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Happy birthday Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), French mathematical physicist (who incidentally, did invaluable work in geophysics). He was pretty hard-headed and probably didn’t really have any imaginary friends, but nonetheless Laplace’s Demon is my 3rd in the series of Imaginary Friends of Science. 🧵
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#linocut #printmaking #histsci #Laplace #LaplacesDemon #physics #determinism #ImaginaryFriends #Science #mastoArt

Peter N. M. Hansteen Feb 7

I added a few more translations of the phrase "The rest is trash" to the spamtraps at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml (see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is_trash.html or https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html).

If you want further translations added, please let me know (with translation in your message).

#spamtraps #greytrapping #spamd #openbsd #freebsd #antispam #imaginaryfriends #localization #cybercrime

The list without wrapper text is available as https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/sortlist.txt (BIG! -- 22975800 entries as of right now, will increase)

bsdly.net - A traplist collected by Peter Hansteen

Nick boss Jan 26

Has anybody told Senator Schumer that ICE murdered Joe Bailey yet?

#ice #politics #imaginaryfriends

Connect Paranormal Jan 19

Imaginary friends are invisible companions created by children, fostering social and emotional development. Both imaginary friends and ghosts involve interactions with unseen entities. #imaginaryfriends #ghosts https://connectparanormal.net/2026/01/18/imaginary-friends-vs-ghosts-understanding-the-difference/

Imaginary Friends vs. Ghosts: Understanding the Difference

Explore the fascinating world of invisible friends and ghosts and their roles in emotional development and psychological experiences.

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Peter N. M. Hansteen Sep 10, 2025

heh. with another 70 weeks of log data to sift through, the count of imaginary friends at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml just rolled past seven million (also see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html or tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html) #spamtraps #imaginaryfriends #spamd #smtp #cybercrime #openbsd

bsdly.net - A traplist collected by Peter Hansteen

Ele Willoughby, PhD Jun 13, 2025

Happy birthday to #physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)! He dreamt up his demon to deal with the very odd 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (which is not a law like others, and can not be derived from first priciples). It states that two bodies of different temperature brought together in a closed system will reach thermal equilibrium; or, you cannot use a cold thing to heat a hot thing; 🧵
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#sciart #linocut #printmaker #MaxwellsDemon #ImaginaryFriends #thermodynamics #mastoArt

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Peter N. M. Hansteen May 31, 2025

The symptoms of what I take to have been a #phishing campaign aimed at users in #japan are no longer that visible in the backscatter.

But they will be visible as new #imaginaryfriends in the published #spamtraps list we user for our our #openbsd #spamd #graytrapping, see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml and https://nxdomain.no/~peter/spammers_believe_in_300k_imaginary_friends.html (with the total now inching in the direction of the 5 million mark)

bsdly.net - A traplist collected by Peter Hansteen

Hacker News Mar 30, 2025

The surprisingly simple reason kids have imaginary friends

https://www.vox.com/life/404992/imaginary-friends-kids-friendships-children

#HackerNews #imaginaryfriends #kids #psychology #childhood #friendships #parenting

Why do kids have imaginary friends?

Having imaginary friendships can be good for kids.

Vox

TechGeeksApparel Mar 25, 2025

Complex numbers = imaginary friends for mathematicians.
Lose ‘i’, and suddenly, it's very real.

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#ImaginaryFriends #MathPuns #AlgebraJokes #STEMLife

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Ele Willoughby, PhD Mar 23, 2025

Happy birthday Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), French mathematical physicist (who incidentally, did invaluable work in geophysics). He was pretty hard-headed and probably didn’t really have any imaginary friends, but nonetheless Laplace’s Demon is my 3rd in the series of Imaginary Friends of Science. In 1814, when he envisioned an entity such
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#linocut #printmaking #histsci #MastoArt #Laplace #LaplacesDemon #physics #determinism #ImaginaryFriends #Science