my best friend is one of those people who explore rural Japan looking for abandoned properties and he recently found these signs out in the country

There's also a Lego tape you can get that has studs on: amzn.eu/d/2KNr3wO

Exceedingly important discovery: Ikea Kallax shelves are exactly two LEGO studs wide. A simple bracket shape like this will stay in place without any support.

Incredible photo reveals nature's perfect camouflage, making the owls nearly impossible to detect. 📷 Alan Murphy

Wir haben mal wieder die Nebeneinkünfte der Bundestagsabgeordneten ausgewertet: www.spiegel.de/politik/deut... In der Vergangenheit lief das so: regelbasiertes Parsing der Freitextangaben, viel Regex, viel Fluchen. Diesmal haben wir ein LLM-gestütztes Parsing genutzt – und sehr viel gelernt. 1/18

"but where are all the bluesky instances?" i've heard this so many times that i wrote an explainer

Continuing to empty my office at the house. Forgot about this, which I created during the pandemic for use during a virtual school visit, showing one way to brainstorm different characters & faces. Got the idea from a teacher friend! #Edusky

This study conducts a Fourier analysis of the wave contours in five paintings by Bridget Riley, in order to estimate the extent and character of their harmonic distortion. github.com/golanlevin/r...

The distribution of letters in English words.

Show me better than this. Ann Marie Redfield: General view of the animal kingdom, 1857. More here attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/connections

Gonna hold on to this croissant metaphor for the rest of my creative life

Algebraic creatures Made with #Python #NumPy #Matplotlib and @marimo.io

With Russian, Ukrainian, and now also Iranian airspace closed, only a small passage remains for international flights from Europe to Asia. My colleague @zacys.bsky.social wrote about how some airlines are profiting more from this than others, and I created this map. www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...

Cool Von Karman vortices coming off the Canary Islands. VIIRS/Suomi NPP. go.nasa.gov/46q0nMy 🛰️🖼️

The robot apocalypse hasn't happened yet, but still I can't escape the feeling that something has gone horribly wrong... Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl. More of my work for Trouw: www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tje... #ArtificialIntelligence #creativity #work #GenerativeAI

FT outdone by ABC on this one abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:

Students find a real grid/architectural feature in the world, take a picture of it, then use that as the basis for the composition of a one-page comic! Always a treat – this batch of them are stellar! (From my intro Making course). Try it yourself!

Say hello to the Penguin Archive. 90 short books being published next month for Penguin’s 90th anniversary—fifteen of which are shown here. £5.99 each, with designs reminiscent of the old Great Ideas series. (Though sadly these aren’t debossed.)

Noch nie haben wir bei @zeit.de so ausführlich mit Datenvisualisierungen, Karten, Grafiken und interaktiven Tools über eine Bundestagswahl berichtet wie in diesem Jahr. www.zeit.de/wahlergebnis Ein Thread 🧵