Chapter 39 of Atraxian Blue (https://books2read.com/u/b6ElAx) is up at http://mathling.com/books/index.html Renny tries to cook In which Renny, who had "never even buttered his own toast" is confronted with a kitchen with predictable results #scifi #writing #atraxianblue

I still always feel like one of those bananas conspiracy theorists when I try to explain to people how you can draw a direct line from a woman making some YouTube videos about feminism in video games all the way to the downfall of the American Empire.

#gardening update Despite the unfortunate cat-squashing incident, the experimental tomato seedlings from the University of Florida are doing fine. I'm excited to try them out in my new raised bed.

#silentsunday #photography

Mikong rocks out old school #caturday #photography

Last two days! My ebooks are all on sale: Atraxian Blue & Palisade Green from the Belle Epoch series (space opera; quirky artist, somewhat broken characters) The Keeper of Maps (epic fantasy, female protagonist) https://www.smashwords.com/sale […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#generativeart interlude Dusting off my old fractal flame code, with a larger set of functions and more efficient rendering Kinda steampunky #xquery #svg #creativecoding

The Cat Whisperer's genealogical hobby is coming in very handy: his cousins got their Irish citizenship with his help. Now he's walking me through what I need a propos the new Canadian citizenship law. Thinking a non-US passport might be somewhat useful...

Chapter 38 of Atraxian Blue (https://books2read.com/u/b6ElAx) is up at http://mathling.com/books/index.html Painting with Pinkie In which Renny soothes his cravings with art, and swaps some hard truths with Pinkie #scifi #writing #atraxianblue

#wordweavers Mar 2: Do you write scenes out of order? If so, how do you decide their arrangement? Yes. I write whichever scene is yammering in my head keeping me up at night. I know where they slot in to the scheme of things, so I'll put them in that part of the text file.

The Smashwords Read an Ebook Week starts today! You’ll find deals on my books and at Smashwords.com from March 1 through March 7. The Keeper of Maps and books 1 and 2 of the Belle Epoch Series, here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=holstege #ebookweek26 #smashwords #indieauthors […]

#silentsunday #photography Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

#caturday #photography Happiness is sunshine and rodents

#generativeart interlude deJong attractors (x[n+1],y[n+1]) = (sin(a y[n]) - cos(b x[n]), sin(c x[n]) - cos(d y[n])) for constants a,b,c,d Mapping frequency-at-point to colours (log) #xquery #svg #creativecoding

Chapter 37 of Atraxian Blue (https://books2read.com/u/b6ElAx) is up at http://mathling.com/books/index.html Belle Epoch: Sex In which Tass' instruction is not nearly as fun as he had hoped #scifi #writing #atraxianblue

TFW you're trying to scp from here to there and you get confused about which box you're on and don't take the time to comprehend the error messages and just say 'ehn, just delete it all and start over' and then realize that you have just deleted your whole presentation for the talk in a couple […]

#silentsunday #photography #mood

#caturday #photography I am Batman

#generativeart interlude Poisson disk sampling starting at a few seeds, with some bias in the search angles. Connect parent and child points with graded colouring and size. Then map the whole thing into a polygon (here a flattened knot) creating folds and stretches. #xquery #svg #creativecoding

1. Much as I hate that cypress, it did me a solid here protecting the greenhouse below. 2. I don't understand the geometry here: the parent tree is behind us, so I guess the branch pivoted. No evidence though. 3. The balance here is so fine that a touch […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#pennedpossibilities 934 — Do you have a book cover for your WIP? Yes, and now I have to finish the book because I want to use it. I do my own covers, for better or worse.

Chapter 36 of Atraxian Blue (https://books2read.com/u/b6ElAx) is up at http://mathling.com/books/index.html We can just walks on through In which Pinkie admires Renny's mural and Renny and makes promises to her he may not be able to keep #scifi #writing #atraxianblue

#wordweavers 16. If your MC had a statue put up in their honour, what would it be for? Tass would be mortified, absolutely mortified by it, and sneak out to deface it with graffiti, thereby making it a better true representation, ironically. He'd want it for his art, or for untethering the […]

The lad is staying with us for a few days, and I sure have missed having his kind of thinking around. 1. Noodling around with converting some of my art into some kind of control files in Ableton to make music <shrug/> Sounds cool. 2. Wondering what sound is like on other planets. "I wish NASA […]

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#caturday #photography Luna It's all fun and games until the grocery bag slides off into the trash bin...

#generativeart interlude Leaves Take a *really* wild tile shape Spatter it about in swoops over the canvas Iterate multiple transparent layers Add some dusty streaks #xquery #svg #creativecoding

#generativeart interlude Revival and reworking of an old project: Celtic braids #xquery #svg #creativecoding

For some years now the UI design and interaction methods shown in sci-fi movies have become ever more abstract & complex, driven by minimalist aesthetics utilizing high-res graphics, a design philosophy based on total omniscient access, heavy information density and interactive realtime […]

Chapter 35 of Atraxian Blue (https://books2read.com/u/b6ElAx) is up at http://mathling.com/books/index.html Lila Ponders In which Lila tries to untangle what the hell is going on, and has a disquieting conversation with her ship #scifi #writing #atraxianblue

#igetspam It's been a while since we had a peek at the old spam bag. Lessee... That hotel in Florida I had one conference at about twenty years ago, still emailing me every week. It's almost comforting, at this point, how much they care. 1/n

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When people say Shakespeare isn't relevant to modern life it's good to have people like Sir Ian around to prove them wrong:

Chapter 34 of Atraxian Blue (https://books2read.com/u/b6ElAx) is up at http://mathling.com/books/index.html The Time Tunnel In which Lila finds Renny defacing her bulkheads and is not best pleased #scifi #writing #atraxianblue

#generativeart interlude Spicy autocomplete aka colourless green ideas: an experiment in L-system poetry (editorial selection) An elegy on LLMs in the time of fascism #xquery #svg

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#caturday #photography An old cat, a sunbeam, and a heating vent

https://books2read.com/u/bPAjVA What if the map *were* the territory? In the Imperium, map keepers make it so, drawing the realm into shape one map at a time. Follow Jali as her destiny takes her from her family inn to the Great Keep of map makers, the wilds […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Read a blog post and thought: ooh, that's a nice font, I wonder what it is? Just a quick view source and... Dear god almighty, I have seen the pits of hell and they are filled with "components" 10 layers deep & actual content embedded as full HTML docs in iframes in computed divs & the same 30 […]

#generativeart interlude #genuary29 Evolution Co-evolution: the shape of the bee evolves to fit the star, the shape of the star evolves to fit the bee #xquery #svg #genuary2026 #GENUARY

#generativeart interlude #genuary27: A lifeform. The worms eating through the pictures have a strong preference for contrasts. #xquery #svg #genuary2026 #GENUARY

#generativeart interlude #genuary26 Recursive grids Follow the loops #xquery #svg #genuary2026 #GENUARY

Chapter 33 of Atraxian Blue (https://books2read.com/u/b6ElAx) is up at http://mathling.com/books/index.html Belle Epoch: Florence In which Tass enjoys painting in the Italian sunshine, until he doesn't #scifi #writing #atraxianblue

#generativeart interlude #genuary25 Organic geometry Unpleasantly moist circles, from the underside of that old log #xquery #svg #genuary2026 #GENUARY

#silentsunday #photography #mosstodon

#GenerativeArt interlude #genuary24: Perfectionist's nightmare You think it's all fine, and then you spot the first error, and then the next, and before you know it you start seeing errors where there aren't any. If I told you there were 20 intentional […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#generativeart interlude #genuary23: transparency Emerging from the fog and spume #XQuery #SVG #genuary #genuary23

California to join the World Health Organization after the Trump administration pulls out.

#generativeart interlude #genuary20: one line Falling loops #xquery #svg #genuary2026 #GENUARY

#generativeart interlude #genuary19: 16x16 and also #genuary16 order and disorder The descent into madness Number 5, number 5, number 5, .... #xquery #svg #genuary2026 #GENUARY