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Hello! I'm Vernon (he/him), I came here from cohost. I'm an amateur photographer, consumer of bad movies, and enjoyer of birds.

I reblog quite a bit of stuff, including furry art, technology, politics (sometimes), and movies/tv, but I also post some original content here and there:

Photography

I picked up photography as a hobby shortly before 2020 and have been shooting pretty consistently ever since. I post my photography here: #photography on this blog

I got into film photography around 2024, that's additionally tagged under #Film Photography, I do my best to tag the type of film used too.

In 2026 I started my third year of 52frames (first one in 2020, second one in 2023). That's tagged under #52frames.

Sometimes I take pictures of birds! You can find those under #birds.

I don't sell my photos, but all of my photos are licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA Creative Commons License.

German

I'm also slowly learning German, and I post about that sometimes: #Vernon's Germanposting

I'm A1 level, working on A2 now.

Technology

I work in tech, writing C++ and python. Sometimes I'll post about that.

yodaprod

dietspam16

foone

Hi, Foone here, I'm a retrocomputer educator! I'm here to explain the real reason this laptop is like this.

So this is the Panasonic PRONOTE PD CF-62, it's a Pentium 133mhz running Windows 95, released in August 1996. Panasonic did this sort of trick more than once, they did a similar thing with an under-keyboard CD-ROM drive in the PD CF-41, from 1995.

This one is so fancy because that's not just a self-loading under-keyboard laptop CD-ROM drive, it's a HYBRID PD/CD-ROM self-loading under-keyboard laptop drive! It has to be this complex because it takes PD discs (which are the size of caddies) and caddyless CD-ROMs!

So what's PD discs?

They're an optical format by Panasonic, the Phase-change Dual (or Phase-change Disc). They're from 1996, store as much as CD, but are rewritable... much like the later CD-RWs which used basically the same technology, just in a slightly different format. Unlike CD-RWs (which you had to burn (usually), they acted like a hard drive, fully rewritable at any point. That's why the disc is hard-sectored, which you can see through the shutter gap. Those vertical lines indicate where sectors start and end.

So yeah, this laptop has a complex drive that can take both types of discs, and the whole thing folds under the keyboard. Fucking wild.

But the root reason, of course, is that they did this because it's a cool design, and they wanted to do that. Why did they think this was cool, why did they want to do this?

Pervert reasons.

Next question!

godkillerbrigade

i think this is a contender for the stupidest line of code i've ever written

lemonscribs

Pride sharks! Happy pride month :D more super cute pride flags themed sharks coming soon 👀

lemonscribs

Bi thresher shark 🩷

lemonscribs

Aroace pride shark 🧡

pride month may be over but I‘ll continue drawing some more pride sharks :D

shop~

puppymons

Finished comm for @monstertsunami !

boiga

A zebra shark (Stegostoma tigrinum) in Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia

by Bella Reboul

lemonscribs

Trans pride blacktip sharks 🏳️‍⚧️🦈

robotslenderman

Every time I see Columbo on my dash it reminds me of something my therapist taught me thirteen years ago to deal with people who are like, using you as a therapist, making you responsible for their emotions or trying to pressure you into doing something you don’t want to do.

He called it the Columbo method, for obvious reasons. Basically it involves rambling about the issue out loud in a sorta ditzy way like Columbo does, then telling the other person “anyway good luck with that” and wandering off.

Rinse and repeat as necessary until they let you go away.

chimaerakitten

Look if a garment is like. Wool or silk. And it’s like, don’t put me in the fucking wash. I’m like yeah of course ma’am I shall lightly dab you with a damp cloth and air you out so you don’t get stinky. But when a polyester garment is like “hand wash only” I’m like who the FUCK do you think you are. You’re plastic. Get in the drum.

caelyne

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fallout-lou-begas

in spider-man 2 when spider-man is trying to stop the train from crashing, the first thing he tries is stopping the train with his feet pressed against the track, but all that does is break up the wood planks on the track without slowing the train down at all. when spider-man gets up to rethink his approach -- already exhausted and agonized from his fight with Doc Ock before he even blew out his knees on the tracks, dealing with his Aunt May getting evicted on top of his own poverty, having literally JUST pushed the woman he loves and who loves him away again, and now feeling the enormous pressure of the lives of everyone behind him being at stake unless he thinks fast --