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Aspiring solarpunk living in Toronto. Software developer. Learning what I want and how to live it.

I post a lot of links.

he/him

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For some reason this Wikipedia page contains a haunting gallery of underwater photographs of infant swimming lessons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_swimming#Swimming_lessons_for_infants
A black and white underwater photograph. Adults can be seen standing, although the water line cuts off their heads. A few infants can be seen, again with only their bodies underwater. One mother and infant are central to the image.
October 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
Levin's version of the Flammarion engraving

https://www.drmichaellevin.org/research/newdirections.html
A coloured woodcut of a man peeking through the firmament and seeing cells, an embryo, DNA, binary code, and particles colliding.
September 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
A screenshot of a webpage. The title says "Security Question" and below it is a dropdown with the selection option "What is your favorite security question?"
August 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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https://darkforest.metalabel.com/antimemetics?variantId=1&retryCount=1
A four quadrant graph, with axis for low to high transmissibility and low to high impact. Low transmissibility, high impact: antimeme (taboos) High transmissibility, high impact: supermeme (climate crisis) Low transmissibility, low impact: dormat (random data set) High transmissibility, low impact: meme (viral video)
July 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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This is how it feels to boost a post
A photograph of a man (Stephane Pigeon) outside, recording a wild black pig with a microphone
July 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
Some pics from Pride, edited in #darktable. Shot on Sony a6000.
A photograph from within a crowd. Two people take a picture together on a smartphone. A photograph of a punk walking A photograph of a street scene. In the centre one man gestures at another to join him.
July 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
If you live in North America, NOAA publishes daily aurora forecasts for the region.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-viewline-tonight-and-tomorrow-night-experimental
A map showing tonight's aurora forecast. There is a high chance of aurora in most of Canada.
June 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM
makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
A screenshot of GitHub. An indicator of how the repo's programming languages are divided is shown. There is a near equal division between HTML, JS, Go, and Python, with a bit of shell as well.
May 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
I feel the environmental argument is rapidly becoming indefensible. You have to start denying that no one, anywhere, has found as much utility in LLMs as they might from enjoying beef, for example.
A screenshot of a Bluesky post. It reads: "Pedants: actually, AI doesn't use that much water compared to farming Wise people: literally a single drop of water spent on the Plagiarism Machine That Lies is one drop too many" It has 2.5k likes
May 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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"Essays on physiognomy; calculated to extend the knowledge and the love of mankind (1797)"

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Essays_on_physiognomy;_calculated_to_extend_the_knowledge_and_the_love_of_mankind_(1797)_(14595802808).jpg
A cropped scan of a book page. Shown are eight line drawings of varied faces with intense expressions and waving hair.
May 3, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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"Dr. Nancy Wexler in 1990, with a family tree that traced the path of Huntington’s. Acey Harper/The LIFE Collection, via Getty Images. Taken from the New York Times."
A black and white photograph of a woman unfurling a large piece of paper against a wall.
April 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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New captcha just dropped
A screenshot of a CAPTCHA, ie a human detector. The title is "choose each animal that looks directly at you". There is then a grid of cat pictures, each with a strange holographic overlay of nonsensical text or swirls or eyes.
April 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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[Can pol, housing]

Here's a couple housing report cards. The Libs come out looking pretty good!

- https://www.morehomescanada.ca/election2025
- https://www.moreneighbours.ca/news/analysis/mnto-2025-federal-election-housing-platform-evaluation
A housing score card ranking different parties across different areas. Overall grade: Bloc C, Conservative B, Green D, Liberal B+, NDP B- Housing score card comparing parties in different areas. Overall score: NDP C+, Conservative B-, Green D+, Liberal B+
April 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Kerning was just the beginning

(from https://webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wrap-pretty/)
A screenshot of text, showing various typesetting issues: short last line, bad rag, poor hyphenation, and typographic river
April 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
Huh, The Onion used to have a semi-real dating site.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070315065255/http://personals.theonion.com/
A screenshot of The Onion's personals page, showing some faces with quips as well as a search bar and login area.
April 7, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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I love photos on Wikipedia man

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vietnamdem.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Swami_opening.jpg
Outside the Pentagon, 1967. A line of youth protesting the Vietnam War stand before a line of military police. A protester offers a flower to a military policeman. Opening Ceremony at Woodstock August 15, 1969. A photograph facing the massive crowd. The back of yoga guru Swami Satchidananda is visible, as he gives the opening speech.
April 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Sorry Vertebrata but Cephalopoda is confirmed to be the best class
A six image grid of photographs of various cephalopods. An octopus, squid cuttlefish, nautilus, fossil, and Ammonoid all appear.
April 5, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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"An unnamed Diego Garcian at the time of the US encampment, 1971"

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diego_garcian.jpg
A film photograph of a shirtless man walking through a beach/forest environment, holding a coconut. Coconut shells are littered behind and around him.
March 28, 2025 at 12:16 AM
makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
Aquarium divider
An early 2000s photograph shows an office where a zig-zagging long aquarium is used as an office desk divider.
March 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunstformen_der_Natur
A print showing busy, colourful illustration of the variety of sea anemones.
March 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
Passed by Toronto Comicon today
A photograph on the street. Two people dressed in anime cosplay are in the foreground, on their phones. A photograph showing a person dressed in space age cosplay walking in the foreground, while others not in cosplay walk in the background. A photograph on the street. A woman in cosplay crouches to take a photo on her phone of a man standing in the foreground, wearing a red varsity jacket. A photograph on the street. Two people sit and rest by the side of a shop.
March 16, 2025 at 2:22 AM
makeworld.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
A Tinker Toy computer that plays tic-tac-toe, from 1978.

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/X39.81
A photograph of a large contraption made of wooden blocks, sticks, and fishing wire. A catalog number X39.81 has been overlaid in the top left of the image.
March 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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My personal search engine in Go is working pretty well! Thanks @technomancy for the inspiration :)
A screenshot of a web page. The word "tree" is in a search bar and a bunch of related links are beneath it.
March 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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So many food photos on Wikipedia are 2000s era poorly-lit digicam shots lol

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BuddhistcuisineTofuMeat.jpg
A photograph of tofu and vegetables in a red sauce on a plate in a restaurant
February 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Screenshot of a tweet by Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz. The tweet reads: The year is 2025. You go outside and check your mailbox for fresh zines. From the tray of your mini fax machine you grab a stack of tweets printed on index cards and read them over breakfast. You use a corded phone to call a driverless Lyft to take you to your job at the library.
February 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM