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TMBGareOK. The Official They Might Be Giants tumblr
Love Begins
Interview Vampire Daily
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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
Cookie Run:Kingdom Official!
Mike Driver
Sweet Seals For You, Always
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
The Stonewall Inn
Doug Jones
Keni
macklin celebrini has autism
oozey mess
PR's Tumblrdome
almost home
Color Me Curious
$LAYYYTER
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@sapiosexual-dennis
i am not made for letterboxd. i don't know how to have an opinion on a film. it was a film and i saw it. will report in 3 days to 5 months if it left an impression. i will change my mind in every subsequent viewing and chances i ever see this film again are slim to none. i have already forgotten everything about it.
I recently discovered laundry stripping and y’all, no matter how much of a crock of shit you think fast fashion is, you’re underestimating.
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OKAY SO. You know how we talk about how one way fast fashion has made itself “necessary” is that the clothing looks like shit and feels horrible after just a few washes?
Let. Me. Tell. You. Something.
Laundry stripping is a process where you load your laundry into a tub or bin (I’ve been using my bathtub) with warm water, half a cup of borax, half a cup of washing soda, and half a cup of laundry soap (not detergent, SOAP, there’s a chemical difference). Leave it there for at least eight hours. I’ve been going for 12-24.
What you will come back to is a tub full of nearly-opaque black-gray-brown water that absolutely REEKS. This is normal. You are looking at (and smelling) hard water buildup, body sweat and oils that were embedded in the fabric, dead skin, and just regular grime.
Wring out your clothes. Throw them in the washer. (I like to do a spin-only cycle before going any further, because I have one of those washers that determines by weight how much water any given load needs.) Wash as usual.
You will notice I didn’t suggest any further pretreatment, and that’s because 1) you don’t want to layer too many chemicals on top of each other but also 2) you may not even need it.
When your clothes come out, check each one as it goes into the dryer, and if anything else s still stained, set it aside to run again with a regular pretreatment. One of the sweaters I did this with apparently did need a second treatment…to deal with what appears to have possibly been a hot chocolate stain that was previously invisible due to “well, it’s old” dinginess. I was planning to throw this sweater out. It looks almost new now. I need to wash it one more time for the probably-a-hot-chocolate stain, and then it needs to have the hem weighted to block it and bring it back to evenness, but dude. I wear my clothes to rags and I thought this thing was unfixable. “I need to reshape it” is nothing.
Remove clothes from dryer when done. Fucking MARVEL at the colors and how good the fabric feels. Give them a smell. Get righteously and royally angry that you can rejuvenate this stuff so easily, with a process that does take awhile but is 90% hands-off, but we’ve been trained to believe it’s all got to be binned once a year because discoloration and gross fabric is “normal wear and tear” and can’t be fixed.
It’s utterly unreal! I just pulled a seven-year-old work undershirt out of the dryer and this thing looks NEW!! It FEELS almost new!!! One of the shirts I hung up from the last load is older than some of the people on this site and it went from “I keep this to wear on laundry day, for sentimental reasons” to “I could actually wear this out of the house, it looks old but respectable”! The pajama bottoms I’m wearing were from Goodwill and they have BRIGHT YELLOW in them! I thought it was goldenrod!!
I do not know how often you’re supposed to do this (doing it every time can strip the dye out of your clothes, not to mention it’s way too much work to do every time), but once or twice per season seems respectable. I don’t wear white, so I can’t test the “it will make whites look almost-new as well” claim, but I’ve seen a lot of people on the cleaning subreddit attest that it works.
Just remember: WASHING soda. Not baking soda. I tried baking soda and a little bit happened, but not a lot.
Go forth. Rejuvenate your clothing. Strip your laundry.
hardware romance
one of the most fundamental building blocks of electronics is the capacitor, a simple passive component that stores a charge, almost like a battery, by creating an electric field between two conductors separated by a dielectric. how they work is not the focus of this post, though, i am here to talk about a certain kind of capacitor and what draws me to them
the electrolytic capacitor
inside these little cylinders is a sealed chamber containing a special liquid (the dielectric). these capacitors are capable of storing a relatively very large charge compared to other types. they are much bigger than most other fundamental components and are much more prone to failure due to their construction: while in use, they vibrate constantly. an improper voltage differential can cause a conductive pathway through the dielectric liquid, causing it heat up and boil, driving the pressure up in the sealed chamber until eventually it POPS, filling the room with a scent that i am all too familiar with
they are also usually the most expensive passive components, and as such there is a huge market of very poor quality electrolytic capacitors. almost every electronic device made nowadays uses these bad capacitors to shave pennies off manufacturing costs. we don’t build things to last anymore
i hunt for vintage computing equipment. i nurture this equipment back to health; this nearly always involves replacing the most vulnerable parts: the electrolytic caps. the capacitors i use are of top quality and have an air of romance and dignity to them which these words are meant to express to you
the rubycon corporation (ルビコン株式会社) of japan has a wikipedia page comprised of just a few short sentences. you would not immediately think much of this several-hundred-billion dollars/year revenue company that holds a significant share of the capacitor market
rubycon, along with nippon-chemicon and maybe nichicon, are among the very few companies left that manufacture truly proper capacitors. after dealing with hundreds of cheap, shitty, exploding little pieces of garbage, you come to appreciate their work. it’s a hard feeling to express (let alone communicate), and i think the best word that does this is romance
these little capacitors feel heavy in your hand. you do not feel nor hear the sloshing of the electrolytic fluid behind the anodized, notched can. the heatshrink fits perfectly around the body of the can, with regal gold lettering clearly printed upon a dark mauve backdrop. the leads arrive perfectly straight owing to these company’s tight manufacturing tolerances
there is a legend that an engineer left rubycon, some fifty years ago, after hastily and clandestinely writing down the recipe for their proprietary dielectric fluid in an attempt to steal it and use it as a bargaining chip to secure a position at a competing capacitor manufacturer. fate awarded his carelessness and nefariousness: he muddled up several figures in the recipe, turning a renowned a closely guarded formula for a near-perfect dielectric fluid into one that fails (almost certainly) after about five years of use (about 17 percent of what their lifetime should be)
this is the supposed cause of the capacitor plague, a very real and documented phenomenon
enough of me grandstanding, though. the most satisfying and cathartic beauty is found in the places where everyone else isn’t looking
why does my caladium act like she is starving for light. hang on
every day i ahve to reposition the damn lamp cuz she’s dead set on sticking her first leaf Right The Fuck In There and i don’t want her to burn. but every day i come home from work and she has closed the distance anyway. bestie PLEASE cooperate with me
i finally caved and moved her to the windowsill but this has clearly not satisfied her because she still presses that leaf RIGHT up against the glass
apparently instead of actually growing new leaves in order to increase her light intake she’s decided that these are PERFECT conditions to flower in
BABYGIRL YOU HAVE ONE LEAF PLEASE
[Last image is a tag that reads, “never thought I'd see a plant with unhealthy coping mechanisms”
The previous images are photos of the plant.]
dog time AKA the only reason i've been managing not to overwork myself
death of the author except when its funny
exactly what someone who regularly turns into a dog would say
im having a genuine blast this is like a gender reveal party to me
The Wand Company's replica of the Love Ball has been announced and is available from the US Pokemon Center site!
remember when spongebob repped the levant
Remember when the SpongeNazi Cult stalked and harassed and kidnapped and tortured members of the My Little Pony and Steven Universe fandoms? Remember when the SpongeNazi Cult actively sabotaged the workspace of the Legend of Korra team in order to get rid of “POC gay feminist garbage”? Remember when the SpongeNazi Cult stayed silent when NicKKKillodeon plotted to colonize and enslave the Philippines and China by constructing a theme park at Coron, Palawan, and enacting Christian martial law over the natives? Remember when the voice actor of SpongeNazi admitted to being an illegal immigrant from Ireland and not being arrested for it as bragged about it on Twitler? Remember when the entire cast and crew of SpongeNazi were exposed o be all-white, as in, white as pig’s cum? And not a single POC was present? Remember when StephNazi HitlerBerg openly admitted that he whitewashed Native Pacific Islanders in SpongeNazi ColonizerPants? Because I do. White supremacist turd.
you don’t follow me so uhhhhhhhh what exactly do you want from me that requires you send me 900 anons about spongebob and nazis
cant believe i’ve never shared arguably the funniest dms i’ve ever gotten in my life
this is by far my favorite safety/warning sign btw. they really went off with this one
No cuz I fucking love this sign. It’s not an actual barrier so it’s not like some sort of challenge it simply says “fuck around and you will find out”
Ohohoho I LOVE “fuck around and find out” signs, especially the really dramatic and ominous (but true) ones
(Context for the last one: it’s a WWII era sign posted around the soldiers’ washroom mirror, warning them to never discuss military plans in places where civilians could hear them and report back to the enemy, e.g. in restaurants and pubs in the country. “Loose lips sink ships”.)
I also love these two, which I would place in the category of “You already fucked around, now you’re about to find out.”
Aerated water is fucking scary. It's water that has a fuckton of gas in it, which reduces the buoyancy to the point where you will immediately start to sink if you fall in.
this is my favorite reddit relationships post ❤️
oh, someone bought me crabs! thank you!! I-
wait a sec.
ZOOM IN.
that looks... familiar.
hang on-
...all right. standing ovation from me on the animal pun, tumblr staff!
ahahaha! AHAHAHAHA!!!
HALLOWEEN CRABS BE UPON THEE
OH NO IF YOU CLICK THEM THEY GHOSTIE
Can you imagine the heat?? Badass af
How could you forget all the cool heavy metal ladies!? The metal scene of Botswana is NOT just a boys club
Anyone know any of the names of these individual’s groups? I love metal music and I’m always looking for new bands to listen to.
Wrust is my fave. Overthrust, Gunsmoke, and Demon are also good.
PS in Botswana metal heads are called Marok, and lady metalheads call themselves Queens and give themselves badass nicknames like Phoenix Death Serpent.
Phoenix Death Serpent is the most BADASS NAME IN EXISTENCE!!!!!!!!!!
cricket believes in you or something like that
A compilation of MacDennis drawings, in honor of the latest season of Always Sunny.
I haven’t done a Sunny zine in two years, and I’ve amassed quite a bit of (admittedly, mostly Mac & Dennis-related) drawings in the meantime.
So — ta da! For the exhorbitant price of $0+, you can get 20 pages of sketches, reworked older drawings and previously unposted stuff. Enjoy and spread the word!
