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Annette
@weeble.bsky.social
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I like puzzles and diagrams. Queer.
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weeble.bsky.social
Okay I have a desk. That means I can stream again! We're a short way into Act 3 of Silksong here... twitch.tv/clockworknet...
Annette streaming Silksong. She's in the Marrow in act 3, standing next to a dust-filled portal with a warm rose glow. Pink and purple fabric is draped around the portal, but the painted sign has fallen, and black tendrils trail into the darkness.
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
weeble.bsky.social
Celebrities with the Harry Potter brand.
Homer Simpson, pallid and sickly, hugging a rotting sub sandwich. Marge accompanies him expectantly as he approaches a garbage can in front of their house.
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
weeble.bsky.social
Continuing to mess about with this. Everything is very hacky...
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 AM
weeble.bsky.social
Trying to redraw this with symbols I can actually understand...
From Glasgow City Council's map of Public Recycling Points: www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/2382...
Sorry the alt text doesn't actually describe all the locations, that's an undertaking even larger than making the symbols meaningful.
A recycling map of Glasgow's west end, centred on Partick. It uses 15 different symbols to denote various combinations of types of recycling, with no little obvious pattern between the symbol shapes and colours and which types they include, beyond that a "T" in a symbol indicates textiles. The same map, but with the symbol layer redrawn. The symbols are all white circles with coloured pie segments. The north segment coloured orange indicate food waste, the west segment purple indicates mixed glass, the south segment green indicates textiles, and the east segment blue indicates a combination of paper, cans, plastics and cardboard. It's much easier to see at a glance where has paper now, just find every pie with its east side shaded in blue.
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
weeble.bsky.social
Doodling pixel dungeons...
Low res pixel dungeon. An adventurer with long red hair and a sword explores a dark cave. A blue slime guards a treasure chest while a red crab lurks in the corner. A deep black abyss is rimmed with damp, slippery cliffs. A red stone labyrinth, with smooth stone slabs and tall ionic pillars. Our adventurer encounters orange slug-like creatures and a green vampiric figure.
November 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
weeble.bsky.social
This made my week. I don't know I will ever be able to make a prediction this wild and ace it again. @mayabyte.bsky.social followed up with empirical evidence.
The real-world phone in the sun at 45 degrees. We see the same pattern of a 180 arc, two outward diagonal lines, and then 90 degree arcs back in towards the phone shadow corners.
October 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
weeble.bsky.social
Simulation of the 45 degree phone. We see the predicted 180 degree arc and lines with 45 degree deflections. Simulation of the 45 degree cookiecutter. It is exactly as predicted.
October 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM
weeble.bsky.social
We still hadn't seen what happens when the phone is at 45 degrees. I remained convinced of my prior prediction and doubled down with this "it came to me in a dream" diagram.
After a crossed out green diagram we have a new orange diagram. It shows a tilted-right phone shadow and a complex double-loop halo. On each the left and right are pairs of parallel diagonal lines, reflections from the long and short sides of the cookie-cutter. They are linked by four semicircular arcs, two upward and two downward, meeting the outer straight lines with 45 degree deflections and meeting the inner straight lines with 135 degree deflections. The lower arcs each pass through one of the left and right curved corners of the phone shadow.
October 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
weeble.bsky.social
I had a loose intuition that it might form a double-loop, crossing over itself to turn through 720 degrees. But at this point Cassie shared this stunning simulation.
The "cookie-cutter" version. The phone has been replaced with a loop of metal ribbon in a wide rounded rectangle. The reflection it casts on the wall has an outer racetrack, and an inner sort of hourglass. A second horizontal strip of light sits parallel and below the first. But then rather than having semicircles curving out and down, they instead start by turning a sharp 180 degrees inward before curving down and crossing over each other.
October 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
weeble.bsky.social
At this point, I went to bed, and the following day @porglezomp.bsky.social made some amazing simulations. Look at this! I'm so excited to see this phenomenon accurately simulated!
The original scene rendered by a computer. It's very grainy due to the probabilistic sampling of light rays, but it clearly shows a phone with chrome trim, casting a shadow onto the wall and reflection the familiar racetrack shaped halo onto the shadowed area higher on the wall. The horizontal portion of the halo is much brighter.
October 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
weeble.bsky.social
And after pondering it greatly, here is what I doodled. I was confident the 90 degree rounded corners make 180 degree arcs, that the edges of the phone make straight lines, and that *they meet at an angle*. I want to say it came to me in a vision. I was convinced this had to be true.
A pair of diagrams in orange pen. The first shows the phone tilted at 45 degrees. A short edge points up and right and a long edge points up and left. The second diagram shows the rotated phone shadow, and a weirdly shaped halo. The top part of the halo is a semicircle, like a rainbow. But on the left edge the halo then deflects to the left at 45 degrees to make a line the length of the long side of the phone, while on the right it deflects out 45 degree to make a shorter line. Then both of these are linked by quarter circles down and then sideways to meet the left and right corners of the phone.
October 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
weeble.bsky.social
Here's the original diagram I scribbled.
A page in a notebook, written in orange ink. At the top, we see a familiar view looking down on the phone, with arrows drawn with perspective to show light rays descending onto the phone and bouncing back up. The rays hitting the top "bounce up with no sideways deflection". Those hitting the corner have "maximum sideways deflection" and those barely glancing off the corner as it turn down the side have "glancing incidence w/ minimal deflection in any direction". A second diagram shows the halo meeting the phone shadow. "Maximum horizontal deflection comes from 45 degree point on phone." Halo "fades away as it reaches the phone shadow". Lastly, another diagram shows the same shadow of the phone but with a smaller halo. "If phone is closer to wall, expect smaller, tighter arcs." The horizontal portion is the same length, but the circular arcs are much smaller.
October 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
weeble.bsky.social
Okay, time for some answers! Here's what I claim is happening. The "racetrack" shaped halo is entirely produced by sunlight reflecting off the top edge and top rounded corners of the phone. (The perspective makes the first diagram a little weird looking, sorry.)
Maya's photograph, annotated with arrows showing rays of light. Sunlight from an unseen window enters from the right of the frame, parallel rays descending at a shallow angle more or less square onto the landscape orientation phone, casting a shadow onto the wall, which is parallel to the phone. The light rays hitting the top edge of the phone are deflected upward and form the top horizontal part of a halo in the shape of a racetrack: semicircular arcs on the left and right with a bright line connecting the top each together. These rays are coded yellow. Other rays of light are coloured blue, red and orange. The blue ray hits the rounded corner near the top edge, it is deflected upward and form the topmost part of the left semicircle. The red ray hits the 45 degree point of the corner and is maximally deflected horizontally, it is the left tip of the halo. The orange ray hits the rounded corner nearly at the end of the phone. It is such a shallow angle, barely grazing the phone, that it is only deflected a tiny amount. We can see from the shadow on the wall where it would be if it weren't deflected at all. The halo is fading away at this point but we can see it would terminate on the shadow just about where the rounded upper corner meets the straight left end of the phone. A simplified diagram looking diagonally down on the phone from the direction of the window. The same light rays are coloured the same as the previous diagram. A side elevation of the same diagram: we see sunlight descending at a shallow angle, and can see how the yellow rays bounce off the top and come back up at the same angle, the blue rays just a bit lower, the red rays come out basically horizontal and the orange rays are barely deflected at all.
October 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
weeble.bsky.social
Extra hard mode: what will be the pattern if the phone is replaced by a phone-shaped cookiecutter, i.e. a rounded rectangle ribbon of metal. (Either orientation, your choice.)
Diagram of an idealised phone as a rounded rectangle-prism turned 45 degrees to the right, and then the same as a cookie-cutter where the body of the phone is removed and all that remains is a ribbon of metal framing a rounded rectangle hole.
October 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
weeble.bsky.social
Finished this with my sister. My Poirot lore is weak so most of the references were lost on me but I very much enjoyed the layout and solving experience. Very readable, lots of variety.
A partial jigsaw. The detective Poirot stands addressing a group of mostly well-to-do people in a large and comfortable room, seen in isometric perspective. The floor is covered in a richly patterned square rug, about which chairs, a bench and a couch are arranged, while the walls are empty voids of incomplete jigsaw. The jigsaw completed. From the nearby box we see it is titled "The World of Hercule Poirot". We now see the room continues beyond the confines of the rug, with a grand fireplace, various nooks and corridors leading off, and overlooked by balconies from a library on the floor above. Servants clean and carry food, Hastings and Detective Japp hover behind Poirot, a train driver chastises a schoolgirl and a woman in a red kimono disappears into a side room. The walls are covered in paintings of places Poirot has visited and knicknacks from his cases are scattered everywhere: clocks, a porcelain elephant, a voodoo doll, numerous wigs, a toy train, a glass sphere and a small marrow.
October 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
weeble.bsky.social
Really, I spent a long time thinking about this.
Two A4 pages of pencil diagrams of parts of the bag. It doesn't show measurements, but it explains the structure and layers and shows where the visible stitches are. The outside front is a wide rounded rectangle, with a narrow panel along the top, a broad panel along the bottom, a zip in between and two small panels to cover over the zip ends. It has no separate lining but there are simple unfinished panels inside to cover over the zip ends there too. The inside front is basically a single grey panel of the same size. The outside back is more complicated, formed from the top down by a zip (with panels to cover the ends) a padded mesh and a narrow panel on top of the padded mesh along the bottom. This one *is* lined on the inside. The inside back layer has a flat panel on one side and a three panels on the other, with the middle one having a large mesh pocket attached to it. The central core of the bag is a loop formed by a simple bottom panel and a top with a zip and two edge panels. These connect to each other to form a loop with the seams on the inside and then a grey ribbon is stitched over them to protect the raw edges. Finally, the front and back layers are stitched to the front and back edges of the loop, again with the seams on the inside and again with a grey ribbon stitched over them to protect the raw edges.
October 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
weeble.bsky.social
Okay so I spent hours analysing the bag and figuring out what order it was stitched together in and which seams I'd need to unpick to replace the zip, I bought replacement zips and sliders... and then just sewed the nylon helix back onto the fabric. Seems okay!
The outside of the bag's zip, which is the side without the teeth. You can see two blobs of black thread at the edge of the zip fabric away from the teeth, where I anchored it. There's a tiny loop of black thread emerging from the fabric and immediately disappearing again between each tooth. The inside, where the teeth are. The teeth are a continuous nylon coil. You can't really see it clearly as it's so dark, but there's a tight loop of black thread coming out between each loop/tooth of the coil and wrapping around it to hold it in place.
October 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
weeble.bsky.social
Should I... should I understand ancient Greek debates as panel shows?
(Wikipedia screenshot.) The original phrase used by Aristotle from which begging the question descends is τὸ ἐξ ἀρχῆς αἰτεῖν, or sometimes ἐν ἀρχῇ αἰτεῖν, 'asking for the initial thing'. Aristotle's intended meaning is closely tied to the type of dialectical argument he discusses in his Topics, book VIII: a formalized debate in which the defending party asserts a thesis that the attacking party must attempt to refute by asking yes-or-no questions and deducing some inconsistency between the responses and the original thesis. In this stylized form of debate, the proposition that the answerer undertakes to defend is called 'the initial thing' (Ancient Greek: τὸ ἐξ ἀρχῆς, τὸ ἐν ἀρχῇ) and one of the rules of the debate is that the questioner cannot simply ask (beg) for it [clarification needed] (that would be trivial and uninteresting). Aristotle discusses this in Sophistical Refutations and in Prior Analytics book II, (64b, 34–65a 9, for circular reasoning see 57b, 18–59b, 1). The stylized dialectical exchanges Aristotle discusses in the Topics included rules for scoring the debate, and one important issue was precisely the matter of asking for the initial thing—which included not just making the actual thesis adopted by the answerer into a question, but also making a question out of a sentence that was too close to that thesis (for example, PA II 16).
October 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
weeble.bsky.social
Okay, gonna try this once more and if it doesn't stream good maybe it's time to revisit Persona 5. twitch.tv/clockworknet...
Annette playing Silksong.
September 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
weeble.bsky.social
Can I sew the zip teeth back on, or do I need to tear everything out and put in a whole new zip? (I think that night be a bit beyond my skills.)
A broken zip on a belt bag, flipped out to show the inside surface. The spiral of plastic teeth has become detached from the fabric strip for 20-30mm, as demonstrated by the finger poking between the two. The same thing shown from the outside. The fabric part of the zip is a bit frayed but otherwise intact. The damage is not obvious.
September 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
weeble.bsky.social
It's got this icon, it sounds like a harp and it's played by plucking, not strumming. It's a harp. Fight me.
Harp-like icon.
September 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
weeble.bsky.social
Playing Silksong.
Donnie Darko therapist meme. Donnie: I found the solution to a puzzle. Therapist: A real puzzle, or another breakable wall? Donnie: Breakable wall.
September 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
weeble.bsky.social
Thank you super Chiitan! ♡
本当にありがとう、スーパーちいたん！♡
Comic strip. A red haired girl with glasses grimaces. She is labelled "trans people having a bad time". Then, high up in the sky, something is shining bright! A familiar silhouette pirouettes (or tumbles) from the sky; it's Chiitan! There is an enormous impact. A huge dust cloud rises and dissipates, leaving a crumpled figure face-down on the floor, smoke rising from the still figure. Chiitan remains face-down, but raises a single arm with a small trans flag. The red haired girl smiles, "omg is that chiitan?" The cartoon is signed "Nettie '25"
September 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
weeble.bsky.social
More the latter? My scale is probably way off here. See the dots here. Some of them were facing each other having conversations, which I think also confused me and made it not seem like a queue. Not great use of space.
Diagram of Bloc. The queue is a dotted line starting in front of the bar and immediately going out along a very narrow hallway next to tables and towards the main entrance. There's a large unused floor area in front of the bar.
September 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
weeble.bsky.social
Okay so if we are a few years off making toothpaste that can regrow enamel... what happens if someone uses it their whole life? Do they grow a terrifying mouth full of mega-teeth?
Wario grinning with a mouth full of enormous teeth.
September 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM