I mute browser tabs when ads in videos play, but that leaves the annoying pictures up too. So I finally cracked and generated this extension https://github.com/bazzargh/ad-ender - now muting a tab in firefox also severely blurs that tab, so I can see just enough to know when to unmute. #firefox

We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, Douglass gave one of his most famous speeches, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth […]

Well this is one of the more infuriating things github has done in a long time https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/200255 - they switched out the search bar for a popup, which no longer remembers the last search you did for editing, or autocompletes. Everyone I work with who hit it […]

@birb https://www.popehat.com

[incredible exchange from the hardware store] cashier: oh, i’ve never seen that name before! I like it! customer: thanks, it’s Gaelic cashier: happy pride

#scotland #worldcup

⭕Démonstration de force antifasciste à #Glasgow où les quelques militants néonazis venus provoquer ont pris la fuite. 🎥 #JadeEckhaus

I was one of thousands who turned out in #Glasgow for the #ReclaimOurStreets rally to protest the recent violence against immigrants. A couple of dozen masked saddos turned up to try to disrupt the event, but they were easily boxed in by the police. Eventually […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

I did not know this place (La Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée, in the Jardin des Plantes) existed in Paris until I saw it on the map while I was booking a hotel and now it's maddening that it's shut until 2027 #paris

Just heard Marjane Satrapi died; that's way too young.

@birb https://scifiinterfaces.wordpress.com/feed/

Fedizens! Please send me your favourite meme which shows something important about the #fediverse I'll go first:

Perfectly Common BrE Words the @NYTimesGames Spelling Bee Has Denied Me*: An Occasional Series *really @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy WIDDLE / WIDDLED (to wee) Now added to the blog list: separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2023/04/nyt-...

much 'bike acting' i am happy with here... next scene is 8 pages long, up in a week... 3rd voice webcomic rice-boy.com/3rdvoice/

Dr #MargaretConnolly, the sister of President #CatherineConnolly, is one of 6 Irish citizens kidnapped by #Israeli terrorists after a #Gaza-bound aid flotilla was intercepted in the Mediterranean this morning. So far, 6 of the 15 personnel on the flotilla have […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Perfectly Common BrE Words the @NYTimesGames Spelling Bee Has Denied Me*: An Occasional Series HAEMATITE *and @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy Now added to the blog list: separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2023/04/nyt-...

@lynneguist.bsky.social another BrE word today: HAEMATITE. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/haematite#English "chiefly British" and perfectly common: "a common iron oxide compound...widely found in rocks and soils" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haematite #nytspellingbee

It's Lost Lanes day! Some great armchair touring ahead. Thanks @jackthurston.bsky.social

holiday weekend so back in the oul country and ran out to st johns point. glorious day out there. #ardglass

Free Voi rides to the polls for voters on 7 May https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2026/04/free-voi-rides-to-the-polls-for-voters-on-7-may/ E-bike company, Voi will offer voters across the UK free e‑bike rides to get to and from their polling stations for the elections taking place on 7 May 2026 […]

I know #github is bad this week but I still remember the horrors that came before...

Was in a cafe just now and a fire engine with sirens and lights going ground to a halt outside...because someone stepped out in front of it, onto the pedestrian crossing. They walked slowly the whole way looking at their phone with their airpods in. 😮 Fire engine tooted, driver shouted, made no […]

Steve Austin (Lee Majors) does a little bionic bike repair in an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man (1973-78) #BicycleBirthday Lee Majors April 23, 1939 (sound on for awesome bionic sound effects)

I ran @bazzargh's program and got this. Source: https://bbcmic.ro/?t=e2qMB #bbcbasic

[Happy Earth Day!] #bbcmicrobot 🚀 MODE1:VDU19,1,4,0,0,0,5 G=1.32471795724474602596:A=1/G:B=A*A X=0.5:Y=0.5 FORI=0TO2E5:X=(X+A)-INT(X+A):Y=(Y+B)-INT(Y+B) U=INT(1280*X):V=INT(1024*Y):GCOL1,0 IF((U-500)^2+(V-300)^2<4E4)AND((U-450)^2+(V+(U AND15)-200)^2>5E4):GCOL0,1+(U AND1)+(V AND2) […]

Had a notion to write a metal band logo generator for @bbcmicrobot (after seeing that there's dozens of AI sites doing this now). Made a 14-segment display font (fits in 66 bytes), distorted coordinates, made the lines jaggy... and it kinda works? Prototyping in […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Perfectly Common BrE Words the @NYTimesGames Spelling Bee Has Denied Me*: An Occasional Series *really @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy LOCHAN Now added to the blog list: separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2023/04/nyt-...

Melting snow and blazing sunshine now

I'm dreaming of a white Easter

The results of the 10 lines of Basic competition are out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36G6k4D3KPQ ... sadly my best was 2nd place in the Show category (the winner in that category implemented a full spreadsheet with charts on a zxspectrum; so fair). Highest score overall was for the Arkanoid […]

I ran @bazzargh's program and got this. Source: https://bbcmic.ro/?t=dTDf5 #bbcbasic

[No Kings] #bbcmicrobot ë1:ï5 æ64,0 ì500,800:ð&99,130,70:ð&99,20,0 æ32,0 ì600,400:ð&99,-80,300:ð&99,200,0 æ0,3:ì600,400:ì370,200:ð&A9,700,200 ãA=0¸3 B=A*1.6-.6:S=µB:C=ƛB çA>0ƀA<3:ì500+60*C,800+60*S:æ16,0:ð&99,30,0:ì500+60*C,800+60*S:æ0,0:ð&99,10,0 æ32,0:ì600+330*C,400+330*S:ð&99,60*C,60*S:ð&99 […]

Perfectly Common BrE Words the @NYTimesGames Spelling Bee Has Denied Me*: An Occasional Series MANK *or rather @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy Now added to the blog list: separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2023/04/nyt-...

Recently every time I get a dependabot security alert, rather than try and fix/update it, I just spend the same amount of time trying to remove the dependency instead.

I ran @bazzargh's program and got this. Source: https://bbcmic.ro/?t=dS9Rb #bbcbasic

[sudoku. EDOP to move, SPC for new] #bbcmicrobot $@%="4F1B5G9CH3EHA6I7B479B8DCF1E1D37BHEI6F85IA4CG2BGI6CED81834E72AFIIA74862ECE2FCI1847":ë2:X=0:Y=0:ÞC(2,12):ÞS(9,9) û7:û132:ãI=0¸1:ãJ=0¸11ƈ3:P=³(3)-1:C(I,J)=P:Q=³(2):C(I,J+1)=(P+Q)ƃ3:C(I,J+2)=(P+3-Q)ƃ3:í,:R=³(2)-1 ãI=0¸8:ãJ=0¸8:Q=((C(R,I […]

I've got 3 entries up in the Basic 10 Liner 2026 competition, that first appeared on @bbcmicrobot; I had no idea this was a thing till last weekend. https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium/games-list-2026. My game entry is a joke, but I think the two artworks […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

I ran @bazzargh's program and got this. Source: https://bbcmic.ro/?t=dR1Tz #bbcbasic

[jigsaw] #bbcmicrobot ë0:P=0:ãN=1¸64:P=(P+37)ƃ64:I=(P Ɓ8)+1:J=(P ƃ8)+1:ìJ*98,I*98 çI=1ð1,98,0:Ƌð1,41,0:ð0,8,12:ð0,8,-12:ð&A1,-16,0:ð0,16,0:ð1,41,0 çJ=8ð1,0,98:Ƌð1,0,41:ð0,12,8:ð0,-12,-8:ð&A1,0,16:ð1,0,41 çI=8ð1,-98,0:Ƌð1,-41,0:ð0,-8,12:ð0,8,-12:ð&A1,-16,0:ð1,-41,0 çJ=1ð1,0,-98:Ƌð1,0,-41:ð0,12 […]

I ran @bazzargh's program and got this. Source: https://bbcmic.ro/?t=dQ5iF #bbcbasic

[Invisible Maze] #bbcmicrobot MODE9+RND(-8):DIMC(16,16):FORI=1TO15:FORJ=1TO15:C(I,J)=INT(RND(1)+0.7):NEXT,:I=1:J=1:W=0:PRINTTAB(0,3);"INVISIBLE EXIT ->":REPEAT IFW=0:U=I:V=J:R=-40:S=0:L=0:M=46:N=40:O=-21:P=40:Q=23 X=&71+2*(W MOD2):MOVE600+40*(U-V),100+23*(U+V):PLOT0,R,S:PLOT1,L,M:GCOL16,0:PLOTX […]

I ran @bazzargh's program and got this. Source: https://bbcmic.ro/?t=dOvcR #bbcbasic

[Happy PI day!] #bbcmicrobot REM Romberg-Kahan MODE0 A=-1:B=1:L%=9 C=(A+B)/2:D=(B-A)/2 DIMR(L%, L%) H=1:NB%=1 R(0,0)=(FNK(-1.0)+FNK(1.0))*H FORI%=1TOL%-1 S=0 FORK%=0TONB%-1:S=S+FNK(-1+(2*K%+1)*H):NEXT R(I%,0)=R(I%-1,0)/2+H*S NB%=NB%*2:H=H/2 NEXT M%=1 FORJ%=1TOL%-1 M%=M%*4 FORI%=J%TOL%-1 R(I% […]

I ran @bazzargh's program and got this. Source: https://bbcmic.ro/?t=dOocb #bbcbasic

[Happy PI day!] #bbcmicrobot 🚀 MODE0:PRINT"HAPPY PI DAY!" MOVE640-512*SQR(1/2),512-512*SQR(1/2):PROCH(-1,-1,2,0,0,2,7) END DEFPROCH(A,B,C,D,E,F,N) IFN<=0:PROCL(A+(C+D)/2,B+(E+F)/2):GOTO100 PROCH(A,B,D/2,F/2,C/2,E/2,N-1) PROCH(A+C/2,B+E/2,C/2,E/2,D/2,F/2,N-1) PROCH(A+C/2+D/2,B+E/2+F/2,C/2,E/2 […]

Following along @RonJeffries series on his dungeon generator (where the process is the point, not the dungeon; not criticising what he's doing at all), here's a different take on the problem, which is generating a dungeon of "interesting shapes, and very few […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Alan Turing as a Turing Pattern (a Gray-Scott reaction; the feed rate is scaled 0.07-0.003 based on the input grayscale image, kill rate 0.06, Db is 0.25). Made with #p5js, webgl. #creativecoding

#nyt #spellingbee rejecting perfectly cromulent words now https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/embiggen

@lynneguist.bsky.social my first guess today-a pangram-was denied by nyt and really surprised me. I know it from speech synthesizers.I thought it jargon but US too, Collins says British English!