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Hi everyone. Been over six years since I last used this thing. I got a sudden hankering to check Tumblr out again and of course I understand jack shit about how to use this website or the app now.

I'm on and have been on Discord for quite a few years now as "wrapscallionty".

I'm going to peruse Tumblr for a bit, not sure if I'll stick to it. I can't remember who anybody is or who's even on here anymore.

Here's my face for anyone who needs a reminder!

Flying to Seattle today

raginrayguns

most of the reading about novels that i do is newspaper reviews, which has the weird quality that they're intended for someone who hasn't read the book

and then a lot of the rest is introductions/prefaces to reprinted editions, which has the same issue

i've gotten lots of people's takes on the books that i've read, expressed in a way that's vague about the contents

wrapscallion

Maybe they should put those reviews and forwards at the back of the book... make it a backward

I hate living in interesting times.

mutant-distraction

Middle Fork Snoqualmie River in North Bend, Washington, with views of Garfield Mountain.

#I was there last February!#hoping to go again this February #Twin Peaks

Everything is awful!

Today is my 34th birthday, the oldest anyone has ever been

wrapscallion

This has pretty much been the Worst Year and 2026 had better get its act together or else I'm going to send it an unbelievable amount of punches.

But some cool stuff did happen as well.

wrapscallion

Got sick the day before Christmas Eve and had to miss my family's party. Still not entirely over it! One last fuck you from The Worst Year.

This has pretty much been the Worst Year and 2026 had better get its act together or else I'm going to send it an unbelievable amount of punches.

But some cool stuff did happen as well.

terrifying jmage

New shoes

unhelpful aubergines

Welp!

On my first day in Germany I got to my hotel and I couldn't get the lights to turn on. And I was like "Eh, fuck it, I'll just take a shower in the dark." And then the shower wouldn't get hot. I waited and waited and it stayed ice cold.

So I go down to the front desk and I'm like "My lights won't turn on and my shower won't get hot" so they send this guy up with me. We get into the room and I flick the switch and nothing happens so I'm like "See?"

And he goes "You must put your card in the slot."

"I... what? I have to put my room card in the light switch?"

"Of course!"

Now I have been in many hotels in the US and never encountered this concept, but apparently it was something most of their guests already knew. So I'm looking like a fool at this point. I feel like an idiot. The dude is fully grinning at me. I put the card in the slot and voila, the light turns on.

Then he's like "Ok, let's see if the shower works. You know you must wait for the hot water?" and I just know he's thinking I'm an idiot who also can't use a shower. This stupid American can't wait for the hot water! She can't even use a light switch or a shower!

And I guess he was distracted by these thoughts of my stupidity, because this dude fully stepped into the shower. In his nice dress shirt and slacks. He just. Gets into the shower.

And turns it on.

Have you ever seen a playing field get leveled instantaneously

lizardsister

today’s date is the 3rd? what’s next, the 4th? the 5th? the minor fall, the major lift?

Welp!

liquidcrystalsky

now that jpeg xl is likely being supported by chromium which means that firefox will finally enable it in stable versions i can stop outwardly saying that webp is good. because yes it is but holy shit JXL is better.

jpeg xl differences to jpeg:

lossless compression

transparency

HDR

animation and layers (by using "zero length frames" of animation idfk)

has even smaller filesizes compared to jpeg with the exact same compression quality, and smaller file sizes than png or webp

supports loading progressively so a smaller version of the file can be shown while a larger file is still being downloaded

faster encoding and decoding compared to most other formats

supports images literally a billion pixels wide (png can do 2 billion but be for real)

most formats allow 4 colour channels, while this supports 4099, so it can store depth data, temperature data, more different transparency alpha layers to maybe make a sort of cryptomatte because:

supports up to 32 bits per colour

Already supported by Windows, MacOS, Adobe products, GIMP, Affinity, Krita, Paint.NET, Photopea, ImageMagick, FFmpeg, Qt/GTK apps, Safari, Firefox(stable builds are not compiled with JXL support, but it would be very easy to change this when chrome supports it. i understand keeping things consistent but come onnnn), PDFs are soon going to allow embedding them inside, and of course, as soon as chromium adds it things like Discord or other electron apps will also support it.

(i didn't say linux supports it because image viewers and whatever are all very different depending on what you use, but basically every popular one already works with it)

the only reason we didnt get jpeg xl widely used until now is because chrome refused to use it to push their own .webp and firefox was too scared to be different. come on, even safari enabled it!!!

the .jxl revolution is near.

liquidcrystalsky

the most recent version of firefox, 145, also supports .mkv video playback.

mkv supports h264, which is the same codec as mp4, it's just got more options and is completely royalty free and open (h264 isnt open but whatever). WEBM is a subset of mkv as well

actually for audio as well, .ogg is royalty free as opposed to mp3, has better compression (with opus and vorbis codecs). unlike the other two, all browsers have basically supported it for ages as well.

2026 we use .jxl, .mkv, and .ogg. okay. i love you

fuck-customers

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