Dan the Gnome

Over and over my entire life. Back and back and back again. Since Bush Sr. when I was too young. Friends taken from college. Helping injured friends coming back nearly 20 years later. And now... Here we are again

The story of an Age

WUT

Digital painting of a perfume bottle.

Study - Enchanted perfume bottle

I added some things that i didn't have time for yesterday ✨

#ItemDesign #DnD #D&D #TTRPG

On the one hand, the presidency is a fundamentally broken institution.

On the other hand, Congress is a fundamentally broken institution.

On the third hand, the Supreme Court is a fundamentally broken institution.

powerful academics getting to retire after being linked to a child sex trafficer is not "accountability" or "facing consequences" or "a reckoning" or "justice" it's just them retiring. These institutions continue to beclown themselves. Divest.

A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.

And their CEO is still a jackhole that claims Ai will replace 50% professional personnel from legal to consulting as soon as 12 months.

(Note here that this doesn't make them good and I'm not handing them kudos, they're still AWFUL. But holy shit)

God fucking damnit, Heggles, you're gonna make me defend ANTHROPIC?! REALLY?

Fuck you, you fucking fuckfaced fuck.

Yeah. Mom survived graduate school on stuff they would literally give away (bones, gizzards, etc) that are now premium prices

Chattanooga residents report increased ICE activity after video shows agents at work site People in one Chattanooga community are reporting increased presence and activity of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.We have video of what appears to be a s

Yep we had an incident the other day newschannel9.com/news/local/c...

Wait, never mind, they just made it... Already curved so it can't do bow things? It's like an AI bow

They strung the kid's bow backwards

For heaven's sake. Husbeast and I should be super comfortable and yet we were JUST taking last night about how even the "cheap" cuts have increased by 50% or more from the ALREADY super high prices. Never mind the literally $16 a pound basic sliced roast beef.

Wild Mexican Gray Wolf Population Increases to 319 Wolves in Southwest The Arizona Game and Fish Department and the New Mexico Game and Fish Department announced today that the number of Mexican gray wolves living across Arizona and New Mexico has increased from 286 in 2...

Arizona & New Mexico Game and Fish report Mexican gray wolves increased from 286 in 2024 to 319 in 2025.

But there’s a catch. If the population averages 320 wolves over 4 years, the species could be downlisted from endangered to threatened, making it easier to kill them.
🔗Read more: bit.ly/3OCsj9O

CPAP changed my life... though right now I'm having the challenge of perpetual extreme allergies making using it hard as heck.

It's always funny to find where my sciencesona and artsona trade off.

Developed a new modification last night to try on my fluid melt base (aiming for a low viscosity glaze that still doesn't craze badly).

A small "lab" notebook with neatly written recipe for a glaze on one page and a cut out and taped in image of a melt test on the other, multiple sticky note tabs visible at the top of the book. Above is a computer screen with multiple recipes for glazes with chemical analyses below

Can take the rat out of the lab but you can't take the lab out of the rat. (Or the millennial)
Everything goes in a physical lab notebook THEN into computer, unless it's created in silico. Then it gets IMMEDIATELY copied out. Lab notebook is the be all end all and digital records might disappear. 🧶

What have we learned from the latest "we shot down the wrong thing with the experimental laser weapon" event?

The U.S. government as it is should not have laser weapons as they become 4 year old boys with loaded water balloons.

I think what's clear is that the laser weapon (also what the CBP used, on loan from the DoD) is not a thing men should have because the urge to find something to fire it at is just too great and they all become 4 year olds with a loaded waterballoon.

Bigger. Different color. Even more deadly puppy-cute-eye.

OOf. That was my reading of both ends, thanks for the confirmation as IANAL.

That is, in fact, the one real risk! Shock and passing out! (And obviously infection in the long run because holy shit)

Oh, uh... yeah! Yeah we did!

ICE is all over TN right now, kidnapping people off roads and construction sites. Nashville's seen the most visible pushback from citizens, but it's getting essentially zero media play. Johnson City has seen a surge in the past two weeks. Today it looks like they're pushing in Chatanooga.

I mean, there are parts that just don't bleed enough, but "legs" are DEFINITELY not one of them.

Hand degloving will not bleed you out, incidentally.

i am begging the democrats to learn the fucking lesson here

It is, in fact, one of the FASTEST places to bleed out!