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as the wise man said, the purpose of life is to tread water until ...

2026-04-14T02:43:20Z

as the wise man said, the purpose of life is to tread water until you drown

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Build character... submitted by ...

2026-04-13T20:55:48Z

Build character...

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2026-04-13T11:24:17Z

The Yearning

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Night Plans Day Slump submitted by https://startrek.website/u/pEg ...

2026-03-24T04:50:39Z

Night Plans Day Slump

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It's not just vaccines — parents are refusing other routine ...

2026-03-21T15:36:52Z

It's not just vaccines — parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns

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https://apnews.com/article/babies-newborns-pediatricians-vitamin-k-hepatitis-b-erythromycin-9126463f0cb38b9778fb77bc0d071776

Doctors across the nation are alarmed that skepticism fueled by rising anti-science sentiment and medical mistrust is increasingly reaching beyond vaccines to other proven, routine, preventive care for babies.

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which analyzed more than 5 million births nationwide, found that refusals of vitamin K shots nearly doubled between 2017 and 2024, from 2.9% to 5.2%. Other research suggests that parents who decline vitamin K shots are much more likely to refuse getting their newborns the hepatitis B vaccine and an eye ointment to prevent potentially blinding infections. Rates for that vaccination at birth dropped in recent years, and doctors confirm that more parents are refusing the eye medication.

“I do think these families care deeply about their infants,” said Dr. Kelly Wade, a Philadelphia neonatologist. “But I hear from families that it’s hard to make decisions right now because they’re hearing conflicting information.”

https://apnews.com/article/babies-newborns-pediatricians-vitamin-k-hepatitis-b-erythromycin-9126463f0cb38b9778fb77bc0d071776

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Fork to A8 submitted by https://slrpnk.net/u/Track_Shovel to ...

2026-03-21T15:23:15Z

Fork to A8

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Trump DOJ team shred 'huge amounts' of files at Epstein ...

2026-03-21T13:52:22Z

Trump DOJ team shred 'huge amounts' of files at Epstein lockup after death: Prison guard

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https://www.rawstory.com/trump-epstein-2676513493/

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Please come back later submitted by ...

2026-03-21T13:50:07Z

Please come back later

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When you ask for a pic of him playing with his cock, and he ...

2026-03-21T13:24:41Z

When you ask for a pic of him playing with his cock, and he misunderstands the mission.

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U.S. non-profit advocating for conscientious objectors says calls ...

2026-03-18T02:35:24Z

U.S. non-profit advocating for conscientious objectors says calls are spiking

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4 points | https://lemmy.world/post/44407486
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROxcRCahGso

Mike Prysner is the executive director of the Center on Conscience & War, which works with U.S. soldiers seeking conscience exemptions. Prysner says the organization has seen a massive spike in calls as the U.S.-Israel war against Iran intensifies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROxcRCahGso

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Psychic damage submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/DoubleDongle to ...

2026-03-18T02:35:20Z

Psychic damage

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Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Pollster ...

2026-03-18T02:34:34Z

Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Pollster Finds

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https://gizmodo.com/americans-recognize-ai-as-a-wealth-inequality-machine-pollsters-find-2000734713

https://gizmodo.com/americans-recognize-ai-as-a-wealth-inequality-machine-pollsters-find-2000734713

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Trump calls out Australia in blistering post declaring the US ...

2026-03-17T23:53:00Z

Trump calls out Australia in blistering post declaring the US does not 'need' ally support in Iran

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-18/trump-lashes-nato-australia-lack-of-iran-war-support/106458656

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Trump Wants to Put You in a Massive, Secret Government Database ...

2026-03-17T23:52:22Z

Trump Wants to Put You in a Massive, Secret Government Database

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https://theintercept.com/2026/03/17/government-surveillance-centralized-database-privacy/

Donald Trump signs an executive order on March 25, 2025, directing the Treasury Department to modernize and centralize its payment system. Photo: Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Trump administration is on its way to creating every authoritarian’s dream: a centralized database containing intimate details about every resident of this country, fully searchable by artificial intelligence. This powerful tool would empower the government to conduct previously unimagined levels of surveillance and harassment against its own people.

Freedom of the Press Foundation is suing the administration for documents behind the database. We know that this isn’t just something that the Trump administration would exploit; once built, it’s unlikely any administration could resist the urge to weaponize our personal information.

This nightmare privacy scenario began one year ago, when President Donald Trump issued an https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/ that expanded data sharing across the federal government. The administration touted the order, “Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos,” as a way to target fraud within a supposedly bloated government.

The order was no such thing.

Instead, it took a machete to long-standing https://www.justice.gov/opcl/privacy-act-1974 that mandate agencies can only share our data when absolutely necessary, to install a massive https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/us/politics/trump-musk-data-access.html in their place.

To do so, Trump’s executive order required agency heads to submit reports to the Office of Management and Budget on the following:

Which agency regulations governing unclassified data access should be eliminated or modified.Which policies governing the sharing of classified information need to be scrapped to meet the administration’s goals.

The public has never seen the reports agencies submitted by OMB, despite their impact on our privacy. However, thanks to intrepid reporting and litigation, we do have glimpses of how this is starting to play out:

The Central Intelligence Agency has been granted https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cia-law-enforcement-records-privacy-intelligence-community to domestic law enforcement databases, further blurring the line between foreign intelligence and domestic policing.The so-called Department of Government Efficiency got direct access to Treasury Department payment systems, https://www.npr.org/2025/08/26/nx-s1-5517977/social-security-doge-privacy, names, and birthdays, according to a whistleblower.Immigration and Customs Enforcement got access to https://www.404media.co/here-is-the-agreement-giving-ice-medicaid-patients-data/ and https://fedscoop.com/irs-broke-law-ice-data-sharing-taxpayer-addresses-judge-rules/.The Transportation Security Administration is now sharing biometric passenger info with immigration enforcement, turning every airport check-in into a potential trap.

But these incursions are only the https://epic.org/issues/democracy-free-speech/fighting-federal-data-abuses/.

Reports indicate the https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/07/doge-government-data-immigration-social-security/ for dismantling privacy protections is to build a https://www.wired.com/story/doge-collecting-immigrant-data-surveil-track/, which would allow the administration to create https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-trump-executive-order-information-silos-privacy/ on every American, potentially for political purposes, including retaliation, harassment, and imprisonment.

At the same time this database is becoming a reality, the Department of Homeland Security is rapidly expanding its https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2025/border-patrol-is-monitoring-us-drivers-and-detaining-those-with-suspicious-travel-patterns/, and the administration is unleashing AI https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html to analyze the data points they are harvesting from our private lives.

Perhaps worst of all, by “eliminating information silos,” the administration is creating a single point of failure for the privacy of every American. A centralized database that compiles our most intimate information, from our health to our finances, doesn’t just make us vulnerable to government abuse; it creates a massive, singular target for hackers and foreign adversaries.

“‘Information silos’ aren’t an inefficiency. They are a bulwark against the exact kind of abuses and negligence the Trump administration has engaged in,” said Ginger Quintero-McCall, a public records attorney with the Free Information Group. “Preventing easy, frictionless, unaccountable access to troves of sensitive data isn’t a bug — it’s a feature.”

And while the Trump administration recklessly seeks and compiles our data, it has simultaneously stopped sharing its data with the public. Vital information about the https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/project/climat-change-transparency, https://www.notus.org/immigration/trump-administration-immigration-data-deportations, https://www.404media.co/the-government-just-made-it-harder-to-see-what-spy-tech-it-buys/, and the https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/07/28/federal-data-has-been-disappearing-under-trump has been pulled from public view.

The government is turning into a one-way mirror: They see everything, while we see nothing.

This is an untenable and anti-democratic information imbalance. To fight back, we need to fully understand just how badly our data and our privacy has been compromised. The agency reports submitted to the OMB are essential for this investigation — which is why Freedom of the Press Foundation is filing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against OMB for these records.

This suit will not only force the disclosure of these important documents, but it will also serve to remind the administration that the federal government is required to safeguard the personal data we entrust to it. It is not allowed to become a data-mining firm that leverages our information for political gain while hiding its work from the public.

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Related

Federal Agents Are Intimidating Legal Observers at Their Homes: “They Know Where You Live”](https://theintercept.com/2026/03/05/ice-cbp-minnesota-surveillance-intimidation-observers/)

As Kevin Bell, one of our counselors at Free Information Group, said, “This threat to Americans’ very right to an individual identity has never been so dire. The Trump administration is correlating each of its citizens’ with their transactions, emails, location tracking, missed car payments, online views or posts, and entire personal histories; the President has ordered the collection and free dissemination of every bit of data about every one of us held anywhere for any reason.”

The public deserves to see these documents. We intend to compel them to show us — and all Americans.

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The next Gen gaming eggsperience submitted by ...

2026-03-17T23:35:42Z

The next Gen gaming eggsperience

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2026-03-17T23:25:20Z

This Knife Cost Me $7403

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I heard you like clickbait.

This is my knife. There are no others like it, and this one is mine.

No, it really is. I made it with my own hands. As a matter of fact, I might have possibly taken the notion of making it with my own hands just a bit too far.

The Secret Of Show Business, Again

This all started fairly innocently. You see, I have this OG Böker Rold. Have done for years. I never got around to talking about it here.

The Rold is a fine knife. I was using it as my default camp knife for quite a while, hence the surface wear you see on its blade there. Böker themselves describe it as a “very durable Outdoor and Camp Knife,” which in this business is a bold statement rather akin to standing on top of a hill in a thunderstorm with a copper tureen on your head while holding a flagpole, yelling about how all gods are sissies. That’s because what with “bushcraft” still being so much in vogue amongst them as watch too much Youtube, you’re likely to find dudebros attempting to use your creation for nothing less than hacking down the last of the sequoias and trying to baton rocks. It seems nobody thinks to pack an axe anymore or, heavens forbid, some type of folding saw.

But so far as I’ve been able to tell the Rold is the real deal in that respect. It’s a Jesper Voxnæs design, he of previous fame around here for also coming up with the https://lemmy.world/post/7069030 which we inspected quite some time ago. So far mine remains resolutely unbroken, but as these are now out of production and apparently in ascendancy to becoming collector’s items, mine doesn’t see much use anymore.

There are a lot of things I like about the Rold, but then again there are some things I don’t. On the positive side it’s a bit of an ergonomic tour-de-force, with a clever forward grip design that allows you to place your index finger through the massive choil forward of the guard to choke up on it for control, or hold it back on the main handle to give yourself more leverage. It’s also not exactly a small object at an 11" overall length, and it’s made out of D2, m’favorite steel. But it’s got a matte finish made of grey enamel or something that scuffs and scratches as soon as you look at it, the handle scales can’t be dismounted, and with the best will in the world the sheath it came with is a bit naff. Mine required significant tuning with a heat gun straight out of the box.

Plus, for as large as it is I am still immensely covetous of my nephew’s Scrapyard Dog Son of Dogfather for filling the same role, another currently unobtainable piece which has a similar jam as the Rold but is much, much thicker. Thus like a cat reading a newspaper, I concluded to myself one fine day not too long that I ought to make my own damn knife and see if I can marry the elements of these that are my favorites. Just then and there, on the spot. Just like that.

So, you see, what you do is you find an act that works.

And steal it.

How Hard Can It Be?

There are men in this world — and they are universally men — who will send away to have a blade blank cut, and then send away to have it heat treated, and then send away to have handles made for it and yet they’ll still stick their thumbs in their suspenders and insist to you as bold as you please that they’re a custom knife maker. Uh-huh. Sure you are, bud.

Thus at the outset of all this, I wrote one ironclad rule: I will do all of this in house, by myself. No outsourcing. This is Lemmy, after all; we love seizing the means of production around here.

And to as great an extent as possible, no outside research, either. You can spend all day watching videos or bickering on forums and never get anything done. I’m a bird of considerable resource and, let’s face it, also the ownership of a couple of hundred knives. So part of that’s got to rub off via some kind of horizontal osmosis to expertise in building knives as well.

…Right?

I’ve also got a quite broad selection of tools at my disposal amassed over the course of a lifetime. Surely this’ll be a cinch.

The Plan

An individual with more enthusiasm and rather less hard earned cynicism would grab the nearest chunk of scrap metal and go at it with the angle grinder straight away. But not me. Much to my own astonishment as much as anyone else’s, I sat down and planned this out.

Inf act, I drafted my vision down to every last detail in FreeCAD.

I started with the general ergonomic plan from the Rold and got to modifying. With a whack-diddle-diddle-hi-ho, and a stretch here and a tweak there, I arrived at a first draft. I also made it bigger. https://katamari.fandom.com/wiki/King_of_All_Cosmos

As you all are no doubt aware I am also the owner of a ludicrously large 3D printer. So I employed the same for, I think for the first time in my life, I actually accomplishing one of the original stated intentions of the whole damn process, which was to prototype a 1:1 life sized replica of my blade blank.

Printing your plan out on paper is one thing, but actually being able to produce in less than an hour a real physical representation of your design that you can hold in your hand is an incredible game changer. There are ergonomic considerations you won’t be able to make just looking at the representation of a thing on the screen. I was able to iterate on my design basically for free, so I went through several prototype stages before settling on the final shape. And when you hold it, it is real in a sense that no mere paper proxy can approach.

This is not a how-to column, and in fact may actually turn out to be a how-to-not piece instead. But if I’m going to offer one piece of advice, it’s this one: If you’re going to get into this sort of thing, get your hands on some manner of rapid prototyping system. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a 3D printer. Something like a CNC router or similar that can reasonably precisely hack your design out of plywood or whatever material would also do. But you’re going to want something. Trust me on this.

Instruct Me Not

I bought some steel.

Total bill of materials cost: $30.

Alas, it seems to have arrived upside down. No matter; I’m certain I can make it work anyway.

Truth be told, this entire odyssey actually started when I was noodling around on the internet and I read about the heat treating process for D2 steel. I’m not actually a total stranger to metalworking, and I’ve seen enough about how this works. Regular carbon steels, and a lot of other alloys besides, are heat treated by the typical medieval style heat-and-dunk method you may be picturing which results in a large hiss and a bloody great cloud of steam. You can do this at home, if you’ve got a forge or some other suitable way to get your metal cooking red hot — but D2 doesn’t work that way. It’s an air hardening steel, and that’s exactly what it sounds like: Heat it up, and… That’s it. Just let it sit there. I found this fascinating.

You still have to temper it, of course, because at the end of the hardening and/or quenching phase most steels are rock hard but also possess a glassine brittleness which is certainly not a property you want in your big old tree-mauling chopper of a knife.

But I watched someone do this and I immediately thought, “Hey, I could do that, too!” So I did.

And D2 is still my favorite knife steel in the world. This is just icing on the cake.

Step one here was to print a full sized template of my design. This is significantly less fancified than my replica prototypes, which had edge bevels and everything. This is just a slab in the complete outline of the final product. I traced this out on a chunk of my raw D2 steel which alas I neglected to take a picture of at the time so you’ll have to use your imagination on how that works.

Actually, back up a bit. Step one was actually to figure out whether or not the D2 flat stock I just bought from some rando on eBay in trifling hobbyist quantities actually arrived in its annealed state.

D2, you see, can be hardened to an extreme degree. Like, a drill bit dulling and tool breaking degree. I had to determine if my metal arrived soft and annealed as it should have, or if I was going to have a heat treating operation on my hands right out of the gate.

I don’t have a fancy Rockwell hardness testing machine, but I do have this suspiciously cheap set of allegedly Japanese hardness grading files I bought off of the internet for twenty bucks some time ago.

Trepidatiously, I started with the hardest one and worked my way down until I determined that, yes, the corner of my D2 slab succumbed to each and every one of them. So it ought to be soft enough to drill.

I also had some misgivings about being able to accurately locate the three holes I’d need to lance into the handle in order to put the scale mounting screws through. I devised a solution which I’m proud to declare that I think is clever, which was to make this set of printed bushings whose inner diameters match the business end of my centerpunch precisely, and which fit through the holes in my template in exactly the right positions, provided I manage not to move the template at all between punchings.

I have been told that starting your holes with a entering bit is actually the “wrong” way to do it. It worked for me, though. Thus I was able to bore all three holes without much trouble.

I ain’t not no undummy; I drilled the holes first, whereupon I would discover whether or not I was bashing my head against a brick wall or not, purposefully long before wasting an entire afternoon hacking the profile of the blade out of the metal and winding up with a complicated chunk of scrap after discovering I couldn’t put holes through it.

The astute among you will probably have realized that since D2 hardens by heating it and simply allowing the stuff to cool to room temperature, doing anything to it that creates heat will readily cause it to work harden. And this is indeed so, including the bits immediately adjacent to where you have, just for purest sake of example, just been throwing a nine foot long rooster tail of sparks off of it with your angle grinder.

I don’t like to toot my own horn except in very precise and specialized circumstances. This is one of those. I am by my own recognition the king of all angle grinders. I can do damn near anything with an angle grinder, up to and including this, and all the things I couldn’t I turned out on my little belt sander, the same one I use for reprofiling blades and getting nicks out of edges.

…Almost everything.

I quickly concluded that my weedy Harbor Freight 1x30" sander was absolutely not going to hack it for the blade’s primary grind. Oh, believe me that I gave it a damn good try anyway. But after spending an hour and winding up with little more than just shining up the first eighth of an inch I boldly gave up. My stock is a quarter of an inch thick and I made the deeply questionable decision to put a full or at least nearly full flat grind on this thing, just like the one its inspiration has.

So.

I Was On The Internet This Week…

And I bought this.

Some manner of honest-to-goodness belt grinder has been on my shopping list for literal years, and today on this glorious day I was finally handed a solid justification.

Total bill of materials cost: $829.

This highly suspicious Chinese model seems to be built on the same pattern as pretty much all of them on offer around this size and price point. I picked one based purely on lead time, and here it is. I couldn’t tell you who actually made it. Probably no one can.

It arrived in an alarmingly dense crate as if I’d actually ordered a Tasmanian devil. I had to break it apart with hammers and a crowbar.

To illustrate the true breadth of the cost cutting measures we’re dealing with here, this thing is so cheap the manufacturer couldn’t even be bothered to make a 120 volt version of North American consumption. Instead it comes with this yum-cha 120 to 240v step up transformer which I’m totally certain will not randomly blow up in my face and subsequently burn down my shop some day. I’ll just keep this unplugged when it’s not in use, I think, if it’s all the same to you.

I’m also chuffed to bits to discover that it came prewired with this mountable VFD unit that would be right at home in an industrial control panel enclosure. Astonishingly, it worked right out of the box, although in my opinion by default the motor ought to spin the other way. I believe rectifying that is a simple matter of switching two wires, but there’s also a reverse button right there on the panel and so for now I can’t be bothered.

I’m much less chuffed to report that no part of the perfunctory instructions leaflet that came with this thing wastes any words on explaining how the hell you’re meant assemble it. It also doesn’t tell you the trick to correctly tensioning the belt, but I figured it all out readily enough.

I am given to understand that there is no upper limit to the potential bodaciousness of a belt grinding setup, and the true aficionados inevitably build their own. I’m pleased as punch to report that this one sure does it for me, though. The complete and utter lack of safety mechanisms, guards, or interlocks makes it feel right at home in my workshop. And my Harbor Freight sander feels like an electric toothbrush by comparison.

In sheer recognition of the extent of my talents, I also bought this handy jig for holding your knife at a consistent angle while you’re grinding the bevel into it. Certainly I could do it freehand like a Real Man, I tell myself in order get to sleep at night, it’s just that this will provide a more consistent finish. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

What the hell. It was only twenty bucks.

Total bill of materials cost: $849.

Even with my shiny new toy I found that the primary grind was taking an inordinate amount of time. I eventually determined that this was because I was running my grinder entirely too slowly, out of a combination of misunderstanding the readout on the VFD’s panel and also being afraid to wind it up too high lest the thing suck me bodily into the works and spit me out the other side.

The former was easy enough to rectify and the latter turned out to be a non-issue, since even at maximum throttle I actually found the process to be fully controllable. Except, now we were making real sparks.

Schoolboy errors made: 1.

Finishing the primary grind still took a much larger chunk of the afternoon than I would have liked. My troubles may come down to using the equally cheap and Chinese belts supplied alongside my grinder. Since this whole process is a learning experience, we’ll chalk up that one: For the next knife, buy a better set of belts.

This entire affair produced an alarming yet curiously satisfying amount of metal dust.

After taking this picture I placed a five gallon bucket full of water directly below the belt path on my grinder to catch the bulk of the shavings, which appeared to accomplish absolutely nothing.

With the primary grind complete, now it was time for the fun part.

The Fun Part

Recall, many paragraphs ago, that I said I would do no outsourcing of my production. I was not kidding when I said that. I was making my Serious Samurai face and everything. I absolutely will not send this away for heat treating. Get the fuck outta here with that.

I am now proud owner of my very own heat treating kiln.

Total bill of materials cost: $3804.

This is a Hot Shot Ovens 18K knifemaker’s kiln, for knifemaking, by knifemakers. Which is what I am. Unlike my grinder it is a highly competent piece of equipment. Yes, I even got the one with the fancy “TAP” programmable controller. Hey, it was only a hundred bucks more. That basically fits within a rounding error by this point.

Actually, if I were to do it all again I probably would have foregone the fancy controller and just gotten the regular single stage one. The TAP controller is wi-fi enabled and theoretically offers smartphone control, but it’s another one of those thrice damned things where the manufacturer expects you to pay a monthly subscription to unlock some of the features built into it, and I’ll be stuffed if I’m doing that. You can still do multi-step programming of the kiln with timings and temperature curves and all right on the screen, so I’ll be sticking to that instead.

Paywall or not, this baby will still do 2200° F. I don’t need it to, mind you, but it’s nice to know that I can.

Step 2: Bake at 1875° F for 40 minutes, then allow to cool.

It feels wrong doing a “quench” on a piece of red hot glowing steel by dangling it off of a chunk of round stock clamped in the vise and just leaving it there.

After cooling off the blade has this rather attractive patina on it.

Schoolboy errors made: 2.

The more sage among you are aware that I made a critical blunder, here. You see, D2 is a high chromium content steel and when you’re cooking it at thousands of degrees you really ought to protect it from the atmosphere somehow, which I in my combination of exuberance and inexperience, plus being acquainted only with plain carbon steels, failed to do. That black stuff all over the blade is a layer of steel that’s decarburized, and has instead allowed the chromium to come out of solution and form up on the surface to oxidize.

On plain carbon steel you also get forge scale all over it, or I guess whatever the equivalent of that ought to be called if you haven’t actually forged the thing, but this is trivially easy to knock off with a quick trip back to your belt sander.

Not so with the chromium rich layer encrusting what was until twenty minutes ago my beautiful and shiny knife-to-be. Even my meanest 24 grit belt would barely touch the stuff. You know what they make out of chromium oxide, right? The grit for abrasives. Like, it’s the active ingredient in that bar of green stropping compound that makes it green. And it’s the active ingredient in Flitz, too. That means it’s harder than steel, Q.E.D.

Fortunately I had another brain wave, which was to try dunking it in acid. White vinegar, in this case, which after a 30 minute bath enticed the stuff to let go to the extent that I could blast it off with a high speed wire wheel.

Still and all, next time I’ll use some toolmaker’s foil to wrap my blank before heat treatment. I’d rather not go through all that again.

The final phase after tempering (500° F for two hours, chosen to prioritize toughness over hardness/edge retention) was to polish up all of the surfaces from the ugliness I imparted on them by being a dummy about the heat treatment. I stepped up through my collection of belts until I reached 180 grit which was the finest I had for my big belt grinder. I briefly toyed with the idea of switching to my little machine to keep going, since I have an array of specialty sharpening bits for it going all the way up to the equivalent of 2000 grit. But I ultimately decided against it because A) the blade is so damn big I’m not sure I could get even coverage with the little machine anyway, and B) for a bushwhacking knockaround knife I’m not sure I want a satiny smooth finish on it I’ll just fuck up in the first three seconds anyway.

So the hell with it.

I also realized at this point that I’d forgotten to cut my planned jimping into the spine.

Schoolboy errors made: 3.

Life pro tip: Next time, do those cuts before hardening the fucking thing. I’ll bet you it’ll be easier.

I deftly avoided one other obvious pratfall in all of this. You’ll note that at no point doing this treatise did I say anything about putting an edge on it. That’s because I didn’t until the very last step, in order to save myself from amputating all ten of my fingertips while I was grinding and tempering and polishing and all the rest of it.

I may be stupid, but I’m not crazy.

A Clever Dick

I hate making handle scales. I’ve only done it twice in my life, and it was a pain in my tailfeathers both times. I resolved not to do it again.

Fortunately, I already had a plan in place. The beauty of drafting my knife in CAD down to the last maniacal detail is that I can simply instruct my 3D printer to print out a set of handle scales for me. Perfectly formed, pre-holed, the same on both sides, and direct fitting. And you don’t have to breathe a single molecule of Micarta dust.

Sometimes my genius is tangible.

Additional Financial Considerations

Throughout this procedure, several friends and acquaintances stopped by my workshop to see what all the noise was. The ultimate upshot of that is, I now have six or seven open orders for more of these.

In light of that, I made another decision.

Total bill of materials cost: $7403.

Do I need a $3599 large format 100 watt fiber laser engraver? No, absolutely not. Could I have made do with a lesser 60 or even 40 watt machine? Yes, probably. But I wanted a 100 watt fiber laser engraver, you see. And now I have a good excuse.

Plus, it lets me do this.

I don’t envy people who have to justify their toy purchases to their wives. Not one little bit. Man, my life really is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIRPPd5tZ8w sometimes.

Laser engraving is another whole skill set I’ll have to add to my repertoire. I’m getting there slowly and I’m sure I’ll have lots to say about it later. For now, I used the offcut from my first piece of steel to figure out what the best settings are for my material, and had at it.

To celebrate this momentous occasion I drew up a new logo and everything. You know, now that we’re not making knives out of plastic anymore.

The Review Part

I now find myself in the unique and somewhat unenviable position of having to present to you… er, my own knife. Foibles and all. It’s not perfect, but to be fair it is literally my first attempt at this pattern, in this steel, with this machinery.

I would like you to meet the Featherless Forge Emperor. So named after the most humongous of all extant penguins, an attribute which it shares.

It is, without a doubt, fucking massive. Of course this is by design. It’s 12-5/8" (320mm) long from tip to tail, with a 7-1/4" (184mm) blade with every little bit of it being usable as a result of the choil at the base that’s big enough to fit even a gloved index finger into. All told it weighs 16.72 ounces (474.2 grams). Of course it does — It’s a quarter inch thick slab of D2. If you are a wimp, this is not the knife for you.

Since my ISO standard comparison method would be close to useless, here it is next to a Böker Rold. The latter is in and of itself not a small knife. The Emperor could probably cleave it in half.

The blade is a flat grind that’s nearly the full breadth of the knife ending in a roughly 20 degree microbevel that should result in unparalleled chopping and splitting power. Opening your mail, fine whittling, cleaning your fingernails, trimming your arm hairs: These are all tasks that the Emperor is absolutely not designed for. The Emperor is for bifurcating logs and fighting bears, and looking mean as hell doing it.

One of the things about the Rold that annoys me is its pronounced and slightly wonky plunge line separating the primary taper from the flat part of the knife, which bisects the front of the choil and leaves an unrefined stairstep there. Plus, with the best will in the world it’s also not quite the same on both sides. Thus the Emperor has no plunge line at all, with the grind gently and at least mostly smoothly transitioning into the flat just before the handle. This leaves nothing to snag, and also no crevice for gunk to accumulate in.

A small ramp on the spine of the blade provides a forward endstop for your thumb when you’re holding the Emperor in either position. This is jimped subtly for tactile feel more than any kind of grip, since the ramp and the finger guard should prove sufficiently proof against sliding up onto the edge. The edge which is, mind you, nearly a full inch and a half below the lower edge of the handle anyway. In order for the Emperor to bite you in any situation something must have seriously gone wrong, although provided only you can keep your off hand out from in between it and whatever unfortunate object you have underneath it on the stump.

This also means that every single iota of its cutting edge can be brought down on a flat surface. Not even the finger guard interferes with this. It’s not exactly shaped to be great at, say, slicing tomatoes wafer thin. But because of all of the above, you could probably still do it if you were a sufficiently high caliber of nut.

The handle has a sculpted bird’s head design with a pronounced flare at the pommel to prevent it from sliding forward out of your grip. You can hold it either fore…

…Or aft of the finger guard depending on what you’re planning to do with it.

On the final article the scales are 3D printed ABS. This material is both heat and impact resistant, but also dead easy for me to print without driving myself into apoplectic fits. Unlike a depressing number of purported “bushcraft ready” knives, these are screwed rather than pinned into place so the scales are readily dismountable for cleaning, customization, or let’s face it — replacement. One of the major knocks against the current crop of swanky Micarta handled models that are all the rage out there now is that you’re forever afraid of fucking up your irreplaceable bespoke handle scales.

I’ve long maintained that a fancy knife you won’t use is automatically lesser than a ratty one which you will, so that’s not how it works here. If, somehow, you manage to mar or even break the Emperor’s handles you can simply take them off. The print job to make a new pair takes less than an hour, and they’ll bolt right up.

Before I handled the first pair I was predicting for sure that printed scales would be stupid and terrible. Surprisingly, they’re not. The inherent layer structure of the print results in a rather Micarta-esque texture or, if we’re feeling especially charitable, one that’s reminiscent of woodgrain. This results in a surface that’s grippy but not too rough on your hands. It looks, feels, and acts like the business.

I deliberately sought out hollow handle screws for this so that those lanyard types of people could have something to put their cord through without doing anything so vulgar as punching a vestigial hole through the entire assembly that’d rankle you forever if you didn’t use it. As it happened, such hardware was tougher to find than you’d think.

You guys will love the solution I came up with. Are you ready for this? These are stainless steel chainring bolts for a bicycle.

They’re authoritatively rustrpoof, swank as all hell, and you can see daylight right through them. They’re also readily undone with a garden variety 5mm Allen key, and you don’t even need to stick a spanner driver in the other side. It’s a bit of a squeeze to get 550 paracord through the hole in the middle although it can be done if you use a nail or the end of an awl or something as a pusher. 3mm cord, however, sails right through like it was meant for it.

The left hand side bears my new Flightless Forge logo, which you’ve already seen. Left hand, that is, relative to holding it in your right hand with the edge down, i.e. ready for use.

Just who is that handsome penguin, anyway?

The right hand side proudly proclaims that no robots, AI, underpaid child laborers, or CNC machinery (well, except for my 3D printer if you want to be pedantic) were involved in the creation of this knife. Mine is also a serial number that no one else can ever ever have. Neener, neener, neener.

I figure now that I’m working in steel rather than silly old plastic I ought to invent a new brand to illustrate that we’re no longer fucking around.

Well, but we demonstrably are fucking around. This is just like playing store when you were a kid — we’ll pretend to be a real outfit with a logo and a cash register and the hours on the door and everything. Except in this case, it’s bad ass.

The Emperor requires what might possibly be the widest Kydex sheath ever concieved in history. The upper mounting screws are spaced such that it is technically Tek-Lok compatible, at least if you are stark raving loony enough to try it. Otherwise, the webbing belt loop provided is a much more practical option and is comprised of the fattest webbing I’ve ever seen in my life. It’s 4" across!

With the Emperor dangling off of your belt no one at the campground, or hell, anywhere within half a mile of you will be able to doubt your virility or outdoors credibility.

The Emperor’s edge is mirror polished at 2000 grit and thanks to the flat grind going nearly all the way down to the apex, it doesn’t need to be very broad. The chopping power is phenomenal, which is half and half due to the geometry but also due to the monumental heft of the knife. The weight distribution is somewhat blade biased, with the point of balance being nearly precisely on the first bit of the edge forward of the choil.

Hacking at the grain crosswise is likewise no problem.

As stated, the Emperor is a full quarter of an inch thick at the spine. This makes it absurdly robust at the expense, of course, of weighing over a pound.

On the left, the Emperor. On the right, the Böker Rold, itself not exactly a svelte object.

I spent all afternoon whacking every piece of scrap wood I could lay my hands on into kindling. This had no noticeable impact on the finish nor the edge, even after one ill-fated attempt to split a hardwood log that was about 10" across and got the knife so irrevocably stuck I had to use a rubber mallet to knock it free. I call that a success, I don’t know about you.

I only filmed some of this. The bulk of it will surely remain lost to history since Lemmy only lets you post little snippets, although I might be talked into it if the weather’s nice and there’s any market at all for, say, a live stream of me and my stupid penguin face smashing random chunks of wood into toothpicks for hours on end. It can’t possibly be any more insipid than what most of the kids seem to be watching these days.

The Inevitable Conclusion

This is my knife. There will some day be others like it, but this one will always be mine.

I’ve heard it said that for your first knife you should start with something uncomplicated, in an easy to work with steel, and above all small.

Um…

No.

https://lemmy.world/post/44399325

Eversharp Skylines submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/DadFather ...

2026-03-17T21:58:05Z

Eversharp Skylines

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7 points | https://lemmy.world/post/44396527

Here are three Skylines. I was trying to get the light to show off the brown and blue pens’ tortoise shell. All three needed cleaning and new ink sacs. The brown one is still in process because I can’t get it apart no matter how hard I pull and I’m afraid to break it. The nibs on these are especially smooth and nice to write with, even when I’m making tiny letters. I’ll keep posting pens as I clean and restore the ones in this box I inherited. Ideas on how to live with, use, and store a dozen or so pens welcome. They are all turning out so well I want to rotate through using them but want to make sure they don’t get all dried out and broken between rotations.

https://lemmy.world/post/44396527

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2026-03-12T05:14:35Z

Remixed Nancy

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Erotic Art submitted by https://fedinsfw.app/u/anaisrim ...

2026-02-20T03:12:57Z

Erotic Art

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A place to share erotic art.

https://fedinsfw.app/c/erotic_art

https://lemmy.world/post/43354886

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2026-02-15T07:55:50Z

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https://lemmy.world/post/43155673

EU leaders agree to move ahead with ‘Buy European’ policy ...

2026-02-13T09:07:39Z

EU leaders agree to move ahead with ‘Buy European’ policy

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/12/eu-leaders-clash-buy-european-belgium-summit

https://lemmy.world/post/43080664

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance ...

2026-02-13T06:44:56Z

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

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https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-and-flock-cancel-partnership/

https://lemmy.world/post/43078226

That famous Japanese politeness submitted by ...

2026-02-12T19:45:48Z

That famous Japanese politeness

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https://lemmy.world/post/43060418

it was all downhill from here imo submitted by ...

2026-02-06T23:24:35Z

it was all downhill from here imo

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https://lemmy.world/post/42781484

Black man who was executed in Texas 70 years ago is cleared in ...

2026-01-24T03:53:49Z

Black man who was executed in Texas 70 years ago is cleared in case marked by racial bias

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/MicroWave
Tommy Lee Walker was executed in the electric chair in May 1956 for the rape and murder of 31-year-old Venice Parker.
Nearly 70 years after a Texas Black man was executed in a case that prosecutors now say was based on false evidence and was riddled with racial bias, officials have declared that he was innocent in the killing of a white woman in Dallas.
At the time of the trial, prosecutors had alleged Walker attacked Parker, a store clerk who was on her way home, on the evening of Sept. 30, 1953. Parker’s killing took place during a time of panic and racial division in the Dallas area as there were reports that a Peeping Tom believed to be a Black man was terrorizing women, according to the Dallas County Criminal District Attorney’s Office.
But an extensive review of Walker’s conviction by the Dallas County Criminal District Attorney’s Office, along with the help of the Innocence Project of New York and Northeastern University School of Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, found multiple problems with Walker’s case.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbcblk3/black-man-was-executed-texas-70-years-ago-cleared-case-marked-racial-b-rcna255705

https://lemmy.world/post/42074017

Minnesotans strike to protest ICE surge in state: ‘No work, no ...

2026-01-23T23:53:39Z

Minnesotans strike to protest ICE surge in state: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/23/minnesota-economic-blackout-ice-protests

https://lemmy.world/post/42068076

The United States of Canada and Jesusland submitted by ...

2026-01-22T20:39:09Z

The United States of Canada and Jesusland

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https://lemmy.world/post/42011345

Danish veterans of US Afghan, Iraq Wars feel betrayed by ...

2026-01-22T10:40:47Z

Danish veterans of US Afghan, Iraq Wars feel betrayed by Trump's Greenland threats. "When America needed us after 9/11 we were there ... It's a betrayal of the loyalty of our nation to the U.S....

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https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/01/21/danish-veterans-of-us-wars-say-they-feel-betrayed-by-greenland-threats/

https://lemmy.world/post/41989264

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2026-01-21T20:44:58Z

Good Boy in Worcester Cathedral, UK, 14th century AD

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What's it like for you? submitted by ...

2026-01-20T14:25:42Z

What's it like for you?

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https://lemmy.world/post/41899338

Punishment submitted by https://piefed.world/u/Reaqlto <a ...

2026-01-18T22:25:07Z

Punishment

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Exclusive: Secret ICE Programs Revealed submitted by ...

2026-01-17T21:20:43Z

Exclusive: Secret ICE Programs Revealed

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The media is telling a certain story about ICE, giving the blow by blow on the most public horrors but never quite seeing the bigger picture that it’s part of a larger war. As a military intelligence source told me, the ICE crackdown isn’t just about immigration; it’s about gathering intelligence in support of Trump’s war on cartels — as well as on Antifa, on the radical left, and https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-common-beliefs
and anyone else they consider terrorists. And since the administration has been so quick to label everyone, including Renee Good, terrorists, it’s no wonder they think they’re at war.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/21-secret-ice-programs-revealed

https://lemmy.world/post/41772900

"Next, I cast VIcious Mockery, and then Dispel Evil" ...

2026-01-17T20:21:19Z

"Next, I cast VIcious Mockery, and then Dispel Evil"

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https://lemmy.world/post/41767938

Old Man Happy Accident submitted by https://lemmy.ca/u/BCsven ...

2026-01-17T19:50:52Z

Old Man Happy Accident

submitted by https://lemmy.ca/u/BCsven
Today, as an old guy, I was cleaning our glass top stove. The Weiman cleaner is in the cupboard above the stove.
I squirted a bunch on the dirty rings and then realized its normally white not blue paste.
Turns out I grabbed the Cascade Complete dishwasher liquid. Duh.
I started to wipe it and realized it was pulling off the baked on food better than the stove cleaning product.
Best it has looked in 5 years.
P.s. made sure to fully rinse all of it off so no residue remained.

https://lemmy.world/post/41767258

Black Panther watching their neighborhood in Philly submitted by ...

2026-01-17T18:23:16Z

Black Panther watching their neighborhood in Philly

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https://lemmy.world/post/41763858

Daily Akari 2026-01-15 submitted by ...

2026-01-15T08:39:03Z

Daily Akari 2026-01-15

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Daily Akari 😊
Thu Jan 15, 2026
✅Solved in 1:09✅

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https://lemmy.world/post/41649196

What is your favorite thing about being a parent? submitted by ...

2026-01-13T14:52:59Z

What is your favorite thing about being a parent?

submitted by https://piefed.blahaj.zone/u/compostgoblin
I see a lot of commentary, especially on Lemmy and Reddit, about how awful children are and how wonderful adulthood without kids is. And if you don’t want them, more power to you.
On the other hand, many people are parents and love having children! I want to hear some of the positive stories. What about being a parent makes your life better? What’s your favorite thing about your kids?

https://lemmy.world/post/41561930

Technology submitted by ...

2026-01-13T05:50:10Z

Technology

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https://lemmy.world/post/41547582

No war with Venezuela! Release President Maduro! submitted by ...

2026-01-03T21:53:47Z

No war with Venezuela! Release President Maduro!

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https://redphoenixnews.com/2026/01/03/no-war-with-venezuela-release-president-maduro/

https://lemmy.world/post/41112136

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2025-12-31T03:20:49Z

life 1916

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Man charged after allegedly performing Nazi salutes at Canberra ...

2025-12-27T03:34:09Z

Man charged after allegedly performing Nazi salutes at Canberra shopping centres

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Police allege the man also trespassed at ANU and ‘stuck propaganda-style stickers’ on buildings and other property
An 18-year-old has been charged with allegedly performing two separate Nazi salutes at Canberra shopping centres and putting up “propaganda-style stickers” in recent months.
The man is expected to appear before ACT magistrates court on Friday, where police will allege in October a member of the public confronted him as he stuck stickers up at a shopping centre and then performed a Nazi salute before leaving the centre.
The man allegedly performed another Nazi salute on 12 December at a different shopping centre, police said.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/26/man-charged-after-allegedly-performing-nazi-salutes-at-canberra-shopping-centres-ntwnfb

https://lemmy.world/post/40756152

Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a ...

2025-12-21T09:08:44Z

Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball

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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/12/21/020235/bell-labs-unix-tape-from-1974-successfully-dumped-to-a-tarball

https://lemmy.world/post/40501794

Ideal Beach Body submitted by https://mander.xyz/u/fossilesque ...

2025-12-19T06:25:19Z

Ideal Beach Body

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https://lemmy.world/post/40408084

See you in Hel submitted by https://mander.xyz/u/fossilesque ...

2025-12-19T06:21:09Z

See you in Hel

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https://lemmy.world/post/40408075

Reindeer Alternatives submitted by ...

2025-12-19T06:19:40Z

Reindeer Alternatives

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https://lemmy.world/post/40408048

Good branding submitted by ...

2025-12-19T05:50:11Z

Good branding

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https://lemmy.world/post/40407526

I'm alone in the office today, so I spent some time ...

2025-12-18T11:52:18Z

I'm alone in the office today, so I spent some time retrieving all the Nerf ammo that was scattered everywhere and restocked all guns with their respective darts.

submitted by https://lemmy.zip/u/RichardDegenne

https://lemmy.world/post/40373175

/r/RedditAlternatives comments ask for alternatives, Piefed and ...

2025-12-08T11:48:13Z

/r/RedditAlternatives comments ask for alternatives, Piefed and Lemmy are mentioned a few times

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https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1pgu3y5/got_banned_for_asking_why_a_post_was_removed/

https://lemmy.world/post/39885897

🏀 fuck it 🏀 submitted by https://mander.xyz/u/fossilesque ...

2025-12-08T06:55:55Z

🏀 fuck it 🏀

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https://lemmy.world/post/39878987

Errrmm.... submitted by ...

2025-12-06T05:05:05Z

Errrmm....

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https://lemmy.world/post/39788935

Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and ...

2025-12-03T11:46:46Z

Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and funding

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/Jeffool

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ron-gilbert-cancels-rpg-project-due-to-lack-of-support-and-funding

https://lemmy.world/post/39660005

Rules of war submitted by https://lemmy.ml/u/geneva_convenience ...

2025-12-02T08:23:38Z

Rules of war

submitted by https://lemmy.ml/u/geneva_convenience
<a href="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/0fc75353-7d2a-442a-95a6-e00432cf872c.png"; rel="nofollow">
</a>For those who missed it, Liberals are criticizing Trump for double tapping Venezuelan boats who (of course) surrendered after getting hit by a US terrorist bombing
But the actual problem is massacring innocent fishermen without evidence or trial.

https://lemmy.world/post/39609252

What would yours be? submitted by ...

2025-11-27T05:55:06Z

What would yours be?

submitted by https://piefed.blahaj.zone/u/LadyButterfly
<a href="https://piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone/posts/pD/H1/pDH1zaZFnfD89Lh.jpg"; rel="nofollow">
</a>

https://lemmy.world/post/39377633

How to test if the internet is working as expected.. submitted by ...

2025-11-24T03:02:37Z

How to test if the internet is working as expected..

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/over_clox

https://lemmy.world/post/39226379

Collision Course submitted by https://infosec.pub/u/cm0002 <a ...

2025-11-21T23:17:40Z

Collision Course

submitted by https://infosec.pub/u/cm0002
<a href="https://infosec.pub/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.ml%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F5a6d1cc5-9273-40ce-bd2d-ca846a416b82.png"; rel="nofollow">
</a>

https://lemmy.world/post/39131688

Legit me submitted by ...

2025-11-21T05:22:11Z

Legit me

submitted by https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/u/thoughtfuldragon
<a href="https://piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone/posts/pp/to/pptoUJMm0SIBPL7.jpg"; rel="nofollow">
</a>Cross posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/trippinthroughtime/p/410807/legit-me

https://lemmy.world/post/39094607

Fifa agrees World Cup matches can be moved at Trump’s request. ...

2025-11-18T10:52:07Z

Fifa agrees World Cup matches can be moved at Trump’s request. The president has been warning host cities under Democratic control that he will call on Fifa’s president to switch venues if he deems th

submitted by https://piefed.zip/u/Blaze
The president has been warning host cities under Democratic control that he will call on Fifa’s president to switch venues if he deems there is a problem

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/fifa-world-cup-matches-moved-trump-7bgf03gkv?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1763443412-1

https://lemmy.world/post/38967068

Incoming Snowy Owl submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/anon6789 ...

2025-11-17T14:31:42Z

Incoming Snowy Owl

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/anon6789

Got lucky tonight, she was flying quite a bit and ended up flying right towards and over me just as I was leaving. Quickly stopped my vehicle, got out and took a few pictures.
Snowy Owl | NE WI | 11.16.25
Shot on #Fujifilm

https://lemmy.world/post/38921712

Knights of Conquest: Feudal Shenanigans Galore, a medival action ...

2025-11-15T09:54:05Z

Knights of Conquest: Feudal Shenanigans Galore, a medival action x RTS x town management strategy, with option to fight with your character in third person, released on Steam.

submitted by https://piefed.world/u/Agent_Karyo

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2782030/Knights_of_Conquest_Feudal_Shenanigans_Galore/

https://lemmy.world/post/38823755

How to find submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/gedaliyah <a ...

2025-11-13T14:02:51Z

How to find

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/gedaliyah
<a href="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/dd0bf3bb-7f6f-4eae-9e03-bdc954dc1d10.png"; rel="nofollow">
</a>Ouroboros is a type of all you can eat

https://lemmy.world/post/38740899

Seems a great many of you need this. submitted by ...

2025-11-12T02:46:33Z

Seems a great many of you need this.

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/shalafi
<a href="https://i.imgur.com/kXTq4YB.jpg"; rel="nofollow">
</a>

https://lemmy.world/post/38678541

ooc wikipedia submitted by https://piefed.blahaj.zone/u/io ...

2025-11-11T18:51:36Z

ooc wikipedia

submitted by https://piefed.blahaj.zone/u/io

credit: https://twink.men/notes/aexzxpc0yi3l001b

https://lemmy.world/post/38663584

Greenland shark submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/themaninblack ...

2025-11-10T23:50:32Z

Greenland shark

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/themaninblack

https://lemmy.world/post/38628438

Thoughts on lichess vs chess.com? submitted by ...

2025-11-08T11:48:49Z

Thoughts on lichess vs chess.com?

submitted by https://lemmy.today/u/vurr
I’m sorry if this question has already been asked, but I’m just wondering, what your opinions are about lichess and chess.com? Lichess is a nonprofit and open-source and seems more ethical to me, but chess.com has more features. I’ve been using chess.com for years, but thinking of switching over to lichess or some other application.

https://lemmy.world/post/38507740

YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli ...

2025-11-05T16:19:25Z

YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations

submitted by https://sh.itjust.works/u/HellsBelle
A DOCUMENTARY FEATURING mothers surviving Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A video investigation uncovering Israel’s role in the killing of a Palestinian American journalist. Another video revealing Israel’s destruction of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank.
YouTube surreptitiously deleted all these videos in early October by wiping the accounts that posted them from its website, along with their channels’ archives. The accounts belonged to three prominent Palestinian human rights groups: Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.
The move came in response to a U.S. government campaign to stifle accountability for alleged Israeli war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-rights-censorship/

https://lemmy.world/post/38372361

Artikel: Lieferstopp für Gas? USA und Katar warnen submitted by ...

2025-11-05T10:18:29Z

Artikel: Lieferstopp für Gas? USA und Katar warnen

submitted by https://feddit.org/u/SrMono
🥳

https://www.t-online.de/heim-garten/aktuelles/id_100975186/eu-gas-versorgung-unter-druck-sorge-vor-lng-abhaengigkeit.html

https://lemmy.world/post/38356999

ICE Asked to Pause Operations for Halloween So Children Can Trick ...

2025-10-30T20:36:44Z

ICE Asked to Pause Operations for Halloween So Children Can Trick or Treat

submitted by https://discuss.online/u/bytesonbike
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has reportedly requested that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and senior ICE officials suspend immigration enforcement operations in Chicago for Halloween.

https://www.newsweek.com/ice-asked-to-pause-operations-for-halloween-children-trick-or-treat-10963836

https://lemmy.world/post/38098355

Todd had a rough day submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/Rhynoplaz ...

2025-10-30T20:23:54Z

Todd had a rough day

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/Rhynoplaz

https://lemmy.world/post/38097885

Valid comment submitted by ...

2025-10-30T19:50:08Z

Valid comment

submitted by https://piefed.blahaj.zone/u/LadyButterfly
<a href="https://piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone/posts/lS/H6/lSH6EU3yfSyJdsk.jpg"; rel="nofollow">
</a>

https://lemmy.world/post/38096784

Apple Hits $4 Trillion Market Value, Joining Nvidia and Microsoft ...

2025-10-30T04:49:09Z

Apple Hits $4 Trillion Market Value, Joining Nvidia and Microsoft

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/cantankerous_cashew

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/28/apple-4-trillion-market-cap/

https://lemmy.world/post/38065048

Meetup rule submitted by https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/u/autumn64 ...

2025-10-29T22:55:11Z

Meetup rule

submitted by https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/u/autumn64

https://lemmy.world/post/38054857

here are my characters again submitted by ...

2025-10-29T22:07:19Z

here are my characters again

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/jorymo
<a href="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f8446c65-b3f3-465e-b852-b2b28e650332.png"; rel="nofollow">
</a>

https://lemmy.world/post/38053308

Revealed: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ...

2025-10-29T20:26:13Z

Revealed: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/homesweethomeMrL
Quick reaction to help people? Like in a disaster?
No.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/pentagon-memo-quick-reaction-forces

https://lemmy.world/post/38049376

WIP Wednesday!!! submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/MrJameGumb ...

2025-10-29T20:12:42Z

WIP Wednesday!!!

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/MrJameGumb
One skeleton is almost complete!

https://lemmy.world/post/38048985

CONSTRUCTORA FIELD ARMORED CAR LET'S GOOOOO submitted by ...

2025-10-29T11:25:03Z

CONSTRUCTORA FIELD ARMORED CAR LET'S GOOOOO

submitted by https://piefed.social/u/PugJesus

https://lemmy.world/post/38028409

SILK is CORRUPTING our MANLY ROMAN SOCIETY (ArchonOfFlesh) ...

2025-10-29T10:17:46Z

SILK is CORRUPTING our MANLY ROMAN SOCIETY (ArchonOfFlesh)

submitted by https://piefed.social/u/PugJesus

https://lemmy.world/post/38026842

The market submitted by https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/Viking_Hippie ...

2025-10-29T06:19:44Z

The market

submitted by https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/Viking_Hippie
<a href="https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/ca9fe385-d3f0-47df-984a-2f2fda411f6e.png"; rel="nofollow">
</a>cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6572313

https://lemmy.world/post/38020101

Giraffe Facts submitted by https://lemmings.world/u/cm0002 ...

2025-10-29T02:28:52Z

Giraffe Facts

submitted by https://lemmings.world/u/cm0002

https://lemmy.world/post/38014790

Senate approves Democratic resolution to block Trump's ...

2025-10-28T23:47:14Z

Senate approves Democratic resolution to block Trump's tariffs on Brazil

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/MicroWave
The Senate voted on Tuesday to approve a resolution that would block Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, with five Republicans joining Democrats to back the measure in a rebuke to the president.
Led by Sen. Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, the resolution would terminate the national emergency that the administration is using to impose 50% tariffs on goods from Brazil.
“President Trump’s tariff regime — global, Brazilian tariffs, Canadian tariffs, tariff deals announced then paused, tariff deals negotiated, exceptions granted and in some cases not granted — have created huge chaos in the national economy,” Kaine said in a speech on the Senate floor before the vote. “Tariffs are a tax on American consumers. Tariffs are a tax on American businesses. And they are a tax that is imposed by a single person: Donald J. Trump.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-trump-tariffs-brazil/

https://lemmy.world/post/38010763

3:32 submitted by ...

2025-10-28T06:02:36Z

3:32

submitted by https://lemmy.dorfrollenspiel.de/u/IrmaErosCojones
Mmdrrrmrr Irma quengelt für einige Minuten
3:38 Irma heult

https://lemmy.world/post/37971998

Quantum Attacks on encryption will probably be feasible by 2030 ...

2025-10-28T04:47:08Z

Quantum Attacks on encryption will probably be feasible by 2030

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/wuffah
DEF CON 33 - Post Quantum Panic: When Will the Cracking Begin, & Can We Detect it? - K Karagiannis
Due to recently published algorithmic improvements (1399 qubits @ 2048 bit key length for Shor’s) and leaps being made in quantum computing hardware (IBM Starling @ 200 logical qubits in 2029, and IBM Blue Jay @ 2000 logical quibits from 2033 and on), encryption is in danger of State-sponsored and high end-criminal attacks as soon as 2030. Particularly susceptible are crypto-currencies like Bitcoin, which rely on the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem (ECDLP) and are attackable by Shor’s factoring capability on a predictably feasible quantum computer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkVYJx1iLNs

https://lemmy.world/post/37970301

Haven't these MFS been saying they won in a landslide have a ...

2025-10-27T22:50:15Z

Haven't these MFS been saying they won in a landslide have a mandate since January? Or am I just imagining things?

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/AutistoMephisto
Ideally, I’d love for Dems to just start taking credit for everything MAGA brags about. Since apparently the Republicans aren’t in charge.

https://lemmy.world/post/37960592

In 'Fight Oligarchy,' Sen. Bernie Sanders calls for a ...

2025-10-27T20:54:19Z

In 'Fight Oligarchy,' Sen. Bernie Sanders calls for a political revolution

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/gAlienLifeform

NPR’s Leila Fadel speaks with Sen. Bernie Sanders about his book, “Fight Oligarchy,” which argues oligarchic economic and political control has left millions of Americans struggling.
…
FADEL: This book is a pocket-size version of a tour called Fight Oligarchy that you went on in mostly Republican or a lot of Republican leaning districts. And it is a call to action. You call for political revolution. But what does that look like for Americans who are watching more and more violent ICE raids, these flurry of court decisions over what President Trump is doing or not doing, a government shutdown, a deadlock in Washington? That can feel very helpless for Americans who have no control over Washington and politicians here.
SANDERS: I think you hit the nail on the head. I think people are feeling helpless, deeply worried about the future and whether their kids will have an even lower standard of living than they do, and they want to know what we can do. And when I talk about the political revolution, it’s - yes, it means, very importantly getting involved in the political process. But it’s not just being involved in, quote-unquote, “political activities.” We’re seeing at the grassroots level, if not at Washington, at the grassroots level, a lot of union organizing. You can stand up and form a union. If you’re worried about the quality of education that your kids are getting, get involved now. Work with the teachers. Improve education. We are a nation that, by and large, believes in democracy, believes in justice, understands that climate change is not a hoax but an existential threat to our world. So the message is break out of your comfort zone, do what you didn’t do yesterday, and get involved in one way or another.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20251027204801/https://www.npr.org/2025/10/27/nx-s1-5530006/in-fight-oligarchy-sen-bernie-sanders-calls-for-a-political-revolution

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/27/nx-s1-5530006/in-fight-oligarchy-sen-bernie-sanders-calls-for-a-political-revolution

https://lemmy.world/post/37956338

Build a longer table, not a taller wall submitted by ...

2025-10-27T19:49:25Z

Build a longer table, not a taller wall

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/ickplant

https://lemmy.world/post/37954066

Gays_IRL submitted by https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/Stamets ...

2025-10-27T18:21:11Z

Gays_IRL

submitted by https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/Stamets

https://lemmy.world/post/37951330

The Look 🤨 submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/anon6789 ...

2025-10-27T10:19:17Z

The Look 🤨

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/anon6789

Burrowing Owl

https://lemmy.world/post/37930747

You may not like it, but this is what peak yuri performance looks ...

2025-10-27T07:50:05Z

You may not like it, but this is what peak yuri performance looks like

submitted by https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/u/Rozauhtuno
Idol Precure!

https://lemmy.world/post/37926719

Man fleeing immigration agents is fatally struck by a vehicle on ...

2025-10-27T07:33:28Z

Man fleeing immigration agents is fatally struck by a vehicle on a Virginia highway

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/Bonesince1997

Agents tried to detain Castro Rivera and the three other passengers, and he fled on foot, tried to cross Interstate 264 in Norfolk and was fatally struck, according to state and federal authorities.

DHS blamed Castro Rivera’s death on “a direct result of every politician, activist and reporter who continue to spread propaganda and misinformation about ICE’s mission and ways to avoid detention.”

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-arrest-death-traffic-virginia-3e68507cf451373aa49f18b80d532b1e

https://lemmy.world/post/37926216

Nine-Tails Kurama submitted by https://ani.social/u/pir8t0x ...

2025-10-27T06:31:38Z

Nine-Tails Kurama

submitted by https://ani.social/u/pir8t0x

https://lemmy.world/post/37923993

'Don't Let Kids Go Hungry': Trump Panned Over Not ...

2025-10-25T22:47:07Z

'Don't Let Kids Go Hungry': Trump Panned Over Not Using Emergency Fund for SNAP

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/return2ozma

https://www.commondreams.org/news/snap-government-shutdown

https://lemmy.world/post/37864264

Left-Wing Science Fiction - PM Press submitted by ...

2025-10-25T13:21:57Z

Left-Wing Science Fiction - PM Press

submitted by https://slrpnk.net/u/ProdigalFrog

https://blog.pmpress.org/2022/05/06/radical-left-wing-science-fiction/

https://lemmy.world/post/37841338

German Firms Hand Over Secrets That China Could Use for Leverage ...

2025-10-25T11:30:47Z

German Firms Hand Over Secrets That China Could Use for Leverage

submitted by https://lemmy.zip/u/schizoidman

Under new rules China introduced in April and dramatically tightened in October, foreign companies must submit granular, confidential data to obtain a six-month import license for rare earth minerals.

The forms are extraordinarily detailed, according to people who have seen them, requesting product photos showing mineral placement, manufacturing diagrams and customer details. In some cases, the application requests annual production data for the last three years and projected data for the next three years.

Hoping to speed license approvals, the German embassy in Beijing gave China a priority list. This “white list” did help bigger firms get sign offs, but it left behind smaller companies without lobbying operations.

“With all the information they are in the process of collecting, the Chinese authorities are likely also getting a picture of defense industrial bases in NATO countries and how intertwined they are with each other,” said MERICS’ Arcesati.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-25/german-firms-hand-over-secrets-that-china-could-use-for-leverage

https://lemmy.world/post/37837644

anime titles be like submitted by ...

2025-10-25T10:23:54Z

anime titles be like

submitted by https://discuss.tchncs.de/u/gandalf_der_12te
<a href="https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/5b07c8da-4fcb-41c4-9b34-e0d8ea24fe3d.png"; rel="nofollow">
</a>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Analyst

https://lemmy.world/post/37835793

Rawr submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/ickplant ...

2025-10-25T02:18:52Z

Rawr

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/ickplant

https://lemmy.world/post/37821670

Opossum hugs submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/ickplant ...

2025-10-24T13:48:56Z

Opossum hugs

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/ickplant

https://lemmy.world/post/37795014

Spooky self care submitted by ...

2025-10-24T12:50:26Z

Spooky self care

submitted by https://piefed.world/u/The_Picard_Maneuver
<a href="https://media.piefed.world/posts/OW/CF/OWCFL8tPlUYuFRV.jpg"; rel="nofollow">
</a>

https://lemmy.world/post/37793304

Baby Barred about to Bounce submitted by ...

2025-10-24T10:04:29Z

Baby Barred about to Bounce

submitted by https://lemmy.world/u/anon6789

These local Barred Owl babies were such a gift for a few of my friends and me! This was the first time I witnessed a baby leaving the cavity, never to look back! What an experience!

https://lemmy.world/post/37788320

Media Liberation Day: how can we help newcomers get started and ...

2025-10-24T06:48:24Z

Media Liberation Day: how can we help newcomers get started and have a good experience on fedi?

submitted by https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/u/thenexusofprivacy

What resources, suggestions, and support can those of us who are already here provide to potential newcomers? And what can we do to prepare for – and encourage – a potential influx?

https://privacy.thenexus.today/how-to-help-newcomers-for-media-liberation-day/

https://lemmy.world/post/37783666

National Guardsman awakes screaming from nightmare about ...

2025-10-23T20:46:35Z

National Guardsman awakes screaming from nightmare about Americans going about daily lives

submitted by https://fedia.io/u/MHLoppy

Catching his breath and wiping the sweat from his brow after he realized it was all just a bad dream, Texas National Guard member Jason Ringgold reportedly woke up screaming at 3 a.m. Thursday after having a nightmare about Americans peacefully going about their daily lives. “Oh God, they were carrying groceries and picking up their kids from school—from school,” said a still-shaken Ringgold, who recently returned home from Chicago, where his unit is still deployed […]

https://theonion.com/national-guardsman-awakes-screaming-from-nightmare-about-americans-going-about-daily-lives/

https://lemmy.world/post/37765155

MIDSEASON Update 8.6.0 submitted by ...

2025-10-23T10:23:30Z

MIDSEASON Update 8.6.0

submitted by https://jlai.lu/u/inlandempire

https://www.reachthefinals.com/patchnotes/860

https://lemmy.world/post/37741355