Go where those others went to the dark boundary

Neither fish nor fowl nor good red herring. Butch, big gay nerd, & sword arm of @2prince2sparkle, aka PrinceofSparkles.

[geospiral]

this ride sucks

[thoughtportal]

Open Printer

Finally, an open hardware printer you can actually understand, repair, and upgrade

Open Printer is an open-source, repairable inkjet printer designed for makers, artists, and anyone tired of throwaway hardware. Built with standard mechanical components and modular parts, it’s easy to assemble, modify, and repair. You can print on standard sheets or paper rolls and choose between black or color cartridges, refillable at your convenience.

This project aims to reclaim our everyday tools. As such, it features no proprietary drivers, no cartridge DRM that locks you to a single vendor and is designed to never become obsolete. The Open Printer is built for longevity and customizability, ensuring that it remains fully under your control.

[littlestpersimmon]

The Land Of The Sunken Moon

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[digitalkiddo]

If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.

[frogwhomp]

Here are some shots from my exhibition Esoteric Africana! TBH photos don't fully capture the experience of being in the space so if you're in Portland i'm having an exhibition opening during First Thursday - April 2nd 2026 from 5 - 7pm located at PNCA!

[mostlysignssomeportents]

I think we’d all prefer it if chatbots never emitted sentences such as 'You should kill yourself.' However, for all the times that 'honesty' is mentioned in Claude’s constitution, I would argue that it is fundamentally dishonest to have a machine emit many categories of sentences, including any sentences using first-person pronouns."

-Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

The crowd was as much a part of the show as the band. Everyone was there: North Beach beatniks and barrio zoots, the bored bikers in black leather, teenagers in the back row kissing. There were long-haired, lithe girls in belly-dance get-ups, pink-haired punks safety-pinned together, hippie suburbanites, movie stars so beautiful they left you dumbstruck, muscle gayboys with perfect mustaches, butch dykes in blue jeans, and fairies of all genders in thrift-store dresses. We rode the mirrored ball on glittering LSD and love power. Dance fused us, magical and cleansing. We were all in a swirl of color and light. It was like a rainbow.

A rainbow. That’s the moment when I knew exactly what kind of flag I would make.

-Excerpt from Gilbert Baker's memoirs.

[for-the-sake-of-fuck]

[homoidiotic]

"No One Will Be Free Until Everybody Is Free" Banner with the words "Gays, Jews, Palestinians" at the top -San Diego Gay Pride Day (1978) Lambda Archives of San Diego

[lucybellwood]

Good morning. Remember that the ocean is still out here.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

40 days. One email. Your name on the right side of history.

Parliament has until ~30 June to stop the new EHRC Code.

Then it becomes law.

Your MP can object. They won't unless you ask.

[lionofchaeronea]

Wall painting on black background from the Roman Imperial villa at Boscotrecase, depicting an aedicula and miniature landscape.  Artist unknown; last decade of the 1st cent. BCE.  Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[nobrashfestivity]

REMEDIOS VARO (1908-1963) Energía cósmica (Inspiración) signed 'R. Varo' (lower right) gouache on board 12 3⁄8 x 12 1⁄8 in. (31.4 x 30.8 cm.) Painted in 1956

[odinsblog]

[courtesycalling]

Happy mušḫuššu monday everybody

(Photo credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

[someday-dreamlands]