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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 22/08/2026

Another day, another article I don't remember creating getting nominated for deletion

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 16/07/2026

why do men and women have different yaws

Figure of a standing man where rotation around the longitudinal (or vertical) axis is labeled 'roll', as might make sense if he was a superhero in flight.

Figure of a woman where rotation around the longitudinal/vertical axis is labeled 'yaw', as would make sense for a seated pilot.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 13/06/2026

hi @merriam-webster.com , I noticed you have no entry for demurre, as in "m-w's lexicographers are very chill and demurre". It means to remove the murre and other black-and-white pelagic birds, such as from the definition of loom 💔

It’s springtime in the loomery. An industrial tapestry loom is gathering scrap yarn and stray bobbins to prepare a nest for her upcoming clutch.

photo credit: Revolution Fibers, "Glimakra Julia 20-Shaft Drawloom Expansion Kit"

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 10/03/2026

Why is it people are so quick to judge the simplest machine as capable of any computation (Turing completeness) yet so insistent that animals are incapable of entire categories of thought?

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 02/01/2026

2026 will be the year i learn to type non-sequitur without needing to spellcheck after

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 19/12/2025

today i have gathered them and labeled them all

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 28/09/2025

love the BoM but a sunny day with a 25% chance of reaching one millimeter of rain at 7pm does not warrant a raining storm cloud icon for today

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 12/09/2025

What if the experience of consciousness resides wholely within a single cell of our brain, and it gets replaced when we sleep? #ShowerThoughts

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 02/09/2025

FYI this is my favorite sign I’ve ever seen

A sign with a silhouetted person sitting on a beluga whale with a red circle with a line over it.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 26/08/2025

Galapagos tortoises aren't named for the Galapagos Islands. The Galapagos Islands get their name from the galápagos (giant tortoises). #TodayILearned #TIL

(Not a Galápagos tortoise). This is an Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea) at a zoo in Japan. Their shell is smooth and dome shaped. Galápagos tortoises by contrast can have a saddleback shell and an extra-long neck, though some also have dome shells too (they are morphologically diverse, varying between islands). The Aldabra and Galápagos tortoises are approximately as different from each other as cats are from dogs, each going their separate ways about 50 million years ago.

The Galapagos tortoise is critically endangered.

The Aldabra tortoise's threat of extinction is less immediate but the two other giant tortoise species of the same genus did not survive human cohabitation.

Photo by Pengo Wray 2005.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 25/08/2025

i think these guys remember me. #pigeons #pigeonsky 🪶

Late at night, a couple of pigeons looking curious on an interstate train platform. I've encountered these pigeons only once before over a year ago. They ran up to me when they saw me.

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NuhEyeNuh @nuheyenuh.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

ballpoint arowana details #illustration #sciart

Detail shot (1/2 of a single drawing) of a ballpoint pen illustration, printed into multiple editions using the pronto plate lithography printmaking technique. It features a popular aquarium hobby fish, the Asian Arowana, Scleropages formosus, on a white backdrop, glaring at the viewer.
Arowana are considered a difficult and controversial variety of fish. They’re endangered under the IUCN Red List and illegal to keep in many countries, although captive-bred fish farm programs for some regions thrive to meet demand. They can grow to 35in. long, and eat a meaty, high protein diet. Individuals can live 15-20, sometimes 25+ years in captivity.

Detail shot (2/2 of a single drawing) of a ballpoint pen illustration, printed into multiple editions using the pronto plate lithography printmaking technique. It features a popular aquarium hobby fish, the Asian Arowana, Scleropages formosus, on a white backdrop—this half shows his tail and rear fins.

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Classic SF with Andy Johnson @andyjohnson.xyz · 18/08/2025

"A kind of SF detective story, starring the curious combination of three scientists, a cop, and a pair of friendly killer whales." I wrote about Cachlot (1980), one of my favourite Alan Dean Foster novels so far, in 2022.

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Cetacean Ops: Cachalot (1980) by Alan Dean Foster review

This is a weekly blog exploring classic science fiction , with a focus on the 1950s to the 1990s.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 19/08/2025

does anyone play WASD shooters like this?

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 02/08/2025

i used to feel self conscious about phrasing things awkwardly but now it means i sound less like ai i guess

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Wilderness Society @wilderness.org.au · 23/07/2025

The ngolak / Baudin's black cockatoo is a striking icon of WA's jarrah forests and the south-west. When they fly overhead, they'll often be observed in flocks. But the population of these stunning birds is in a critical decline, and they are now listed as endangered. #australianbirds #WildOz

A photographic portrait of a Baudin's black cockatoo, with black feathers and open beak, yellow pollen visible on the edges of the beak. The bid has a startling black eye with red rimmed around, a cheerful expression and a blurred background.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 25/06/2025

"wait, why is there even a symbol for zero divided by zero?"

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 04/06/2025

Nice to see the revival of old memes, looking forward to that penguin running left and right with a blue or red background

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 10/05/2025

it's funny that amongst all cries calling this an abomination, no one even cares how inefficient it is to share this text as a screenshot

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 28/04/2025

I can see a couple of possible elephant shapes but not sure if they're it. Helps a lot to view it in grayscale

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 21/04/2025

No deeper point to this, just an experiment in data visualization and information design for sake of curiosity. Online interactive version and code here: pengowray.github.io/knights-graph/

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Knight's Graph

Visualization of possible knight moves on a chess board

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 21/04/2025

With a 3D graph layout, it feels like you get a hint of some deeper underlying structure, but largely it just makes a lovely mess of it.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 21/04/2025

If a chessboard's tiles are jumbled, can a tool help rediscover the underlying structure using only the motion of the knight? I found the fCoSE graph layout algorithm stood out from the rest, published just 4 years ago. #InformationDesign #visualization #complexity #NetSci #dataviz #sciart #♞

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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Why is there a “small house” in IBM’s Code page 437? - blog.glyphdrawing.club/why-is-there... this article is so insanely detailed I felt my head about to explode... (v LanguageHat blog)

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Why is there a "small house" in IBM's Code page 437?

There's a small house in the moddle of IBM's Code Page 437. Why?

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 01/04/2025

For noveling month, I'd always spend too much time coming up with a ridiculous book concept and then spend November writing something completely different. Here's the earliest I can find Going to have to back these up before the site goes down for good. RIP nanowrimo dot org 🪦

"Pretend Hen: The Tail of an Underwater Albino Peacock" project on nanowrimo website

and edit box for my noveling project description from 2011 because this is the only way to view the text, which follows:

project summary: A sunburned albino peacock overcomes his fear of slimy seaweed while journeying to the bottom of the ocean where he meets a beautiful merpeahen, who helps him on his quest to find a vitamin supplement to reduce his overall cancer risk.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 29/03/2025

Just discovered Emily Short's blog. Great starting place for exploring authoring interactive fiction (IF), tools and craft. There's a lot to learn about narrative design by exploring this area. emshort.blog/how-to-play/...

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 24/03/2025

I briefly considered letting you pull your currently playing song directly out from of your music player's memory. But this approach was too hacky, difficult, generally unnecessary for most music apps, and now I've found the library to do it also triggers alerts

So i won't be able to let you pull your currently playing song name directly from of your media player's memory using this neat little .net library. I mean I could but it'll make my software look like a trojan. Fortunately there's very few music apps where this approach would be needed or helpful.

Screenshot of a Microsoft security alert for memory.dll, from the nuget package found at https://github.com/erfg12/memory.dll/ which is a package that I guess is also used by malware

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 24/03/2025

I am a good responsive developer

An itch.io forum post of user requesting a feature (Apple Music support), and the response just 338 days later, me saying I've added it.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 20/03/2025

fonts are more similar than different. don't let graphic designers tell you who you are based on your typeface.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 14/02/2025

while half awake this morning i got stuck staring at the unicode character for zero divided by zero like why would that even have an encoding %

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Arizona Bat Rescue 🦇 @azbatrescue.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Snuggle buddies. A cuddle pile of female Mexican free-tailed bats (T. brasiliensis). 🦇

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 25/01/2025

Connected up an old hard drive to use for backups and found this

Screencap of Explorer with a hard drive named "This Disk Is Slowly Failing (D:)" which is a warning I left for myself

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Jeff Ward @rebbitzman.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Past lives and loves. #hamradio

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 06/01/2025

wish i were a writer so i could write things

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 01/01/2025

why is mammal a six letter word when it only contains 3 letters

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

How to translate the most common 30 words used in scientific names for fish (expanded, corrected) (Data: rfishbase)

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 30/12/2024

I'm sure just like today they debated beauty vs utility then

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 21/12/2024

Mantids are most closely related to cockroaches now?! #entomology #insects

A cladogram illustrating evolutionary relationships among certain insect orders based on Evangelista et al. (2019). The diagram includes three groups:

Dictyoptera: The overarching group containing the others.
Mantodea (Mantises): Branching from Dictyoptera, labeled to indicate these are mantises.
Blattodea (Cockroaches and termites): Also branching from Dictyoptera, labeled to indicate these include cockroaches and termites.

The layout uses connecting lines to show the evolutionary split between Mantodea and Blattodea under the shared umbrella of Dictyoptera.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 17/12/2024

If it was an exclusive deal, I'd agree. Creative Commons works are available to use freely. Yeah, that allows Murdoch press to republish (unaltered and with by-line) but also allows every other publisher in the world to too. Wikipedia has the same model (and sadly also don't pay any writers)

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 17/12/2024

I'm not against authors getting paid, but the articles are Creative Commons licensed so the Conversation are not making money from anyone else republishing their articles, so I don't think they can be faulted for that. They also use a "NoDerivatives" license so the author's words can't be changed.

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 16/12/2024

Zhongyi 20mm 4.5x macro lens arrived today #photography

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Pengo Wray @pengowray.com · 15/12/2024

An artist must follow their passion,

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