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Zoë Blade
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Musician, writer, programmer. Analysis and synthesis. ∞ Makes music for
ContraPoints http://patreon.com/zoeblademusic
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Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · Aug 27
New video: How to play chess

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How to Play Chess
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Whew, I made a *lot* of music for @fintoiannucci.bsky.social today! 😌
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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For a second I thought this guy looked as startled as Kash Patel, but it turns out it *is* Kash Patel. Does he always look like this?
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d
menswear writer here 👋 camo will not hide you inside a gym
Kash Patel wears a camo polo shirt with a trucker cap and mid-brown pants inside a gym.
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Gonna try sampling some alternative percussion…
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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It’s What’s Inside is an interesting and stylish film. 🍿 With the lighting and music, it’s almost like Empathy, Inc. in the style of ContraPoints.
November 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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On playing card indices:

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In the context of playing cards, a given card's index displays its rank and suit in its top-left corner. Indices as we recognise them were first introduced by the NYCCC in Squeezer decks, so-called as they allow you to fan out your cards in a single hand, all squeezed together. The Squeezer style index pairs the rank's number or initial with the suit. An interesting alternative was simply to duplicate the face of the card in miniature. It's perhaps surprising that the Squeezer style became dominant, considering it relies upon players speaking the same language and being literate, and was introduced at a time when a player's literacy wasn't guaranteed. On the plus side, the Squeezer style makes it easier to differentiate Kings and Jacks. Indeed, these initials may well have spelled the final death knell for calling Jacks knaves. References Encyclopedias "Squeezers № 35" Simon Wintle, The World of Playing Cards, May 2010 "Corner Indices" Simon Wintle, The World of Playing Cards, Jun 2020 Downloads Documentation Patents "Improvement in Game-Cards" Cyrus W. Saladee, US Patents, 1864 "Improvement in Playing-Cards" Andrew Dougherty, US Patents, 1875
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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I’ll allow as my pawn structure may be a tad subpar. 😅
Not less than three files count two of my pawns each amongst their number. Whoops.
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Got bored tonight and learned how to do a charlier cut (basic single-handed card shuffle). I figure it might make a fun stim/fidget.

Nina’s not impressed, she naturally already knows how to do it. 😄

And this is what happens when I rewatch Deadwood.
November 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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tomorrow we begin the process of casting the movie which is scheduled to be shot between January and April of next year. (it’s kind of a big production)

wanna cover all the bases and make sure we cast the widest net so if you’re in the NY tri-state area, an actor, and trans - I’m looking for ya!
November 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Everyone loves the T-1000!

✔️ Genderfluid
✔️ Actual fluid
✔️ Touches surfaces as if stimming
✔️ No time wasting performing silly facial expressions
www.zoeblade.com Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 11d
"Wolfy's just fine, honey."

With a lot of help from @ninarichards.co.uk, thank you!
In the kitchen, slightly backlit, I look ominously off-camera as if at someone I've just impaled on my metal T-1000 arm. That's right, I'm being the T-1000 from Terminator 2, who in turn is being John Connor's foster mother. This is all Nina's work, her having made the arm and accompanying carton of Lady Lee milk out of cardboard. I just bought a white tank top and red-and-white blouse, and set up most of the shot here. Incidentally, this is one of the few films I've had on DVD with a descriptive service. It plays like a far-too-fast audiobook. So that's kind of neat.
November 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Meme showing six logical operators illustrated with jack-o'-lantern images. trick OR treat trick AND treat trick XOR treat trick NOR treat trick NAND treat trick XNOR treat
October 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
me with a blue funnel like hat, with a stick out the top holding a red ball on a string. I have on a red capelet and am carrying a letter with calligraphy and a seal in my crooked beak. I've got a badge with a symbol on it the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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I formatted 51 different sizes of blank Akai S1000 disk images so you don't have to:

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A screenshot of the (hopefully pretty semantic and blind-friendly) webpage noting how to make such images, and offering 51 of them for download.
November 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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It's that time of year, when I look at synthesisers and samplers I can't afford. That's right, it's the Vemia auction!
November 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Reposting for the nighttime crowd. 😊
www.zoeblade.com Zoë Blade @www.zoeblade.com · 11d
"Wolfy's just fine, honey."

With a lot of help from @ninarichards.co.uk, thank you!
In the kitchen, slightly backlit, I look ominously off-camera as if at someone I've just impaled on my metal T-1000 arm. That's right, I'm being the T-1000 from Terminator 2, who in turn is being John Connor's foster mother. This is all Nina's work, her having made the arm and accompanying carton of Lady Lee milk out of cardboard. I just bought a white tank top and red-and-white blouse, and set up most of the shot here. Incidentally, this is one of the few films I've had on DVD with a descriptive service. It plays like a far-too-fast audiobook. So that's kind of neat.
October 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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"Wolfy's just fine, honey."

With a lot of help from @ninarichards.co.uk, thank you!
In the kitchen, slightly backlit, I look ominously off-camera as if at someone I've just impaled on my metal T-1000 arm. That's right, I'm being the T-1000 from Terminator 2, who in turn is being John Connor's foster mother. This is all Nina's work, her having made the arm and accompanying carton of Lady Lee milk out of cardboard. I just bought a white tank top and red-and-white blouse, and set up most of the shot here. Incidentally, this is one of the few films I've had on DVD with a descriptive service. It plays like a far-too-fast audiobook. So that's kind of neat.
October 31, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels:

• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"
October 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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This week, I have been mostly listening to:

From Within 2
The cover artwork of From Within 2. It looks perhaps like a foetus in space, but it's hard to say with any certainty. Part of the Peter's World series, the front cover features a blue border, a large black circle, a prominent image within the circle (in this case, the perhaps-foetus), and a distant planet Earth.
October 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Really getting into the weeds here, but I believe the Akai S1000's exact maximum filesystem size is 512 MB (exactly half a GB), as it measures 8 KB blocks, and probably uses a 16-bit integer to remember which of 65,536 of them it's looking at.
October 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Hello!
I'm taking 20USD chibi commissions (oc/pets) in order to save the most before my dreamy vacation trip ; v ;!!
Just send me a message if you are interested! Sharing is much appreciated <3

#commissions #traditionalart #commissionsopen
October 29, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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It's live!🏳️‍⚧️💜🏳️‍⚧️
Angela Fellows - This Perfect Night (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Angela Fellows
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October 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Oh, just a caterpillar that keeps all the husks it shed from its head when it was smaller as a kind of elaborate hat … because why wouldn’t you?

Congratulations to Georgina Steytler, who just won a wildlife photography award for this extraordinary image!

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
A close up of the head of a caterpillar, with four successively smaller versions of the same head forming a tower on top of it.
October 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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“The Age of Dolls” is out!💃🏼

On most streaming services. (Except Spotify.🤬)

🤘🏳️‍⚧️🤘
The Age Of Dolls - YouTube
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October 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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It's hard to overstate how astounding it was that in 1842, Ada Lovelace understood that you could turn *any* kind of information into a numerical representation, manipulate it according to algorithms, and turn the new numbers back into art, music, or words.
October 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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torbjornr.bsky.social
I don't like having to lie to teams and managers, but they make it impossible to work with them unless I create a fictitious neurotypical person who makes reliable progress daily, not someone whose work is above average per quarter, but highly variable day to day.
October 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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So the trick was NOT to explain how much I got done when I randomly rolled a critical success and did a week's work in a day, because if I report "average" progress, TOMORROW when my brain refuses to do the brain stuff, I can report the appropriate fraction of yesterday's work as having been done.
October 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM