Emily Velasco

https://social.afront.org/@MLE_online

"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/
MakerTube: https://makertube.net/a/mle_online/video-channels
my website: https://mle-online.com/projects

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mle_online_at_social.afront.org@momostr.pink

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2026-05-11 15:25:11 UTC

Heard through the grapevine at work: Companies are wanting to return to in-person job fairs and hiring events with students because AI has completely disrupted online hiring.

2026-05-10 16:33:47 UTC

Fight Club and Office Space are the the daylight and nighttime versions of each other.

2026-05-09 14:53:17 UTC

I really need another of myself. I have stuff to do around here today, but I also need to go to the ceramics studio. I need to be like that scene in the Watchmen where Dr. Manhattan has made multiple copies of himself so they can each be taking care of one chore.

2026-05-09 14:49:42 UTC

How do hummingbirds know when I've refilled the feeder? When it runs out, they just stop coming. But as soon as I refill it, they're all back. Can they smell the sugar? Or are they just always probing it even when it's empty and I just don't notice that?

2026-05-09 00:17:05 UTC

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This was originally supposed to be in the style of a Korean moon jar, and i made it following a demo by a classmate on making jars by throwing two bowls and joining them rim-to-rim. Once i started trimming it, i got other ideas about what i wanted to do with it.
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/541/733/921/467/238/original/f75e0b5831603a94.jpg

2026-05-09 00:12:47 UTC

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Bisque fired wild clay bowl
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/541/721/912/283/496/original/ad0ebdfa2a422774.jpg

2026-05-08 18:30:07 UTC

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Sunset flower pot using underglaze
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/540/375/303/725/369/original/4f2ac868e8b8b5cb.jpg

2026-05-08 18:26:38 UTC

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Wild clay mug with glaze made of 100 percent wild/scavenged materials! 100 all-natural mug!
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/540/333/108/446/177/original/13316e90c8d62df5.jpg
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/540/335/989/482/818/original/934ca574c4fdf18e.jpg

2026-05-08 16:39:34 UTC

My morning is looking up. I got my donut vase sculpture back from glaze firing
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/539/939/444/894/139/original/2b15e2390057d443.jpg

2026-05-06 14:27:13 UTC

I still don't understand why pasting without formatting isn't the default on computers. I never want to carry over the font, the color, and the size of text. Why do they do this to us?

2026-05-05 17:10:44 UTC

I see a lot of posts lately along the lines of, "Well, if the tech companies/data centers are going to waste so much electricity and water, why should I bother to conserve?"
That thinking misses the point. You conserve because it's the right thing to do, not because everyone else is doing it.
If you see someone being repeatedly stabbed, you don't say, "I'm going to go stab them, too, but it's ok, because I'm just going to do it once."

2026-05-05 15:54:40 UTC

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the whole thing wouldn't be vegetables

2026-05-05 13:44:48 UTC

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get a lawnmower

2026-05-05 02:01:17 UTC

So much land and they're not even using it. Imagine all the things i could do if i had a piece of property like this
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/519/498/765/087/683/original/594b513f4f08b7ca.jpg

2026-05-05 00:08:26 UTC

Very exciting discovery in Velasco Labs right now!
People keep sending me links to that German feminist hacker collective that made wild clay PCBs, and while i think that's pretty cool, the way they applied the conductive traces felt a little like a cheat to me because they were sort of painted on.
Last night after someone linked me to it again, i suddenly remembered my experiments with adding copper powder to ceramics glazes, and how, by smothering the red-hot ceramics in sawdust, i was able to reduce the copper oxides into something that looked like metallic copper. That got me pondering.
So, i applied some tinning flux meant for plumbing to a small spot on this test piece from last year and hit it with my soldering iron. Sure enough, it tinned the copper, and with that, i was able to solder a piece of wire to it.
Your eyes to not deceive you. This is copper wire soldered to a piece of ceramic pottery and it is firmly attached.
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/519/023/867/975/768/original/89d6ac5ddfcce0b6.jpg
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2026-05-04 02:40:49 UTC

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I have a bunch of cheap red laser diodes and I'm wondering if this circuit is enough to get them to lase

2026-05-04 02:39:34 UTC

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i am surprised by how bright this pummer is at the peak of its light pulses
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/513/987/066/781/675/original/c56eb0bda18ee8c6.mp4

2026-05-04 01:47:46 UTC

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Yes they do
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/513/783/848/304/316/original/c2456dba7fc7c5ad.png

2026-05-04 01:46:27 UTC

Wait, do mining and mineral come from the same root word?

2026-05-03 22:04:51 UTC

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And now that I have one built. I think I can build a couple more -- if I can find more schottky diodes in my stuff. I was lucky to find one

2026-05-03 21:59:40 UTC

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Now that this works, I just need my ceramic luminary to come out of the kiln so I can install this in it

2026-05-03 21:47:23 UTC

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fixed it!i had the diode the wrong way around
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/512/839/396/433/430/original/e1caa6a807c5e7ef.mp4

2026-05-03 21:08:05 UTC

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this second pummer was much easier to build because i did it deadbug style. Unfortunately it also doesn't work! In fact, it works even less than the last one
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/512/681/857/246/028/original/afe795fac09d361b.jpg

2026-05-03 19:29:56 UTC

Apparently I need a schottky diode for this pummer project

2026-05-03 15:36:06 UTC

I keep seeing posts about how Gen Z and Gen Alpha are really into electronics gadgets that don't connect to the internet, and into the X-Files. These kids are alright.

2026-05-02 20:30:01 UTC

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Wild clay bowl trimmed and ready for firing
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/506/872/573/597/521/original/a6360ee3115ac809.jpg

2026-05-02 00:21:39 UTC

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The beginnings of a wild clay bowl
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/502/120/868/447/092/original/4cf9c49ecf83a19c.jpg

2026-05-01 23:29:45 UTC

It's stirring. It's coming to life
#ceramics
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/501/916/586/125/830/original/7d6b67e7678580f4.jpg

2026-05-01 01:29:29 UTC

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it's not completely kaput. It does turn on when the lights go out. It just stays on instead of slowly pulsing. If i knew more about electronics, this would be an important clue
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/496/722/683/495/366/original/ff233ce692d6b2ee.jpg

2026-05-01 01:07:32 UTC

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I built it on perfboard because I wanted this to be non-permanent in case I messed something up. I might go ahead and try building it dead bug style to see if I can get it working that way

2026-05-01 01:02:35 UTC

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I got my chips from @npub1ucv…5a8g today and built a pummer. Unfortunately this pummer is a failure. I'm not sure why yet
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/496/617/301/530/730/original/f5a120126bf81a0d.jpg

2026-04-28 13:50:41 UTC

Dreamt there was a new open-source rideshare app, and i decided to try it because i needed a ride. Instead of picking the kind of car you wanted, you scrolled through drivers' profiles, which all had strong fediverse vibes.
One of the profiles i saw belonged to a trans girl who, in her bio, proudly proclaimed herself the owner of a "DIY diesel-powered Brevitt." I had never heard of a Brevitt before, so i did an Internet search and found that it was a brand that could either be a drip coffee machine or a computer monitor.
I picked her as my ride because i was filled with questions about whatever it was she had built and i wanted to be able to ask her.

2026-04-27 19:06:26 UTC

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I would pay $5 for one if i could get it in a store right now in person, using my own body to pick it up and pay for it

2026-04-27 19:02:20 UTC

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The modern online retail economy sucks!
I need one 74AC240 chip for this. I could order a pack of 10 of them from Amazon (yuck) for $12.25 + $6.99 shipping, a single one from ebay for $2.50 + $12.50 shipping, a pack of 10 of them from ebay for $4.99 + $5.20 shipping, or one for $2 + $10 shipping from Mouser.
UGH

2026-04-27 14:34:33 UTC

Has anyone on here played with pummer circuits? If so, do you have any circuits you like?
(Please don't just send me links to pummer stuff online that you've never tried. I know how to use search engines)

2026-04-25 19:52:06 UTC

I finally did it after two years of trial and error and research. I have made a mug out of wild clay and wild clay glaze. I'm stoked.
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/467/084/999/619/246/original/315aec9694f4b9c7.jpg
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/467/085/322/674/700/original/bebc3d18546bee9d.jpg

2026-04-23 14:51:18 UTC

13 emails of introducing, connecting, touching base, pinging, and getting on the same page just for one task, even before anything of substance has been discussed. Office culture is sick and twisted.

2026-04-20 21:33:24 UTC

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all right, well, you can angrily vent on your own timeline instead of posting things that sound like accusations in my mentions

2026-04-20 21:17:38 UTC

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Who is saying they're a tool and shouldn't be judged? I haven't said that. I'm pretty sure Jason hasn't said that, so I don't know what you're talking about.

2026-04-20 15:03:19 UTC

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I ended up, quite by accident, on the citrus greening disease beat when I worked at the newspaper. It's popped up a bit here in LA County, but I don't think it's become widespread yet. Granted, I also haven't paid much attention since I left the paper.

2026-04-19 20:09:26 UTC

Intellectual property is such a scam. Our littletheater has to pay $6,000 in rights and royalties to put on a production of a show from 1959.

2026-04-19 19:00:21 UTC

Theater colleagues are talking about their vacations to Seattle and going to the original Starbucks and how good it is

2026-04-17 05:00:38 UTC

An excellent cat
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/418/283/542/336/887/original/a6adb48c7ef0814c.jpg

2026-04-12 23:52:30 UTC

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If you did want to be US president, being named John American probably wouldn't hurt your chances at all

2026-04-12 23:49:10 UTC

Not enough people in the news media are talking about how the guy who just won the Hungarian election has a last name that would be equivalent to someone named John American winning the presidency here.

2026-04-11 17:59:39 UTC

My craziest friend came up for air to tell me how amazing AI is and the she's been learning so much from it at incredible speed and that no one needs books or school anymore. Then she asked me if it's true the Grok can make porn of someone from a single photo of them, and followed that up to ask me for a photo of myself

2026-04-11 17:50:28 UTC

Some guy just had a food delivery driver bring him Sbarro's at the bus station. I didn't know anyone liked that pizza enough to want it except when it's one of a few limited options at the mall

2026-04-07 23:53:49 UTC

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The depth of color and the way the glaze breaks over sharp edges is really nice
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/366/115/328/403/390/original/69a1d4c17eeaa1d2.jpg
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/366/115/813/277/318/original/3866d91d8699bd5e.jpg

2026-04-07 23:07:00 UTC

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I finished greenware work on the first license plate mug and sent it off for bisque firing
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/365/930/883/029/252/original/ca054112c45b8f40.jpg
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/365/931/113/390/473/original/a2b78e4a8a4becb7.jpg

2026-04-07 22:52:01 UTC

I got another wild clay piece back from firing. This is 50:50 Salton Sea clay and Lake Elsinore clay. It's been mid fired. The glaze is something from the studio
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/365/870/856/015/278/original/9ff8abf8221fa7f3.jpg

2026-04-07 02:55:20 UTC

I can't deny that these rocket launches do look cool
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/361/167/613/548/387/original/dc7d86eda1c9e5ea.jpg

2026-04-06 17:33:37 UTC

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Locally, we have Covina and West Covina. West Covina is mostly south of Covina.

2026-04-06 17:31:45 UTC

I just learned that North Yemen was southwest of South Yemen. I always assumed that North Yemen was the one to the north.

2026-04-05 03:13:56 UTC

I just popped a pimple I've been trying to pop for months and i feel very accomplished right now

2026-04-04 23:09:51 UTC

Started another license plate mug in the studio today and got two more mugs started
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/348/954/865/164/912/original/53a3a006459fd3c9.jpg
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/348/955/126/875/474/original/f6a72a1ae53a1e24.jpg

2026-04-03 04:39:40 UTC

Local crime news: A police helicopter is hovering because a DUI suspect fled with sheriff's deputies in pursuit. a
The suspect crashed into a gate down at the river, and ran into the river, which happens to be full of water from the rain two nights ago.
He is apparently in the water, refusing to come out. They have him at gunpoint, but the deputies are refusing to go in the water and get him, so he's not listening to them.

2026-03-31 22:54:06 UTC

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no for real. some of the dumbest socal residents are on there spewing every day, including our former sheriff here in LA County

2026-03-31 22:40:35 UTC

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Some chud in the comments suggested that the state would be better off if everyone besides the top 10 percent of tax payers moved to another state. The man clearly doesn't understand how an economy, or a society, actually works

2026-03-31 13:56:07 UTC

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it would not suffice. I put a bunch of glass in my rock tumbler and ran it for a week. That produced just a little bit of ground glass. Maybe a couple of ounces at most.
For reference, the glaze i just mixed up used ingredients in half pound and one pound amounts

2026-03-30 15:46:46 UTC

A sharrow is an obsolete device used in the processing of hand-harvested wheat.
A stroad is a biological mass similar to a bezoar, found most commonly in bulls during rutting season.

2026-03-29 19:56:07 UTC

This ebike I'm working on doesn't have a bottom bracket because there's a motor there instead, so it needs a custom designed pedal assist magnet ring. Hopefully this works!
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/314/217/016/072/282/original/7e17964b6c3fc6a7.jpg

2026-03-29 04:44:59 UTC

I want to ride one of these sometime
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/310/638/116/255/045/original/22f6f3865f18ad5a.jpg

2026-03-29 02:08:57 UTC

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For this glaze I'm going to try to make do without any materials from the studio, so, just this would clay as a glass former, wood ash for flux, and lake Elsinore clay as a refractory. We'll see how that goes

2026-03-29 00:02:30 UTC

Tired of fiddling with the e-bike project. I'm grinding wild clay and sifting fireplace ash to make glaze for ceramics
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/309/524/776/476/186/original/a944728413059f8d.jpg
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/309/525/287/018/468/original/d181da25e7bb517d.jpg
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2026-03-28 20:55:49 UTC

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i tried it. It works, but that seems like a messy signal. I'm curious to see what the bike thinks of it
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/308/791/119/507/428/original/9c2526a41b577683.jpg

2026-03-28 19:28:59 UTC

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I will give it a try

2026-03-28 19:10:36 UTC

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all the resistor DAC schematics I've seen seem to require an op amp, and I don't have any of those

2026-03-28 19:04:30 UTC

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yea, i think so. I'm going to have to get a solid-state potentiometer from a local friend to see how that does if it's controlled by an arduino

2026-03-28 18:59:14 UTC

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I got out there and did some more testing and experimenting before it gets too hot. With a 1.2 k resistor between the positive and negative leads of the throttle wiring from the bike, the bike responds perfectly well to a varying voltage coming from my benchtop power supply, and even with just a potentiometer wired in place of the throttle.
It may be that the arduino's pwm output is just too ugly of a signal, even with filtering
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/308/328/447/023/149/original/4a775baf2dc9ddb9.mp4

2026-03-28 16:02:01 UTC

All my experiences with flies have heretofore involved being annoyed or disgusted by them, but the evening before last, I was outside and I witnessed a thirsty housefly land at the edge of a splash of water I had made while watering my plants.
It walked forward and began to drink. I couldn't see its drinking directly, but i could see the surface of the water quivering as the fly slaked its thirst at the end of a hot day.
I dunno, flies are still gross and annoying, but I'm thinking about them differently now.

2026-03-27 16:15:24 UTC

I got some of my glazed ceramics back this morning
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/302/026/159/343/351/original/208e0e6021f4bdb6.jpg
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/302/027/852/223/380/original/b9c72f428cac8d3a.jpg
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2026-03-27 15:40:30 UTC

I want to teach a class on repurposing electronics. We could start out just taking some broken things apart and seeing if we can fix them, but every student would have to pick something to repurpose or revive as a semester-long project. Maybe they want to turn an old propane lantern into an LED lantern, convert a cordless drill with dead nicad batteries to lithium, or jailbreak an e-bike. Everyone should leave the class with a device or appliance with a new lease on life. A community college should hire me for this

2026-03-27 02:08:01 UTC

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Omg, not working again. This is kind of frustrating!

2026-03-27 01:42:36 UTC

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Okay, it's working again. I don't know what's different, but it's working
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/298/593/181/405/678/original/987022920cb3ccb4.mp4

2026-03-27 01:34:57 UTC

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I briefly had it working without the throttle connected. I had put a 1.2K resistor between the positive and ground wires and that did it. The bike was under control of the Arduino. Then it just stopped working and hasn't worked since.
The Arduino still works, and the bike still works if I hook a regular throttle to it. Mysterious

2026-03-26 18:14:02 UTC

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The neighbors within the large security zone who all had to move their cars or woke up to find them towed without warning this year will probably welcome this move

2026-03-26 01:50:04 UTC

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I'm getting somewhere now. It's not giving full throttle but it is giving some throttle.
I had to hook up the throttle unit in parallel with the Arduino for the bike to accept inputs from the Arduino.
This might work out ok because i wanted to have a throttle lever and pedal assist anyway.
More testing to do still!
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/292/957/627/777/072/original/069d3f7fa471bc56.mp4

2026-03-26 01:10:54 UTC

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As best I can tell, ebike throttle units put out an analog voltage without any kind of data signal, but somehow the e-bike knows the difference between a real throttle, and one made out of an arduino, or even made out of a bench power supply. It will only run when connected to an actual ebike throttle
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/292/803/769/495/451/original/c0654b74de4528f8.jpg

2026-03-24 01:44:36 UTC

My special primitive cactus that has leaves is blooming. It's pretty!
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/281/613/934/123/006/original/99cc8c6e6576f5c1.jpg

2026-03-22 15:37:12 UTC

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People replied a lot while I was sleeping. I''m not going to give the same response to everyone who was asking what its for, so I'll just say it here. I want to use an arduino to spoof the 0-5V analog throttle signal on this ebike i'm building.

2026-03-22 04:14:32 UTC

Does anyone on here know if the capacitor-resistor combo attached to a pwm output pin of an Arduino gives a decent analog output?

2026-03-21 23:03:02 UTC

This is what I've been working towards for two years: a high-fire wild clay mixture without any store-bought or studio-supplied ingredients.
This mini bottle, minus the glaze, is made entirely from clays that i dug out of the ground, and it survived a cone 10 firing without melting or even slumping.
Now that I know it works, I can try actually making something big with it.
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/269/647/844/357/666/original/f96c01ad8f9ee029.jpg

2026-03-21 19:30:17 UTC

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maybe it's just me, but I've never understood the meme of the Lego being the most painful thing you can possibly step on. I've stepped on them. I wouldn't do it for fun, but it wasn't blindingly painful. People talk about it like it's being shot by a gun

2026-03-21 17:13:01 UTC

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I grew up in a house full of legos and random junk. Stepping on things was just a given and our feet grew tougher from it.

2026-03-21 17:12:06 UTC

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They are! There are so many textures and sensations to experience through your feet. Imagine only ever feeling socks and the inside of a shower!

2026-03-21 17:08:07 UTC

I got stung dead center in the sole of my foot by a bee while watering my plants. A text a friend to tell them and they were like, "How does that happen?? Were you outside barefoot??"
Sometimes I forget other people don't casually walk around outside unshod. I'm a Tom Sawyer in a Becky Thatcher world.

2026-03-20 14:43:01 UTC

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I'm emailing a guy at work who studies ant pheromones. If anyone can get to the bottom of this, it's him.

2026-03-20 14:21:57 UTC

Super weird thing going on this morning!
The cat brought in another one of those sphinx moths and was chasing it around the house just before dawn.
It appears to have brushed against the window in a couple places, leaving moth fuzz behind. Now that I'm up, I see that ants have gathered in the spots that the moth touched. They are not carrying anything away like it's something for them to eat. They're just sitting there on those spots!
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/261/934/211/773/480/original/aa9fd622f0e6e9f7.jpg
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2026-03-19 04:48:53 UTC

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I've thought about that when it was bulky item night last week, but i already have too many bikes

2026-03-19 04:46:00 UTC

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It seems like they've been getting harder to find over the last couple years! But on bulky pickup trash night, the junk guys seem to have dozens of bikes in the back of their trucks!

2026-03-17 18:08:10 UTC

You know those river cruises they do in Europe? Last night while half-asleep in bed, I had a vision of a trash version of that on a junky old boat in the Sacramento River Delta. The tour would take guests along the canals. Sights would be old barges and rotting docks.
Stops would be at the rundown little towns sprinkled along the waterways there. Two hours to go ashore in Rio Vista and hang out at the local bar or get a hamburger, and then we're off to the next town.

2026-03-17 16:56:41 UTC

I once told a friend of mine that I'm agnostic about quantum physics because we can't see it or feel it with our own senses and we have to use elaborate rituals conducted by a special class of people who say "we have the esoteric knowledge to interpret all of this" and that that's not that different than religious belief.
He got mad at me.

2026-03-16 21:24:56 UTC

I keep seeing articles like this, about how people choosing to drink less is hurting bars and restaurants, and it's almost always framed as people, especially younger generations, don't like to drink.
They never seem to bring up the fact that a cocktail is like $20 now unless you go to a really divey dive bar. It's the same kind of reporting they on how no one goes to the movies anymore. It's always about changing habits, and never that movie tickets just cost a lot now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/dining/us-alcohol-restaurants.html

2026-03-15 19:47:18 UTC

Instead of me having to cut the plants in my yard back on a semi-regular basis, they should be allowed to just continue endlessly growing, and my yard should continually expand to make room for them.

2026-03-15 17:53:59 UTC

early 20-something kid lazily and slowly sweeping the floor at the hardware store asks me if I need help.
"Do you have plaster of paris?"
"Plaster of .... uh, no ..."
"You don't have plaster of paris?"
"uhhh ..... ummmm ..... no ... sorry about that"
Old guy who works there walks by and asks how I'm doing.
"Do you have plaster of paris?"
"Oh yea, it's right here," and points to it on the shelf right in front of the kid

2026-03-15 15:49:29 UTC

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but then she would be a fediverse user and undateable :/

2026-03-15 14:38:53 UTC

It must be sphinx moth season because I've seen three since yesterday, and Hobie woke me up twice this morning bringing them in the house and chasing them as they loudly flew from room to room.
I took them away from him and let them go outside, but seeing them up close reminded me that their coloration and patterning reminds me of William Blake's paintings
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/233/698/373/790/770/original/acaec11b1d64103f.jpg
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/233/698/697/816/007/original/761d364d67380408.jpg
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/233/698/760/332/103/original/c93f2c095ba85dbf.jpg
https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/233/698/835/587/747/original/54cad2bb2781b5be.jpg

2026-03-13 19:47:13 UTC

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I think stress is a part of life. I don't think we should be creating systems that deliberately stress kids out about their futures

2026-03-13 17:52:43 UTC

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a lot of the kids who tried really hard in school just seemed stressed out all the time. kids don't need to have that much on their minds

2026-03-13 17:27:58 UTC

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There can only be so many rich people before the huge slices of the pie have to start getting smaller, right?