voidshaper
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voidshaper
@voidshaper.bsky.social
· Jul 24
Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?
Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.
Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.
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EU opens investigation into X over Grok sexualised imagery, lawmaker says reut.rs/3NCZU2W
EU opens investigation into X over Grok sexualised imagery, lawmaker says
The European Commission has launched an investigation into Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok over the production of explicit imagery, Regina Doherty, a member of the European parliament representing Ireland, said in a statement on Monday.
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January 26, 2026 at 11:40 AM
EU opens investigation into X over Grok sexualised imagery, lawmaker says reut.rs/3NCZU2W
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meander, meander
vacillate and wander
undulating, serpentine
adder's path labyrinthine
vacillate and wander
undulating, serpentine
adder's path labyrinthine
January 26, 2026 at 8:43 PM
meander, meander
vacillate and wander
undulating, serpentine
adder's path labyrinthine
vacillate and wander
undulating, serpentine
adder's path labyrinthine
Sorry, I need to brag about my roux. It was perfect. I was watching the sauce reduce and thicken like YES... HA HA HA... YES!
January 26, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Sorry, I need to brag about my roux. It was perfect. I was watching the sauce reduce and thicken like YES... HA HA HA... YES!
We have ~14 cm of snow today and aside from the nice view I always wondered about the sound dampening quality that produces that unusual quiet in the city.
Less traffic of course, but turns out snow has frequency absorption approaching that of acoustic wall paneling.
Less traffic of course, but turns out snow has frequency absorption approaching that of acoustic wall paneling.
January 26, 2026 at 2:01 PM
We have ~14 cm of snow today and aside from the nice view I always wondered about the sound dampening quality that produces that unusual quiet in the city.
Less traffic of course, but turns out snow has frequency absorption approaching that of acoustic wall paneling.
Less traffic of course, but turns out snow has frequency absorption approaching that of acoustic wall paneling.
It may be bad etiquette to point out to Signore Giovanni della Casa that he looks like a peanut, but I will do it anyways.
The proposition of Giovanni della Casa's Il Galateo, an influential 16th-century Italian etiquette guide, is simple but difficult to get right: politeness is the art of pleasing others. Read an English translation from 1774 here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/galateo/
January 26, 2026 at 12:55 PM
It may be bad etiquette to point out to Signore Giovanni della Casa that he looks like a peanut, but I will do it anyways.
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the worlds smallest mole, Neurotrichus gibbsii, enjoying a pickle
June 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM
the worlds smallest mole, Neurotrichus gibbsii, enjoying a pickle
Oh wow, what a tone synthesis. There has to be some AM/FM envelope thing going on - cold-warm-soft-sharp-fuzzy-clean, all at once.
What I'm listening to today: "Sarah Belle Reid plays the Buchla Touché"
This is something really special—a hyper-rare 1978 synth that lets you fully reprogram it to act like something other than "a piano". Reid hacks it to make something… otherworldly, indescribable
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vb8...
This is something really special—a hyper-rare 1978 synth that lets you fully reprogram it to act like something other than "a piano". Reid hacks it to make something… otherworldly, indescribable
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vb8...
Sarah Belle Reid plays the Buchla Touché
YouTube video by Sarah Belle Reid
www.youtube.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Oh wow, what a tone synthesis. There has to be some AM/FM envelope thing going on - cold-warm-soft-sharp-fuzzy-clean, all at once.
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In 2009, during the construction of a new luxury hotel in the city of Antakya (Turkey) ruins related to the city of Antioch were discovered, including the largest single-piece ancient mosaic ever found. Its so well founded that it retained its shape when the ground shifted due to massive earthquakes
January 23, 2026 at 10:54 AM
In 2009, during the construction of a new luxury hotel in the city of Antakya (Turkey) ruins related to the city of Antioch were discovered, including the largest single-piece ancient mosaic ever found. Its so well founded that it retained its shape when the ground shifted due to massive earthquakes
An entire generation has plead with Microsoft for a way to stop Word from trying to 'help' with table formatting.
Probably my main issue with almost all consumer software is, added complexity for zero benefits that solve fake problems by introducing real problems.
January 23, 2026 at 1:59 PM
An entire generation has plead with Microsoft for a way to stop Word from trying to 'help' with table formatting.
The Great Galactic Schism War erupted from an argument over whose entropy god was less extant.
January 23, 2026 at 12:45 PM
The Great Galactic Schism War erupted from an argument over whose entropy god was less extant.
About that, JC..
No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera.
January 23, 2026 at 10:15 AM
About that, JC..
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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...
'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
www.bbc.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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...
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I have repaired the worm. I have repaired the worm in the kintsugi style. There is gold between its dismantled selves—gold flesh, as soft as the moist soil-sprites. It lives again, and it is whole
January 20, 2026 at 3:45 PM
I have repaired the worm. I have repaired the worm in the kintsugi style. There is gold between its dismantled selves—gold flesh, as soft as the moist soil-sprites. It lives again, and it is whole
Scientists have been puzzled by 'Dark Light' for a long time. It is measurable, behaves like normal light in some ways, but neither reflects nor splits in a prism.
January 22, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Scientists have been puzzled by 'Dark Light' for a long time. It is measurable, behaves like normal light in some ways, but neither reflects nor splits in a prism.
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My local bookshop understands their audience.
January 22, 2026 at 4:13 PM
My local bookshop understands their audience.
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Finally, a flag worth fighting for.
January 19, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Finally, a flag worth fighting for.
This person also carries a little booklet that, below the launch codes, contains a small table that specifies Iceland is Greenland, Norway is Denmark, and Belgium is Belarus.
Imagine being the person who has to carry the Nuclear Football around for this guy.
January 22, 2026 at 3:08 PM
This person also carries a little booklet that, below the launch codes, contains a small table that specifies Iceland is Greenland, Norway is Denmark, and Belgium is Belarus.
Merz is a lobby paper in human guise. He has no ideals, personality, and only limited agency. Everything he says or does is for The Line, so at most he's a political avatar for European finance. Don't expect anything else out of him.
Germany's Merz: Europe must not rush to write off transatlantic ties reut.rs/4sTrFnY
Germany's Merz: Europe must not rush to write off transatlantic ties
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz welcomed on Thursday U.S. President Donald Trump's shift in rhetoric on Greenland and urged Europeans not to be too quick to write off the transatlantic partnership.
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January 22, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Merz is a lobby paper in human guise. He has no ideals, personality, and only limited agency. Everything he says or does is for The Line, so at most he's a political avatar for European finance. Don't expect anything else out of him.
Gotta make an offering of wine, honey, and pomegranate today.
χάριν σοι ἔχω
χάριν σοι ἔχω
January 21, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Gotta make an offering of wine, honey, and pomegranate today.
χάριν σοι ἔχω
χάριν σοι ἔχω
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alchemy is very easy:
1. get some lead
2. recreate the white-hot primordial soup from which we all spawned
3. profit!
1. get some lead
2. recreate the white-hot primordial soup from which we all spawned
3. profit!
Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold
Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold
Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold
www.independent.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 4:33 PM
alchemy is very easy:
1. get some lead
2. recreate the white-hot primordial soup from which we all spawned
3. profit!
1. get some lead
2. recreate the white-hot primordial soup from which we all spawned
3. profit!