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In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

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For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world...

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

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He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

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After removing Allen (who remained peaceful), the federal agents move in to gas the crowd. They continue to pepper spray protestors who have already been pinned.

They are lifting him into the bed of a pickup against his will

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He says "They will kill me if you let this happen. Stop taking pictures and save my life." Refuses to move

He is saying he has a passport in his front pocket

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Dramp @drpagano.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Happening right now, ICE arrests a peaceful citizen from the crowd. "I have done nothing wrong! I am a United States Citizen. [My name is] Matthew James Obediah Allen"

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And you have too many pencils!

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Dramp @drpagano.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

"The client doesn't know what they want" is a super old truism in all design fields, but replacing your client's needs with those of the contractor/designer is the worst possible way to respond to this.

Dramp @drpagano.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Is anyone else noticing an uptick in seemingly fake accounts this week? I suddenly have 11 new "followers" but haven't posted anything attention worthy in months. Seems very suspicious.

Dramp @drpagano.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Since ICE so clearly follows the law...

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Dramp @drpagano.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Very cool! I would be interested to learn about how you solved the hidden line rejection problem. My approach uses a z-buffer to draw from near to far, and computes a "shadow" representing the obscured area as I go. There are cases that don't get handled well - notably lines with ambiguous depth.

Dramp @drpagano.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Love your work! Does this start as a vector image or are you generating vector lines from a rasterized image at some point?

Dramp @drpagano.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I've been totally sucked in by a puzzle in #EliteDangerous. I don't even play this game

A reference key of glyphs hidden in the spectrogram of an audio signal from the video game Elite Dangerous. The glyphs look like scrawled symbols in scratchy handwriting. Each is labeled with a red number by a computer vision algorithm.

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Dramp @drpagano.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Cool idea! I wonder a different grid system would make the word searching part more intuitive. It would make indexing in your code a lot harder, but a triangular or hexagonal grid may help by changing the number of available neighbors?

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Dramp @drpagano.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Wonderful! The little shadows really add a ton

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Dramp @drpagano.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Do you have any insight into when its best to move from exploration to implementation, or bounce back and forth? My sense is that this awareness is gained through practical experience in different problem spaces, and over time you learn to "feel" it. This makes it a tricky process to teach though!

Dramp @drpagano.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

To me, the advice to fully explore the problem-space is most useful for novices who need to be deliberate about not committing to a solution too soon. On the other hand, experts can often do this exploration work implicitly by drawing from relevant experience to inform viable directions forward.

Dramp @drpagano.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I think the ability to effectively switch between different design spaces is something that is developed over time, with expertise. Novices and learners tend to become quickly attached to early solutions because they offer solid ground in uncertain and ambiguous phases of the design process.

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Dramp @drpagano.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Oh that's awesome! Unfortunately, the video compression is really getting in the way...

onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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U Michigan spent nearly a million dollars paying private spies to follow and harass its own students. The university is in crisis.

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Dramp @drpagano.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Man I hate the phrase "Vibe coding" The least you can do is be honest with yourself.

Dramp @drpagano.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

First wood carving from my upgraded plotter! Results aren't outstanding, but it is a very solid first effort

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Dramp @drpagano.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

This one is tuned a bit better - very happy with this result!

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Dramp @drpagano.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Modified my cross-hatch shading algorithm to work with random pattern fills! On the left I'm using interactions between sin waves for shading, the right shows a traditional cross-hatching method. This model of The Veiled Woman by Corradini in the Louvre is from ScanTheWorld (mmf.io/o/6479)

A line drawing of a sculpture of a The Veiled Woman by Corradini on display at the Louvre. Shading is accomplished by interacting sin waves.

A line drawing of a sculpture of a The Veiled Woman by Corradini on display at the Louvre. Shading is accomplished by cross-hatching.

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Dramp @drpagano.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

(you didn't ask but) the pitch of an ocarina is based largely on the "effective size" of the sound hole. Uncovering a finger hole increases the overall "effective size", and changes the pitch. So, if you change the size of the finger holes you can tune the notes! More holes should increase the range

Dramp @drpagano.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This is so inspiring! Thanks also for all of the wonderful detail in your blog - it is so nice to be able to learn from your process www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive...

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Coding my Handwriting — Amy Goodchild

Coding my handwriting in Javascript - how I did it and what I’m doing with it.

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You can also bend the bit of wire sticking through the hole toward your potentiometer pit to create a little bridge that the solder will stick to

You'd still be bridging with a pool of solder, but just to the neighboring hole that then has a wire attached.

Solder the pots to the board, connect the traces together with wire - best of both worlds.

Perf board is always a bit of a hassle, but you do need the traces/pads to solder to regardless. I prefer using wire jumpers instead of trying to bridge traces with solder because of the problem youre facing - the solder is designed to not stick between the copper bits so you do need to pool a bit.

Oh I see now - those larger case pins might not need to be connected to anything for the pot to function if you already have a ground pin and your application isn't super noise sensitive. If they are a hassle, you might be able to bend them out of the way and ignore them altogether!

Also make sure you connect the right pins to GND and High etc. I don't know what your pinout is so I just picked at random

If you move your pots down a row, solder on the orange spots to get your GND and high volt raisl. Then add wires to the blue spots to get the signal out from the potentiometers. Also flux helps, but most electrical solder is flux core and it is not totally necessary for through-hole soldering.

It looks like your perf board has copper traces built in, so you should only need to add small blobs of solder to connect the traces together. Use a multimeter in continuity (beep) mode to test that electricity is conducted anywhere along the red and green paths respectively.

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