The Onion makes its best social commentary when it initially fools you into thinking it’s real. The point isn’t to be absurd or trick you, it’s to hold a mirror up and make you think.

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 day ago

People keep saying The Onion can’t compete with reality anymore, but every week or two I keep biting.

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 60 points 1 day ago

Big if true. Maybe as much as 330,000 the mass of the earth.

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago

⚠️ CORN FOG!

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I thought for sure this had to have the saturation cranked up (very common when people post colorful birds), but the pic is straight from the Macauly Library and, if anything, underplays the fine details of the colors due to the image degradation.

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

Ah, dang. Fingers crossed a solution can be found!

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

I keep getting the following error while trying to participate: [200] Error while sending: Not an actor

I’ve tried all lowercase and as is capitalization for my username, and it doesn’t make a difference. It seems to recognize the Piefed instance, it just breaks down when I go to the step to enter my username.

Anyone else running into this or know how to fix it?

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago

Unfortunate follow up: the dev of Tesseract just announced today that he’s quitting and it’s not going to be supported any longer 😔 I imagine instances that already support it will continue doing so for a while, but unless there’s a fork it’ll probably eventually break.

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago

You can see the details if you use the Tesseract front end for Lemmy when you check the mod log, if your instance supports it.

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 91 points 4 days ago

Don’t like thinking about how much of that probably made it to my brain, organs, and muscles :)

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