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I don’t have kids

I don’t spend money on nicotine

I don’t gamble my money away on sports

I’m not reliant on a chat bot for all my life functions

Me: do you... approximately where?

Boss boss: I know the trailhead is somewhere between Ash park and Oakland lake.

Me, aggressively search for trailheads in that area, goes down a random trail:

I found the trail.

This trail was not here before the electric division came through to service the lines.

Fucking... he was not kidding when he said it was a hike.

I found the benches!!!!

O-H-I-O! (Gonna tell the flower shop i found a stash of buckeyes for the football season.)

I dub thee... brokeass bridge.

This platform is where a picnic table could be but for obvious reasons is not.

Like stepping onto a crossroads.

The fuckign... picnic table???? Can't wait to tell boss boss.

this guy was often one of the first people on the scene following a suspected arson, once emergency services had done what they needed to do. at times, there were also civilians on the periphery. often, they were freaking out, and understandably so; their home or workplace had just, quite literally, gone up in smoke

this investigator wouldn’t try to calm them down. he wouldn’t comfort them or be a shoulder to cry on.

instead, he’d walk up to the person most visibly losing their shit, hand them a fire extinguisher, and say “hey, can you keep an eye out for any other fires, and if you see one, can you put it out with this?”

of course, there was no actual risk of another fire. he wouldn’t be on the scene investigating if there was even a chance that the fire wasn’t completely put out. but the bystander didn’t need to know that

because that person, without fail, would immediately pull it together, take the fire extinguisher, and stand guard. they were, at least temporarily, calm enough for this investigator to do this job

It’s so incredibly humanizing to see people from the very distant past in such authentic color

And like. look at these landscape shots!! They’re so vivid!! Even aside from the historical value, these are just legitimately beautiful photographs

This guy. He’s got a little punt-kinda-boat thing for crossing the river and you can tell the river’s moving pretty good, to the point it’s not something you could cross on your own.

You can see the trick there, the three different layers of filter catching the light a little differently. You can almost see the motion of the water. Obviously, the light didn’t really kick off the water in that red-green-blue pattern, but this photo showcases that it’s a clever guy pulling a neat trick because of the one thing it can’t do: keep a moving river in the same place for all three shots. Bridges will hold still, adults can hold still, even children paying rapt attention will hold still. Water can’t hold still. Seeing it moving, seeing the light playing a tiny bit differently. Seeing his trick almost work.

In seriousness, this is oklch.com, a color picker for the OKLCH color model.

There are whole several hour lectures one could take in color science and theory, but to keep it short: the set of colors we can see, the set of colors monitors can display, and the set of colors computers can model are three circles that only somewhat overlap.

In this case, if I wanted this color

but in red, I could just go of Photoshop and move over the hue slider, getting this as a result:

Which is.. acceptable, but not as "bright" and "vibrant" as the green I had. Looking at the graphs in the OKLCH color picker, we can figure out why:

It tells us that a red with the same luminosity and chroma as this green is out of gamut—that is, it cannot be displayed by this monitor.

In this case, you can use the edges of the graph to find the color that is closest to what you want. You can, for example, keep the chroma but sacrifice lightness,

keep the lightness but drop the chroma,

or a bit of both, which is what the common HSV triangles already do.

What if what *I* see as blue, *you* see as a slightly different blue because you're using Chrome instead of Firefox and despite a decade of messing with profiles we STILL can't get this right somehow.