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Andrew

@thatcotter.bsky.social
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making art with computers he/they, nyc andrewcotter.io linktr.ee/thatcotter

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/10/2026
This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.
Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969. Credit: NASA/Alamy
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026
If Third Way got there before you did, you should feel bad.
The "Jason Figured it Out" meme except instead of Jason, it's Third Way
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
OKAY FINE YOU CAN HAVE A CHURU
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Andrew @thatcotter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
media art friends: does anyone know a resource on how to *really* understand ffmpeg? I've picked up enough to do simple converting/resizing and then just look up stack overflow for something more involved. But at this point I'd like to have a better mental model of what's going on under the hood
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
That’s my Samus
BREAKING NEWS
WOMAN LITERALLY TOO ANGRY TO DIE
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SHE JUST KEEPS BLOWING UP PLANETS WE CAN'T STOP HER
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Suriel Vazquez @suriel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I was just at the centrist rally and they were all playing Eternal Anima
Screenshot of Eternal Anima trailer that says "Never Strive For a Better Tomorrow"
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thinking about this exchange today
A YouTube video for the Water Temple in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The comments section has an exchange as detailed below. “@TheMrdangles16 • 11y ago: 
i hate the water temple... too confusing :(“ “@KeithHalsell • 2y ago: 
it's been 9 years, i hope you are doing great in life now.” “@TheMrdangles16 • 2y ago: it couldn't be going worse Keith.”
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Andrew @thatcotter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
wow, nintendo finally hired that man
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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Buddhism in the wild (photo by Jerry Feldman, Target Honolulu)
View of an end-cap display at Target, with a sign above it saying “Must have!” The shelves are empty.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Vanquished by the baby you washed is some Athena bullshit
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/07/2026
celebrating the good parts of america today. if you don’t think there are any good parts, just look to all the stuff the fascists are desperate to stifle
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onion person @junlper.beer · 30/06/2026
its completely underated how this is the most openly corrupt administrations in the entirety of human history
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Guy, Katsu @guykatsu.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"you're scaring the hoes" ENOUGH. do not project your own cowardice unto the hoes. I have heard their words and seen their deeds, and you besmirch both. die where you stand
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/06/2026
I bet landing just right feels so good
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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
be the reason software requires a license
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Desperado D. Mayor @desperado.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/06/2026
“if you died nothing in my life would change”: a twitter exchange about a pizza “face god and walk backwards into hell”: a dril tweet about hollering at zoo animals “you cannot kill me in a way that matters”: a tumblr shitpost about mushrooms
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Andrew @thatcotter.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
New chapter for my creative coding book: Smoothing Motion with Linear Interpolation 🎉 Lerp feels like magic the first time you use it; the args are just two numbers and a percentage. But re-apply it every frame, and suddenly your animations seem to have inertia. andrewcotter.io/creative-cod...
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Smoothing Motion with Linear Interpolation – Creative Coding, Continued
An interactive programming textbook by Andrew Cotter. Learn creative coding with p5.js through live, editable sketches.
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Maggie Serota @maggieserota.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.
Screenshot from the paywall on a Wired article that reads: “You’ve read your last free article.”
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Mamdani is going to start an arms race of elected officials actually doing good things for their constituents. It's going to infuriate most Democrats who prefer to tell their voters to fuck off while texting for dollars.
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Mamdani's $50 World Cup ticket lottery fuels feud with N.J.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday that 1,000 tickets costing just $50 will be made available to residents of the city of more than 8 million for the World Cup.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/05/2026
great post
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The definitive millennial song is clearly legend_of_zelda_System_of_a_down(1).mp3
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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/05/2026
the tech world has genuinely not grappled with how many people despise them and what they make
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 27/04/2026
I want cis Americans to sit uncomfortably with the fact that most of these restrictions were ushered in through the liberal act of "just asking questions" about trans people.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/04/2026
When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.
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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices
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The Jarmer Fones @thefarmerjones.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Reese Witherspoon? The NFT evangelist?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Last month in The Onion:
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RFK Jr.: ‘I Am 6 Animal Penises Away From Curing Cancer’
WASHINGTON—To announce that his decades-long project to revolutionize modern oncology was nearing fruition, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a press conference Friday in ...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/04/2026
this is legitimately fascinating as an a real life demonstration of why trump is flailing
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David F. Sandberg @ponysmasher.social · 14/04/2026
I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…
Headline on Hollywood Reporter that reads ”Paddington 4, Escape From New York' Reboot in the Works”
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
one day of this and i’d start talking like barrett in ff7
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onion person @junlper.beer · 31/03/2026
anyone ever noticed how psychotically evil, cruel, and anti-human republicans are
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Andrew @thatcotter.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I've been learning a lot more of TouchDesiger lately! Here's some sketches I made using POP operators to turn kinect tracking data into GPU-based particle systems + #touchdesigner #azurekinect #shaders #particlesystem #creativetechnology
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.
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Luna Sy @lunasy.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
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Wyatt Sinclair @crumblsucks.wyattswickedgoods.com · 16/03/2026
Jesus when he comes back to Earth:
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Marielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 15/03/2026
They finally fixed that sign at Union Square
Tile sign in Union Square station was missing the last tile for months with the last letters written in black marker on bare wall; somebody added PANTS so the stop is now Union Squarepants. You kind of had to be there tbh
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
You average normie Democrat in 2026 loves AOC, wants to abolish ICE, and thinks Israel shouldn’t get another penny from us. It’s laughable how out of touch centrist consultants and politicians are.
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Andrew @thatcotter.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Hey all— I've been re-writing a creative coding book I started in 2018. I'm writing this "in the open" with feedback welcome as I add tutorials and work toward something that bridges the gap between beginner and intermediate creative coding 🫶 andrewcotter.io/creative-cod...
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.
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