Heli 🦨 @heli@chitter.xyz

Here's my squirrel encounter from last week. Photographing them made me happy. DSLR with 300mm zoom lens, ISO 800 and under exposed.

Boostable version.

In LA, if I want to get out of the valley and into the city, easy as hell. Getting back to certain parts of the valley after dark? Literally impossible lmao. I can get to a Dodger game without a car any time of day but my partner literally has to pick me up if I want to get home lol

I'm constantly led to believe that building public transit is a challenge, but when you face incredibly perfect segregation-by-public-transit in every city you go to, it's obvious how provably false this is

(YouTube ad voiceover) I, am a capable, confident woman. And I, drop bombs for the US Air Force

what if a mouse wore a cute jacket? cute imo

"gubmint interference" a nobody in an office who's never met you and is not involved in your care is LITERALLY denying or delaying your care because it makes somebody ELSE you've never met more money

consuming journalism is actively harmful to your health. look at the spin here, lol

When I said I wanted more gay villain protagonists this is solidly not what I meant.

doing your best to keep other people safe makes you a very nice person. i just want to say that if you have kept wearing your mask and quarantining and things you are very nice to keep doing it. you care about other people! this kitn approves

Body mod that adds a little reverb whenever I snap my fingers

just go full ham, just go ape mode

I would love to see one of those "taking the expert out of retirement" movie plot movies realistically for computer people.

"I told you I'm done with that shit. I gave that up long ago."
"We need to bring you back in Dirk, the country needs you."
"Find somebody else."
"Nobody else can parse JSON and build scrolling grids of images like you. You're the best fuckin' upsell UI man in the business."

kids, probably: wow those games look so shitty

me: well you gotta play them on a shitty tv and then it cancels itself out and looks good, actually

Calling people who pay to ride something into space "astronauts" is like calling airline passengers "pilots"

If you see one of these in your home, leave it alone. It's a house centipede. They're harmless to you, but an absolute menace to the bugs most people don't want. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata

Absolutely Heartbreaking: Your Boss Seems To Think That Your Company Is Important

https://clickhole.com/absolutely-heartbreaking-your-boss-seems-to-think-that-your-company-is-important/

it's crazy how if you look at case counts in different counties in CA it correlates exactly inversely with the vaccination rates of those counties. i wonder what this means