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Day 67: Here's some blue hexagon art for Day 64. Here's another hue- (and chroma and brightness) -manipulated photograph. So, I'm just photographing hexagons in the wild and hue-rotating them until they're blue? Yes, and I think it's a valid approach, as limited as it is.

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Day 66: Here's some hexagon art for Day 63! Back on day 7, I used some hexagons with linear gradient stroke paint, each hexagon inwards rotated 60 degrees. Today is a study of doing just that without the other things I was playing with on day 7. It's another thing I'd like to abstract in code.

breaking: Wikimedia Foundation says it will not voluntarily recognize its workers union, instead insisting on an election held under Trump's NLRB. Wiki Foundation execs dodged this question at its massive conference last week. www.404media.co/wikimedia-wa...

The Taiwan Council of Indigenous peoples has already told Xi to f*ck right off. Translation w/ text in Chinese here: g0v.hackmd.io/@chihao/SyKT...

Catch DJ Mr. Picky streaming from Kyiv, Ukraine! He often streams weekday early afternoons EDT. Today it's jazz, but he also plays dub techno, house, drum and bass, and many other kinds of music... all picked with excellent taste. www.twitch.tv/dj_mr_picky

I have repeatedly tried to convince normal people there's a major crisis brewing in the Sahel, but no one cares because "it's Africa". I wrote about the April attacks earlier this year, but English language coverage of this basically non-existent. Except for those like @saladinaldronni.bsky.social

Mascots and pro-social behavior!

Sunday Taquitos #30: Flock This! Art by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social

"As a society, we are horrified by gun violence, but generally give scant attention to deaths on our roads that result from motorists’ choices." From @seanyyz.bsky.social

Day 65: I'm quite behind, having missed days 63 and 64 as well. I plan to catch up... and I have been working on things. No big excuses, though I am facing some re-coding and new coding and better coding to work on some ideas I have.

I’m about to see the Fifth Element for the Nth time, but the first time on a big screen! Now I just need to find a showing of Koyaanisqatsi with live music that I can go to someday.

Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

imagine the Itsy Bitsy Spider saying "whee!" each time it gets washed out

one must imagine the Itsy Bitsy Spider happy

I still use iodized NaCl most of the time, but I love keeping Morton’s, Hain’s, and Nusalt around for flavor variety and getting extra potassium sometimes.

Now I’m really curious about how potassium vs sodium chloride* will affect the yeast and the gluten, I’ll have to do a (relatively) controlled experiment. (*nusalt means potassium chloride, right?)

Bonus: A variation on Day 61, except instead of all blue it's going through the whole rainbow (with some other tweaks too).