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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)

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

#ice #politics #imaginaryfriends

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/

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

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

Linocut print, 8”x10” on white washi paper, showing Maxwell’s demon in blue in a circle in the centre surrounded by red with the words “Maxwell’s” above and “Demon” below, arcing around the circle. My nimble-fingered demon resembles Maxwell, but with horns, extra-long fingers and enormous eyes to see and track particles and is using the cold blue region to warm the hot red region. In the blue region there are random slow moving particles denoted by dots with two tails. Carved into the red area are fast moving particles denoted by dots with three longer tail lines.

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)

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

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

🔗 https://techgeeksapparel.com/funny-math-pun-shirt/
#ImaginaryFriends #MathPuns #AlgebraJokes #STEMLife

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

My linocut print of Laplace’s Demon. The demon, who looks like Laplace with giant long-horn cattle horns seated in the lotus position with his palms together as in prayer, is printed in black. Between his horns is space in black with comets, galaxies, stars and planets carved away showing in white. Around him are deep yellow radiating triangles and the words “Laplace’s Demon” following the shape of the horns.

Welcome new imaginary friends glenn.finch@bsdly.net and stewart.ashton@bsdly.net to the cast of millions at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml (served up to us today by mxtest@serverscannerpro.com and mxtest@emailengineexpert.com, respectively).

My favorite new imaginary friend (aka spamtrap) today was however Noreplyadmin@bsdly.net, a faked sender address.

Logs for the interested at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blogpix/new_imaginary_friends_20250306.txt

#spam #spamd #spamtraps #greytrapping #imaginaryfriends #cybercrime #antispam

The other horribly nonsensical thing I saw during the last 24 hours was the error messages GNU Emacs emits when it is faced with a file of a size that exceeds its expected per-buffer memory allocation.

Fortunately a sane solution was found for that particular problem (split that big hand generated log into smaller pieces) - search for "this log directory" in https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml #spamtraps #greyptrapping #spamd #antispam #cybercrime #imaginaryfriends

For some reason I just looked up my now just over 2 year old piece "The Things Spammers Believe - A Tale of 300,000 Imaginary Friends" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/spammers_believe_in_300k_imaginary_friends.html (prettified, tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-things-spammers-believe-tale-of.html) and realized that number will soon roll past the next big round marker. #spamtraps #traplist #spam #antispam #openbsd #pf #spamd #cybercrime #bottomfeeders #imaginaryfriends

#religionispoison #atheist #atheism #imaginaryfriends

When you say, "God teaches me that...", or "My rabbi says..", or "The bible or the Koran states.." we are no longer having a discussion. Now you are preaching. You are saying you got this information from a "higher source" and it therefore has more weight. It does not. Please feel free to use your religion for you own moral guidance. But don't pose it as a guide for me. My guides are humanity, morality, empathy and sympathy.

This morning had me notice a new episode of the type described in "The Despicable, No Good, Blackmail Campaign Targeting ... Imaginary Friends?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/despicable_no_good_blackmail.html (or prettified, tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-despicable-no-good-blackmail.html), the first in quite a while, I might add.

Data so far to be perused at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/wankstortion/20241009/ (now refreshed & gzipped).

#spam #scams #wankstortion #sextortion #cybercrime #imaginaryfriends #spamtraps

Another movie review. A great movie to watch with kids is IF (Imaginary Friends) https://www.filmaffinity.com/es/film534650.html It had me crying a few times. Ryan Reynolds is great but, writer, director and actor, John Krasinski is great too. At first Cailey Fleming didn't engage me that much, but she did a great job. #FilmReview #IF #ImaginaryFriends #JohnKrasinski #CaileyFleming #Comedy #Drama #Melodrama #Childhood #CopingWithLost #FilmReview #MovieReview #Movie

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; 🧵1/
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#sciart #linocut #printmaker #MaxwellsDemon #ImaginaryFriends #thermodynamics #MastoArt

Super Bomberman 4 for the Super Famicom! A recent pickup and who knew there were 4 of these on the SFC? It must have practically been an annualized franchise. Graphics, art, music, and gameplay of Bomberman are all really nice. This series is really "happy place" stuff.

This one has the neat feature of little jail cells in the story mode. When you bomb them, you free a Bomberman NPC that helps you clear the stage! #imaginaryfriends

#retrogaming #snes #superfamicom #sfc #bomberman

Super Bomberman 4 story mode with a jail cell on the playfield

Super Bomberman 4 the jail cell is blown up to reveal a helper NPC.

This print "Occam's Razor" is about the Law of Economy or Parsimony postulated by Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347), "pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate" or entities should not be needlessly multiplied. More simply this law, or really, rule of thumb is that the simplest explanation is usually right. 🧵1/n
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#linocut #printmaking #Occam #Ockham #OccamsRazor #typography #sciArt #philosophy #histstm #imaginaryfriends #science #cryptids #MastoArt