Open post Amy de Buitléir @mhwombat@mastodon.social · 4mo ago Replying to @Danpiker@mathstodon.xyz This illusion was new to me. Does whichever dot you look at turn more purple? Pretty neat how clearly this lets you see the reduced sensitivity to blue light in the very centre of your vision. https://www.schulz-hildebrandt.com/9-purple-dots-illusion/ https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11582 @Danpiker@mathstodon.xyz For me, the dot that I'm looking at doesn't change, but the remaining dots fade into the background.
Open post Amy de Buitléir @mhwombat@mastodon.social · 11mo ago Replying to @kimlockhartga@beige.party <p>I hate that anyone named Melissa will now be associated with this potentially deadly hurricane. I have a friend named Katrina who changed her name to Kat after the 2005 hurricane killed nearly 1400 people.</p><p>Maybe we could just name hurricanes/cyclones after the oil companies and the billionaires who profit off them? Have to reuse the names a lot, but we can just add numbers, like we do for Kings or Popes: ExxonMobil III or BP XIX. </p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Hurricane" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hurricane</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Melissa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Melissa</span></a></p> @kimlockhartga@beige.party Considering "Amy" just wreaked havoc in Europe, I'm very much on board with your proposal.