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-lauch mit schlaffunktion- [nonbinary|they/them] ~~ ★ART TAG★ ★ART SIDEBLOG★ ~~ -i wish i was a dragon- 20+, weird creature, always tired. i like dragons, birds, cats (especially cheetahs!), nature, plants and myst. ~ feel free to ask me to tag anything, i will keep track of it! ~ all blabber posts are tagged with "tütensuppe". ~ icon by momojiji

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i dont have any of his supports and im saving for bina so i wont pull for him but ugh i love the unhinged murder boy so much ;_;

[wheelie-sick]

sometimes people experiencing psychosis and/or mania will come up to you on the street and talk in confusing or upsetting ways. your job is to either have a regular human-to-human conversation with that person or politely leave. your job is not to call 911. do not call 911. you might kill that person if you call 911.

[wheelie-sick]

I don't even have the energy to screenshot and respond to your tags- what the actual fuck is wrong with you? "the cops are scared and rightfully so" "mental health calls are the scariest for cops" OH so this isn't about the safety of psychotic & manic people this is about piggy feelings?

and no, actually, this is not USA specific and no, actually, people from other countries should not ignore this post. police violence and sanism weren't invented in the US and they are certainly not unique to here. if you (or anyone) thinks that this bullshit doesn't happen elsewhere then you are not listening.

[headspace-hotel]

cops r Some Guy with a Gun

do we want Some Guy with a Gun in this situation? answer is usually "NO"

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pattern test run tomorrow

[pangur-and-grim]

what isn’t captured here are the spit droplets raining down on me

[stoned-ratpack]

I captured some of my favorite frames of The Beast and her activities

[pure-sea-salt]

scrolled through the pangur tag for over an hour to find this specific post because i couldnt stop thinking about it, hence why ive been liking and reblogging a bunch of pangur

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i would never call someone by a nickname unprompted because that always feels like an intimacy im not allowed,

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"the addresses for the constant properties are supposed to be set in the config" yeah i know. but im not the idiot who hardcoded them in and theres some weird issue that makes it so i cant fix it.

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poking around in this some more. even if you dont hardcode the properties, setting up this server currently requires you to manually create 5 properties per camera you want to monitor in a different server, which not everyone might have set up already. the actual values are written by an undocumented python script thats flying around in the home directory of an account we decided to retire 2 years ago (ARGH).

so the idea: i integrate this python script into the server package and let it write a config file instead. many pros for this approach: its modular! less manual work! no need to check if some idiot changed the constant property in the meantime and fucked up the calculation process!

i check what the python script actually does.. at a first glance i saw it uses the control system interface library, so i figure its getting images from there.. it is NOT! it reads out old images (from 2019) that are saved in a different deprecated home directory, and reads out a config stored in the home directory of a user that has since left to work somewhere else.

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the awkward sit

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yesterday someone asked me if i can create an account for a phd student who will only start here later, but needs the account because he will not have an email address otherwise. so im like sure, we can kick off the registration process, and it goes through pretty fast so i can create the account today. THIS MORNING i come in to an email saying that he tried to do our safety training but is not able to get the certificate. like CALM DOWN YOU DO NOT NEED THESE YET!!

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friends this friends that but im just so unwilling to try when im always the one who walks behind the others, is assigned the worst sleeping spot, the one who is not invited when there are more people than can come.

[parakeet]

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

[parakeet]

EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list

[parakeet]

so for some reason this feature was actually announced on the tumblr engineering blog. interesting choice not to reblog it to the staff or tumblr blog, esp considering they asked for user input on how to implement it, but i suppose considering the response to the last update maybe the replies would be too overwhelming...

so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts

posts you comment on may show on your followers 'for you' page if you leave your replies publically available. they may, in the future, show in on your followers dashboard if your follower goes to their dash settings and enables this. apparently, if your likes are enabled, your followers can already see those on the dash if they've gone into preferences and selected to do so, which I was unaware of, and that seems to be disabled at default, but it's possible i disabled it previously and forgot about it ig

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currently considering drawing the whale pattern completely from scratch lmao the pattern plushify generated just has so wildly mismatched edge lengths

[striped-civet]

Yellow mongoose (Cynictis penicillata)

Photo © James Tompkins

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Okay but imagine being the team of Eridian scientists tasked with keeping Erid's Only Human alive for as long as possible while the whole planet's environment is literally trying to kill him. And then Rocky shows up and is like:

“Grace says he would like half of dome to be water.”

“Oh, is necessary for humans to have large amounts of water question?”

Small Eridian equivalent of a sigh. “No. Not needed for life. In fact Grace will die if he falls in water and does not get out.”

“Tell him we give him water in containers that won't kill him. Lots lots lots of water on Erid for Grace to drink.”

“No. Grace say he want water on ground. Also want it with excess sodium chloride compound so it will be unhealthy for drink.”

“WHY QUESTION???”

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

To celebrate Erid getting their sun back on track, Grace asks for some alcohol. There's a small amount left from the Hail Mary and Rocky offers to take it to the science Eridians to see if they can synthesise more.

“Grace want this liquid for celebration.”

“Of course.” They scan it. “You have wrong liquid. This contain compounds which are poisonous for humans.”

“Yes yes yes. Grace say humans like feeling of being slightly poisoned.”

“WHY QUESTION?????”

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Grace is like one of those extremely finicky tropical fish who instantly die if not kept in extremely specific conditions.

Only here the fish can talk and keeps asking you to make it vodka.

[mossy-cobble]

crazy how i find myself thinking i've got a handle on it all finally and then i see the ways that other people tangle their lives together so easily and live so easily together with their friends and i feel like that girl at the top of the stairs painting by norman rockwell

[mossy-cobble]

i'll always be here

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requiring people to subscribe to patreon to download your software is kinda vile tbh like at least make a normal paid download.

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everyone seems to be growing well, including the one that hatched a few days after the others!

[blazing-butterfly-inactive]

I suppose most people are more familiar with pet dogs than with falconry and therefore calling a dehumanized mech pilot a "hound" is more immediately evocative than calling it a "hawk," but you gotta admit the vibe of the handler as falconer and the pilots as their birds of prey absolutely slaps. If anyone ever does something like mechsploitation but with scifi fighter jets instead of giant robots, pleeeease call the pilots hawks

[themoosebaruniverse]

If i may

[blazing-butterfly-inactive]

Exactly