Su the Coder

Coder. Baker. Biker. She. Her.

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[targetedknowledge]

[daily-dose-of-insects]

These are leaf cutter ants! They harvest leaves to take back to their nest. They don’t eat the leaves but instead feed it to a fungus they tend to and eat. These guys are farmers and the leaves are fertilizer. Such fascinating little creatures!

[pitbolshevik]

oh my god this poor reddit user

[terrierthing]

we need to admire the sheer amount of Ears

[dykeofalltrades]

heres some more pics from the post bc the other pictures manage to be less obvious

[sepdet]

"Minnie Mouse" when that thar varmint is clearly Looney Tunes not Disney

[doctorprofessorsong]

As an older queer, allow me to say: the walls of the closet are load-bearing. It is our job as a community to stand in front of that door and tell everyone who wants to peek inside to fuck off.

There are so many reasons a person may choose not to come out and there is no reason a person would owe the public or a stranger that information. Certainly it's not owed simply because someone is famous.

We have fought for decades to make it safer for people to be open and authentic about themselves, but we are not yet there. And even if we were, the closet would still be something we need to maintain for those who are not ready to reveal that part of themselves.

[warmhappycat]

May we never become so obsessed with representation that we forget the sanctity of privacy.

[shadowy-dumbo-octopus]

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[circular-time]

STOP USING -CORE AS A CATCH-ALL SUFFIX FOR "THEMED"

THE ONLY CORE I WANT TO HEAR ABOUT IS PLANETARY

GET DRILLING

[prokopetz]

If you draw a character who's textually in their 50s as a twentysomething with one (1) grey streak in their hair, I'm not actually going to do anything about it, but I will silently judge you with furious intensity.

[prokopetz]

Fascinated by the number of people in the notes who seem to think this post is complaining about inaccuracies regarding the average age at which people's hair starts going grey and completely ignoring the "drawing a character in their 50s like a twenty-year-old" part.

[a-mel0n]

reblog if you’ve had an online friendship that’s lasted more than 2 years

[maxknightley]

being a jack of all trades is dope as fuck honestly. it's like I'm doing crop rotation inside my own brain

[ritavonbees]

Very frustrating when what your brain needs is to wander around outside smelling rain and looking at trees for a couple hours but what your body needs is six or seven hot water bottles and perhaps a temporary exemption from the general concept of gravity

[targetedknowledge]

[thememedaddy]

[suthecoder]

[tweet from Mike Lane:

Unpopular opinion:

Problem isn’t $10 lattes.

It’s $50,000 salaries in $3,000-rent cities. ]

[rainbow-femme]

Hi yes hello it’s me the local wizard, and I- Ok well “evil” feels like a strong word but yes, that’s me. Anyway, I need your help. I know I stole away the kingdoms 12 princesses, that’s my bad. Listen, I didn’t think this through. It didn’t occur to me that having a dozen angry young women from early teen to early 20s and giving them giant powerful wings would be a bad idea.

I know I’m the one who cast the curse but it can still only be broken with true love. I’m begging you, somebody, please come and fall in love with these girls and make them leave, I can’t take it anymore, it sucks so bad. I can’t keep getting viciously bullied by one of the largest living species of waterfowl anymore. I’ve tried running away but they can fly so they just find me. I’m getting nothing done.

I’ll pay you, I’ll grant you wishes, I don’t care, please just come and fall in love with the mean angry women who live in my yard and hate me so bad

[fallenstarworkshop]

This is unironically a great game inspiration

[shamebats]

People who live in car-centric parts of the world have a lot of trouble imagining a world where cars are not the only/main option. They think of one scenario where a car seems like the only option and immediately give up on the entire concept of not owning a personal vehicle altogether. Meanwhile people who actually live in places that are not as car-centric are always finding interesting new ways to meet their needs for travel & transportation without a car.

[foxehrobot]

I often have people tell me that cars represent the freedom to go anywhere, to do anything.

I don't see that. A car is a ball and chain. It's a tether. I cannot just leave the place where I am and go somewhere else because I have to go get the car and take it to the new place. I can't just leave it because I decided to take a really long walk to this other place. God forbid I get interrupted on my walk by a friend and I end up at their house on the other side of the city watching Dr. Who and my car is at home. Great. Now I have to have someone drive me home because my car is not where it needs to be.

And then it gets lost in a really big parking lot and I have to go find it.

And also they're basically stuck on rails, which you don't realize until you spend most of your time on a bicycle bombing around going wherever you want whenever you want and you get in a car and suddenly you can't go the way you usually go because the car can't access the route you normally take because it's stuck on the fucking road. It's worse when you compare it to being on foot.

[shamebats]

Also while you're driving, you have to pay attention to the road, signs and other cars, if you break a law by accident or because a cop decided you did, you'll have a fine to deal with, and if you don't pay close enough attention, you can die or kill someone.

Then there's paying for parking and needing a garage/parking spot for your car when you're not driving it, insurance, maintenance, repairs, making sure you don't run out of gas...coordinating all that sounds so stressful, it makes dealing with public transport look like a vacation in comparison.

[sirfrogsworth]

Scrolling the timeline on Mother's Day can be hard for me so last year I decided to turn my grief into something positive.

This year, I decided to make it a tradition.

I noticed people were posting a lot of old, degraded photos of their parents. So I try to pick a few good candidates to restore.

I spent a couple of years learning how to do this. I am very good at it. And I really enjoy it. But I learned it isn't very lucrative and most people are fine with what AI can do now.

It makes me a bit sad, but I actually think restoring people's precious memories is not the worst use of AI. Plus, I use several AI tools in my workflow. When there is extensive damage, generative fill is a lifesaver. The remove tool makes quick work of stubborn accumulated dust. And AI upscaling makes the photos printable, often at many times their original size.

My restorations are still much better than the free AI ones. I edit them with a precision and fidelity that can hold up to 400% magnification. I take special care to preserve likenesses and often work with reference photos to make sure people's loved ones still look like who they are after upscaling. I also do colorizing by hand (though I will sometimes make initial color maps with AI). I color grade using film stock color references so the photos still look like film, and I add texture and grain selectively to keep people from looking like smooth rubber.

But that kind of quality takes so much time. One photo is probably several hundred dollars of labor. And no one is willing to pay that so I have to charge below minimum wage.

I will probably just do pro bono restorations from here on out. Focus on fixing photos that AI isn't very good at restoring. Plus I have a ton of family photos that I want to restore for my niece. At some point, years from now, she'll be old enough to talk to me without my brother's permission. And she'll probably want to know who her grandparents were. I hope to be ready with photos and stories by that time.

In any case, it felt nice to do this on a hard day. And it helped clarify to myself how I should use this skill I've developed going forward.

Before and afters...

[vaspider]

This is really beautiful.

[doberbutts]

Ok "leave room for sushi" made me laugh a lot because my + my partner's dog (who weighs all of 8kg) is really funny for this. For context we are both aromantic. And we can be play wrestling, roughhousing, getting boisterous and loud and the dog Does Not Care Whatsoever. But should either of us attempt one single kiss? Intervention immediately. Break it up bipeds. None of that romance shit here no sir. Extremely funny especially since she will not do this to visiting frienda who are couples.

Sushi is our chaperone and she enforces the arm's length rule like it's her job 😩 we joke that she's a good Christian woman so she is clearly taking that to heart.

[memeuplift]