Black-in-Kansas

Blog is mostly for cool things i see. Not here for drama or such, just to chill.

[black-in-kansas]

[black-in-kansas]

[black-in-kansas]

[coolancientstuff]

Roman bronze strainer/colander from Pompeii, 1st century AD.

[ancientcharm]

Incredible, even on a simple strainer they made this design like the one in this Roman mosaic floor.

Everything must be done with class -Ancient Romans

Sala della Lupa-Palazzo dei Conservatori - Musei Capitolini - Rome. Photos: José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro /CC BY-SA 4.0/ Wikimedia Commons.org

[queermaddscientist]

Get yourself a fabric store that will light your fabric on fire for you

No but legit I asked what the fiber content of something was and the guy didn’t know so he cut a chunk off and lit it on fire and felt the ashes and was like. Yeah this is mostly cotton with a lil bit of silk. And that was the moment I knew. This is it. This is the fabric store for me. Also that guy is marriage material. Not for me but damn some person is gonna be so happy with him.

[rawringthroughthetwenties]

Ok but this is actually one of the easiest ways to tell what something is made of! I did a textiles degree and one day as part of a class we all went outside with a pile of scrap fabric and set fire to the little pieces and recorded how they burned. We were given a chart that looked something like this to tell what each fabric was (it gets a little tricky is it’s a mix of fabrics though). Why did we do this? There is very little regulation in the textiles industry so a lot of materials are mislabelled as something they aren’t and sold for more than they should be, also sometimes people buy fabric second hand or discounted which doesn’t have any label at all. If you have a fabric you are having doubts about, cut a tiny piece off and do the burn test and you should know pretty fast what you are dealing with. Anyways your fabric store should be lighting things on fire because this means that they are actually checking what the fabrics are and aren’t trying to pass cheap stuff off as more expensive than it is.

[queermaddscientist]

Ooh! I knew it was a standard test but I hadn’t seen a chart as detailed as this thank you!

[black-in-kansas]

Thermostat maker performs psychological experiments on customers

[millennial-nostalgia]

Game Boy Color (1998)

[odellstudios]

-Rust-Oleum "Chaulked" Charcoal, Satin Oregano, Black. Weapon Stencils for the stencils.

-Aerosol Duracoat Foliage sponged over with Rust-Oleum Tate Green, 249322 Self-Etching Primer, Chaulked Charcoal.

-Rapco 30118 Field Drab Brown and 30257 Camouflage Earth Yellow (painted over Aerosol Duracoat Blue Titanium that had been on the rifle for years).

[black-in-kansas]

Texas Sues Allstate Over Illegally Collecting Driver Data; you might wan...

[koyoriin]

maids // vol. 1

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[viejospellejos]

Moooola!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This is cosmic horror. To me.

[armengoldira]

[alexaloraetheris]

I feel like a pizza chef and a glass blower would have fantastic cultural exchanges.

[hybridmindthoughtsreloaded]

[thepromiscuousfinger]

People really out here still trying to defend a game that was dead in the water after launch? But no...it only failed because the character design wasn't conventionally attractive rather than the shit story writing, shit dialogue and even shittier gameplay.

[heardbook]

Which one there’s a LOT of those just this year.

[thepromiscuousfinger]

Yes

[black-in-kansas]

Guessing it's the worst one though. Concord. A game that I never saw get above 1000 on steam user charts.

[effinbirds]

[meret118]

MS Word is Using You to Train AI

How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents

Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.How to Turn off Word’s AI Access To Your Content

I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”:

File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”

[thepromiscuousfinger]

Best wood I've ever had in my mouth?

Pine

[black-in-kansas]

Fruit trees have a good taste to them. Chew on a small twich or stick while trimming the trees. My dog usually gets a large branch to gnaw on too. He is fond of mulberry.