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jzplusplus @jzplusplus.com · 2h

do not quote this in the insurance report please

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jzplusplus @jzplusplus.com · 2h

I did not consider that lol, but my windows only get direct sun in the morning so it's probably fiiiinnnnneeee

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jzplusplus @jzplusplus.com · 3h

The culprit (I think this was a gift from @wonder55.bsky.social actually 💖)

$Refractive shiny crystal hearts$

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jzplusplus @jzplusplus.com · 3h

Benefit of keeping random shiny things around my apartment is that sometimes this just happens

Little dots of rainbow light scattered across a white ceiling

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 12h

TIL active lightning rods are a thing. look at this angry bastard. it tries to, faster than Zeus himself, fire its own lightning (early streamer emission innit) back at the sky to beckon a strike to hit it instead of something more important. long live the fantastical hubris of NF C 17-102

brochure ad for the Indelec Prevectron 3 Connect IOT connected lightning rod. it is a cone-shaped metal thing with several pointy things at the tip aimed at a center upwards spike, a large metal band just beneath that, and several sharp looking triangular spikes aimed downwards in a cone. a bit beneath it is a small solar panel.

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jzplusplus @jzplusplus.com · 16h

Guy at the grocery store at 8pm on Tuesday trying to buy a single beer at self-checkout and gets mad at the employees for not having better service

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 28/09/2026

@jzplusplus.com and i are hosting a kickoff for this year’s weird web october! (weirdweboctober.website) bubblesort studios 78 gough st, sf sun, october 4, 2026, 1-5pm

a vector drawing of internet browsers at a slant

the browser in the foreground has the text:

weird web october kickoff

bubblesort studios
78 gough st, sf
sun, october 4, 2026, 1-5pm

2000s style link banners say “web showcase from past years”
“make your own weird websites”
and “work on this years prompts”

there’s a halftone image of clouds in the background, a mouse with a cursor trail

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jzplusplus @jzplusplus.com · 26/09/2026

I don’t know a ton of people who used Processing a lot, but this Processing Community Day event is happening next weekend in SF: www.instagram.com/p/Ddkh-miiAG...

instagram.com

Instagram

Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

his name is lethargic. he's an IRC chatbot I wrote in 2011 and has been through IRC, skype, and is now on discord (in private servers with friends.) the algorithm has been unchanged since the beginning.

Lethargic’s algorithm

Lethargic’s primary response generator uses a bespoke algorithm that uses neither templates nor markov chains.
Take the user’s input:
Hello lethargic, how are you doing today?
Then pick a random message from a dataset of old IRC logs
brb throwing my computer against the wall
Then we interlace these two sentences, one word at a time, excluding ending punctuation:
Hello brb lethargic, throwing how my are computer you against doing the today wall

Lethargic's algorithm continued
Hello brb lethargic, throwing how my are computer you against doing the today wall
We replace “lethargic” with “me” and other pronouns so that they are inverted (like ELIZA)
Hello brb me, throwing how your are computer me against doing the today wall
Finally we pass this amalgamation into google translate a bunch of times through multiple languages to get our response:
Hey, wait a minute, how's your computer doing today after I hit my head against a wall?

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jzplusplus @jzplusplus.com · 19/09/2026

2nd joke for free: unfortunately, we now have hard evidence that my brain is not smooth 😭

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jzplusplus @jzplusplus.com · 19/09/2026

During the 20 minutes I spent laying there, I prepared this joke for everyone: I've been to a rave with worse music than this

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jzplusplus @jzplusplus.com · 19/09/2026

The noises an MRI machine makes are fucking weird. They are incredibly loud and ominous, but also goofy as hell?

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...

juliaserano.medium.com

On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads

and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/09/2026

One of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights. No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry.

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IAHFY ✦ @iahfy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Samus & Kirby

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Six Dettmar @sixdettmar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’M AT THE URGENT CARE I’M AT THE TACO BELL I’M AT THE COMBINATION URGENT CARE AND TACO BELL

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 13/09/2026

stages of demographic dismissal: 1. minority votes in massive %s for your party 2. rival party attacks them directly to break this 3. party concedes to rival party to try and get rival party supporters 4. minority % support lowers 5. party labels the minority extremists or a cult to blame minority

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jzplusplus @jzplusplus.com · 11/09/2026

Finally made time to listen to this today, it's SO GOOD. I feel like the songs are a mix of Celeste OST and Fear of Dark's Motorway album

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I used to frame this as: If we could pass a constitutional amendment guaranteeing trans people access to comprehensive gender-affirming healthcare, the bathroom of their choice, etc., in exchange for us giving up sports, do you think the people who don't want trans people in sports would go for it?

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Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m not the first person to make this observation but the prevalence of nauseating ai-generated business logos means stuff like this hits CRAZY for me now

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

is mathematics useful? i hope not. that's not the fun part

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026

All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 05/09/2026

the only sandwich an eccentric millionaire could drag me out of retirement for one last rotation

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jaywallace1.bsky.social @jaywallace1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just realized I could now post the entire Wigan Kebab video.

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charlesjpratt @charlesjpratt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One of Hideo Kojima's real talents is that he would have exactly this idea but the stew would be dropped off by a drone that sings a little jingle which can alert enemies if they're in range. You then get a phone call from a nuclear scientist who warns you not to eat too much starch and dairy.

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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We have whittled down all the nominations to our shortlist for the 2026 Tiny Awards! 11 of the most beautiful, interesting, heartfelt, weird, silly websites from the past year, for you to explore and enjoy and vote on - pick your favourite, vote for the winner, TELL THE WORLD! tinyawards.net/vote/

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jzplusplus @jzplusplus.com · 01/09/2026

why is this so funny, I’m losing it

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jzplusplus @jzplusplus.com · 30/08/2026

I’m doing every side quest, send help

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jzplusplus @jzplusplus.com · 30/08/2026

It’s a Las because they won’t let me in to the wedding chapel at Taco Bell

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jzplusplus @jzplusplus.com · 28/08/2026

Girl breakfast (Uncrustable and a Paloma)

A drink and an Uncrustables PB&J in front of a bar menu

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jzplusplus @jzplusplus.com · 27/08/2026

Smart lock: “door unlocked” Me: “you tell ‘em girl”

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jzplusplus @jzplusplus.com · 23/08/2026

Another day, another parasocial crush on a cool trans girl

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☀️ @stel.energy · 17/08/2026

an american trying to refer to the concept of nothingness: this is a nothing burger

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jzplusplus @jzplusplus.com · 16/08/2026

Another day, another parasocial crush on a cool trans girl

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jzplusplus @jzplusplus.com · 12/08/2026

Good attendance at the sad girls club today 🥲

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Rebane @rebane2001.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

i love seeing creative qr code designs, so i made this guide explaining what tricks you can (and can't!) do with qr codes while still keeping them very much readable have fun and make cool stuff!!

(ADVANCED) Guide to (not) fucking up qr codes
...while still making them look cool asf!
by Lyra Rebane

(1) Just have the QR code as-is, works the best!

(2) But leave some white padding, otherwise some scanners can't scan the code!

(3) Recolor the code using a light and dark color!

(4) But don't invert the colors, some scanners can't handle this.

Everything tested with: GrapheneOS, Samsung, iOS, Binary Eye

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(1) Depending on the error correction you can cover up to 30% of the data in the QR code. This will make the QR harder to scan, but it should still work on all scanners.

(2) But this only applies to the data and ec (green). You can also cover one of the format info parts (yellow)

(3) Counter-intuitively, it also only applies to entire codewords (bytes) at once. Therefore you should make sure to never mess up over 30% of the codewords, even by a single pixel!

(4) For example, I added a sneaky one pixel thick worm onto this QR code, which makes it unscannable!

(5) But this QR code I added that chonky snake with a pride scarf onto remains perfectly readable!

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(1) To scan QR codes, scanners will first find the three locators (blue) and then use the zebras (red) to create a grid over the code.

(2) This means that you can stretch, skew, or rotate your codes because the grid still stays intact!
Don't go too overboard with this, as some scanners can't handle extreme transformations.
Pretty much just make sure that straight lines can still be drawn!

(3) However, transformations that don't retain the grid - such as bends - can make the QR code unreadable. Keep this in mind when putting your QR codes on curved real world objects, such as posts and pipes.

(4) If you need to draw curved lines for a grid, the code cannot be scanned.

Note: the GrapheneOS stock Camera app might struggle with certain skews/rotations

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(1) QR code scanners use the grid to pinpoint the center parts of pixels, which means that the rest of the pixel does not matter!

(2) This means that you can shape your pixels however you want, provided that the middle stays unchanged.

(3) Or you can fill the rest of the QR code with a different image or even pure noise!
Note that a QR code like this could break after resizing or image compression, so use with caution!

(4) As with the other tricks, this reduces scannability, so make sure to test it with multiple devices, especially if you’re combining all of the tricks into one ultra QR code!

(5) This example still scans, but may not work properly or reliably everywhere!

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jzplusplus @jzplusplus.com · 09/08/2026

It is 😭 And yet I will keep being a dumbass, as shown my my last post bsky.app/profile/jzpl...

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jzplusplus @jzplusplus.com · 09/08/2026

Am I crazy for doing full hour upper lip only sessions? I just want that part to be done as fast as possible (and we’re getting cloooooose)

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 05/08/2026

literally every history question has been asked in there and thoroughly, *comprehensively* answered already

Post on r/askhistorians from 7 hours ago: At what point in history could chicken nuggets realistically have been made?

post redirecting user to post from r/trevor_culley from 4 years ago

There's really not much to chicken nuggets. Ground chicken mashed into a small clump, breaded, and deep fried. Everything you need for a basic, no frills chicken nugget would have been available to you in the Indus Valley Civilization by at least 3500 BCE if not earlier.

Let's start with chicken because that's kind of crucial. Red jungle fowl were first captured and kept by humans in their native region of southeast Asia and the neighboring islands (ie Indonesia) around 8000 BCE. Strictly speaking, these weren't chickens yet because domestication is a long process, but the novelty of this cool new bird spread quickly and red jungle fowl arrived near the Ganges River by about 7000 BCE. By 4000 BCE, true domestic chickens were being raised and eaten in the Indus Valley, just as the early signs of agriculture and urbanization were starting up.

Those early signs of agriculture included the introduction of domesticated wheat, which had been spreading across the world from its own starting point with early agriculture in Anatolia and upper Mesopotamia around 10,000 BCE. Basically from the start, wheat was ground up into flower, mixed with water, and cooked into some very basic bread. So both flower and bread crumbs are available now too, though the bread was usually flatbread, so expect a different texture.

India is home to all sorts of herbs and spices you could use to add flavor, but the only thing I think would probably be crucial to your chicken nugget breading is salt. Not to worry though, the ruined city known today as Kerala-no-dhoro has you covered. Located on the coast of modern Gujarat and founded around 3700 BCE, it was a center of salt production by collecting and evaporating sea water.

(Answer goes on for another 2000 characters but I'm approaching the word limit)

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Basil 🌱 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Endless cycle

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 01/08/2026

just said this on another post but it bears repeating: the thing about continuing to give money to any jk rowling properties or the nyt is not that they’re shitty about trans people, which they are. it is that both of these entities MATERIALLY CONTRIBUTE to the legal challenges to trans rights

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