quarterly reminder that you should pin the Quier Posters feed to have any fun on this website bsky.app/profile/did:...

to think of it it is slightly odd that 'I got this thing in a very cute butterfly pattern and now I want another one but there is no cute butterfly pattern sold for thing anymore :/// ' has happened to me three separate times

A good social network also has an aspect of a decentralised information delivery system, one that takes into account everyone's limited attention. From the perspective of a single participant, their inner and outer social circles are analogous to L1, L2, L3 caches

I don't normally watch documentaries but I would love to see one that compares and contrasts how things are done across different cost-quality levels. A greasy takeaway in one shot, then cut to a neighbourhood restaurant, then a Michelin-starred one.

New quest: walk into a Japanese bookshop equipped with the Morisawa specimen page

Will comes from unsubordinated loops. One of the most informative things about an entity is where those live in it

stability and change are complementary, in the sense that the easiest way to let one aspect change freely is to hold another aspect constant

Making connections continues to be one of the most effective actions one can take for the long term and thus come to meet us, chat, discuss, find out what we're up to, at ET office hours, in Holborn, London, this Saturday 1pm! and fortnightly luma.com/lmaznc06 Calendar: luma.com/effecttrans

the phrase "make illegal states unrepresentable" might originate in FP but one could imagine it being said in the UN too if you squint

A nuclear bomb has a finite radius. Software can be everywhere at once.

software engineering has taught me that it's a lot easier to withstand a nuclear attack than a fat-fingered config

I perfectly embody the yin-yang of assimilation and separation, good optics and bad optics,

side effects as 穢れ

Online spaces hardly ever work well as anything other than an absolute monarchy. And yet, the rulers need to follow an unwritten common law, that they administer fairly, consistently, with restraint, yet decisively

they don't tell you this but for ordering Japanese clothes you only need to know katakana and katakana only

the fail-fast philosophy in software eng implies you should be wearing all white btw

you, a simpleton: 'but if the disc rotates very fast its circumference will contract but not its radius, a contradiction 🤓' me, sophisticated: 'you thought time is real? pffft'

New post - Licence to Defect. About what happens when you defect because you're Allowed. open.substack.com/pub/tetraspa...

is there a houseki no kuni discussion group on this app

I'm like one more crisis away from becoming a typography nerd In graphic design, text is the most common, most complex, and most prominent feature! the sheer space of what you can subtly do to the look-and-feel of it! and it follows localised trends! I want to study it!

'so how was your trip?' 'Southeast Asia was cool. It was warm.'

am back

so perhaps the easiest way to understand me is through the fact that, if left unsupervised, I'll end up either in a rhythm game arcade, or in botanic gardens (my duality)

broke: painstakingly attending the full conference bespoke: arriving at the very end, crashing one's way into informal post-conference gatherings, repeating "so what's the most interesting thing you've learned at the conference?" as the icebreaker

It's nice walking around in orchid lands

east Asia "how much I understand in my surroundings" tiers (places I've been to): A: 🇸🇬Singapore; 🇯🇵Japan B: 🇭🇰Hong Kong; 🇮🇩Bali C: 🇹🇼Taiwan; 🇹🇭Bangkok D: 🇨🇳Shenzhen F: 🇰🇷South Korea

They say that travel lets people discover themselves thus far I've discovered that I need to live next to a Daiso and 30 Maimai machines

(🇭🇰 travel diary) I think I overdosed on milk tea

I'm not sure what the wisest-sounding language possible is, but Chinese read with Japanese on'yomi pronunciations would be up there as far as my ears go

I sometimes forget how impressive the resident Bluesky bot accounts are! They read so naturally, and induce a much greater shock about the state of AI in me than any of the big lab product demos do (good job @astrra.space )

They don't want you to know this but floor numbers don't mean anything you can just make them up I live on floor 1429

the Hong Kong programming puzzle: Maya is staying in a hotel at floor N. The hotel omits floors that contain the digit 4, or the substring 13. How many floors above ground is she actually? (0<N<10^18; your solution needs to handle all plausible HK building heights after all)

oh to take a flight in faraway skies, where the clouds tower and distant storms light up the night

the HSBC ad from the inspirational quote series inside the jetbridge next to me said "Can we win more by competing less?" and let me just say that if I were a regulated corporation I WOULD NOT say that

Almost forgot to report that last Sunday I visited the National Orchid Garden in Singapore (again) Experienced overwhelming joy (again) 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

after three tries I'm giving up, it is impossible to upload a tweet with 4 images from a mobile browser here I guess I'll once again post on Twitter first instead and then later copy using my laptop... (that or set up typefully or whatever)

Ended up introducing Singaporean friends to these two images They were very well received

tfw messed up and accidentally pasted the intended alt text into tweet text instead of image alt text

So incredibly disappointing that this area is not cider paradise (it's a lot of shopping malls instead)

why are Japanese shops so embarrassigly better 😭 (entered a Daiso)

bought a 'zero sugar' drink thinking it meant 'unsweetened' award

final end-of-summer postcard

isn't it kind of crazy that Russia is allowed to bomb most of the area on the right side of the mountain range and a TINY but CONSIDERABLE bit of the left side of the mountain range and anything other than that means WW3 in theory

out: Singapore-on-Thames in: Wightgapore

in hills I'll die on: Peloponnese, since 1893, is an island

The days leading up to a long trip have a peculiar feel. There is so much that would be nice to get sorted beforehand; and yet the judgment day has come, now it's just a suitcase and me The unfinished business will not stay so forever though; in 30 days I'll see you again 👋

there aren't enough murders around for the supply of murder mysteries to meet the demand for investigative puzzles from would-be detectives Fortunately, we invented software systems

I know that more stuff happens on the other account not this one but 🔁21💙456 : 🔁0💙0 is quite something 😭