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a very brief intro to programming mz2synth, a wavetable synthesizer programmed by an input image #synth #python #fortran

@bustedsneakers.bsky.social thanks to your mention of Wendy A. Woloson's book "Crap" the other week, I will forever have this image of a fake barf production line stuck in my head

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I wrote about this too. Why isn’t Ontario hitting the barricades in rage? We’ve so little lake access. Entirely privatized shorelines. You could give the province away to oligarchs & people would be meh. Thx to Fatima for calling this early on. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The Jet-Propelled Paddle Steamer Lucy Ashton: let's take an 1880s paddle steamer hull and weld four jet engines to it. One of the weirder chapters in Scottish post-WW2 transport technology — www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANS...

This lost item hanging by the Roehampton Gate of Richmond Park suggests that somewhere is starting its employees unhealthily young.

aaah! How did I miss that there's a new Vanity Mirror album? Super Fluff Forever | Vanity Mirror — vanitymirrorband.bandcamp.com/album/super-... #music #toronto

Synth with least intuitive user interface ever: MZ2SYNTH, inspired by Murzin's ANS synthesizer, takes a 720 pixel high image file and models 720 oscillators spanning 10 octaves (!) as output from the input's RGBL values. Oh, and it's written in Fortran. github.com/frankenbeans... #synth #fortran

First semi-coherent image out of the Raspberry Pi Pinhole Camera. Yes, I need to clean the sensor ...

welp, glass-clear acrylic varnish doesn't make a very good camera lens

Good morning

this is not damage, it's enhancement Mount Gambier woman charged over damage to city's Cast in Blue sculpture - ABC News — www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... cc: @robcruickshank.bsky.social

Waiting at an elderly neighbour's house for a 911 ambulance call. It's been 40 minutes Thanks, Doug! #toronto

Daylight Donuts Nowata, OK

I know I say this every year, but you can't beat flagshagger poppyganda by oversimplifying shit to the other extreme. You beat it by actively encouraging people to understand that narratives around war and remembrance are COMPLEX. And that this is GOOD. Because it makes them interesting.

Heads up if you take the Toronto Public Library "Google AI" course: all Google interactions now have Gemini wedged into them. You have to manually turn that shite off for each service Turn off Workspace Labs features — support.google.com/docs/answer/... #TorontoPublicLibrary #library #coursera #ai

(Toronto special edition) My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and when can we schedule your duct cleaning

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and add me to your professional network on LinkedIn

Welp, that's UK west coast trains out for a while. Landslip at Shap West Coast Mainline blocked as train derails in Cumbria — www.bbc.com/news/article...

yours as in rock! Samuel K Amphong, Thailand

At the bakery.

TIL that some modern scanners are hardwired to scan low quality (30%) JPEGs no matter what your application settings say. There goes the old trick of using a scanner as a microscope

eek, found my old projBox — complete with Arduino Duemilanove and my then-terrible soldering. It was my introduction to Physical computing. Anyone else get their start with Arduino/Processing with the O'Reilly course "Processing and Arduino in Tandem"? #arduino #processing #PhysicalComputing

Okay, that's enough monsters drawn for one night

I'm sitting on the car drawing monsters while Catherine is at Zumba. It's the perfect Halloween

In case we forget, the Dune Coloring book was a thing: archive.org/details/dune...

The Epic of Mitorzp (fragment): teleprinter noise as poetry #dada #pasteup #teleprinter #teletype #art

Wikipedia pictures I wish I could unsee: "Brown tree snake aerial bait cartridges consisting of dead mice with 80 mg paracetamol tablets" (I'm not gonna link, obvs.)

90905 at Pinbol (level 41), and me with my arthritis too ...

argh: feeling like shit after getting both vaccines yesterday. One of my arms hurts almost as much as when I got the hep vaccine (ow ow ow dammit that hurt for days)

That's the furnace serviced and the heating on. Got some good grot off the flame sensor, so we should have at least a few months of reliable firing up.

anyone lost their corn?

For Ontarians, flu and covid shots are now officially available to the general public! (They have been unofficially available for a bit, got mine last week)

If you get a chance to see the Beta Band while they're on tour, *go*. They were fantastic at the Danforth Music Hall last night.

woo, Beta Band tonight in Toronto ...

Power surge due to a transformer issue in Louisiana #iTeachPhysics #Science 🧪

It's poo, isn't it? ‘If you use chocolate, you’re in crisis’: the surprise ingredients being used to beat costs | Food & drink industry | The Guardian — www.theguardian.com/business/202...

PinBol is a one-button game, and it is good — www.sensoryapphouse.com/PinBol-PWA/ via Barrie at OneSwitch

State of the art high speed (up to 100 wpm) radio transcription tech - from Weinberger, J. (1922). The recording of high speed signals in radio telegraphy. Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, 10(3), 176-207.

This will destroy people’s lives. I helped people navigate the RTA for years at one point and I’m not exaggerating here. Getting rid of security of tenure is cruel especially during a housing crisis. Write your MPPs about this.

that lettering, tho ...

What's it like inside your head?

As a fan of Walnut Whales/Yarn & Glue (aka the "that shrieky woman" era), I was not so impressed with this list: Where’s her Pulitzer already? Joanna Newsom’s 20 best songs – ranked! | Music | The Guardian — www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

My Gmail doppelganger is in Japan! And clearly not having much luck registering with JR West's on-train WiFi

Atari ST disks were weird. Although they were nominally FAT format 3½″ double density disks, they wouldn’t read on a PC. hatari-prg-args and the gulam shell made it possible to transfer image content to Linux. #AtariST #Linux #floppy #RetroComputing