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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 24/09/2026

finally found a good use for empty film canisters

estrogen vial in one of those black plastic canisters that 35mm film comes in

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 08/09/2026

yeah this doesn't exactly inspire confidence

product image from the website has an OpenAI SynthID watermark (ie it was probably generated by chatgpt)

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 07/09/2026

why do they have their own shitcoin crypto token now 😭

Screenshot of a github diff for the nitter readme from two weeks ago, showing the donation section being added. There are standard options like Liberapay, Patreon and established cryptocurrencies like BTC and XMR, but also a "$Nitter" token.

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 05/09/2026

one donkey power is defined as 250W, so one donkey power-minute (or minute of ass) is equal to 15kJ. the energy density of gasoline is around 34.2 MJ/L or 129.5 MJ per US gallon, therefore we can conclude 1 gallon of gas actually equals 8630.7 minutes of ass

((34.2 megajoules/liter) * (1 gallon)) / ((250 watts) * (1 minute)) = 8630.738868

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 30/08/2026

see this is why you need to use a monospace font everywhere /hj

Screenshot of the OP. It's in a monospace font, making the difference between capital I and lowercase L clearly visible.

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 26/08/2026

"Fountain of the Sun" - Valladolid, Spain 12/08/2026 Multiple exposure composite on a single frame of black and white film 📷 Pentax MZ-30 🎞️ @ilfordphoto.com FP4 Plus 🔘 SMC Pentax-A 50mm f/1.7 #photography #eclipse #filmphotography #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #fridayfavourites

A black and white multiple exposure photograph of a total solar eclipse. Multiple images of the Sun are visible in a diagonal line across the photo, representing the stages of the eclipse. In the centre, the Sun is totally eclipsed and the corona is visible. The background is dark but not totally underexposed; various fields, forests, power lines and buildings are visible in the distance, occupying around the bottom quarter of the image.

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 19/08/2026

sylveon polaroid goes hard actually

Sylveon-themed Polaroid Go Gen 3 instant film camera

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 18/08/2026

how about vector graphics except it's really big anyway

Properties of a PDF file:

PDF Producer: i wrote it by hand in a text editor lmao
PDF Version: 1.7
Page Count: 1
Page Size: 381,000,000 x 381,000,000 mm (portrait)

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 17/08/2026

i spent my autism power porting it to LaTeX

Screenshot of a desktop using a tiling window manager. On the left, there is a terminal text editor showing LaTeX3 package code. On the right there is a PDF document with multiple pages of dog noises (generated by the LaTeX code).

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 15/08/2026

Valladolid, Spain, 12 Aug 2026 Canon EOS 1100D, Tamron SP 500mm f/8 mirror, ISO 100, 1/5s #eclipse #photography

The 12 August 2026 eclipse just at the end of totality. The diamond ring effect is visible at the bottom right of the disc, and pink prominences are visible at the left and around the right side. The wispy corona extends almost to the edges of the image.

(This is the image that was displayed on the camera in the quoted post, but cropped to a square with the eclipsed sun centred.)

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 14/08/2026

still need to actually get the raws off this camera #eclipse

A Canon EOS 1100D DSLR camera displaying a photo of the 12 Aug solar eclipse just at the end of totality, with the diamond ring effect visible in the bottom right

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 27/07/2026

poor financial decisions

Me holding a box of Fujifilm Fujichrome Provia 100F slide film (this one roll cost £29)

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 05/07/2026

the sun yesterday (Canon EOS 1100D, Tamron SP 500mm f/8 mirror, Baader AstroSolar OD 5.0 filter)

A telephoto image of the Sun. It appears as a white circle on a black background, with a few small sunspots visible in the lower right.

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 18/06/2026

dear spanish national geographic institute: why the fuck are you serving geotiff files with a .png extension

$ file mapaBTN25_epsg25830_0372-1_COG.png
mapaBTN25_epsg25830_0372-1_COG.png: TIFF image data, little-endian, direntries=20,

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 01/06/2026

here's the proper version (Canon 1100D, Tamron SP 500mm f/8 mirror)

Photo of the full moon taken tonight. (It's the same photo as the quoted post, but with proper white balance.)

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 01/06/2026

woah i can't believe the blue moon is real

Photo of the full moon. The white balance has been adjusted to make the moon look very blue.

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 31/05/2026

breaking news: canada has banned the letter j

Google AI Overview:

There is 1 letter "j" in the word "Canada" (C-a-n-a-d-a). [the last A is in bold]

However, if you are asking about the country as a whole, it contains zero "j"s.

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 26/05/2026

"mom, can we have macro lens?" "no, we have macro lens at home" macro lens at home:

A top down view of a DSLR camera pointed at a laptop screen. The lens is not attached to the camera, and is instead being held by hand backwards some distance in front of the camera's lens mount.

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 26/05/2026

(it's kit's eye from this firefox new tab background, in case you were wondering)

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 26/05/2026

macro shot of my laptop screen using absolutely no proper macro gear (Canon EOS 1100D, Tamron 18-200mm @ 18mm freelensed in reverse)

An extremely close-up shot of an LCD display. The individual coloured subpixels are clearly visible and are gently chevron-shaped; in most of the image, only the red and green subpixels are lit. There is a dark circular region in the centre, and some blue subpixels are illuminated at the edge of this region.

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 23/05/2026

ok what the fuck powerpc

eieio - eieio - Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 07/05/2026

new camera! the thing they don't tell you about shooting these is that strangers will stop you and ask about your camera every 5 minutes very fun to shoot though

A Zeiss Ikon Nettar 518/16, a folding medium format camera from the 1950s. The lens is folded out and there is a set of bellows between the lens and the body. The lens is marked "Novar-Anastigmat 1:4.5 f=75mm", and various other markings and levers are visible around the lens and shutter.

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 02/05/2026

beware of trains, shot on pentax mz-30 / @ilfordphoto.com kentmere 400 / pentax-a 50mm f/1.7 #GrainSocial grain.social/profile/did:plc:m3l4kx…

A black and white photograph of a small sign that says "DANGER - Beware of trains". Narrow-gauge railway tracks are visible running across the frame behind the sign.

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 26/04/2026

zbar scanned it "a predator cannot differentiate prey from accomplice"

$ zbarimg -v bafkreibldvfgnflpmjo3maezit5qheciea36y4b4mio7xeb53jmfs5v64e.webp
qr_code_decode: Number of errors corrected: 10
QR-Code:a predator cannot differentiate prey from accomplice
scanned 1 barcode symbols from 1 images in 0 seconds

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 24/04/2026

why does discord think the size of the same file is different by more than 1MB between desktop and mobile what the fuck discord

Screenshot of a Discord file attachment on the desktop app called solutions.csv. The size says 4MB.

Screenshot of a Discord file attachment on the mobile app called solutions.csv. The size says 2.96MB.

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 21/04/2026

coca cola turtle (pentax mz-30, @ilfordphoto.com kentmere 400)

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 21/04/2026

derg (pentax mz-30, @ilfordphoto.com kentmere 400)

Black and white photo of a dragon carved out of wood. It is looking up at a castle in the top right (also carved from wood). There are trees out of focus in the background.

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 19/04/2026

can't believe they added cat ears to c++ :3

Changes that have been accepted into C++26 include:

Language

- Compile-time reflection.[9] (An experimental fork of Clang by Dan Katz, as well as GCC 16, implement these features. These compilers as well as another implementation from EDG can all be tried through the Compiler Explorer.) This uses a new operator ^^ (colloquially called the "cat-ears operator"[10]) for invoking reflection, rather than the Reflection TS keyword reflexpr.

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 10/04/2026

python, of course, knows the correct answer

Python 3.14.3 (main, Feb 13 2026, 15:31:44) [GCC 15.2.1 20260209] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import nothing_to_see_here
>>> 77 + 33
100
>>>

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 05/04/2026

oh yeah here's Artemis II's full trajectory visualised in KSA (darker blue line)

A screenshot of the map view of the spaceflight simulation game Kitten Space Agency. There is a blue line which goes around the Earth in an eccentric orbit before making a loop around the Moon (or rather, where the Moon will be) before returning to Earth. (This line is generated by a mod based on the Artemis II orbital ephemeris published on the NASA website.)
In the centre of the screen there is a marker labelled "Rocket", which is located at the current position of Artemis II within the Earth-Moon system (as of 2026-04-05 02:21:19 UTC). From the marker there is a green line (which turns into a light blue line after getting close to the moon). (This is KSA's prediction of Artemis II's future orbit, which doesn't quite match up with the real orbit in darker blue because of the approximation of orbital mechanics KSA uses.)

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 04/04/2026

i love the silly little post it notes in this game :3 (screenshot based on Artemis II's real-time position)

Screenshot of the inside of a spacecraft cockpit in the game Kitten Space Agency. There are post-it notes on the inside of the cockpit, saying "moar boosters!!", "mow mow? -meow", "control stuff goes here -Banjo", and "RTX ON" with a drawing of a cat. A crescent Earth is visible in the distance from one of the cockpit windows.

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 03/04/2026

KSA's default moon orbit is based on 2025 data and isn't very accurate for tracking Artemis II, so I've added a custom system that uses up-to-date lunar orbit data.

A screenshot of the spaceflight simulator Kitten Space Agency. It's similar to the one in the quoted post, but the rocket's trajectory gets much closer to the moon (which is now labelled "Luna_Artemis2"), and visibly loops around it. (Also, the version number on the OemLoader window is now 0.0.5-alpha.)

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 03/04/2026

Artemis II's real-time orbit in @ahwoo-official.bsky.social @deanhall.bsky.social's Kitten Space Agency

A screenshot of the spaceflight simulation game Kitten Space Agency in its map view. There are various complicated-looking gauges, buttons and windows around the edges. The focused window is titled "OemLoader 0.0.1-alpha+ffb34e0a6ece9d252a475c2fa9". In the middle of the screen, there is a zoomed out view of the Earth and the Moon. Near the Earth, there is a marking that says "Rocket", with the rocket's future trajectory (taking it around the moon) visible as a green line.

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 25/03/2026

the fabled germany sized pdf file

PDF Producer: i wrote it by hand in a text editor lmao
PDF Version: 1.7
Page Count: 1
Page Size: 381,000,000 x 381,000,000 mm (portrait)

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 16/03/2026

rust + webassembly in a latex document for fun and absolutely no profit

$screenshot with a text editor and the PDF viewer. the text editor shows some LaTeX code: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{wasmtex} \begin{document} %\WASMTracingOn \WASMInstantiateFile{target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/release/tex_hello.wasm}{vm} \WASMCallExportedFunction{vm}{tex_hello}{42, 25} \end{document} the PDF viewer shows a LaTeX-generated document (the result of compiling the LaTeX code): "Hello LaTeX from Rust! 42 + 25 = 67"$

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 12/03/2026

"object-oriented LaTeX isn't real, it can't hurt you" object-oriented LaTeX:

Screenshot of section 98.3 (Classes) of the PGF/TikZ manual (https://tikz.dev/oo#autosec-7741)

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 10/03/2026

it was stack alignment

$Screenshot of C code: // Use a forwarding method here as it is a little simpler than renaming the symbol as it is used from assembler void __attribute__((naked, noreturn)) __printflike(1, 0) panic(__unused const char *fmt, ...) { // if you get an undefined reference here, you didn't define your PICO_PANIC_FUNCTION! pico_default_asm ( #ifdef __riscv #if !PICO_PANIC_FUNCTION_EMPTY "jal " __XSTRING(PICO_PANIC_FUNCTION) "\n" #endif "1: ebreak\n" "j 1b\n" #else "push {lr}\n" #if !PICO_PANIC_FUNCTION_EMPTY "bl " __XSTRING(PICO_PANIC_FUNCTION) "\n" #endif "1: bkpt #0\n" "b 1b\n" // loop for ever as we are no return #endif : : : ); } The inline assembly instruction "push {lr}\n" has been circled in red.$

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 10/03/2026

$Terminal screenshot. The main window shows some C code: #include <stdio.h> #include "pico/stdlib.h" static const float f = 3.1415926f; void handle_panic(void) { printf("%u %f\n", *(unsigned*)&f, f); while (1); } int main(void) { stdio_init_all(); sleep_ms(5000); printf("%u %f\n", *(unsigned*)&f, f); panic("test"); } There is another terminal window below, which shows Terminal ready 1078530010 3.141593 1078530010 0.000000$

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 10/03/2026

can anyone explain why the Pi Pico SDK's printf thinks pi=2 when called from inside a panic handler #raspberrypi #embedded

$Desktop screenshot with two terminal windows. The left window has a text editor with some C code: #include <stdio.h> #include "pico/stdlib.h" void handle_panic(void) { printf("%f\n", 3.1415926f); while (1); } int main(void) { stdio_init_all(); sleep_ms(5000); printf("%f\n", 3.1415926f); panic("test"); } The right window shows a serial communication session with a Raspberry Pi Pico. The Pico has printed 3.141593 2.000000 (The last number should of course also be 3.141593 based on the C code.)$