Zendo for 2026-06-29, Monday. Easy difficulty. https://nycki.net/zendo/ (Free Play) Trying something a little different this week: I'm going to use simpler rules, but give fewer clues up front. I want to see what you can come up with. Feel free to request a […] [Original post on critters.gay]

In this paper we improve the bound on the value of Dylan's constant 𝐷. This value, first defined by Dylan [1963], is the number of roads that a man must walk down. We briefly recap the history of Dylan's constant. Although it is not a priori obvious that a man must walk down a finite number of […]

RE: https://beige.party/@Wallflower/116829682410605130 She does. Excellent follow!

I believe that we /could/ do the following, and /should/: Ensure that every person - has plentiful, healthy, tasty food; - has access to safe housing of good quality; - has access to high quality health care free of exorbitant charge; - has access to all the education they want and need; - has […]

Manhattan Bridge, NYC, 2023. All the pixels, none of which ever sleep, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/52841667763 #photography

Staircase Sunday! Is it a thing? Well, this is one of my favourite staircases. It was inside the Château de Le Quesnel (Château Secession) in France. Sadly, it was burnt down and lost forever. #staircase #France #chateau #Photography #abandonedplaces #architecture

RE: https://beige.party/@Quasit/116823229424786991 I feel this so hard. NAV-I-GATE!

RE: https://me.dm/@pberry/116823383826158965 Vile and disgusting act, kids should be off limits as leverage.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@theeclecticdyslexic/116817811370617456 Amen

I have submitted my suggested storm names to the Met Office: ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron and Gazprom. In "Reason for name choice(s) (optional)" I wrote: These are the corporations whose deliberate actions have caused the storms. They deserve credit. Make […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

Sometimes I can't believe how lucky I am to live in such a stunningly beautiful place

Another Studio Ghibli evening here

Zendo for 2026-06-24, medium difficulty. Zendo is a puzzle game invented by Kory Heath (GNU) where players build structures, or "koans", which are each assigned a true or false nature by a puzzle master, for instance "a koan is true if it contains at least one […] [Original post on critters.gay]

Friends, connections—everyone, in fact. It’s difficult to ask, but I could use your help. I’m looking for work. I’m a designer (Interaction/UX/UI) based in Manchester, England with 20+ years of experience. I’m looking for a hands-on IC role, ideally working with decent people, where I can put […]

You are the one who decides what you do. Always. Some people don't believe this. But it's true, in martial arts and software development. And everywhere else, too. https://sebastian-hans.de/blog/agency/ #martialarts #softwaredevelopment #agency

1 AM Rider by the Allman Brothers #makeasonglate #hashtaggames

— Look, dad, there’s a satellite which is not moving ! — That’s a star, son. — A star? Is that rare? — Oh no! At least when I was young, that was the only thing you could see in the night sky. But I guess that, with all those satellites, it’s indeed a rare sight.

There are magical moths with wings like feathers. If you showed me this creature in another context I'd say "fake!" This is a "plume moth" from outside of Moscow. I don't know what this adaptation is about, maybe it's just to be etherial and make people think […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Shrimp #sidedishmoviesorplays #hashtaggames

zendo 6/22 Zendo is a rule-guessing game invented by Kory Heath (GNU). there is a secret condition for these structures that determines if they are 🎯 or ❌, for instance "there must be at least two arrows in the graph." feel free to guess in replies but please […] [Original post on critters.gay]

RE: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/116789651093893766 I hadn’t heard of this side effect of climate change before, interesting…

RE: https://fedi.kcore.org/@jan/116789958194272574 This looks amazing, and I’ve been looking for a good remote file editor over SSH. Will give it a go!

Over the last several moons, we’ve been enjoying non-alcoholic beverages on weeknights, so we’ve tried most of the alternatives out there. I’ve been impressed with Bero: I forget it’s near beer as I’m drinking, and they pair well with meals like burgers and brats. However, gentle reader, their […]

What many people misunderstand about hosting your own content (like this social media instance) is thinking we somehow NEED a big audience or Big Tech involvement. I'm perfectly fine if the world faded away and it was just the thousand of us here. It's like the early days of the web when we had […]

I'm simmering mad that some combination of Samsung and Google decided to shove out an update to Dad's phone which replaced the power-on flow with an almost inescapable account creation/activation funnel for Samsung AI (?) and, simultaneously, remapped the physical side button from power-off to […]

It’s a quiet afternoon at the Homestead, which afforded me the opportunity to play Wingspan on my phone. It’s a gorgeous app, and you know it’s a good app adaptation when you would almost rather play it than the physical copy. #boardgames #wingspan

Have been well remembered on Father’s Day, was treated to a nice breakfast and a few thoughtful gifts. One was a coffee sampler by Cometeer, with which one is encouraged to do competitive tasting in a World Cup-like single elimination tourney. So far, my wife and I both had upsets in our blind […]

Good effort from everyone this year but I’ve won again!

Today’s supervisor is happy we went to the dog park. #dogsofmastodon #fedidogs

Everything else aside, if the CEO of a major company (but still a tiny fraction of the size of the US government) was visibly spending half his time fretting about refurbishing the fountain in front of corporate headquarters, the stock would tank and the board would fire them.

[Alcohol] Virtual wine classes are a good excuse for day drinking

We need more places to openly take stands like Thomas House.

Today has been by *far* the best day in sales for Silver Spook Games in the decade I've been on Steam! Thanks everyone who picked up Neofeud 2! #indiegame #indiedev #steam

Inside you there are four wolves. One is a tank; one is a striker; one is a leader; and one is a controller. They met at a tavern.

Despite Australia’s best efforts, it remains 2-0 USA at the end. #worldcup

The benefits of living somewhere that actually supports people voting ... #USpol #colorado #IVoted

Team USA looking good again today vs Australia. 2-0. #worldcup #TeamUSA

Yay! I got off Toshara! Cold reception at Kijimi though. #starwarsoutlaws

I saw an AI argument to the effect of "It stands to reason that the best writers will be the first ones to really leverage AI in their creative writing effectively and you probably won't be able to tell that they used AI because it's an expert leveraging a tool effectively." The problem with […]

Mastodon 4.6 released today. It lets me force 2FA on accounts. Also, heads up, I am going to force 2FA on accounts.

Happy to see my tax money well-spent 😊🥳 Apparently accessibility fixes in Mastodon were largely sponsored by the Dutch government. Public money funding public code benefitting us all, regardless of where you live or your nationality. Awesome! #OpenSource […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nonzerosumjames/116762979287244514 The Veil was thought-provoking

Saying "be patient with me, I'm from the 1900s" like the meme is surprisingly effective. I accidentally said "it's your dime" on a deployment call!

just found out the vatican used to name their nameservers after the archangels, having had `michael.vatican.va`, `gabriel.vatican.va` and `raphael.vatican.va`; as well as having other servers named after the apostles this goes kinda hard as a naming scheme, i can't even lie