#cqd

[feralroyal]

jock straps + muzzles + coquette dragoon's kemono girls = great tastes that go great together

#coquette dragoon #dragooning #visual novel #sci fi #cqdart #cqd #pinup art

[toskarin]

sunlight's discontinuity

alt version for monochrome enjoyers

#coquette dragoon #cqd #doodles

[bacony-cakes]

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

HOW DO I KILL IT HOW DO I REMOVE IT HOW DO I CHANGE IT BACK HELP I WANT IT GONE KILL IT MAIM IT DESTROY IT REMOVE IT CQD CQD CQD CQD CQD CQD 11-99 11-99

#HELP #REMOVE NEW TUMBLR LAYOUT #NEED HELP #SOS #CQD #KILL THIS THING #HEEEEEELP #HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP #[wilhelm scream] #KILL IT BEFORE IT LAYS EGGS #KILL IT WITH FIRE #REQUIRE ASSISTANCE #DAMNED THING #REQUIRE HELP IMMINENTLY #DESTROY THIS DAMNED THING BEFORE IT GROWS ANY LARGER

[historyaccordingtosnark]

#sos #cqd #til

[liminal-lesbian]

Fun fact! I know the morse code for CQD off by heart bc I made it the alarm clock buzzing rhythm on my phone in high school

#yes it was titanic related #CQD was the old distress code #my old phone had a custom vibration pattern option

[transmasc-wizard]

happy 1st birthday cqd!!!!

why thank you <3

#anyone who followed me post-url change is probably so confused about what CQD means lmao #asks #the pastry

[rainofaugustsith]

So there's a really bad take about safewords going around elsewhere and I wanted to say a few things about it. 1. Safewords are not just for BDSM. I do not do BDSM in any way ever and I have used them extensively. A safeword is just an emergency/immediate action signal. That's it. Nothing nefarious. I personally like the traffic light colors - green, yellow and red. As an abuse survivor it really helps a lot to be able to give a partner words that absolutely, unequivocally mean STOP or "keep going, but tread lightly" or "we are okay, I'm confirming I'm fine." 2. Why not use "no" or "stop?" Well, for one thing it can be hard to hear clearly sometimes and it's easy to confuse "don't stop" with "stop" or "don't! Stop!" A word that is completely out of place in the moment is an immediate splash of cold water to the face, figuratively, that tells your partner to cease whatever they are doing and check in. 3. It's not just about words. If your partner said "green" but they appear to be disassociating, for example, it's also a cue to stop and check in. 4. Safe words, code words and signals that immediately call people to attention and action are integral in a lot of situations that have nothing to do with sex. - Actors playing costumed characters who interact with the public (ie, the meet and greets at theme parks) often have several non-verbal signals they can give to their escort that mean "Help, get me out of here now," etc. - A ship that was sinking used to send out SOS or CQD in Morse code because that was a very quick way to convey one thing: "we're in grave danger right now, help us!" - In a hospital when they call a code blue it immediately informs staff they are needed NOW in a particular place for a critical patient emergency. All of these things and so many more are based in the same concept as a safe word - it's a pre-assigned term that is used to grab people's immediate attention and communicate a certain urgent issue. Communication is GOOD.

#safe words #not sure how to tag this but I mentioned I'm an abuse survivor. No details or anything just that

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Environmentally-friendly InSb/InP colloidal quantum dots for fast and sensitive short-wave infrared photodetectors

Applications such as LIDAR, 3D imaging for mobile devices, automotive and augmented/virtual reality or night vision for surveillance, rely on the development of short-wave infrared (SWIR) photodetectors. These devices are capable of seeing in the region of the spectrum that is invisible to our eye since they operate in the spectral window of 1-2 µm. The SWIR light sensor industry has been dominated for years by epitaxial technology, mainly based on devices made of indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs). However, several factors such as high production costs, low-scale manufacturability and incompatibility with CMOS have confined the epitaxial technology to niche and military markets. In contrast, the potential of SWIR photodetectors made of colloidal quantum dots (CQDs), nanoscale semiconductor materials, has attracted significant interest in recent years due to their appealing features, such as low cost and compatibility with CMOS architecture, among others.

Read more.

#Materials Science #Science #Colloids #Quantum dots #Photodetectors #Indium #Antimony #Phosphorus

[coquettedragoon]

i've been following cqd for years and years but somehow im only just considering how weird it is that cima's plugsuit doesn't compress the fur on her tail at all

it’s just a loose cover (and is cuter to draw that way)

[olive-pit123]

#Spotify

[toskarin]

bell coquette dragoon omegaverse AU

#doodles #cqd #coquette dragoon

[thealmightygremm]

The Sinking of the RMS Titanic: In Defense of the SS Californian

I have been obsessed with the Titanic for months now. I could probably describe minute-by-minute the sinking on the night of April 15th, 1912. I recently stumbled across some videos on TikTok talking about Titanic and more specifically the RMS Carpathia (the ship that rescued Titanic’s survivors). There seemed to be a running theme of people stating they weren’t sure why the SS Californian didn’t come to Titanic’s aid- implying that they were careless or reckless in the matter. It got me thinking about how when I started being obsessed with learning about Titanic and how little base knowledge I was ever given about many aspects surrounding the sinking. Up until this point, I didn’t even know about the Californian. After reading everything I could find about that night (minus On a Sea of Glass due to not being able to find any copies anywhere //totally not bitter about that//). I’d like to blab a bit in defense of the Californian on the night of the Titanic’s demise.

As anyone who has delved into the night the Titanic sunk likely knows, the Carpathia was the closest ship to come to Titanic’s aid. However, she was roughly 4 hours away when she received Titanic’s CQD distress call; The Titanic, sunk in 2. There was a ship much closer to the Titanic, though. The SS Californian was so close to the Titanic when she hit the iceberg and came to a halt that her lights could be seen by passengers and crews on the horizon. Before the Titanic struck the iceberg, they received many ice warnings from multiple ships- including from the Californian. Their warning was sent to the bridge by one of Titanic’s wireless operators, Harold Bride. Later on in the night the Californian encountered a large ice field. Her captain, Stanley Lord, decided to stop the ship until morning. Her wireless operator, Cyril Evans, attempted to relay the information to Titanic due to their close proximity. Titanic’s other wireless operator, Jack Philips, had his volume turned up high which sent the pings of the morse code from the Californian blasting into his ears. This, on top of his exhaustion and stress from rushing to send passenger messages, caused him to snap at Evans, replying for him to “shut up”. After receiving Philip’s message, Evans turned his system off and turned in for the night. Around three hours later, Titanic struck the iceberg.

Being unable to reach the Californian via the Marconi Wireless System, the crew of the Titanic attempted to first contact the Californian via morse lamps- lamps used to flash morse code in order to communicate without the use of the still new wireless systems. However, a majority of the crew aboard the Californian were not very fluent in morse code. Those who knew some were unable to tell if the morse lamps were truly using morse lamps or if they were just flickering oil lamps on the Titanic due to some party or celebration. Something that supported this mindset and lack of alarm was the Titanic’s crew firing off distress rockets. Standard protocol with distress rockets were to fire them off in 30 second intervals to signify distress. However, many ships would fire rockets as “company signals”. The crew of Titanic stopped attempting the morse lamps and turned to the rockets, however they were not shot off in 30 second intervals, but rather in inconsistent intervals close to 1 minute apart. During this period, the crew had continued to assume the rockets were being fired off in celebration rather than distress. They did eventually decided to attempt to contact the Titanic with their own morse lamps, but by the time they began trying to reach Titanic in this way, the crew had their hands full trying to help passengers and control the panic in both the passengers and themselves.

One of the main arguments against the crew of the Californian is that throughout the entire night, no one decided to wake their wireless operator (who I should add was the only one able to use the Marconi Wireless System). Even if it was just a celebration or party, having him get ahold of the Titanic just to check would certainly have saved hundreds of lives that night. But I don’t believe the crew of the Californian can fully be blamed for their lack of action. They were confused by Titanic’s mixed signals and didn’t know how to react. Due to the same mirage effects that caused the Titanic’s crew to not see the iceberg, the Californian’s crew couldn’t quite trust the morse lamps and with the misfiring of the rockets, their confusion that in hindsight should have provoked more concern was understandable at the time. They also claimed later that they didn’t realize the ship was Titanic which to this day is still a disputed claim considering their communications and knowledge of her being nearby.

The SS Californian’s inaction certainly caused hundreds more to die that night than should have, but they are not the only ones to blame. The Californian was sunk on the 9th of November, 1913 by a German Uboat, ironically sinking not far from the location the Titanic’s sister ship, the HMHS Britannic.

/End Rant

#titanic #carpathia #californian #rant #rambling #ships #sinking #theresalwayssomething

[suzie-guru]

SOS SOS CQD CQD TITANIC CQD THIS IS TITANIC CQD THIS IS

— Last Morse code messages sent by Titanic senior wireless operator Jack Phillips, 2.17am, 15 April 1912. CQD was the distress call most commonly used at the time, with SOS being a more modern addition.

#rms titanic #titanic

[liminal-lesbian]

Another fun fact! SOS doesn't actually stand for anything, it just replaced CQD bc it's so much easier to recognize and tap out

...___... vs _._.__.__..

#like idk if its a subconscious cultural thing or somth but SOS also sounds SO much more urgent to me

[transgirl-catra]

staring at last rb and remembering my least favorite but probably most likely to be accurate cqd prediction (honey comes back from her mission to find that something horrible has happened to bell in her absence)

#maybe i will be wrong. but the 'is it really okay for me to be bringing her back here?' line is such blunt fucking force foreshadowing #that i am very concerned.

[samldh1]

CQD - Cammy Quick Drawing

#cammy white #cammy #sf6 #sf6 cammy #street fighter #street fighter 6