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augeas.bsky.social
"Augeas"
@augeas.bsky.social
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"All of this has happened before, all of this will happen again." [email protected]
Generative Noise. Fallen Physicist. Research Software for a living, Data Larceny by Force of Habit.
https://augeas.github.io/Chaoscillator/
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augeas.bsky.social
I wondered what evil was causing this and guessed "Pearson". Close, turns out it's Heinemann.

Sympathy for the publishing industry.

Still so bloody relieved I quit teaching.
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
augeas.bsky.social
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
diamandagalas.bandcamp.com/album/the-sp...
Diamanda Galas leans across the bonnet of a car driven by John Paul Jones, wielding a serrated knife.
November 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
augeas.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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sarahviktoria.bsky.social
#r4today Sonia Sodha presents Trump style arguments against trans people "from a left wing perspective" as she has just said on the Radio 4 Today Programme.
November 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
augeas.bsky.social
And yet, best part of 500 quid for 64 cells of Conway's Life?! Where's the spatial relationship between all those triggers? What would it *mean*? (Don't mean sheeeiit...) Guess, horrifyingly, that's £180's worth of mono sockets? (Plus thr'punnce for the microcontroller.
..)

I'm in the wrong trade.
November 6, 2025 at 5:09 AM
augeas.bsky.social
1D next-nearest cellular automaton, with a neighbourhood of five cells.
Each cell in the centre column of five cells triggers a drum.
Each row of the column read as a binary value triggers a MIDI note on a synth.
Previous states of the cells read as binary values vary CCs. (detune, cut-off, LFO...)
November 6, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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estroclysm.neocities.org
youre allowed to not be disappointed in advance just let it happen when it happens
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 AM
augeas.bsky.social
(Tuneless Whistle...)

"They make us feel indebted
For saving us from Hell
And then they put us through it
It's time the bastards fell

Just take a look around you
At the bitterness and spite
Why can't we take over
And try to put it right?"

youtu.be/on6DxBgfsDY?...
Suspect Device
YouTube video by Stiff Little Fingers - Topic
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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ponder.ooo
probably my favorite ml paper ive read in a while. short and accessible. pretty fractals. code publicly available
October 31, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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makesalotofsense.com
Cat. Like. Reflexes.
October 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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philippaeast.bsky.social
TransActual have put together these handy FAQs to respond to MPs (or anyone else) who is still struggling to get their head round why the EHRC’s draft Code of Practice would be so devastating for the trans community.
Feel free to share, download, print, whatever!
transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...
FAQs in Response to the Draft EHRC Code of Practice and Supreme Court Ruling We are calling for the EHRC’s “bathroom ban” to be scrapped, and the Code re-written to allow for trans inclusion in single sex services according to lived gender. Below are some common questions that might be raised by MPs (or others), and possible responses you can give to explain why this is needed. QUESTION “The Supreme Court ruling only affects those few thousand trans people who have Gender Recognition Certificates (GRCs). Otherwise, trans people retain all the rights and protections they have always had under the Equality Act 2010.” RESPONSE The Supreme Court ruling disapplies the effect of a GRC to the entirety of the Equality Act 2010. This means that there no longer exists any mechanism whatsoever for trans people to be legally recognised in their acquired gender under the UK’s most significant piece of equalities legislation. This not only affects those trans people who currently hold a GRC, but also the potentially hundreds of thousands of trans people who would wish to obtain a GRC in the future. For this reason, ILGA-Europe removed all legal gender recognition points from the UK this year, meaning that the UK now sits at an all-time low on the ILGA-Europe Rainbow map. There are many reasons why trans people do not apply, or have not yet applied for a GRC. Many report that the UK’s medicalised process for legal gender recognition remains humiliating, invasive and inaccessible for many. In this, the UK is out of step with international best practice, which recommends a model based on self-determination RESPONSE The Supreme Court ruling, as interpreted by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), does not just affect those with a GRC, but all those with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment.
October 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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transactualuk.bsky.social
The EHRC has sent a new draft Code of Practice which would lead to the exclusion of trans people from public life.

The decision now is up to this government, will they sign a trans bathroom ban in secret?

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-ba...

#ScrapTheBathroomBan
Image has a pink background and scraps of torn blue and white paper behind the text. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban. Tell Your MP to say no to segregation. This is urgent. The EHRC Code of Practice could be laid in Parliament any day. Act now. Tell your MP to stop this. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
October 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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headdoc35.bsky.social
Waiting for a white guy with a gun to be mistakenly identified as holding a bag of Doritos.
October 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
augeas.bsky.social
ubu.com/film/ra_spac...
Judgement, Space Is The Place
October 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
augeas.bsky.social
Consider the subtle difference between (l^p)|(R^c) and (R^p)|(l^c)...
(l^p)|(R^c) (R^p)|(l^c)
October 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
augeas.bsky.social
See if this WASMed 1D CA Numpy code kills your 'phone's browser: augeas.github.io/1dca/
(l&(L^r))^(c|R) (l^R)|((L&r)^(l&R))
October 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
augeas.bsky.social
D&D alignment chart with industrial subject matter and industrial means of production as the axes, demonstrating that Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" and Heaven 17's "Crushed by the wheels of industry" are more industrial than Project bloody Pitchfork.

youtu.be/FTet4M8AY40?...
October 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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drbenwhitham.bsky.social
Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'
Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
augeas.bsky.social
"The Car Boot Sale of Ideas".
mimmymum.bsky.social Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · Oct 5
Apparently there’s this event happening called “The Battle of Ideas” - it makes you think there might be discussions from different viewpoints, but if you look at the speakers, it’s just crammed full of transphobes and their mates talking to each other! 🤷🏼‍♀️

It’s one big echo chamber! 🙄
Speakers - Battle of Ideas
www.battleofideas.org.uk
October 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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mimmymum.bsky.social
🚨Beware of how this petition is going to be misused by ‘gender critical’ transphobes!

On the face of it, it seems innocuous - but it’s clear transphobes are going to conflate trans women with cis men in order to EXCLUDE them from women’s hospital wards! 😖

It’s insidious malicious transphobia! 😤
Petitions UK Government and Parliament Petition Inquiry into sexual violence in NHS hospitals I want the Government to have an inquiry into sexual violence being reported in NHS hospitals, to come up with a plan to reduce incidents. • More details Sign this petition 17,337 signatures Show on a map 100,000 TWITTER SCREENSHOT… Giles Rocholl (the MAN who started the petition) Could you all please sign and share the petition I launched last month to help protect people going in to hospital. It has just started getting traction with support from Sharron Davies MBE and Rosie Duffield MP. These terrible and sadly numerous crimes mostly affect woman and the most vulnerable in society. There is huge concern that the NHS is suppressing enquiries and not tackling the terrible situation effectively.
October 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
augeas.bsky.social
"Laugh?! We nearly shat!
We had not laughed so much since Grandma died
Or Auntie Mabel caught her left tit in the mangle"
Something with rusty rollers that might be a mangle, Whitechapel.
October 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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olivia.science
"People don't necessarily realize this because if you try to explain to someone how AT Proto works, they immediately go to sleep, but let's try anyway."

🥲

azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...
Delusions of a Protocol
On vaporware as an ideological product.
azhdarchid.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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jessothomson.co.uk
If you use, or would like to use, the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds, it is absolutely worth your time to respond to this consultation.

www.hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is
Future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds
Inviting feedback from pond users, the local community, and stakeholders on how the Kenwood Ladies’, and Highgate Men’s ponds should operate in the future.
www.hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is
October 2, 2025 at 10:49 AM
augeas.bsky.social
Done. Lived in the Haringey end of N6 for over ten years, only recently shoved further out to N3, but still within gobbing distance to the heath. Once peeled *one* GC wing-nut sticker in Muswell Hill. They can stay the fuck away from my Manor.
philippaeast.bsky.social Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · Oct 2
📣 Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds need your help!
🏊‍♀️ 🏊🏊‍♂️
They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat.
Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
Consultation on the future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds: Executive Summary This consultation seeks your views on access arrangements at the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds -Highgate Men’s Pond, Kenwood Ladies’ Pond and Hampstead Mixed Pond, with a particular focus on potential changes at the Highgate Men’s Pond and the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond. Following the recent Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland, and in line with other service providers, the City of London Corporation is reviewing its policies, including those at the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds. Your feedback will help inform decisions about future arrangements, alongside legal obligations, equality and safeguarding duties, financial constraints, and practical considerations.
October 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM