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For #TextureTuesday some more WIP snapshots of STRATA, a generative system I've been on/off working on since 2014 (in Clojure/TypeScript/Zig, originally for the cover design of HOLO magazine), loosely based on 1950s research/experiments by Barricelli, somewhat related to cellular automata and extended to use a different and much larger set of "reproduction/collision rules" f…

Surman Index of Congregational ministers online https://edintone.com/surman-index-of-congregational-ministers-online/ Charles Surman's biographical card index of Congregational ministers includes the names of

Surman Index of Congregational ministers online - Miscellanea Edintone
Charles Surman's biographical card index of Congregational ministers includes the names of about 32,000 individuals, and, where known, their dates, details of

I know the BBC is sometimes accused of not really catering to a younger audience but surely they've hit the nail on the head with this one.
/s
#BBC #UKtelevision #AdrianMole

Ministerpräsident Günther: Kein Tiktok & Co. mehr für unter 16-Jährige
Das australische Mindestalter für Social Media hat die Forderungen nach ähnlichen Regeln in Deutschland verschärft. Die Nord-CDU will ein schnelleres Vorgehen.

Russia’s defense minister Andrei Belousov faces Putin's ire over air-defense gaps and military logistics failures: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/19/russias-defense-minister-andrei-belousov.html

Minister Wiersma haalt bakzeil na stikstofruzie: nieuwe ondergrens alleen als die juridisch houdbaar is | de Volkskrant
https://www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/minister-wiersma-haalt-bakzeil-na-stikstofruzie-nieuwe-ondergrens-alleen-als-die-juridisch-houdbaar-is~b83614a3/#Echobox=1760723331
Beste kiezer,
Verlos ons met de verkiezingen van partijen met dit soort ministers.
Alsjeblieft..

Deze uitspraak illustreert goed hoe extreemrechts de VVD is geworden, historisch is genoemde coalitie een volstrekt normale, maar niet voor de niet-liberale partij die de VVD nu is.

VVD-minister Brekelmans sluit coalitie met GroenLinks-PvdA, CDA en D66 uit
Politiek: De VVD wil niet in „een links kabinet” stappen met GroenLinks-PvdA, CDA en D66, zei minister Ruben Brekelmans van Defensie vrijdagavond bij Café Kockelmann.

Nobel-Worthy Prime Minister Attempts to End Century of Ethnic Hatred for Armenians https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/nobel-worthy-prime-minister-attempts-to-end-century-of-ethnic-hatred-for-armenians/

Nobel-Worthy Prime Minister Attempts to End Century of Ethnic Hatred for Armenians
Experts called it a "huge step" one that is chiefly thanks to the persistence of Nikol Pashinyan and presenting the case for peace.

First/last light, same day. Golden larches.
(From a hike on the last day of our recent roadtrip. The view in the second image is looking back at Hanauer Hütte, in front of Schneekarlespitze and (clipped) Dremelspitze)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

TIL about Widmanstätten-structures, a pattern of cross-hatching lines on the surface of iron-rich meteorites. The pattern was named after Alois Joseph Franz Xaver Beck Edler von Widmanstätten.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widmanstätten_pattern