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Something that I think should be an important part of solarpunk aesthetics is screws.

Look at your smartphone. No screws. You've got to have specialized tools to get inside your phone to repair something. There are certain pieces of tech that are glued in place and glue can't be undone without permanently breaking the bond.

But screws!

You can take apart a broken old radio, repair what's broken, and, if you were careful in taking it apart, you can put it back together and have a fully functioning radio and all you need is a common screwdriver!

It's hard to build screws and other mechanical fasteners because it requires more planning than clamps and glues, but isn't that what solarpunk is all about‽ It's about care and sustainability and and a radio or a computer built carefully with repair in mind is a sustainable computer that stays out of landfills and in use.

foone

Screws are proof that God loves us and wants us to fix shit

eagle-writes

Screws are proof that god loves us and wants us to fix shit

foone

Awesome!

liirker-at-thresholds

I really like how the scientology speedrunning trend is developing, in this clip we see that the participants are

Not deterred by the closed door

Working as a group

Protecting their identities

Inflicting material costs to the institution via property destruction

Getting away at the end

These ideas were not all here from the beginning. They are genuinely gaining experience that can be applied elsewhere

despazito

Sometimes I'll be looking at bullshit online that I know will just rile me up and I have to think of this image to get myself to stop

hawkpartys

it must feel good as fuck to walk on the surface tension of water as a bug

thetidemice

weird animal flipbooks i made

unpretty

concept: gas station with those pneumatic tubes they have at banks so they can deliver your little treats straight to the pump without having to go inside. all of the drinks explode immediately upon opening from the force of going through the tubes but it's a small price to pay for convenience.

scarabesque-returns

emmaklee

pourquoiwhy

I learned a new concept

Graceful degradation is the ability of a computer, machine, electronic system or network to maintain limited functionality even when a large portion of it has been destroyed or rendered inoperative. The purpose of graceful degradation is to prevent catastrophic failure. (Tech Target, first result on the search engine)

biglawbear

Literal opposite of planned obsolescence. I love you graceful degradation.

gallusrostromegalus

Oh neat the first time I heard of the concept the guy described it to me as "catastrophic functionality".

He was talking about it in the context of designing robots that would go in and stop nuclear reactor meltdowns, something that would 100% destroy the robot, but they would be designed to keep functioning and fighting the meltdown for as long as possible. He had some designs where over 80% of the robot has died and it was functionally dragging its corpse around by its one working arm because one more minute of functionality might save thousands.

I've been having a few bad years mental health wise, and thinking about those robots a lot .

maddie-2022

This is also why NASA missions usually keep going so long after schedule. They are *masters* of graceful degradation, able to keep machines limping along on minimal power and after sustaining heavy damage

shit-posting-about-catholicism

A little thing I made for a zine a month or two ago.

magpie-trove

The first verse of What Child is This but over a painting of the Pieta

magpie-trove

mademoiseli

"And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger because there was no place for them in the inn." - Luke 2:7

"This man [Joseph of Arimathea] went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then he took it down and wrapped it in a linen shroud and laid him in a tomb cut in stone, where no one had ever yet been laid." - Luke 23:52-53

chasingcoyotes

I didn't realize how disgusting light bulbs were till I had to dump THOUSANDS of them into a gaylord. I am now dingey and smell like grandmas ashes

flagellant

Pardon me?

chasingcoyotes

i forgor not everyone knows what gaylords r but it's these big bitches watermelons and shit come in, we use em to store paint and bulbs lmao

flagellant

You mean a box???

howtobreakglass

I work in a warehouse and have to deal with these all the time. They’re called gaylords because they were popularized by a company called Gaylord iirc. You get used to calling them gaylords but every so often you say it to a person who doesn’t know and it hits you.

One time at work, I texted my boss about an order of them that came in by saying “there’s a 1400lb gaylord in the warehouse. besides me, of course.”

chasingcoyotes

its always fun when we get new ppl at work that get whiplash when they hear us scream across the shop for three gaylords

iamafireplace

i … did not know that

via @katyagoncharov

vraska-theunseen

hot tip! if you ever find yourself googling gloryhole in order find a picture to show someone else what it looks like (pictured below btw), REMEMBER TO TACK ON GLASSBLOWING AT THE END

hellshire-harlot

On a similar note: Make sure that you specify you’re talking about the computer science when you refer to CNC, and specify the psychiatric practice when you refer to CBT.

dagreb

I make eyeglasses (wholesale). The number of times in a workday I talk about mounting, edging, finishing, and if something is uncut... man I tells ya.

miraviglioso

yea and make sure to specify yarn when looking up fingering weight....

the-haiku-bot

yea and make sure to

specify yarn when looking

up fingering weight….

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

neververy4

A hump yard is a place to sort/store rolling stock for trains by pushing them over a hill and letting them roll into specific rail lines. Some cars have precious cargo (living quarters, automobiles, fragiles) that would get damaged when it slammed into the other cars, and as such are marked “DO NOT HUMP”

butchfagminotaur

please don’t be alarmed when i say your nipples need to be tightened i’m just a bicycle mechanic and they are actually called spoke nipples

slyandthefamilybook

The amount of talk about balls, shafts, nuts, hoses, tools, holes, and lube that goes on in an auto shop would make a shock-jock radio host blush

naramdil

i hate when girls feel dumb for trying to see the best in people and then end up hurt or disappointed like no!! it’s those people that were dumb for misleading you. they took advantage of your kindness and generosity, and they’ll rot for it