I'm Benjamin and post whatever I want. It was originally to be just to share original photography but then I got trapped within the tumblrverse. Feel free to ask me anything. I will NOT hold anything you ask me against you. Siriusly.
Squelch! Squelch is the technical shorthand for noise gating. Your antenna will constantly pick up ambient noise, which is useless and annoying to listen to all day while you wait for a call. Squelch tells the radio to mute the speakers if the overall power of the signal coming through is below a certain level. You twiddle your squelch until it just cuts out ambient noise, and when someone tries to talk to you the extra power from their signal will go above your squelch setting and it’ll unmute so you can hear whoever’s calling you.
You know what? Fuck you. *untwiddles your squelch*
she twiddle my squelch till i end up abandoned and unidentified at a local museum
How does staff keep banning Frank. She’s an institution, she should be given a hard coded exemption. This is like if we scrambled fighter jets and domestic armed forces because there’s a tall and vaguely threatening green woman in NY harbor. Who is that woman
Mans was literally so respectful he never assumed every turquoise platypus he met wasn’t automatically going to be the one and only turquoise platypus he’s ever met 😂😂😂
I think it’s very sweet that Perry the Platypus recognized that the poor dude is effectively platypus-face-blind (and possibly colour-blind as well), cannot tell if a random platypus is or is not Perry, and is never going to assume in case it is a different platypus because that would be RUDE - and therefore carefully puts on his hat every time, so Doofenshmirtz knows who he’s talking to.
That is some prime Politeness-Between-Nemeses right there.
To be fair, the tri state area apparently has a LOT of platypuses.
hate how all these apocalyptic films show society breaking down the hot minute the grid goes down, with all the survivors banding off into tiny violent gangs that prey on each other.
bitch you are a member of one of the most social species in existence! it is actually insane the extent to which humans have evolved to use cooperation as our main survival tool. humans have been building and then rebuilding societies for as long as disasters have been bringing them down. an apocalypse would be fucking awful, but the survivors would end upbuilding communities and networks and pooling resources and knowledge, because that’s what humans do. that’s what they DO!!!
@coffee-shop-gayyour tags are a love letter to humanity, oh my stars (reformated for readability):
#most macho bitch boys clearly have never been in a real survival scenerio #bc i used to bus around the USA a lot, and one time the snow was coming in SUPER hard and our driver was swerving on the ice and we went off road, and we ended up stuck there. and using the radio the driver communicated with the bus stations and they said they’d send another bus - but it may be a while. but MAN it was SO fast that people were divvying things up, ppl were unpacking their bags for blankets and passing out extra sweaters that would fit other, pulling out blankets and using our duffles as pillows.
a good group of ppl knew no english at all - mostly being mexican immigrants - but we quickly developed a lingo of pointing and charades-and it turned out they had LOADS of snacks so we all passed those around for a while.
there was a woman with a small child and we all took turns watching the kid so she could sleep as we went into hour 10+ of being on this bus. keeping the baby warm and fed from her bottle etc etc.
by the time the second bus came in to pick us all up we were a full community. it was beautiful. scary and cold as hell. but beautiful
Getting really sick of all the “There’s No Place Like Chrome” ads on youtube. There’s Firefox. Firefox saves your passwords. Firefox autofills things if you want. Firefox also does things that Chrome doesn’t like allow adblockers, and it does not mine your data and sell your information for advertising purposes. Google is really trying to push people to use Chrome so they can take as much data from users as possible in order to make as much money as possible and it’s borderline sinister.
Anyway, download Firefox.
The irony of this is because of the ad blockers on my Firefox, I’ve never seen any such ad.
They had a physical ad near my house for the longest time and I kept meaning to put some firefox stickers over it… unfortunately I procrastinated too long and it’s something else now.
I’m looking through powerpoint templates for a class presentation and was absolutely blown away by this one. I don’t care what the topic is supposed to be, all of my future powerpoints have to have the Wizard
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transparent gay rights wizard for all your transparent gay rights wizard needs
You can always tell when misinformation is from TikTok. It’s genetically distinct from other internet misinformation. It always has the vibe of “some very online people having an argument where they had to take a real source and stretch their interpretations like two dogs fighting over a side of pulled pork”
Tumblr misinformation is just “OP literally made up an entire 13th century papal state that doesn’t exist”
To explain! if you were fortunate enough to attend a Discworld convention while Sir Pterry graced this plane, you would receive an explanatory pamphlet with a picture of the gentleman up top. Said pamphlet explained that, while this gentleman looked very similar to our Guest of Honor, he was in fact a completely different person named Silas T. Firefly. You could easily tell him from Terry Pratchett by his lack of Mr. Pratchett’s signature hat. Silas was a private person who would appreciate being left alone as he attended the convention, like every other fan.
Anyway watching Pterry wander around the convention pretending to be incognito and graciously chatting up all the attendees was easily the highlight of my decade.
[ID 1: a photo of writer Terry Pratchett without a hat.
ID 2: a photo of writer Terry Pratchett with a hat. /end ID].
I truly wish the rest of us could pull off this level of grace and delicate handling of the “just a person”/“kinda famous” divide.
For the most part, authors are really only Rock Stars under certain very specific circumstances. And those circumstances can be shocking and overwhelming, and since most of us became authors because we liked to read (and probably liked the genres we wound up writing), we want to wander around and look at things and be People, not Rock Stars. But it’s also nice to be a Rock Star sometimes. It feeds the brain weasels.
So having a “Rock Star now” indicator that is generally acknowledged and honored by the community is amazing.
Wow the grad student situation at Temple is actually insane. A microcosm of what’s wrong with academia and American healthcare and workers rights as a whole.
Learning how utterly toothless the NLRB is against blatant retaliation like this really just exhausted my ability to have any patience with any of that shit. “Trust the system” Fuck off
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