Sarcasm Quantized

A Potpourri of Engineering, Computers, Trains, Space, and Photography.

[salbertwolf]

Victor Glover (Pilot), Artemis II - April 4th 2026

[pixelartjourney]

Relaxing in the sun

[hunter-rodrigez]

So I do 3D modeling and printing as a hobby, and a few weeks ago I designed wheel guards meant to prevent office chairs from running over cables and clothes... or your pet's tail.

I got the idea from cowcatchers old locomotives used to have.

Anyways, yesterday I uploaded the model to Thingiverse, and just hours after uploading it, the Community Relationship Manager of the whole website left a comment suggesting I enter the model into a competition that's currently being held on the site.

So I did... and now it's in third place not even a day later. First place is $500, but the competition still has a month to go.

Then the Community Manager contacted me again, telling me they want to feature my model in an upcoming design promotion.

Just, what is happening? I mostly made this thing for myself in, like, an hour, and now it's suddenly super popular? This is all a little bit overwhelming 😵‍💫

Other models I worked on for weeks didn't get nearly as popular. I swear, it's impossible to predict what people will like.

Anyways, if you want to print the wheel guards yourself, you can get the model here or here.

I also made a quiet version you can stick furniture felt pads on.

[these-violet-delights-fic]

People love simple, extremely practical things. I hope you win!

[ekingston]

sometimes i say things on twitter and then make a little graph about it

[the-macintosh-system]

what does this mean

moot what does this mean

[a-sentient-cup]

[ren-acoelomate]

So is mickeys dick smasher the new terminology for an inverted bell curve

[dandeliont3aandsageleaves]

"Brennan is the best game changer contestant" this "Brennan is so competitive" that

Okay well I've never watched in fear as Brennan hit a bong full of whisky for a game changer now have I

[themaidenofwords]

Brennan plays the game to win and be funny doing it.

Ally plays the game like a jester who is trying to see how strong the protections against being executed are.

[hincithur]

— i had been experimented on at the Daystrom Institute and all i got was this lousy t-shirt ->

[shinyrock6498]

I THOUGHT THIS WAS DATA FROM STAR TREK!!!? XD

[thisusernameisunique]

Data would never. (He would)

That's Lore.

[depsidase]

[shutyourmoustache]

[demonicae]

Jurch

[foldingfittedsheets]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything more incredible. Fifteen hundred hours of love to create this masterpiece. Humans are wonderful actually.

[thesurestthing]

Take me to churse

[catcrumb]

[viralfrog]

[dragongirlbunny]

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

Source

[physics-dirtbag]

Might I add:

[yardsards]

but i stay silly! *←said in the most world-weary voice you ever did hear*

[fizzlepop-frog]

“but I stay silly!”

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Reblog you stay silly

[weaselle]

on it boss

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

[jantesika]

I mean. this is not surprising. but also what the fuck.

[depsidase]

[cheshireinthemiddle]

[emmaubler]

People who delight in being caustically hostile for no reason other than to show off to strangers on the Internet are showing you how toxic they are. Respond accordingly.

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

the king has abruptly fired 60% of his wizard staff, so he’s about to be abruptly surprised at who floated 100% of his formerly floating sky castle

[hyper-lynx]

I heard they're planning to maintain their levitation rites with autonomous constructs from now on, saying wizards are going to be totally obsolete within the season... so, ah, I'd invest in falling island insurance.

[scilas]

Preserving not-prev-but-someone-elses funny tags in this chain as well because I love both these additions actually,

[natalieironside]

There's always a moment of intense cultural whiplash whenever I realize I'm talking to someone who thinks "legal" and "illegal" are meaningful categories and ascribes innate goodness to following the law. It's like meeting a space alien.