Space Marine (watching me play Animal Crossing): Your island is infested with foul mutants.
Me: They aren't mutants, that's just what animals look like in this game.
Space Marine: I see. (Biskit asks me to give him a new catchphrase) Teach it to praise the Name of the Emperor.
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Six 7’ boards glued and clamped up on a workshop floor. Glue splatter is everywhere. Literally everywhere.
It looks like a glue person was murdered in here. Lessons were learned. Hopefully.
Dogs are too good.
I know nothing about the source material but anything that makes @manmademoon.bsky.social this excited is something I want to see.
The future of making sure you don’t leave this guy alone with your drink
Funny how they show up when we need them. Rufus is a mensch.
NEW: How exactly has Alex Jones avoided paying the Sandy Hook families a single dime of what he owes? I wrote about it here, and spoke to Chris Mattei, an attorney for some of the families, and Lenny Pozner, the father of the youngest child who died at Sandy Hook: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Saying "no man, you don't get to win this time" to evil people who have the power of the entire corrupt government behind them has to feel pretty fucking good
Friends, squaring 7 foot boards with hand tools is ridiculous.
I’m so sorry, Cliff.
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We went to the Ministry of Awe yesterday and it is *amazing*. If you’re in or near Philly you have to go. moaphilly.org
A bunch of 8’ foot boards clamped together into a 26” dry lamination. A mockup of a workbench top. A plane stop sits in the near left corner. A wheel (for a vise) beyond that. In the distance, a HNT Gordon tail vise.
A shot of the bench top from the front, focused on the leg. A maple chop sits in front of the leg, below the vise wheel. Eventually this will be an actual leg vise.
The left back side of the bench, where the tail vise sits. Parallel clamps cold the boards together.
If I’m not careful this could turn into a workbench.
A left side view of the front part of a work bench base. The long stretcher connecting the two legs is not flush on the left side - so it looks like crap.
A view from the right side, where the stretcher was measured correctly and is flush to face of the leg. So it looks like crap in different ways but at least it’s square.
Measured the left leg mortise against the wrong face and now I’m 10mm off. ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
There is a sign on the wall, reading:
YOU ARE NOW IN A COGNITION LIMITED OPERATING AREA
WHAT YOU ARE EXPERIENCING IS NORMAL.
Under this someone has adhered a yellow Post-It note:
“(probably)”.
More higher ed discourse like this please
They sell ANDOR action figures, of course, and of course the audience is 35-50-year-olds, but it's deeply funny to imagine children playing with little Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera dolls.
CHILD 1: I think violence is not only justified, but demanded
CHILD 2: I agree, but haste could be our undoing
Well it must be frickin summer in Pennsylvania because an earwhig dropped on my head at the shop, and a spider just fell on my hand, then RAN BACK UP MY LEG after I knocked it off.
A 2.5” deep mortise cut into a 5x4” Douglas fir leg.
A 3’ stretcher sitting on bench hooks on a bench. A small saw, some squares, a knife sit on the bench as well. The stretcher had a built-up tenon that has been cut to size to fit the mortise in the leg component.
The stretcher set into the leg component, sitting on a messy bench. A woodshop is in the background.
A close up of the stretcher in the leg. A square sits next them. It’s flush and square.
Shocked, not gonna lie.
Regular Car Guy reviews got a hold of a Cybertruck.
"The Cybertruck is a truck that hates the human inside."
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Voting for Platner is how you get another fucking Fettermam
A drawing of a Muppet-y Cloud Strife riding on a Big-Bird-like chocobo.
From this day in 2021: My nephews were curious about Final Fantasy after seeing a Moogle I drew and I described Chocobos as looking "kind of like Big Bird" so then I had to draw it.
oh, this is very important to know!!
If leaders abuse the rule of law to make themselves immune to it, so that they can undermine the rights of others with impunity, by what moral or philosophical argument are they entitled to its protections, once they lose power? By what grace should they be sorted by law instead of by other means?
Happy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate
The story of our age is billionaire narcissist men who are widely known to be frauds or creeps within their industries but are allowed to destroy the world in plain sight because American media & business view rich confidently-speaking white men through an infinitely-forgiving lens of merit.
The Edge of Two Worlds (art002e009285, April 6, 2026). Our planet draws closer to passing behind the Moon in this image captured by the Artemis II crew during the lunar flyby, about 6 minutes before Earthset. Earth is in a crescent phase, with sunlight coming from the right. The dark portion of the Earth is experience nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible in muted blue in the Australia and Oceania region. The lines of small indentations on the Moon’s rugged surface are secondary craters. These structures are formed by material from ejected during a violent primary impact. Image credit: NASA
This is just a surreally beautiful picture. We live on such a breathtakingly beautiful planet and I’m grateful for the brave humans who left the safety of our atmosphere to show us our world from a new perspective.
www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna...
A big chonky lamination of four 2x4 ish boards, the nearest has an unfortunate downward slope so it’s shorter than the other three.
The lamination on its side, with a small 1/2” board glued to the sloped part. Clamps galore hold it in place.
Look, the first pancake is never any good. But I’m not throwing this leg out so we’ll just .. sort it out.
Weighs 19.5 lbs, no joke.
(That board had a bunch of bad live edge on it and that’s what was usable. The patch doesn’t go all the way up because past 34” is getting cut off anyway.)
Kurt Russell as Snake Plisken dropping the line "Get a new president."
Once again, Snake Plisken is on point.
