Reposted by tessDr. Tom 7 Murphy VII Ph.D. ! @tomvii.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Experience the Septopert. Not just the new smallest Nopert at 7 vertices, but the smallest possible! We now know every solid with 6 or fewer vertices is Rupert. Noperts Drop: github.com/tom7/noperts The triforce and eponymous 7 are not a cheeky Easter egg—simply a beautiful property of math! 16714
Reposted by tessクーデルカ @kdlc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026people are like "making my dream game!" and then the game is sokoban 3235
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I understand the intent, but saying "all future M/W/F comics" does make it sound like every dinosaur comic that will be written already has been. which has worrying implications! 000
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 25/09/2026this is unbelievably fast progress! aside from you being a much, much better programmer than I, are there things that make this not take as long as I guessed it would? 000
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 22/09/2026...I'm sure it's totally fine that I've been hearing about p-zombies a lot more lately 010
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 10/09/2026funniest option would be samus being able to turn into a raven, or a ball, or a composition of the two, but the operations are not commutative 101
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 26/08/2026@aproblemsquared.bsky.social more cup/bowl shenanigans! apologies if this was in the original episode and I had forgotten 000
Reposted by tessGretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 25/08/2026> Melanie, you don't feel great now, you didn't feel great when you finished, and you were feeling dread at the beginning and worried about hypothermia. Why did you do this? > I guess I thrive on self-loathing. 15718
Reposted by tessPat Race @pat.alaskarobotics.com · 17/08/2026In my dream the other night I was asking @ryannorth.ca for writing advice... How do you write in another person's voice? "It's easy," he said, "you're doing it right now." 414618
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 18/08/2026"Perl has horrors, but it also has some great redeeming features. In this respect it is like every other programming language ever created." I like this sentiment. It's true for people, too! 030
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 14/08/2026also curious about what would happen if you did "[player] -> [> player]"... would that shift it over a character? a word? and what if you allowed for regex?? "[*] -> [player]" would be... interesting hmm what about a layers system for the code. so certain characters could be on top of others 120
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 13/08/2026would be bad but very funny to use the puzzlescript syntax for find/replace 151
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 12/08/2026@gretchenmcculloch.com given your recent double dactyl-posting I thought you might want to see this! 120
Reposted by tessAnthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Friends, Submissions to “Elementary Penguin: A journal of Words, Wordplay, Poetry, and Puzzles” are now open! Details here: anthonyetherin.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...anthonyetherin.wordpress.com 13119
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I don't know if this would work (probably not) but it would be really funny to include it in an appendix 010
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 27/07/2026that's a bummer! I hope things work out for you (and, selfishly, I'd really like to play the game!) 011
Reposted by tessDee Hunter @deethelinguist.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Bouba and kiki are t4t coded. #langsky #trans #t4t 0154
Reposted by tessND Stevenson @gingerhaze.bsky.social · 08/07/2026My E key is broken and keeps inserting random E’s everywhere but maybe that’s just my writing style now. Language evolvese 42407
Reposted by tessTom Francis @pentadact.com · 24/06/2026Git still hiring poets to write error messages. 131710344
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I don't if anyone pays attention to who is following them (I know I don't), but just in case: I'm unfollowing a bunch of people on here because I've been spending too much time on social media. if you want to contact me, I'm on discord. (if you don't have that, then send me a message on here) 030
Reposted by tesswhere the oleander grows @nonblnary.bsky.social · 18/10/2025this is my game, I Don’t Remember When I Started Killing Bugs Again. to play, you log it every time you kill an insect. this is also available as a web app @transwron.gs made with me. people tell me it changed their behavior- they think twice about hurting insects when they remember the rules. 12514217
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 14/06/2026mathematicians think the next power of two is too large to ever be computed in our lifetime 010
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 12/06/2026hopefully random unsolicited advice isn't too annoying... 000
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 12/06/2026oh for sure! it sucks to not be able to make a lot of things! or even anything! I've just been so mean to myself about my creative output for so long, which hasn't helped (and has hurt). teaching myself to be fine with it is better than the alternative, even if I'm not actually happy about it 110
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 12/06/2026it's helped to remind myself that not being creative isn't a moral failing. creative output is not necessary for a good life. it puts less pressure on me, so I can enjoy making things when I'm in the mood instead of being so focused on quality. and when I'm not up for it I don't feel quite as guilty 110
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I never finished Don't Create The Torment Nexus; I did the vigenère cipher part but couldn't figure out how to do the next bit 000
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I get the point you're making, and think it's fair. however: a book divided up into .txt files, each encoded more elaborately than the last, with decoding dependent on the story so far, would be very fun 130
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tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I'm very excited to see how this goes! I wish you the best of luck! 010
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 03/06/2026oooh... I wonder if you're thinking of a way to make a keyboard where twisting the cube is what creates keypresses... that feels like it would be nightmarish to make. even if it's a key on each face sticker of a rubik's cube I can't imagine how you'd get it to not tangle inside somewhere. 120
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 02/06/2026hmm... I think that's broadly true, since you do need mastery to get to the final level (cannot be seen otherwise) and end the run (which is kept track of by the game and displayed for the player, though isn't rewarded). however, accessing the rest of (ie the majority of!) the game takes no mastery. 000
Reposted by tessJay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026You are a human being. You are not perfect. That will extend to the things you make. That's okay; in fact, it's worth celebrating. 121651
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 17/05/2026just finished watching it based on your recommendation! I really enjoyed it 000
Reposted by tessKatie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 23/01/2026oh great, my doctor prescribed me 2.71828 mg of e so now i gotta find a compounding pharmacy 🙄 3373474
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 10/05/2026thank you! yeah I don't know much at spiders at all, but they seem really cool + cute so I'm excited to try to find the book and learn more :D 000
tess @tessishere.bsky.social · 10/05/2026sorry if you've mentioned it before and I'm being obtuse, but I'd love to know the name of the book! 100
Reposted by tessEek🔞 @eekanant.bsky.social · 10/05/2026spiders can build webs in zero gravity, a process that typically heavily relies on use of gravity. and they can adapt to do so in about 2 days 3256
