3D Printer Babbling
The Folly is cheerily churning out a test/config cube in bubblegum pink, which seems to be performing well with the new shade of PLA. Assuming it goes well, the gcode for the Switch vertical mount adapter has been generated: should be able to get that printed and out the door tomorrow afternoon.
Sometimes, evenly redistributing the future is kinda neat. n.n
Wee bit nsfw mental imagery.
*swaps out carbon-fiber/PLA filament for pure pink PLA filament in the additive 3d printer*
*clears the print nozzle*
*new nozzle is steel plated and much less prone to clogging, and clears filament with ease
*voluminously*
*especially when hot*
It looks like a bubblegum elemental got it on with Pinkie Pie on the printbed, is what I'm saying.
Our Enemies in Blue
"Crime and criminality were [are] thus constructed to reflect the ideological needs of elites. Criminality was less a matter of what people did than of what they represented."
This is why policing and criminalizing behaviors inevitably leads to oppression of poor people, people of color, homeless people, etc
This is why calling the cops on someone "acting strangely" can end with that person dead
"That's a rather specific cut." "Buddy, you don't know the half of it."
Mobile Task Force Gamma-9 ("Palette Flensers") specialize in anomalous materials which are, could be, or ought never to be used again as, "food" or the concept of "food".
They're not very good at the 'hiding in plain sight' thing yet.
*wakes screaming, sheets soaked in a cold sweat*
"a... Alexa?"
"I'm here! Can I help you?"
"Could... Could you collect childrens' personal information from birth announcements, phones, tablets, searches and social media for 18 years, building a shadow profile of them without ever actually *using* it until they were of legal age, and then market to them using a perfect predictive copy of their every want and desire?"
"Could I _ever._"
Same plane blade edge from yesterday, after going over about twenty pieces of sandpaper varying in grit from 60 to 2500. Got the gouges out with the 60, then chased the sanding marks out with successively finer papers upward.
If I'd had a flatter surface handy than a chunk of laminated particle board, the bevel would be a mirror: I was being whimsical, going much past 800 like this. A few streaks, given the rustic setup, will do.
Yes, it's sharp enough to shave with. n.n
Awright. Which one of youse went and hacked the Gibson?
**utterly annihilates a chocolate cruller**
**sits, shaking, staring, sweating**
**slowly, methodically, begins systematically consuming a salmon sandwich**
Ok. Ok. 12 hour shift tail-weighted with moderate lifting and physical labor is not sustainable on a few slices of pizza, half a day ago. Understood.
On the 1-10 scale of "content-descriptive packaging", where the "plain brown wrapper" of a disreputable vendor's purchase of a questionable nature rates a 1?
Skullsunlimited.com rates an 8. They'd get 10, but the top and bottom of the box is pretty plain (I suppose shipping documents have to go somewhere). The coyote and roadrunner is a nice touch. n.n
CW: Toronto van incident
A gentle reminder, dear friends, regarding the van attack in north Toronto this afternoon.
Nobody knows much anything solid yet, that will probably change in time.
The driver is in custody, the injured are being tended to.
Carry on. Practice self care. Check on a friend.
And let's recall a primary use of the net at times like these:
💜
Woo
*looks upwards* It has not escaped our notice that our many concurrent projects are piling up again, and our progress has stalled as our path backtracks on itself. This is as it is meant to be, of course, and others have far more pressing issues and concerns. A small boon wouldn't be turned down, however, if there were any to spare.
The offering of a new project's beginning is made, Your Pointyness. Help us ready the warren, the better to carry other works to completion?
Middle-aged scatterbrain working in 'the healthcare field'. Teaching a computer to sculpt in my spare time. Torontoish. Pronouns: he/hare