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I recently found my “gold” hammer after misplacing it. It’s my favorite tool ever because it looks like a regular hammer trying to be fancy,

but then you twist both halves and unscrew it to find a flat-head screwdriver in the middle.

BUT, if you twist the very end and unscrew that

you find a phillips screwdriver.

BUT DON’T THINK THAT’S ALL THERE IS! THERE’S MORE!! unscrew the very end again to find a smaller flat-head screwdriver!

BUT THAT’S STILL NOT THE END!!

unscrew the end of this screwdriver to find a final, teeny tiny, flat-head screwdriver

look at how cute it is!

it’s like a matryoshka doll of tools.

xeno-lalia

I have one of these and I keep it in my IT toolkit because that teeny little screwdriver is the right side for laptop casings, but because it lives inside a large object it’s harder to misplace than a standard tiny screwdriver. Also because the look on a client’s face when you bring out a brass hammer to fix their laptop is absolutely wild.

marcchurch

damnhotpocket

Gema.piano on instagram

Why are all music teachers like this 😭😭😭

catasters

my-dailydreams

boybeetles

You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes

F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???

boybeetles

Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖

yetanothergreyjedi

shower-thoughts-last-responder

If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you

headspace-hotel

Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned

homunculus-argument

The reason they make you do group project at school is as a preventative measure against falling into conspiracy theories as an adult. The vast majority of the population can and will come out of the experience with a much better understanding of just how goddamn impossible it is to make multiple people do what they were supposed to do, everything they were supposed to do, and nothing but what they were supposed to do. You can't make five people do that, and yet billions of people are keeping this supposed machine rolling?

monkeyislandtwo

walking around the house at night with your phone flashlight is the modern version of walking around with a candle and candleholder

liberalsarecool

More example of Republican rot.

Conservative legal theory is dead. It holds nothing sacred, just whatever the rapists needs to steal power.

The Federalist Society is a cancer and every lawyer is complicit in their silence.

Republican SCOTUS have made their careers being the least impartial, thumb-on-the-scale corrupt assholes.

Addendum:

thepioden

My brother in law recently became a veterinarian and it has really driven the point home as to how fucking bonkers veterinary medicine is. We don't expect human physicians to really know much outside of their own specialty - a dentist, an otolaryngologist, and a maxillofacial surgeon are three totally different dudes. Meanwhile a veterinarian at a wildlife rehab center is doing orthopedic surgery on a hawk and then doing rounds on baby hedgehogs in the hedgehog NICU and administering antibiotics to a ratsnake. And he also knows how to perform surgical interventions on a cow! What the fuck! Those are all totally, wildly different kinds of animal!!

Shout out to veterinarians, they know Too Much.

mikkeneko

I always think about that one post that was like "how come the surviving doctors in zombie apocalypse stories are always veterinarians" and the reply "because veterinarians make 'not getting bitten by their patients' a core skill"

graysparrowao3

Turns out after discovering fanfiction I still must participate in society. Devastating news.

gokucat

feeding her stuffie must live on....

hometoursandotherstuff

phantomrose96

We've got this yearly corporate compliance training which for whatever reason takes the form of a 4-6 episode production that rivals a lower-budget Netflix show and follows a rotating cast of some-recurring and some-new characters dealing with shit like embezzlement and political bribery and software privacy compliance violations.

And actually I love it because every damn season (there have been 8 so far) there will some Good Character who realizes Shady Coworker is doing something like accepting government kickbacks in return for contracting out specific projects to a specific nation and the Good Character works up the courage to report it. Then they get pulled into a meeting with some Top Brass and you're like "oh this is it, this is when they learn the corruption goes all the way to the top babey!!!!!!!"

But it's a Corporate Compliance Training video masquerading as a Netflix mini-series so every time EVERY TIME we'll get to That Scene and the Top Brass person will go "We are so glad you reported this ethical concern. 🙂 [Company] runs on the trust of our customers, so it is vital that we maintain the integrity and conduct that lives up to our values 🙂." It's a plot-twist every fucking time. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO GO ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP!!! WHERE'S THE BACKSTABBING!!!!

Character™️ trying to bypass security protocol and pull in non-compliant open-source software shows back up at the end of the season like "Hey Good Character, thank you for reporting the security concern and setting me right 🙂. I now understand the importance of compliance and will do better in the future 🙂." Other Character who was heard making an insensitive micro-aggressive comment walks up too like "Hey man sorry 🙂. I now understand the impact of my words. 🙂 This will never happen again. 🙂"

Guy accepting the foreign bribes gets led away in handcuffs cuz they're not gonna redeem everybody.

phantomrose96

I wish this series was available to the public because the fandom would be hilarious. I wanna go into the #Nelson tag and read takes about how they shoulda killed this guy for non-compliant management of EUPI customer content.

phantomrose96

A couple people have asked if this is The Inside Man, and no it’s not. Though I’m fascinated by the existence of more of these.

The one I’m talking about is entirely within our own company. As in these characters are walking around the company campus saying company words. When they have a concern to report, the Authority Character will go “You can report concerns at [internal company website]/[path to report concerns]” while totally not looking directly at the camera. This has made me memorize the report URL like it’s 1 800 Kars 4 Kids

The episodes are also very short so they speed run the plot.

For this year’s season, the B Plot had a random Gen Z kid show up, micro-aggress an older coworker, bypass a privacy review, and try to use unvetted open source code all within like 4 minutes of screen time.

The A Plot followed an autistic woman who busted the whole Foreign Bribery thing going on because the contract numbers were not adding up. Also because the characters doing the bribery forgot to end the recorded Teams call going on and then said words like “I want my bribery money.”

thepurpleglass

Wait is her autism textual or subtextual? Like did you diagnose her or do the writers state it?

phantomrose96

Explicitly stated. The series likes slotting in mini-lessons wherever they can so we got a "hey don't be ableist" on this one. There was a line from her somewhere that was like "I am pretty open about my autism."

She was in fact pretty based.

bookcub

i think it is unrealistic for fans to expect sequels to be published a year after the first one and also want the book at its highest quality. it's okay to expect a few years in between and i think it weird how much pressure authors face to publish their next book immediately. that's a lot of stress on authors and i think it often leads to books being put out before they are ready.

mlerpwonders

If you truly enjoy books, you should be used to a slower consumption experience.

Apply this to time between installments.

Accept that if you get into a good series with multiple books to go, you are going to be following it for a decade or more.

skiagraphe0-deactivated20250401

A bad book published on schedule is on time once, but bad forever.

A good book published on a delay is late once, and then good forever.

Ultimately, you're getting a book either way. The question is, would you like something satisfactory that you can look back on fondly for the rest of your life, or do you want something that the author rushed out over the course of a bunch of sleepless nights that reflects the quality of those working conditions?

Good work takes time. If you're really pressed about authors not handing you a novel each year, go write fanfic - and find out for yourself how hard it is to produce a novel's worth of good, solid, well-paced, well-plotted story regularly.

the-haiku-bot

A bad book published

on schedule is on time once,

but bad forever.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

dduane

Reblogged as much for the haiku as anything else... :)

byjove

The right to wander in the UK is wonderful and very much the opposite of the US, where you’re terrified you’re going to be shot for turning around in someone’s yard. This combined with the nonchalant attitude towards ancient archeological sites is particularly amusing. There are several Neolithic tombs I want to visit that have warnings that are like “This site is behind a gate and can be accessed by walking through a field BUT USE CAUTION, A HIGHLY AGGRESSIVE BULL LIVES ON THE PROPERTY. I repeat, THIS 5,000 YEAR OLD TOMB IS GUARDED BY AN ANGRY BULL. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK.” It’s exactly what that little Neolithic community would have wanted…

byjove

“DO NOT go to this Neolithic chambered tomb. It is guarded by a highly aggressive horse.” “Like some sort of waterhorse or kelpie? Or the ghost of Llamrei?” “No. A very crabby 19 year old Welsh cob that likes to bite.”

elodieunderglass

I really like how you drive down a random road and look to the side and notice that a hill has specific carved ramparts on it, which mean that it's an ancient hill fort.

but it's also some farmer's field.

and it's only medium-to-low level interesting. I like that. a hillfort should be lowkey.

When my mother was a kid, she was going for a walk with my grandpa, in the mountains next to my hometown, and she had just been told about neolithic dolmens at school and was like "hey dad, doesn't those rocks look like a dolmen?" and my grandpa was like "hmm" and called someone he knew in our local university.

Long story short, this is how my mom discovered a neolithic site back in the 1970s:

(hey you can see my town down there on the right!)

thegeekgene

Someone at an old job asked why I wanted to write up the meeting minutes for our team and I said 'i wanna control the narrative' and they were like 'what' and I pointed out that no one was gonna remember what we said in six months and so my interpretation of the meeting would dictate the assumed reality of what happened

"none of you ever send corrections when I offer the draft so y'all have consented to my version"

"we don't read that shit"

"you must trust me implicitly to create our shared reality that's so sweet"

That's how several coworkers decided I was a supervillain and how I learned several coworkers didn't understand record keeping as like a CONCEPT