Water Monkey

[lostinhistory]

Wake up babe, new octopus just dropped

He's such a little guy!

[draegon-of-yore]

A Bridgestone Transit folding bike with a shaft drive system.

[draegon-of-yore]

What is a Shaft Drive Bicycle?

Drive shafts are commonly used in automotive and industrial applications. But what you may not know is that they’ve been used on bicycles for over 125 years.

Instead of using a chain and sprocket set up to rotate the rear wheel, two sets of bevel gears transfer energy to the rear wheel via a drive shaft. The entire drive system is usually housed in an aluminium case that doubles as the right-hand side chainstay of your frame.

Shaft drive bicycle manufacturers – who still exist today – promise no exposed moving parts, no greasy or broken chains, and no skipping gears, which all sound pretty good to me.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

@jorality

[jorality]

We know who has all the brain cells

[arsnof]

It makes the dream work

[naamahdarling]

Being smart enough to know when to consult and listen to someone more knowledgeable is in fact quite smart! Many humans cannot manage this!

[primordialsoundmeditation]

Green Witch Tea

[herpsandbirds]

Wasp-mimic Moth (Tyrictaca sp.), family Sesiidae, Malaysia

photographs by Timmy Wong

[shamebats]

Tiktok post by @ wynunlimited.

[iamoutofideas]

“heres how to make a pair of pants for yourself”

step 1: have a entire room completely set up just for tailoring

[niceferatu]

it needs an iron, masking tape, a pencil, and see-through paper. you don't need the pins if you're careful about keeping it lined up. you could do that on your floor and hand-sew it after that if you wanted to. the most specialised piece of equipment they used in the video, apart from the sewing machine, was a clear ruler.

[vinceaddams]

Yeah that's a silly complaint, tons of people cut fabric on their kitchen tables or on the floor. I've been sewing since 2011 and didn't have an actual sewing room until the start of 2024. It was frustratingly cramped sewing in my bedroom, but I still sewed lots of things in there.

Most of my fabric is secondhand, and I've gotten a lot of sewing supplies from thrift stores and estate sales. I know not everyone lives somewhere that has those things, but there are still budget options to look into. There are a lot of things that are nice to have but not strictly necessary.

Frieda Leopold did an experiment earlier this year where she bought the minimum sewing supplies necessary for a dress, and kept to a budget of 150 euros for all the tools including the sewing machine.

And this Morning Mercury video about trying to learn weaving without spending any money also feels relevant.

[pigeondyke]

hazariel atelier also has a video about making patterns from clothes you already have

one of the items was made from a second hand bedsheet, so you could do this without even spending much on fabric

[vinceaddams]

Yes, I love thrifted cotton bedsheets! Best fabric ever for nightgowns and pyjama bottoms.

Also I just found the full length video that was mentioned at the end of the tiktok. I haven't watched it yet because it's late and I should go to bed, but there are a lot of comments saying it's clear and easy to understand.

[skylark-spinner]

quilt time quilt time

[skylark-spinner]

the cats are beginning to take shape!

[skylark-spinner]

great news! the cat heads have turned into full cats!

[skylark-spinner]

The quilt has been quote, bound, and run through the laundry freshly baked! Unfortunately a piecing seam did pull when it got washed, so I have to fix that and then pictures

[littlesweatermart]

(source)

[pmamtraveller]

Fish-shaped interlocking paving stones.

[sergle]

i’m reading why does he do that and this last part has been ON FIRE, i am hollering in my house.

[sergle]

while i’m talking about this book again i should mention that, since it’s an abuse resource, Why Does He Do That is available to read for free as a pdf, and i’d highly recommend it.

[chatteringfox]

[Alt text: Is He Doing It On Purpose?

When a client of mine tells me that he became abusive because he lost control of himself, I ask him why he didn’t do something even worse. For example, I might say, “You called her a fucking whore, you grabbed the phone out of her hand and whipped it across the room, and then you gave her a shove and she fell down. There she was at your feet, where it would have been easy to kick her in the head. Now, you have just finished telling me that you were ‘totally out of control’ at that time, but you didn’t kick her. What stopped you?” And the client can always give me a reason. Here are some common explanations:

“I wouldn’t want to cause her a serious injury.”

“I realized one of the children was watching.”

“I was afraid someone would call the police.”

“I could kill her if I did that.”

“The fight was getting loud, and I was afraid neighbors would hear.”

And the most frequent response of all:

“Jesus, I wouldn’t do that. I would never do something like that to her.”

The response that I almost never heard—I remember hearing it twice in fifteen years—was: “I don’t know.”

These ready answers strip the cover off of my clients’ loss-of-control excuse. While a man is on an abusive rampage, verbally or physically, his mind maintains awareness of a number of questions: “Am I doing something that other people could find out about, so it could make me look bad? Am I doing anything that could get me in legal trouble? Could I get hurt myself? Am I doing anything that I myself consider too cruel, gross, or violent?”

A critical insight seeped into me from working with my first few dozen clients: An abuser almost never does anything that he himself considers morally unacceptable. He may hide what he does because he thinks other people would disagree with it, but he feels justified inside. I can’t remember a client ever having said to me: “There’s no way I can defend what I did. It was just totally wrong.” He invariably has a reason that he considers good enough. In short, an abuser’s core problem is that he has a distorted sense of right and wrong. /End alt text]

[youngerfrankenstein]

To put it very bluntly.

You will always make a better impact helping people who need it than trying to hurt people you think deserve it.

[tpwrtrmnky]

the real answer to almost every "does [identity A] belong in [identity B] spaces" question is actually just "these spaces are informal social groups and if you're cool you can hang, don't worry about it"

[tpwrtrmnky]

You can be Homer Simpson at the lesbian bar. It's fine. Don't worry about it.

[lizardlicks]

not without those fire exits I'm not. have fun in your death trap, ladies

[mrsandman42069]

[twiststreet]

"The Fencing World Championships will introduce the "Sword Tip Visualization System." This system was developed by Japanese engineers, used at the Tokyo Olympics, and can track and display the sword tip's movement trajectory without any markers." (X)

[draegon-of-yore]

Rubber plants are from the Ficus genus, which is mildly toxic to pets when ingested.

[catsofcalifornia]

Fiver from Burbank Animal Shelter in Burbank, California

Click here for more information about adoption and other ways to help!

Click here for a link to Burbank Animal Shelter's main website.

[captain-price-returns]

they had 19 year old /pol/ users going through all federal spending and deleting anything where the words were too big to understand

[jedi-bird]

Current state list as of July 10, 2026. This is going to keep spreading because the current cause of unknown. Avoid all raw fruits and vegetables and wash everything very carefully, including your hands and surfaces that come in contact with produce. Trust nothing.