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gerryflap

@ gerryflap @feddit.nl

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  • rule

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  • Damn that's scary.

    Any way I can help with the patrolling? I'm not goth, or a girl, but I'm eager to learn

  • you rule

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  • I guess, but at that point it's not me making the decisions anymore

  • i can't handle coffee

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  • Yeah I can't drink coffee anymore. Fucks up my entire day with intense stress ans a worn out feeling after a single cup. Though it seems to vary greatly. Every now and then I "forget" this and suffer again

  • you rule

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  • It'll be a prime example of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". Can't imagine I'd be able to keep the country running well for more than a year tbh

  • What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing?

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  • Yeah this. I never really cared for them, and tbh a lot of those reaction videos are very over the top or fake. But I kinda latched onto the more grounded ones this year. It allows me to rewatch some of my favorite content "with others". Obviously it's not as good as doing so with friends, but getting friends to watch all this content is kinda hard. If they care, they've probably already seen it or it's just very hard to plan something like this. And if they don't care then watching together won't be fun anyway.

    Last year has been quite stressful and sometimes I just need some "mental fastfood". Reaction content is that. There's no stress, I know exactly what will happen when. There's just the joy of seeing someone else watch or play something awesome for the first time. It kinda makes it feel like I'm seeing it for the first time with them. And some of these people actually see or know things that I wasn't aware of when watching. Or they come up with interesting theories about what's gonna happen next.

  • I haven't written code at all these holidays

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  • It slowly started happening in the last few years. And then I got a burn-out. I haven't really written code in months now. I don't think it'd really stress me out, but honestly I just don't really feel like it most of the time. I try to spend most of my time away from a screen

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  • Double nope. I have 2 weeks off around Christmas and New Year every year. And besides that I've been dealing with a burn-out for months so it's not like I was working anyway...

    But somehow it still feels like holiday

  • How do you say age in your language?

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  • Might as well be a Dutch dialect at this point haha. It's funny how the platt/plat dialects are kinda similar.

  • Gay rule

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  • Nope, and no straight either. I'm aro/ace

  • Tintin rule 🩷

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  • Wish that was me :3

    (Just joking ofc, just being silly)

  • What are the pronouns they/them in your language?

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  • Yeah. They/them feels quite natural, but compared to that all Dutch alternatives feel a bit forced. Maybe it's better just to find something new, but good luck teaching those to people.

  • What's the most unusual way you've made some extra money?

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  • Technically I didn't make money, I just got some money back. On multiple occasions, a few years after moving homes, the student housing company would suddenly pay back money that I apparently overpaid for gas and electricity. I'd get another email in which they'd apologize (again) and yeet another pile of money my way. It was usually something like 80-200 euros if I remember correctly. Truth is, I never really felt like I was paying much anyway. Compared to what I'm paying now it was absolutely nothing. But hey, I'll never say no to "free money" I guess...

  • Contain them

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  • Yeah I'd be quite uncomfortable with calling anyone "it". I'll gladly use they/them, I'd be down to learn some neopronouns, but calling someone "it" is something I'd rather avoid. Even if someone likes "it" pronouns, I'd still feel incredibly weird doing so in public. Calling people an "it" is often done here to mock androgynous people. It feels dehumanizing. If I were to do so in public, it would mean they people around me (who don't know the other person's preference) would probably assume I'm doing so to mock them.

  • Mutual Regard. (photographer Asim Cheema, with Instagram)

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  • Things don't need to be true to be insightful, but many viewers will feel disrespected if they get served something fictional that is presented as something real. I have no issues with a photoshopped or AI generated image of it's clearly marked as such, they can be gorgeous and insightful all the same. But when something looks (partially) fictional but is presented as a real thing, it feels incredibly deceiving. Capturing a one in a million moment has great value, but photoshopping or using AI to mimic such a moment makes it all worthless.

    The butterfly was probably just being goofy, and the light weird. But if it was photoshopped into the picture then the picture would absolutely not have the same value to me and presumably many other viewers. A large part of this photo's allure is the fact that the photographer got such a rare moment perfectly framed. If it turns out to be faked then that would be a major deception.

    Another Rabbit Hole is "how much editing is too much" ofc. Personally I obviously don't mind colour adjustments, sharpening, some retouches etc. Even moving the butterfly ever so slightly around to get it perfectly aligned with the eyes would be kinda okay. But if it's significantly moved, enlarged, or just straight up pasted in it would be an unacceptable deception imo.

  • Mutual Regard. (photographer Asim Cheema, with Instagram)

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  • I decided to go through his insta. I couldn't find the specific photo, maybe he hasn't posted it yet. But none of his other photos that I saw on his insta look this sus. So he was probably just unlucky with the timing making the shot look photoshopped. I can't imagine someone with such a portfolio risking an egregious Photoshop like this. Animals can be a bit derpy sometimes, I've shot quite a few bird pictures recently and I've definitely noticed this.

    It's just that you can't really trust anything anymore nowadays. If it looks fake, that's often because it is. Even after seeing his insta I cannot help being a bit sceptical, but based on his portfolio there's really just no way a rational person would fake this.

  • The 20 Breathtaking Winners of International Landscape Photographer of the Year 2025

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  • Yeah many of them are a bit too heavy on the editing for my taste as well. Some editing is always required to get something beautiful, but many of them look a bit too unreal to m. Still great photos, and obviously some hard work

  • Mutual Regard. (photographer Asim Cheema, with Instagram)

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  • The butterfly looks so weird in the photo, almost like it was pasted in later. It looks like a butterfly just sitting still, but then cut out and pasted into the air. Wings folded, legs in seating position. Might just be a coincidence though, maybe it just flapped its wings like that and had its legs out to land.

    If it's not photoshopped, it's really an amazing shot.

  • TIL 95% of Americans don't get the minimum recommended amount of fiber

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  • Idk, but here in the Netherlands I wonder why restaurants often have so little vegetables. I tend to easily reach the 200 grams of vegetables a day when cooking myself. I'm always surprised how little I get at a restaurant here.

  • What Youtube channel has maintained high quality standards over the years?

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  • Yep. Or maybe the channel already existed because he's not the only one there. But he presents a lot of the content indeed