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PixelJones
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Technologist, coder, interested in tech/culture intersection, pixel art, pulp art, idea films
#Futurism #Tech #Coder #PixelArt #PulpArt #VintageNeon #Neon […]

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OK, puzzle friends. Here's a fun daily game that's fiendishly simple, just higher-lower for words. It scores like golf, where your guesses are strokes and low score wins.

#game #dailygames #WordGame
https://purpleword.com/
Purple Word - Daily Word Puzzle Game
A daily word puzzle game. Can you find the purple word? Play free online word game with daily challenges!
purpleword.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Found this terrific collection of #stereo images from early 1900s around South Knoxville, Tennessee mostly taken by C.A. Wayland
Pictures include animals and acts from the Appalachian Exposition of 1910 and Prohibition Parades of 1907.

#stereography #tennessee […]

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January 24, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Still Life with Lego & Weather Station
Chicago-land, USA
(-12F, high of ~8 expected, -30F to -40 windchill)
January 23, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Found this 1833 map of "Chicago Town - Population 350" and realized that where I work (the Federal Reserve building) would have been just three blocks South of the original street grid (which ended at Madison) and a short walk South of William Jones farm.
If […]

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January 19, 2026 at 8:11 PM
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@numb_comfortably/115919005148442776

This prediction is so true. To be honest, I do mostly enjoy conversational summaries/answers to searches by AI ... but ... also had the "stochastic parrots" confidently get answers wrong often enough that I _ALWAYS_ have to confirm […]
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January 19, 2026 at 4:18 AM
Choose Life? Protect Life? Nah, profit is everything

#EPA #profiteering
January 13, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Truly Awful. Temperatures right now (43C = 109F) in Australia and New Zealand have killed Flying Foxes in the thousands. That's on top of 20,000+ of these lovely "sky puppies" that died in last April's heatwave. The nursing moms and pups are the most vulnerable.

#ClimateChange #australia […]
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January 13, 2026 at 2:22 AM
If you read ONE THING about #ai and the #aibubble and its impact on jobs, creators and artists, then read #corydoctorow (@pluralistic) 's speech where he calls out the dangers and delusions behind it all […]
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January 3, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Why #Venezuela isn't about DRUGS or DICTATORS and the attack is not now and never has been a rescue. It's PIRACY. The chief pirate is #Trump and the booty is #Oil.

https://youtube.com/shorts/QNuZM97SKP0
January 3, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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Architect Frank Gehry died today aged 96. He leaves behind a legacy of impressive buildings. As fans of architecture and modern art we absolutely had to visit the Guggenheim in Bilbao back in 2018 and we were not disappointed at all.

#Photography #Travel […]

[Original post on mstdn.social]
December 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
#beeple is back! This time in physical space: The digital artist uses his grounded but silly Midwest sensibility plus tech literacy to make art that skewers cultural icons. Here he turns tech giants, Andy Warhol (and himself!) into ROBOT DOGS with hyper-realistic human heads POOPING OUT their […]
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December 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
FAFO: Vote for the "Leopard that promises to eat your face" party and don't be surprised when it EATS YOUR FACE. Honestly, I FEEL BAD for this guy. #GOP-faithful or not, NO ONE should be deported for what their PARENTS decided when they were FOUR YEARS OLD.

#Immigration #daca […]
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December 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
100% best analogy to expose how absurd the US system is.

#ushealthcare
November 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
ABSOLUTELY GENIUS: This dude figured out that adding reverb to a #commodore64 is all that is needed to make it sound like a pipe organ in a cathedral.

In his words: "I had an epiphany about church organs: At least in theory, organ pipes produce very simple waveforms, much like 8-bit sound chips […]
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November 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Woot! Federal court just threw out Texas's blatantly racist and suck-up "anything you want Daddy Donald" voting maps. CHEATERS LOSE - DEMOCRACY WINS.

#gerrymandering #texas #gregabbot

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/18/texas-redistricting-ruling-lawsuit-el-paso-court-2026-midterms/
_Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news._ ___Subscribe to The Blast, The Texas Tribune’s premier newsletter, for exclusive reporting, nonpartisan analysis and the first word on political moves across the state.___ * * * Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. Texas cannot use its new congressional map for the 2026 election and will instead need to stick with the lines passed in 2021, a three-judge panel ruled Tuesday. The decision is a major blow for Republicans, in Texas and nationally, who pushed through this unusual mid-decade redistricting at the behest of President Donald Trump. They were hoping the new map would yield control of 30 of the state’s 38 congressional districts — up from the 25 they currently hold — and help protect the narrow GOP majority in the U.S. House. The map cleared the GOP-controlled Legislature in August and was quickly signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott. Several advocacy groups sued over the new district lines, saying lawmakers intentionally diluted the voting power of Black and Hispanic Texans and drew racially gerrymandered maps. Over the course of a nine-day hearing in El Paso earlier this month, they aimed to convince the judges that it was in voters’ best interest to shelve the new map until a full trial could be held. It was not immediately clear if the state still has a legal path to restoring the new map in time for 2026. Unlike most federal lawsuits, which are heard by a single district judge and then appealed to a circuit court, voting rights lawsuits are initially heard by two district judges and one circuit judge, and their ruling can only be appealed directly to the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision comes 10 days into the monthlong period when candidates can sign up for the March primary. The filing deadline is Dec. 8. This is just the opening gambit in what promises to be a yearslong legal battle over Texas’ congressional map. A lawsuit over the state’s 2021 redistricting — including its state legislative and education board seats — went to trial earlier this summer and remains pending before the same three-judge panel. The judges have indicated they may want to see how the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a major voting rights case before issuing their full ruling on Texas’ maps. But for Trump, and many of his Republican supporters in Texas, the short-term goal of having this map for the 2026 election was as important as the long game. “I’m convinced that if Texas does not take this action, there is an extreme risk that [the] Republican majority will be lost,” Sen. Phil King, R-Weatherford, said on the floor of the state Senate before the new map passed. “If it does, the next two years after the midterm, there will be nothing but inquisitions and impeachments and humiliation for our country.” _Learn about The Texas Tribune’s policies, including our partnership with The Trust Project to increase transparency in news._ **_You've read_** **_**_**__**_**article this month. You have unlimited free articles remaining because we don't have a paywall._** **Texans need the truth. Help us report it.** Independent Texas reporting needs your support. The Texas Tribune delivers fact-based journalism for Texans, by Texans — and our community of members, the readers who donate, make our work possible. Help us bring you and millions of others in-depth news and information. Will you support our nonprofit newsroom with a donation of any amount? ### Support Independent Texas News ## Become a member. Join today. Independent Texas reporting needs your support. The Texas Tribune delivers fact-based journalism for Texans, by Texans — and our community of members, the readers who donate, make our work possible. Help us bring you and millions of others in-depth news and information. Will you support our nonprofit newsroom with a donation of any amount? $18 $20 $25 Other Donate Now **_You've read_** **_**_**__**_**articles this month. You have unlimited free articles remaining because we don't have a paywall._** **Texans need the truth. Help us report it.** Independent Texas reporting needs your support. The Texas Tribune delivers fact-based journalism for Texans, by Texans — and our community of members, the readers who donate, make our work possible. Help us bring you and millions of others in-depth news and information. Will you support our nonprofit newsroom with a donation of any amount? ### Support Independent Texas News ## Become a member. Join today. Independent Texas reporting needs your support. The Texas Tribune delivers fact-based journalism for Texans, by Texans — and our community of members, the readers who donate, make our work possible. Help us bring you and millions of others in-depth news and information. Will you support our nonprofit newsroom with a donation of any amount? $18 $20 $25 Other Donate Now
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November 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Trump's multi-millionaire Treasure Secretary (a #peterthiel money manager) went on talk shows and tried a laughable excuse for high beef prices (totally debunked in link in comments).

(Image by me, @PixelJones
November 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Reposted by PixelJones
chrysalis

#aiart #aivideo
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The news said an aurora was visible tonight even in Chicago. So, I went chasing it here in the NW 'burbs. Here's my shot away from house lights as best as I could get.

#aurora #chicago #chicagoland
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 AM
** Historic Gesture of Reparations **: A #Wisconsin order of Franciscan Sisters just sold their two-acre lakefront property back to a band of Lake Superior Chippewa people for a fraction of its present-day $2.6 million value.

#chippewa #nativeamerican #indigenouspeople #Franciscan #catholic […]
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November 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Embracing Angels/Mermaids
#aiart by Stephen Jones using #artspace

Prompt:
Abstract shallow bas relief cracked granite tile, carving of the upper bodies of two beautiful female [angels|mermaids] embracing, [wings|tails] visible, one is European with long […]

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November 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Don't think you are in a CPB "border zone?" Think again.
More than 4 years ago (during Trump's first term) I read a "crazy" theory about how a rogue president could use Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) troops as a private army to terrorize Americans. Well, it's […]

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November 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Bas Relief Boxers
#aiart by @PixelJones using #artspace

Model: Stellar Pro

Prompt:
Abstract shallow bas relief cracked [marble|granite] tile, carving of the upper bodies of two African boxers in a fight with gloves visible, engraved throughout with dense […]

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November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
The legendary artist behind almost ALL of the great movie posters of the 20th century has passed away.

Every poster became an instantly familiar classic: Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Blade Runner, The Thing, E.T., Harry Potter […]
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October 15, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Coming next year to Chicago Field Museum: A special traveling exhibit of #Pokémon models side by side with extinct lifeforms from the #FieldMuseum’s collection—including scientific casts of Field Museum dinosaurs like SUE the T. rex and the Chicago Archaeopteryx next to Fossil Pokémon like […]
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October 15, 2025 at 2:06 AM