Flaviu Vescan @flaviuvescan@qoto.org

Hi Mastodon! I built a random comic generator that makes horrible comics about therapy. It's NSFW and, well .. horrible. If you generate a good one, post it in the comments.
https://theoatmeal.com/therapist

That was an intense day of sorting seed! All of last year’s seeds which we’d cleaned over the last few months are now boxed, labelled and of course alphabetised. Ready for exchanging with other botanic gardens. Sadly we now need a phytosanitary certificate to send to the EU, which we don’t have the funds for… bloody brexit #gardening #horticulture #seedsaving #brexit #organising #botanicalgarden

We only have one Earth. Let's take care of it together.

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Anime: Princess Mononoke (1997).

#ghibli #studioghibli #スタジオジブリ #anime #princessmononoke #earth #wallpaper #scenery #desktopwallpaper #hayaomiyazaki #mononoke

The early 2000s saw a renaissance in RPGs from small indie devs due to the OGL 1.0a (open gaming license). A new proposed OGL 1.1 was leaked that will supposedly invalidate the old license. The RPG community is, rightfully, anxious about its legality.

Quoting @dutchbarracuda: https://mastodonapp.uk/@dutchbarracuda/109655211425267848

Yes please 🌳😍

#Photography #Paradise #NotOC #Nature

today i released version 3.5 of webgbcam, my web app that simulates a game boy camera!

https://maple.pet/webgbcam

current features:
- settable gamma/contrast
- settable palette from curated selection
- settings are kept for the next session (new!)
- record 5-second gif
- 3-second timer to frame your shot
- swap between front and back cameras on mobile
- tweak camera settings after taking a shot
- hide the UI & use it as a window capture for streams!

picture courtesy of me bothering @Atatra 💜

That lamp looks PISSED.

Sarah prayed for an escape from this bullshit marriage.

in memes, truth

Ok, this is cool: a team of biologists worked out that turtles can talk. The hatchlings even talk to each other in the egg to coordinate their hatching. Turtle talk is at frequencies not very audible for humans and it can take hours for some species to reply to each other.

“Had we had a bit more expansive imaginations, we might have caught this earlier,” said Karen Bakker, a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/06/turtles-eat-south-america/

Whenever they tell you a change is impossible, show them Utrecht.

An urban freeway with many lanes can become a green park with a beautiful canal. Instead of a car sewer, the water flows.

Catharijnesingel, Utrecht. Winner European Urban Public Space Award 2022 by OKRA landschapsarchitecten

https://www.archdaily.com/992550/okra-receives-the-european-urban-public-space-award-2022

Why does the media tell us that inflation is at a 40 year high without telling us that corporate profits are at a 70 year high?

Networking 101

a browser based tool that’s tremendously useful if you are a pixel artist…
cleanEdge 👉 http://torcado.com/cleanEdge/
“cleanEdge is a pixel art upscaling algorithm designed for rotating sprites. Its goal is to improve the jumbled pixels and broken lines and edges that result from basic nearest neighbor rotation.”
in the past, if i had to rotate, i usually ended up redrawing everything. things like this are helpful little gems!
#tool #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #art #resource #webtool

What fresh hell is this? Adobe has opted me in to letting them train their algorithms on my photos? That’s the end of me using their cloud storage for anything, ever. #privacy #adobe #lightroom #LightroomMobile

Computers used to scream out in pain when we connected them to the Internet.

This was a clue and we just didn't listen.

Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something. ~Kurt Vonnegut

Book: A Man Without a country

#quote #art #life

Forest Floor

After a rainstorm, I stumbled upon this little impromptu pond in the forest at Tower Hill Botanical Garden. I liked how the trees were reflected in the puddle and the tones of the browned pine needles in the back.

#photography #NaturePhotography #LandscapePhotography #Photo #PhotoOfTheDay #Nature #trees #Puddle #MastoArt #AYearOfArt #Art #Massachusetts #forest #Landscape