Nerd, and Proud

Sometimes I make things. 1B-BB-R

[singlewalkrun]

Snorlax, I think you better get that checked out....

[whataboutmysanity]

In honor of the Ides of March approaching, here’s the trash can I wrote on 2 years ago and only touch up in March

[greensword101]

@isalisewrites @princesstadashi this has me laughing out loud 😂😆

[fuck-u-maga]

[dankmemeuniversity]

[explorerrowan]

They’re also shooting for 100% renewable plastic sources by 2030! All of the soft plant/leaf elements in sets right now and going forward are made out of bioplastic made from sugarcane, and they’re working on getting the regular hard plastic bricks out of that, too.

[lynnafred]

They’ve done it, actually! The full bricks are in the prototype stage now, and are expected to be 100% biodegradable without the need for a commercial compost facility. It’s very cool. Right now they’re testing the durability and playability of the bricks and seeing what needs to be revised/reworked on their final model.

[friedgengarz]

[fullhalalalchemist]

So its that easy huh

[sushinfood]

Of course it is

[ultranos]

Actually, this isn’t “easy” and is huge news. You see, Lego is absolutely meticulous about their quality control. Their standards for manufacturing are stupidly high, as are their safety requirements. You know that distinctive “click” when you pop two Lego bricks apart? They engineered that. That sound is so distinctive that it can be used to tell genuine Lego bricks from counterfeits and it’s a sound that would be based on shape and material.

Furthermore, one of the hard requirements for a Lego brick is that it must be compatible with any other Lego brick. If I buy a set today and pull a set from the 1980s? Those bricks would fit together perfectly. This requires a huge amount of precision engineering and controls on manufacturing quality. (I can’t remember the source, but I’ve at least heard that once the brick molds wear to a certain point, they’re pulled from the line and either melted down or turned into construction material for Lego HQ. Point being, no one is getting their hands on a worn Lego mold)

Recycled and non-petroleum plastics are different from other plastic. The chemistry is different. The timing and process to use them is different. This has been a reason why more companies haven’t moved to them, because there’s a drop in quality for material (so they claim).

What Lego just did is completely obliterate that argument. The corporation with some of the strictest quality control requirements for plastic just kicked the basic foundation of the “bad quality” argument out from under it, because if they feel confident enough to guarantee the same experience as using a brick from over 40 years ago, if they are confident enough that they can meet their own metrics at a huge industrial scale….

Nobody else has any excuse.

[justalurkr]

GLORIOUS NERDERY Lego edition

[hyenaswine]

we passed a sign in boring that said their sister city is dull, scotland

[hyenaswine]

oh there's a third! bland, new south wales!

[zoestorm]

I'm sorry but I just have to appreciate the wordplay on that last sign. It's brilliant.

[entropicembrace]

WGA/SAG strike in a nutshell

[gay-hrithik-roshan]

and

[loth-catgirl]

[bisexualgoth]

all workers' strikes are good. yes even if they're inconvenient. even if they're making your life harder. even if you don't get to watch your favourite tv show. workers fighting for their rights is ALWAYS a good thing

[manny-jacinto]

COMMUNITY (2009–2015) ’Comparative Religion’

[wearetrashpeople]

HiQueue: A Collage Zine Written by The Trash People of Planet Scum

This week Emily Pineapple and Forrest, Keeper of the Canon celebrated the work of 1b-bb-r and made a zine with the Trash People of Planet Scum! Plus, we were joined by Bryson, Jess, and AliceForeverCemetary!

Download the Zine:

Full Color Black and White

The zine includes image submissions from Skye, Uncle “Bryson”, beautifulcity, lindseypremmel, stephenpremmel, HeadCheese Henry, aguynamedmatty, alice, blogthoven, 1-bb-br, and HordeJedi.

Notes for Printing: Print it DOUBLE SIDED To print this as intended, you’ll want to print the zine using the paper size US Letter Borderless in your printer settings so that everything lines up correctly. You’ll also want to make sure to print it at a scale of 100% rather than scaling it to print. Here’s a video explaining how to fold a one page zine: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ixqr9e3wCxI

Highlights From the Stream:

Our Interview with 1-bb-br The Only Way to Know Syllables “Bryson” Recaps Only Murders in the Building and the Origin of Horny Steve Martin One-Take Story Time with Alice: The Yellow Wallpaper

On Stream Guests:

1b-bb-r:

Art Blog: https://m-lau.tumblr.com/ DIY Jerseys: https://www.instagram.com/diyjerseys/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/singlewalkrun/ TW: https://twitter.com/singlewalkrun

Bryson:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/unclebryson/ TW: https://twitter.com/unclebryson

Jess:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/thejessicajimenez/ TW: https://twitter.com/thejessjimenez

Alice:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/malicecity/ TW: https://twitter.com/aliceinlosang

We Are Trash People is a Fan Project which celebrates Planet Scum. Originally created as a podcast, it is now a livestream which happens every Wednesday at 5 pm PT / 8 pm ET at https://www.twitch.tv/wearetrashpeople.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TrashPeoplePod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WeAreTrashPeopleShow Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/wearetrashpeople Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wearetrashpeople/

[omibutt]

SELFIE, S01E05: “Even Hell Has Two Bars” ( 2014 )

[stimman4000]

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[legosaurus]

Minifigure Typography

Created by Heidie Santana || IG

[arsanatomica]

ANTI-BARFING SPIKES.

This is why they have such a problem with plastic bags. It’s because the unique structure of their esophagus makes it so that they can’t get rid of them.

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[clowncore-lee-deactivated202107]

PLEASE SPREAD THIS

[hecth-ledger]

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

[liberalsarecool]

#Amazon #Unions

[phoenixyfriend]

I don’t want to end Amazon, because it provides an incredibly useful service to the disabled community, the elderly, and those who simply don’t have time to go shopping due to working three jobs and the like. There currently isn’t a major alternative on the market that is the same level of cheap and accessible.

What I do want to do is enforce some goddamn antitrust laws on major web-based companies like Amazon and Google and Facebook, and roll back their attempts at monopolizing entire industries, and make them pay their lowest-rung workers a fair wage and stop running their warehouses like a scene from a dystopian nightmare.