Jim Foley

Given the current anti-intellectual trend, having the option of concealed carry of your books is a way to keep safe

Ecological graph theory: Simulating competition and coexistence on graphs Since its inception, the evolutionary graph theory (EGT) has been extensively used to study the fixation probability, the rate of evolution, game-theoretical topics and related questions in a spat...

Cool! For those of us who don’t learn as well through the video medium, which is all I could find by clicking on the link in the post, here’s a direct link to the article: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Bluesky fail for me: because it’s so easy to follow tons of people and because there is no algorithm for making content reappear, any post gets buried within 30 seconds, never to be seen again, unless it’s a popular post that gets reposted.

Ironically, #Bluesky rewards the major creators after all.

Is it only in Ohio that, when I apologize, people respond by commenting on my well-being?
Also, how can they state with such confidence that I am, in fact, fine?

#You’reFine #Satire #PretendingNotToGetIt

Here is what could be called a floral arrangement.

I used the fourth photo to make all of the others.

I want to scroll down to see the origin of R2D2’s beeps and boops; maybe there some ancestry as a dial-up modem connection.

Maybe I’ve been seeing too many political posts, but I first interpreted “we are selling out” as an admission of being co-opted, an announcement of becoming a corporate shill or something.

Along with the injustice and danger of this particular arrest of a journalist, I was sad to read here that the expansion of ICE activity began under Obama. I definitely don’t remember reading about that at the time.

I liked the curves of this leaf with two beetles on it, and turned the whole thing into a kind of pinwheel shamrock.

This is one of several ways I played with a photo of an old-school card catalog; see the first image full size to see the little drawers.

A dog and its human watching the sunset after a storm. #Sunset #StormHour #Companions #Dog #Friends #Pets #Companionship

A dog and its human facing each other during a sunset after a storm. #Sunset #StormHour #Companions #Dog #Friends #Pets #Companionship

Post-storm sunset experienced by a dog and their human.

[I was lucky to capture this moment as they were on a hilltop and I ran back and found a location way behind the hill, far enough way to get both of them in focus along with the clouds despite the low light].

Four more patterns/mosaics I made with blades of grass.

Some blades of grass with droplets, which I folded and reflected and rotated into patterns.
Four more in a comment.

The last bit of sunset light, refracted and reflected on the Saint Mary’s River by Neebish Island on the border between Ontario and Michigan.

Dancing is important!

As people resonate online together in virtual space [nestled in the security of knowing how information is managed], it is delightful to sometimes move to a beat in the dance floor space, exploring a nonverbal openness [in the security of shared understanding of consent].

Sunset reaching my eyes through 8-foot-tall rushes/grass while the sound of redwing blackbirds was trilling in my ears,
Oak Hill Park in Wooster Ohio

It wafts, it’s wafty, it exudes waftiness, it all makes sense.

Here is a pinwheel bouquet assembled from your mock orange… hope you like it.

A few more variations on a portrait on an unopened flower.

Unknown type of flowers sent by a friend for me to play around with digitally, it is a red flower whose petals are not yet opened, with a stone and some mulch and some other plants in the background out of focus

A pin meal pattern I made from a picture of an unopened flower

A square pattern made of multiple copies of a picture of a flower with a stone in the background #DigitalArt #Mosaic #Pattern #Tile

A radially symmetric pattern made of eight copies of an unopened flower with some tendrils connecting. #Collage #Mosaic #DigitalArt #Pattern #Tile #Tiling

Someone challenged me to make some digital art out of the first photo, even though it didn’t have any big shapes and a lot of the photo was blurry.
Here’s a sample of how I responded; a few more images in a comment.

Thanks for being receptive to me messing with your work!

Love it!
I hope you don’t mind, the beautiful curving fanning shape gave me the idea for a couple of patterns:

Snark that is useful or comical rather than simply vicious, is a hallmark of the culture of Reddit

That was cool, especially watching the spread of tiny splashes after it fell, but I got admit I thought that that piece was gonna be the prelude to a much larger event

Maybe try the new Minecraft movie

This one racquetball-sized flower appears like a miniature bouquet of flowers when you use a camera to get more detail than the casual eye willl resolve.

Zoomed in on tiny petals

This weekend amidst practical and mental tasks and social and athletic activities I took a moment to take a close look at the flower of the well-named “Ornamental” Onion.

Yep! This is the dawn of a new era for the Catholic Church, not with simple stuff like accepting that trans people exist, but with something that really brings Chicago into The Church such as declaring at communion that the body and blood of Christ is best represented by deep dish pizza.

Except that The Bears will now be called the Chicago Monsignors (because “The Lambs” didn’t feel right)

This is the dawn of a new era for the Catholic Church, not with simple stuff like accepting that trans people exist, but with something that really brings Chicago into The Church such as declaring at communion that the body and blood of Christ is best represented by deep dish pizza.