Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg) @jgg@qoto.org

@jamesmarshall @leaverou

i think you already know, but if not:

there are human tetratchromats, they are rare

all women

because women get two copies of genes related to vision which are on the sex chromosomes: XX, while men get one copy: XY. so only women can get one normal gene, and one with a mutation that shifts one of the three cones, thus giving them tetrachromacy

normal people can see 1-10 million colors, such rare women can see 100 million or more

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140905-the-women-with-super-human-vision

US troops are not in Germany to protect Germany. They’re there because the US needs bases to conduct operations beyond the North American continent. If Trump withdraws them, he will harm the United States, not Germany.

It’s absurd how many Americans fail to grasp this.

No, it is not…🤬

“It's NOT a Coincidence the States redrawing Voting Maps to suppress Black voters are the SAME ones that fought to keep slavery.”

One thing that #genAI has thoroughly soured for me is searching references for my artists to draw illustrations from and image search in general. Even with DuckDuckGo's "hide AI images", I get like 75% slop. It used to be fun to look through the search results, even if there were many results that weren't what I was looking for. But looking at slop is not fun. It's just tedious. It reminds me that I have to pay extra hard attention not to share AI slop by accident. I hate it.

#rant #writerslife

#PunchNazis #FuckTrump #PUNK #Norse #anime #metal #8647

" To all 175 comrades; we are proud of you, grateful for your resilience, your resistance, and every contribution you make " Sibel #GlobalSumudFlotilla 🇹🇲 via insta

Whoever had this sticker made up, I love you.

Pleased to introduce this quote to the world. Bonus panel here: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nagel #smbc #comics

Todo mal en este publireportaje:

"Uber soltará hasta 20 robotaxis sin conductor en Madrid este año"

https://www.que.es/2026/05/01/uber-robotaxi-madrid-sin-conductor/

No sueltas algo como el que suelta un animal y lo libera. Infringes la ley colocando vehículos en los que nadie se ha sacado el carnet (muevete rápido y rompe cosas o mata gente).

Son robotaxis no robottaxis, es decir, te roban jejeje jajaja.

¿Puedo yo mañana colocar un drone no tripulado en gran vía? Ahhh no, que yo no soy Uber.

Por cierto no cojas uber nunca.

@davidrevoy @mtthgn @harriorrihar
Dear David, Matt and Jon, thank you for helping me to figure out the dual color brush options in Krita, which are so so many I still can't believe it. And it works like a charm. I am very very grafefull.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/28/elaine-miles-actor-ice-detained-id-fake

Indigenous Americans face racial profiling by deportation thugs, who demand proof of citizenship because of their appearance.

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only: In no order... Slings & Arrows Black Adder Roseanne Parks and Recreation Buffy the Vampire Slayer M*A*S*H Bojack Horseman The Good Place Gilmore Girls Firefly The Wire Jessica Jones Arrested Development Barney Miller Absolutely Fabulous

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:v7qq3wwakjrugvba3hefkdch/post/3mktwh67crs2b

EFF is helping ICEBlock sue the government for coercing Apple into removing it from their app store: https://www.eff.org/cases/aaron-v-bondi

I saw a discussion about oil prices, and it reminded me of something that is truly rare in this day and age:

I still go to the full-service gas (petrol) station near my house, run by a husband and wife, and they have those old-timey pumps where the numbers roll by on a cylinder. They have two: one with ethanol and one without.

Tammy comes out to the car to pump your gas, and if you need anything else, like air in your tires, you roll in front of the service bay and Marsh takes care of that (for free, unless you need a nail removed from a tire and a plug, which is five or ten bucks). Tammy always brings me peppermint sweets with my credit card receipt to sign. And I ask about her family, some of whom I've met, and the latest cruise they went on. She also gives me suggestions for where I can get more fun funky clothes that I like.

I can get pics or videos if Y'all ever want to see the old pumps still in use in this day and age.

Just found a real Mandelbrot fractal happily flourishing in its natural habitat... 😁

#nature #mathematics #fractal #mandelbrot