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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Cool way to find out that bsky feeds stop working for you if their owner has you blocked

Screenshot of the "Quiet Posters" feed owned by this staff member. It shows no posts, only an error message:
Hmm, some kind of issue occurred when contacting the feed server. Please let the feed owner know about this issue.
Message from the server: Upstream server responded with a 500 error

dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

"Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt." Wenn dich der erste Satz anspricht kann ich Die Verwandlung echt empfehlen

Zeichnung: ein menschengroßer Käfer liegt mit dem Rücken auf einem Bett in einer Stube

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Found on a Lord of the Rings fan's geocities page from 2003

Photo of George W Bush with a part of his hand magnified. His finger is wearing the One Ring, inscribed with Elvish runes. Haters will say it's fake

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Habs mit einer Excel Tabelle gelöst, ist schon übertrieben für so ein Zeitschriftsrätsel. Wie das im Kopf zu rechnen sein soll will ich nicht wissen

Riesige Tabelle. In der ersten Zeile sind die Faktoren der Rechnung 7×N, in der zweiten Zeile sind die Ergebnisse. In den Zeilen darunter sind die Modulo-Operationen der Zahlen 2 bis 6 (farblich markiert).

Die Lösung erfordert einen Modulo von 1 für alle Zahlen, was erst bei 43×7 der Fall ist. Die Lösung ist also 301.

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Und hier das Original auf Deutsch

Der Revoluzzer
Erich Mühsam (1907)

War einmal ein Revoluzzer,
Im Zivilstand Lampenputzer;
Ging im Revoluzzerschritt
Mit den Revoluzzern mit

Und er schrie: „Ich revolüzze!“
Und die Revoluzzermütze
Schob er auf das linke Ohr,
Kam sich höchst gefährlich vor

Doch die Revoluzzer schritten
Mitten in der Straßen Mitten,
Wo er sonsten unverdrutzt
Alle Gaslaternen putzt

Sie vom Boden zu entfernen,
rupfte man die Gaslaternen
Aus dem Straßenpflaster aus,
Zwecks des Barrikadenbaus

Aber unser Revoluzzer
Schrie: „Ich bin der Lampenputzer
Dieses guten Leuchtelichts.
Bitte, bitte, tut ihm nichts!

Wenn wir ihn’ das Licht ausdrehen,
Kann kein Bürger nichts mehr sehen,
Laßt die Lampen stehn, ich bitt!
Denn sonst spiel’ ich nicht mehr mit!“

Doch die Revoluzzer lachten,
Und die Gaslaternen krachten,
Und der Lampenputzer schlich
Fort und weinte bitterlich

Dann ist er zuhaus geblieben
Und hat dort ein Buch geschrieben:
Nämlich, wie man revoluzzt
Und dabei doch Lampen putzt

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Reposting this poem translation I saved from someone's tweet a while back. "Der Revoluzzer" (The Revoluter, by Erich Mühsam, translated by Mark Grainger)

The Revoluter
By Erich Mühsam, translated by Mark Grainger

A would-be revolutionary,
a streetlamp cleaner, usually,
paraded with a crowd of peers:
his fellow revolutioneers.

And he cried: "I'm revoluting!"
and placed the cap he felt so cute in
at a rake designed to kindle fear
above his revolution-ear.

But the revoluters strode
in the middle of the road
where he'd ordinarily
be cleaning streetlamps merrily.

With thoughts of building barricades,
the revoluters grabbed their spades
and in a bout of bad behavement
dug the lampposts from the pavement.

But our revolutionator cried:
"I'll have to fix this later!
I'm the keeper of this light.
Please let it survive the night!

If we snuffer out its spark
our townsfolk will be in the dark.
Leave the lamps up, I implore,
or I won't play with you no more!"

But the revoluters roared
as the lantern lights were floored,
and the streetlamp cleaner crept
away from the parade and wept.

From then on, he stayed at home
and wrote an academic tome
on how to revolutionate
while keeping all the streetlamps straight.

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Everyone shut the fuck up I'm trying to keep my score perfect

My bluesky year highlights chart says I interacted with 6969 users.
Source: anisota.net/harvest

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

In Germany, kobolds look like this

Silly little guy with shaggy red hair and colorful clothes. It's the kobold Pumuckl from the Meister Eder stories.

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Easiest game of my life (it was actually super hard)

Silksong screenshot: Game completion time 2h 37m 20s, which unlocked the Speedrunner achievement! The text is fading out a bit because I got too excited and almost forgot to take the screenshot, oops

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

This is ridiculous. Everyone agrees on the Palestinian right to national sovereignty except the US and its lapdogs. Deeply embarrassing and shameful.

Map of countries that recognize Palestinian statehood. The entire world is marked in green (for recognizing Palestine), with few exceptions. Among these are the USA, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and New Zealand.

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

My brain when I'm in bed trying to fall asleep:

A fight from Deltarune where a giant monster shouts: YOUR TAKING TOO LONG

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

US intervention in the middle east directly led to armed resistance against the US. This is called blowback, there's a great podcast with the same name you should check out. Also notice how western media portrayed Bin Laden in 1993:

Article from The Independent on December 6, 1993 titled "Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace." There's a big picture of Osama Bin Laden smiling into the camera. The blurb says: "The Saudi businessman who recruited mujahedin now uses them for large-scale building projects in Sudan."

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

My therapist: Haboobu isn't real, it can't hurt you Haboobu:

A haboob (dust storm) rolling over a city. It has a Labubu face photoshopped into it.

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

That's what I thought too but surprisingly no:

Chart titled "Generation lead" showing a distribution of childhood blood lead levels by age in the United States. Generation X is highlighted and had by far the highest levels of lead poisoning. Baby boomers are also badly effected; Millenials and Gen Z less so.

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

They did need to do this though

Reddit post: What are we going to call posting on Bluesky?
Top comment: Bluesky CEO didn't want us to call it skeeting of all things. So we call it skeeting.

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Can't say I entirely understand it either but this is what Jack Ass said in his complaint (as per www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/cr... )

Screenshot of the legal document. Source: https://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/another-ass-sues-viacom?page=1

That my reason for changing my name from Bob Craft to Jack Ass was because I created a cartoon character named Andi Ass after my brother Andy who died with another friend in a single vehicle tragedy. I wanted to bring attention to myself in an effort to raise awareness in others. I and Andi Ass promote accountable choices with a designated driver slogan,. "BE A SMART ASS, NOT A DUMB ASS". On Jack Ass's Beer (which is actually a beer bottle with a genuine "Jack Ass Award" inside it) is a picture of me and Andi Ass with our slogan. The "SMART ASS" chooses a designated driver, rather than being a "DUMB ASS" and drink while driving. This fits perfectly with designated driver messages and open container laws. I and Andi's message of accountability is sent through humor and is best said in Andi Ass's own words: "Looking from what comes from Andi and Jack's voices, You will see we promote positive accountable choices, It is not the beer that ever causes you your harm, It's yourself connected to the drink on the end of your arm".
The message of accountability is important to Andi Ass and myself and this is shown in their Mission Statement which is listed in our web site of www.andiass.com: "To build a three-way-bridge between the public, the consumer and the beverage industry, forming a common ground upon which to promote accountability in the consumption of alcohol".

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Some more daily sketching exercises

4 creepy digital drawings, each of head in harsh lighting. The faces are all illuminated from different angles.

Digital map of a fictional world, labeled "Le monde de Roupee" (the world of Roupee). There's an ice sheet at the top and a desert at the bottom, with various climates and seas between. There are 9 regions, each given a name in bad French.

On a closer look, the map depicts Europe, rotated by 90 degrees, with Italy and the British Isles altered. The city names are anagrams, as is the title "Roupee."

A silly digital sketch of Brian Kilmeade, Fox News host. His face is stretched and he wears a shit-eating grin. Text above his head reads: I AM BRIAN KILMEADE

Simple digital sketch of 4 figures. The 2 central figures are wrestling each other. The leftmost one has her arms raised in triumph, the rightmost one holds hers down in frustration, head rolled back.

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Reminds me of how they forced women to become accomplished scientists, heartbreaking

Article blurb by The Economist: "In Soviet times, communist regimes pressed both men and women into scientific careers. The coercion may be gone, but the legacy remains."
The picture shows a female scientist in a lab.
The headline: "Half the scientists in some eastern European countries are women"

Underneath, there's a crudely drawn cartoon of a Soviet soldier wielding an AK-47, yelling at scared woman. She says: "There seems to be a mistake, I was supposed to be a woman born into a backward family that never had a chance to attend school and got my marriage arranged by my family." The soldier shouts: "BECOME AN ACCOMPLISHED SCIENTIST"

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Plus an animation from day 5

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I've been doing daily sketches for the last week, here's some that I like:

Day 7: "Zohran Mamdani". A yellow two-tone drawing of Zohran, a handsome bearded man, smiling with his arms crossed. The title says ZOHRAN for NEW YORK CITY. Behind him, red typewriter text on a blue background reads excerpts from his victory speech:

Tonight, we made history. In the words of Nelson Mandela, "It always seems impossible until it is done." My friends, we have done it. I will be your Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City. If this campaign has demonstrated anything to the world, it is that our dreams can become reality. Dreaming demands hope and when I think of hope, I think of the unprecedented coalition of New Yorkers that we have built. Dreaming demands solidarity and when I look out at this room and out onto the midnight skyline, that is what I see. A life of dignity should not be reserved for a fortunate few. It should be one that city government guarantees for each and every New Yorker.

Day 6: "Pale Blue Dots". It's a rendition of the Earthrise photo from Apollo 10, in a simplified pointillist style. The Earth is rising above the lunar horizon, composed of many blue-white dots and dark gray dots, respectively.

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Aber das sind doch unsere guten Freunde der Demokra-- oh. (Quelle: globalinequality.org/imperial-pow... )

Weltkarte: United States interference in foreign elections. Auf jedem Kontinent sind mehrere Wahleinmischungen zwischen 1946 und 2014 markiert, besonders in fast ganz Südamerika und Südostasien, aber auch in West- und Osteuropa.

Weltkarte: US-backed regime change campaigns. Auf allen Kontinenten außer Nordamerika sind mehrere Regimewechsel markiert – insgesamt 101 Fälle zwischen 1949 und 2014.

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Okay the more I read the deeper it grows into that weird and unfathomable, creeping unease that I've only seen in Cosmic Horror literature like that of HP Lovecraft. Love it!

Excerpt from The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin.
The universe was a cramped heart, and the red light that suffused everything was the translucent blood that filled the organ. Suspended in the blood, he saw that the flickering of the red light was not periodic—the pulsing was irregular. He felt a strange, perverse, immense presence that could never be understood by human intellect.

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Derweil die Wiener Gemeindebauten:

Wohnpark Alterlaa, ein Gemeindebau in Wien. Futuristische Hochhäuser, die unten etwas breiter sind und in Grünflächen münden

Karl-Marx-Hof, ein Gemeindebau in Wien. Eine rote Fassade und eine beige wechseln sich ab; im Erdgeschoss sind mehrere Bögen.

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Can POTUS legalize duels again?

Illustration of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. Burr shoots Hamilton, who reacts like an extra on Star Trek who's been hit by a phaser

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dixTheory @dixtheory.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

(Andor S2 spoilers) I think the most poignant bit of season 2 is Syril's reaction when he finds out about the Empire's genocidal intent.

Screenshot of Andor season 2 episode 8: "Who Are You?"
Syril Karn, a clean-cut fascist, stares off into the distance while a massacre is taking place behind him.

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