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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 30/09/2026
Ah yes, "Because recommend help us"
1. Because

Whether you’re asking to cut someone in line or explaining your reasoning in a presentation, the word “because” can make you more convincing, Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger told Make It in February.2. Recommend

Replacing “like” with “recommend” carries a similar kind of power, Berger wrote in his book, “Magic Words: What to Say to Get Your Way,” which published last year.3. Help

Knowing how and when to ask for help can make you more influential, according to Henna Pryor, a Philadelphia-based workplace performance coach.4. Us and we

Using inclusive language like “us” and “we,” instead of “you” and “me,” can make people more receptive to your arguments, according to psychology research from the Stanford Graduate School of Business published last year.
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 29/09/2026
I guess genius dot com is sparknotes now
Screenshot of a genius dot com page for George Orwell's Nineteen Eight-Four, with the first chapter's first line "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." highlighted
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 29/09/2026
are you fucking kidding me not only is there a West-eros and an E(ast)soss there's also a South-oryos
Wikipedia excerpt of "Sothoryos", a continent from A Song of Fire And Ice:

Sothoryos

To the south of Essos is the continent of Sothoryos[25][115] (mistakenly spelled Sothoros in early novels).[116][117] Sothoryos is the third continent of the known world, and is vast, plague-ridden, covered in jungles, and largely unexplored. It is reported to be as large as Essos and described as a "land without end" by Jaenara Belaerys, a Valyrian dragonlord from before the Doom of Valyria.

The continent is first named on a map in A Storm of Swords (2000), showing the cities of Yeen and Zamettar on it.[25] The narrative itself first refers to the continent in A Feast for Crows (2005).[116] Martin had described Sothoryos in 2002 as "the southern continent, roughly equivalent to Africa, jungly, plague-ridden, and largely unexplored."[S 56] The novels provide little other information. The swampy nature of Sothoryos is briefly referenced by Victarion in A Dance with Dragons,[115] and teak from Sothoryos is said to be used to build ships.[117] A corsair's road runs along the continent's northern coast.[115] A Dance with Dragons refers to the diseases on Sothoryos regarding the wealthy but sick Yunkai'i slave trader Yezzan zo Qaggaz.[118][119] Victarion describes some people as "squat and hairy as the apes of Sothoros",[116] and some people fighting in Daznak's Pit for Daenerys's entertainment in A Dance with Dragons are described as "brindle-skinned half-men from the jungles of Sothoros".[120] Martin said that, unlike other peoples in the novels, the brindled men of Sothoryos were pure fantasy constructs.[S 49]
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 21/09/2026
I forgot to link what this was in reference to
The Bears are taking Ozempic and becoming Otters. The Otters are having lazer and becoming twinks. The twinks are taking estrogen and becoming dolls. The dolls are hitting the gym and becoming butches. And the butches? They're taking T and becoming bears. It's the natural order of things.
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 21/09/2026
A man putting a hand on another man's shoulder. He's smiling with a smile that seems like pity.
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 20/09/2026
"I don't know about this whole samus vore game" ah yes, I too am
"antimetroid" written on a blackboard
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 17/09/2026
man i love having solo web projects
A screenshot of minos.tessera.li showing a polyomino tiling extending way past its boundaries.
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 12/09/2026
I keep trying to say navier-stokes and I keep accidentally saying kiznaiver-stokes
Poster for the anime kiznaiver, with the logo in the middle with eight students tinted different colors
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 09/09/2026
keep his name out of your damn mouth
front page for an ai company called "conway":

Conway is a frontier AI and cryptography Lab.

We research and build systems for autonomous intelligence to write and transact—
and push the Pareto frontier of capability, privacy and security.
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 09/09/2026
*sigh*
A journal entry for 2026-09-08 titled "once again I have to journal about LLMs and math"
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 08/09/2026
really excited for the Ocarina of Time remake
Box for legend of zelda: ocarina of time 3D for nintendo 3DS
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 05/09/2026
I was going to say I liked that it uses = for equality comparison and := for assignment BUT YOU CAN USE BOTH = AND := FOR ASSIGNMENT WHAT
Equality Operators
Operator 	Meaning 	Supported Types 	Example
= 	Equal to 	All comparable types 	Name = "Player1"
<> 	Not equal 	All comparable types 	State <> idle

# Constant initialization with explicit types - both = and := work
MaxHealth:int = 100
PlayerName:string := "Hero"

# Variable initialization with explicit types - both = and := work
var CurrentHealth:int = 100
var Score:int := 0

# Type inference requires := (no type annotation)
AutoTyped := 42  # Inferred as int

# Note: var requires explicit type - var X := value is not allowed
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 04/09/2026
(tearfully trying to explain to zoomer friends) she was our skibidi toilet
Andrew Garfield during the "she was my MJ" scene in Spider-Man No Way Home
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 04/09/2026
HOW AM I FROM NEW JERSEY I'VE NEVER LIVED IN THE EAST COAST
Your dialect map

Redder areas talk more like you; bluer areas least.

You talk most like someone from New Jersey — about 59% of your answers match a typical resident.
mydialect — standard

A map of the united states with the cities in the next image highlighted
Cities most & least like you

Interpolated from the nearest survey responses.
Most similar

    Philadelphia, PA (55%)
    Baltimore, MD (55%)
    Washington, DC (55%)

Least similar

    Seattle, WA (47%)
    Portland, OR (47%)
    Minneapolis, MN (48%)

What gave you away

Answers that point most strongly to New Jersey.
What do you call the night before Halloween? mischief night
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining? sunshower
What is your *general* term for the rubber-soled shoes worn in gym class, for athletic activities, etc.? sneakers
What is your generic term for a sweetened carbonated beverage? soda
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 03/09/2026
I'm sorry the WHAT experience?? (I'm pretty sure if you're taking OCW classes you are in Education or Training)
Still from the same video showcasing the page "The NEET Experience"
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 03/09/2026
bro they're doing Nintendo Directs for MIT now
Screenshot of the video "The OCW Update" by MIT Open Course Ware. Peter Chipman says "welcome to the very first OCW update."
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 03/09/2026
This always bothered me about Sailor Moon
A chart of the solar system.

The top label divides the "inner planets" (mercury, venus, earth + moon, mars) and "outer planets" (jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune)

The bottom label marks planets "known since antiquity (named after elements/days of week in Japanese)" (mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn)

The middle label divides the Inner Senshi (mercury, venus, moon, mars, jupiter) from the Outer Senshi (saturn, uranus, neptune, pluto which is not a planet)
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 02/09/2026
hm
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 26/08/2026
bsky.app/profile/bloc...
Dead rose lalonde from homestuck overlaid with 'HEROIC' in a sun symbol
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 26/08/2026
for every @blockedforthispost.bsky.social post we should vote on whether the block was Heroic or Just, just like in Homestuck
A grandfather pendulum clock but instead of the clock face, there is a hand wavering between a yellow side and a violet side.
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 24/08/2026
ah yes, the Nobel prize winning algorithm. the gale shapley algorithm. the algorithm that produces the best result for the proactive party and the worst result to the people in the receiving end.
Hinge is built on the belief that anyone looking for love should be able to find it. It’s also built on an acclaimed Nobel-Prize-winning algorithm, so we can succeed in getting you out on promising dates, not keeping you on the app.There may be many stable matchings for the same system of preferences. This raises the question: which matching is returned by the Gale–Shapley algorithm? Is it the matching better for applicants, for employers, or an intermediate one? As it turns out, the Gale–Shapley algorithm in which employers make offers to applicants always yields the same stable matching (regardless of the order in which job offers are made), and its choice is the stable matching that is the best for all employers and worst for all applicants among all stable matchings.[11]
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 24/08/2026
trying to finagle the rust ownership rules does feel like this sometimes though
"Patrick Star and Man Ray" meme. Transcript:

"aren't you patrick star?"
"yup"
"and this is your ID."
"yup."
"I found this ID in this wallet. And if that's the case, this must be your wallet."
"That makes sense to me."
"Then take it."
"It's not my wallet."
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 22/08/2026
It's probably a false dichotomy? the JS does a lot of garbage collection afterwards which makes it on par with the rust version
A flame graph of a function call that is 2/5ths taken by garbage collection at the tail end
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 21/08/2026
twelve final
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 21/08/2026
twelve cont. (motion sickness warning)
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 21/08/2026
twelve (motion sickness warning: fast scrolling)
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 17/08/2026
Some runes
A collection of octominoes with white lines drawn over them, mimicking runes
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 16/08/2026
sometimes I just like pumping up the generation and just staring at all the shapes
A catalog of size 11 polyominoes (undecominoes), colored by class
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 16/08/2026
thank you wikipedia, I did not know that
... that 13 + 3 + 1 = Seventeen?
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 14/08/2026
whoever wrote this wikipedia news article must've felt sooooo clever
    A solar eclipse (animated path shown) causes totality from Siberia to Iberia.
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 07/08/2026
welcome back Shuriken Sentai Ninninger
A mecha from Shuriken Sentai Ninninger that has a smaller mecha sitting inside it like the image in the quoted post
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 03/08/2026
bro they're making ai prompt prompts now
chatgpt prompt generator/optimizer
Turn a rough idea into a clear, structured, high-quality AI prompt.

From a slop vibe-coded "utility" site
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 02/08/2026
learning linguistics
English:	wife	→	Japanese:	ワイフ(waifu)	→	English:	waifu (A fictional character whom a person regards as romantic partner. Doublet of wife)
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 30/07/2026
Some squiggly guys (can you guess the rule?)
A collection of polyominoes. They seem to be all be linear (no 2x2s or branches) and are composed of straight segments of size 3 before turning. Some have branched "serifs"
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 30/07/2026
well, that's colorful #MathSky #MathArt
A "genealogy" graph of polyominoes up to 10 squares. They are fanned out in a semicircular pattern, and colored bands of lines are clearly visible.
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 23/07/2026
they're gonna have to update the localization the next time they re-release Kingdom Hearts 2
Edited screencap of Seifer from kingdom hearts pointing at roxas saying "That was undeniabled proof that we totally mogged you virgins."
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 12/07/2026
grim reaper at a crane machine captioned "lindsey graham? is mitch mcconnell even in this thing?"
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 10/07/2026
this is still really funny to me
wikipedia infobox for jesus, "Born c. 6 to 4 BC" is highlighted.
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 06/07/2026
Outlines of the student council from Revolutionary Girl Utena captioned "Goose was not valued. Eggs do not lay eggs. It was the goose that generated value."
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 28/06/2026
the duality of frogge…
slippy from star foxribbit from the amazing digital circus
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 24/06/2026
why. why are they making a new one. why is it by Disneay?? the rat got his acorn already HWY ARE THEY MAKING A NEW ONE??
Youtube thumbnail of Ice Age: Boiling Point
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 18/06/2026
Whyyy did no one tell me I had an arrow missing on my state machine (the line from rd -> lu was missing). Also can one of you sickos please check the regex to make sure it's still right. minos.tessera.li/classes/tree
Screenshot of "tree polyomino" with a state machine of mino directions
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 15/06/2026
I can't believe I got puzo'd by @markgritter.bsky.social
Slid of Mark Gritter's talk "Sol LeWitt, Combinatorial Enumeration, and Rogue", showing a screenshot of my website, "The Labyrinth of Polyominoes"
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 14/06/2026
tag yourselves, I'm Dissolved Refuse
Names assigned to the Prima Materia in Ruland's 1612 alchemical dictionary, Lexicon alchemiae sive dictionarium alchemistarum.[9]

    Microcosmos
    The Philosophical Stone
    The Eagle Stone
    Water of Life
    Venom
    Poison
    Chamber
    Spirit
    Medicine
    Heaven
    Clouds
    Nebula or Fog
    Dew
    Shade
    Moon
    Stella Signata and Lucifer
    Permanent Water
    Fiery and Burning Water
    Salt of Nitre and Saltpetre
    Lye
    Bride, Spouse, Mother, Eve
    Pure and Uncontaminated Virgin
    Milk of Virgin, or the Fig
    Boiling Milk
    Honey
    A Spiritual Blood
    Bath
    A Syrup
    Vinegar
    Lead
    Tin
    Sulphur of Nature
    Spittle of the Moon
    Ore
    The Serpent
    The Dragon
    Marble, Crystal, Glass
    Scottish Gem
    Urine
    Magnesia
    Magnet
    White Ethesia
    White Moisture
    White Smoke
    Dung
    Metallic Entity
    Mercury
    The Soul and Heaven of the Elements
    The Matter of all Forms
    Tartar of the Philosophers
    Dissolved Refuse
    The Rainbow
    Indian Gold
    Heart of the Sun
    Chaos
    Venus
    Healer
    Angel of violet light
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 07/06/2026
tried to create a set of universal motifs for a conlang, simulating thousands of years of evolution, expansion, and simplification and the end result was just:
the playstation face buttons: square, triangle, circle, cross
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 02/06/2026
FECKIN' CALLED IT
Lego pokemon website banner advertising "smart play" features. multiple sets are shown with a "smart brick".
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 01/06/2026
incredible first paragraph
An investigation into acts of self-pleasure among parrots and other birds has reached a climax, with the results providing welcome relief for vets and researchers, not to mention the birds themselves.
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 30/05/2026
Was honestly pretty shocked when I saw it, but it's there.
149. When we offload the task of styling web pages to preset utility classes, we lose the fundamental spirit that makes elevates humanity as children of God. From the humble carpentry of Joseph, to the masterful artistry of the Notre Dame, to the handcrafted design of GeoCities webpages, we must not allow automation and convenience to cloud our minds from the dignity of good work. We must take care not to build a new Tower of Babel, one of "bw-2"s and "grey-5"s.[151]
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 23/05/2026
hmm...
diagram of the Grand Line in one piece, showing a bunch of islands connected by lines.Map from Slay the Spire, showing a lot of nodes connected by lines leading up to a boss.
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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 14/05/2026
oh my god they enshittified the nyan cat
nyan.cat website showing a dogecoin version of the original meme, a subheader saying "no official nyan cat coins exist. beware of scams!"
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