[my-castles-crumbling]

brb, just gonna dissociate for the next four years. see you guys in 2028

[planefood]

I'd be down with more "modern witches" if they were less all about indigenous cultural appropriation and more about bubbling cauldrons and cackling into the night

[planefood]

"I want to reconnect with my precolonial european pagan roots" then stop selling dreamcatchers on etsy, you should be eating turnips and yodeling.

[slipping-into-madness]

[jewishbarbies]

we need to bring back public hatred for paparazzi. I’m so tired of actors defending themselves against assholes with cameras and being smeared as egotistical divas. they’re glorified stalkers who get paid to harass people. end of. the things these freaks get away with would send normal people to prison but we’re supposed to think it’s okay just bc they’re paparazzi. they SHOULD get shut down for being openly misogynistic. they SHOULD get told off and reported for following someone to their private residence to doxx them. they SHOULD face charges for just about running people over in their pursuit of the next hot celeb. this is not normal. and, actually, these people DO deserve to get punched sometimes.

[moishe-pipick]

[cosmicretreat]

[wilwheaton]

[sunderwight]

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

[adizzyninja]

A humble snubnose eelpout on its way to the whale fall buffet when some nearby humans give it a quick, unintrusive study:

[julianova44]

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

[wilwheaton]

Activist charged with felony after giving border agent "duress code" that wiped his phone

The government says destroying his own data during an airport interrogation was illegal.

In early 2025, Atlanta resident Samuel Tunick was on his way home following a trip abroad. After landing in the US, customs agents demanded access to his Pixel phone, which was running an alternative version of Android called GrapheneOS. Rather than hand over his data, Tunick used a clever feature of the software to delete everything. Now, he’s facing federal charges.

The first hearing in this case happened last week, according to The Guardian, during which government attorneys and agents claimed that Tunick was subjected to a standard secondary interrogation at an international airport. During that encounter, agents were “looking for anything that’s prohibited.” However, Tunick’s legal team alleges he was targeted for his activism.

Tunick was involved with a group called Defend the Atlanta Forest, which opposed the construction of an enormous law enforcement training facility in the area often known as Cop City. What Tunick didn’t know, according to his lawyers, was that he’d been placed on a watch list for his actions and that Customs and Border Protection had discussed over email plans to detain him upon his arrival back in the US for “suspected terrorism activities.”

[graysquirrel7]

This, by the by, is why it was always a bad idea to justify suspension of rights for “known or suspected terrorists”–yes, there’s a law enforcement definition of terrorist[1], but at the end of the day, it’s a political label[2].

The current regime wants to call everyone who opposes ICE, who is not aligned with Trump, and who does not wholly support Zionism a terrorist. If you’ve ever spoken out against Cop City, Datacenters, Palantir, ICE, GEO Group, IDF conducting genocides, and other things that the current regime wants to use against the citizens, residents, and guests of the United States? They want to label you a terrorist.

In the US, law enforcement is not supposed to be able to seize your phone, laptop, or other personal effects without a signed judicial warrant that specifically states what they’re seizing, what they’re looking for, and why.

What CPB did violated his rights. Their actions were unlawful, as they violated the US Constitution[3]. Much like many other enforcement actions taken against individuals in the United States.

[1] FBI definition, in a section that is prefaced with there is no single, universally accepted, definition of terrorism, references the Code of Federal Regulations: “the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.”

[2] Even back in the 90s people were commenting on how the line between ‘terrorist’ and 'freedom fighter’ was really blurry. George Carlin had a whole routine about language use that called it out. One might easily “identify” a foreign religious extremist as a terrorist while ignoring identical behavior in a domestic religious extremist. You can look at what ICE and the current regime are doing and see that it also falls under the above definition of terrorism.

[3] The US Constitution serves as the foundational layer of all other US laws. In a non-dysfunctional era, the Supreme Court would strike down laws, policies, and other official decisions and orders that violated the Constitution because the intention is that if it does not follow the Constitution, it cannot be lawful.

[ganondorf]

remembering when i was at pride and there was this guy passing around around a petition against building large data centers in the state and this person with a mohawk and anarchy shirt went up to him and i swear to god started talking about "what about the people who rely on the data centers for their jobs?"

[easternhognose]

Lmao what a fucking loser. "It's super punk of me to defend the finances of data bros over the life of the planet"

[fangs4faggots]

i think we should start openly mocking male creatives who can't figure out how to write women. like actually i think it's embarrassing that it took elliot page transitioning for christopher nolan to give him a good role. why did it take like ten years to get the first female lead in a marvel movie? why is it a Known Fact that stephen king can't write women? why is 50% of the population omitted from large ensemble works? i asked my friend to name a movie directed by a man with a majority female cast and he said ghostbusters 2016. ghostbusters. ghostbusters. g

[bakibakideemon]

What makes it much more worse is that you hear interviews from these directors and authors who detail the great lengths they went to understand a new culture, concept etc or even get into the heads space of the characters they are creating. But apparently can’t turn around and do the same to write women. It’s not that they can’t, clearly, it’s more on the lines of “why?” And “I don’t care”.

And it’s much easier to say “I can’t write women” then to accept any valid criticism about their lacking efforts

[tainbocuailnge]

forget everything anyone has ever told you on the matter the truest marker of adulthood is starting to hear the siren call of high quality kitchenware

[tainbocuailnge]

to be clear you SHOULD buy that cast iron pan and you SHOULD buy that knife set and you SHOULD buy that fancy rice cooker and you SHOULD buy that novelty mug. high quality kitchenware is always worth it you’re literally gonna be using that almost every day

[nudityandnerdery]

This seems like a good post to include this link on:

Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose

One buyout firm quietly collected Pyrex, Corelle, Instant Pot, and Oneida. Farberware is a name on a 200-year lease. And the pans still wort

Talking about popular kitchenware companies undergoing enshittification, and gives you a list of brands towards the end that are more reliable.

[kirkegarde]

Cast iron

Lodge: Owned by about 40 members of the founding families, two foundries in South Pittsburg, Tennessee since 1896, and still under $30 for a skillet your grandchildren will likely inherit.

Smithey: Founder-owned in Charleston, South Carolina. Smooth-finish heirloom pieces at heirloom prices.

Field Company: Brothers-owned, cast at US foundries. The lightweight, vintage-style pan.

Stargazer: Founder-owned in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Machined cooking surface, honest price.

Lancaster Cast Iron: Founder-owned in Conestoga, Pennsylvania with a fully domestic supply chain.

Borough Furnace: A husband-and-wife shop in Owego, New York that pours its own recycled iron in-house, which almost nobody in this country still does.

Enameled cast iron

Le Creuset: Privately held, and the cast iron still comes out of the same French foundry it has since 1925. The stoneware and accessories come from Asia, so buy the iron.

Staub: Still made in Merville, France under Zwilling, the German family conglomerate that has so far acquired without gutting. One caveat, courtesy of reader Tracy: that applies to the enameled cast iron only. Staub’s ceramic and stoneware lines (including the mini cocottes styled to look exactly like the cast iron ones) are made in China, along with the bakeware and accessories.

Stainless and carbon steel

All-Clad: The bonded lines are still made in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, sharp-rim settlement and French owner notwithstanding.

Heritage Steel: Family-owned in Clarksville, Tennessee, building on old Vollrath tooling. The fully American clad alternative.

Tramontina: Family-controlled in Brazil. The honest value play; their clad line embarrasses pans at twice the price.

de Buyer: The carbon steel standard, still made in the Vosges. It belongs to Groupe SEB as of January 2025, so it’s one to watch over the next few years.

Matfer Bourgeat: The French commercial standard, family-held, and what a lot of commercial kitchens use.

Knives

Victorinox: 90 percent owned by a foundation built to prevent exactly the kind of sale this essay is about. The Fibrox chef’s knife is the best $45 in any kitchen. All my knives are Victorinox - I plan to cover their story in an independent article.

Wüsthof: Seventh-generation family ownership, forged in Solingen.

Dexter-Russell: The knife in every American commercial kitchen, made in Southbridge, Massachusetts since 1818, still family-held.

Bakeware and glass

Nordic Ware: The family that invented the Bundt pan still makes it in Minneapolis.

USA Pan: The retail arm of the Bundy family’s commercial bakery-pan operation, which equips actual bakeries.

On glass bakeware, the unfortunate truth is that both American options are soda-lime. If you want borosilicate, buy European Pyrex online or thrift the old stuff.

Dinnerware and flatware

Corelle: Still made in Corning, New York and still the best cheap dinnerware going. The risk is the owner, not the product.

Fiesta: The last big American dinnerware factory, still family-owned in Newell, West Virginia.

Liberty Tabletop: America’s only flatware, made in the very Sherrill, New York plant Oneida walked away from, bought by two former Oneida executives.

Special mentions

Vitamix: Barnard family since 1921, Ohio-made, repairable. The appliance that gets willed to people.

All American 1930: The pressure canner, cast since 1930 by a family foundry in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, the same town Newell abandoned and got sued by. The town that lost Mirro still makes the best canner on earth. Some receipts write themselves.

[vanity-complex]

Job hunting in the U.S. is so bleak right now. Every job board looks like:

"MAKE YOUR OWN PATH: Commission based marketing/sales position. Invest your own blood and start making money in 6 months! (stop reporting us as a scam)"

"JOIN ICE. TERRORIZE YOUR NEIGHBORS: $5k signing bonus for first constitutional violation!"

"Be a cop: please?"

"Job that fits most or all of your qualifications: Please submit your application with 700 other people. We will interview three of you. We will hire none of you because the position was filled a month ago and the position below it was phased out. We also sold your information."

[bioluminescent-fungus]

no amount of butter or salt removes the nutrients from vegetables

[bioluminescent-fungus]

a vegetable in the stomach is worth two on the plate

[bioluminescent-fungus]

a lot of people are reblogging this to say that butter and salt make the nutrients in vegetables more available, and that's true, but let me be very clear: even if the only thing that butter and salt did was make the vegetables taste better, and they added nothing to the nutritional value, they would still be worth adding because they make vegetables taste better.

[bioluminescent-fungus]

no amount of butter or salt removes the nutrients from vegetables

[therosielord]

Also cooked vegetables are more easily digestible than raw vegetables! People always act like raw vegetables are the healthiest but that is NOT true if you have a sensitive digestive system. Roast that shit.

[bioluminescent-fungus]

no amount of butter or salt removes the nutrients from vegetables

[anik]

i love this guy

[teapotpartythot]

YES, an excuse to talk about my favorite commercial light fixture. Someone who is still on Reddit can send this over lmao.

So, things you only think about if you are an electrical engineer or a lighting designer, daylighting is super important to people feeling comfortable in a space, but windows are horrible abominations of god especially in a commercial building.

What do you have against windows you may be asking, and the answer is that all buildings, especially commercial ones, share the same solar direction. In the northern hemisphere, this is the south, so the south side of a building typically becomes a bar brawl between all of the different disciplines on a project. The architect wants beautiful windows south, The mechanical engineer is okay with windows south if their air handler can be south to handle the heat loads from the sun. The electrical engineer would prefer the air handlers to the north because the sun is south which means the solar panels need a clean path south, and meanwhile, the poor structural engineer is just sobbing because windows are notorious for not supporting the weight of the building, i.e. the air handlers the mech wants above the windows to handle the heat streaming in from the windows cannot be supported by the windows, which means pillars, which means putting the architect in a headlock and suplexing them.

Or, or, or, hear me out, sunlight is pretty easy to fake. If you have an LED light fixture with a good enough CRI (Color Rendering Index, basically how well you can see different colors under a light fixture), you get all of the psychological benefits of the sun, without dealing with the painful engineering realities of dealing with the actual sun.

Enter something like Light Glass Lighting basically, this is a high CRI LED in a fixture that looks like a window, and is usually either synced to a photocell (sensor that detects the presense of light) outdoors, or, like the OP has figured out, sometimes it's basically just a time clock, it turns on when the sun rises, and turns off when the sun sets, and you'll notice, if you use basically just a time clock with these, they won't turn off when it rains. Which can be very disorienting for some people, there is a way to get these to turn off when it rains (again, easiest way is to sync to a photocell outside, but you can also do like API pulls to a weather service) but sometimes they don't, or in Ikea, I would guess they don't intentionally.