOU, TOO, ARE OBSESSED WITH OUR PANSEXUAL 3x US WOMENS FIGURE SKATING CHAMPION QUEEN AMBER GLENN...

Remember that I (and Kimya) love you

You can tell that LittlePuss Press is run by trans women because their store includes fitted “women’s” T-shirts ❤️ If you only offer boxy “unisex” shirts, you’re not supporting trans women. I will die on this hill.

Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant “we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough

And viewable in 3D via stereo pair photography! in a new book of native flowers

You aren't "slowly turning into a werewolf". You _are_ a werewolf. You're slowly turning into a wolf.

Ok, birding is great and all, but I just discovered the rush of spotting a butterfly that isn't a Monarch! And realising, "oh hey, that's on my poster of Native Butterflies of New Zealand," and rushing to the wall and identifying it as a Yellow Admiral (Vanessa itea)

I cannot get enough of RobinFinnArt's etchings/watercolors – from cottagecore to queer/trans to activist to nostalgic. I have a watercolor Tamagotchi on my wall that makes me smile every day. And I see a Cherry Blossoms painting that's for sale now that is so beautiful imma die ❤️ 🌸

UEA: "Dum la monato en kiu ni honoras la Esperantan kulturon, ni ofertas kun sesona rabato, sendepende de la mendata kvanto, la imponan verkegon _Historio de la Esperanta Literaturo_"

The kiddo is on Bluesky! I've been posting her essays here on her behalf for a while but now you can get her amazing #HorrorMovie essays direct from the author herself. Follow, share, like and subscribe to her newsletter for some great #popculture writing.

It's world AIDS day. I am recommending to you these two books if this is a topic you'd like to read more about. both authors are incredible, both books made me feel a lot of things.

Smiley faces on my bike ride, part 1

“The six primary states Invisible Histories actively collects data, information and memorabilia from are Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina. […] the project also engages with and provides resources for LGBTQ+ history in a total of 13 southern states.”

We're officially into the #Christmas season, so that means it's time for some overly elaborate #papercraft #snowflake designs! For this year I decided on a #StudioGhibli series, starting with: Totoro! <1/2>

NASA's Copilot (not relation to Microsoft or GitHub Copilot): "language and framework to program hard-realtime, embedded systems ... supports temporal logic, clocks, voting algorithms and state machines, ... general purpose algorithms." (Has a back-end to generate #Bluespec) tinyurl.com/3868ef6z

The Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project works to revive the language of the Wampanoag people of Massachusetts (who would have been at that romanticized first Thanksgiving). WLRP have a Giving Tuesday campaign and could use your support