February 1, 2024February 11, 2024 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

You know that thing where you see a gorgeous view (left) and try to take a picture of it, but your phone camera is a joyless fucking nihilist who refuses to see the beauty in anything and only sees this (right)

As a more thorough demonstration, today the road looked like this:

(blatant paint-over of my own photo, because I needed you to see what I saw)

And my phone camera made it look like this:

kezcore:

prev tags WHAAAAT

altruistic-meme:

ok im gonna explain it anyway bc of this sO HERE IS MY QUICK BREAKDOWN

[please note my breakdown IS android specific bc that’s what i have, however i know that the settings should be SIMILAR for an iphone. i just couldn’t tell you the exacts]

GO TO THE “MORE” SETTING (should be visible as soon as you open your camera)

GO TO “PRO”

PLAY WITH THE ISO, THE SPEED (shutter speed) AND THE WB (temperature)

a HIGH ISO will help brighten your photo, a LOW ISO will help dim it.

a FAST shutter speed will DARKEN your photo, a SLOW shutter speed will make it LIGHT. this will also have an effect on how your photo takes!!! the slower your shutter speed, the steadier you need to hold your phone or it WILL become blurry, but it allows more ambient light and is thus recommended for taking photos of, say, stars. a fast shutter speed is how you take photos of objects in motion, but it lets almost no ambient light in (this is where you would want to up your ISO!)

the WB/temperature will shift your photo from being more warm toned to more cool toned.

here are some examples i took of the same sky. each photo has a different ISO, Speed, and WB:

and here is a much more subtle example where I was messing only with the ISO and shutter speed:

finally, here is one compared to a photo I took at the same moment with just my phones normal camera:

(you can REALLY see the sun rays peering out over the clouds in the photo on the right, which is what i was trying to photograph!)

As you can see, the difference are HUGE even when they’re subtle!!!

your regular phone camera SUCKS but it DOES come equipped with the right settings to take gorgeous photos. you just have up know what to look for!!!!!

[sidebar: NONE OF THESE PHOTOS ARE EDITED BTW!!! this is exactly how the phone took them!!!]

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#the more you know #art #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

January 30, 2024February 10, 2024 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

robustcornhusk:

paradigm-adrift:

Turns out they sell special reusable earplugs for musicians that decrease volume without muffling sound as much as regular earplugs. They’re real handy to have as a purse item. Mine saved me from having a meltdown at a restaurant composed of 0% sound-absorbing materials like a month ago.

the off-the-shelf etymotic earplugs are good at evenly reducing sound, but in my experience & in some friend’s experience kinda uncomfortable for sustained use; i used to try to wear them for loud music events but would always take them out after a while.

loop earplugs look nice (!?) and also are comfortable! you have to rotate them until they’re comfortable, and then they’re pretty much unnoticeable. i wore them for 8 hours at a loud music event two weeks ago. my voice sounded a little weird in my head at normal volume, but i got used to it after a bit. i’ve also worn them while exercising, which wasn’t amazing but sucked less than disposable earplugs.

my partner has custom-molded earplugs, which they say are 1) very comfortable and 2) don’t make your voice sound as weird in your head as shittier earplugs. they also have replaceable filters, so you can swap them from “just a little quieter” to “someone is shouting directly in my ear from 3 inches away and I can’t hear it” (which are the filters they accidentally had in at the same loud music event… they had to use their backup earplugs, also loops).

for home use (blender, vacuum, fire alarm, etc), i have a couple of sets of children’s earmuffs

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#holy shit #portable? sound blocking?? that isn’t *itself* sensory hell??? #I need to look into this #(I wonder if I’d be able to sleep in them without having nightmares‚ or if that’s just inherent to the concept) #((they were false-awakening nightmares in which I took out the earplugs and found that my ears were still clogged)) #((I was prone to ear clogs as a child‚ and they *were* often triggered by sticking something else in my ear‚ and)) #((I was always worried that one day they would happen to occur in both ears at the same time and I’d end up nearly deaf for ~3 weeks)) #((this did not ever actually happen‚ but it very plausibly could have)) #((and my subconscious is–as of 2015‚ anyway–not over this)) #(((which is honestly valid of it))) #the more you know #recs #transhumanism #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

January 28, 2024February 10, 2024 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

kedreeva:

kedreeva:

Did you know that peafowl are born with a full set of flight feathers? It only takes them 3-4 days to remove the sheaths and put a little length on them, and then they are capable of flight!

It’s very obnoxious!

glad that came through in text

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#birds #the more you know #adorable #(…from a safe distance) #cat on keyboard threeeee-d! #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

January 25, 2024February 8, 2024 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

fbwzoo:

If anyone else is looking to do firework noise exposure ahead of July 4th for the US, or other noisy holidays, this one seems pretty nice! It has a bunch of the whistles, and deeper pops & bangs than the last couple we’ve used.

Have a picture of Emma sleeping in my lap with no concerns even though we went up in volume a bit today!

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#interesting ideas #the more you know #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

January 21, 2024February 8, 2024 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

phantomrose96:

Cant have fucking shit in Detroit

phantomrose96:

Cant have shit

phantomrose96:

Okay so door saga

The only way into my building is through the front door which locks itself when closed. There’s a back entrance but it’s deadbolted from the inside. This means the only people who can get into the building are me, my cat sitter with the spare keys, and the people living in the other two units.

The door to MY unit now… has no doorknob. Impossible to get in.

There is a shared BACK hallway that leads to the shared basement/back entrance. My back door into this hall is always deadbolted. EXCEPT, fortuitously, right now, since neighbor (Molly) in unit 2 had heard Patches meowing when alone and offered to spend some time with her, so I had the cat sitter unlock the bolt.

This, LUCKILY, means there is A Way into my unit. But it requires getting into the building, then going THROUGH my neighbors’ unit into the back hall, then up to my unit.

Cat sitter is effectively locked out from Patches, and won’t be able to get in if not fixed by the next day.

Text neighbor about predicament. They’re willing to look at my door bUT (it’s Christmas) they’re not home and not getting home until the next day.

Next day, text for an update but hear nothing. (Neighbors aren’t attached to their phones much). Communicate with catsitter saying “okay if I don’t hear back from neighbors, maybe you go over and I contact a locksmith who you can let in?” (since cat sitter has the keys to the building)

Catsitter is very not keen on the idea

Patches is unaware she’s a prisoner.

Hear back from neighbors. Say they should be home around 5pm.

Okay… Good Enough… (Patches graze-feeds so Luckily she hasn’t missed any meals but we’re going on 24 hours of house arrest Patches).

6pm comes. 7pm comes. 7:40pm I text asking for an update. Nothing.

8:30pm I’m figuring out what friends I can call to break into my own house. Text neighbor again and notice this text doesn’t go through.

Text neighbor’s partner being like “hey sorry, can’t seem to reach Molly–”. Get a text back “Sorry this is Molly on David’s phone! My phone died.” Family Christmas plans ran late but they’re on their way back and will be home soon. Thank goodness.

9pm-ish, they get back, give Patches attention and top up her food. I get a text “David fixed your door!” Woo!

Friday 5pm I finally get home

Lugging my suitcase up three flights of stairs while I hear Patches meowing like a dying Victorian child

Shoes off coat off suitcase down fish out keys unlock door grab doorknob

…Doorknob falls off

Falls off right into my hands

Staring at doorknob. Staring at door. Patches meowing. Shove doorknob against door like an idiot and no it does not go back on.

Fucking

Go down flight of stairs, knock on Molly and David’s door. David is luckily home. “My doorknob fell off again can I go home”

David lets me in. I scoot past their dogs and apparently I startled the more nervous one since she apparently tried to nip at me but I didn’t even notice because I’m like my cat.

Get in through the back hall.

Patches comes bounding over.

My cat.

Doesn’t even know she was a prisoner.

Doesn’t even know what a doorknob is.

Later that night receive a text from neighbor apologizing for the dog and I’m like “I Did Not Even Notice.”

Any attempt to leave my house now is perilous until I fix the doorknob.

Can’t even leave my door cracked open because I know Patches is gonna shove her stupid little face through it and become the opposite of a prisoner.

I wanna go buy a reeces peanut butter cup but by god it’s not worth the risk

I’m gonna try to fix the doorknob

Or… buy? a new doorknob?

On Amazon searching “doorknob”.

Merry Christmas

phantomrose96:

You are completely right because I have now investigated the knob and can confirm the screw holding the knob to bar was loose. I have tightened the screw and it SEEMS fixed but I’m very Fool Me Once on this since my neighbor also thought they’d fixed it.

There is a Home Depot trip in my future. Or maybe an online purchase if Patches would get off my laptop

phantomrose96:

Merry Christmas I hope I know how to install a doorknob

phantomrose96:

Complication. Doorknob is here and I tried to install it, but because my door is older than God, the latch-majig (technical term) is offset like an inch higher than the knob. Modern doorknob has the latch LEVEL with the knob.

To swap in the new knob I’d need to cut a new knob-hole an inch higher in the door which

With what tools

That would leave an unused gaping doorknob-sized hole in my door which any robber the size of a weasel or smaller will use to rob my home. I don’t need fucking Redwall in my home.

Probably bad for the integrity of the door

I don’t wanna.

I think what I really want is just the knob like above tags said. Like the knob and the rectangular bar, which I can substitute in for my stripped-bare knob and rectangle bar. I WOULD do this with the new knob, but it’s got two welded-on spokes poking out from the knob.

I can maybe drill two holes for the spokes in my door…?

(Squinting at shitty amazon listings trying to see if any knobs don’t have the two spokes)

(I think the two spokes might be standard.)

Developing new respect for Jesus (carpenter).

In the meantime, because I’d already unscrewed a lot of things I DID take the genius action of flipping my current doorknob around.

This way the side that causes problems is on the INSIDE.

Doorknob fall of while INSIDE house significantly better than doorknob fall off while OUTSIDE.

I’m retightening all the screws.

Patches has offered no solutions.

phantomrose96:

So it does!

Never heard the term “spindle doorknob” before so I never would have found this on my own.

They’re also all labeled “vintage” which extra feels right since my door predates the Cambrian Explosion.

Crowdsourcing my door fix on Tumblr dot com! Doorknob 2.0 is ordered.

phantomrose96:

At least 4,000 but we still got time

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#storytime #domesticity #the more you know #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #embarrassment squick? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

January 20, 2024February 7, 2024 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

bretzkysbs:

It turns out the cookies are real — sort of.

They are baked at the home of Lara MacLean, who has been a “puppet wrangler” for the Jim Henson Company for almost three decades. MacLean started as an intern for Sesame Workshop in 1992 and has been working for the team ever since.

The recipe, roughly: Pancake mix, puffed rice, Grape-Nuts and instant coffee, with water in the mixture. The chocolate chips are made using hot glue sticks — essentially colored gobs of glue.

The cookies do not have oils, fats or sugars. Those would stain Cookie Monster. They’re edible, but barely. “Kind of like a dog treat,” MacLean says.

Before she reinvented the recipe in the 2000s, the creative team behind “Sesame Street” used versions of rice crackers and foams to make the cookies. The challenge was that the rice crackers would make more of a mess and get stuck in Cookie’s fur. And the foams didn’t look like cookies once they broke apart.

Cookie has been portrayed since 2001 by David Rudman, who took over the role from Frank Oz. Rudman’s right hand moves the mouth, which is eating, and his left hand holds the cookies. Both work in concert to break the cookies, which means they have to be soft enough to fall apart.

Rudman said soft cookies are best, adding, “The more crumbs, the funnier it is. If he eats the cookie, and it only breaks into two pieces if it’s too hard, it’s just not funny,” he said. “It looks almost painful. But if he eats a cookie and it explodes into a hundred crumbs, that’s where the comedy comes from.”

MacLean has perfected a recipe that is “thin enough that it’ll explode into a hundred crumbs,” Rudman said. “But it’s not too thin that it’ll break in my hand when I’m holding it.”

Not every (human) guest realizes that the cookies aren’t meant to be eaten. Adam Sandler appeared on an episode and decided to share in the muppet’s delight by spontaneously eating a cookie with him on set.

“As soon as the cameras cut, he was like, ‘Blech!’ ” MacLean said.

( https://web.archive.org/web/20231127124136/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/arts/television/cookie-monster-cookies.html )

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#(note that the above is an excerpt and not the full article) #Sesame Street #food #the more you know #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

Anonymous asked: how tf did you bold a tag

January 12, 2024February 6, 2024 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

jiskblr:

itsbenedict:

Unicode Text Converter

#it’s not regular letters bolded it’s weirdass extra unicode replicas of letters #the mathematicians demanded them for some reason i can’t fathom

26 variables weren’t enough. Even 100 with capitals and Greek weren’t enough. There are always more variables.

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#Tumblr: a User’s Guide #the more you know #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

January 11, 2024May 31, 2024 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

roriferis:

archwrites:

eatelonmusk-deactivated20231217:

hmm no wikipedia i didn’t know that. i mean that’s pretty high praise tho how impressive could it beOH GODDAMNIT IT’S THE COOLEST THING I’VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE

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[ID: screenshot of a Wikipedia factoid that reads, “Did you know that Script Ohio has been called one of the most impressive examples of American folk art in existence?”

The video shows the Ohio State University Marching Band performing its traditional Script Ohio routine, in which the drum major leads the band single-file to form an enormous cursive Ohio on the field. The crossovers require absolute precision timing. It is a FEAT. At the end, the drum major leads out a sousaphone player, who kind of high-kicks his way to dot the I. (Wikipedia calls it a “bounding goose-step.”) He gives a sweeping bow to each side of the stadium. The band then sings “Buckeye Battle Cry” while accompanied only by the sousaphone. Here’s the Wikipedia article, which has a much better description than mine. ]

Did you know that Script Ohio gets me teary-eyed? Just something about the decades of work that sousaphone player has put in with a difficult and (forgive me for saying it) somewhat unpopular instrument, all leading up to this moment, and the double high-five with the drum major, to say nothing of the song, the precision when the marchers cross through the lines of the O and the h, everything.

I’m sure part of it is nostalgia–I grew up in Ohio, most of my friends were in marching band in high school–but I think there is also something actually special about Script Ohio.

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#art #home of the brave #the more you know #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

January 5, 2024February 5, 2024 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

lurking-latinist:

At least for US users, Classic Who is apparently now on Tubi. It’s completely free (with ads) and looks like a great option if you’re interested in the show. There are a few episodes not available (An Unearthly Child because of the rights drama and some of the animated missing episodes, I’m told) but it is basically all of them.

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#Doctor Who #the more you know #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

December 4, 2023December 29, 2023 ~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

spiralingintocontrol:

goblin-social:

A quick example of the current state of Goblin:

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I imported my following list from mastodon and started following everyone with my goblin.band account too, so I basically read all my mastodon content from there already. Even if no one but me using the tumblr-like features I’m adding, I already enjoy Goblin more than Mastodon.

Things that I’ve added since my last post:

Integration with mastodon (and well, any other fediverse platform that use plain text instead of html)

Copy/pasting images in the editor

Sanitized html input when saving & updating posts

Improved the landing page

Cleaned the menus and improved the UI in general

Current “next” to-do list:

Fix posts displaying images twice when you paste an image

Fix RSS feed including the inline files again after the post

Sanitize html inputs on incoming federated posts

fix several style issues around different settings sections (black texts on dark blue background, white text over white background, etc)

Figure out if I can create a tumblr-api app so the posts from goblin can be automatically shared here without having to go through Zappier.

Figure out what kind of server I need to run a, let’s say, 500 people server.

Find someone to do some security review of my server (Long story short, I’ve only a very slim idea of what I’m doing when configuring a server and I’m sure I’ve left some huge security holes around).

This is happening, folks. I think Goblin is going to be a reality. At least https://goblin.band will be.

this is the fediverse tumblr clone I have been waiting for!! Godspeed!!

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#godspeed!! #Goblin #the more you know