saw idkhow on tour again tonight yay I love the little tada hands Dallon does at the end of this clip, I didn't notice it when recording

procrastinated on writing my paper in LaTeX so I wrote a blog post about LaTeX ionathan.ch/2026/04/08/L...

the tuna casserole that Artemis II had for lunch is also the furthest that fish has travelled from earth

Absolutely incredible Nutella ad.

I called it lmao

yaaay I'm on northsky now!

I was looking through AMS Binary Relations and I found you there

are there any more things like this

One month left to register or submit a talk proposal for NJPLS @ Penn this May! The deadline is 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟮𝟰 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹.

i mostly agree with this although i would also add that i just find llms incredibly annoying to deal with ionathan.ch/2026/03/18/L...

Folks—I'll get to the point. Something incredible just happened.

milk of magnesia comes from magnetic cows

I get my bread every week from Metropolitan Bakery in Philly but they're CLOSING FOREVER tomorrow so I got everything I ever wanted to try

I didn't know what to do with the paper ephemera I've been collecting and I didn't really like sticking them in a scrapbook where they were hidden away forever so I've put them up on a webpage: ionathan.ch/2026/03/12/e...

it's been a while but I'm finally back at it again with the film fotos

oh fuck yes FINALLY winco restocked their bulk section with gross weirdo!!! pretty good price too

I know it's been more than a year now but has someone made a way to turn the cohost export into a static site the Wayback Machine is just a bit slow so I'd like to host just my own posts somewhere so that they're browsable more easily

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Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Unintended tube study: Covent Garden & Leicester Square. 📷: Zeiss Super Ikonta 🎞️: Kodak Gold #filmphotography #believeinfilm

it finally happened... I got locked out of my twitter account end of an era (← has not posted since end of 2024 anyway)

I'm starting a 2026 cinema thread. I got Pillioned tonight

Update: U+237C ⍼ (angzarr) means "azimuth" The Wikipedia article was updated about a year ago (not my discovery btw) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angzarr I've finally gotten around to looking at the sources, and I've snipped some more catalogues onto a new blog post ionathan.ch/2026/02/16/a...

My four most recent drawings of power lines around southeast Michigan #141 (Ann Arbor) #142 (Plymouth) #143 (Warren) #144 (Ferndale) marcusjmerritt.com/power-lines-...

I made a JPEG XL 88x31 px button out of their logo. long live #JXL

The next iteration of NJPLS will be held at the University of Pennsylvania on 22 May 2026! If you'd like to attend or submit a talk proposal, check out the website for details: njpls.org/may2026.html

did something happen to @pronouns.diy? the labeller seems to be gone

this suggests that if opiöid is pronounced oh-pee-oid then opioid is pronounced ope-yoid

this radicalized me

new USCSB just dropped

I had a new experience tonight #HeatedRivalry

"rat" is an anagram of "art". think about that the next time you see a subway rodent

Another lovely post by Nicky Case: blog.ncase.me/on-depression/

icy days and icy nights in philly

spent some time today thinking about #atproto and making servers smaller

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

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je sais pas si j’ai déjà posté "super mal au pied" ici

FYI if you want to remove all the useless things on the ACM DL website, you can use these uBlock rules: dl.acm.org##aside[data-core-aside="right-rail"] dl.acm.org##div.edition-badge-wrapper dl.acm.org##div.upgrade-banner dl.acm.org##span.premium

Finishing a proof feels so good for the PhD student

I tried Kodacolor 200 over the winter break I guess it's ok but the PNW weather made it kinda gloomy flic.kr/s/aHBqjCGem7

computer networking 🤝 conference networking                                handshake

can you believe ⊥ ⊢ ⊤ is a valid judgement? that's not math that's shapes. that's a mensa visual-spatial question

scourge of the flute section

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

2025 books read! roughly chronologically ordered by when I read them, but I also wanted to group authors/similar ones together (I haven't actually finished Summer Sons. but I physically have it here with me so I'm sure I will)