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

Data is a collection of values with an army and a navy

I have long been a fan of signs next to the thing they accurately represent. I snapped this photo in Montreal in the 2000s.

@mattvenn.net Has anyone ever put an FPGA on a Tiny Tapeout tile? If I weren't in grad school and had free time, I'd love to look into TT more. I've no idea how big an array could fit on a tile. Could have been interesting for the RISC-V peripheral challenge, as a configurable accelerator?

The video for my #taloscon2025 keynote is now up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cum5...

Inside Europe's Forgotten Country (that spoke Esperanto) youtube.com/watch?v=MAkW...

"How do you acquire the fundamental computer skills to hack on a complex systems project?" K.C.Sivaramakrishnan's suggestions: kcsrk.info/ocaml/2025/1... #SystemsProgramming #OCaml #Compilers #RuntimeSystems #Debuggers #GarbageCollection

Caught a 1-star review of the bookstore on google last week complaining that "almost all the non-fiction showed a clear left-wing bias" and I was offended because so does our fiction, if you'd bother to look. 😠

Road trip to Taupō to officiate roller derby for the newbies!

Always good to do a round or two of this question when we have something fun coming soon. What radio programs, web shows, music blogs, or podcasts should we send new music to? Help grow our list! #radio #podcast #newmusic #independentmusic #collegeradio #musicblog #musicjournalism

Desert Bus 19 starts Nov 14 at 3pm Pacific Time! Cannot wait to tune in for a week of shenanigans!

I’m not a fan of the Python language, but props to the Foundation

How did I miss this? WBUR article on “some of the silliest submissions for a new Massachusetts flag, seal and motto” www.wbur.org/news/2025/08...

Ten years!

Data! A community-based volunteer organization collecting information on the makeup of people who identify on the asexual spectrum, and tracking trends in health, education, and mental wellbeing

Someone should write the lyrics to “88 Lines About 44 Esolangs”

I still have to do the text edits, take one last editorial pass, and prep the digital and print files, but... the interior art (pencils, inks, colors, and vintage effects) for Undersea Hero is done.

It's Sunday & you know what that means. Time for Waltham Food Not Bombs down at the Common. Show up between 2-4PM for a free vegan meal, health & hygiene supplies, zines & shenanigans. All free, you don't need to bring anything except an appetite. ✌️💚

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is available to stream free on Vimeo. If you want to spend some time with her and her loved ones, and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, updated streaming link is here: vimeo.com/whatdowewant...

Ooh! @satnam6502.bsky.social ‘s keynote at ICFP, “Functional Programming and Hardware Design”, is already up on YouTube! (starting at 27min 07sec in yesterday’s full-day recording)

I love when little kids come to the track side after a roller derby game for high fives! Squatting down to their level as I roll past is one of my favorite things ❤️

“We mic'd up one of our Reti-a-nuku and let them announce the pãhotanga mataora (livestream)” 😂 Swamp City Roller Derby has a triple header tomorrow! Saturday, 11 October — Doors Open 12.00pm — Arena 3, Pascal St, Te Papaioea — Koha Entry

I spotted this flyer posted at my weightlifting gym!

"We're retiring from music and dedicating our lives to interactivity"

@crankyotter.bsky.social , that’s Afrodite, in this book from 30 years ago ❤️

Welcome to Opt Out October, our collection of tips to slowly break free from online surveillance and throw sand in the gears of overreaching large tech companies. Today’s tip is about establishing good online security fundamentals. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The Edward Gorey House and Queer History Boston present a virtual talk, "'A Curious Discovery': Queer Subtext in Edward Gorey's Work" www.eventbrite.com/e/curator-ta...

Testing if this advert will play in-app here or if you have to click through. @rsnikhil.bsky.social is giving this workshop on how you (yes you!) can design and verify a pipelined RISC-V CPU in Bluespec, at the upcoming RISC-V Summit in Santa Clara

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Got my copy of Best Served Cold vol. 2 today! It features a bunch of fantastic trans authors including my story "The Monster At The End of This Film" AND you can get a digital copy right here if you so desire: www.etsy.com/listing/1902...