[guooey]

what if I live without shame

[broccoliseason-deactivated20210]

A close up of the Blanket Octopus during a blackwater dive with The Three P diving club , Romblon Island, Philippines. Credit: Joseph Elayani

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

[kedreeva]

Mlem mlem mlem mlem

Dinner with a friend!

[clementine-kesh]

the unfortunate side effect of developing a more critical eye for fan behaviour as a product of society™️ is that new fan takes on a piece of media become fairly predictable. oh the white guy with daddy issues is your favourite? you think the asian man is an adorable subby cinnamon roll? you think the woman in a position of authority is either mom-coded or a total bitch? say less

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[purlturtle]

[ansixilus]

You're right and you should say it.

[nestingtendencies]

Georgia Shawl by Kirsten Bishop on Ravelry

[bisonwares]

HANDMADE♻️A🌲THON

This week Mark and I will be crafting every day to make our handmade wares! If you wanna follow along I'll be posting here throughout the week!

Handmade-a-thon?

Just what we have been calling it, we use 100% moreno wool, secondhand & scraps to create a variety of our own patterns!

10% of proceeds from our handmade wares are donated to various charities. Ex: Patchwork whales to ocean conservation!

The items we make this week will be available online and at our future events!

Follow along this thread to see updates and photos of the process

[chirasul]

we got a full redbox and now we're playing go fish with the redbox movies

[chirasul]

I would never pay money for a redbox. if you ask politely and are very very persistent (i.e. annoying) they will let you take it away

here's my dad and i taking it away

a redbox makes a wonderful addition to your patio

[fishmech]

for those wondering why they're free to take now, it's because the company that made those "chicken soup for the soul" books bought them a few years ago and then completely collapsed so bad they couldn't afford to dispose of or even take the blu rays and dvds out of their kiosks all over.

so any of them is free game because they're all located on other business' property and they usually don't want to have to pay to get rid of them either. so asking the store manager usually gets you the ok to pull it out and keep it.

[chirasul]

there was a period of time right after their bankruptcy where you could put in any debit or credit card and it would spit out movies without charging you. you could even put in like an expired or deactivated card, or a visa gift card with a $0 balance, didnt matter, they'd just start spitting discs out. a lotta people raided redboxes for movies for a couple months, with some people doing what me and my brother and my dad did here, taking the whole box and signs and marquees as well. because managers sure as hell don't want a big abandoned piece of trash on their sidewalk disappointing customers. BUT they're also often too cheap to pay someone to remove it. so they just sit there.

luckily there are no shortage of freaks like us who will just take them away on our own volition. we did it all "by the book", too: we set up cones and caution tape, disconnected electricity properly, used an angle grinder to grind down the bolts in the concrete so nobody would trip on them, then cleaned everything up afterward and sealed off the electrical panel so the store would know everything is safe and tidy. though they were hesitant when we were first contacting them, they were honestly very relieved and grateful when we finally took it away, especially once they saw that we "knew what we were doing" (we don't) and look like we've "done this before" (we haven't).

the fun part: the reason why this redbox, in particular, was completely full and unraided is because the computer hardware inside had failed some months before the bankruptcy, and a failing company sure as hell wasn't gonna send a tech out to our podunk dipshit city to fix it, so it was impossible to rent movies or take any discs out. plus, for who knows how long, people were returning old redbox discs to this machine and not taking any out, leading to a much higher variety of movies than your average redbox.

there is a thriving community of redbox hackers and modders out there, as well, creating open-source software for repurposing the machines and not letting their very interesting and robust disc-management hardware go to waste. this one belongs to my brother (who was very annoying persistent and did all the legwork of contacting managers and securing permission) who is a programmer by trade and will be hacking it into a family-access movie library, with whatever discs we want. i mean the machine is completely weatherproof and has a built-in AC unit, it would be such a waste to not try to turn it into something cool.

if we get another one, i'm gonna try to mod it into some sort of art or zine vending machine. the disc boxes are just the right size for small print art or stickers. would make a great "little free library" too.

remember: the rules are made up. act like you belong there and you can get away with anything. this applies to your own life

[norhuu]

I have very gay tattoos of Frog and Toad eating cookies on my shins that can hold hands with each other.

I got them done by Monica Amneus in Portland Oregon in mid 2024.

Here’s a side by side of the freshly poked versus a couple years in.

I love them.

[crimsontentacles]

but first, they must catch you.

[70sscifiart]

I'm back at it again with my art blog newsletter: Sign up now and you'll get my issue about paintings of paintings in a couple days!

Artists here: Fred Kirberger, Mel Hunter, Signe Landon, and Robert Tinney.

[70sscifiart]

TYSM! Sign up, folks!

[aukkenopsia]

aquatic dragonsona

[lornaka]

Is there anything more tragic than liking a niche m/f pairing, and then discovering that most fics for it treat the female character as a personality free reader insert

[bleedthebeat]

[bleedthebeat]

[bleedthebeat]

don’t worry about it

[gaccari]

eepy

[enki2]

[haunthid]

"It might be too late to say, but I love you so much."