UnderOrange

Because there is a tumblr for everything and now there is one for me.

[megacarapa]

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

[megacarapa]

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

[crookedtines]

Finally bought some dye and have been having so much fun with optical color mixing. I decided to start with cmyk primaries to get some vibrant color options.

So far I've only mixed up the main batch of colors, but I'll split them up and create a palatte of tints and shades once I have access to a scale again.

I don't have any fancy tools and have been blending the fiber by hand, so it's probably best I have a forced break for the sake of my fingers. Once I'm done I should have a very useful set of 57 2g swatches to play with! (Plus 5 more for a set of grayscale swatches)

If I'm still up for it, I might repeat the whole thing with my classic red, yellow, blue primary dye set. For a truly massive set of heather swatches.

[crookedtines]

I'll create a comprehensive guide to all the color mixes and my process once I'm done, but in the meantime here's a mixing guide for the colors I've already done!

The ratios are presented in the same order as the wool swatches in the photo above it. I didn't simplify any of the ratios so you'll have to deal with 2:2s instead of 1:1s, oops.

For anyone curious, I used brilliant yellow, deep magenta, and caribbean blue from Dharma dyes on their corriedale wool for my base colors.

[ittybittymattycommittee]

#raise your shields #because you’re about to get wrecked

[jewishgarygreen]

#this is the star trek i wanna see#like when somebody asked gene roddenberry why piccard was bald#because wouldn’t they have found a cure for male pattern baldness by then?#and he was like ‘no by the 24th century no one will care’#i wanna see that attitude with disability and neurodiversity#it’s not that we’ll have a magic cure for everything#there’ll always be something new#but disabilities and neurodiversity will be celebrated and seen as part of the norm#it will be accomodated#so blind people can serve in star fleet#and so can people in wheelchairs and autistic people and people with prosthetics and people with chronic illnesses (via @hunterinabrowncoat)

[kiapet2]

This episode ends with Geordi saving the planet by using something derived from the technology found in his visor (an adaptive device that lets him sense things around him). So a disabled man literally saved the lives of an entire culture that wouldn’t have considered his life worth living, using technology they would have never deemed necessary without the presence of his unique needs.

[scholarlypidgeot]

I don’t watch Star Trek, but I can’t stress enough how important this message is

[fictionadventurer]

My favorite thing about this episode is that, while the rest of the characters are taking a more Star Trek philosophical approach to this situation, calmly debating the good and bad points of this colony built upon eugenics, Geordi is just seething. Troi is having a romance with their flippin’ president, but Geordi never hesitates on his morals. He’s always aware that this world’s supposed perfection is built upon the despicable philosophy of killing people like him. He barely even bothers to hide his anger as he has to work alongside their scientists. He’s snappish and short-tempered and bitter, clearly only working with these people because lives are at stake. When he discovers the solution is based on his VISOR, he is viciously triumphant, his joy at saving the people boosted by a bitter sense of righteousness that these people were only saved because someone like him was allowed to survive.

And even though this anger and bitterness are very un-Star-Trek-like approaches to diplomacy–it works. The scientist who works alongside him is the first person who decides to jump ship and leave the colony behind. She sees the stagnation of their bland “’‘‘‘‘utopia’‘‘‘‘‘ and realizes that diversity and adaptation create a much better society. And while the other Enterprise crew members have some wishy-washy lament over how this will destroy this planet’s ‘‘‘culture’‘‘, Geordi never waffles. He has far too personal a stake in this to lose sight of the fact that peoples’ lives are more important than any high-falutin’ philosophical justifications. The episode might waffle over the Prime Directive points of this society’s decline, but Geordi’s perspective is the one showing clearly why it needs to die.

[emilysidhe]

Knitting finished as of last night! Still need to weave in a few ends, wash, and block.

Was aiming for 48” x 60”, came out 39” x 60” so far, but I’m hoping to be able to block it to a little wider and I’m ok losing a few inches of length for that

[prokopetz]

"It doesn't help your credibility to exaggerate, most employers wouldn't literally work you to death" like, I used to work in distribution. If booking a truck driver for back to back shifts until they fall asleep at the wheel, crash, and die counts as being worked to death, I have personally met employers who've worked employees to death and gotten away with a slap on the wrist. It may not be universal, but it's a hell of a lot more common than a lot of us would prefer to think.

[backofthebookshelf]

The FAA had to explicitly make rules about how long pilots have to have off between shifts, and how far away from their home you can pin their home airport, because it doesn't mean shit that someone has 10 hours between shifts if they have a 2 hour commute each way. They had to make these rules because multiple passenger airplanes crashed because the pilots were exhausted from tight scheduling. Employers won't just work you to death, they'll take a hundred random customers with you.

[lordgolden]

Happy belated Workers’ Memorial Day, celebrated April 28th

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

never be good at your job. it's a trap. they'll just give you more and harder stuff to do and it'll pull you away from your true passion of writing gay fanfiction for people on the internet

[underorange]

very cool that leaving feedback about the recent reblog/commenting changes redirects you to comment on a post that has it's comments restricted. feeling very heard today.

[mayasaura]

I'm doing my part!!

[mayasaura]

I feel like it really adds something to know that this coffee shop was right next to the state capitol building. There is a non-zero chance one of these lattes ended up in the senate chamber.

[mayasaura]

Congratulations, you've unlocked the secret nerd bonus! I actually ended up texting a friend who specializes in the early Roman empire for advice on designing this special.

Honey and almond are pretty self-explanatory, as honey and nuts both figured heavily in Roman desserts. Cinnamon, meanwhile, means dead rich guy. It was insanely expensive to obtain, and the wealthiest of Romans used it to scent funeral pyres, so that the smell of burning cinnamon would cover the scent of cremation.

[sillyvantas]

for me, this is the best ending scene ever made in the story of hollywood

[sabrebash]

Mad.

[iamonlyhereforthefreefood]

Which of these evil American airports is your mortal enemy?

LAX (Los Angeles)

DFW (Dallas-Fort Worth)

ORD (Chicago O'Hare)

EWR (Newark)

DEN (Denver)

LGA (New York City - La Guardia)

ATL (Atlanta)

CLT (Charlotte NC)

MIA (Miami)

"Hey you forgot about... (insert name)!" (Add in Comments)

Voting ended onFeb 13

[thoodleoo]

classicists will make the ugliest least functional website in the history of html and it will contain the entire library of fragmentary papyri of the works of aeschylus. for free

[underorange]

this feels very related to when i dig up the most fascinating machine knitting or sewing info and it's always on the most incomprehensible blog layout I've ever seen linked to by a 65yo who has had the URL written down on a physical notepad since the 90's.

[amazoogle]

[pingo1387]

[ID: A screenshot from the subreddit "Cool Guides." The caption reads, "A cool guide for a mnemonic device for remembering the Great Lakes." The photo is of the Great Lakes, all labeled, with text above and below. The top text reads "Lisa Likes Licking Lettuce Lightly," with each word's first L underlined, and the bottom text lists the lakes from west to east, with each L in Lake underlined. End ID.]

[toolusingmammalgirl]

This is 100% the gay supervillain music video I’ve been waiting for.

I love campy gay villains, but gay villains of this type are amazing too and sorely underrepresented.

[psshaw]

…Oh, so by “gay”, you mean. Actually gay.

[groovy-bastard]

I don’t usually reblog stuff like this but tbh this is the kind of content I live for.

[spockvarietyhour]

Happy 10 year anniversary to these two, specifically

(single dropped Dec. 3, 2015, music vid hit youtube Jan 12, 2016)

[unpretty]

concept: one of those fancy book box services but instead of sending you a full-size fancy hardcover they send you a 1:6 scale miniature version along with a code for the ebook so you still get the book as well as the ability to show off the fancy version of the book but without having to buy more bookshelves. every january they send you a new tiny bookshelf for your tiny books. maybe there's a year on it to display specifically the books you read that year. you can put your tiny books in a jar and pick them out randomly to decide what you're going to read next. also it's cheaper because the boxes aren't as heavy and they don't have to produce a full size hardcover with the edges printed by the like one company that does that.

do you see my vision

[underorange]

reblogging so my fellow doll collectors will see and agree with you.

[great-and-small]

It actually bums me out that astrology has persisted through the years as the standard BS divinatory practice that people really buy into, when it so easily could have been ornithomancy instead.

We could’ve had hipster girls trying to predict the minutiae of your life using an intricate chart that details how many herons or crows you’ve seen in the past year. Instead of asking what’s your sign on dating apps people would be like how many birds did you see on your way to work today. I cannot stop thinking about what could have been.

[official-ornithology-posts]

Official ornithology post

[underorange]

i....

huh.

So, in college I walked across a tiny stream to classes most days. Sometimes there were ducks. I decided ducks were clearly a good luck sign. It eventually extended to robins because they're so cute, then... well. Every other bird and cute animal.

I've carried the idea with me. I see sparrows in a parking lot and think "ah, smol but cute. a good day." or robins in the yard "my favorite they're clearly wishing me well!" even pigeons "gentle little goobers, done a disservice, not the greatest day but we're all doing our best".

did i accidentally mysticize ornithology? 😅 I just do it to cheer myself up on drab days.

[swordsoprano]

what do you eat your latkes with?

applesauce

sour cream

both

neither (plain)

maple syrup

ketchup

some spicy condiment (ex: chili crisp, sriracha, tajin) that i will say in tags

something else not listed here that i will say in tags

i’ve never had latkes but i like clicking buttons

Voting ended onDec 21, 2025

both jews and goyim encouraged to vote! i’ve done this poll before but i felt like doing it again. if you’re wondering why something is an option, it’s because it’s an answer i’ve gotten before.