potat

i like potatoes | she/they | transfem | aspec | studying maths | chronic illness haver | i make things in blender sometimes (like the above :D)

[peelerofpotatoes]

back on my blender bullshit... this time a fully procedural seeded planet creation system with tectonic plate, temperature, humidity, and biome mapping supported by a customised noise variant i threw together!!

[peelerofpotatoes]

for those curious, here are more technical/wip pics and some of the spaghetti code behind it all, the first post is just shameless beauty shots missing the actually cool stuff...

[tothechaos]

phones love to go "do you want to clear up .3 GB by deleting these cherished pictures that you havent looked at in more than 30 days?" while also installing random apps and AI bullshit you didnt ask for. and you cant even uninstall half the apps

[tonystarksanxieties]

No, but literally

[anxiousmercy]

seeing this reminded me to finally get rid of that Damned Thing that keeps installing random games on my phone

The mobile services manager app performs many functions including installing and updating apps, controlling some Android settings

[tothechaos]

anxiousmercy im giving you my first born and the keys to the city for helping me disable that damn thing that has infuriated me for years

if you have an android, follow the steps in the article to stop random, unwanted apps from being installed on your device!

[fridgebride]

[not-so-dailymarkiplier]

@thelytle for the script

[homunculus-argument]

I will not elaborate.

[weedsandwishes]

@sergle is correct

[s0lanums]

i think the first time grace loses a tooth from scurvy, once they get past the initial panic (“no, i won’t die from losing one tooth” and “yeah, it hurts, but it’s not that bad” and “i can still eat just fine, i promise”), rocky tentatively asks if he can hear it more closely.

“yeah, sure.” grace holds up the tooth to the xenonite barrier.

“no, closer,” rocky says, claws clicking nervously. “want to hold.”

grace considers that. if rocky were to, say, lose a chunk of carapace, he’d ask to have it without a second thought. he’d probably make an excuse about wanting to point a spectrometer at it or test its properties, and he’d obviously do those things, but he’d mainly just want to touch it. to hold a piece of rocky without fear of either of them being harmed.

he drops the tooth into the exchange drawer and rocky lunges to retrieve it. grace has a thousand self-hating, existential thoughts about losing it — his health is declining so quickly, his smile is changed forever, he can guess which tooth he’ll lose next — but they all quiet as he watches rocky pick it up with trembling claws. rocky cradles the tooth in the palm of his hand like a delicate treasure, warbling a wordless tune of delight, and grace thinks that, if he makes it through this, everything might just be okay.

[profmadscientist]

Rocky has to get creative with the Translator

Reference under cut!

[daciancatamite]

"my great grandmother who survived 3 wars and raised 10 children by herself while working in a factory watching me go to therapy because my parents yelled at me" ok but your great grandmother was also miserable. maybe your great grandmother would be happy you try your best to not be miserable

[daciancatamite]

like have you considered your ancestors wouldve wished to see you be less miserable than them

[reasonsforhope]

We are still here, as human beings, because millions and millions of us - since far, far longer ago in our history than recorded time - have looked at the world, and said "I want my children, and my children's children, to have a better life than I did."

Maybe your parents and your grandparents and great-grandparents were among those people - or maybe they weren't, personally. Some people admittedly aren't.

But every human alive is part of an uninterrupted line of hundreds of thousands of years of descent (and that's only since we became Homo sapiens).

We, as humans, have created and built and invented and learned and treated and cured so, so much. Because we kept looking around us, and looking at the people around us, and saying, "I want a better world for the people I love. I want a better world for the people who will come next."

Or perhaps think about it this way:

Would you want your great-grandchildren (or the great-grandchildren of your loved ones / family / chosen family, if you'd rather) to be miserable?

Or would you want those children to take care of themselves, and be kind to themselves, and do their best to find peace and joy in their lives?

[cartoonofmilk]

yknow, as counterintuitive as it may seem, helping a suicidal friend isn't a matter of stopping them from dying. it's about helping to make their world one that's worth living in.

it's important to make that distinction, lest we make people's quality of life worse in the name of "protecting" them.

[zk-j]

If you tell tell a black transmasc that they have it easy because they're black I'm going to kill you with hammers. Non-negotiable.

[vahlance]

What kind of problems do you think that gun could create

[initiala]

As much as I think it would be fun to have emotive anthropomorphic ears, I also recognize I can barely control my facial expressions. Like hell can I keep from Angry Ears-ing during meetings

[initiala]

This is who you’re having a meeting with, by the way.

[thottistani-deactivated20220220]

No gay has all 5:

- A job

- Good relationship with father

- Neurotypical brain

- Ability to top

- Driver’s license

[garbage-empress]

this is a fun post because people will say how many they have in the tags then you get to figure out which ones.

[drawnsnake]

The Jojamart Junimo

[thagomizersshow]

I think the fact kiwi birds have nostrils at the tip of their beaks isn't just y'know, an adaptation for sniffing out worms, but also important for their vibes and aura.

You can't see it, but you can feel it

[draconym]

My local animal shelter (BARCS) just got an influx of 369 birds from a shitass pet store, which is a truly terrifying number of parrots to have inside a building. BUT: there's a donation drive going on right now where you can vote for a pet's face to go on a beer can for their annual BARCStoberfest. Every single vote is a dollar towards animal rescue!!!

You can vote for your favorites such as Tylenol, El Wiwi Gordito, and Cheese here on their website!

[draconym]

It's the last day of the Barcstober contest! 10 more hours until the polls close.

Cheese and Coco(a) have pulled in a respectable 261 dollars together for bird representation. Tylenol (the people's princess) still holds a steady lead against wealthy-donor-backed Elmer. And El Wiwi Gordito has emerged as a true dark horse, pulling into 7th place with over 600 votes. Very thankful for everyone who has donated to my local animal shelter--keep up the good work!!

[chimerarachnid]

To be a spider carried like a sacred object in the antlers and horns of a four legged beast