Chris Pressey
@cpressey.bsky.social
Chief Nonentity @ https://catseye.tc/ - Explorations in Programming Languages, (Techno-)Aesthetics & Advanced WTAF Studies. Opinions are my own.
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Chris Pressey
@cpressey.bsky.social
· May 30
THE FEELING WHEN you see that you might have to do more than the bare minimum in order to hold the line.
It's not lost yet. Keep it up!
#elbowsup #holdtheline #democracy
It's not lost yet. Keep it up!
#elbowsup #holdtheline #democracy
Flightless Bird and Wildflower (2025)
#digitalart #abstractart #geometricart #constrainedart #irregularpentagons #oulipian
#digitalart #abstractart #geometricart #constrainedart #irregularpentagons #oulipian
December 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Flightless Bird and Wildflower (2025)
#digitalart #abstractart #geometricart #constrainedart #irregularpentagons #oulipian
#digitalart #abstractart #geometricart #constrainedart #irregularpentagons #oulipian
Fun fact: when you are an actual dictator your approval rating can drop to 0.1% and nothing happens. You are still dictator
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Fun fact: when you are an actual dictator your approval rating can drop to 0.1% and nothing happens. You are still dictator
William Kurelek
A Prairie Boy's Winter
1973
#watercolour #watercolor #illustration #painting #midcentury #canadiana #rurallife #prairielife
archive.org/details/prai...
A Prairie Boy's Winter
1973
#watercolour #watercolor #illustration #painting #midcentury #canadiana #rurallife #prairielife
archive.org/details/prai...
A prairie boy's winter : Kurelek, William, 1927-1977 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
[48] p. : 24 cm
archive.org
December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
William Kurelek
A Prairie Boy's Winter
1973
#watercolour #watercolor #illustration #painting #midcentury #canadiana #rurallife #prairielife
archive.org/details/prai...
A Prairie Boy's Winter
1973
#watercolour #watercolor #illustration #painting #midcentury #canadiana #rurallife #prairielife
archive.org/details/prai...
Reposted by Chris Pressey
29.11.2025
#river #drawing #collage #glitchart #abstract #geometric #digitalart #newmediaart #generativeart
#river #drawing #collage #glitchart #abstract #geometric #digitalart #newmediaart #generativeart
November 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Algebra isn't just a tool for solving maths equations. It's the study of operations that can be applied to formal structures, and the laws they follow.
Logical statements and proofs are themselves formal structures with such operations.
An excellent introduction to it:
archive.org/details/logi...
Logical statements and proofs are themselves formal structures with such operations.
An excellent introduction to it:
archive.org/details/logi...
Logic as algebra : Halmos, Paul R. (Paul Richard), 1916- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
ix, 141 p. : 23 cm
archive.org
November 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Algebra isn't just a tool for solving maths equations. It's the study of operations that can be applied to formal structures, and the laws they follow.
Logical statements and proofs are themselves formal structures with such operations.
An excellent introduction to it:
archive.org/details/logi...
Logical statements and proofs are themselves formal structures with such operations.
An excellent introduction to it:
archive.org/details/logi...
Reposted by Chris Pressey
An important part of arresting the consolidation of authoritarianism is convincing corporations and institutions that Trump will eventually be out of power and at that point they’ll face consequences for their actions and by that standard this is a good sign
Jamie Dimon says JPM hasn't given to the ballroom because "anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful about how anything is perceived." Adds "And also how the next DOJ is going to deal with."
thehill.com/business/559...
thehill.com/business/559...
thehill.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:17 AM
An important part of arresting the consolidation of authoritarianism is convincing corporations and institutions that Trump will eventually be out of power and at that point they’ll face consequences for their actions and by that standard this is a good sign
Regina Valluzzi
Remembrances of Past Glories
ink on paper
2016
#abstractart #geometricart #contemporaryart #inkonpaper #artmarker #womensart
regina-valluzzi.pixels.com/featured/rem...
Remembrances of Past Glories
ink on paper
2016
#abstractart #geometricart #contemporaryart #inkonpaper #artmarker #womensart
regina-valluzzi.pixels.com/featured/rem...
November 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Regina Valluzzi
Remembrances of Past Glories
ink on paper
2016
#abstractart #geometricart #contemporaryart #inkonpaper #artmarker #womensart
regina-valluzzi.pixels.com/featured/rem...
Remembrances of Past Glories
ink on paper
2016
#abstractart #geometricart #contemporaryart #inkonpaper #artmarker #womensart
regina-valluzzi.pixels.com/featured/rem...
...Right???
Pfft, who needs artistic satisfaction when you have dopamine?
Wait, we *have* established those are two different drugs, right?
...Right?
Wait, we *have* established those are two different drugs, right?
...Right?
November 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM
...Right???
'Ikki' released for Famicom on this day in 1985.
Classically recognized as the first game to be called a "kusogē." This bad reputation though is perhaps a tad bit overblown, as the game is a relatively fine arcade conversion for the time (save for a truly awful camera).
Classically recognized as the first game to be called a "kusogē." This bad reputation though is perhaps a tad bit overblown, as the game is a relatively fine arcade conversion for the time (save for a truly awful camera).
November 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Jean Metzinger (attrib.)
(title not known to me)
(year not known to me)
#cubism #abstractart #townscape
(my research didn't turn up much about this picture, but I like it)
(title not known to me)
(year not known to me)
#cubism #abstractart #townscape
(my research didn't turn up much about this picture, but I like it)
November 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Jean Metzinger (attrib.)
(title not known to me)
(year not known to me)
#cubism #abstractart #townscape
(my research didn't turn up much about this picture, but I like it)
(title not known to me)
(year not known to me)
#cubism #abstractart #townscape
(my research didn't turn up much about this picture, but I like it)
I published my #NaNoGenMo entry today, and got the coveted green "completed" label.
I learned some #Rust.
I worked out my ideas on parse tree rewriting.
I only implemented a toy example. Implementing all the ideas *while* learning a new language would've been too much.
github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...
I learned some #Rust.
I worked out my ideas on parse tree rewriting.
I only implemented a toy example. Implementing all the ideas *while* learning a new language would've been too much.
github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I published my #NaNoGenMo entry today, and got the coveted green "completed" label.
I learned some #Rust.
I worked out my ideas on parse tree rewriting.
I only implemented a toy example. Implementing all the ideas *while* learning a new language would've been too much.
github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...
I learned some #Rust.
I worked out my ideas on parse tree rewriting.
I only implemented a toy example. Implementing all the ideas *while* learning a new language would've been too much.
github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...
Don Relyea
"15_03"
2007
#generativeart #geometricart #digitalart #abstractart #mathart #hilbertcurve #spacefillingcurve #squares
www.donrelyea.com/hilbert_algo...
"15_03"
2007
#generativeart #geometricart #digitalart #abstractart #mathart #hilbertcurve #spacefillingcurve #squares
www.donrelyea.com/hilbert_algo...
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
To each their own, of course: the "fingerprints of its creator" is not at all what makes a work of art beautiful to me.
A work by Sophie Tauber-Arp (or anyone else) is beautiful because of its composition&execution, not because it's by Sophie Tauber-Arp (or anyone else).
Just my opinion of course.
A work by Sophie Tauber-Arp (or anyone else) is beautiful because of its composition&execution, not because it's by Sophie Tauber-Arp (or anyone else).
Just my opinion of course.
I love how every artist has a different style that's wholly and uniquely them. even if ppl draw in the same general style, there's still just ✨something✨ about it that has the fingerprints of its creator and I think that's part of what makes art so beautiful
November 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
To each their own, of course: the "fingerprints of its creator" is not at all what makes a work of art beautiful to me.
A work by Sophie Tauber-Arp (or anyone else) is beautiful because of its composition&execution, not because it's by Sophie Tauber-Arp (or anyone else).
Just my opinion of course.
A work by Sophie Tauber-Arp (or anyone else) is beautiful because of its composition&execution, not because it's by Sophie Tauber-Arp (or anyone else).
Just my opinion of course.
Reposted by Chris Pressey
#abstract #abstractart #geometricart #abstractartwork #composition #geometricartwork #colurs #structure #geometric #mixedmedia
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Reposted by Chris Pressey
Characters in yellow, 1937
Paul Klee https://t.co/ThjALu0n1n
Paul Klee https://t.co/ThjALu0n1n
December 4, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Characters in yellow, 1937
Paul Klee https://t.co/ThjALu0n1n
Paul Klee https://t.co/ThjALu0n1n
Eduardo Paolozzi
Jazz Panel Study for Tottenham Court Road
1982
#abstractart #geometricart #20thcenturyart
Jazz Panel Study for Tottenham Court Road
1982
#abstractart #geometricart #20thcenturyart
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Eduardo Paolozzi
Jazz Panel Study for Tottenham Court Road
1982
#abstractart #geometricart #20thcenturyart
Jazz Panel Study for Tottenham Court Road
1982
#abstractart #geometricart #20thcenturyart
A mystic is free to locate love outside the existential maze. A materialist has no such luxury.
But even if you're forced to admit that love is a drug, not essentially different from any other drug - you can still hold the opinion that love is the *best* drug.
But even if you're forced to admit that love is a drug, not essentially different from any other drug - you can still hold the opinion that love is the *best* drug.
November 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A mystic is free to locate love outside the existential maze. A materialist has no such luxury.
But even if you're forced to admit that love is a drug, not essentially different from any other drug - you can still hold the opinion that love is the *best* drug.
But even if you're forced to admit that love is a drug, not essentially different from any other drug - you can still hold the opinion that love is the *best* drug.
idk but I'm a lot less worried about the USA now than I was in the summer.
The administration'll still do everything it can (deny, bully, lie, cheat, etc) to cling to power. So people still need to be prepared for that.
But it feels like they're on the back foot now.
The administration'll still do everything it can (deny, bully, lie, cheat, etc) to cling to power. So people still need to be prepared for that.
But it feels like they're on the back foot now.
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
idk but I'm a lot less worried about the USA now than I was in the summer.
The administration'll still do everything it can (deny, bully, lie, cheat, etc) to cling to power. So people still need to be prepared for that.
But it feels like they're on the back foot now.
The administration'll still do everything it can (deny, bully, lie, cheat, etc) to cling to power. So people still need to be prepared for that.
But it feels like they're on the back foot now.
Reposted by Chris Pressey
We can all measure the price of ground beef at the supermarket.
No federal report needed.
No federal report needed.
November 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We can all measure the price of ground beef at the supermarket.
No federal report needed.
No federal report needed.
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If he actually controlled all sources of information, that would be effective. But, like the Epstein redactions, the greater the cover up, the greater the attention. A Streisand Effect.
November 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
If he actually controlled all sources of information, that would be effective. But, like the Epstein redactions, the greater the cover up, the greater the attention. A Streisand Effect.
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He knows it's all falling apart. This is a clear reaction to that. He's going to be lashing out more and more as things get worse and worse for him. As I said in a previous post, it's called an 'extinction burst'...and it's happening now in real time.
November 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
He knows it's all falling apart. This is a clear reaction to that. He's going to be lashing out more and more as things get worse and worse for him. As I said in a previous post, it's called an 'extinction burst'...and it's happening now in real time.
Reposted by Chris Pressey
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
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"I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards."
November 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
"I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards."
I couldn't figure this one out until I translated it to:
"You wouldn't say it's elitist to read the spec of the programming language you claim to be a programmer of"
And I don't know if I've heard those actual *words*, but I believe I have been in the presence of that attitude more than once
"You wouldn't say it's elitist to read the spec of the programming language you claim to be a programmer of"
And I don't know if I've heard those actual *words*, but I believe I have been in the presence of that attitude more than once
I sympathise with the frustration at a certain flavour of TTRPG fans claiming it's elitist to learn the rules of the game you're playing, but I have to laugh at analogies like "you wouldn't say it's elitist to watch a TV show you claim to be a fan of"; people in TV show fandoms 100% do say that.
November 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I couldn't figure this one out until I translated it to:
"You wouldn't say it's elitist to read the spec of the programming language you claim to be a programmer of"
And I don't know if I've heard those actual *words*, but I believe I have been in the presence of that attitude more than once
"You wouldn't say it's elitist to read the spec of the programming language you claim to be a programmer of"
And I don't know if I've heard those actual *words*, but I believe I have been in the presence of that attitude more than once
Others turn their attention to questions like, what does it mean to be the BEST artist. What does that even mean
I think most artists hit a point where they’re like, well if I can’t be the best artist, I shall be the most ME artist.
November 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Others turn their attention to questions like, what does it mean to be the BEST artist. What does that even mean