Saphire Lattice @saphire@dragon.style

Doodle when I should be studying
#xenia #fox #furry #art

Ahem... 📢

Dear ppl - please do not repost stuff from accounts such as "amazing science", "wonders of science/nature", etc. OR posts that use these accounts as sources.

They are spoofers, stealing artwork without attribution, often misrepresenting highly photoshopped (or fully artificial) images as real and not so seldomly posting absolutely bogus explanations.

Nature is beautiful - it does not need Photoshop or wrong explanations to make it sound more sensational.

Which would you rather get stuck in your channel 😮‍💨

I am watching a friend livestream Elden Ring; following her fourth (near-immediate) death to Malenia (Blade of Miquella, Who Has Never Known Defeat), she declared, "If my years playing From Software games have taught me anything, it's that if you see a woman sitting by herself in a chair, just leave her alone. LEAVE WOMEN ALONE."

I love video games with positive messaging.

PSA, if someone asks you for contact info (e.g. a phone number) of someone you know, the correct response is "I can't give that to you, but I can give them yours".

It's efficient and adds no round-trips, it's privacy friendly, it's non-awkward and it's social engineering resistant. It's a universally good rule.

And the corollary, of course: Don't ask someone for another person's contact info - ask them to pass on yours.

thinkin about this date picker i made like 6 years ago

i made something worse than “something worse than ed”

Did you know, if Mastodon says that media is “Not available” you can click it to load it directly from the remote instance?

Nvm fursona tags, when are we getting ourselves chipped

Discord's "Username#ABCD" concept was one of the ideas I liked about the platform, and I'm sad to see them walk it back.

In my opinion, it was a decent solution for the inevitable problem of "the amount of people with Internet accounts will only ever go up", while still giving a way for people to flaunt seniority - by paying for Nitro to have an #0001 account, that is. In a business sense, that feels like a win-win-win to me: users get to have the same username even if they weren't on the Internet in 2015, seniority wannabes get to flaunt their status, and Discord gets paid.

WIth the new system, I'm worried about them seeing the same type of problem I saw on Twitter: younger nicknames start geting obvious status indicators ("John Numbers"-style) and thus have a lesser social status from the get-go...