[cipheramnesia]

"You might be wondering why anyone would build such a thing. Well, back in the day when I lived at Survival Research Labs-"

Time to buckle the fuck up.

[cipheramnesia]

There's all kinds of robot wars fights out there, but there are not very many people who can say "I built a plasma gun because I needed a way to kill hostile robots," and it's the literal truth. The robot wars engineers are very impressive but the stakes are just not the same when the other machine is a four ton quadruped with a flamethrower or a V8 powered wrecking maching with square steel wheels.

[itslunchboxworld]

I love that Paul got credits for being a troublemaker

[cipheramnesia]

Every so often one or two new people learn about SRL

[the-haiku-bot]

Every so often

one or two new people learn

about SRL

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[evilwizard]

d-did he say a 30ft high version could fire over a quarter mile range

@evilscientist3 help

[elgreytea]

What are you reading rn, why are you reading it, and what format are you reading it in (physical book, ereader, on your phone etc)

[urgetocreate]

Nikita Chan (Chinese/American), Rainbow Shower, 2025, Colored pencil on paper

[apolladay]

If a recipe calls for chocolate chips, do you use actual chocolate chips or just cut up chocolate?

Yes

No

Depends (on what?)

I have never made anything that called for chocolate chips

Voting ended onJul 6

I find it hard to believe that people actually pay for chocolate chips when buying a bar and cutting it up is cheaper

[teashoesandhair]

Spent my evening planning a pub crawl around all the establishments from which my great great great grandfather was banned in the 1880s, as unfathomably every single one of them is still open nearly 150 years later, despite barring their best customer

[teashoesandhair]

The pub crawl consists of 3 pubs over a 1.5 mile radius, and starts with a visit to a coffee shop that now sits on the site of the barn that my great great great grandfather broke into and slept in after being thrown out of a pub, damaging a vast quantity of hay, resulting in his 28th arrest and a 1 month prison sentence with hard labour

[rontology]

[teashoesandhair]

Funny you should mention that, because this is another of my great great great grandfathers:

Is 'having a great great great grandfather who got run over in a horrible accident' a geneaological rite of passage?

[antigonewannabe]

x

[kaijuno]

[sexhaver]

i think about this a lot

[lakevida]

complimented a womans clear raincoat this morning and she said Well i feel like a sandwich

[zip-bomb-dog]

The beast will run rampant tomorrow... For now, Tired Beast Thursday

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

them eepy <3

[electricheart]

a little reminder! by annalaura_art

[nattousan]

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

[nattousan]

and now, the birds

Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus

[nattousan]

Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius

[nattousan]

hoo boy, ok *out of breath*

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render

[nattousan]

speaking of obnoxious coverts:

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it

[nattousan]

Madam....

[nattousan]

birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr

[nattousan]

*melts into goo*

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)

[nattousan]

in other news, I am losing my mind hairline

[nattousan]

SHE'S DONE!!

Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on

this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏

[nattousan]

*does a little jig*

BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos

the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise

ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!

Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹

[nattousan]

aaaand another one bites the duck,

we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos

the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you

[nattousan]

power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,

the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis

and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.

Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp

[nattousan]

thanks for the reminder, kid

[nattousan]

at long last, we've reached the end...

Bird number 14 out of 14,

The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius

thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.

i'll see y'all soon :')

[catasters]

[bludraws094]

make chocolate chip cookies

all purpose flour

baking soda

salt

softened butter

granulated sugar

brown sugar

vanilla extract

egg

chocolate chips

gravel from the driveway wait why is this an option wait dont pick this one

Voting ended onApr 30

[bludraws094]

how long should it bake

+1 minute

-1 minute

Voting ended onMay 2

[bludraws094]

and at what temperature

+10°f

-10°f

Voting ended onMay 2

[feeshstiks]

[ellakas]

[ellakas]

[annie-knowby]

@theedgeofnight

[luntfontanne]

dearly departed fung wah bus may she rest in POWER 🫡 obsessed with ayo's go-to bit in her last press cycle being the great molasses flood and this time around it's the fung wah bus. real bostonian representation 🙂‍↕️

now you gotta pay like $35 for a bus to new york and it STILL will probably break down and leave you stranded at an ihop in connecticut :(

[luntfontanne]

imagine this 💭: open your eyes 🫵 CLOSE 'EM 🙂‍↕️ now open your MENTAL EYE 👁️ right? you are in a BUS DEPOT 🚏🚌 in the DEPTHS of boston chinatown 🏮🌆 you get the opportunity to take a $10-15 💸 bus that will take you to new york 🗽 in UNDER four hours ⏱️ sometimes THREE 🏃💨 it's like the concorde of buses ✈️ this thing's going a hundred miles— BIG bus, too🫸↔️🫷not a small bus 🤏 BIG ol' bus 🙌💪 HUNDRED miles an hour 💯 on the speedway 🛣️ sometimes? catching fire 🔥🧯 don't sit in the back 👈 don't sit in the front 👉 you will hit things 🧳⚠️ and things will hit you 🤕🔨 the bus? might explode 💥💥💥 THAT'S NOT YOUR BUSINESS ✋ your business is GETTING TO NEW YORK 🫡 and then you do :)

[miniaturize]

the concept of a site that doesn't even allow porn requiring age verification for mature content. you gotta give us your legal id or else we'll hide random posts that were incorrectly flagged from you