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i wonder why there is a general perception, especially among tme ppl both cis and trans, that trans women are overrepresented in social spaces despite there being fewer of us. i wonder if there is a larger societal force that trans women are subject to that leads to this distorted conception of trans women's visibility.

I'm making a period tracker app for my partner. We have brainstormed some ideas for what it will need to do, but I'm curious about what others need too because it's going to be publicly available anyway. What would you benefit from?

#software engineering #codeblr #idk what the fuck to tag this with tbh

byjove

I’m actually kind of glad aspartame is the latest food additive boogeyman for crunchy people, not because I think it is terrible for humanity but because it is a major migraine trigger for me and makes me violently ill. It’s hidden in so many things for no fucking reason, liquid medicine, mints, drinks that aren’t even marked diet. There are so many times I’ve bought something that had sugar in it and looked at the ingredients and realized it also had aspartame in it OR drunk something and gotten sick and realized it was on the ingredient list. It’s my fault for not checking but there are so many other artificial sweeteners that don’t have that controversy behind them and don’t have so many people reporting adverse effects but it’s like aspartame manufacturers are pitching their product left and right. It’s kind of nice to see products marked with ‘NO ASPARTAME’ now.

autumnlilybug

It gives me migraines too. Doesn't really do much else to me, but the headaches suck. But. The problem is. I actually prefer the taste of it over normal sugar in some things...

#hashtag my curse #no but like. cola? better with aspartame.#i drank diet Pepsi as a kid because not because I was scared of sugar but because it just tasted better.

hummingbird-hunter

Woe artfight attacking my dnd party

@autumnlilybug @archangel-fucking-judas @d1nosaurpower @skulkie @warriorsofficial

My artfight:

An art gifting game

autumnlilybug

woah this is sick!

#bird gay #the bird that stabs you #artfight #artfight 2026 #art #not my art

daco-showman

why can rockstar games institutionalise you for life like nikita kruschev for being autistic

ivy-michaels

He didn't steal 10 million dollars. They made that number up as a loss, they never fucking had it. Rockstar has spent more than a billion fucking dollars on GTA VI and will likely make billions more when it gets released.

Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.

Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.

And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?

Capitalism is disgusting.

fuckblast

Nobody should buy GTA til they free Arion Kurtaj

ivy-michaels

What with GTA VI going up for pre-order i'd just like to remind everyone that rockstar conspired with the UK government to lock an 18-year-old away for life for hacking them.

threw this together for a friend to help with setting up a discord server and now I'm realizing this is actually a really good way to categorize multiplayer games when the goal is to help people form groups to play said games

image id and also elaboration:

Top half is games where you don't need the same group of people every time, like Supermarket Together or Warframe, where people can join and leave and it doesn't impact other people's ability to play.

Bottom half is games where there's a campaign thing going on, like BG3, where everyone needs to be present to be able to play on that campaign

Left half is games where there are set rounds, and the further left a game is the less you miss out on by missing a few rounds (like Phasmophobia, where all you miss out on is personally leveling up your character)

Right half is games that don't have set rounds, further right means you miss out on more (like Minecraft, where the world keeps progressing without you)

Examples:

Minecraft is a sandbox, obvi: Anyone can join or leave a world whenever, and it doesn't affect others, but there's no rounds and the game goes on without you

Warframe is party game: You can leave or join a party whenever without impacting other people's ability to do so, and there are specific rounds

BG3 is an RPG: If anyone isn't available you can technically still play but that includes playing their character for them which imo is not the same as it having no effect

Barotrauma is in the ????? category that I can't decide on a name for (ideas?): There are discrete rounds of gameplay and you can leave between rounds, but it's not really great to play without everyone because, like BG3, their characters are still present

#the chart

Now I can't have seen a ghost car, because I don't believe in ghosts or cars, but I swear I saw headlights behind me and then they disappeared while we were on the ramp. Where could they have gone?

my roommate, driving to Dairy Queen

#what a wonderful ride to dairy queen this is #quotes

foone

Tumblr: yeah sorry we banned some trans people

Transfems: no, you banned transfems. Transmascs aren't getting banned at the same rate as transfems, stop lying!

Tumblr: OK SURE WE'LL FIX THAT

Tumblr: *bans Salem*

lakemojave

Let it not go unsaid too this is an act of racism. The uneven retaliation Salem faced cannot be disconnected from his well known role as one of the leading Black voices on tumblr. He is one of many that Tumblr staff have unjustly targeted going back more than a decade.

catgirlinachally2

@staff @humans reinstate him. We are not asking.

billymayslesbian

i keep thinking abt bump and cracking up

why.

EDIT: OH MY GOD DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS I WAS POKING FUN AT HOW COMICALLY DYSTOPIAN THIS APP DESIGN IS

rainedoesntwhisper

loved project hail mary for many reasons but amongst them is the fact that rocky and grace’s relationship is my opinion one of the greatest representations of neurodivergent friendships ever. like yeah sometimes you’re just a guy who’s alone and a little distressed and then you meet another lil guy who’s also alone and a little distressed and oh well it might be scary to approach him because interacting right haha, but he gets you, and that is so exciting because you just get each other, and it can be a little weird at times but at the end of the day you’ve bonded and now you’re not alone and also a little less distressed so now it’s like “yes this is my guy yes he’s a little weird so am i and if anything happens to him i will DIE”

cpericardium

hey everyone "I" have something to show "you"

cpericardium

dabouse

I have never once, in all my years, thought that someone could be so dense so as to think a book in first person POV is meant to be the reader’s pov.

Like bitch that’s what second person POV is. There’s a reason why it’s so rare

A lot of fics want to be whiskey but are instead Mike's Hard Lemonade™

my roommate, driving myself and my other roommates back to our apartment from the Halal place where I got brown lemonade that was called a "Micheal Jackson"

#not witchposting #quotes #addendum from another roommate:#“some of them are Dave's Hard Lemonade. I don't think he uses lemonade...”

ammnontet

my nothing

autumnslens

A study on the aesthetic of film

This is a photo I took two years ago on a vacation to Hawaii with my family. I wanted to try emulating a "filmic" aesthetic in Lightroom and this shot seemed like a good test case. Here's the original photo straight out of the camera (other than color space conversion and slight sharpening automatically applied by Lightroom during the export):

I took this photo on my Nikon D50, using my Tamron 18-270mm lens. The camera was set at an ISO of 360 (automatic), and the photo was taken with a shutter speed of 1/1600 of a second, an aperture of f/6.0 and a focal length of 120mm. For a control case I went through my usual editing process and ended up with this:

Then I made two other variations, one which I'm calling "filmic" style and one which I'm calling "technicolor", the latter of which uses different color grading and slightly different detail settings but is otherwise a variation of the prior:

Discussion

The primary thing these variations have in common is that all three use the exact same lens correction settings. They also feature a similar color grading approach to the orange tones, which I have pulled down significantly to mute the bright orange parts of the rock, which I felt were distracting. All of them are also notably less exposed than the original (though this comes from adjustments to the whites and highlights as well as from the color profile more than it does from the actual "exposure" setting), since it was quite overexposed fresh out of the camera.

The primary difference of the filmic looks from my usual style ended up being the lighting, with much less contrast, and brighter blacks, shadows and highlights, though they use the same overall exposure adjustment (which is actually pretty minimal). They also feature less saturated blues and greens, with the technicolor look having aquas pulled slightly more towards blue than the filmic and "standard" variants. The technicolor look has similar texture and clarity adjustments to the standard, while the filmic look has less of a boost. Both the filmic and technicolor looks have a slight grain applied. The standard variant is also sharpened less than the film emulations, which needed more sharpening to compensate for the lack of detail caused by reduced contrast.

If anyone wants a lightroom preset made from the settings I used for any of these variants, please feel free to DM me! I had a lot of fun working on these and I'm planning on trying to emulate more styles of film in the future :)

autumnlilybug

Hey just saying y'all should follow my photography blog :)

skulkie

a secret trait of autism I've observed they won't tell you about is follows you anywhere to keep on telling you a story. not inherently a bad thing until I just want to piss and my girlfriend or my sister is lurking outside yapping

autumnlilybug

i'm so sorry T-T i didn't even realize i was doing that until you told me aaaaaaaaaaa