Better than being hit by a 2x4

Trans guy trying to navigate life. MAGAts fuck off. Consider donating here: https://ko-fi.com/dantemgalileo

[escuerzoresucitado]

[metalgearsolid2]

i love how delusional some articles of clothing are, like you read the tag and its like “hand wash only/tumble dry on low” son you are a cotton tshirt. youre going in the warsh and whatever happens in there is in gods hands

[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

[lesbinewren]

we need to make using chatgpt embarrassing bc sorry it really is. what do you mean you can’t write an email

[lesbinewren]

“ikr i only use it for-“ whatever you use chatgpt for is also embarrassing. you do not need the plagiarism machine that lies and evaporates water for anything actually

[maswartz]

I am so fucking sick of people surrendering 2028 already.

If you truly, honestly believe Trump has won 2028 then get the fuck out of our way.

[pearlniforever]

Do not give up. Info like this is either intended to scare you into action or send you into despair of inaction depending on who is selling you the particular line.

Let it make you angry if you have to. Channel that anger into action. Do you have a voting plan for the midterms? Do you know who and what is on your local ballots? I'm pretty sure that if people aren't already trying organize in your hometown, they are in the nearest city. Do what you can, and spread your fervor to others online and in the real world. Is your workplace unionized? Could it be? Are you an active member of the union? When did you last tune into or attend a city council meeting? Have you been writing to your representatives (snail mail if you can swing it, the post office needs the love too!)?

Now is a time when everyone needs to be doing their best to help each other out of the hole this apathy and weaponized demoralization has dug for us.

[afurioushawk]

You might've been able to get away with this when Kevin McCarthy was SPOH, but Mike Johnson has very distinctive Keebler Elf Face.

[afurioushawk]

If you're commenting on American politics - either as an American or outsider - there are absolutely Congressional Republicans you should know the names of:

Mike Johnson: Speaker of the House, the most important position in the House.

Steve Scalise: House Majority Leader. Shapes legislative priorities for Republicans.

Marjorie Taylor Greene: Jewish Space Lasers lady. Beach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body lady. Obsessed with Hunter Biden's penis. If you don't know who this is, you shouldn't be talking about American politics.

Nancy Mace: Most mentally unwell person in Congress.

Thomas Massie: The libertarian contrarian from Kentucky. Head RINO. Still a Republican, but is the one most likely to break rank because he's got Elon money backing him.

James Comer: Chairman of the House Oversight Committee. Also obsessed with Hunter Biden's penis.

John Thune: Senate Majority Leader, the most important position in the Senate.

Mitch "Bitch" McConnell: The entire reason we're in this mess.

Ted Cruz: Cancun Cruz. Nobody in the Senate has a softer spine.

Lindsey Graham: Number one in serving Sub Bottom Bitch realness. May or may not go full Single White Female before this is all over.

Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins: More often than not, the current deciding votes on a lot of bills. Lots of "concern" and hand-wringing about how they're "moderates" but they always break for their party, always always always.

Rand Paul: The other libertarian contrarian from Kentucky, Senate Edition. He really hates tariffs and foreign wars.

[afurioushawk]

Like, if Nancy Mace gets taken down, it's probably going to be because of Kevin McCarthy, who has a blood feud with all the Republicans who ousted him. And the majority of people on here would be completely blindsided by it lol.

[maxpawb]

It's scary to be transgender in the world right now but if you're transgender I love you and we have to stick together and keep fighting and keep living and keep loving

[ecto-hazard]

i love the use of "im back in the fucking building again" referring to special interest relapse

[bogleech]

[madmaudlingoes]

It’s not just that the leaves will break down on their own (and enrich the soil while they’re at it!). During the winter, all sorts of insects use leaf litter for shelter, and they’re the first food available to larvae in early spring. Leaves also insulate the plants under them during the winter, which is important if you’re in an area prone to frost heaving.

One of the best thing you can do for native pollinators in your area is Leave the Leaves!

[diggingforkuponuts]

My mom stopped raking her leaves when she found out about this but her neighbor used his leaf blower to clear out her yard the first year she decided to try. So she started posting a Leave the Leaves sign in the yard each year with an explanation about why it’s good and two winters later only one house still rakes their lawn each year.

We’ve seen a dramatic increase in the biodiversity in the neighborhood since. We have birds that we haven’t seen since we moved into the city from living rurally and those birds are starting to nest in the trees and gardens in spring. The swallows and bats are back at night. The single woodpecker we would only occasionally see visits daily and even has a friend that has joined it. We have more squirrels and rabbits and shockingly fewer moles and voles. We heard an owl outside last fall.

Leave the leaves indeed.

[leebrontide]

You guys liked my firefly post?

Leave your leaves!!!

[important-animal-images]

[thingstrumperssay]

White House Posts Video of ICE Arrests Set to Pokémon Theme Song: "Gotta Catch 'Em All"

The White House has posted a video on its TikTok account that aggrandizes ICE arrests while set to the Pokémon theme song.

What in the fresh fuck is this?

[thetetra]

we're hoping that Nintendo will become litigious

[thingstrumperssay]

I mean, if they're willing to slap DMCA's onto anybody who makes a fan game and a Patreon then I would hope that they'd try to go after ICE for trying to use their IP for their kidnapping propaganda.

And if they do (and they win) I can make a joke about how weak ICE types are.

[corneliaavenue-ao3]

Reblog to give prev the power to write their fanfiction

[doglike]

[justplainsimon]

For anyone wondering; its cobalt poisoning

Everyones coughing up cobalt, babies are being born blue and andi has a mask because the planets as polluted as the industrial revolution on steroids.

Your body mistakes it for vitamin b12 so it fucks with your hemoglobins.

With Gwen on the otherhand and why her blood is blue, she is a robot so the cobalt acts as a conductor in a giant lithium battery.

Like...literally; her blue blood is poison, and people are dying from it

(Edit: if anyone uses me as a source in a youtube video, plz let me know so i can brag about it)

[fuckyeahdavidandyonatan]

As Knights of Guinevere explores the cost of capitalism and industries such as disney, I feel it is an important time to talk about and bring awareness to Congo.

Like this theory proposes about the world of KOG, our technology is powered by cobalt, which is mined in Congo by Congolese miners, who do extremely dangerous labour for a few dollars a day.

"People are working in subhuman, grinding, degrading conditions. They use pickaxes, shovels, stretches of rebar to hack and scrounge at the earth in trenches and pits and tunnels to gather cobalt and feed it up the formal supply chain." Kara says the mining industry has ravaged the landscape of the DRC. Millions of trees have been cut down, the air around mines is hazy with dust and grit, and the water has been contaminated with toxic effluents from the mining processing. What's more, he says, "Cobalt is toxic to touch and breathe — and there are hundreds of thousands of poor Congolese people touching and breathing it day in and day out. Young mothers with babies strapped to their backs, all breathing in this toxic cobalt dust."

How 'modern-day slavery' in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy

The horrors of Knights of Guinevere are not some imagined dystopian future, they are the reality of many people in Africa and the global south today - this amazing, cutting, show is an opportunity for us all to bring awareness to those people whos lives are at the core of the horrors of capitalism, and the fight for the global issue of climate justice.

Join the Movement - Friends of the Congo

[bleekay]

[iecholouder-deactivated20240716]

"lol" after saying something dark and alarming