Eye Lantern

[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.

[chekhovs-raygun]

@bonyfish

[tredlocity]

[segamascott]

[bi-astolfo]

Yes, investigation claimed at least 1,200 detainees 'dropped off the grid' from 'Alligator Alcatraz'

The claim is not new — the Miami Herald published its findings in summer 2025.

[standwithdaanes]

source for the congresswoman thing as well, because i hadn't heard about that:

Rep. LaMonica McIver Faces 17 Years in Prison Over ICE Jail Inspection

The Trump administration has repeatedly attempted to restrict or thwart congressmembers’ access to ICE jails.

[cock-holliday]

https://archive.is/20260404100138/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/us/politics/lamonica-mciver-immigration-congress-trump.html

A non-paywall version of an April update about how her shit dem colleagues are failing to stand with her

[isuggestrevolution]

i have a suggestion

[rosplosion]

About 6 months ago my partner was Tracking all the Unlisted Flights Out of the US. He had to stop because it was driving him actually mad.

[musthavebeenthecombat]

I'm sorry.???

[reject-tiefling]

@acarefreewind

Okey

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

[hateusandseeifwemind]

[pinene]

Can anyone explain wtf is going on here especially a Korean speaker

[tadeadshihamurder]

someone on reddit explained 😭

[no-one-offical]

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[desmolbean404]

That is one of the most astronomical fuck up translations I have ever seen.

[sahonithereadwolf]

And this, children, is why you can't replace translation work with AI

[frankendykes-monster]

[immaplatypus]

so I looked up the article to make sure it wasn’t taken out of context and it’s even better than I could’ve thought:

Holland said this allowed him to “lay down the law” on the “Spider-Man” set “and say, ‘We are not going to come to set and figure it out. We need to know why we are making this movie beyond the fact that it’s ‘Spider-Man 4’ and they make loads of money and we’re going to just have a big summer. Why are we making this movie?’ And Destin was super instrumental in that, but it was just really great to constantly be calling up the studio and [producers] Amy [Pascal] and Rachel [O’Connor], who I love, and be like, ‘Well, Chris is doing it this way. This is how I think we should be doing it.’ ”

Apparently Sony allowed Holland to postpone Spider-Man production due to how reliable Christopher Nolan is to actually wrapping up on time. Holland said this ended up beneficial because it allowed them to hire Destin Daniel Cretton (director of Shang-Chi) and give him a proper six months for further script development.

Holland also says The Odyssey was “the best experience I’ve had on the film set,” and that “I feel like I have a new perspective on where I want to exist in Hollywood.”

[wronglystarryoasis]

funniest shit I’ve seen all day

[assaultmystic]

a quirk of sexting while british is switching from arse to ass. i would never fuck someone in the arse. its impolite.

[evilneo]

[trying-trying2lyk]

i love writing out numbers and then putting them in parentheses like "one (1)" even when i dont need to i think its funny

[justatiredlittlesnail]

[homunculus-argument]

Imagine if you met someone who can't eat watermelon. Not that they're allergic or unable somehow, but they just haven't figured out how to do that. So you're like "what the hell do you mean? it works just like eating anything else, you open your mouth, sink your teeth in, take a bite and chew. If you can bite, chew and swallow, you should be able to eat a watermelon."

And they agree that yes, they do know how to eat, in theory. The problem is the watermelon. Surely, if they figured out where to start, they'd figure out how to do it, but they have no clue how to get started with it.

This goes back and forth. No, it's not an emotional issue, they're not afraid of the watermelon. They can eat any other fruit, other sweet things, and other watery things ("it's watery?" they ask you). Is it the colour? Do they have a problem eating things that are green on the outside and red on the inside?

"It's red on the inside?"

Wait, they've never seen the inside? At this point you have to ask them how, exactly, they eat the watermelon. So to demonstrate, they take a whole, round, uncut watermelon, and try to bite straight into it. Even if they could bite through the crust, there's no way to get human jaws around it.

"Oh, you're supposed to cut it first. You cut the crust open and only chew through the insides."

And they had no idea. All their life this person has had no idea how to eat a watermelon, despite of being told again and again and again that it's easy, it's ridiculous to struggle with something so simple, there's no way that someone just can't eat a watermelon, how can you even mange to be bad at something as fucking simple as eating watermelon.

If someone can't do something after being repeatedly told to "just do it", there might be some key component missing that one side has no idea about, and the other side assumed was so obvious it goes without mention.

[therainstheyaredropping]

Yep.

https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/how-to-do-everything had a nice list of additional examples like this, with (non-)obvious major insights with regard to opening stitched bags, cleaning your bathroom floor, using a search engine, catching a ball, pinging somebody, proving a theorem, playing sudoku, passing as “normal”, improving your writing, generating novel ideas, and solving your problem.

If you’d asked me six months ago how to get better at something, I’d probably have pointed you to how to do hard things. I still think this is a good approach and you should do it, but I now think it’s the wrong starting point and I’ve been undervaluing small insights. [...]

I think my revised belief is that if you are stuck at how to get better at something, spend a little while assuming there’s just some trick to it you’ve missed. You can try to generate the trick yourself, but it’s probably easier to learn it by observing someone else being good at the thing, asking them some questions, and seeing if you have any lightbulb moment.

[hergan416]

My fiance played the clarinet when he was in school. When he was first learning to play, he rented an instrument from the school to learn on. He was the last chair clarinet, had been for years, because he could not make notes that required the register key. For years, they kept making him do embrature exercises and he started to get a few notes, with lots of effort. Eventually he had to get private lessons to stay in band.

Every time he tells me this story, his frustration by this point in the story, years later, is evident. He still sounds frustrated by it, despite all the time that passed. Teachers had been giving him crap for years because he hadn't been making much progress with the instrument.

When he got to the private instructor, she acknowledged his frustration, and asked him to try to play for her. He did, and she saw all he was doing. She then did something no one else had done before. She asked him to put his mouthpiece on a different clarinet and try to play the same notes. Like magic, it worked. She looked at the clarinet he had been using and found that the school's clarinet needed it's pads replaced.

He went from last chair to first chair nearly overnight, having been taught far more techniques than typically taught at that age just to overcome the broken instrument preventing him from making noise.

Sometimes you don't need to brute force a problem. Sometimes your clarinet is just broken.

[nowordsandnotune]

Not quite sure why the clarinet addition got me crying, but here you go people: just in case, let's get you some new pads.

[oh-no-its-bird]

Pilot dropped his water bottle underneath the console and it got stuck behind the peddles; They were talking to maintenance and asking them for a giant stick to try and poke it out from under there because obviously, that's a HUGE safety hazard. I finally bullied my way into the cockpit insisting I was small enough to try and just grab it and managed to wiggle under and get it in like 5 seconds flat.

They looked at me in pure awe. I have never felt more powerful.

[oh-no-its-bird]

Artistic rendition

[noelle-ism]

That's Not What Unc Means

You’d never know the meaning of unc or its origins in black culture if you looked to mainstream media.

Really good write-up on the origin of "Unc" as a term used in AAVE, and how it's been turned into a generic disparaging term when it didn't even have negative connotations to begin with.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

More broadly, I’ve also seen this happen to words and phrases like “chopped,” “clocked it,” “the tea,” “no cap,” and “it’s giving.” All of these are slang terms that originate from African American Vernacular English—“clocked it,” “the tea” and “it’s giving” come from black queer culture in specific—but have now been categorized as “gen Z slang.” I have heard some people start to refer to the habitual be, as in “it really do be like that,” as a “meme” and it makes me want to tear my fucking hair out. We been saying that! That one’s ours!

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

德化白瓷 Déhuà báicí/dehua white porcelain

Dehua County, located in Quanzhou, Fujian, China, is renowned for its white porcelain.

Its kilns flourished during the Tang (618-907 CE) and Song dynasties(960–1279 CE), peaked in the Yuan and Ming periods, and remain famous today, particularly for their white porcelain. Fired at high temperatures, the unglazed porcelain exhibits a smooth, jade-like texture, appearing crystal-clear and pure white.

Dehua white porcelain is renowned for its "high-toughness thin-bodied高韧薄胎瓷衣" technique, a breakthrough in ceramic craftsmanship that achieves exceptional strength in ultra-thin structures. This technology enables the creation of porcelain pieces with egg-shell thinness (0.2–0.5 mm) while maintaining remarkable durability, making it a hallmark of Dehua's artistry. However, not every piece of Dehua white porcelain employs this technique, as it involves significantly higher production costs.

[teaboot]

PORCELAIN?!

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

so in the victoria & Albert museum's huge ceramics gallery which people never seem to know about, there was a temporary exhibition by a 4th generation porcelain worker from dehua & some of her work v which particularly took me out were these books - books which looked as if they had hand pressed paper pages with ragged edges, being tugged open and ruffled by the breeze. they looked like a film still. they looked light as air. there was a drapery of fine silk fluttering as well. ALL PORCELAIN.

[sparklynightpainter]

no way i just saw people in tiktok comments crying screaming throwing up at the idea of aslan being a jesus figure. worsties the lion literally dies to save edmund (the sinner) and then rises from the dead. he tells the pevensies he can be found under a different name in our world. what else could this have meant

[heckin-music-dork]

Reminds me of this meme:

[lastoneout]

A second 'Soldier Poet King' has hit the tiktok.

[headspace-hotel]

my brother dragged me into watching the second tom holland spider-man movie and genuinely what the fuck was that

[headspace-hotel]

the last MCU movie I watched was captain america: the winter soldier so ive got actual whiplash from how Ass this movie was

first of all. So many of the scenes are obviously just the actors projected in front of a green screen. Even for mundane scenes! It looks weird and bad. I genuinely don't think the actors were actually physically together on the same set for most of the movie. During a bunch of the scenes it just switches from "screen showing one character" to "screen showing other character" like their parts are being filmed completely separately and spliced together for the film.

I assumed at first that it was because it had been filmed during covid, but nope! came out in 2019!

second, there were so many fucking references to other MCU movies that it was like product placement for their own franchise. it was genuinely grating

Third. Okay so. The plot of this movie is that tony stark, after he died, gave peter parker a pair of glasses that allow him to see messages and files being sent on other people's computers/phones and additionally give him the ability to call in drone strikes from satellites in space to shoot missiles at any person Peter wants when he just. says that he wants that.

And like I really do mean "when he says that he wants that." In the scene where he opens up the glasses and learns what they do, he misspeaks and labels a guy he is pissed off at as a "target," which calls in a drone strike that almost blows up his entire class. No "confirm," no "are you sure you want to kill everyone on this bus including yourself," just "okay :)"

The main conflict of the movie is incited when Peter doubts himself and his ability to be a superhero, and hands over control of the glasses to the bad guy.

But at the end of the movie, Peter gets the glasses back.

At no point, ever, is it hinted at or considered that maybe the power to kill any person you desire by just. summoning missiles to blow them up (collateral damage be damned) by saying the word is...bad? The fact that the glasses let him spy on the private conversations of others just by looking at them while they're using their phones is bad enough.

Spider-Man is just, not Spider-Man in this movie. He has an assistant to come pick him up in a private jet. He has technology to literally 3D print him a new suit. He has all this super advanced technology and is closer to being Iron Man than Spider-Man.

Also, Nick Fury is there for some fucking reason and he is like. guilt-tripping Peter about wanting to participate in a school trip instead of, being a fucking child soldier or something?

Like, Nick Fury very much talks to this sixteen year old boy like he's selfish and immature for not wanting to be Literally Kidnapped To Go Die Fighting Space Monsters. Fury's dialogue very much comes across like he's knowingly taking advantage of an immature boy's inflated sense of his own maturity and desire to be viewed as an adult, and he is definitely using guilt and emotional manipulation to control Peter. I know Fury is supposed to be a morally gray character, but that isn't morally gray, that is straight up evil. ???

Also the movie had this whole thing about Peter being Iron Man's successor/the next Iron Man, to the point that Iron Man is basically replacing the role that Uncle Ben played in Spider-Man's story, which is. What the fuck.

Genuinely what the fuck was that. Horrible. Why.

[headspace-hotel]

the plot of captain america: the winter soldier hinged entirely on how surveillance of people's private data and the use of military technology to "hold a gun to everyone on Earth" was part of a plan created by Nazis to wipe out anybody that opposed them.

Now, 5 years later, a 16 year old boy is given the power to do the exact same thing and it's fine?

Like? Is it suddenly fine to violate others' privacy and call drone strikes on people to kill them if you're a "hero?" The fuck do you think "hero" means?

The actual events of the story seem to set Tony Stark up as a horrible villain or at least a fucking idiot, but simultaneously the film treats him like he's fucking Jesus.

[headspace-hotel]

I knew i was going to have a bad time but I am actually genuinely pissed off at how bad this movie was.

its like. us military propaganda basically. meant to normalize spying and killer drones and stuff

and now peter parker isn't a regular broke kid anymore he gets handed everything he wants by a billionaire who makes military technology

tom holland spider-man doesn't even save people. He's not really even interested in like. Doing good.

i DID just watch tobey macguire spiderman and like. that's spider-man! the real one! he undergoes character growth, he really cares about the people he loves, he fucks up really bad and he has to learn to do better. he's a regular dorky guy who happens to have superpowers and he has to rise to the responsibilities that come with that. he shows real emotion. i HATE LOCKHEED MARTIN NEPO BABY FRAUD SPIDER MAN

[thevideogameartarchive]

Female Warrior ‘Dragon Quest III’ Famicom

[sabertoothwalrus]