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Matt Zucker
@mattz.bsky.social
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Why do it by hand if you can code it in just quadruple the time?
https://mzucker.github.io/
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This one looks like wobbly stars holding hands, maybe?
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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The orbs will continue until morale improves
It's a blobby green bauble with criss-crossy vibes
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Another day, another orb
A spiky purple and yellow orb with icosahedral symmetry
November 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Same idea, different generation technique
A bumpy red sphere. The bumps are distributed with icosahedral symmetry, and colored by height according to a dark purple-to-red-to-yellow gradient.
November 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Testing out some new (to me) methods to make interesting patterns on spheres, and I am glad to report the math is mathing OK
A bumpy sphere. The bumps are distributed across the sphere with interesting icosahedral symmetry and colored using a dark blue-to-green-to-yellow gradient. It looks kind of like a radiolarian or a virus.
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Showed up for #philly today
Hand written protest sign that says "SIC SEMPER CHEETO TYRANNIS"
June 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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ok but actually row homes are this #philly
xkcd comic of two houses connected by buried pipes with the caption: "a covertly-installed neighbor-source heat pump takes advantange of the fact that your neighbor keeps their house cool in the summer and warm in the winter"
June 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Achievement unlocked: attended a live @wtyppod.bsky.social recording with @kendraserra.bsky.social last night and heckled Roz for misstating how to compute mechanical strain. #lifegoals
A diagram from Wikipedia illustrating a characteristic stress-strain relationship. As Roz pointed out, if you are a structural engineer and your bridge is hanging out on the right hand side of the graph, you are probably having a bad day
May 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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A spherical scaffold with magnets to stick tiles onto Spherical Truchet tiling of a truncated octahedron made of speckled gray plastic A rearrangement of the previous tiling. Cubic spherical Truchet tiling in the same speckled gray plastic
April 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Two spherical steel sculptures with an interesting combination of geometric shapes and organic squiggles Turns out these squiggle orbs are reconfigurable. You can rotate any tile in place or swap it with a tile of the same shape.
April 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Distracted boyfriend meme with captions for boyfriend ("You, a professor"), girlfriend ("Your institution's president"), and other woman ("Michael Roth")
April 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Heck yeah #philly
Marchers near Philadelphia city hall, seen from the front. Many are carrying signs. Marchers near Philadelphia city hall seen from the rear
April 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Tell me you're not from Philly without saying you're not from Philly [reposted with alt text]
Pictures of parked cars on a Philadelphia street. The middle car is parallel-parked much further from the curb than its neighbors. It has NJ plates (not shown)
March 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Peaceful ginkgo timeline cleanse
A tall yellow green ginkgo tree with bright leaves next to a winding path on a college campus
November 11, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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"Baby shark" but it's sung to the tune to Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping".

#earworm #abomination #sorrynotsorry
It's the 90s band Chumbawumba superimposed on the Baby Shark video background
September 19, 2024 at 11:39 AM
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our 1.5yo daughter loves turtles so I designed this tessellated turtles shirt to wear for her, please inform the convention attendees
Me looking kind of smug wearing a shirt featuring an Escher-like turtle tiling from the P3 group. If you zoom in closely on the turtles you can see they have silly googly eyes.
July 22, 2024 at 11:29 AM
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ok gonna just make this my vacation autoresponder for the rest of the week #ADK
a blue and orange sunset with swirling clouds over the trees, mirrored in a gently rippling Adirondack pond
July 9, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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wait, are you telling me that
"Italian Seasoned Croutons" bag with the added words "AN" and "THESE" added as annotations
May 19, 2024 at 1:07 AM
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Things that have spooked my and @emmmilygz.bsky.social 's cat today:

- child's hat
- giraffe in pop-up book
Laverne, a terrific and concerned-looking stripey gray doofball cat
May 15, 2024 at 2:03 AM
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solved
pancakes separated and flipped
March 31, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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actual three body problem
three pancakes cooking in a pan that are all slightly overlapping
March 31, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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It's the time of the year when I teach students how *not* to give a good technical presentation
A truly atrocious Powerpoint slide featuring comic sans, mismatched fonts, and what appears to be a cell phone photo of a web page in lieu of a screen capture
November 21, 2023 at 2:38 AM
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Visiting Bavaria with @emmmilygz.bsky.social and a total stranger just handed our 9mo a half-eaten pretzel, is this normal?
Baby in a stroller holding a half eaten pretzel
October 16, 2023 at 10:50 AM
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Boom! Secular/cultural jew here
October 9, 2023 at 12:15 AM
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I did a mitzvah today.
Outgoing text message: "Ukrainian Church on Fairview is selling pierogies today. Don't fuck around just go buy some."
September 27, 2023 at 2:27 PM