Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
- Comment on HAPPY 2026 18 hours ago:
It’s raining here so I don’t even have to try to ignore it or crank up the air purifiers to deal with the toxin smoke stank, thank god
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 1 day ago:
I’ve heard it previously, the first time I couldn’t help but crack up because the term was so petulant and asinine. ‘They’re playing cheap games with low res graphics with their friends and having fun, someone make them stop!!’ is the vibe I get every time I hear it, and it’s still a hilarious term to me.
- Comment on ChatGPT could prioritize sponsored content as part of ad strategy — sponsored content could allegedly be given preferential treatment in LLM’s responses, OpenAI to use chat data to deliver highly personalized results 2 days ago:
Might be due to OP being on fedia.io? I can’t access the original post (it wants a login), but the link shows up fine for me on Piefed.
- Comment on ChatGPT could prioritize sponsored content as part of ad strategy — sponsored content could allegedly be given preferential treatment in LLM’s responses, OpenAI to use chat data to deliver highly personalized results 2 days ago:
There’s a link for me in the post?
- Comment on Good point 3 days ago:
Cum is stored in the head
- Comment on his heart was in the right place atleast 6 days ago:
Living in 2003 is cringe, not sorry.
- Comment on What activity or pastime of yours is barrels of fun? 6 days ago:
What’s fun is going to be individual, isn’t it? I absolutely love going to museums. Science, art, history, whatever. I live somewhere with a lot of museums, so I look into discount programs and plan day trips around seeing exhibits that sound interesting. Obviously that won’t work for you if you don’t care about museums or don’t have many nearby.
There’s nature everywhere, even in cities, and I enjoy using apps like Seek or Merlin Bird ID to help understand what I’m looking at. It’s fun to keep my eye out for new plant species, and helps me learn what’s around me locally.
- Comment on 🎵 It means something something... 🎵 1 week ago:
Why does the color saturation on this look like it was taken from a Disney McDonald’s plate that’s been through the dishwasher too many times?
- Comment on Italians at Christmas 1 week ago:
It never stops weirding me out how learning Spanish has also made Italian borderline intelligible to me. I get why, it’s just strange to experience accidentally partially learning an extra language.
This unrelated comment inspired by reading the name and going ‘oh, that means golden bread’
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 1 week ago:
Fingers crossed for you finding a solution that lets you get all the onion you want! Intestinal issues are so miserable
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 1 week ago:
If it’s the oligosaccharides or fructans that are fucking you up, you can heat (not fry) onions in however much oil you’re okay with in your final dish, and then just remove the onions. The flavor compounds are oil soluble, but the oligosaccharides/fructans aren’t. Smaller pieces = more intense onion flavor.
- Comment on It's the truth! 1 week ago:
I fuckin love rooibos, I don’t know what it is about it because I generally don’t care that much for tea.
- Comment on It's the truth! 1 week ago:
See also: ‘robin red breast’ to describe the European robin, which very clearly has an orange breast:
A small brown and white bird with a very orange chest perched on a branch
- Comment on The REAL news 1 week ago:
Of course it is, it’s New York. Any bagel seller with floppy bagels will be out of business before the weekend
- Comment on [FTFY] 1 week ago:
Not the kitty toe beans!
An emoji loudly crying with hands thrown dramatically up in the air
- Comment on Journalists convinced a AI Vending Machine Things to give them free stuff like a PS5 1 week ago:
Guy who just got his shit wrecked: it was a social experiment
- Comment on OH GOD NO 2 weeks ago:
Do they still call them ‘girl/boy’ toys? They did when I was a kid (which led to a lot of grief when I didn’t want the ‘girl’ toy), but I feel like around the mid ‘10s I heard they were starting to call them by whatever brand they were (ex: Barbie or Transformers toy). But I haven’t bought a kids meal in at least 15 years so I couldn’t tell you how much they still do that.
- Comment on it hurts, chat 2 weeks ago:
Maybe the American ones taste better, but the store bought ones I had years ago were disappointing. Maybe you need to dress them up, these were plain.
- Comment on uhhh 2 weeks ago:
Finally, the true reason for the creation of the Steam Machine has been revealed!
- Comment on Word. 2 weeks ago:
I am on Linux but haven’t needed to use office software in nearly 20 years, how do you access the pdf printer? Is that different from saving as a pdf through the menu?
- Comment on Word. 2 weeks ago:
Good to know, at the time my brain was absolutely fried so it doesn’t surprise me that I missed it, lol
- Comment on Word. 2 weeks ago:
I used LibreOffice Writer for my coursework the past semester, and when I used my spouse’s Windows computer to double check the images were correctly placed before submitting a paper they were on completely different pages. This was when I saved it as a .docx, because the only two options accepted were .docx or pdf. I wound up doing everything as a pdf if I needed images, but I think LibreOffice doesn’t have a save as pdf option? Or if it did I missed it, I just used Google Docs to save it as a pdf.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I definitely thought this was posted to !transmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone at first
- Comment on 🍺 🍻 2 weeks ago:
If you’re not joking, reach out to your college’s academic support/tutoring centers. They’re literally paid to be there and help you with your classes. Even if you understand all the class content already they can still help you with whatever you’re struggling with, like figuring out how much time a project needs or how to get it started/organized.
I struggled my first go ‘round in college 20 years ago and wish I’d known that, now that I’m going back I’ve been using the support systems the college has a lot more and it’s been paying off.
- Comment on Grim Statistics 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if it was inspired by the columnar jointing formations you can find in Iceland?
- Comment on The Warbussy 2 weeks ago:
I think red-capped would be a good name too! In general I’m a fan of birds having as many common names as makes sense, haha
- Comment on The Warbussy 2 weeks ago:
Red-bellied is completely accurate, you just normally don’t see the belly:
a red bellied woodpecker goofily hanging off a branch, showing off the red underside it’s named for
Red-headed was already taken:
a woodpecker with a completely bright red head and a black and white body.
- Comment on home gardening 2 weeks ago:
Does looking at this make anyone else start wheezing?
- Comment on Graffiti 3 weeks ago:
Very ‘They Live,’ nice.
- Comment on Revelation! 3 weeks ago:
We’re actually doing pretty good right now, drought wise! Over 80% of California isn’t considered in a drought, and what is in a drought is at the lowest level (D0, abnormally dry).
So, theoretically, this year shouldn’t be particularly terrifying during the Santa Anas.
