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[freakoutgirl]

This is how June is going to feel

[freakoutgirl]

ngl June has ended up feeling more like this

[chillyfeetsteak]

this is what i mean when i type 👀 btw

[luckshiptoshore]

i’m going to say something so brave and controversial on this gay sex blog and it is that the episode of New Girl where Nick and Jess get locked behind the iron curtain until they kiss but they WON’T because they are TOO IN LOVE and Nick is like ‘not like this’ and jess doesn’t know what he means and then at the very end of the episode he just GRABS her and KISSES THE SHIT OUT OF HER and then he says ‘I meant something like that’ and just WALKS OFF is one of the greatest romantic episode arcs on tv ever. fucking perfect no notes sometimes straight people do good stuff after all.

[ouroborosorder]

the girl who is comfy in bed yearns to be On The Computer. The girl who is On The Computer yearns to be comfy in bed. Thus does desire become the root of all suffering

[everlovingt]

This is why phone can be carried to bed?

But then…doomscrolling.

[ouroborosorder]

Foolish manusya. phone in bed is not the same as On The Computer

[lesbianshepard]

Sometimes I think that I’m moderately intelligent and then I realize how frequently I’m deceived by things meant to fool wild animals

[dannyvantass]

why leave half of the post in the tags this is amazing

[lesbianshepard]

being mildly nearsighted keeps me humble

[lofi-hearts]

[seravph]

I THINK I AM GOING TO CUT MY HAIR

[cowboyhatesithere]

Daily gratitude

I don’t have kids

I don’t spend money on nicotine

I don’t gamble my money away on sports

I’m not reliant on a chat bot for all my life functions

My books/CDs/DVDs collection is plentiful

[libraford]

Boss boss: yeah theres a trail on the west side that has a picnic table that we're supposed to service but I don't think anyone knows where it is.

Me: do you... approximately where?

Boss boss: I know the trailhead is somewhere between Ash park and Oakland lake.

Me, aggressively search for trailheads in that area, goes down a random trail:

I did not find the picnic table.

[libraford]

Let's try this again!

I did not find the picnic table.

[libraford]

Okay let's try again.

The bike path is only like 2 miles, why is this so hard??????

[libraford]

No... frickin way.

I found the trail.

This trail was not here before the electric division came through to service the lines.

Fucking... he was not kidding when he said it was a hike.

I found the benches!!!!

O-H-I-O! (Gonna tell the flower shop i found a stash of buckeyes for the football season.)

I dub thee... brokeass bridge.

This platform is where a picnic table could be but for obvious reasons is not.

Like stepping onto a crossroads.

The fuckign... picnic table???? Can't wait to tell boss boss.

Anyways, thanks for coming with me on this adventure!

[storybookprincess]

so a very long time ago, my dad worked with an arson investigator

this guy was often one of the first people on the scene following a suspected arson, once emergency services had done what they needed to do. at times, there were also civilians on the periphery. often, they were freaking out, and understandably so; their home or workplace had just, quite literally, gone up in smoke

this investigator wouldn’t try to calm them down. he wouldn’t comfort them or be a shoulder to cry on.

instead, he’d walk up to the person most visibly losing their shit, hand them a fire extinguisher, and say “hey, can you keep an eye out for any other fires, and if you see one, can you put it out with this?”

of course, there was no actual risk of another fire. he wouldn’t be on the scene investigating if there was even a chance that the fire wasn’t completely put out. but the bystander didn’t need to know that

because that person, without fail, would immediately pull it together, take the fire extinguisher, and stand guard. they were, at least temporarily, calm enough for this investigator to do this job

my dad has told me the parable of the fire extinguisher a hundred times, and i think about it a lot. i think about what it says about people and crises. i think about what it says about the grounding power of having a purpose. and i think about the importance of letting someone help me through something, even if that help is just going to be another casserole to throw into the freezer, because useless or not, that fire extinguisher might be the only thing holding them together

[fraidythecat]

Drinking Fountain, mixed media zine, 2025

[memorycycle]

as soon as we explore 100% of the ocean all the fish will become 2x stronger and a new area will unlock

[unbfacts]

Long before the introduction of color film, a Russian chemist and photographer named Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used an innovative technique. He took three individual black and white photos, each through a colored filter (red, green, and blue), to create fully colored, high-quality pictures. The photo of this woman, taken by him, is around 107 years old!

[redladydeath]

No wait I looked this guy up and this shit’s amazing

It’s so incredibly humanizing to see people from the very distant past in such authentic color

And like. look at these landscape shots!! They’re so vivid!! Even aside from the historical value, these are just legitimately beautiful photographs

[barondoctor]

So there’s one shot I wanna focus on here.

This guy. He’s got a little punt-kinda-boat thing for crossing the river and you can tell the river’s moving pretty good, to the point it’s not something you could cross on your own.

You can see the trick there, the three different layers of filter catching the light a little differently. You can almost see the motion of the water. Obviously, the light didn’t really kick off the water in that red-green-blue pattern, but this photo showcases that it’s a clever guy pulling a neat trick because of the one thing it can’t do: keep a moving river in the same place for all three shots. Bridges will hold still, adults can hold still, even children paying rapt attention will hold still. Water can’t hold still. Seeing it moving, seeing the light playing a tiny bit differently. Seeing his trick almost work.

That’s what tells me this collection is special. That it’s real. It’s the Cindy Crawford Beauty Mark (and how’s that for a dated reference) of the set.

[beardedmrbean]

[s-lycopersicum]

All you need in life is a color picker willing to expose you to the unbounded madness we call color vision.

me, absolutely clueless: "I want a color just like this one, but in red" color picker: Fuck you think you are, a Mantis Shrimp? Don't talk to me again until you can afford a wide gamut monitor.

[rnadvillain]

what is even happening here 😨 wheres the circle with the triangle inside we all know and love..

[s-lycopersicum]

The circle and triangle are a lie we tell ourselves to cope with the ugly reality... Now this-- this is the real deal!

In seriousness, this is oklch.com, a color picker for the OKLCH color model.

There are whole several hour lectures one could take in color science and theory, but to keep it short: the set of colors we can see, the set of colors monitors can display, and the set of colors computers can model are three circles that only somewhat overlap.

In this case, if I wanted this color

but in red, I could just go of Photoshop and move over the hue slider, getting this as a result:

Which is.. acceptable, but not as "bright" and "vibrant" as the green I had. Looking at the graphs in the OKLCH color picker, we can figure out why:

It tells us that a red with the same luminosity and chroma as this green is out of gamut—that is, it cannot be displayed by this monitor.

In this case, you can use the edges of the graph to find the color that is closest to what you want. You can, for example, keep the chroma but sacrifice lightness,

keep the lightness but drop the chroma,

or a bit of both, which is what the common HSV triangles already do.

But I like to know when it happens, y'know?

[xkcd-for-that]

What if what *I* see as blue, *you* see as a slightly different blue because you're using Chrome instead of Firefox and despite a decade of messing with profiles we STILL can't get this right somehow.

Color Models

[curiosity-killed]

There are truly very few forces in the world as strong as the inertia of staying up way too late doing fuckall

[homoquartz]

squidward hospitalized for covid and they put him in the squid ward. the nurse is always coming at him, she’s always moving squidward. he can’t escape the room, they got a witch to put up a squid ward. he belongs to the hospital now, they’re calling him their squid ward.

[teaboot]

[deathgasmic]

i am completely fine in an “i have been mentally unwell for years” kinda way