iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

My oldest child (who lives an hour ahead of me) slid this into the family chat at 6:30 this morning and I was DETERMINED to do it first this year. I am defeated again. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfi9...

m.youtube.com

9/21/21

YouTube video by Demi Adejuyigbe

061

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A portal potty is an important plot device in the Kyo Kara Maoh! anime.

010

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Reminds me of the pieces in the Cathedral board game. (Apparently there have been a lot of editions. I'm specifically thinking about the 80's plastic version. boardgamegeek.com/image/289746...)

boardgamegeek.com

Cathedral

Image for Cathedral

010

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

To be fair, downtown *is* on the wrong side of the Willamette.

011

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You don't actually need to run the CNC router yourself, you can just type "sudo ikea install kallax", and then like, five more things on the command line to assemble it. Or you can get it from the ppa or the AppImage or the Snap or the FlatPak. It's pretty simple, really.

2160

Reposted by Alexandre Muñiz

Daniel Wilson @helsig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#SciArtSeptember #SciArt Day 14. #Crescent Apollonian knot.

A knot pattern based on an Apollonian gasket. Math art created using Excel and Krita.

214737

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Obligatory topology joke: Well, *one* half is still fine.

020

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When Charlie Brown woke one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a big pumpkin.

010

Reposted by Alexandre Muñiz

Portland: Neighbors Welcome @portlandneighborswelcome.org · 09/09/2026

Today, @sightline.org's @andersem.bsky.social and @aarporegon.bsky.social presented to the Oregon Senate Housing Committee on the importance of supporting policy efforts to allow more Oregonians to age in place. One key way to make that happen? more elevators! #orleg

screenshot of Michael's slide saying "stories 2 and 3 can be accessible if stories 4 and 5 are allowed to exist"

1377

Reposted by Alexandre Muñiz

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 08/09/2026

I have received news of a perfectly named cafe located on the waterfront of Nova Scotia's capital, if you know what I mean

"Broken Man cafe" sign on a big plate glass window, through which one can see cafe tables and chairs and backs of people's heads. In the distance, a sign indicates that this is Pier 22 on the Halifax waterfront

52852263

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My mom just found the rules for the board game I made based on the one in Interstellar Pig when I was a kid. Probably still to this day my most elaborate work of fan art.

010

Reposted by Alexandre Muñiz

Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

(the birth of emancipation was Benjamin Franklin Butler, a man who bought his generalship so he could have his army buy its uniforms from his textile mills at a price he set, finding himself in charge of some runaway slaves and saying "i have never given any man a refund and I'm not starting today")

521610

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Yay, we're doing quizzes. Welcome to LiveJournal! I think the little Midwestern I have in my PNW English comes from my mom via my grandpa. But there are quirks in my idiolect that the quiz doesn't catch, like the middle syllable in "tomato" rhymes with hat, and "cómoda" instead of dresser.

000

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

There's also an entirely nonmetaphysical karma factor. People with privilege treat their surroundings with the expectation that they will comply. This does not work with Nature.

060

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Was expecting this to be a submission to the "If you see this, post a not quite Star Trek" meme.

000

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

oeis.org/A000105 Number of free polyominoes with n cells. I like polyominoes (and other polyforms) because they each have their individual personalities, and there are endless puzzles and variations to be discovered.

110

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I should disclose that I got into a competitive mindset there, and was taking longer than I might have done because I needed to beat your score. :)

110

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Okay, I'll try it out: I found a Rarity-83 word worth 95 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 823 points · 10 rare words. Only 15 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 1 find no one else found today.

playoutlier.com

OUTLIER · Day 100

player-2098 scored 823 on Day 100. Can you beat them?

110

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Goodie huts still exist. On the plus side, they've gotten a lot better about representing indigenous peoples as playable civs, and even work with tribal representatives to make sure they get details right. But yeah, it's still a game where the map starts as terra nullius and you gobble that up.

140

Reposted by Alexandre Muñiz

Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶

A broad-tailed hummingbird hovers next to an anise hyssop plant framed by purple blooms and with a rainbow behind it!!! The bird also has a little bead of water on its bill because it is raining.

17086871984

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is some of the best historical fantasy out there. (It's a secondary world Rome with magic, but the setting hews a lot closer to our own world than most "secondary world version of country X" fantasy.) And $2.97 for a whole-ass trilogy is a crazy good deal.

163

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There are 6 ways to place 1 | and 1 – stripe on L4 through cell centers. For Z4, there are 3. Can these pieces tile a 6×6 square with continuous stripes? We're lucky: the total stripe length is a multiple of 6, & the number of crossings works. One unique tiling exists, up to symmetry. #TilingTuesday

010

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The thing about trying to play the nativism card against Trump is that Trump is kicking out brown people, and you're just trying to kick out some beef. There are a lot more bigot voters than there are specifically rancher bigot voters, so I don't see how you can win here.

021

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

No problem, put the batteries in the wings, run air over them from the air that's flowing there anyway. Simple Matter of Engineering. Even with better tech that lets us speed that up, that's decades, due to the "must not fall out of the sky, even very rarely" requirement. Cars don't have that.

011

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The turbofan engine took over 30 years, for a part that was basically a swap-in replacement for existing engines. Battery power will require much bigger changes. Heat dissipation from batteries needs to be solved.

111

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Once the battery energy density problem is solved, (I agree that it probably will be) an electric 737 is a Simple Matter of Engineering. Which is to say, many decades of work to ensure that there is a product that won't fall out of the sky even a little bit.

111

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In high density areas, this is true. But it's hard to see how, even with maximal track build out, you get to where, say, Redmond OR to Boise ID doesn't make more sense as a plane flight. And this is going to be true for a lot of city pairs in the western US.

100

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's Balatro, and I'm not sure I could survive a whole year eating banana, ice cream and popcorn, and drinking, uh, Splash.

000

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We're having the flooring replaced in the house because my mom is planning on selling it. She reminded me that I picked this linoleum pattern in the laundry room when I was 7. Even then, I liked geometric tilings. #TilingTuesday

Linoleum floor with dryer in the back. There are octagons and rectangles and hexagons and triangles and stuff.

000

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The great thing about Xanth novels is that cognitive decline with age wouldn't affect the writing.

020

Reposted by Alexandre Muñiz

The Lesbian Review @thelesbianreview.com · 04/08/2026

This book is an incredible read. Absolutely brilliant deal go get it now

044

Reposted by Alexandre Muñiz

Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Soft Rains Day. "Today is August 4, 2026, in the city of Allendale, California. Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills." RIP Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012

There Will Come Soft Rains
By: Ray Bradbury

In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o 'clock! as if it were afraid that nobody would. The morning house lay empty. The clock ticked on, repeating and repeating its sounds into the emptiness. Seven-nine, breakfast time, seven-nine!
In the kitchen the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunny side up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two
cool glasses of milk.
"Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California." It repeated the date three times for memory's sake.
"Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills."

Source:
https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf

11361208

Reposted by Alexandre Muñiz

Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.

7866632395

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It can be a little hard to see what's going on here. The half-weight-tans are outlined with thick lines. There are overlapping half-weight-tans with different orientations, so it looks like there are smaller tans, but they aren't real. Here are the pieces individually, if that helps:

011

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

There are 12 3·½ ◣, (tri-half-weight-tans) if we allow partial half-tan overlaps. They tile a full-weight 3×3 square as shown. Two pairs of pieces have the same shape. A problem where they aren't interchangeable: find another tiling that maximizes the symmetry of the tan diagonals. #TilingTuesday

122

Reposted by Alexandre Muñiz

Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today is Venn Day, in celebration of the mathematician John Venn, born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn Diagram.

Poem title: At the Intersection

The poem is divided into two overlapping circles.

The left-hand circle is titled ‘me’ and the text reads:
the day we
went out to have
an ice-cream, we said nothing
just let our silence melt in
the air as we walked across the common
our love never tiring at all

The right-hand circle is titled ‘you’ and the text reads:
we should
have talked it over but
nothing ever seems to get
in your fat head. You are so
common that I wish we’d never met
at all and I’d married Tim instead

In the intersection of the poem (where the two circles overlap), the text reads:
we
have
nothing
in
common
at all

18551194

Reposted by Alexandre Muñiz

ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 03/08/2026

Resolving ambiguity in order of operations is easy: simply enumerate all possible parsings of a given expression, compute each value, and then average. E.g., for 9-3-3÷3, ((9−3)−3)÷3 = 1 (9−(3−3))÷3 = 3 (9−3)−(3÷3) = 5 9−(3−(3÷3)) = 7 9−((3−3)÷3) = 9 so 9-3-3÷3 = (1+3+5+7+9)/5 = 5. Voilà! 🧮

3226

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Some of them. But the Warm Springs reservation was hit really hard.

030

Alexandre Muñiz @two-star.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

TSA at PDX is pretty quick! And quality of life at the airport is actually pretty good. (Much better food selection than Portland Union Station, and the new terminal is seriously pleasant.) I'll still take the train for Portland to Seattle any time, but that's because it wins on price.

031

Reposted by Alexandre Muñiz

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"

373