Don De Tina
@donnyd.bsky.social
neurodivergent mental magpie Retired MD, BSc Applied Math and Computer Science. MaryLou's husband. Greg & Alicia's dad. Alicia died by suicide in Jan28 2014, at age 27💔. Always loved. 📍Hamilton, Canada
A little “Brick Territories” experiment. → bleuje.com/js_sketches/...
Archive f z,d @(99) { f3 p = z * nor(2*C.rgb - R.xyy) p.z-=T; d=1; @(5) d+=d, p += sin(p*d+p.z*d) / d z += d = .1*len(1+p.xy*sin(p.z+vec2(,2))); O += (.7-p.y/z*f4(,1,2,))/d } O = tanh(O / 2e3)
It’s the weekend! Let’s stretch a little with these cats. Cats seem to know better than we do how to truly relax. Stretch your legs, loosen up, and let go of the week’s tiredness. I hope these little cats bring a bit of ease and a good mood to your weekend😊 #shouxinsketch #cat #sketch #sketchdaily
Check out #2 on Linkfest: buttondown.com/clivethompso... by @clivethompson.bsky.social The MouthPad 👅 A computer mouse that you control with your tongue! www.augmental.tech?utm_source=c... Great for accessibility!
MouthPad: the hands-free touchpad
A trackpad worn on the roof of the mouth: hands-free control of your devices, driven by the tongue. From Augmental.
augmental.tech
Listening to new Saul Williams, and no surprise- it’s great. “There is a warrior disguised as a dancer, And when she moves her hips it’s just to place her dagger, And you should know by now she’s studying your laughter. Thing about music is it lives in the hereafter.”
Saul Williams - 'The Dagger' (Official Audio)
YouTube video by saulwilliams
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Trying out @anisota.net . Definitely finding it a more peaceful/mellow experience! A bit of a learning curve because I'm so used to Bluesky, but I'm thinking it will be worth it. Composing this post from within Anisota.
“Real isn’t how you are made… It’s a thing that happens to you.” Maurice Sendak’s little-known 1960 illustrations for The Velveteen Rabbit.
"Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real." From Iris Murdoch, one of the most insightful things ever written about love (and its relationship to art): www.themarginalian.org/2022/01/08/i...
The way this artist paints the window advertisement: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...
Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)
From #CTAN: Conrad Kosowsky submitted the ascii-emoticon package. Version: 1.0 2026-08-24 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: Typesetting ASCII emoticons ctan.org/pkg/ascii-em... #TeXLaTeX ;-)
Stop fucking using genAI. Not even for a joke, not even for that oh so cutting political satire. Every time you use it, you are actively taking food out of our mouths. You are using the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it.
The amount of working artists I've spoken to who are losing or have lost the ability to make a viable career out of it due largely to people's use of genAI instead of hiring artists is genuinely so upsetting. We won't know what we've lost until it's gone.
#HeartOfTurtleIsland The #NiagaraEscarpment markzelinski.com/photography-books/ Page 171 #Eagle is most revered in #Indigenous cultures, as a messenger that carries human prayers to The Creator, bringing wisdom, strength, courage, peace + leadership to its peoples. #MarkZelinski #BooksThatHeal
I hate trade wars, no matter which side engages. A country's tariffs are just regressive taxes which hurt its own poorest citizens most of all.
Happy National Banana Lovers Day. Celebrate by using "Banana" as your first guess in Metaflora today, as you explore some botanical relationships. #ScienceHoliday flora.metazooa.com
Metaflora
Find the mystery plant in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.
flora.metazooa.com
For the past couple months, I've been working hard to animate a fractal art piece I made for @highrollersdnd.bsky.social This is Crownfall, with music by the fantastically talented Noha! youtube.com/shorts/WLJ7S... #dnd #highrollers #altheya #mathart #fractal #xantheuswhathaveyoudone
Crownfall
YouTube video by Logan Apple
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When your love of literature and gaming comes together… 😆. Might be an interesting Do Now discussion starter for class to get students thinking, discussing, and writing. Perhaps even make a comic of their own.
What a beautiful issue and all the articles seem unlocked. Thank you! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsfs/issue/1...
Volume 16 Issue 2 | Interface Focus | The Royal Society
Themed issues covering cross-disciplinary research at the interface between the physical life and social sciences.
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Geometry, materials and the imagination. Tribute article to Stephen Hyde on his retirement.’
A refreshing wellspring of sanity here and in the replies. Thanks Dr. Fauci.
Thank you.
"Why the endangered monarch butterfly is booming in the Prairies" - good news! I've been seeing more in my own garden too and I do let our milkweed plants grow abundantly to help out. www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...
Why the endangered monarch butterfly is booming in the Prairies
Monarch butterflies are not common in the Canadian Prairies, but a Saskatoon ecologist is noticing an increase in the endangered species this summer.
ctvnews.ca
"Where there is no humility, there is war; there is discord; there is division…Humility is the way. It is the path to salvation (5-22-24).” #PopeFrancis #BeHumble
In less than 2 weeks it’ll be the 25th anniversary of September 11 when American airspace was shut down & 6579 passengers & crews aboard 38 jumbo jets were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland Canada & were all taken in by the locals & treated like family BECAUSE THAT’S HOW NORMAL PEOPLE TREAT ALLIES 🇨🇦❤️
Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI https://theonion.com/guy-who-sucks-at-being-a-person-sees-huge-potential-in-1850488022/