#Binary blob

[wuhuha]

Happy pride month y'all 💜🖤🤍

Now go be a LGBTQIA+ menace to society 🏳‍🌈

[lilithschosen]

butch but in the joggers and goofy sneakers sense

butch but in the lifting and Nike sports bra sense

butch but in the baggy crewneck and boxers sense

butch but in the big rack wide hips sense so boy clothes suck lmao

[narrative-nareth]

So i just came out to my parents and I thought I'd share because it was kinda funny

Me: mom, dad, I'm non-binary

Mom: I know.

Dad: what do you mean. Explain

One brief explanation of gender later.

Dad (excitedly): so you're an amoeba?. I'm gonna get a shirt of an amoeba for Christmas!

I'm laughing my ass off right now, Also for the record he is supportive he just doesn't understand.

[cynicism-and-idealism]

Gender isn't real and I'm not entirely convinced I am either.

[hellmasterphibrizo]

So which gender are you?

Basically I was at the pharmacy and was looking at different washes. I never really paid attention to the “male” coded scents before, and had a giggle. Like… the products were so TESTOSTERONE. A hair conditioner was called PhenoMENal. Deodorants have names like Swagger and Alpine. And then you look at the “female” coded products that are all floral or fruit scents… I just find the fact that we’ve divided things into two distinct genders in order to sell more products funny. And a little sad.

[fakecats]

i wish i was still nonbinary only because the flag is cool as fuck

[mp3monsterme]

Binary Large Objects with Fluent Bit

When I first heard about Fluent Bit introducing the support binary large objects (BLOBs) in release 3.2. I was a bit surprised; often, handling such data structures is typical, and some might see it as an anti-pattern. Certainly, trying to pass such large objects through the buffers could very quickly blow up unless buffers are suitably sized. But rather than rush to judgment, the use cases for…

[shewillbethedeathofpoetry]

“Smoking is bad for you, you know, I really don’t want to see you become a smoker.”

[psychicvoidtale]

In short, yes

[roadrunnerposting]

The best part is once you start doing it for work you stop being able to just google your problems

A fun thing about computer skills is that as you have more of them, the number of computer problems you have doesn't go down.

This is because as a beginner, you have troubles because you don't have much knowledge.

But then you learn a bunch more, and now you've got the skills to do a bunch of stuff, so you run into a lot of problems because you're doing so much stuff, and only an expert could figure them out.

But then one day you are an expert. You can reprogram everything and build new hardware! You understand all the various layers of tech!

And your problems are now legendary. You are trying things no one else has ever tried. You Google them and get zero results, or at best one forum post from 1997. You discover bugs in the silicon of obscure processors. You crash your compiler. Your software gets cited in academic papers because you accidently discovered a new mathematical proof while trying to remote control a vibrator. You can't use the wifi on your main laptop because you wrote your own uefi implementation and Intel has a bug in their firmware that they haven't fixed yet, no matter how much you email them. You post on mastodon about your technical issue and the most common replies are names of psychiatric medications. You have written your own OS but there arent many programs for it because no one else understands how they have to write apps as a small federation of coroutine-based microservices. You ask for help and get Pagliacci'd, constantly.

But this is the natural of computer skills: as you know more, your problems don't get easier, they just get weirder.

[rolypolyjolie]

So flat I can’t stand it 😭😭😭😭

Jk it’s incredible and I’m loving every minute of it

[plaidos]

it's kind of crazy how people are so dismissive about "what class of non-binary" somebody is being referred to as a concept like. there are actually non-binary people who can exempt themselves from transmisogyny and those who can't, and this is in fact a relevant way of analysing the experiences of trans people. wow i wonder why y'all don't want us to analyse the systems of power overarching the wider trans community? i wonder why you don't want to acknowledge that non-binary experiences are not just one huge shapeless party blob but reflect the nuances of wider transphobic & transmisogynist culture.

[rubyredartemisblue]

Anyways, here’s my proposal for sparklings/bitlets. Featuring an Oplita bitlet I made up on the spot.

1) Kindled spark: A newspark spawns either from mitosis from a source spark or from a spark merge. The newspark stays tethered with a leash to keep the newspark close and provide a constant source of energy. Newsparks can be transferred between conjux partners via an exchange of the leash, but the mech that fabricates the pod is the one that takes the newspark in the end.

2) Protoform Bud: Buds of protomatter grow off of a mech’s protoform which is then implanted in a dedicated forge to develop into a pod. Note: Sparklings bearing can be both an asexual and sexual reproduction style. A single cybertronian can spawn everything and essentially clone themselves. Conversely, it is also possible that a sparkling can be created with several different mechs as its creators, not just two.

3) Pod: One a newspark has matured enough, it drops down into the bud and transformers into a pod in which the proper protoform body is built by nanites. The pod is located in the forge which lies beneath the carrier’s sparkchamber. It is a malleable organ so that full transformation is entirely possible the entire carriage.

4) Emerged Pod: At some point, the pod has sufficiently grown and no longer requires direct connection to a parent spark and systems to stay alive and is ejected from the carrier chassis. It goes dormant during this time before hatching. The amount of trouble emergence/ejection depends on the carrier and the carriage, it is common for pods to get stuck or tangled in wires.

5) Hatchling: A gray little blob that stays magnetized to a caretaker with magnetic points on their joints. Soft bodied and almost rubbery as they are pure protoform. They do not develop color nor distinct markings for a while. They consume energon processed by caretakers from a nozzle directly connected to auxiliary fuel tanks. The nozzle location depends on the frame but is unlatched and unspooled out, not unlike a gas-nozzle at a gas station. They communicate with binary beeps, squeaks, and chirps, which is just baby babbling to other Cybertronians.

6: Youngling: (or Seeklet if a seeker frame-type) Finally develops frame color and protoform hardens into infant armor. Spark will remain exposed until adolescent armor has grown in. Basically the toddler stage. They still chirp and beep but their vocalizer comes online at this time and they can speak simple words. Their altmode becomes clearer (forming wings or wheels) but they cannot transform just yet.

[moons-of-dewclan]

Hey, a person who is baffled by lineless styles here. You have a more lineless style and I noticed you do still use darker lines to separate overlap stuff so the cats don’t become amorphous blobs. Is there a certain amount you tend to make the lines darker? Or is it like black at a lower opacity? Also when drawing darker cats (or anything else too), do you have any tips for not making them so dark you can’t see the lines or is it just kinda trial and error? Also sorry if this is a lot of questions, just one more, is there any technique or tool or something you use to make the lines stop exactly where the overlap stops, or do you just do it by hand and kinda get better at it with practice?

(Thank you if you answer this. Stuff like this has confused me for a long time and I’ve just now realized I can just ask, hahah)

HELLO BAFFLED ANON. i hope this helps..

IF YOUR SCREEN IS DARK, our girl still looks pretty ... Dark.. BUT you can always make contrast more extreme! AS FOR THEEEEE LINE TECHNIQUE.. ogh i don't think i know what you mean. MAYBE I DO?? the 'shading' lines are pretty much just done how you'd do lineart lines! if you overshoot and they cross where they shouldn't, erase :3 ALSO GUYS WORKING WITH BINARY BRUSHES IS SOOO SMOOTH JSYK. i accidentally drew shine's face on his head layer and i just had to select and copypaste it onto a new layer to fix that. bc there's no aliasing, the lines can perfectly transfer without needing a touchup for jagged edges

[this-is-exorsexism]

I don't know why that, if binary trans people talk about their reproductive health, people tell them that they're brave; that reproductive care shouldn't just apply to cis people and that they're helping other young binary trans people to know themselves.

Which I DO agree, but it changes completely when a nonbinary person does it. If a nonbinary person talks about their anatomy, they get acussed of faking it, of being "theyfabs" (idk what even is that term.), of stealing resources from other trans people, and so on...

You know that nonbinary people still need to access reproductive care and sex education right? That we aren't a "genderless blob with no genitals"? Some of us still want to keep ours and therefore need to face some injustices that the healthcare gives to us. Yk we aren't trans grifters just because we talk about it, right?

this is exorsexism.

[andreablog2]

Both are incredibly ugly but the are really like a barometer for the sickness in internet culture tbh. How did we go from tweety bird and Betty boop to these freaks? Honestly I’m not sure how to recon with the fact that web comic stock characters are now polarized between highly detailed, grotesque depictions of characters experiencing complex emotions, or super child like/animal like blob that barely represents a human at all experiencing very simple emotions. Especially when comics and cartoons in general didnt used to be so binary between these aspects.