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Not from around here, but a real square little fellow.

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From Thimble Theater, 18 December 1936.
December 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Kind of hoping the madness takes the shape of a really huge bronze statue, so that we can film each other pulling it down the day after.
December 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
One cannot improve on the traditional #origami crane. That doesn't get you out of modifying it like an infinite number of monkeys. Here is a crane with a vertically compressed thorax, a longer neck and tail and about 20% longer wings. For those long haul flights.

@origami
November 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Does the Nobel Committee award a Peace-for-Our-Time Prize?
November 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@AfroIsReborn/115616404658578655

Marvelous work, but it cannot be easy to be an origami artist named Jackson.
mastodon.social
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The gireh pattern on page 226 of Form and Number looked like an iso-area fold to me. And -- surprise -- it is, though it does not collapse. It would, I think, tessellate. Because, you know, gireh.

#origami @origami

https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large
November 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Tied up the kitchen garbage back last night and pulled it out of the wastebasket. As the garbage resettled, the bag gave a sigh of great world-weariness. (An empty whipped cream can, depressurizing.)

And though it is the most pathetic of fallacies, I hear you, kitchen garbage, I hear you.
November 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Sweetarts, a sour candy, dating back to 1962, has taken to impressing each tablet with a false dichotomy. (I think this is to call attention to the sweet/tart dualism.) You see pairs like chill/classy, calm/bold and retro/fresh.

I thought this one was pretty cool. #mathart
November 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Abbey Cube

Not to disrespect the art, but #origami is too dang quiet. Needs some music. Here's five songs from Abbey Road, embedded in a Husimi-Fushimi cube. Best used with Newpipe or some other ungoogly software.

https://nebula.oschene.com/index.php/s/zPofEEM7rmAYHF4

@origami
November 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Mass Highway
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
A dither, a dollar, a ten o'clock scholar....

The QR code may not work in the photo, but does in real life -- takes you to a video of the Flying Lizards doing Money (That's What I Want).

#ditheredqrcode
November 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Now that State Line Potato Chips are made in Warwick, Québec, I think they should be updated to Provincial Border.
November 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The last cent was struck today. Atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale.
November 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Noted with pleasure: if you look up Salvador Dalí on https://noai.duckduckgo.com, the logo changes.
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
15-Sided Elliptical Noodle Container

In the style of Masaru Hashimoto, Akira Nagashima, Jun Maekawa, Tomoko Fuse and Johannes Kepler. #origami @origami
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
How soon is now?

#ditheredqrcode #andrewt@mathstodon.xyz
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Does anyone else get spam email with a paragraph from a random Russian book in quoted-printable encoding?

There are no photos, no links, nothing spamlike at all. There are non-printing strings of hex, eighteen digits in each email. Soviet number stations? An art thing?
November 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I reposted this before, but dang, this is a really good book. Price is not bad, either.

Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty (Ebook, large format) : Alan J. Cain : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large
Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty (Ebook, large format) : Alan J. Cain : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This book offers a history of beauty in mathematics and of the study of beauty in mathematics. Its intention is to examine the historical development of the...
archive.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
RE: https://zirk.us/@SmithsonianRoulette/115510019838993744

Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

-- Jimmy Kennedy
zirk.us
November 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Listening to a station out of Hong Kong and there was an elections ad, reminding me that all the candidates are mature, patriotic and responsible. Gave me a premonitory shiver.
November 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I think Windows engineers learned percentages from Zeno of Elea.
November 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
In the swamp.
November 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM