Baral'heia Stormdancer ΘΔ🐲

Lvl 41 🌈♂️🐉(he/him) • 🔊 buh-RAWL-hee-UH

Stormdragon from Tornado Alley :otherkin: :deltatheta:

Amateur Trance DJ & Professional Computer Bapper

:dragnheart: Rahquuer (npub1lyr…eck0) is my squishie :dragnheart:

100% organic posting - 🚫 no GenAI slop! 🚫

🎃 Pumpkin Chewer PFP by @dreamhuntressart.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

#TranceFamily #BlackLivesMatter

Location 📍: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA (NA/CT)
Hatchday 🎂: January 14
NSFW Account 🔞: Breed-a-Baral (npub1xht…590a)
Other Contacts 🔗: https://fursona.directory/@baralheia

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baralheia_at_dragonchat.org@momostr.pink

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2026-05-22 17:19:21 UTC

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I'm very curious to know this as well tbh. If I had to guess, *one* big pain point is web-only users not understanding how to interact with a post on another instance when viewing it on that instance's site - that UX was really crappy when the first wave of Twitter escapees found their way here (me included). The UX for this has gotten better - but it's still clunky and not great.

2026-05-01 01:11:15 UTC

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Couldn't have happened to a more deserving trash tree. Those damn things are *everywhere* here in Oklahoma, I wish we could ban them too

2026-03-29 05:16:15 UTC

Quote-boost to add CW
But damn this is awesome to see - even in a place like Oklahoma, more and more of us are fed up with this administration.
RE: https://okla.social/@OklaBot/116310698284606999

2026-03-21 06:46:14 UTC

Oh man I'm so excited and nervous for tomorrow... I'm DJing the wedding for two of my best friends and even though I've crafted a set and practiced and tried my best to build an experience, the stage fright is setting in.
I just hope I'm not forgetting anything and that everything goes smoothly!

2026-03-16 21:53:01 UTC

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As I understand it, they want Furality to be open to 18+ attendees only, and are using the age gating in VRC to enforce that. I kinda get it... especially with a virtual event, allowing minors can be a potentially risky proposition with a limited mod/admin team to keep an eye on things. But they're going about this in the worst possible way imo.
This fucking SUCKS because the experience I had last year at Furality Somna was incredible and legitimately life-changing. I *WANT* to go again this year quite badly, even if I'm kinda meh on the theme. But if I have to doxx myself to do it? Yeah nah.

2026-03-16 21:40:30 UTC

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The thing is, this is 100% a Furality decision. You don't *have* to use age verification to use VRChat; you don't lose functionality in VRC if you're not verified. Not that I'm not interested in seeing Resonite grow - just assigning the blame where it's due.

2026-03-16 21:26:26 UTC

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I guess now I'm locked out of going to #Furality ever again, because there's no way in hell I'm compromising my privacy by handing my government issued ID over to a wholly untrustworthy vendor through the internet like that.
*sigh* This really fucking sucks. [2/2]

2026-03-16 21:24:10 UTC

Aww goddamnit!! Since the @npub1rhj…m7d3 mirror stopped working here on Fedi, I missed the post last month that @furality.org is going to require age verification through #VRChat to attend #FuralityUltra. And since VRC uses Persona (yeah, *THAT* Persona, the one that got breached!)... [1/2]
#Furality

2026-03-15 21:53:32 UTC

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I worked in foodservice for several years with 1oz (30ml) and 2oz (60ml) portion cups, as well as a regular consumer of 12oz (355ml) aluminum beverage cans, so... I may be in the minority but I do have a pretty good frame of reference between the two.
Still I wish we'd gone through metrification like the government wanted to do in the 70's... There was even a renewed push in the early 90's too, under president Bush (41) but for some frustrating reason there was a lot of social resistance to change that still exists today.
They even went as far as converting one of our interstate highways to Metric as a test - I-19 between Tucson, AZ and the border crossing at Nogales, Mexico. Amusingly enough, although the Arizona department of transportation later added some signs in imperial units, the highway still has all of it's metric signage.

2026-02-12 21:49:11 UTC

Do any of y'all do video editing on Linux - and if so, what software do you use/recommend? Specifically looking to make stuff formatted for YouTube/PeerTube or TikTok/YT Shorts/Loops. I've been playing with Shotcut and it seems *really* powerful - but also less user-friendly for quick edits like adding subtitles to a short video.
#Loops

2026-01-14 04:09:00 UTC

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my guy ICE has already been appropriated approximately 1 bajillion dollars... How about doing something to actually STOP them instead of this milquetoast "not one extra dime" bullshit?!
This is the moment for the Dems to show they can actually be the opposition party and fight for America and this is what they choose to spend their energy on? Yikes.

2026-01-08 00:43:37 UTC

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One potential workaround: copy the Bluesky links from the article then paste them into the search box on https://atproto.at. That's an ATproto protocol explorer that will pull the raw post content without being restricted by the BlueSky appview/frontend content labeling filters.

2025-11-04 03:58:29 UTC

Uggh I wish I was better at hand sewing... I can do it but I am not great at fixing holes in the type of fabric commonly used in t-shirts and polos. Husbanderg asked me to fix one of his work shirts and this is about the best I can make it look... It's way more visible than I'd like.
https://media.dragonchat.org/dragonchat/media_attachments/files/115/489/410/417/575/652/original/203a9f490d9827eb.jpg
https://media.dragonchat.org/dragonchat/media_attachments/files/115/489/410/587/193/421/original/c9fe442f71f12d7c.jpg

2025-10-30 01:47:18 UTC

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:dragnconfused: *sighs and adds another name to the list of creatures to bap*

2025-10-30 01:43:38 UTC

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🗞️ :dragnconfused:

2025-10-22 14:55:40 UTC

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I mean, honestly, that's how I truly feel about AI... But at the same time, if there was someone actually verifying that the generated summaries are correct and accurate, I could legit see it being useful. Nobody running these things ever seems to actually care about ensuring they aren't pumping out slop to their users, though.

2025-10-22 14:40:09 UTC

Don't rely on AI-powered news sources, y'all - *especially* if there's nobody ensuring the summaries are actually accurate!
RE: https://xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks/115417671746335624

2025-10-22 02:06:20 UTC

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tl;dr a very specific version of the skull and crossbones, called the Totenkopf, had been adopted by various military units in German history - most notably by the SS. The design varied somewhat over the years, but Platner's tattoo is quite similar to the design used by the Nazis.

2025-10-21 23:14:33 UTC

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Grain of salt and all that, but he claims he didn't know it resembled a Nazi symbol and that he plans to get it removed. Not entirely sure how much I buy that answer, but his explanation of how he ended up with it seems like it could be plausible, so... Idk.
Also apparently Bernie still stands by him too.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/21/graham-platner-tattoo-nazi-00617686

2025-10-14 13:31:14 UTC

:dragnyellcowboy:
#dragonposting
https://media.dragonchat.org/dragonchat/media_attachments/files/115/372/754/652/831/432/original/d6824b11f4ebc75d.jpg

2025-10-08 21:43:48 UTC

Tried #Kagi News. It supposedly aggregates information from multiple news sources to provide a balanced summary of events, which is a cool idea. Looks slick!
Turns out it's AI-generated slop. I found that out from the very first news topic because the first citation was straight up *wrong*. Ugh.

2025-09-27 01:50:14 UTC

The long march toward de-googlization continues. Poking around with #EntePhotos, evaluating it as a possible replacement for Google Photos, and so far I'm really quite impressed with it! Their free tier offers 10GB of end-to-end encrypted photo storage *without* ads! Any of y'all tried 'em yet?

2025-09-26 13:37:35 UTC

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I'm pretty sure it is AI, unfortunately. The attachment ring on the collar is shaped weirdly and nebulously blurry, as is the badge holder attachment to said ring. The way the badge attaches to the ring is weird as well, with webbing the same color as the collar going through the lanyard hole in the badge holder instead of some sort of clip like in the real world. I've also never seen a square badge and badge holder before. Also the keyboard is positioned weird in the background and appears to be bendy in the way that real keyboards are not... It couldn't be two keyboards side-by-side as the one on the right has the directional arrow keys centered between the rat and the edge of the frame, meaning the left edge of the keyboard should be on the other side of the rat, but the geometry doesn't match up.
It's a really cute idea, don't get me wrong! But yeah, 98% sure it's AI generated.

2025-09-20 23:55:48 UTC

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I don't have the official app so I'm not sure. I know it doesn't happen if I go to my instance's web UI and change my pfp there.

2025-09-20 21:41:28 UTC

@npub1rx6…pdar Hey I just noticed something that might be a bug? I'm running version 2.3.0+fork.110.moshinda-play (110) and if I attempt to change my pfp to an animated gif from the edit profile screen, something appears to flatten the gif upon selecting it so when you save the change, it only actually sets the first frame of the gif as your pfp.

2025-09-20 20:30:07 UTC

:dragnthink:
I'm probably gonna regret making this poll but.... Fuck it :dragnyellcowboy:
Chat, is the Titanic's pool still full?

2025-08-15 03:29:11 UTC

Look I get that we're in crisis mode here and may have to, but goddamnit y'all, gerrymandering is BAD no matter whose team is doing it. Politicians should NOT be able to choose their voters and you CAN'T change my mind on that!!

2025-08-13 22:45:00 UTC

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i have seen a little bit of art on that topic, though you're right, it's far less common than I'd expect.
Pic related:
EDIT:
🎨: pocketss
🔗: https://www.tumblr.com/pocketss/169552931121/whats-up-with-dragons-do-they-shed-their-skin-do
https://media.dragonchat.org/dragonchat/media_attachments/files/115/023/862/822/458/022/original/681fbd94cb84d688.jpg

2025-07-19 19:01:18 UTC

If you see this, repost/quote-boost with a picture from your device without context
RE: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bgfi5m56yiohqg244fbjhqa7/post/3ludl2wv5t22t
https://media.dragonchat.org/dragonchat/media_attachments/files/114/881/429/345/846/921/original/ec6c4c929ebd7bd6.png

2025-07-14 17:23:32 UTC

Huh that's weird, @npub1rx6…pdar seems to have a finite home timeline suddenly? It won't load more posts if I scroll far enough down through my timeline now. :/

2025-07-10 19:40:05 UTC

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Yay! I mean we already kinda were. Sorta. Cat software running on lizard hardware with a sprinkle of dog firmware and, of course, the "optional" WIMGY feature pack bolted on too! :3

2025-07-10 19:12:41 UTC

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yay derg has borgr :dragnowo:
https://media.dragonchat.org/dragonchat/media_attachments/files/114/830/503/189/978/442/original/95f04b97b33c9d49.jpg

2025-07-10 19:06:49 UTC

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B U R G S!!!!
F O R!!!!
D E R G S!!!!
:dragnyellcowboy:

2025-07-10 19:06:33 UTC

burgs for dergs!
BURGS FOR DERGS!!!

2025-06-27 19:23:16 UTC

⚠️ VERY
⚠️ FUCKING
⚠️ IMPORTANT
⚠️ REMINDER
Seeing some extra spicy #USPol takes on my timeline right now suggesting certain actions that "someone" should take and y'all I 100000% get it but *especially* today you NEED to watch this:
#ShutTheFuckUpFriday #STFUFriday #ShutTheFuckUp
https://media.dragonchat.org/dragonchat/media_attachments/files/114/756/856/434/834/148/original/90b7987005c9c140.mp4

2025-06-15 23:54:00 UTC

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While I'm beyond appreciative that Bridgy exists, and I have both of my accounts bridged to boot, man I wish there hadn't been such a backlash to the idea initially. I mean, I absolutely do get the privacy angle but how amazing would it have been if we didn't have to go convince people we wanna follow to go sign up for bridging themselves? If that bridge had been totally transparent in use, just as if it were just another instance full of users? I know people who are interested in the additional functionality and privacy options that the Fediverse can offer, but they refuse to leave BlueSky because it's still too difficult to follow their friends through the bridge.

2025-05-29 18:21:34 UTC

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I'm a derg! :dragnbratty:

2025-05-15 00:59:30 UTC

EDIT: Found, y'all! https://github.com/wooningeire/vaie-dragn-emoji
Hey y'all, does anyone know the artist who made the dragnbratty custom emoji on Fedi? I've asked to add it to the custom emoji on Dragonchat, and my admin needs permission from the artist to make that happen. Any ideas?
https://media.dragonchat.org/dragonchat/media_attachments/files/114/509/056/592/510/632/original/4db60ef5104bc8a4.png

2025-04-01 07:55:15 UTC

I can't overstate how terrifying this is. The Trump admin admits they blackbagged someone who had done absolutely ZERO wrong and sent them to El Salvador, and their response is basically, "sucks to be them".
HOLY FUCKING SHIT THIS IS NOT OK
https://mastodon.social/@ErikJonker/114260603731301965

2025-03-31 21:29:41 UTC

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This is pretty dang awesome, thank you for building this! Could you consider making it so the account picker loads your friends list first? Or have your friends list as a selectable tab that you can switch to? It'd make it much easier to pick friends I'm already following!

2025-03-19 21:10:07 UTC

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The author is @npub1aer…7756 - any plans for an update to your article and to the Fediverse tree?

2025-03-01 01:39:12 UTC

Hooooo boy massive cuts to NWS and NSSL - and right before storm season begins to boot.
The scary part? "The anonymous source told OU Daily they believe the minimum staffing level required for tornado events may not be met after these layoffs."
https://www.oudaily.com/news/national-weather-center-service-ou-meteorology-students-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration-layoffs-cuts/article_4272b898-f572-11ef-9c52-5bb9d5af94c9.html
#OKWX

2025-02-06 23:18:01 UTC

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In my previous job, I worked with Intune MDM... Yeah we had several instances of someone on my team accidentally disabling or wiping employee-owned phones. I suspect this is more common than many would like to admit. After that experience, I'll *never* allow an employer to have control over my personal device, even if it means I have to find a new job.

2025-01-03 10:54:51 UTC

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I'm not really ready to leave Rekordbox myself so I totally understand what you mean... It could still be worth playing around with Mixxx as a backup option tho. That's how I've been treating it. It gives me Traktor-ish kinda vibes - though I'm not experienced enough with either Traktor or Mixxx to say if that's anything more than skin-deep. The workflow is certainly different and clunkier than Rekordbox (mostly in library sorting and track previewing), so it will probably take a bit to get used to it... But I'm still finding it to be an interesting option worth further exploration, and you might as well.
How open are you to alternative options for Lightroom and Substance Painter? My experience in this field is zero so I don't know enough to say how actually good these options are, but if you're willing to try something new, this alternatives chart *might* help give you a starting point to explore from - especially those options that run on Linux.
https://media.dragonchat.org/dragonchat/media_attachments/files/113/764/047/896/172/853/original/bcc787b8aeb06395.jpg

2025-01-02 23:39:41 UTC

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it also looks like there used to be a Linux version of Substance Painter, but in typical Adobe fashion, they killed it when they bought Allegorithmic

2025-01-02 23:37:31 UTC

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Not sure if it'd be suitable for your needs (minus the VR support) but have you given Ubuntu Studio a try? It's a distro that includes a bunch of media creation & editing tools built in for the photo editing part, along with Mixxx for DJing. I'm not sure if it includes anything like substance painter, but a quick Google search seems to suggest it may work via WINE if you want to fiddle with that. As far as Mixxx goes, I need to play with it some more but it seems competent... Might be worth a try if you haven't looked at it already.

2025-01-01 07:32:48 UTC

Happy New Year y'all
https://media.dragonchat.org/dragonchat/media_attachments/files/113/751/928/034/869/715/original/f9a121de29d0097d.jpg

2024-12-13 05:56:24 UTC

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okay yeah i'm sold, i really wanna play this game and DEFINITELY NOT JUST FOR DADDY SONAR OKAY?? :dragn_woozy:

2024-12-13 05:20:11 UTC

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okay I gotta know where is the bat mans from?

2024-12-09 06:20:57 UTC

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Is that Infra? Or another game?

2024-12-07 04:13:18 UTC

Hey USAmerican friends! It's that time of year again and the Salvation Army bell ringers will be out soon... but whatever you do, don't drop anything in their bucket! The Salvation Army organization is openly hostile to the LGBTQ+ community and does NOT deserve your donations. Don't feed the bigot bucket!
https://media.dragonchat.org/dragonchat/media_attachments/files/113/609/534/686/168/025/original/7c38714ee2841248.png

2024-10-11 17:51:10 UTC

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oooof, that really freaking sucks :(

2024-09-13 03:36:54 UTC

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I still don't fully understand how they intend to handle moderation at scale. The framework they've built is called "composable moderation" (described here: https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-12-2024-stackable-moderation) with the idea that there's multiple layers; the baseline is enforced by Bluesky's in-house moderation team, but then you can subscribe to third-party labeler services that allow you to filter content in your feed based on whether or not they're tagged with specific labels. They even open-sourced their admin tool, Ozone, ostensibly to allow others to also run moderation services... but I can't wrap my brain around how that would work in practice, or how permissions work to even allow moderation actions to happen in the first place. I think Ozone works in concert with a labeler service, so if you run a labeler you can also provide moderation actions too? But it's clear as mud to me as to how third-party moderation coexists with BlueSky (the company)'s moderation services on the network. Like, if a mod for a labeler says a post is bad, does it just get hidden for those users that subscribe to the labeler, or does it disappear from the network? (I guess it just gets hidden only for those that subscribe to the labeler?) And if I'm incorrect and they actually intend to moderate everything that goes through Bluesky (the company)'s relay and appviews in-house... they're going to have to grow a sizeable admin team to deal with scale.
If you manage to figure it out, can you explain it to me please? :dragn_woozy:

2024-09-13 02:31:06 UTC

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I've been doing a lot of digging into this lately... Their architecture is completely different than Fedi/ActivityPub, as they want to replicate the "global network" feel of Twitter. Because of that, it's never going to have the same "communities that can also talk to one another" feel that Fedi has.
They DO now have a distributed network of "personal data servers", or PDSs - including ones owned by the community - but that's not federation in the same sense as, say, Mastodon. As far as I can tell, everything still relies on BlueSky's Relay (previously called the BGS or Big Graph Service).
More details here: https://social.beaware.live/@BeAware/113101470288348371

2024-08-20 05:11:08 UTC

The husbanderg (@npub17ej…jkrj) is hopping on for a little bit tonight to test out his streaming setup! Come hang out, y'all! Join now at https://twitch.tv/racquerr #retrogaming #wyvern #pngtuber #streaming #Doom #doom2016 on #twitch

2024-08-16 09:37:27 UTC

I think my favorite thing about the #Fediverse is seeing all the custom emojii that people add to their posts, especially the furry ones. It's a small thing, but I love how they can work like tiny stickers too! :dragnyell:

2024-08-10 04:48:41 UTC

My friend @npub1d23…hh85/@rinzy.art is 100% correct. Whether you prefer Fedi or BlueSky, neither of these platforms look attractive for artists to switch focus to if you're still interacting with them on Twitter.
https://media.dragonchat.org/dragonchat/media_attachments/files/112/935/885/306/834/574/original/7a1c0200b10bc8bd.png

2024-08-07 00:07:02 UTC

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Frustrating as hell. Snarfed has the patience of a SAINT. I tried to correct the misinfo about Bridgy whenever I saw it too, but it largely fell upon deaf ears. Love Fedi but this has been an annoyance from day one. And like I get it, despite it's open-access architecture, Fedi attracted a lot of marginalized voices seeking escape from traditional social media and they are super wary of attempts to grow the network... for very understandable reasons. Fedi has been kind of a quiet corner of the Internet, a safe space for these users... right up until interest exploded after Twitter's ownership change. But like... multiple social media services utilizing a common protocol to interoperate is the *entire point* of the Fediverse, and both users and admins have the tools to control with whom they wish to share their data - from utilizing post privacy options and blocking the domain on a personal level all the way up to joining an instance that only federates via an allow-list. Few seemed willing to hear any of that though, and a small number even argued that ALL federation should be opt-in (which would, y'know, completely break how federation works). *sigh* Honestly, I gave up. And Bridgy hasn't been the only target of this either - I ended up having to fully mute the fedi block hashtag because I kept seeing "ZOMG block this site they're a SCRAPER" when in reality it was often just another legitimate project seeking to implement ActivityPub interoperability.