I’m inexperienced at DIY, it’s good if the wood catches fire when you’re cutting it right
How do you even achieve that? Are u using an electric saw? The only thing I can think of is getting caught on a knot or bit of metal and doing a whole bunch of friction
I hat to trim off a bit that wasn’t worth disassembling the whole thing and using the circular saw for so I used this dinky little electric thing that I bought to cut holes in drywall. It was friction yeah.
Tooth size was probably way too small for wood, I’m assuming it was some kind of reciprocating saw? The fine-tooth blade is for metal and the coarse-tooth blade is for wood and drywall. Drywall has the handy property of not being particularly flammable so all that will happen if you use the wrong blade is that it will cut slower, but wood is both more dense and likes to be on fire more so using the wrong blade will do that.
I don’t care enough about this window I cludged together out of roofing plastic and cheap pine to go digging through the piles and piles of random shit covering the floor of my shed trying to find the other saw blades. It’ll trim down with the blade that happened to be installed and it’ll like it.
It was this thing
Dude that’s a multi tool it’s for stupid thin material and also metal. Works the same way as a cast cutter iirc
No it’s for everything because it’s the power tool that was within reach without me having to dig through piles of junk in the shed full of spiders with no functioning lights.
This is the standard winged nightjar and it has one singular stupidly big feather on each wing… if you even care.
Love this guy
That’s standard as in “pennant” or “banner”, not standard as in “normal”.
But it’s not a pennant-winged nightjar. THIS is a pennant-winged nightjar… if you even care.
can’t forget the Lyre-tailed Nightjar! there’s actually a number of these ridiculous guys, and they’re partly why caprimulgiforms are some of my favorite birds
also the Sickle-winged Nightjar, which is. come on, that’s just a weird moth
(Whispers) talk about their mouths now
ok
and if we’re going to make this onto a full-on nightjar weirdness appreciation post, I feel like I’ve got to mention their pectinate claws:
comb-shaped claws on the middle toe have evolved multiple times among a diverse variety of birds, found in nightjars, barn owls, herons, frigatebirds, and a few other groups. and despite looking exactly like they’re used for preening out feather parasites, they might have other uses for keeping birds clean that we haven’t yet identified:
One of those “we’re going to be weird about burial practices we regard as strange or exotic” horror movies, except instead of killer mummies or whatever it’s an evil smoke monster made of all the people whose ashes have been illicitly scattered at Disney World.
there is something soo real and soft about sleeping next to someone. waking up in the night and being able to snuggle closer. arms touching. it’s just so GOOD
also I got a tattoo partially re-coloured today and they bandaged me in veterinary wrap like I’m a sick horse
Not gonna lie, that made me do a double take.
Not because of the vet wrap, it’s great stuff and I keep some at home myself for first aid purposes.
But because that colour is considered euthanasia green in a lot of vet clinics here including mine and we ONLY use it for animals we are euthanising. We will literally continue restraining a squirming dog or cat while someone restocks the drawer if we open it to find only the euthanasia green vet wrap than use this because we consider using it for a healthy patient to be a bad omen…
also I got a tattoo partially re-coloured today and they bandaged me in veterinary wrap like I’m a sick horse
Not gonna lie, that made me do a double take.
Not because of the vet wrap, it’s great stuff and I keep some at home myself for first aid purposes.
But because that colour is considered euthanasia green in a lot of vet clinics here including mine and we ONLY use it for animals we are euthanising. We will literally continue restraining a squirming dog or cat while someone restocks the drawer if we open it to find only the euthanasia green vet wrap than use this because we consider using it for a healthy patient to be a bad omen…
so, just for the record, staff’s blatantly discriminatory rules enforcement practices are only half the story. like, if you ever find yourself wondering why trans women are always getting termed right after their posts about transmisogyny start getting numbers (and mysteriously start getting mature content flagged for seemingly no reason), its bc there are a couple of specific circles of people who mass report tgirls who talk about that sort of thing too loudly (or, y'know, they’re just generally annoyed by). there’s at least one discord server more or less dedicated to the practice to my knowledge and i wouldn’t be surprised if there were more.
staff, of course, can perform the tied hands routine bc of this - they’re just responding to reports! and now that the first ban is served, any subsequent attempts to rebuild one’s social life are read as Ban Evasion. girls are left with the non-choice of permanent exile or starting over from scratch, trying to be quieter this time so they don’t get found. this is the point, and its being done with purpose by people who, funnily enough, spend most of their time talking about the importance of Community. lol and lmao
evening everyone. does anyone want to explain to me why i keep clocking hannah montana references in the year of our lord 2025 when i have never seen a single episode of the show? i know what it is as an abstract concept: girl with brown hair (miley cyrus) puts on blonde wig to become cool singer hannah montana which is a Secret Identity that No One Can Know About except probably her dad who’s played by her real dad and like idk perhaps her best friend? that seems like a disney thing. and i think there’s probably at least one boy is there. and the climb is involved. somehow. but that knowledge does not justify clocking a barely there reference to the song you can always find your way back home. what is wrong with me.
no but that would have added a level of spice to the show that i don’t think disney was ready for
platonic third base: when you get to know someone well enough that they start making mortifyingly specific observations about you
yesterday i was chilling with my friend and there was an ice cream van outside and every time the jingle played i’d look out the window and after the third time i did this my friend said, accurately, ‘i think you want to get ice cream but you’re scared of the ice cream man.’ devastating
USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don’t get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don’t get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.
Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.
If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.
‘This won’t work, this isn’t widespread, nobody knows, we’re in a bubble, blah blah blah’ my mom, a 64 year old lady with no social media whose first language is spanish, told me about this before tumblr did, and said we are going to participate.
also while im waiting for my tea to steep, since im petty, and they cant fire me any more than they already have i can tell you about the Button That Makes You Lie To People because i CANNOT stop thinking about it and its driving me fucking nuts
i worked at a fancy gourmet coffee shop, but not everyone who came in knew that or cared, so we’d occasionally get ppl who got all their coffee knowledge from starbuckses. starbuckae? starbukakke
anyway sbux has this thing where they’re literally just wrong about what they call some drinks. for example, a cappuccino is traditionally a double shot of espresso with milk foam, like a few sips of drink, but at starbucks the smallest possible “cappuccino” is 8oz and espresso with that much milk? is really just a bastard latte.
but to explain that to someone who doesnt know better takes time, and there a line forming, and a latte… is close enough to what someone who thinks of a cappuccino as a 16oz drink is expecting.
so if someone asked for a “large cappuccino” we were instructed to go “okay :)”, plug in a large latte, and then, before they could see, scroll down to the secret buttons, the forbidden buttons, the deceit buttons, and press the one called “cappuccino”, in “quotes”, which would not only put a cappuccino on their receipt, but would send a message to the barista, across the room, who would then make a latte, see the pink “cappuccino” indicator, and go
“large cappuccino? :)”
and i just, like, that’s just, i love how, food is made up and not real
If boys can’t have toys which are girls why can girls have ken-dolls…
Because boys are the default and girls are for girls only so your son doesn’t get cooties (become gay or unmanly). Same reason children’s books and movies with boy protagonists are general entertainment but girl protagonists are “girl stories” and if your son likes Merida then he must be gay or something.
The original video, for anyone who hasn’t seen it:
And the relevant album cover:
Sessler was a teenager when “We’re Not Gonna Take It” it was on the charts. Probably had MTV so he saw the video.
No fuckin’ idea how he thought it was in support of “traditional American values.”
Never not reblog. Dee Snider is iconic and queer as fuck for a cishet man.
-fae
No one disrespects my man Dee in this house.
Never forget when he sat in front of a congressional hearing about Lewd Music Corrupting the Youth and completely shut that shit down in the most professional manner that no member of that committee expected from a hair metal musician. They thought they’d get easy points off of a dumb metalhead and this man not only knew exactly what the fuck he was talking about, he tore their arguments apart.
DUDE THE VIDEOOO
For those unfamiliar with this ICON
This is why my working definition of queer is “queerness is that which accepts queerness.”
It encompasses a radical welcome and celebration of things that deviate from “the norm” and a fierce willingness to defend them from people who think mere deviance is worthy of vicious and violent bullying.
Dee Snider is the embodiment of “Queer as in fuck you.”
I saw some snippet of a callout post for an autistic trans woman where they list social faux pas she committed, and I think we allistic people should all feel 100x more ashamed of not telling people in the moment how we feel about what they’re doing. I think its extremely evil and cruel to not only lie to an autistic person and blame them for it but also to feel justified shaming them for your behavior. And it’s currently the social norm to do that
Everytime we as allistic people sit and force a smile or sigh and act subtly grumpy or otherwise lie to an autistic person’s face about how we feel about what they did it is in fact Our Fault that we are enduring whatever the autistic person is daring to try and share with us. You can literally say something out loud directly. The literal structure of our social existence will always traumatize autistic people unless you can give a fuck enough to consider it isn’t their fault that you didn’t communicate with them
Even I couldn’t understand this until my wife was in tears because I had internalized the idea that it was her fault that people were uncomfortable in a conversation where no one told her they were uncomfortable and blamed her for it. Allistic people punish autistic people for so many Percieved slights, or even decide together afterward what exactly the slight was and then make their collective judgment behind the autistic persons back. Not only do we get the benefit of communicating nonverbally through obtuse social cues the autistic person can’t parce, we then get to say that we weren’t going behind their back because we all did those social cues they are too disabled to understand Right in front of them. No, what you did was choose to suppress your feelings and then reap the social benefits of being in on the discomfort.
“These right wingers don’t follow the REAL teachings of Christ”
They ignore the parts of the Bible which encourage compassion and charity just as easily as a nice Christian ignores the parts about misogyny and bigotry. Religious documents are just documents.
This isn’t Twitter. This isn’t your average every day site. This is Tumblr. We’re crazy. We’re weird. We don’t fit in. We’re the fangirls, the fujoshis, the Superwholockers, and the Steven Universe Critical bloggers. We forgot what “normal” was. So if you’re expecting a normal website…
This is the tumblr equivalent of those silhouettes of dogs people put out to scare away wildlife
It’s amazing how much baking you can do when you follow all the goddamn directions. Baking is not a category in which you can fuck around unless you have tons of experience.
“Cooking is an art, but baking is a science.”
“i am a god” in the most neutral possible tone
You guys don’t understand, EVERYONE hates this dude. He regularly fucks up and still delivers that ending line with the same tone. 0 aknowledgement that he made it wrong. People want to kill him in the comments regularly. The fact that he did this one right is a fluke and it pisses me off even more
People will be like “well what about SPIRITUAL alchemy??? What about the SPIRITUAL element of alchemical writing??” And then look at you funny when you start talking about Islam in the 9th century.
