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Cathode Ray Lube

..., #no #why

I was all "I wonder what I'm gonna do with myself after doing errands today and tomorrow? Maybe pick up a game?"

And then I remembered it's Meatpunks Day!!!

@HTHR@cybre.space

A spaceship is streaking across the sky, lead by a brilliant column of fire as it burns hard to decelerate after having punched through the atmosphere.

You can see the condensation clouds as sonic boom shockwaves shear off the airframe, and know you'll soon hear those rattling blasts. But for a moment, the sky is silent.

You check the time on your phone. Right on schedule. Your ride is here.

[This is an image I've been thinking about all day. Goodnight 💜 ]

Between the constant invocation of Like Comment Subscribe and the latest Reply All episode about sellers gaming Amazon SEO, it's hitting me that we now live in a world where the livelihoods of millions of people are dependent on catering to the whims of algorithms that are not just not understood, but are in fact kept deliberately opaque.

(this post signed "as a result of their failure there's a nut rattling around inside my car's hatch and my license plate still isn't secured the way it should be")

Bonus adhesives opinion!

Kneadable epoxy putties are garbage. Even at the couple of weird edge-case jobs they theoretically should be the right choice in, they still fail to hold parts together. Don't even bother.

Oh and the curing can take longer than you'd think, so give it a good several minutes at least before fiddling with it. I've learned this the hard way many times.

One thing CA excels at is mending ceramics. Other than that I mostly put it in the category of "quick fix" -- really good for temp stuff, but probably not the best option for anything meant to be genuinely durable.

I tend to prefer low- or medium-viscosity versions over gels. Again, it's awful at gap filling, but working on closely mated surfaces means it's great to let the glue get pulled into tiny gaps via capillary action. Low-viscosity is a lot more liable to end up all over your hands or workbench, though.

One non-obvious thing I find it useful for is tacking parts in place for me to then go over with a more structural adhesive, e.g. a slow-curing epoxy.

Superglue can also seal cuts, in a pinch! The thing where it cures instantly on contact with skin is helpful here.

Okay, so cyanoacrylate adhesive, "superglue!"

It's some really good shit but a lot of people misuse it.

CA works best when the surfaces are nonporous and closely mated. It's awful at even the slightest gap filling so don't use it for that. It can also be brittle so be careful what you use it on.

CA cures from contact with water vapor and hardens in the tube. Even when I've been using it regularly I've always had tubes go hard before I used it all, so buy the smallest ones you can.

Big mood.

( http://diggercomic.com/blog/2007/03/17/digger-29/ )

Update: have started in on Digger which I've been lowkey meaning to read for a while now because Ursula V seems cool.

(oh and I've already read Fine Structure)

So now that I've finished Ra, does anyone have recommendations for other good original web serial fiction?

Sometimes while drafting a post here I think about removing filler words, then decide they help convey a specific sentence pacing and tone.

I use a LOT of filler words and have decided to be okay with that?

huh I have a bit of a habit of starting posts with "anyway,"

As if I'm continuing from some previous thought.

hm.