Imitate Ben Franklin & Bruce Lee

intellect & romance over brute force & cynicism . . .

[aerspyder]

My philosophy

[melonramune]

2026-04-30

[tsarina-anadyomene]

it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there

[gsot]

[drmajalis]

[amaraqwolf]

Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.

[willow-wanderings]

It’s recently been found that even hive insects rest. Bees will play with colorful toys. Ants sleep for about 1 minute but they do it so frequently it amounts to a few hours per day. Even trees take breaks.

The only things that work without rest are machines; literally everything that lives requires rest.

EVERYTHING THAT LIVES REQUIRES REST. STOP JUDGING YOURSELF FOR NOT BEING A ROBOT.

[roach-works]

robots require very frequent breaks! welding machines generally have it programmed in that they can’t run so long they melt themselves. ive overseen two different manufacturing robots now and each of them were fragile, finicky idiots that require constant maintenance and repair. they pause in between moves, in between jobs. you’re always keeping an eye on programming errors, on coolant levels, on heat. you’re always pulling bits of scrap out of joints, sweeping up debris, washing off nozzles and untangling hoses. and even then it snaps a chain and takes a whole morning’s vacation.

even robots need downtime.

[webshootersandwingdings]

those shirts are sick

Stan Lee Meets Dr. Strange (2006) #1

[bommel-tabletop]

As I mentioned in the previous post, I was completely fed up with GW paints, so I straight up ordered a whole new set of paints from AK and some fresh brushes and actually got back into painting semi regularily.

Switching to new paints took a bit of adjustment and there's still the occasional paint that I need to come up with the perfect replacement for but I really like the results so far and thought, why not share things here for the few peeps that still might be instered in seeing some miniature painting from me :D

I'm pretty happy with the results too and was surprised that I didn't need THAT much of getting back into it, so let's see, maybe I can actually finish this boardgame

[lenny-briscoe]

[aerspyder]

know your strengths & the strengths of those around you

[transhuman-priestess]

We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.

[anoraktrend]

Linux is a very good and powerful alternative.

[transhuman-priestess]

[transarsonist]

reminder: you cannot Personal Choises your way out of an Intentional Structural Problem

[yurigirldick]

Fun fact! School Chromebooks block Linux. It's not an easy alternative. You are missing the point

[zafojones]

Kira Nerys and Ensign Ro commission

Caitlyn Yarsky

[wearemercs]

by Morry Evans

[sixtiesgogobootz]

bigs their eyes at you

[ethanmaldridge]

"The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."

-Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

[smallmariofindings]

Rare artwork of Mario hitting his head on a pipe in World 4-Fortress 2 of Super Mario Bros. 3, used only once at a small print size in the official 1988 Nintendo Power guide for the game and nowhere else.

Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings | Source

[aerspyder]

How I looked and felt on July 5th.

Also thinking about Serini being limber feels wrong somehow.

[queerolddad]

Don’t let fake fans tell you different, Trek has always been queer 🏳️‍🌈🪐🚀

[charlesoberonn]

Turns out you can roll a 7 on a d6

but only once.

[theinsidiousdice]

[musthavebeenthecombat]

I'm sorry.???

[reject-tiefling]

@acarefreewind

Okey