Guess I'm a coward scared to face the man I am.

Mushroom King. Ace, aro, agender. Here for the shitposts and fan spaces.

[sternenhimmel-mond]

I need help from someone who knows about wood finish.

I got an all wood privacy screen from Home Depot and it arrived feeling very waxy and started to make my room smell bad. Being someone with chronic migraines and smell being a trigger for worse ones, and knowing that the waxy feel would not be good for what I got it to do, I moved it to my garage. We've been having high temperatures over 100° for over a week now, and it's been out there for a few weeks. The waxiness has changed, the corners are the most waxy and the rest feels a little more dry, but there's little bits of pilling all over it like the heat made whatever is causing the waxiness to bleed out of it (very likely, that sounds like something that would happen) and I'm not sure what to do.

I guess my question is, what do I do to make this thing no longer waxy? I assume I can just wipe off the pilling with a dry or lightly damp cloth, and I think the smell is done being a problem, I just don't know what to do about the waxy texture.

[galaxywarp]

[zyzscribbles]

Important question

[awkwardbirdsdreaming]

Okay but I think these two are onto something

[verbrannt74]

Test subject

(no bird was harmed)

[papayajuan2019]

i could add a few more stages to grief if they let me

[luke-and-leia-the-cats-not-jedi]

Leia has a motivational message for everyone:

[clingyduoapologist]

Your friend’s unpublished fic idea is kind of a dead wife

[dazzling-galaxy]

i also want to read this guy’s dead wife

[blumineck]

How to dodge an arrow (if you have the requisite training and safety procedures!)

[charl0ttan]

🫵best flooring for bathroom in your honest to goodness opinion❓

ceramic or porcelain tile

laminate flooring

carpet

hardwood

engineered wood

bamboo

stone

vinyl

cement

Remaining time: 4 days 4 hours

[charl0ttan]

🫵now bedroom❓

ceramic

laminate

capret

hardwood

engineered wood

bamboo

stone

vinyl

cement

Remaining time: 4 days 4 hours

[charl0ttan]

🫵kitchen❓

ceramic

laminate

carpet

hardwood

engineered hardwood

bamboo

stone

vinyl

cement

Remaining time: 4 days 5 hours

[charl0ttan]

🫵garage

ceramic

laminate

carpet

hardwood

engineered hardwood

bambo

stone

vinyl

cement

Remaining time: 4 days 8 hours

[teaboot]

What up guys welcome to my carpeted garage

[tastesoftamriel]

I'm back!

Hey everyone, I hope you've been doing well! I got back from holiday a few days ago and am absolutely gutted about it and very jetlagged.

I have some good news though! I *may* have found a shirt printer in the US for those of you in the US and Canada who have been wanting one of my shirts! Things are still a bit up in the air as I work out the details, but the possibility is now there! These will be screen printed by hand so may run slightly pricier, but on the plus side they still won't cost as much as shipping from Europe.

Another thing is that I plan on selling 3D printed keychains (and possibly earrings), for the time being they will be made in the UK and can ship to Europe too. Once again, working on finding someone to do it Stateside too. What sort of designs would you be after and like to see? Let me know and I'll try make it happen!

No new worldbuilding or menu posts for the time being as I am severely jetlagged. I'll be back with new content as soon as I'm able!

I am still trying my hardest to move to Germany by the end of the year and still need all the help I can get as I am once again out of work. I can offer academic and fiction editing and proofreading services at a negotiable sum. You can also help by donating to my Ko-Fi and Gofundme. I still have a long way to go in terms of saving up, but we're getting there and I'm trying to stay optimistic.

Anyway, that's it from me for now. I'd love to hear how you're all doing, though! Cooked anything good lately? Just wanna say hi? My DMs are open and I'm happy to chat!

Stay safe, eat well, be kind. ~Tal

[sternenhimmel-mond]

I need help from someone who knows about wood finish.

I got an all wood privacy screen from Home Depot and it arrived feeling very waxy and started to make my room smell bad. Being someone with chronic migraines and smell being a trigger for worse ones, and knowing that the waxy feel would not be good for what I got it to do, I moved it to my garage. We've been having high temperatures over 100° for over a week now, and it's been out there for a few weeks. The waxiness has changed, the corners are the most waxy and the rest feels a little more dry, but there's little bits of pilling all over it like the heat made whatever is causing the waxiness to bleed out of it (very likely, that sounds like something that would happen) and I'm not sure what to do.

I guess my question is, what do I do to make this thing no longer waxy? I assume I can just wipe off the pilling with a dry or lightly damp cloth, and I think the smell is done being a problem, I just don't know what to do about the waxy texture.

[egberts]

yiké

just don’t do that

[bbeelzemon]

i just spent entirely too long on this

[i-cant-think-of-anything-to-say]

hunting down tumblr posts i see on pinterest part 1193

[no-one-offical]

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[thescrolls-haveforetold]

nerevar likes his personal space. azura also likes nerevar’s personal space

[horreurscopes]

never forget the universal rule of the order of things: People Will Not Read It

[horreurscopes]

signs at stores? émail? menu ?? instruction ? post online ? caption with andswer to question ? group hand outs ??? street sign ??? no. The Written Word Is The Enemy

[lasrina]

#The number of compliments i have gotten for reading a thing

The ability to occasionally Read A Thing will make you a hero in your workplace, especially if it is for example an error message that tells you what you need to do differently, or instructions on unjamming a printer.

[stephaniematurin]

how dare you say we put jam in the printer

[berkelbites]

Ok reblogging this again because story time.

I work in tech, and much of what I do is support sales reps within the company by resolving errors with the software they use.

There is one sales rep who, every single time I send her a message or email with extremely specific instructions that will resolve her issue, does something completely different from what I tell her. Every time. Without fail. It is so glaringly obvious that she has never read even a single word that I have written to her.

So one day, she sends me a message that says little more than "(software) is broken, help"

So I do my standard song and dance of asking her what she's trying to accomplish, and what specifically is stopping her from doing that. And eventually, after much unnecessary back and forth, she tells me there's an error message. I ask her to send me a screenshot of the error message. She does.

The error message basically says, "these two required fields are blank. To resolve this, please fill in these two specific fields, and then click save."

So I take a few deep breaths.

Then I lie to her.

I message her back, saying "hey yeah, for some reason it's not loading that screenshot on my end. Could you type out the full text of the error message for me?"

She does.

I ask her if she still needs help.

She does not respond.

[samueldays]

I have similar story from tech support.

Client is reporting that Some Thing Program doesn't work. I ask if there's an error message with further information about what's not working. Client says "no". I go over and ask Client to open Some Thing. Client double-clicks on the icon for Some Thing, it starts to boot, an error message dialog flashes up on screen, Client closes error message before I can read it, Thing closes after the error.

"What did that error message say?" I ask.

"What error message?" asks Client.

I tell Client to open the Some Thing again and then not click anything else. Client opens Some Thing, error message appears, Client clicks it away again.

I tell Client to stand up, step away, and give me physical control of the computer. I open Some Thing, start looking at the error message without closing it, and Client says "You should close that." I tell Client that I am reading the error message. Client is apparently accustomed to treating error messages as a kind of spam email that should be deleted as fast as possible, and gets agitated that I'm reading it.

I read the error message. It tells me what the problem is. I fix the problem. Some Thing works now.

---

Later, I start thinking about how such an error message might perhaps be engineered to be more attention-grabbing and close-resistant as a way of making people read it. It's not important for some random program here, but there are more important systems (medical, etc) where it would be reasonable to demand the user's attention because people's lives depend on paying attention to the error message.

But then people with a perverted intellect would still be thinking about ways to avoid reading the message, like dragging it off edge of screen or hiding it behind another window. So maybe the dialog box could have an always-in-front feature to override other windows, and the alert could use the computer's hardware "beep" functionality that can't be switched off by muting the regular sound system, and keep beeping... shit, I realize I'm reinventing pain, and get philosophical about it.

[doccyuk]

Story from The Past about My Mum:

She was a computer programmer / analyst, a... Long Time Ago. Called in for a system she'd installed before, the office folk said they kept having problems where it Didn't Work Right (no error, a malfunction)

She investigated, and told them that could only happen if they did 3 specific things in a specific order, which they should not ever do.

So, she asked, did they ever do that?

No! Of course not, was the answer.

So she made a couple of small changes, packed up and said that should be fine, but they should call her if there were problems.

The next week

She had a call saying "We're getting a strange error message on the system, can you help?"

She said, of course, can they tell her the error?

And the message was:

"You Said You Didn't Do This"

[logan-supernova]

I love you Elder Scrolls mutuals

I love you Elder Scrolls shitposter

I love you Elder Scrolls artist

I love you Elder Scrolls fanfic writer

I love you Elder Scrolls tumblr fandom

[shizuoi]

the gaang as adults (from the ending credits of "Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender")

[onegamer2envythemall]

This would've done stupid crazy numbers as a redraw format 10 years ago.

[greater-than-the-sword]

My toxic trait is that if I find a product I like I want to keep using the same product forever. It's not even brand loyalty. It's called stop changing and discontinuing everything.