SWinxy

@swinxy.me

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Software developer, photojournalist, Minecrafter, and Wikimedian. (he/him) šŸŒ https://swinxy.me

Order-independent Transparency (OIT)-related Shader Changes The B3D_IS_ZERO_TO_ONE define has been renamed to RENDERPEARL_IS_ZERO_TO_ONE
Top 5 language Wikipedias using my photos, in page views for June 2026: 1. English: 6 million 2. French: 175 thousand 3. Spanish: 134 thousand 4. Japanese: 73 thousand 5. Russian: 58 thousand
YouTube thumnail screenshot: Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender | Official Movie Trailer | Paramount+ | Avatar Avatar Legends and Paramount Plus 11M views ā€¢ 7 days ago
Madison Square Garden digital signage saying "JUST&T MARRIED!"
A digital billboard outside of Madison Square Garden that says ā€œJUST&T MARRIEDā€
A digital subway ad at 34 Stā€“Penn Station reads ā€œCongrats on Forever! 13+87=100ā€
Housekeeping - Adam Tell
Britmonkey's political alignment test 73% Woke, 45% Techbro, 69% Hopepilled (nice), 94% Davos Your Closest Match: Sanna Marin, Prime minister of Finland (2019-2023)
Highest-grossing films in North America (Wikipedia): 1. Backrooms (2026): $175,191,407 2. Marty Supreme (2025): $96,040,064 3. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022): $77,191,785
SWinxy's Bluesky License: mileage 4581 / WoT 50 / engagement 1047 / generosity 21 / velocity 4.1/d / streak 18d / peak 04ā€“06 UTC / verified āœ“
Three National Guardsmen at the edge of the Reflecting Pool (which is green)
A pool scrubber clearing algae off of the bottom of the Reflecting pool. It is very green.
A video of the Reflecting Pool where about ten National Parks Service workers are cleaning the bottom of the pool. Itā€™s dark where algae has settled, and light green water where the algae was suctioned.
SHIMON RIKLIN: I donā€™t have a lot of moments like this. I donā€™t remember someone in modern history who would go with you and do wonderful things, and then suddenly disappear and go against you. So now I am the bad guy? I supported you! I was the good guy! How did I become the bad guy, and the Ayatollah is the good guy? ISAAC CHOTINER: This is why I was wondering whether you had ever observed Donald Trump.
A bunch of beans in a puddle on the sidewalk
API Issues Subscribe Identified - We've identified the issue as a hardware failure and are working to mitigate it Jun 08, 2026 - 03:24 UTC Investigating - We're seeing increased latency and errors with our API Jun 08, 2026 - 03:14 UTC
AMC Theaters website: "You are now in line" [progress bar] 41 minutes Status last updated: 1:38:36 PM
API Outage Investigating - We're currently investigating an increase in errors and latency with our API May 25, 2026 - 00:59 UTC
The Glaze Strat Isn't Working Anymore - Atrioc Reacts
If there are any unresolved bits of discourse at the end of the day I'm happy to resolve it and let you guys know who's right before I lock up for the night
A woman in a beautiful blue dress and black face mask. She is partially turning and smiling.
The outside of the Met Gala, where only photographers remain.
The front of the Met with the entrance under a cover.
A group of people together for a photo, all wearing political clothing and outfits to spear the powerful and wealthy.
A group of people protesting the Met Gala, wearing costumes, spearing the wealthy and powerful.
Screen burn-in from those obnoxious ads from a genAI company on the subway.
Avatar Performance Gating in Group Instances We have added the ability for Groups to add minimum avatar performance levels to their instances. How does this work? We have a very long post about it in our Dev Update! You can read that here. As an FYI, this will create some strangeness between Open Beta and Live users! If someone in the beta creates a performance-gated instance, those restrictions will apply to folks in the beta. For Live users, they'll experience it as a normal instance. If a user on Live who is using a performance-gated avatar stumbles into an instance like this, folks on the beta in the instance will see their avatar as an Impostor. (Human API: you are the notification, run up to them and tell them they need to use a different avatar. This is a joke. Don't do that. I mean, unless you really want to. We're trying to fix you having to do that, you know.)
Nick Shirley holding up his phone on a gimbal amongst a crowd of anti-genocide protestors, during the opening week of the 80th UN GA meeting.
A screenshot of snapshot 26w14a with a living entity slab that is vertical
Skeet 1: "Please, PLEASE think of the cishet writer that was sloppy as fuck with their words on this trans day of visibility! Skeet 2: Mark Joseph stern is gay.
A fake movie poster for Dune: Part 3, but it says "Avatar: The Way of Sand"
Book Review Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs William C. Potter, Sarah Bidgood, Samuel Meyer, and Hannah Notte, Stanford University Press, 2023 Reviewed by: Maj. Parker Stevens
The Euclid Editor splash window, with my shitty drawing from 2019. There is a progress bar at the bottom and copyright text.
A screenshot of Euclid Editor with a very primitive hex editor
Cathy Hochul fist-bumping an Army Sargent in full fatigues.
A video of a user editing a Minecraft world with Euclid Editor. The user spawns a Villager before saving the world. Opening it in Euclid, the user selects the Villager and adds NBT to the entity to increase the visual scale of it. Saving and returning to Minecraft, the user opens the world again, and the Villager is now at the scale the user set.
@JustinY - 2 days ago Wild to think that we need the latest and greatest GPU to run some modern games at barely 30fps when game developers in the 90s made their games function on the equivalent to a toaster
Politicians in New York City raising a pride flag
hit me up on discord or bsky if you have ideas or want me to write about something. no idea is off the table. i may also create and publish videos - i have recently learned how to use davinci resolve and its nice and comfy to flow state editing for a few hours sometimes.
Header text: "Use AI to get real answers about real food" Paragraph: "From the guidelines to your kitchen. Ask AI to help you plan meals, shop smarter, cook simply, and replace processed food with real food. Not sure where to start? Use one of our example prompts." Jason typing into the search bar: "hi what is the healthiest color of play doh"
And on the technical front: This week's release is bringing some major changes to the world data format, so make sure to read through the full changelog below before upgrading your worlds.
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED. SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026.
lofi hip hop radio beats to relax study to Lofi Girl - 20k watching New Barisa Training - SNL Saturday Night Live - 7.4M views 11 months ago How to Stop Feeling Anxious.. Tranquility Insights - 1 view 26 minutes ago An old mans advice. Bernard Albertson - 32M views 12 years ago Fed-up teacher quits with shocking warning: 'These kids ... Fox News Clips - 5.8M views 8 months ago 1,000 Ants vs. Black Widow TerraGreen - 21M views 5 months ago Alyssa Liu makes crowd GO 'GAGA' with free skate at U.S. ... NBC Sports - 1.6M views 12 days ago 10 Subtle Signs Of Autism Most Parents Miss Emma Hubbard - 2.5M views 6 months ago
A skeet from 4 hours ago directly above a skeet from 13 days ago
Marisa Kabis
Anti-ICE protesters in Foley Square the morning after Renee Good was murdered.
Protesters chant and walk in a circle on a stretch of street outside of 1 World Trade Center.
Protesters at Foley Square
Protesters at Foley Square
A crowd of people and press gather outside the United States District Court in Manhattan for NicolƔs Maduro's arraignment.
Protesters at Columbus Circle in NYC.
A person holding a Palestinian flag in a crowd of people in Manhattan.
A macOS menu with the "Open recent" item hovered over. The submenu that appears next to it lists two worlds: "1_21_10" and "Debug 1_21_10".
Tier: Member TQPs: 2,610 [Progress bar halfway full to 5,000] To reach SELECT status for 2026, you need 2,390 Tier Qualifying Points (TQPs) by Dec. 31.
An ad on the DC Metro for a defense contractor named ā€œGeneral Atomics Aeronauticalā€, but the QR code is covered with a sticker imitating a Birdwatch/Community Note saying ā€œReaders added context: This is an ad for weapons dealer. You, the metro rider, cannot buy military grade equipment.ā€
gentlegiantJGC 12/5/2025 After 6 years of funding the development of Amulet, Pathway Studios have decided to stop funding development from 2026. Developing Amulet has been my job since 2019 and I want to continue but I need financial support. Any contribution, no matter how small, is greatly appreciated. Without your support, development and maintenance of Amulet will stop and Amulet will not be able to open worlds from new versions. Support Amulet on Github https://github.com/sponsors/Amulet-Team Support Amulet on PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=6G7P8K36W7TX2 The future of Amulet For the past two years I have been rewriting Amulet from the ground up. Most of the libraries are now written in C++ for improved speed and parallelisation and the new application uses Qt to allow more control over the user interface. I still have a way to go until the rewrite can replace this version of Amulet but experimental versions of the rewrite should be out soon provided funding continues.
Euclid Editor showing something like 30x30 chunks
A screenshot of a Minecraft 1.8.9 world in Euclid. Previously, the mesher could not see blocks adjacent to it, leaving cubical anomalies. Now, block faces are not being erroneously added at chunk boundaries.