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justafrog

@justafrog@mstdn.social

Full-time amphibian.

Strongly committed to treating all individuals of the most common primate species fully as valid persons as much as possible.

Concerned about covid19, climate destabilization and economic equality.

Likes complete information abstract board games which have been played for centuries, straight into this modern time.

Middling at chess, kind of okay at baduk. Into the second year of taking shogi seriously.

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msquebanh, to Flowers
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Picked & to make small for Mom. The roses smell divine!

I got the vase for free. It's part of set of 3 glassblown art vases. Got them from a free pile from local estate clear out, a few years ago. I'm good at scoring lots of & rarely buy anything new.

Bouquet of red & deep pink roses with red weigela flowers in a green & white glassbown artisan vase.

justafrog,
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@msquebanh Getting only good things and only when needed has been nothing but wonderful for me.

It's a very different way of living.

But it also means that I'm not constantly throwing junk out.

When I throw something out a few months after buying it, it feels like I'm throwing cash into the bin.

Awful feeling.

I'll always try hard to avoid that.

eniko, to random
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power randomly blew out in half the house and i had to system restore my laptop but that's fine it's not like i had ANYTHING IMPORTANT TO DO TODAY

justafrog,
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@eniko I swear there's fae folk who are doing this on purpose.

They deliberately seek out the people who have anxiety because those get the best reactions.

eniko, to random
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there is going to be a thing today. a big kitsune tails related thing. i figured i would give y'all the secret heads up 👀 stay tuned

justafrog,
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@eniko :nkoPeek: hhhhhyyyyype...

stux, to random
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I'm so tired :blobcattired: Starting to feel a little sick, I think the hospital experience from past week and a festival after that was maybe a little overload :battery_empty:

Our tent was quite large but I'm 1.96 meters so not large enough unfort :blobcatgiggle:

Luckily we're back with the boiis again :meow:

Time for some sleeeeeps! :stux: :sleep:

Goodnight my dear friends :mastodon: :fediverse: :cat_hug_triangle: ❤️ :blobcatsnuggle: :blobcathearts:

Washy under his blanky
George yawwwhn on the cat pole
Sleepy George the cat

justafrog,
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@stux Being too tall is suffering.

Being too short is suffering.

Being average height won't save you. The average keeps moving!

StillIRise1963, to random
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I feel better about human beings on the whole when I get the fuck out of the extremely toxic United States. TOXIC.

justafrog,
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@StillIRise1963 It's good to see not all of the world is like that, for sure.

stux, to VintageOSes
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Back heum :blobhappy:

Washy on the balcony

justafrog,
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@stux Leggy uppy in the background. :nkoLove2:

msquebanh, to random
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Blocking white racists in North America who are saying that Indigenous peoples here are immigrants 🤡👿

I don't have enough spoons to blast into people like that ATM & am just blocking their ignorance/disrespect of Indigenous history.

justafrog,
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@msquebanh Telling indigenous people that immigrants are a problem.

Like they didn't know that already.

justafrog,
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@msquebanh I just mean that a lot of European immigrants in the past were much worse than anyone who's coming in now.

And then white people complain to the very people who most suffered from that.

It's both very offensive and lacking in awareness.

justafrog,
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@msquebanh It looks like it's safe to say it's been over 200 years. As early as the US war of independence, when black soldiers who fought against it were granted freedom in Canada after the British lost.

Lots of very unfair laws, enacted by popular demand, too.

Even for much of last century there were heavy restrictions on black and chinese immigration, for purely racist reasons.

Even British citizens got refused entry for not being white.

Worse than I thought it was.

futurebird, to random
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Here is my small nervous Formica subsericea. These are black field ants, you can tell them from carpenter ants because they are shiner, only come in one size (no majors with big heads) and their thorax has a dent rather than a hump. They also move differently from carpenter ants which tend to be more deliberate and less spastic.

Today I gave them fruit flies and they have eagerly piled them up in front of the queen. Who looks like she just wants to go to sleep.

justafrog,
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@futurebird Fat bottomed girls.

msquebanh, to nature
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#CowParsnip is the ONLY #Heracleum species that's native to #NorthAmerica. There's many look-a-likes including the very toxic giant hogweed. I don't recommend trying to #forage & harvest them unless you're very experienced with identifying differences because it's dangerous to do so.

#HeracleumMaximum #nature #VictoriaBC #VanIsle #GetOutside #YYJ #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #VancouverIsland #PlantIdentification #FlowersIdentification #NativeBCPlants #PNWnativePlants #Edible #Medicinal

Many cow parsnip flower buds on umbel stems.
Full cow parsnip plant, big thick & hairy stalk, with many flower heads, flower buds & giant foliage.

justafrog,
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@msquebanh I immediately thought "danger" when I saw the pictures.

There's an invasive type here, the Heracleum mantegazzianum, which does look slightly different from this one.

It's not associated with anything positive. The sap causes swelling and blisters, and may leave scars if enough skin is damaged.

It's a target for eradication, though that's very hard to achieve.

msquebanh, to asianfood
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#Shrimp & #Chayote #Stirfry - simple, yummy & healthy dish. I use extra garlic in mine & eat it with steamed rice but it's great on its own.

Chayote is also known as vegetable pear or christophine. Peel the skin off before cooking as it's tough/not fun to chew. A #vegetable that's used in lots of #AsianCooking. Fab source of vitamin C, dietary fibre & potassium.

#AsianMastodon #AsianFood #SouthEastAsianFood #TootSEA #EthnicEats #POCfoods #EthnicEats #CulturalFood #TraditionalFood #Food #Dinner

justafrog,
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@msquebanh Interesting plant, that.

Apparently you can eat the leafy parts, stems, and tuber, too.

justafrog,
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@msquebanh It's good to keep in mind.

Both to be thankful you don't have to eat any emergency things, which are in that category for good reason, and that you know you can still fall back a little before hunger becomes a real threat.

I remember talking to people who lived through the 1944/45 famine, and the tastes they talked about weren't very fun.

A lot of "safe" things are impossibly bitter, for example.

mekkaokereke, to random
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TIL: The 1st Maverick was Black? How did I not know this?!

I could have been annoying in dozens of viewings of Top Gun over my lifetime!

"Y'know, the first Maverick was a Black man... "

🤔 I'll have to work this into the Black History Month megathread somehow...

https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2900145/mission-accomplished-tuskegee-airmen-recognized-for-1949-top-gun-victory/

justafrog,
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@mekkaokereke I'll never get over how little respect black US soldiers got in WW2.

They were fighting, bleeding and dying like anyone else in that war.

But their rewards were always less, or entirely absent.

These late restorations do some justice, but wow are they late.

atomicpoet, to random
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There’s certain technology that I earnestly wonder why we abandoned it. For example, digital audio players (DAPs).

These devices provided something smartphones don’t: a distraction-free way of playing music.

And they were way more personal because everything on your DAP was put there by you! They were a collection of your genuine taste!

justafrog,
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@atomicpoet For me, it's the choice between buying a separate device, or installing some app on my phone so I can use it like that.

The important part is to disable all notification sounds and vibrations, because those will keep piling in no matter what.

But I figure my complete lack of FOMO is very rare.

I don't personally know anyone else who can both know there are notifications and simply not check them until tomorrow or the day after.

Because right now, I just want the music.

mentallyalex, to random
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People do not constantly owe you anything. When you consume your friends without providing them with energy, they just...stop.

justafrog,
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@mentallyalex @LRRRonEarth was explaining this to me, earlier.

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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Some of my friends that are convicted felons are 100% innocent of what they were accused and convicted of. Some of my friends that are convicted felons are guilty, and absolutely did what they were accused of. I don't make fun of people for being convicted felons, and I don't ostracize them. Instead, I don't let bad people around me. My definition of bad focuses on the choices that a person made in the past, and the choices that they make now. Some of the worst people, will never be felons.

1/N

justafrog,
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@mekkaokereke When a random unknown black guy becomes a felon, lots of people are sure he must be an awful person.

When a certain specific awful person gets a 34-count conviction, he gets more money thrown at him.

It's hard to believe this game is fair, when they make it so obvious.

stux, to Cat
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the on the roof in the sun 🌞

Looking out over the neighborhood
Washy on the roof in the sun
Washy on the roof looking to the left

justafrog,
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@stux Surveying his demesne.

stux, to random
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She has a real good example of how algorithms on platforms like Instagram not only try to make you addicted but also divide us even more

I real LOVE the fact Mastodon and most of the Fediverse software avoids this all together

A girl explaining comments shown on an example Instagram posts. It looks at your age, gender, interests and serves comments based on that.

justafrog,
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@stux One thing I very strongly noticed after arriving in the fediverse was how much calmer I became.

eniko, to random
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idly pondering how hard it would be to convert kitsune tails to an existing 16-bit console despite it being written in C# and using 64-bit float literally everywhere 🤔

justafrog,
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@eniko Back when people still had to use 90% of their imagination to make sense of the graphics.

Nostalgic.

justafrog,
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@eniko The eyebrow definitely helps a lot.

[looks up Mario screenshot to compare]: Why is this image so low res.

[long pause]

Ah, yes. Right.

stux, to random
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And I also got "Froggy" for you! 🐸

(yes. i am terrible at naming things)

Web game:
https://mstdn.github.io/Froggy/dist/

Source code:
https://github.com/mstdn/Froggy

A WebGL (React Three) web game where the player is a frog and can walk around, smash stuff and eat flies

justafrog,
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@stux Very relatable character.

StillIRise1963, to random
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My child just sent me a text about a book by a white guy named Sam Forster who said the following:

"Last summer, I disguised myself as a Black man and traveled throughout the United States to document how racism persists in American society.

Writing Seven Shoulders was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done as a journalist.”

Ummm, WHAT???

justafrog,
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@StillIRise1963 What? You expect him to just talk to various black people about what life is like for them?

Like, interview people and write about that?

He wouldn't be the main character in that story!

Think of his ego, will you!

RickiTarr, to random
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Could a Betazoid and a Vulcan have a kid together or would the kid just immediately feel schizophrenic all the time?!

justafrog,
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@RickiTarr Pon farr daily, constantly talking, and worst of all, while they talk they are on topic, concise and full of fascinating new ideas.

Vulcan science would make multiple transformative breakthroughs each year, and they'd just be so tired of dealing with it.

The incessant libido is okay, because they simply assign someone to take one for the team that day. Logical.

But someone who talks that much and makes so much sense that you can't stop listening? Nightmare fuel.

CelloMomOnCars, to random
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"Heat pumps that fit in an apartment window could make a big impact in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-fred-gradient-new-york-city-queens-b2510714.html

justafrog,
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@CelloMomOnCars It's weird how this myth persists.

In Norway, lots of people fully rely on heat pumps to get them through the winter.

And it can get so very cold in the northernmost parts, so they wouldn't do that if it didn't work.

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