How a Countryside Study Became a Culture-War Flashpoint https://monkdebunks.substack.com/p/how-a-countryside-study-became-a Following the trail from public policy reports to inflammatory headlines.

RE: https://sfba.social/@MLNow/116032085703329563 This is as farcical as you'd expect but Abigail's reporting is hilarious, worth a read.

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Floor is lava? I intended to do this for #tilingtuesday inspired by @csk 's effort which made me think of this carpet. However, it took me way too long to draw the geometry, come up with some animations, calculate the homography to project the points correctly […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Splendid news on a proposed segregated cycleway to connect Govan to Pollock Park. Details and a consultation at this link. #Glasgow #cycling #biketoot#cycling#glasgowttps://www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/14733/Consultation-opens-on-active-travel-link-between-Govan-Partick-Bridge-and-Pollok-Country-Park

#genuary #genuary2026 Day 30: It's no a bug, it's a feature. But it's also kind of a bug? Generating a voronoi diagram by flooding radially from some coloured points, and somehow ending up with a bad picture of a Monarch butterfly. Made with #p5js, which didn't […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKSPk_0N4Jc "The Engineer who invented the Mars Rover Suspension...in his garage" - GearSkeptic. This is very geeky and lovely, not clickbaity at all. If you make it to 3 minutes 30 there's a surprise I won't spoil that will likely hook you for the rest of this.

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#genuary #genuary2026 Day 26: Recursive Grids The painting is La Jioconda, a copy of the Mona Lisa by one of Leonardo's students. It is recursively subdivided by 4, and each time, 1/4 that area of the image is shown at double the size, giving a wonky but converging version of the original.

#genuary #genuary2026 Day 24: Perfectionist’s nightmare. Yet again, came up with an idea that needed too much effort; this is an adversarial sudoku grid generator - none of the puzzles it shows can be solved. After a couple of false starts wondering if I could […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

#genuary #genuary2026 #p5js Day 22: pen plotter ready So, a bit unfinished, but I made a thing that generates random octopi (or at least, randomizes their tentacles. Since this is for a pen plotter, I can't use 'fill' to hide lines and not really 3d either, so […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

#genuary #genuary2026 Day 20: Bauhaus Poster. I chose to ignore the rest of the prompt, and do the band not the art movement. I spent _way_ too long reading about how to simulate viscous fingering (the original album cover is an ink dendrite pattern); in the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Seeing @ComicContext toot this while I am sitting in the cold dark outside a bar because my whole area has a power cut is a bit on the nose

#genuary #genuary2026 Day 20: one line A tree of Apollonian gaskets. If you look closely you'll see there's a pixel gap where each circle connects to its parent. Sometimes this may be unclear, but it is all a single line. Stupidly, I set out to do something […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

#genuary #genuary2026 Day 19: 16x16 I thought I'd try making a picture that was 16x16 pixels, with all the colours of a 256 colour palette. I picked a Van Gogh self portrait, since some of them use quite a variety of colours. 16x16 pixels turned out to be too […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

#genuary #genuary2026 Day 18: Unexpected path. Draw a route that changes direction based on one very simple rule. An odd idea occurred to me of following the directions n,s,e,w as they appear in text; since e is most common in english and n/s have similar […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

#genuary #genuary2026 Day 17: Wallpaper Group #tilingtuesday I thought this would be a pain to do but it worked out ok. Still, a lot of effort. I started off using https://tiled.art/ but once I'd made a good enough path I extracted it and switched to #p5js; probably a mistake, the code is horrible

#genuary #genuary2026 Day 16: Order and Disorder "It is impossible to conceive of many without one." - Plato, in Parmenides This is just a bust of Plato from Wikimedia commons that was close enough to an ovoid - and with a different coloured background - that […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

#genuary #genuary2026 #p5js Day 15 "Create an invisible object where only the shadows can be seen" Well, what's invisible is the working sketch! I had the idea to recreate a 1970s-cinema style oil projection, where the oil gloops around in several rotating […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

#genuary #genuary2026 #p5js Day 14 "Everything fits perfectly" Ever have a really bad idea? Bad because it's good, but will take you a ridiculous amount of time to make it work? This is one of those. "THE SQUARE HOLE!" #tetris #meme

#genuary #genuary2026 Day 13 "Self portrait". So I used my twin Bryan Cranston instead of me (pic from Wikimedia Commons), but this was an experiment in fauvism. I used something akin to space-colonization to add brushstrokes, but instead of using the true […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

#genuary #genuary2026 Day 12: "Boxes only" A day early, but it's sunday and I did the quine a few days ago. A fairly obvious idea that took me way too long because making the sides hinged is awkward when you have to draw planes at their centre, it's all trig […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_new/115868173494264005 Is this you Georg?

#genuary #genuary2026 Day 10 "Polar coordinates". So, I did the super obvious thing of having a polar bear rotating through the computed illumination on its uv coordinates

#genuary #genuary2026 Day 9: "Crazy Automaton" Well for some reason this is a quivering mass of pink jelly whose eyeballs are playing Conway's Game Of Life

#genuary #genuary2026 day 8: A City. Create a generative metropolis. This is just a bunch of agents random walking from the centre, increasing or decreasing the height of squares they pass through (min 0). The displayed height is the max that has been seen in […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

January 6: Lights on/off. Make something that changes when you switch on or off the “digital” lights. Also, January 11, Quine (the code in the cartoon is the code that generated it) I think we've all been here. #genuary2026 #genuary

Genuary 2026 Day 5: "Write 'Genuary'. Avoid using a font." I mentioned this idea in another genuary thread so had to follow through. I edited the animation to slow it as it passed through the state where the word appears, otherwise it's blink-and-you'll-miss-it […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

It's a minor point in this sea of lies but there are very few places on the planet 10,000 miles from everywhere in the USA. Where is he talking about? The only time those places were singled out for attack by the USA was...when Trump himself imposed tarrifs on the penguins of the Heard and […]

Heading home past Loch Lomond

Walking home from a big dinner with family, saw 3 (!!!) whole flakes of snow. White christmas! ☃️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBa2Mm-nP50 merry christmas, ya filthy animals

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Perfectly Common* BrE Words the @NYTimesGames Spelling Bee Has Denied Me†: An Occasional Series THRAWN *OK, maybe not *perfectly* common † really @bazzargh.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy Now added to the blog list: separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2023/04/nyt-...

Laughed at seeing Girl Genius finally drop the other shoe on the Zeetha/Baron story - it's been a full _nineteen years_ of comics since those characters last spoke - and then just one sentence. That's some long game Phil and Kaja are playing […]

Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!

Netflix/Warner: "completion of the transaction is subject to required regulatory approvals". Wind back to October, there was a push from the deplorables to get Netflix cancelled. What tribute will they have to pay the king for this deal? #netflix #warner #uspol

An evening well spent! #scotland

@markmoxon hey, was just looking at https://lander.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/generating_the_landscape.html (I was noodling on a thing to draw landscapes while on my exercise bike, and thought using the Lander hills would be a nice easter egg) and found a couple of issues: "then we get this formula […]

It was somebody's job to write down, in all seriousness, Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth,” #Apple

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Mucking about with WebGL, made a live webcam filter to turn video into low-rent copy of A-Ha's Take On Me (details in the alt text) This sprang from a conversation a couple of weeks back about #songexploder's podcast about it, which is worth a listen https://songexploder.net/a-ha #aha #takeonme

Hey, Portland Oregon! I'm visiting your fine city and took advantage of this opportunity to drop 6 signed copies of BeaWolf (and one of Augie and the Green Knight) at @powells If you are around, you can try to get one before they're all gone! Cc: @ZachWeinersmith

Randomly watched a video by @paulwhitewick a couple of days ago about hill forts, just a bit of casual history and nice landscapes...and the followup on an incident that happened while filming is a surprise; a landowner who was recently in national news for antisocial behaviour is at it again […]

Looks like NYT are trying to apologize for ripping off this puzzle from the Beeb today... ?

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"Oct 20 8:04 AM PDT ... We have identified that the issue originated from within the EC2 internal network... " -AWS Investigations showed that the problem began at midnight when the EC2 service turned into a pumpkin. We have stopped looking for a root cause and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]