Couple years ago I paid $200 and waited several months for approval to 3d print about $3 in PLA+ into a 22LR suppressor. Today, I can do the exact same thing with a 6 day wait, and the $200 tax no longer exists. No more worrying about it melting/breaking.

My hardcover copies of both H2G2 and LOTR have gilded pages and attached bookmarks. They've both been mistaken for bibles in public. 100% would get sworn in on the both of them for maximum outrage.

No cheating. Reskeet with the most recent picture of your pet. Thats the "who the *fuck* was banging on my RFID cat flap" face. And it was me, trying to figure out how he got back in an out-only door.

No one but me eats sauerkraut, and pork roast ends up eaten once and the leftovers tossed. So we're doing new years pork roast a little differently this year. Also watching Food Network will teach you knife skills eventually.

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

There is already a sequel: youtu.be/ijYSkpDoiFE?...

Last vestiges of my original homelab. This ran my first domain controller as well as WSUS and Plex from a RAID10 of 4 600GB SAS drives, and later an SSD and a couple 8TB drives in a Storage Space. The case, PSU, SSD, and 6TB of HDDs are headed to Jr's build. Debating hanging it in my office.

SMITH says he had evidence that Trump directly ordered alleged co-conspirators to call senators on the evening of Jan. 6 to try to continue delaying the vote ceritification. He also had evidence that Bannon said Trump was still "on fire" on evening of Jan. 6.

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

these fucking people. they pass laws to make sure every person with a screw loose who wants an Armalite can show up to the day care armed & ready to kill, then complain that the day cares are locked to protect the children inside

Fun ⚛️-factlet: the New York New years ball is a recollection of Time Balls, which were used to give accurate time to ships for navigation! Since the speed of light is a million times faster than sound, there is much less time-delay than using a gun salute en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_ball

Three men with cameras yelling "why won't you show us your children" while trying to force their way into a daycare center is definitely a good and normal way to collect information about alleged fraud. All three should be sitting in jail on trespassing and attempted burglary charges.

In a surprise twist, wife and I will be alone for NYE for the first time since 2007. 14yo is going to a friend's house, and after we both thought I stepped in it by telling 18yo "no driving after 10pm" and thinking he would invite his GF over, he's going to *her* house for the night.

Daycare is also more than childcare for working families. It's also preschool education and socialization. The online right is made up of people who are rich enough to not interact with the trappings of middle class life, and childless incels.

I always find it instructive that the government generally and law enforcement specifically will do anything in their power not to put anything on the record. The dissent in this case is a judge being BIG MAD that a police officer might have to defend shooting a fleeing suspect 6 times in the back.

Need to finish the accessories and decals, but its the same level of impressive as the 1/100 G-Gundam. My suspicion is that someone is getting ahold of Bandai's digital assets to make these, they are not just a perfect 1:1 but the fit/finish/quality of the kit is also 1:1. They're amazing.

The entire MO of the right wing in this country is to reinvent racial/class/religious/etc oppression from first principals. Without any kind of realization that the motive is the problem, not the implementation.

There's a 3rd party company making 1/100 upscale of newer Bandai 1/144 Real Grade scale kits. I already did the G-Gundam which was excellent. They reissued the RX-78-2 just before the holidays and managed to snag one for under $60. RG detail and build at MG scale is *mindblowing*

Extremely relatable.

Didn't get to hold "snuck your GF past the security camera" in the pocket for very long. We gave him a list of four things to get done while we were gone. Dishes/kitchen, cat boxes, laundry. Got zero of them done, then decided to pull a "I was so busy" on me.

These parents killed their child and we need to say it

Jeanine Pirro Got Curiously Silent about What Brian Cole Did on December 14, 2020 www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/28/j...

Wife's verdict is rotating infusion sites. If they were doing neuro/cardio caths that's inside the wrist, and repeated draws from this location wouldn't make sense.

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

18yo called off sick (he was sick earlier in the week), picked up his GF and hung out at the mall, then brought her back to the house in a way that almost but not quite bypassed the security camera in front of the house. Glad he feels safe here, but I'm keeping that knowledge to myself.

I've done forensics. This is an *exceptional* level of either OPSEC or paranoia. "between Dec 2020 and Dec 2025, the device recorded 943 events identified as a “factory reset” or “wipe,” including a “wipe” event approximately three hours before the defendant’s arrest on Dec 4, 2025"

Happy Feeling: My sister and her daughter made the snap decision to also spend the night at my parents this weekend. My 14 and her 20yo daughter cleaned us out of $60 in rice games between the two of them. Sad feeling: My 18yo had to stay home because work, so we're 1 short of "everyone".

The "fucked up local ICE headline" missile has hit the Cincinnati tri-state area.

shel silverstein was a prophet

Leaving the oldest home alone again this weekend. He's 18, so this shouldn't be a big deal, but between the ADHD/bipolar stuff and his laissez-faire attitude around rules and the truth means I have to literally trap doors so we know if he goes through our bedroom or my office.

Got another Hobby Thing for Christmas so I'm going to brag about my desk. It's a $150 8' Big Box butcher block, two H-frame cast iron pipe legs, all bolted together and to the floor with flanges. Peripherals are either on gas arms or wireless. I can jump on the top and the monitor barely wiggles.

Got an actively filtered airbrush booth for Christmas and just ordered the Armed Armor expansion and Kosmos LED kit for my next Perfect Grade project.

Merry Christmas!

IT FINALLY HAPPENED I AM ON A PLANE WITH A BABY WHO SAYS “HI” TO EVERYONE AS HE GOES DOWN THE AISLE

HE JUST HIGH-FIVED ME

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

When the generation that witnessed the tragedy and horror first hand is gone, it's on us to educate ourselves and others on their experience, or we're doomed to repeat them. My grandparents grew up in Nazi Germany. Opa died in 2011 but Oma passed mid-2024 and had *a lot* to say.

“Like prime, but with human beings”

Finished up the parts that need painted gold. These were the color of the parts in the corner. Black primer Chrome base coat Transparent yellow Love the way it looks, including how the imperfections in both the printer and base coat come through.

The big day has arrived! The day I post the Adama Maneuver again. Next time: 2026 🫡

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

The full video (18 min) is really sweet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9XN...

Made shortbread cookies from my rested dough. Took a bit to get it to room temp and rollable, but got 18 sweater-shaped cookies for decorating tonight. Until the tray wobbled and I tried to steady it with my left hand. With no oven mitt. Cookies are ruined. Left hand is fucked.

Extremely annoyed at having to burn 16 hours of PTO because the solution to "the entire federal workforce hates me" was to create two holidays out of whole cloth.

First time doing a 3-part metallic. Black Alclad primer/filler, chrome silver Alclad, then clear yellow Tamiya. Display Base for the Perfect Grade Banshee. Really dig the display base mimicking the Vanshee's V-fin.

roll a deception check with disadvantage

I downloaded this in my homelab's sandbox to make sure it's not some kind of malware before sharing. It's both safe and is what it says it is. A 1.3GB copy of the 60 Minutes CECOT story that Bari Weiss killed. Spread it far and wide.

There's been a huge push to reduce the Adobe license footprint across the federal government. Guess they delicensed the FBI agents hiding Trump in the Epstein Files too. (This is an IT joke, Acrobat Reader can't do secure redaction)