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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · 10h

oh! I remembered your quilling things a bit ago and made this hollow knight one as my first attempt. Definitely need to do more of them, so pretty wall deco and really fun to make!

A multi layered papercraft picture where the top layer is a black piece of cardboard with the shape of the knight from hollow knight cut out. inside the cut out you can see the knight, hornet, quirell, the hollow knight and radiance. it's all made from cut out cardboard shapes, giving it a flat layered appearance.

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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · 12h

I'm really glad our lives were able to intersect because of it! despite all its flaws social media really can be worth it

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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · 15d

If you try hard enough most organs can get out at least temporarily...

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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · Aug 16

oh lmfao yeah i would never have guessed that thats the topic

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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · Aug 16

what's the paper? :D

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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · Jul 24

cool, thanks for the links!

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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · Jul 24

writing them as IO (IO a) does feel forced but the result is pretty cute^^

is there a general idea for stuff like this where a type is "transparent" for some type class? like IO a is a monoid whenever a is. Feels like an interesting "pointwise-ness" to have a type T a in class C whenever a is in C?

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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · Jun 28

First time I 3-0'ed my own cube!
The mama base definitely was too janky to play four colors, but I got lucky and only lost one game to it. Really loving Rule with an Even Hand, the upside is strong but the downside is so real, you really need to build and play around it well to make it work.

Photo of a Magic draft deck. It's a pretty random four color pile with some high power cards like Ajani, Phelia, Volatile Chimera, Emperor of Bones, Writhing Chrysalis, Once Upon a Time, Springheart Nantuko, Erinis, and Wasteland. The manabase has 11 nonbasic lands, but only a single fetch and most of the duals are pretty mediocre.

Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · Jun 12

it's always weird to me how easy it'd be to have like a semi-subversive authoritarian regime and have so much less of an attack surface that most disinterested people can see. but no, these people really just have to have their weird ass birthday military parades and shit

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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · Jun 7

Frankly, we all should be doing nefarious things to elevators far more frequently.

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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · May 18

hiiii q-tip!

Styx also says hi

A very fluffy cat lying on a cat tree in the middle of the biggest yawn.

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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · May 10

Also important: Styx

Photo of an extremely fluffy Maine coon cat sitting on a cat tree. she has beige and white fur that is softer than the finest silk and most pillowy clouds. Her regal demeanor is only beaten by her unquenchable desire to run around on top of you at 6 am.

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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · Apr 18

luckily enough non-commutative rings are fake anyways so we don't have to worry about the sides!

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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · Apr 14

It weirdly enough seems to also be stable through that! I'll have to look into what exactly Python does later but it feels like the weirdest magic right now

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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · Apr 14

Today I learned that iterating over files in a folder in Python apparently is stable, but only on a per machine basis!
Turns out the code only works if a particular order is chosen, and it works literally every time on my computer but never on my colleague's ><

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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · Apr 11

if your production code isn't disassembling other live code that's currently running, why would you even be using Python?

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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · Apr 11

keeping an eye on all the important things happening outside 🥺

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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · Apr 9

dressing up extra slutty for uni so the weird students are fully intimidated from not only having to listen to a woman whose smarter than them but also hotter

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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · Apr 9

I frankly am surprised that you weren't already excited about insulation and joists :D

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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · Apr 9

Hi Sarah!

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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · Apr 7

Feels like part of the problem is that cli libraries are designed as programming tools first so UX stuff like this are optional things you need to tack on rather than core built-in parts added automatically. cli libraries should probably just add a spinny thing by default and make you turn it off

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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · Mar 12

Apparently Skullscorch also is a card that exists?? Might be more what you're looking for. Random discard always feels so awful to lose against though :/

I'm already enjoying thinking about potential includes too much, I'll have to build my own list at some point :D thanks for the inspiration!

Picture of the Magic: the Gathering card Skullscorch. It's a Sorcery for RR that reads "Target player discards two cards at random unless that player has Skullscorch deal 4 damage to them."

Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · Mar 12

Have you considered Khorvath's Fury or Wheel of Misfortune? They don't offer discard to avoid the damage, but in a tight countermagic based matchup having to gamble on what you might get vs what you already have can feel pretty similar. The symmetry also feels like it adds interesting game play.

Image of the Magic: the Gathering card Khorvath's Fury. It's a Sorcery for 4R that says "For each player, choose friend or foe. Each friend discards all cards from their hand, then draws that many cards plus one. Khorvath’s Fury deals damage to each foe equal to the number of cards in their hand."

Image of the Magic: the Gathering card Wheel of Misfortune. It's a Sorcery for 2R that says "Each player secretly chooses a number 0 or greater, then all players reveal those numbers simultaneously and determine the highest and lowest numbers revealed this way. Wheel of Misfortune deals damage equal to the highest number to each player who chose that number. Each player who didn’t choose the lowest number discards their hand, then draws seven cards."

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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · Mar 12

But them being 2 ofs is cool because you have far fewer situations where you know your opponent can't have a particular card cause you've already seen it.

Definitely not essential or even to everyone's preference, but might be worth adjusting the occurrences of some of the cards like that.

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Imogen @imogenbits.bsky.social · Mar 12

Oh and another personal preference thing: Having a buch of a couple cards and 2 of everything else leads to a pretty cool texture where the game constantly revolves around the primary cards and all the rest is more or less Singleton stuff that provides a lot of variance.

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