low effort / low confidence / unfinished posts sideblog

drafts clearinghouse. expect nothing. also sometimes posts that i think will do a little *too* well go here. for the sake of my own pride i will not differentiate between those categories.

[sreegs]

You should take some time to read @3liza's post documenting the Phantom Report Bug (which she deserves praise for doing, thank you eliza) and see how fucking broken Tumblr's report tool is. I also want to reiterate something she is once again correct about: no one files bug reports. I have first hand experience working at Tumblr and I remember having to tell web devs on Staff "i saw a post about someone talking about a bug" and they were unaware because no one followed through to file a bug. I have fixed bugs that I saw people posting about that were in my domain (I'm a mobile dev) but were not in the system. No this is not an endorsement of "complain about it enough and eventually someone will see it", this is an endorsement of "file a bug report directly to computer companies and people will most likely read it and probably fix it". I mean it this is not a Tumblr-only thing. I've seen this at every company I've worked for. Just fucking file a bug report please I beg you, software gets complicated and the devs are just unaware that there's a bug until you bring it to your attention. And they want to fix the bug! I promise!

[lukewarmbreadatamoderatepace]

I used to file bug reports decently often, but it got to the point where support always wanted so much evidence of the bugs from me (including for consistently reproducible bugs that affected literally every person I asked about it on here!) that it felt like I was doing unreasonable amounts of free QA for them, and even when I did do all that the bugs still never got fixed.

I mostly stopped filing the reports because it became too predictable that if I bothered, I'd have to follow it up with a bunch of work to even have a chance of being listened to, only to inevitably be told that support was unable to reproduce a bug that had been trivially reproduced by like a dozen random people. I dunno. It just wears you down after a point.

[lukewarmbreadatamoderatepace]

oat kernel with just the hull removed that's amazing at giving head, call that an oat groat throat goat

[gertritude-art]

Not included in the doodle dump was me trying to somehow make a "Stratt is really into Harry Styles joke" in a way that was actually funny and only moderately out of character. I feel like there is room for at least one decent joke here, but what that would be... Who knows

[lukewarmbreadatamoderatepace]

[lumsel]

writing prompt: in the world everyone has a number above their head, and its zero. but one day you stick an m&m up your butthole... and your number ticks up by 1.

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[shinraalpha]

i am losing my mind over discovering that there's a species of jumping spider (Pellenes nigrociliatus) that builds nests in empty snail shells and makes little silk webbing curtains to close off the entrance

look at her!! she is so cute!!! i want to cry!!!!

[theflyingpimphat]

They're not just nesting in empty snail shells (or alternatively, rolled-up leaves) but will also haul them up into vegetation to protect their eggs from the temperature extremes prevalent on ground level.

https://images.blickwinkel.de/thumb.php/2.BLWS172624.jpg?ID=57934

[lukewarmbreadatamoderatepace]

I read that they suspend the shells to keep them safe from ants, but that also makes sense! They use the shells not just for their eggs, but as shelter when molting and overwintering! Up to 6 jumping spiders have been observed overwintering in a single shell together, which is unusual since they're not normally social animals.

I just learned recently about a mason bee that also uses snail shells (just for eggs but still), I had no idea so many animals were taking advantage of abandoned snail shells! Really really cool

[girlwithwhitebeltinmoshpit]

by Nanoraptor.

Nanoraptor (@[email protected])

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this sign but it's still at a highly radioactive nuclear waste site

[boybeetles]

Hahah every trans person loves [product]. Trans culture is [music by cis people]. I mean [cis person] is soooo trans-coded. To be trans is to like [video game]. Queer culture is pretty much just [product]. Spend money spend money spend money consumerism labubu . Stuff animal . Video game . Generic Pop Star . Celebrity .

[lukewarmbreadatamoderatepace]

#and if you buy product while the wrong kind of trans the most annoying person you can conceive of will tell you to die. for appropriation

[what-even-is-thiss]

I just had an argument with someone who was like “why would we settle for food stamps when we could have universal basic income?”

And it’s just like. People need food right now you know.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Hippie church moms donating quinoa chips to my local food bank have done more for me materially than any internet idealist ever has.

[what-even-is-thiss]

People get pissed at me for being a pragmatist in my political ideals but I’ve been in the position where I was out of food right now.

And who helped me with that? Not people calling for some nebulous revolution. Not people telling me that the system was useless. Not people preaching at me to grow my own food. It was a church food bank partially funded by the state of Texas that some southern hippies donated a bunch of Whole Foods nonsense to.

And you know what? I’m sick and tired of defeatism. What can we get done right now, huh? Are you gonna accept something a bit better to help people right now or are you waiting for your perfect utopia to come to you?

Yeah, UBI is better than the quinoa chips. Sure. But right now the quinoa chips are stopping people from going hungry and if all we can do is get the food bank quinoa chips to more people, then I say so be it. That’s something. I’ll almost always take baby steps over nothing.

[lukewarmbreadatamoderatepace]

"People don't eat in the long run. They eat every day."

[amyisnthere]

goes hard

[lukewarmbreadatamoderatepace]

@whatcoloristhatcat ?

[archipithecus]

softshell and hardshell books

paperback and hardcover turtles

[lukewarmbreadatamoderatepace]

softwood and hardwood crabs

[lukewarmbreadatamoderatepace]

.

Vaporeon

Goodra

Lucario

Gardevoir

Voting ended onApr 30

[lukewarmbreadatamoderatepace]

Without looking it up, do you know what connects those 4 pokemon such that they would all be in a poll together?

Yes I definitely know

I have a strong guess based on some of them, but not sure about the others

Dunno

Some other nuance applies to me

see results

Voting ended onMay 7

[sugarcoatedsayaka-blog]

STOP WITH THE ADVENTURE TIME SPOILERS

I HAVENT WATCHED IT YET BECAUSE MY DERP PARENTS ARE WATCHING TV

[lukewarmbreadatamoderatepace]

[todays-xkcd]

I can't believe Candles of Vienna caved to commercial pressure and added the Goku expansion.

Types of Board Game [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

Types of Board Game

[Under this header text, the comic contains 8 panels. Each of them is labeled at the top with a short description of the board game being played and features (from left to right) Cueball, Ponytail, Megan, and White Hat sitting on chairs around a table trying to play it.]

Boring Megan: Each turn, roll a die and move your token. Turns proceed clockwise around the table until we get bored and go home.

Abstract Cueball: Each turn, you can place any number of red triangles or blue squares on a hexagon, or move any hexagon to a...

Hyperspecific Theme Ponytail: It's October 2, 1814. The Congress of Vienna convenes. You are each in charge of distributing and lighting candles for the opening ball, which was held at these three locations...

Overcomplicated White Hat: It's a cross between *Twilight Imperium* and *Cones of Dunshire,* but implemented entirely in category theory. Every cone is a monad, and...

Cooperative Megan: We're working together to sort these decks of cards using only hand gestures. After that, we'll silently organize my junk drawer.

Branded Cueball: You can play as Phoebe, Chandler, Monica, Rachel, Ross, Joey, or, due to an ill-advised tie-in, Goku.

Party Ponytail: Each of the cards in your hand has a bad word on it. On the count of three, yell the...

Social Deduction Megan: Remember, per our *Find the Secret Murderer* house rules from last week, discovering that a player had committed a real-life murder does *not* count.

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[ouroborosorder]

fucking losing my shit over elizabeth holmes' fucking twitter banner

[lukewarmbreadatamoderatepace]

#she's the tommy wiseau of fraud. i don't know how to explain it

(tags via @houndoors)

[lukewarmbreadatamoderatepace]

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Vaporeon

Goodra

Lucario

Gardevoir

Voting ended onApr 30

[yorickless]

eliezer yudkowsky didn't die for this

[lukewarmbreadatamoderatepace]

So the pitch is they added RNG and dailies to vaping is that about right? really good incentives there I'm sure

also

So, no.

[femmenietzsche]

YouGov doing the Lord's work yet again

[lukewarmbreadatamoderatepace]

Which of the following is your favorite dinosaur?

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Brontosaurus

Triceratops

Pterodactyl

Velociraptor

Stegosaurus

Brachiosaurus

Other

I don't have a favorite

Voting ended onApr 23

*We know pterodactyls and plesiosaurs aren't dinosaurs