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Profile pic and banner credits: sharkaeopteryx art by @superkiak! eggbug by eggbug! Mash-up by me!
[Alt-text for pfp: a cute sharkaeopteryx sat on the ground with legs out, wings down, jaw ajar, and hed empty, looking at eggbug and eggbug's enigmatic smile.]
[Alt-text for banner: a Spirit Halloween banner with eggbug and the sharkaeopteryx that Superkiak drew for me looking at it with inscrutable expressions]


I'm a Vietnamese cis woman born and currently living in the U.S. You may know me from Sandwich, from Twitter or Mastodon (same username), or on Twitch as Sharkaeopteryx. I do not have a Discord or Bluesky account.

Ask me about language learning/teaching, cooking/eating food, late diagnosis ADHD, and volunteer small business mentoring. Or don't, I'm not the boss of you.


I think people deserve to be young, make mistakes, and grow without being held to standards they don't know about yet and are still learning. So, if you are under 22, please don't try to strike up a friendship or get involved in discussions on my posts.


Please don't automatically assume I follow/know/co-sign someone just because I reposted something from them—sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Also, if you think being removed as a follower when we're not mutuals is a cardinal sin, please do not follow me.


🐘Mastodon
search for @sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net and hit follow if you want
Hang out with me on the Auldnoir forum! (you can DM there!)
discourse.auldnoir.org/
Follow me on Twitch
twitch.tv/sharkaeopteryx
Add my RSS feed (not working yet but I'll get to it!)
sharkaeopteryx.neocities.org/rss.xml

catball
@catball
encoding options
\# Download video of mashed potatoes
yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDu5czNIM1w"

# Trim video to only potato mashing portion
ffmpeg -i mashed_potatoes.mp4 -ss "00:01:41" -to "00:02:46" -c copy mashed_potatoes_clip.mp4

# Reverse it
ffmpeg -i mashed_potatoes_clip.mp4 -vf reverse mashed_potatoes_reversed.mp4

# Speed it up 2x and scale it down to 320x180
ffmpeg -i mashed_potatoes_reversed.mp4 -filter:v "setpts=0.5*PTS" -s 320:180 mashed_potatoes_reversed_small.mp4

# Convert to animated webp
ffmpeg -i mashed_potatoes_reversed_small.mp4 -vcodec libwebp -filter:v fps=30 -lossless 0 -compression_level 3 -q:v 70 -loop 1 -preset picture -an -vsync 0 mashed_potatoes_reversed_smallish.webp



geeky-jay
@geeky-jay

🌟THE GOAL'S FINALLY REACHED TO THE END! Thank you all so much for helping us out again! All of yall who boosted and donated really did help us out and I'll always be grateful for that! MUCH LOVE TO YOU ALL!!!.💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 🌟

We're still currently in a hotel ever since we got evicted, and we did apply to a place almost a week ago and have been waiting for a word of it.

However, the price for a stay has been raised up, and it's almost at the point where it's gonna be a bit of a struggle to keep it going.

🚨UPDATE (2/9)🚨: So, we have to move out of the hotel we're in by tomorrow cuz it has been booked by someone else. Apparently there's a timing thing on how and when we're gonna pay it, and we didn't know about that. Fourtanately, we already planned out on another hotel we're going to and we're already packing stuff up. But it still sucks that it turned out this.

The goal amount is $3,500.

🌟$3,544/$3,500🌟

All boosting and donations are greatly appreciated!

(Spreading the word out on other platforms is strongly encouraged and appreciated as well!)

Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/geekyjay9

Cashapp: https://cash.app/$geekyjay9


hydrochaeris
@hydrochaeris
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boredzo
@boredzo

Dissatisfied with the existing template I'd found long ago (probably on KnowYourMeme) that was low-resolution and built from cropped versions of the movie frames for some reason, I borrowed the Blu-Ray of “Despicable Me” from the library so I could make a proper version.

Each of the frames is straight from the Blu-Ray rip, not scaled at all. Arrayed two-by-two, and with a black background to fill out the aspect ratio difference*, they fit into a 4K image perfectly.

This image is a PNG, to further minimize quality loss before you add your own elements of Gru's plan and export as JPEG.

*The movie's actual footprint is 1920 by 1040, so 40 pixels less-tall from the standard 1080.