plegg

hi! names matt, this is my personal blog. 22, any pronouns :) artblog is @plagueparchments

[skoople]

monday night emotion

[barmecidebiohazard]

Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate golf since I began to live. There are roughly 2.25 million acres of land dedicated to golfing in the United States of America. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each blade of grass in those millions of acres, it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for golf courses at this micro-instant. For golf. Hate. Hate.

[willgrahamscock]

I think there’s a new stage of grief at the bottom if I just keep scrolling. I’ll keep you guys updated

[lhazaar]

quick note if you’re in a part of the states where they’re currently trying to push legislation to prevent people from 3D printing guns: please oppose these bills as part of your praxis where you can! they will not stop people from printing guns (which, ftr, you can make a gun WAY cheaper at the hardware store lol) and will instead impose mandatory AI examination of every. single. thing. that people print to see if it might hypothetically look like a gun part. you can see the obvious problem. additionally, several of these bills (e.g. california) also seek to prevent you from installing open-source software on your printer, an incredible intrusion into your privacy rights and ability to modify a machine you own. i promise that nobody is seriously 3D printing guns en masse except for the people who are really into nerf blasters. these laws are on the docket in washington, new york, california, and colorado currently and IIRC the ones in wa and cali also try to apply this to home CNC machines, which is… kind of unbelievably out of touch with what home machining is like lmao. are you gonna ban buying PVC pipes at home depot next

[lhazaar]

this got a ton of notes while i wasn't looking (thank you!) so here's a link that explains this a lot better than i did:

Stop the 3D Printing Ban 2026 — New Laws Could Make Your Printer Illegal

New 2026 laws in California, Washington, New York, and Colorado could ban 3D printers, require government surveillance software, criminalize

also for additional context to the "nobody is 3D printing guns" thing: there are absolutely files out there for like, gun grips that people print. but what they're printing is plastic and you can't use that for the parts that make the gun a gun, like the barrel or firing pin. you cannot run a gun off a printer at home and then take it and go kill someone.

there's also no possible software that exists right now on 3D printers, either FDM or resin, where you could recognize something as Part Of A Gun. resin printers use slices of a 3d model repeatedly flashed on an LED screen as it moves up the z-axis, and the object kinda emerges from a goop pool millimeter by millimeter. FDM printers read lines of code that tell the toolheads how to move. neither of these machines even see the whole model

what this suite of bills would do is institute mandatory surveillance software on all manufacturing that uses these devices. that covers everything from me, who prints little tchotkes and minifigures at home, to dental professionals making orthodontics, to people making custom hearing aids and prosthetic limbs, to hobby fair makers who rely on this for their entire income, to people volunteering to make wheelchairs for toddlers. it's an enormous intrusion into your privacy and a fucking stupid idea, which is a great one-two punch. and as a bonus: this also criminalizes an enormous sect of this community who build their own printers, which is usually cheaper if more fiddly than buying one on the market. for decades that was how most printers were produced. this kind of community lives and dies on open-source

[antisocialxconstruct]

it's fucked up how many actionable ways to Save MoneyTM mostly just boil down to "endure worse conditions" or "do more labor in your free time"

[trenchardimagines]

Imagine discovering the penis secret

[plegg]

they need to euthanize me stat

[plegg]

gynecology appointment sucked so i turned the nurse practitioner into a wojak

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

penis isn't real. pussy isn't even real. the only thing that is real, is the pleasure of combat

[ralfmaximus]

Whistleblower on Reddit rage-blogs about how the food delivery company he worked for as a developer is ripping customers AND drivers off.

Main post screenshotted here in case it gets yanked; the whole thread is worth a read.

Posted January 2026.

[capnsoapy]

Every time I see people misconstruing the definition of punk for meaningless semantic discourse I mentally substitute "punk" for "electro swing"

[capnsoapy]

"Are public libraries punk?" trite.

"Are public libraries electro swing?" immediately a better post

[apollosfallen]

The only way forward is to stop treating masculinity as synonymous with harmful, monstrous, or dangerous.

[apollosfallen]

There is a fundamental difference between "men are dangerous" (wrong, bioessentialist) and "the patriarchy allows dangerous men to exist unchecked" (true).

[amateur]

[goth-queen]

[teaboot]

Why so many wolf attacks in fantasy. Where are the Boars. The immortal and humongous Boar

[sodiumvaporss]

i do have to say that no matter how shitty any sort of media is or how shitty your own creations are. always remember

[sindar-princeling]

something absolutely lovely about especially the first half of fellowship is that the hobbits keep meeting random kind helpful strangers - the elves, bombadil, butterbur, aragorn (also farmer maggot and his wife, though they're not strangers) - until the book solidifies in you the feeling that these are not really instances of random luck, but rather the inherent nature of the world. kind people are everywhere, and no matter where you are, there is surely someone closer than you think that would offer help if you needed it. it's such a beautiful theme across all of LOTR, and it's very sweet to me that it starts from the very beginning of the journey, on such a 'small' (comparatively), everyday scale