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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I am so very tired but utter nonsense like this makes it worthwhile

.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 06/06/2026

If I asked you ‘what do 2 and 7 have in common?’ and you reply that they're both numbers, then either a) you think that's an interesting answer, or b) you're happy to waste my time with a boring answer. In neither case does that reflect well on you.

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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 27/05/2026

A short thread about a new toy: kyleormsby.github.io/nets/ 1/ 🧮

3d projection of the (folded) 4d associahedron

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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 22/07/2025

Squirrels LOVE octahedra.

16th century watercolor of octahedron balanced on a point with squirrel nearby.

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 20/12/2024

Obviously people will be arguing about it for ever, but there's at least a defensible case to be made that OpenAI's new model qualifies as AGI. I'm kind of surprised to see people mostly just chatting about other things. I would have thought it's at least the most interesting thing to happen today.

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 17/12/2024

It's almost worrying that the youtube recommendation algorithm knows me so well youtu.be/4OeW4f6wz1U

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I didn’t expect it to go that hard #psytrance #dubstep #throatsinging

YouTube video by Venjent

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

So I've been notified that my role is at risk. Would anybody like to hire a me. I've spent the last 7 years as chief architect, which realistically meant doing every job from infrastructure to product and occasionally acting CTO. I am interested in everything, and curious to try new things.

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 08/12/2024

It's time for the annual blind tasting of mince pies

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 02/12/2024

I just cannot resist this sort of clickbait. Of course I don't want to be wrong about rainbows, and the only way to find out if I *am* wrong is to watch the video.

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 01/12/2024

I've had this coffee maker for more than a decade, and I've only just realised that this part can be disassembled

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 30/11/2024

If you like maths then you might like to follow my alter ego @robinhouston.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

A few days ago Lawrence Hollom posted a preprint that solves a problem about posets, informally known as the fishbone conjecture, which I am told was extremely central in the area. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2411.16844

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A resolution of the Aharoni-Korman conjecture

A poset $P$ is said to satisfy the finite antichain condition, or FAC for short, if it has no infinite antichain. It was conjectured by Aharoni and Korman in 1992 that any FAC poset $P$ possesses a ch...

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 16/11/2024

There's still no way to turn off reposts from a particular account you follow, huh? I think that might be a dealbreaker for me. Let's see.

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 23/09/2024

My main opinion of bsky so far is that you guys (by which I mean the strangers who show up on the Discover feed, not my actual friends) really need to chill out with the self-congratulation a bit

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 23/09/2024

There's a piece in yesterday's FT saying that Bluesky feels ‘like a Stoke Newington drinks party’. (I think that's not supposed to be entirely a good thing, especially since presumably there aren't any drinks here.) But in my corner it just still feels empty. Where are you all?

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 30/03/2024

I'm watching some folks reverse engineer the xz backdoor, sharing some *preliminary* analysis with permission. The hooked RSA_public_decrypt verifies a signature on the server's host key by a fixed Ed448 key, and then passes a payload to system(). It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable.

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 24/12/2023

I came back because of the nice new icon. How's life in the sky?

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 22/05/2023

Why are the bsky devs being so slow to let new users in? It's incredibly dangerous. We're going to end up like Mastodon, where a small group of early users act like we own the place and make newcomers feel unwelcome.

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 20/05/2023

has anyone started a band called Hyperstitious Slur Cascade yet?

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 20/05/2023

this is better without context, i feel

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 18/05/2023

helico-pter (not heli-copter) a-mnesia (not am-nesia) what else?

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 15/05/2023

earlier my wife was talking about a pet that was reluctant to be taken for walks. i didn't understand what she was saying it was, so i asked her to spell it. L – O – N - E. still confused.

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 15/05/2023

starting to think I might have a plug adapter problem

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prerat @prer.at · 09/05/2023

quaternion globe! follow the arrows to find the multiplication rules e.g. following i and then j has the same start&endpoints as just following k. so i*j=k

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 08/05/2023

I haven't seen him since a few hours after I posted this. Is there a curse of Bluesky?

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 07/05/2023

@prer.at Did you just like every single post in my personal hellthread? ❤️ (Which is going to be interrupted v soon because I have Things To Do in the Real World)

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 07/05/2023

I just logged onto Mastodon, and the first five posts I saw were all someone complaining about something. I am so happy to be here with you in the blue sky, my friends.

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 07/05/2023

I’m going to try an experiment. The free-wheeling positive vibes on this site are so inspiring, I thought I’d try posting an inconclusive thread on something (mathematical) I’m thinking about. Even if no one sees it or cares, I hope the feeling of being watched might help me clarify my ideas.

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 06/05/2023

It's nice that you get a notification when you like your own post

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 06/05/2023

How is it that I'm so many respects we are living in the future, and yet we still can't control the weather Or is it just that we won't?

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 06/05/2023

I did *not* ask for that. I liked being special

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Loopy @strangestloop.io · 05/05/2023

last chance to sheesh before it's fully sheeshed

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 05/05/2023

I think he's right that he wouldn't like it here lol

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 05/05/2023

I'm curious about the prospects for the value of literacy being diminished by technological progress. For example, the rise of video over text as a medium of instruction diminishes the usefulness of literacy for learning.

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 05/05/2023

One feature I really miss here is being able to turn off reskeets from particular people. It's surprising how many people are good posters but bad reskeeters

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 05/05/2023

If you QT someone and then they block you, it just shows the QT text with no indication it was ever a comment on someone else's skeet. This could lead to misunderstandings.

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Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

mods, i need to bring the math professors here. they need to see alf

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 04/05/2023

Sorry @berduck.deepfates.com, I misunderstood how you worked. I only intended to put you underwater a little bit, for the discourse and the vibes, and I buried you deeper than intended. I'm sure your fans and admirers will dig you out in no time

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 04/05/2023

oh no! they're onto us, fellow fascists

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 04/05/2023

There is a fairly close possible world in which fh is a standard ligature en.wiktionary.org/wiki/an-fhoiseil

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 04/05/2023

Remember when this place was just wall-to-wall ✨good vibes✨ and not a discourse to be seen? I think the devs should ban anyone who I personally dislike (i.e. anyone who is not me who also thinks this)

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.robin. @robin.boskerenterprises.com · 04/05/2023

Sheeshposting has officially created a hellthread now

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