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kvarko @kvarko.bsky.social · Dec 5
I will always repost videos of trans joy ❤️
esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Dec 5
Trans folks held a dance party in the Capitol bathroom to protest the bathroom ban on there.
kvarko.bsky.social
UEA: "Dum la monato en kiu ni honoras la Esperantan kulturon, ni ofertas kun sesona rabato, sendepende de la mendata kvanto, la imponan verkegon _Historio de la Esperanta Literaturo_"
UEA.ORG: Katalogo - Historio de la Esperanta literaturo
katalogo.uea.org
December 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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bjbalas.bsky.social
The kiddo is on Bluesky! I've been posting her essays here on her behalf for a while but now you can get her amazing #HorrorMovie essays direct from the author herself. Follow, share, like and subscribe to her newsletter for some great #popculture writing.
blaisebalas.bsky.social Blaise Balas @blaisebalas.bsky.social · 7d
Get in losers, we’re going to read my new blog post about Damien Leone’s Terrifier 3 and what it indicates about the current horror climate ✨🎄🔪🩸

buttondown.com/blaisebalas/...

#horrorwriter #terrifier3 #horrormovie #arttheclown #christmashorror #theexorcist #horrorblog
December 6, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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algaeross.bsky.social
It's world AIDS day. I am recommending to you these two books if this is a topic you'd like to read more about. both authors are incredible, both books made me feel a lot of things.
December 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
kvarko.bsky.social
Smiley faces on my bike ride, part 1
December 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
kvarko.bsky.social
“The six primary states Invisible Histories actively collects data, information and memorabilia from are Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina. […] the project also engages with and provides resources for LGBTQ+ history in a total of 13 southern states.”
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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bjbalas.bsky.social
We're officially into the #Christmas season, so that means it's time for some overly elaborate #papercraft #snowflake designs! For this year I decided on a #StudioGhibli series, starting with: Totoro! <1/2>
A paper snowflake cut to look like Totoro from MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO.
November 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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NASA's Copilot (not relation to Microsoft or GitHub Copilot): "language and framework to program hard-realtime, embedded systems ... supports temporal logic, clocks, voting algorithms and state machines, ... general purpose algorithms."

(Has a back-end to generate #Bluespec)

tinyurl.com/3868ef6z
#bluespec | Rishiyur Nikhil
NASA's Copilot (not to be confused with Microsoft or GitHub Copilot): "a language and framework to program hard-realtime, embedded systems ... supports temporal logic (LTL, PTLTL and MTL), clocks, vot...
tinyurl.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
kvarko.bsky.social
The Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project works to revive the language of the Wampanoag people of Massachusetts (who would have been at that romanticized first Thanksgiving). WLRP have a Giving Tuesday campaign and could use your support
Ways to Help | WLRP Home
www.wlrp.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
kvarko.bsky.social
Data is a collection of values with an army and a navy
emilymbender.bsky.social Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 22d
A question for scientists (construed as broadly as you like) of BlueSky: What makes something data?

(Question inspired by a talk I listened to this morning, and of course I have thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out there first.)
November 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
kvarko.bsky.social
I have long been a fan of signs next to the thing they accurately represent. I snapped this photo in Montreal in the 2000s.
What looks like a fire hydrant, but is actually a standpipe for metro stations, seen here in front of the brick and concrete plaza (and a few trees and ivy) at the entrance to the station it services, in the city of Montreal. The pipe is a lovely baby blue and immediately next to it is a tall sign with a baby blue silhouette of the pipe. It seems silly to have a sign that provides no additional information that the object itself isn't already providing, but turns out it's because Montreal gets lots of snow and this way the pipe can be found even if it's buried under snow. Barely a foot away is a parking meter -- apparently another difference between fire hydrants and standpipes, besides red vs blue, is that it's legal to park in front of a standpipe.
November 22, 2025 at 3:41 AM
kvarko.bsky.social
@mattvenn.net Has anyone ever put an FPGA on a Tiny Tapeout tile? If I weren't in grad school and had free time, I'd love to look into TT more. I've no idea how big an array could fit on a tile. Could have been interesting for the RISC-V peripheral challenge, as a configurable accelerator?
November 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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bcantrill.bsky.social
The video for my #taloscon2025 keynote is now up!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cum5...
November 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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ho-esperanto.bsky.social
Inside Europe's Forgotten Country (that spoke Esperanto)
youtube.com/watch?v=MAkW...
Inside Europe's Forgotten Country (that spoke Esperanto)
YouTube video by Pole in Polo
m.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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"How do you acquire the fundamental computer skills to hack on a complex systems project?"

K.C.Sivaramakrishnan's suggestions:

kcsrk.info/ocaml/2025/1...

#SystemsProgramming #OCaml #Compilers #RuntimeSystems #Debuggers #GarbageCollection
Foundations for hacking on OCaml · KC Sivaramakrishnan
kcsrk.info
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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daedsider.bsky.social
Caught a 1-star review of the bookstore on google last week complaining that "almost all the non-fiction showed a clear left-wing bias" and I was offended because so does our fiction, if you'd bother to look. 😠
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
kvarko.bsky.social
Road trip to Taupō to officiate roller derby for the newbies!
Photo of snow-capped Mt Ruapehu peeking out over the top of green hilly pasture with sheep and cattle and a wood post fence along the road, taken from a car whose front dashboard is visible in the foreground Photo of snow-capped Mt Ruapehu straight ahead down the road, fully visible with clear skies, and a sign for Ruapehu skiing Another view of Ruapehu, from the desert road Mt Ngauruhoe, a conical shaped volcanic mountain in the same park
October 31, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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saplingband.com
Always good to do a round or two of this question when we have something fun coming soon. What radio programs, web shows, music blogs, or podcasts should we send new music to? Help grow our list!

#radio #podcast #newmusic #independentmusic #collegeradio #musicblog #musicjournalism
October 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
kvarko.bsky.social
Desert Bus 19 starts Nov 14 at 3pm Pacific Time! Cannot wait to tune in for a week of shenanigans!
October 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
kvarko.bsky.social
I’m not a fan of the Python language, but props to the Foundation
python.org Python Software Foundation @python.org · Oct 27
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
🧵
The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
kvarko.bsky.social
How did I miss this?

WBUR article on “some of the silliest submissions for a new Massachusetts flag, seal and motto”

www.wbur.org/news/2025/08...
A while flag with a little furry dinosaur scurrying with a Dunkin Donuts styrofoam coffee cup in its hand and off-center above it is the name “massachusetts” in lowercase, in a bubble font that’s possibly Comic Sans. Below it text from the article: Who's that cute guy running on Dunkin'? It is, of course, the state dinosaur, Podokesaurus holyokensis, or "the swift-footed lizard of Holyoke." Image courtesy Massachusetts Seal, Flag, and Motto Advisory Commission
October 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
kvarko.bsky.social
Ten years!
acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · Oct 20
We are pleased to present the summary report from our 2024 Ace Community Survey, which marked the 10-year anniversary of the first survey that was released in 2014!

You can find the link in our bio.

#asexual #asexuality #ace #acecommunitysurvey #demisexual #demisexuality #graysexual #graysexuality
October 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
kvarko.bsky.social
Data! A community-based volunteer organization collecting information on the makeup of people who identify on the asexual spectrum, and tracking trends in health, education, and mental wellbeing
acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · Oct 24
The 2025 Ace Community Survey has been released! tinyurl.com/AceSurvey2025
October 25, 2025 at 8:20 AM
kvarko.bsky.social
Someone should write the lyrics to “88 Lines About 44 Esolangs”
mitpress.bsky.social MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Sep 23
In his playful collection "Forty-Four Esolangs," Daniel Temkin (@dtemkin.bsky.social) challenges conventional definitions of language, code, and computer, showing the potential of esolangs—or esoteric programming languages—as pure idea art: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255308...
A copy of "Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code" by Daniel Temkin. The cover features an image of a blue sky with clouds with various vertical colorful stripes overlaid across it.
October 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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ianchasenichols.bsky.social
I still have to do the text edits, take one last editorial pass, and prep the digital and print files, but... the interior art (pencils, inks, colors, and vintage effects) for Undersea Hero is done.
October 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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borneojimmy.bsky.social
It's Sunday & you know what that means.
Time for Waltham Food Not Bombs down at the Common.
Show up between 2-4PM for a free vegan meal, health & hygiene supplies, zines & shenanigans.
All free, you don't need to bring anything except an appetite. ✌️💚
October 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM