he’s still alive and breaking into homes with his girlfriend as of September 2025 btw

obsessed with how they unsuccessfully hunted him and he returned to get his revenge on the army 5-6 years later, bringing backup this time. he’s like the terrestrial Nepalese Moby Dick. this is completely abnormal behavior for an Asian elephant, even bulls. wonder what started him on this path.

my thing is, how do you lose track of an elephant?

Chitwan National Park is 367.81 square miles with a great deal of rough terrain, also home to tigers, leopards and rhinos. It doesn’t help that Dhurbe kept busting out of his radio collar. Elephants are highly intelligent so he probably has a mental map of good places to hide from humans and evaded them on purpose.

NEPAL MENTION!!

also op. i have a theory as to why he acts like this that is directly tied to the fact that this is a nepali elephant and these events occurred in nepal, specifically in chitwan, BUT it will almost certainly sound like a conspiracy theory to outsiders (non nepalis). if you would like to hear it let me know, i don't want to overstep tho so if not that's totally fine!

Ooooooh. I would love to hear the theory!

January 15, 1948

they pronounced her dead and tried to give her a proper burial 😭 this must have been terrifying in the moment but that’s a little sweet and a little funny, I’m glad she made it out unscathed

Mick Foley explaining why wrestlers randomly show up in terrible action movies and tv shows: “You get health insurance with the SAG. As long as you have a speaking line.”

I don’t know if this is depressing or opportunistic.

Well, that at least explains why Scott Steiner, Buff Bagwell and Booker T are in this random episode of Charmed and they have to fight Alyssa Milano to the death.

Probably why The Miz and all the other wrestlers starred in all those terrible Marine sequels.

straight up it should be illegal for a physical storefront not to accept physical currency, or for restaurants not to provide physical menus

I'm assuming the above is a normie opinion (as it should be) so i do wanna go a tiny step further and explicitly state any laundromat that requires digital payment should be burned to the fucking ground

if a business cooerces its customers to download an app, i should legally be allowed to set both the business and its board of directors on fire

The assumption that every single business, or service, is owed your personal data, and should be able to track you and mercilessly spam you and monetise the ability to sell off your contact details and so on it’s absolutely deranged.

I have flashlights that are borderline unusable because, while the hardware is fine, the company that made them (hello OLight!) demands that you install and login to the storefront before you can access the configuration software.

But they don’t actively maintain the software or provide any of the new utilities that they promise. They are mostly using it as a way to turn off functional hardware to try and force you to upgrade.

We are living in a society where you can pay for something and the manufacturer can turn it off because they’ve decided that you’ve owned it too long .

I’ve just had to warn my family not to buy electronic door locks because the chances are, if they are Internet connected they will be disabled once the company that owns them has decided that they’re not making enough money charging you a monthly fee to open your own front door.

This is part of an ongoing trend to turn money into something that is no longer usable by everybody .

The eventual aim is to be able to pay people company scrip: If you lose your job, or badmouth the company, or disagree with the dictator, they severely curtail what you are allowed to buy, and from who.

And at that point, you have to pick sides – do you want to be able to have drinking water from Coca-Cola, or Pepsi, and whose package allows you to buy Doritos, and use your smart oven to cook food? Because it won’t turn on unless you use the app to scan the appropriate barcode from the company who now owns your ability to eat drink, heat your home, and wear clothes from brands that they approve.

And if you think that Bezos wouldn’t do that or run his own ghetto where employees have to use Amazon brands and be paid in Amazon money… You haven’t been paying attention to what he’s been building lately.

Read "Unauthorized Bread" by Cory Doctorow, from his book Radicalized

Found a link to the story: Unauthorized Bread

Holy shit.

Guy freezes his hair and it stands tall.

Guy freezes his hair and it stands tall.

sound on for his adorable gremlin giggles and commentary in a lovely accent

Elephants eat 300+ pounds of foliage a day so they’re almost always moving and grazing in their waking hours but they will stop if another elephant cannot walk. They’re known to try to pick up the fallen elephant and stand and wait for them to remain enough strength to rise and walk if the elephant is injured or ill. Some Asian elephants reportedly guide injured wild elephants back to humans for help. I can’t help but think about adage attributed to Margaret Mead, first sign of civilization is a healed human femur. We know Neanderthals cared for the individuals in their community because there are archeological finds of Neanderthals with disabilities and healed major injuries that would have required the group assisting the individual to eat and drink during their recovery, instead of seeing the injured or disabled Neanderthal as a waste of resources, they valued them as an individual and were willing to put work into their recovery and survival. Elephants seem to view members of their species in the same way but due to their anatomy and cognition, they have a harder time rendering medical aid themselves, though they want to help.

NOt nICE 🚫🧊

dry humping in its specificity as a term implies the existence of wet humping

not my best work

Dry humping and wet humping imply a phlegmatic humping and a sanguine humping.

knit designs by kaffe fassett, 2003.

I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?

Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.

Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).

But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?

The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:

They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣

That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.

That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.

@transparent-plastic-robotgirl check it out

omg that's cool as heck!!! 🌸

I never knew this! I thought it was rotoscoping like how Don Bluth did it, i mean could this be considered a type of rotoscoping?

man the Xerox era of disney really earned its name huh, they utilized the hell outta that thang

I don’t know if I would call this rotoscoping. It’s more of a post processing thing. The rotoscoping described above was done more as a way to give a guideline for the animators to insert the 2D characters in the 3D models. The bulk of the detail of the cars were still done through the xerox process, so I would akin this more to being a post processing effect if anything else.

It really does blur the lines though doesn’t it?

It's not rotoscoping, or even post-processing. It's creating live-action reference footage for the animators to work from. If you see the stills or footage of, say, Marge Champion dressed up as Snow White and dancing on a soundstage, this is the model car equivalent of that. They might occasionally trace a few lines, but it was mostly them drawing it using the photographs as reference.

I think some of the confusion is coming in because this was the first feature from Disney to use the Xerox process, where they would basically photocopy the animators' drawings directly onto the cels* without the inkers cleaning up the lines. It does give it a very different look because you don't have the intervening artistry from the inkers to smooth things out.

*Obviously, the Xerox camera process is more complicated than photocopying like you would a piece of paper, but that's the main difference. You're seeing the animators' drawings post-cleanup without the inkers' work.

(Slight edit to clarify the first paragraph.)

Okay, but you know who did? Filmation, for their Flash Gordon cartoon.

"A motion-control camera set-up (like the one used in Star Wars and most films since) was used to photograph fully constructed miniatures of the ships and aircraft. These models were white with black grid lines, and were photographed against a black background. Like the X-wings and TIE fighters in Star Wars, the Flash Gordon ships zoom toward and away from the camera, bank, roll, turn, etc., perform wild actions that would be all but impossible to animate from scratch."

Starlog #27

I'm going to go insane, have a heart attack, and die.

My manager doesn't want me to put manufacturer part numbers into the procurement system. Because it would create a lot of part numbers in the finance system.

This is what a PO looks like in my system right now. There's no way to put an individual internal note in any of those products that includes the part number without showing it to the client. There's no way to display the quote description on the PO to display what specs each device has. At the moment the only way to figure out what part we ACTUALLY need to order is to, when quoting, put the actual manufacturer part numbers in an internal note on the ticket, then cross reference the original quote ticket with the PO.

This is the system that I've been trying to unfuck and improve since December 15th, we've had an acquisition that has tripled the volume of my purchases, and everything is now taking 3-5 times longer to quote and order than it did in November.

I've been grinding my teeth so much that it has manifested in tension that I can feel from my mid back to my scalp and I can't chew food right now because of how much it hurts to move my jaw.

Last week in a meeting I was like "Hey, I'm pretty sure we're going to have to end up putting part numbers in here so that we can search part numbers in our history"

And the manager was like "why would you need to do that? Couldn't you just look up your order history with the vendor?"

And I was like "Okay, so, before the acquisition we bought about 200 desktops over the course of several months and added one of two SSDs to the desktops; three months after we stopped ordering that desktop, we started getting high failure rates on one of the two models of SSDs. Using the part number, I was able to search through the system and see which clients we'd sold which SSDs to so that we could proactively reach out and repair the issue before they had any data loss. We might need to do something like that in the event of a recall or a similar issue."

And the manager was like "well we could just reference the parts through the RMM"

And I was like, no we couldn't, the RMM doesn't record the drive part number, we would need to remote in to each computer to find that out."

And the manager was like "well, but we could search the drive part number with the vendor and cross reference different POs"

And I was like "I order from somewhere between five and twenty vendors on a given week, it would be much easier to search through our database of part numbers than to individually search each vendor website, because not every vendor includes the manufacturer part number in their order confirmation emails so I wouldn't be able to just search my emails, besides that we have multiple people who place orders."

And the manager was like "Okay but how often does this happen? Is this an issue you've run into more than once or twice?"

And to be completely fair, it wasn't.

So yesterday I took the screenshot above and several other screenshots comparing what quotes and POs look like internally and how this makes it difficult to track what's arriving and what needs to be ordered and sent my manager a message that said "Hey, I think we need to add manufacturer part numbers because if I make a quote, the only way my coworker would be able to place an order is if he referenced the original ticket, and the techs can't see what's coming in or out because the parts are so nondescript that they don't mean anything."

And this morning I got back the message that "I still think it's better to cross reference emails and orders instead of cluttering up quickbooks with a thousand part numbers" and I think I'm going to have to actually call the finance department and ask "hey does this ruin your day or anything?" because there's no fucking way that the finance department is going to have a worse time looking at a thousand part numbers than I am going to have needing to look up every part number five times during the order process.

They're thinking about firing the guy I supervise on the procurement team because he hasn't put any time on any procurement tickets in January. He literally can't because he can't place orders for anything because the part numbers all live in my head and my emails and messages from the techs, not in the procurement system. I can't even document the process for him to place orders because it requires things like "be logged in to my email account and zoom."

So I'm trying to figure out how to save his job while also considering quitting and letting the entire thing fall to ash.

The last three months have been me just repeatedly saying "How in the name of fuck was Gary the competent business owner in this equation?"

Thought I just had:

"I could make an excel sheet where we'd put the client info and quote number and product info so that we could track what orders needed to be made and that would be faster and easier to cross reference than tickets or emails"

and that is the fucking devil talking, that is the insane part of the "go insane have a heart attack and die" equation. We have a system we can put product numbers in. We have a quote system that can be viewed by multiple users. There is literally no reason for us to not put product numbers in the system. A spreadsheet is reducing the work that i am currently actively doing, but would double the work that actually needs to be done if the system is used properly. If I start an excel sheet right now to make my life easier at this exact second it is the tool that we will end up using going forward because there is nothing as permanent as a temporary solution. (I guess I could create one and keep it local on my machine and then just ACT like I'm looking up the parts every time so that my life is actually easier but the system still shows as broken and flawed)

After the acquisition they revealed to me that they want Procurement to be its own department and want me to lead the department and set up processes and sell procurement as a service to other MSPs and clients and the key phrase I'm currently using is "the system as we are using it is not scalable" but that hasn't been breaking through so I think I'm going to go with "We are adding product numbers. The system does not function without them. I cannot do my job if we do not have product numbers in the system" but right now I'm literally not doing my job I'm having a panic attack and fucking around on tumblr and waiting to see if our Finance manager can hop on a call with me. (We're a small enough org that my manager is a VP who answers only to the CEO and the finance manager is more of a lateral move than going over anybody's head; if this doesn't work I'm going to the CEO because at that point I've got nothing to lose because the job sure isn't worth it)

Finance doesn't have a problem with it, turns out they only see one product category.

So what I suspect happened here is that my manager the VP set up this "let's not increase the number of products" scheme to satisfy the owner/former CEO because at that point they were the ones doing finance stuff and the owner/former CEO is very dogmatic about how things should be done and did them in a very convoluted way and we as a company are still fighting that in multiple directions; there's likely some stage between the procurement system and finance where my manager sees the product list and gets anxious that it isn't tidy because the former CEO would be angry if he saw it but the former CEO would be angry if he saw how I was doing reconciliation instead of using his system, turns out I don't use his system because it sucked and as soon as I was in charge of it I changed it.

I explained that there was no way to reference a part when ordering when using the generic part numbers and my manager suggested that rather than add part numbers we maintain shared carts to match up with each quote at our vendors.

Literally, this shit that I was doing in November is a thousand times better than that:

Glad to know someone somewhere has it worse than the suite of cursed MS Access widgets I maintain??

The only way to see whether quotes are approved in this system is to either run a report whenever you need to check approvals or maintain TWO widgets because the fields for "external approval" and "internal approval" are separate and the system only lets you build widgets that report on a single metric. So "Approval Status" and "Electronic Approval Changed" have to be monitored separately:

You may also note that we have seventy quotes open, so the idea of keeping shared carts open at our different vendors to pair with different quotes is so ludicrous that I'm genuinely wondering whether our VP is, like, experiencing sepsis.

So, like, even if we're using the system at maximum efficiency, the system is unbearably awful. Using it in an even less efficient way has possibly actually broken my brain if the unceasing headache I've had for three days is any indication.

I talked to finance, who said that a lot of part numbers aren't a problem for them. I put together a document showing the difference in the process between using products with part numbers and without part numbers that demonstrated all of the places using no part numbers introduced manual data entry and opportunities for errors to the process. I got on a call with my manager and showed where this slows us down and said the words "at the moment I can't do my job with this system, we need to use part numbers." I said "finance doesn't see this as an issue, it turns out only the product code comes over to them so it doesn't make a difference, what is the issue that you see with having a lot of part numbers, because it seems like they don't go to quickbooks" and the answer was just "It creates a lot of part numbers in the PSA, I don't want a lot of part numbers in the PSA." I said "I am willing to commit to a quarterly cleanup of part numbers to keep our list of active part numbers low, but I cannot function if I have to reference an email or a ticket or a note every time I need to place orders, I need a list of products that have to be ordered and the quantities of those products, not a list of links to check against the quote so that I can use those links to generate a list of products that have to be ordered and the quantities of those products" and the response was "Well, we've got another meeting with our consultant next week, let's walk through the process with her and show her our pain points and she can tell us if you're doing it wrong."

Buying things is supposed to be the easy, mindless, "i've been doing this for fourteen years I can do this in my sleep" part of the job. "Create a list of products to order that is visible to the client as a quote and visible internally as a PO" is literally something that we used fucking filemaker for until 2018. I could build a template to do this in Excel in twenty minutes. I cannot believe that *this* is the part of my job that has become impossible to manage in the last two weeks.

In Rimworld my top surgeon just failed to give a guy a peg leg four times in a row. So that's how my day is going.

Well no shit they can't give a guy a peg leg that's not top surgery at all

#i dont understand that the non genie interpretation is honestly

My BEST surgeon my MOST SKILLED surgeon my SURGEON WITH THE HIGHEST MEDICINE STAT just failed to give a guy a peg leg four times in a row.

the lesbian computer from portal was right. given the circumstances ive been shockingly nice

insane like/reblog parity on this post btw

Yay

doing my part

Sometimes the tumblr hivemind impresses the hell out of me

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This post was made 4 days ago. Probably a good time to take another look at these threats