Beware in Norway

3D Printing, sculpting, a few random songs and a pinch of attitude.

[unfriendlypedestrian]

My new mechanical keyboard can be configured to have the RGB react to the machine's audio output.

So, here is Santana's song Maria Maria as expressed by my keyboard.

[jokerlives]

Greg Brotherton, the sculptor behind Brotron, creates a world where industrial scrap and vintage hardware evolve into haunting, heroic figures. His work explores a post-industrial, dystopian vision heavily influenced by early 20th-century political fiction and Kafkaesque imagery.

The "mechanical history" Brotherton crafts is a blend of fine craftsmanship and found-object assembly. Each character is hand-hammered from steel and integrated with salvaged items—ranging from 1950s Electrolux vacuums to typewriter parts and musical instruments. These sculptures often represent the "quiet genius" of an isolated world, acting as a bridge between a desolate past and an imaginative, mechanical future.

[thulium]

Went to his web site to see how much these go for, but the most recent sculpture there is from 2011 and it doesn’t seem like he’s actively working any more.

Pretty awesome though.

[millerflintstone]

He is active on Instagram!

Greg Brotherton (@brotronic_labs) • Instagram photos and videos

8,969 Followers, 158 Following, 248 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Greg Brotherton (@brotronic_labs)

[fallenintime6]

💖💖💖🦄🦄🦄💯💯💯

Aquarius ♒️♒️♒️ I belong to you in my dreams ✨️

[mizzbrattywi]

♐️🏹 I hope so much energy comes through for your future!

[salm-007]

I transform my mind to the right of the people I am looking for.

- I call bullshit. 🙄😆

[sweetreddelicious-59]

I value your opinion and would never want to be rude. 🤔🤨

I speak to you on the phone and will call you tomorrow. 🤦‍♀️😆

[davesnothere]

I reevaluate the whole situation.

[millerflintstone]

♑(sun) I avoid the fact that you are going to be able to get the car seat.

♏(rising) I transform you for your time in my mind

[unfriendlypedestrian]

I never do what I am told.

[stenka-razin]

PSA: "AI LOCK SCREEN" NOTIFICATION

Once a week for the past three weeks I keep seeing the following notification on my Samsung's lock screen:

No many how many times I uncheck it and close it won't die. Well turns out this is likely the fault of the service carrier. Based on my research T-Mobile and Verizon have both partnered with a piece of malware called Glance AI that's automatically been installed with an update. And I do mean malware, because it didn't show up on my phone as Glance. It was literally listed as

"All Apps"

In an icon that looked like a file directory.

Delete this app and this shit should stop.

[unfriendlypedestrian]

You can get rid of the T-Mobile app that does this and other apps such as the default facebook apps that are hidden installed by using:

Canta - (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.samolego.canta&hl=en_US)

Shizuku (https://shizuku.rikka.app/download/)

You need to run Shizuku to set up an environment/interface that allows Canta elevated permissions to remove apps. It plays middle-man between an app and the OS. (There are other apps that use Shizuku to get elevated permissions as well).

Canta will show you a FULL list of whats installed and its color coded Green/Yellow/Red for how safe it is expected to be to remove a particular app.

Good Luck.

[nasa]

Roman is Ready to Go!

After being assembled, our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has passed final tests, and is being prepared to move to our Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where teams will work to prepare it for a launch in early September 2026.

With a field of view at least 100 times larger than Hubble's, Roman can potentially measure light from a billion galaxies in its lifetime. It will also be able to block starlight to directly see exoplanets and planet-forming disks, complete a statistical census of planetary systems in our galaxy, and settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics.

The observatory is named after Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer who made cosmic vistas readily accessible to all by paving the way for telescopes based in space.

Want to learn more about Roman? Check out our #Roman Space Telescope tag and visit our mission page.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space!

[horror-orman]

💀☠️🧁A Happy #horror Birthday to Sarah Michelle Gellar🧁☠️💀

#SarahMichelleGellar

[unfriendlypedestrian]

I think that every year People magazine's hottest man/woman of the year should be required to dress in the top middle leather outfit for the issue.

All. Of. Them. Every. Year.

(outfit sized appropriately to flatter them)

[pansy2025]

things used to be $5

[unfriendlypedestrian]

Running Man 1987

[gaytanic-panic]

i need to know

[unfriendlypedestrian]

Terry Pratchett would say that some are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Maurice_and_His_Educated_Rodents

[millerflintstone]

Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove

Aadam Jacobs recorded more than 10,000 concerts, with increasingly sophisticated equipment, over four decades in Chicago and other cities.

There are four 1988 They Might Be Giants shows in the collection so far.

[millerflintstone]

CraZeApp

Colorful and relaxing drawing

I've been having way to much fun making random designs. I was looking for as free apps and found this. There are versions for Android and Apple. I made these with the 'droid app

and there's also a web version if you don't want to download another app you can just go to website.

I made these two with the web version:

[millerflintstone]

Legit have a problem

[nasa]

That's us, together.

While we're looking up at the Artemis II astronauts journeying to the Moon, they're looking back home at us. 

In this image, Earth peeks through the capsule window, reminding us that a view like this relies on the ingenuity and hard work of countless people back home.

In the second image, we see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere.

Follow the Artemis II astronauts on their journey to the Moon:

[unfriendlypedestrian]

Here are a couple examples of a curated collection of microphotography of minerals. Full list here - https://www.mindat.org/g/103

Most of these images have a field of view of less than 1cm, many only 1-2mm.

From top left to bottom right:

Strengite, Spessartine, Linerite, Autunite (under UV light)

[davidvnun]

makeitstop

[unfriendlypedestrian]

Every Day!

[unfriendlypedestrian]

A note to tiny people

At 6' 5" (195cm) & 250lbs (93kg) I feel I can speak for most, if not all, normal height people.

We see you.

When you try to surreptitious crane your neck at an angle that you're not used to.

When you do a double-take when we walk past.

When there is a hiccup to your movement as we loom over you (accidentally or not).

We see you.

[etherealspacejelly]

this is your gentle reminder to stop fighting against your adhd and instead structure your life around it

buy a pack of chapsticks and put one in the pocket of all of your coats and jackets because you always forget to bring one and chapped lips is sensory hell

leave important things where you can see them. if they go in a box or a drawer you will forget they exist

put any appointments or deadlines in your phone calendar As Soon As you get them. set a reminder for a week before, a day before, an hour before, as many as you need as often as you need them.

when that little voice in your head says "i dont need to write that down, ill remember it" that is the devil talking!!! write it down anyway!!

plan for down time. have a few hours at the end of every day to just do fun stuff like engage in your hyperfixations. even if you didnt get all of your work done that day, have the rest anyway. you probably spent the whole day beating yourself up for not doing what you Should be doing, so you still need the break.

if you never eat vegetables because its too much effort to chop and cook them, get the frozen or canned shit. it doesnt go off for ages and you just have to microwave it. theres no point buying fresh vegetables if they just keep going off and being left to rot in the bottom of your fridge

if you struggle to decide what to have for dinner every day, take the decision out of it. choose a set of meals and eat those on rotation until you get sick of them, then choose some new ones and do it again.

its not stupid if it works! our brains literally have a chemical deficiency. you are allowed to accommodate yourself. go forth and stop making your life more difficult than it has to be because "this shouldn't be this hard". it is hard, so make it easier.

[should-be-sleeping]

You are allowed to accommodate yourself.

[unfriendlypedestrian]

and as long as you cook your veggies out of the plastic bag the frozen ones are often better for you than fresh (at least the supermarket fresh ones).

News: Why frozen fruit and veggies may be... (CNN News) - Behind the headlines - NLM

(CNN News) Why frozen fruit and veggies may be better for you than fresh | CNN. Associated research findings from the National Library of Me

[starlit-meadow]

Look it’s me

[akamuffintop]

Oh God. This is me. So me. I can’t get rid of a good jar.

[unfriendlypedestrian]

Might I suggest that until you find a permanent use for your jars that you use them as inspiration by making a head in a jar with pictures of certain 'special' people in your life:

https://www.instructables.com/head-in-a-jar-prank/

[unfriendlypedestrian]

Babadook

My Babadook has a Badonkadonk.

... an ass that kills.