Fern

roughly drawn victorian house, mostly gray and brown with a greenish blue sky. white fence in front. a few lights shine out of the dark house. in the top window, a black anthropomorphic cat stares out (Mae from Night in the Woods)

yesterday was cold

the pope dying a few days before the new Ghost album drops is great last-minute marketing opportunity. Get on it Papa Perpetua

The same woman becomes more attractive when meeting on the exciting suspension bridge

The same woman becomes more attractive when meeting on the exciting suspension bridge

all americans know is

Mouthwashing was such a fun game, I want more of this style of horror please

I finished my first playthrough of Chicory last night and it was really good 😭 it makes me wanna start drawing again...

An oldie. If you follow Selmers to the poetry society meeting in Night In The Woods, this is her poem. 1/4 #comic #nitw #nightinthewoods

A line graph depicting the average number of days it took to install a gigawatt of solar energy capacity worldwide from 2001 to 2023. The vertical axis represents the number of days on a logarithmic scale, spanning from 1 to 1000 days. The horizontal axis indicates the years from 2001 to 2023. In 2004, the average time was about 1 year, which is marked on the graph. A downward trend shows significant decreases in installation time over the years. By 2010, it took under 30 days, and by 2015, just over 7 days. The most notable point is in 2023, where it dropped to about 1 day on average for installation. The data source is attributed to IRENA (2024), with calculation by Our World in Data, and the chart is identified as CC BY, indicating it is licensed for sharing and adaptation with appropriate credit.

In 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day

to survival

got some devastating family news tonight. I might not be active at times over the next few months
love y'all and stay safe

time to see if I can convince tiktok I'm not an american anymore, for when it inevitably gets banned again 😪
hoping vpn + uk english + SIM spoof is enough

illustration of a scene featuring tall reddish brick buildings in an urban environment with potted plants on the ground. the light is shining on the side of a central building with a stairway, on which we can see a cat licking itself clean, exposing its rear to the camera.

meow meow

americans on the app are saying they only needed a VPN and new account but that didn't work for me 💀 idk at this point lol

1. VPN set outside the US
2. Revanced CLI patch tiktok v36.5.4, enabling "SIM spoof", "Spoof SIM country", & "Disable login requirement" patches *from 5.4.0, NOT 5.8.1*
(Spoof SIM country may need ISO codes set via command line as well, not sure)
3. A new non-US account

Update: I got tiktok to work again, but it was way harder than I was expecting. A VPN alone isn't enough and US accounts seem inaccessible no matter what.
It's unfortunately hard enough that most people won't be able to it
I'll put my method below but it needs a VPN, android phone, & PC :/

I'll still use it via a VPN for however long it's down but losing so many creators sucks. Consolidation in social media sucks. Rednote censorship sucks. All the potential outcomes are worse!

tiktok is an awful platform but it's *my* awful platform dammit

Switch 2 direct on my birthday, ty nintendo very cool 🕊️

Especially knowing there'll probably be an oled refresh at some point 😭 I'm just gonna hold off until there are enough personally compelling games on the system

wikipedia article titled "timeline of the george w. bush presidency (2002). bullet point "January 13 President Bush chokes on a pretzel and faints"

lest we forget

we all know that these platforms don't actually care about our well-being or our connections with others. let this be the thing that makes you *act* on it.

for those still using instagram/facebook/threads, there has never been a better time to leave

Azimuthal equal-area map projection A circular projection radiating from the north pole. Polar azimuthals are probably the most mainstream options From: https://map-projections.net/single-view/azimutal-equal-area-gpolar:mapimg-ssw

Grieger Triptychial Map Projection A funky one but if you *really* want a rectangle there you go From: https://map-projections.net/single-view/grieger-triptychial:mapimg-ssw

Adams World in a Hexagon Map Projection Biggest winner of this one is Brazil tbh just look at her From: https://map-projections.net/single-view/adams-world-in-a-hexagon:mapimg-ssw

Lee Conformal Tetrahedral Map Projection The corners of Antarctica and Greenland upright in the very center? Perfect composition no notes From: https://map-projections.net/single-view/lee-conformal-tetrahedral:mapimg-ssw

Watched a video on Greenland and all the maps were in Mercator 😔
There aren't many good mainstream projections for Greenland, which is sad! I picked out some alternative options I think are nice

Peruvian giant corn grown in Sheboygan county Wisconsin. Please repost

2017 "Survivors"
#rhads #digitalArt

in the article of former North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry:

Last iceland. Black sand beach near Vik, ocean on the left, towering cliff with sparse greenery on the right. They have very climbable rocks there! Also made the brilliant decision/mistake of walking down to the far side of the beach in the wind and rain. Was soaked over an hour. Friendlier puffins down there though

October 10th aurora! Greens lower down, pinks higher up, very defined banding. Some stars visible, black trees in the foreground. Drove out to a hilltop golf course and stood outside freezing for five hours to watch for it. Got a ~10 minute period of very visible lights. Absolutely worth it

View looking over the treeline from the summit of a mountain, taken from a fire tower. All conifers, at that elevation. More forested mountains in the distance. Made for a great day trip! One of two summits that day.

Okay last one I'm tired

A street in Stockholm, Sweden, red/orange/white 4-story buildings on each side. Stockholm was a really beautiful city, definitely worth visiting! Way better than Copenhagen imo, that city was so mid in comparison im sorry

Dorm cat :))) Black and white, but not a tuxedo! One of the five unique cats that visited my building while I was there, and definitely the most frequent visitor. I want to see them again...

A stream in Iceland, trademark purple flowers in the foreground, a shallow mountain in the back. Genuinely one of the most beautiful landscapes I've ever seen in my life. I'm still crying

More Iceland! Knobbly masses of moss/lichen covered igneous rocks in the foreground, a patch of coniferous forest in the midground, a lake and isolated mountain in the back. Pure serotonin

This is a mid copenhagen truther account btw

Gratified interior room of a long abandoned building, an empty window showing the top of the treeline. Part of the Fort de la Chartreuse in Liege, Belgium—a fort turned barrack turned prison turned military hospital turned public park. Really cool history, and awesome urbex spot. I met a couple walking their dog in here!

A vegetated area in the hills around Maastricht, NL, partially excavated with massive vertical rectangular cut-ins as part of a limestone quarry. They were really cool to walk around in! There's a whole cross-border tunnel system down there because of these. This photo in particular is from a multi-hour hike where I tried to cross the Belgian border via trail to this epic pizza place that I was so excited to eat at and then take the bus back from until google maps lied to me and the rest of the trail actually didn't exist!! At the end I tried to see if there was a sidewalk along the nearby road but there wasn't and then a man came out of his house to talk to me and I got scared so I hiked all the way back to my hostel hungry :)

The Noorderplantsoen geese standing by the pond!! I miss them so much. I saw them every day and they were the chillest geese you ever did meet. Actually just vibing. I envy what they have

Keukenhof gardens in Lisse, western NL. Flowing rows of pink and orange tulips, surrounded by trees. My first trip here, I restarted my phone and inadvertently locked myself out because my new SIM card required a pin to turn the phone on that I did not have :) I am still angry this feature exists and was turned ON by default Anyway gorgeous garden for like the first hour after opening, then it was swamped with people

So I lived in the Netherlands for half the year! These are the cube houses in Rotterdam—a bunch of stylized yellow cubes, balanced on their points with structural supports, that people live in. It was one of the first places I visited over there

A crow posing fabulously on the Zandvoort Beach, with lots of thin rectangular shells around. Look at him!! My dude was going to town on those shells. Absolutely feasting.

Red lighthouse and houses among the grassy dunes of Schiermonnikoog, a barrier island on the North Sea. Such an amazing landscape. So many migratory birds too!

Montagne de Bueren, a 374 step outdoor staircase in Liege, Belgium. Brick buildings line both sides up the hill. It wasn't even that bad to climb. Beautiful up top too

I was gonna do a cute little post with all of last years highlights but I couldn't narrow anything down so I'm making a photo thread instead and yapping in the alt text