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Zarir Madon

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WTF, BRB, and the Rest of the Alphabet Soup We Swallow Daily

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Acronym Apocalypse

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October 29, 2025 at 4:17 AM

Zarir Madon

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ALL annual subscribers will get a 20% off their annual plan till 11th November 2025. HURRY!

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ALL annual subscribers will get a 20% off their annual plan till 11th November 2025. HURRY! https://zarirmadon.substack.com/bea53321

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October 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM

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Diwali Through the Ages: From Clay Lamps to Crypto Lamps (And Why Your Grandma Still Side-Eyes Your LED Diyas) Ah, Diwali-the Festival of Lights, the grand cosmic housewarming party thrown by the un...

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October 25, 2025 at 4:44 AM

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MTV: Streaming killed the Video Star Forty years. Forty years! That’s longer than most Tik Tok trends, longer than the lifespan of a goldfish named Kevin, and significantly longer than the attention ...

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October 25, 2025 at 4:44 AM

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My first paid post is out! Subscribe early to get on top of these reads. Look. Let’s be honest. Shohei Ohtani isn’t a baseball player. He’s a cosmic typo-a celestial copy-paste error that somehow sli...

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October 25, 2025 at 4:42 AM

Zarir Madon

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My Rocket-Powered Darkroom Exploded (Again)

Look, I never meant to launch my cat into low Earth orbit.

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October 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM

Zarir Madon

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Wonderfully offbeat, genre-blending, and humor-infused blog posts - spanning propulsion, coding, chemistry, existential cheese, and acronym-fueled rants, with a blend of whimsy, wit, and winking chaos...

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October 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Zarir Madon

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Cityscape.

Edited with G'mic on Gimp 3 with filter Diffusion Tensors & Dream Smoothing Enhanced.

#auckland #newzealand #bluesky #xiaomi15 #processing #floss #foss #opensource #freesoftware #retouching #graphics #programming #gmic #gimp #dreamsmoothingenhanced #diffusiontensors #zarirmadon

October 8, 2025 at 5:15 AM

Zarir Madon

@zarirmadon.bsky.social

Bush.

Edited with G'mic on Gimp 3 with filter Dream Smoothing Enhanced.

#auckland #newzealand #bluesky #landscape #mobilephotography #xiaomi15 #processing #floss #foss #opensource #freesoftware #art #photo #retouching #graphics #programming #gmic #gimp #dreamsmoothingenhanced #zarirmadon

October 8, 2025 at 5:13 AM

Zarir Madon

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Seascape.

Edited with G'mic on Gimp 3 with filter Dream Smoothing Enhanced.

#auckland #newzealand #bluesky #seacape
#photography #mobilephotography #xiaomi15 #processing #floss #foss #opensource #freesoftware #retouching #graphics #programming #gmic #gimp #dreamsmoothingenhanced #zarirmadon

October 8, 2025 at 5:07 AM

Zarir Madon

@zarirmadon.bsky.social

Cityscape.

Edited with G'mic on Gimp 3 with filter Skeletik & Dream Smoothing Enhanced.

#auckland #newzealand #landscape
#photography #xiaomi15 #floss #foss #opensource #freesoftware #retouching #graphics #programming #gmic #gimp #skeletik #dreamsmoothingenhanced #zarirmadon

October 8, 2025 at 5:03 AM

Zarir Madon

@zarirmadon.bsky.social

Cityscape.

Edited with G'mic on Gimp 3 with filter Dream Smoothing Enhanced.

#auckland #newzealand #bluesky #mobilephotography #fineart #xiaomi15 #mobileedit #processing #floss #foss #opensource #freesoftware #retouching #graphics #programming #gmic #gimp #dreamsmoothingenhanced #zarirmadon

October 8, 2025 at 4:33 AM

Zarir Madon

@zarirmadon.bsky.social

Introducing the new supercharged version of the Dream Smoothing filter for G'mic plugin for Gimp!

It's called Dream Smoothing Enhanced, update your G'mic filters today and have fun with the sliders.

#photography #gmic #gimp #opensource #dreamsmoothingenhanced #zarirmadon