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i think it is important to recognize the ways in which your favorite thing sucks. i think it keeps u normal

prev im so sorry to put you on blast like this but please know this had me in hysterics

So I do 3D modeling and printing as a hobby, and a few weeks ago I designed wheel guards meant to prevent office chairs from running over cables and clothes... or your pet's tail.

I got the idea from cowcatchers old locomotives used to have.

Anyways, yesterday I uploaded the model to Thingiverse, and just hours after uploading it, the Community Relationship Manager of the whole website left a comment suggesting I enter the model into a competition that's currently being held on the site.

So I did... and now it's in third place not even a day later. First place is $500, but the competition still has a month to go.

Then the Community Manager contacted me again, telling me they want to feature my model in an upcoming design promotion.

Just, what is happening? I mostly made this thing for myself in, like, an hour, and now it's suddenly super popular? This is all a little bit overwhelming 😵‍💫

Other models I worked on for weeks didn't get nearly as popular. I swear, it's impossible to predict what people will like.

Anyways, if you want to print the wheel guards yourself, you can get the model here or here.

I also made a quiet version you can stick furniture felt pads on.

these-violet-delights-fic

People love simple, extremely practical things. I hope you win!

okapiaconcolor

Winter Wren por Ryan Griffiths

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andmaybegayer

sometimes when you're travelling you will see a beautiful unique bird that captures your attention completely and you will discover that the locals call it the Boring Sparrow and there's 70 000 000 of them and they eat nothing but spicy chicken wings they find in dumpsters.

general-book-nerd

Some of my favourite examples.

vicholas

The fact that after the United States the countries with most mormons are Mexico, Brazil, Philippines, Peru and Chile makes me want to scream. Kill all missionaries now.

beatbizzle

Mormons stole my great great grandmother from her husband, married her off to a white settler, and then sold all her land because she couldn't find the deed (they destroyed it) and now there's a whole ass freeway and demolished mall on our tribe's land that I see every day on my way to work.

The white men that did this have billions in generational wealth while my mother and grandmother both died from having inadequate healthcare.

When I say fuck mormon missionaries, I mean it so deeply and if I were capable of feeling hatred, it would be at that entire establishment.

Fuck. Mormon. Missionaries.

They tricked my great great (great?) grandfather into helping build a town that became one of the largest growing cities in the country, stole his daughters, killed his sons, and "blessed" the land in their colonial god's name. And the women were forced to convert or die.

theconcealedweapon

taujr-resort

seeseagulls

fangirlinginleatherboots

Being 30 is fun. I was discussing anime with a teen at work and asked her how much of bnha she had watched. She had trouble answering and wasn't sure how to approach it. I said "better question was who was your husbando" and she turned bright red before mumbling an answer. They never expect me to know how deep their love of anime boys runs....

fangirlinginleatherboots

One time she said she used to be into BL and another employee down the hall asked what BL was and I yelled back "ITS YAOI" which reduced the teen to yelling "ITS SOFTCORE! SOFT CORE!!" So I yelled back "ITS SOFTCORE YAOI" anyway I get why dads are like that now

toadalled

She is very lonely

teaboot

I hate you Ozempic craze I hate you 'heroin chic' I hate you weight loss ads on public radio I hate Burn Fat Fast ads every thirty seconds I hate you I hate you I hate you

teaboot

I grew up before the term 'thigh gap' was invented I grew up before 'hip dip' was invented I was born before 'muffin top' was a thing before 'clean girl look' was a thing before 'glass skin' was a thing before razoring off peach fuzz was a thing and I'm so so so fucking tired of us inventing new concepts purely for the purpose of convincing people to hate their own bodies enough to buy products

teaboot

Last time Tuberculosis ran through the USA a small number of people got it on purpose to look skinny and waifish and delicate and used makeup to look flushed and bony and when the Victorians figured out tapeworms people would infect themselves on purpose to starve themselves smaller and women and now in the year of our lord 2026 there is a noticeable fraction of the USAmerican population genuinely thrilled about a treatment-resistant microbial parasite that makes you shit and vomit your brains out for a month because side effects include weight loss and STILL we talk about being skinny like it's the natural default setting for all healthy people as if it's a self-sustaining standard and not an imaginary goal that we are constantly constantly constantly beating ourselves with a whip to acheive

filyahehh

smartest cat ever!

frommybody

I love the “humans are space orcs” trope, but I’d also like to propose “humans are space platypuses.” They defy every attempt at classification.

Some species are aggressive and individualistic—they evolved from solitary predators. Some are social and diplomatic—they evolved from prey that banded together in herds. And there are hive mind species that colonize new territory under a monarch’s direction. But humans are social predators with a colonizing past (hopefully), both diplomatic and aggressive, ambitious yet ready to work with other species.

For reproduction, some species have a designated brood mother, while the majority cannot reproduce. Other species reproduce asexually after reaching maturity. Others are compelled to reproduce by heat cycles. But while almost all humans are capable of reproduction, many just… choose not to? They even invented something called “birth control” so they can participate in sex and prevent reproduction, as if the evolutionary drive to reproduce can just be switched off despite their capability.

I’d love to know if anyone else has thoughts on this!

thecalloffantasy

Aliens spend years laughing at humans for seeing faces in everything. Trees, coats on chairs, random shadows, the pattern on a wall. They chalk it up to an overactive imagination and a brain that desperately wants everything to have eyes.

Then humans start spotting predators, ambushes, and hidden creatures in complete darkness before any of the aliens can detect them.

Apparently, when a human says, "That shadow has a face," the correct response is no longer, "You're imagining things."

It's, "Everyone stop moving."

From then on, every expedition into the unknown includes one very confused human whose official job description is simply: See if the darkness looks like it's looking back.

userfish

hey you 🫵 have you washed your water bottle lately? 🫵 it’s getting hot and mold is going to grow 🫵 wash it 🫵

pengosolvent

Edit: the title for this comic is “Puzzle Rat” this one’s a few days late due to having a lot of doctors appointments sorry it’s just 9 pages, and about some rats… it’s more symbolic than anything really

(it’s completely unrelated to any of my songs that have to do with “puzzleboy”) Patreon: www.patreon.com/PengoSolvent