Catoblepas

@Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The weak should fear the strong⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The weak are meat; the strong eat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slice radishes, toss them with a little olive oil, salt, and seasoning, and air fry at 380°F for 10-12 minutes, shaking halfway⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do they get super soft or are they still firm? When I tried putting daikon in curry it kind of turned into neutral mush, which was fine but not what I was expecting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry buddy, you just ain't it anymore.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tale of as time with exonyms. Ex: Anasazi vs Ancestral Puebloans. In the early 1900s when archaeologists started getting interested in Ancestral Puebloan sites, they misapplied the Navajo name for them, which basically means ‘ancestors of our enemies.’ Obviously not what most people want to be referred to as!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are allowed flavor⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  other than not having enough shipping and having to prioritise feeding troops

  That is a choice he made, not something that just happened, and it resulted in at least a million (likely much more) civilian deaths in their own territory.

  The provincial government

  Gee, I wonder who put the provincial government in charge in a British colony? 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are allowed flavor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably referencing this, and similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people eat this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I gag every time I see one of those pies drowned in mystery sauce and mushy peas. Texture hell!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the cure to doomerism?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The rest isn’t possible without doing this first: limit your doom scrolling. Unless reading the news is your job, don’t live your life like it is. You can stay informed without spending a huge portion of your waking hours doom scrolling.

  With all the non-doomscrolling time in your schedule, get involved in your local community. See what events are going on at the library, you can often find organizations through them that are connected to your interests. Colleges often have events open to the community as well. Find places that work around issues that concern you, and volunteer with them if you can. Get therapy if you can access it, god knows enough is going on right now to need it.

  These are all things that will increase your resilience and help you find people in your local community to trust. Remaining isolated, afraid, and unable to act is what every fascist government wants of its opponents, so do everything you can to avoid giving them that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨✨️ DIVA ✨️⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, the wintering grounds on that range map are split pretty far apart! I wonder if the individual cranes ever switch it up, or if they always go to the same one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Family size banana

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many parents cab probably relate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Has nobody had a talk with them about how they’re raising someone incapable of taking care of himself? Do they plan to outlive him? I come from the opposite end of the parental academic aid spectrum, so I don’t understand the thought process at all. Is it just untreated anxiety on their part?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT is rolling out YouTube-style age prediction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  https://www.androidauthority.com/chatgpt-age-prediction-3634063/

  This the link that isn’t showing for you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yeet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just your brain warning you about bad things that could happen. Only brains don’t give a pop up notification, it’s just streams of thoughts and sensations. That’s how I’ve chosen to interpret my intrusive thoughts, anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve done an outdoor heated pool at around 50F/10C and nearly shook myself apart in the time it took to get the short distance between the pool and inside. I’m pretty sure going from hot tub to -20C would actually kill me, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And the cold in particular.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the detailed response and recommendations for getting started! The technical aspects of calligraphy are what appeal to me about it as well, which is sort of a running theme with the artistic hobbies I have (ex: weaving). I’ve been trying to get back into physical journaling, so this is probably a good thing to add on top of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And the cold in particular.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did a quick search for some in person classes, but unfortunately the only one near me is to teach Chinese calligraphy! Which would probably be more useful if I read Chinese, lol. I’ll stay on the look out for some, that does sound interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And the cold in particular.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess whatever part of my brain that can convert ‘writing’ to ‘art’ doesn’t work, because I spent a considerable amount of time as a child desperately trying to learn decorative handwriting! Going slowly makes it wobbly AF, and going quickly makes it sloppy, and I never could find the middle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And the cold in particular.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been holding a pencil and legibly writing for over 30 years and I still have no fucking idea how people write this nicely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My tender eyes and ears⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get these weird ones that have AI generated sounding audio of women talking about their husband’s premature ejaculation and his one weird trick! No idea what it was (other than whatever gas station boner pill shit they’re selling), I skip before then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐍 🐦 🪹⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  UÉ? 😲

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's long unskippable ads may have finally met their match⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would rather everyone benefit and not only people technically competent enough to know about uBlock 🤷‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's long unskippable ads may have finally met their match⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  uBlock doesn’t come with financial and legal penalties, I’ll take Vietnam’s solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAPPY 2026⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a link for me in the post?

  https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-could-prioritize-sponsored-content-as-part-of-ad-strategy-sponsored-content-could-allegedly-be-given-preferential-treatment-in-llms-responses-openai-to-use-chat-data-to-deliver-highly-personalized-results

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good point⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cum is stored in the head

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨his heart was in the right place atleast⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Living in 2003 is cringe, not sorry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What activity or pastime of yours is barrels of fun?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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’