Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 2hcouldn't find where I'd posted this before so here's a new render of my prestige TV-style fly-through of part of Chauvet Cave, now with improved texture and lighting 1151
Reposted by Paul Starrjam @socialistboat.dad · 14h😒 "Looping you in for visibility" 😏 "Sir, you're gonna want to see this" 2468
Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 27/09/2026This is so cool. This is so cool! Take any Wikipedia article and play back its edit history as an animation timemachine.carbonadoks.comtimemachine.carbonadoks.comWiki Time MachineRead Wikipedia and replay every edit of an article as an animation. 2179
Reposted by Paul Starr🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026oof, when he shows up in The Third Man, lookin so conspiratorialstatic.klipy.comHarry Lime in The Third ManAlt: Harry Lime in The Third Man 121
Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 26/09/2026I’m retroactively proud that one of my favorite stanzas in the Editorial Trochee Sequence includes, arguably, two Orson Welles shoutouts in a row, since Maurice Lamarche’s Brain was a heavily Welles-inflected performance 040
Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 26/09/2026We watched Citizen Kane last night; it was my first time seeing it. Unfortunately I’m going to be obsessed with Orson Welles for a while, we regret the disruption of whatever else I was doing here 4220
Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 26/09/2026*eight seconds from dying while fighting for my life in mutant-ridden laboratory* mango defeated by lime?! fucking 𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑒?! 0479
Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 25/09/2026I feel complicated about the issue but I do think think this doodle from years ago would make a good laptop sticker 1252
Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 25/09/2026I saw one of the new USPS vans in person for the first time yesterday. Love that guy, worthy successor to the LLV 2101
Reposted by Paul StarrAria Winningson @aria.labeledrude.online · 25/09/2026the problem with having your finger on the pulse is that sometimes that artery just starts fucking spraying 1596
Reposted by Paul StarrMatt Henderson @matthen.com · 24/09/2026every (convex) quadrilateral is a square- if you view it from the right perspective 1231432
Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 23/09/2026Here is a blog post I liked a lot dog-envier.bearblog.dev/crows-orcas-...dog-envier.bearblog.devCrows, orcas, Nazis, maximization, competitionRecently my attention has been captured by stories of animals violating the precepts of maximization. Consider the grief-stricken crows. In 2002, a crow... 050
Reposted by Paul Starrastral-embers.bsky.social @astral-embers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026@pa.ulst.ar 041
Reposted by Paul StarrAnimEigo @animeigo.com · 15/09/2026A new column begins on the MediaOCD blog! It's @miketoole.com with... Toole’s Gold! mediaocd.com/introducing-... And he's here to talk about "The End of Black Jack!" mediaocd.com/tooles-gold-... 38845
Reposted by Paul StarrMatt Henderson @matthen.com · 14/09/2026chaos from bouncing a ball in a circle- at each point, I simulate a bunch of futures with slightly different velocities- showing how predictable the system would be with measurement error. The system seems to move between Stable Eras and Chaotic Eras, where it is hard to predict four bounces ahead 423937
Reposted by Paul StarrMinor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I’ve been off and on trying to digest the navier stokes finding. It’s interesting! But less so than I had dared to hope. Using this thread to doc my understanding. They call it self similar, which means the took a graph and kept shrinking it in time 🧵 Visualizations from ns.mino.mobi/explorer 3305
Reposted by Paul StarrAustin @austin.karageko.com · 08/09/2026Osamu Dezaki reflects on his feature film directorial debut: Aim for the Ace! "No one could see where it was headed, so out of concern they asked, 'Is it all going to come together?' to which I responded, 'Hell if I know.' (laughs)" Read here: karageko.com/2026/09/08/a... 27032
Reposted by Paul StarrMatt Henderson @matthen.com · 07/09/2026A ring built from the Julia sets found along the main cardioid of the Mandelbrot set. one of my favourite mathematical objects 726443
Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 07/09/2026Me: Last night's dinner was S-tier wifeslop. Molly: I dare you to post "last night's dinner was S-tier wifeslop" to Bluesky. 0120
Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 05/09/2026A flyover of the Gaussian splat I made of the drip castle I made today 1294
Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 04/09/2026“Go to therapy” is often just code for “I think you should be medically treated to agree with me” 130
Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 03/09/2026Last night's mundane dream had an incredible detail: I was in a bookstore where the big promo was for "The Bill Atkinson Journals, vol. 5: The Space Shuttle Years" (complete with an inflatable jumbo version of the book) 060
Reposted by Paul StarrWinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 27/10/2024Alright, we’ll go to Hanging Rock, but none of you girls better disappear into a languid torpor of confused sapphic longing <Zamfir pan flute music> GODDAMMIT WHAT DID I SAY 119740
Reposted by Paul StarrPaul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 17/11/2024manga flashback montages should be illegal 191
Reposted by Paul StarrPaul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 24/07/2024It should be illegal to own a single-family home you don’t live in 0101
Reposted by Paul StarrPaul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 16/12/2025thinking about writing a parser from scratch. It’s not illegal. If a cop asks you “are you writing a parser from scratch” and you say “yes” they still can’t do shit. 0101
Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 29/08/2026Holy shit what? What???? www.tcj.com/ioannis-ment...tcj.comIoannis Mentzas, 1972-2026 - The Comics JournalAustin Price pays homage to the Vertical co-founder and Kodansha USA Editorial Director, who died earlier this year. 2113
Reposted by Paul StarrOops! All Paperclips @all-paperclips.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Introducing fluoddity.com! Hundreds of thousands of particles self organize into a stunning variety of structures. Explore a world of possibilities with mutation and artificial selection! This is my personal tool for exploring Fluoddity, rebuilt for the web by Opus 5 1023064
Reposted by Paul StarrWinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Huh? What? But EVERYBODY KNOWS Tom never finished enough pages to make a full issue of Duckborne Chronicles! How? Did he draw many many new pages not yet available online that will be on sale IN PRINT the way it was meant to be? THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE www.smallpressexpo.com/debut/duckbo... 1011029
Reposted by Paul StarrBenjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"You'll receive the Order of Lenin for this, Captain." 152
Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 26/08/2026I'm so mad I didn't think of this. This is so good. God damn it!!!! 040
Reposted by Paul StarrTristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The second book in Eiko Kadono’s Kiki’s Delivery Service series is out todayyyyyyy (tr. me) 🧹🐈⬛ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813082...penguinrandomhouse.comKiki and the New Magic by Eiko Kadono: 9798217227105 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksJoin Kiki, the beloved young witch, and her clever cat Jiji in the enchanting sequel to the modern classic! This new translation will reveal more to the story that inspired the Hayao Miyazaki film, Ki... 2259
Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 25/08/2026As far as hideous tech industry output goes I think short-form vertical video is much more evil than AI—BUT AI-generated short form video is multiplicatively, malevolently evil. 010
Reposted by Paul StarrThe Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 25/08/2026A well carved keyaki burr wood tea tray in the form of a Japanese maple leaf. The timber chosen for its eccentric gnarled grain, with a deep rich patina. Japan, 19th century. 07316
Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 23/08/2026An item I forgot to put on the list at the end: The way the game so elegantly illustrates the concept of trade-offs in design. Compact solutions take more cycles to finish, fast solutions require more parts, and prioritizing one aspect almost always means compromising something else. 161
Reposted by Paul StarrAbel @abeliansoup.bsky.social · 23/08/2026have you ever seen a visual shepherd tone anon? courtesy of @bleuje.com 1431163
Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 22/08/2026“fuck around and find out“ is my favorite threat that is also excellent pedagogy 080
Reposted by Paul StarrAnime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 21/08/2026Award-Winning Translator, Jan Mitsuko Cash, Calls on American Manga Industry to Double Their Rates! 51078556
Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 21/08/2026opus magnum post starrslog.bearblog.dev/paul-opuses-...starrslog.bearblog.devPaul: Opuses MagnumOne of my all-time favorite video games is Opus Magnum. It’s a puzzle game about building building molecule-like shapes from atoms or smaller molecules. E... 030
Reposted by Paul StarrEmma @ehanashi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026In case anyone were interested in the manga/light novel rates situation 13432
Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 21/08/2026If I had been watching this i would’ve been so taken off guard there’s even odds I’d’ve just burst into tears to hear someone say it out loud 0184
Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 19/08/2026This is what my manga translation workbench software looks like at the moment. 0111
Paul Starr @pa.ulst.ar · 19/08/2026Putting the rumors to rest: I can confirm that Claude Fable possesses double dactyl capability. I have notified Anthropic through the usual channels, but obviously for security reasons I won’t be publishing my methodology until they update the cybersecurity classifier. 150