THAT CAT IS IN SPACE

Star Trek, bugs, weird stuff

[captainsblogsupplemental]

[obi-waankenobi]

#i like to think data took him all the way to the brig tossed him in and left#and then came back 60 seconds later and was like ‘i believe i have successfully played a ‘practical joke’ on you :)’#riker loses it & claps him on the back like ‘wow. good job u rly had me going. dont ever fucking do that again’ Perfect.

[ingridverse]

Actually it’s 73 seconds. Data, knowing something of how human minds work, estimates that Riker will give him 60 seconds to come back (because humans prefer “round numbers”, however arbitrary the units). After 60 seconds it will take 4 seconds for Riker to fully process the conclusion that Data is, in fact, not coming back after all, and an additional 9 seconds to build to the optimum level of anxiety. 

After all, comedy is timing.

[sniperct]

[freshcuntgrass]

Nothing has done quite so much damage to my internal vocabulary as the construction #MyNoun. I don't remember if it was from that "tour of my jar, this is my twig #MyTwig" or if it was from "inappropriate attachment to objects, my tuube #MyTuube" but either way it was one of you fuckers on here. I do it every time there's my noun #MyNoun

[godlessondheimite]

this is the greatest story ever told

from Ask a Manager

[mikkeneko]

#there are a lot of good reasons not to use child labor#but admittedly one of them is that children aren’t good at it

[apolladay]

Have you ever been bitten by an animal?

yes

no

Voting ended onMay 2

I don't mean like when baby animals and/or pets play fight/nip at you.

[sinister-kitteh]

I have been bitten by fish in a lake multiple times. They go for the toes.

I have also been bitten by ticks, mosquitoes, leeches, and horseflies, but they just wanted my blood so not quite in the same class as fish, who want to consume my flesh.

[butch-king-frankenstein]

We need to start sexualizing the janitor's jumpsuit as the butch equivalent of the maid's uniform

[pangur-and-grim]

I got something really cute and nice from my publisher! a little book pin - it even has pages on the side

[pangur-and-grim]

you’re not going to believe it, this is going to totally shock you, but Belphie diiiiiid break my little book pin by balancing on a loose box and standing on his very tip toes and batting it off a shelf with his claws

[pangur-and-grim]

I put him in a hat out of anger

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

It's the last day of April

[my-little-bologna]

Wake up babe, new meta layer just dropped

[hellenhighwater]

Eleanor update! She has gone in to the out!

She's sitting three feet from the door so she can watch mother garden. She stayed for ten whole minutes and did not even get snatched up and carried away by eagles! Very impressive work, Eleanor.

[moveslikekeithrichards]

there is no greater joy on this earth than Making Lists, Categorizing, & Sorting

[flying-lemons]

oh do I have the game for you

[dancing-crow]

I could . not. put. this down for 48 hours - stayed up too late, had weird dreams about it, woke up early, and played it while I was supposed to be doing other things. the last several dozen items took a lot of googling, which I do not even begrudge it.

and then. My partner started it. And the SAME THING happened to him.

surprisingly compelling. start when you have free time. like, yanno, a snow day.

[foone]

oh my god, if you are the kind of person who gets sucked into logic puzzles, do not click that link if you have to do anything/go to sleep in the next couple hours

[improbabledreams900]

I was disappointed there weren't more levels, so I made them! The creator's code was under CC Share Alike, so I moved a copy to my website, rustled up 40 new categories, and added buttons so you can generate smaller puzzles!

Check it out! More levels!

[spockeveryday]

[maverick-ornithography]

pelcan Mouth perfec t size for put baby in to n\ap! inside very Soft and Comfort baby sleep soundly put baby in Pelican Mouth. Put Baby In Pelican Mouth. no problems ever in peliccan mouth because good Shape and Support for baby neck weak of big baby head. Apelican Mouth yes a place for a baby put baby in pelican mouth can trust pelican for giveing good love to baby. friend pelican

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[recurring-polynya]

never lose hope. somewhere, a middle-aged, gender ambiguous person with an advanced degree in an esoteric field and a fiber arts hobby could be crashing out and pinning all their remaining mental health on getting obsessed with your otp. any day now, the most elegantly written 100k fanfic you have ever read is going to hit ao3. it could happen. it has happened.

[hellenhighwater]

I'm putting a leather cover on my thread book to make it more durable, and debating a layer of board between the paper and leather for extra rigidity.

[hellenhighwater]

To answer some questions: this is properly called a Chinese Thread Book, or Zhen Xian Bao. I followed the tutorial below when I made mine several years ago. It's not one single piece of origami, it's actually 31 (very repetitive) pieces that lock into each other. (If memory serves, I believe I added a bit of glue when I attached them to make it extra secure.)

The only modification I made to the pattern that's demonstrated is that I took the largest bottom layer, and added about an inch to its total length so that I would have a gap between both halves and could "close" it like you see above. I used a large pad of manila drawing paper, and just made my proportions as big as I could on the paper--I think I was somewhere near 24 inches on the longest side of the biggest piece, and the book is about 12 inches square.

It does hold objects well! Nothing big or bulky, but I usually have stickers, postcards, pressed flowers, envelopes and stamps in here; I emptied it mostly out because I'm thinking about bringing it to the hobbit larp in the fall. It is a bit delicate--it is just paper--but it's also really fun!

Because the pattern is modular, you could basically stop or continue at any stage--mine is five layers deep, but you could stop at three, or continue to ten, if you could find big enough paper.

[haterrific]

hey happy fawkin new year

[catboybiologist]

sorry i told u to kill yourself the other day, i was like crazy horny and not thinking straight

Understandable girlboss let's channel that energy into getting laid next time

[catboybiologist]

Only valid character tag here post everyone else pack it up

[hellenhighwater]

A number of you have asked about my recipe cards, which I do make myself. I get precut 4x6 inch blank cards, and keep recipes in a running word doc--I will often edit down instructions to be more brief in order to fit on a card.

I set up the word doc with the page size as 4x6, with narrow margins. I print them though my printer's manual feed slot, which it handles just fine--but note that doing a double-sided print with a card like this usually means flipping it over manually and feeding it into the printer the other way to get a print on both sides, and that can involve some trial and error.

If the recipe card has room, I'll often add some art--usually by just searching for "[food name] black and white clipart" and pasting an image I like in the background; I do the gluten/nut free logos the same way. Since these are just for personal use, I don't worry too much about attribution. If you wanted to have links back to the original recipes and full instructions, you could easily make QR codes and print them in the corners of each card.

I like that I can easily print copies to gift with food, or edit and reprint if I've made substantial changes.

[dogpuppy]