Emily Velasco / is on Nostr

"An avid builder of contraptions"

Arts-and-crafts supervillain. science writer. vaguely woman-shaped creature. Grandota muy linda.

youtubes: https://www.youtube.com/c/EmilysElectricOddities/
diode.zone: https://diode.zone/a/emilysoddities/video-channels
my website: https://mle-online.com/projects

Last Notes

2024-08-30 18:55:22

Earlier this week I was mad that the thing I had ordered from eBay came drop shipped from Amazon, so I left the seller a bad review.
They've been pestering me every single day since then to change my review, and offering to refund me my money. I told them no.
Now I have a shipping notification that my item has shipped and is out for delivery, expected to arrive today.
I don't know what to expect. Maybe they ordered another bird feeder from Amazon, repackaged it, and put it in the US Mail? Maybe they are sending me a photo of my parents locked in a basement and holding a copy of today's newspaper??

2024-08-29 21:55:57

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If I were an artist, I would maybe call myself FIRST NAME, LAST NAME.
That would show those search engines

2024-08-29 21:46:54

Occasionally I am reminded of the time I had to work on a press release for an artist-in-residence who professionally went by "The Artist" and how they were effectively nonexistent as far as search engines were concerned.
You could not search for them online and find *anything* about them.
I still think that's pretty neat.

2024-07-28 03:17:00

I don't want to be affirmed by people who will affirm me. I want to be affirmed by people who are hostile to me.

2024-06-22 15:57:51

Wow, they have stores for those now?
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/112/661/029/959/677/320/original/7188aac9f1188711.jpg

2024-06-21 16:47:41

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if nothing has changed, a ban on the sale of such equipment starts this year, but the law doesn't ban existing equipment from being used.
In any case, the gardeners here tried switching to electric several months ago, but the equipment kept running out of batteries before they could finish and they went back to gas

2024-06-21 16:44:29

Friday is the day we listen to small gas engines loudly revving for hours while the gardeners ruin everyone's yard

2024-06-15 16:51:06

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the sand is hungry

2024-06-15 16:45:02

Just learned the word quicksilver, an alternative name for mercury, means "living silver." It comes from the older usage of quick, which meant alive rather than fast. This usage is preserved in the use of quick to refer to the living part of a nail. e.g. "Cut to the quick"

2024-06-05 23:40:22

I saw a big, burly Harley guy, all long gray beard and smeary old tattoos blasting Santa Monica by Everclear while astride his "hog."

2024-06-05 16:19:20

Does this belong to one person with wide-ranging aesthetic preferences, or a couple who can't agree on one style for their apartment?
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/112/564/913/847/552/749/original/7925edcfc7ca695e.jpg
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/112/564/913/847/166/667/original/85f447b2d6436aa2.jpg