Do you take your work home with you? It's kinda hard to avoid if you are a mathematician. The maths just follows you wherever you go. Sam Howison prepares vegetables.

Stellarix listening party is almost here. November 6th • 19:00 CET Bandcamp gets the full album first Streaming services come after. If you’re planning to join, hit RSVP so you don’t forget. It takes two seconds and it helps a ton. Come hang, listen early, and be part of the launch. See you there!

An attempt to exorcise a phrase that has been burned into my forebrain for far too long… #illustration #procreate #typography #farts

A recent google search for which things could have gone very wrong with autocorrect: "how to grind axe cheeks"

I wear a lot of hats. This weekend, it was an MWBA hardhat for a morning of clearing slides from a beloved trail damaged in the Eaton Fire. It's always a privilege to get access to closed parts of the forest, and we worked hard to make sustainable fixes to these trails. www.mwba.org/updates/mwba...

Here’s a helpful graphic to help you prepare for the World Series:

Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more: adventofcode.com/2025/about#f... adventofcode.com/2025/about#f...

from my lunch today; "the trouble is not so much AI making you more productive, but that it's tripling the output of the biggest f***ing idiot where you work"

Way too many of the quote-replies to this are about Anime

Shocking rodent news! www.science.org/content/arti...

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this made me laugh a lot

They're currently like the opposite of the old AoL business model. To fix that, Augment just needs a lot more customers who pay but don't actually use their service.

I am worried that these big cuts at JPL will reduce our ability to deal with lifeforce vampires from Haley's comet

The whole tech industry blindly follows trends. Post-pandemic layoffs, metaverse, NFTs, and lately “AI”. Doomsday prepping is probably the next thing. If Zuck and Musk do it, they’re all gonna do it. I highly doubt billionaires have some special insight the rest of us are missing.

This is about the speed at which my kids eat pasta too

I am more tempted by this than I should be @tmbg.bsky.social

at the post we have a small team of professional pollsters who have to review the full methodology behind any survey results before we can feature them in a story. they’re super annoying sometimes and i’m also very grateful that we have them

CHOTINER: I don't know, I just feel like I've been tacitly operating in a moral framework that would fall apart with even the barest scrutiny. But maybe that collapse would bring new clarity DOCTOR: Listen, there is an interviewer I want you to talk to. The best in the business. CHOTINER: ...

Bring it back!

This slide is excellent

Always be thinking about knots

Today's moment of prescience: Bad Religion -- I Love My Computer (2000) www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxYW...

A function f: X→Y is injective if every element of Y has at most one preimage. It is surjective if every element of Y has at least one preimage. It is subjective if, I mean, what's a preimage, really

I don't speak R, but I was looking at an R script that had "rm(list = ls())" at the top. And like, who designed this syntax? No one native to Unix is going to be willing to run that.

I've been religiously updating my CoCoRaHS station with 0's all summer, so it was extremely gratifying to write in 0.05" this morning #LARain maps.cocorahs.org?maptype=prec...

If you were excited to hear about the non-Rupert Polyhedron discovery from a couple weeks ago, you'll really want to watch this feature-length Tom7 video on Math Holes www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH4M...

If you miss actual law & order (the show and/or the concept), I'm having a sale on Law & Order art: 35% off with code LNO35 brandonbird.myshopify.com/collections/...

Note, please don't use that mnemonic. I reposted for entertainment value only.

Another new-to-me calculus mnemonic from my daughter's friend: LZERGN ("laser gun"). Taking the limit of a rational function as x→∞: LZ—degree of the numerator is (L)ess: (Z)ero ER—degrees are (E)qual: (R)atio of the leading terms GN—degree of the numerator is (G)reater: (N)o limit

This thread is a list of food related things that have a name suggesting that they would be from one place but are in fact largely associated with another place.

I'd suggest this is also one of the most important tasks for us to relearn as adults.

9/11 this, 9/11 that; some of y’all need to put down the 9 ELVEN rings gifted to the race of men, who above all else, desire power <send>

Sometimes I just think things. Maybe talk with my wife or a friend about them. Phone doesn't even enter into it.

The image that inspired my most popular comic.

I was 49 years old when I learned that the Smart & Final chain of discount grocery stores was founded (in 1914) by partners J.S. Smart and H.D. Final. 🤯 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_%...

In the days after last week's Minneapolis shooting, I've been continually haunted by the shooter's video and the nihilistic contagion that seems to spread in mass shooter fandom communities. I spoke to @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social about how to process this terrible phenomenon w/o helping perpetuate it

There are lots of bad things about reddit, but I love that there is someone dedicated to tracking knot identification requests on r/knots to keep track of how often people ask to identify the simplest possible knot.

A lot of video-game publishers spend hundreds of millions of dollars chasing after "realistic graphics" and "massive open-worlds" when what players really want is just a shitload of weird little guys

Ahhhh I finished fabric Jupiter! This started as a painting reference then evolved into a piece of art. Next up I will be building the background. Just have to teach myself some embroidery stitches first hahah

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As I was walking home today, I had this idea: Is it possible to turn a QR code into a Truchet tiling that's still a functioning QR code? Yep.

Neat discovery: Two knots whose connected sum has an unknotting number less than the sum of the unknotting numbers of the knots. This provides a counterexample to an old conjecture.

Hey, if you’ve read THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS (or any book by any author!) and liked it, please leave a review! And share your love of books with friends, family, strangers, internet randolorians, foes, nemeses, woodland creatures, cryptids, prophets, influencers, exfluencers, and filthy hobbitses.

While #MathSky doesn't seem to get quite as excited about new shapes as Mathstodon does over on the Fediverse, you still might want to know it's not too hard to construct this shape. I do it in Maple here: www.mapleprimes.com/art/42-The-N... I should probably 3D print a vase or pen holder...

IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction

The director of PG: Psycho Goreman has rebooted the classic Roger Corman‘s cult sword & sorcery film Deathstalker. Watch the exclusive (and ludicrous) red band trailer here:

For my birthday, my kids bought me a card game they thought looked interesting. We've played it once, it was fine. We had questions, so looked it up on Board Game Geek. The page is pretty empty, turns out the game is newly released; Kickstarter funded. But, the designer is on BGG and...

And you can download it in various file formats, but ONLY via FTP. Just for old times' sake. If you don't keep an FTP client installed, try your command line. I bet there's one there. 199.201.145.189 u: nerdcore p: //_]-[_1_P_]-[_0_P_\\