I thought "oh! I don't think I've ever played Samurai Showdown VI, I should try that. And it took me forever to get Fightcade working on my Mac again - I can't figure out why I need to reinstall it constantly, but I got it working but damn that's the only ROM that crashes Flycast for some reason

Stripped the gross lacquer finish off my chisel handles (why did it take me so long to do this?) and applied a soft wax finish. (The cabinet smells so nice when I open it up now)

Finished fixing up a couple dado planes. Only one will stay. The one on the bottom is around ~200 years old and from Boston. The upper one is probably from the early 1900’s.

A real fun thing about wooden hand planes is stumbling across a dado plane or something and looking it up and realizing it was probably built with prison labor.

Okay the new Kreator record is really good. Still got that Teutonic thrash metal thing going on, but some not quite power metal but very anthemic and epic bits too? Some of the solos definitely made me feel like I was listening to like, Guilty Gear X OST or something. And Mille’s voice is killer

Teach the children three-point perspective

I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.

Betteridge's law of headlines in action.

🤯 youtu.be/o056nbkLZko?...

Fuck, I want to switch string brands just for the package art

Dear artists, it's hard avoiding wondering if what we do is irrelevant or an insult when it's harsh, scary, dangerous & violent out there, but one thing is always true as stone: someone will need what you do, someone won't, & you won't know the difference. Err on the side of hope. Create if u can.

Got another dado plane in the mail today, but it was damaged in shipping. It’s coming up on two hundred years old, so I’ve got the hide glue heating up, I think we’ll get another few years out of her yet.

You're telling me a woman was forced to give up her trophy to a biological male

I take a long walk in Los Angeles every day and over time I have amassed quite a collection of photos of funky little cars that are parked all by themselves

Wait what if I made a lap steel out of one of these.

Getting closer to a rabbet plane

New dado stack showed up. Still need to sharpen the blade proper but a 3/4” dado plane is handy

The knob is right where the bow wants to go and the silk winding on these strings is too long for these bass bridge saddles but sometimes you just throw something together with all those parts you been squirreling away and some scrap bits and make a noise maker.

we need to bring back soundtracks better than the movie

I have a parcel out for delivery I am impatient

By draw knife followed by little drawknife, all held in the little patter makers vise is the fastest way to turn this squirrelly grained mahogany into a li’l neck. It’d be faster if I had a shave horse but I don’t have room for one.

Thru together another lyric video because I can’t stand being on camera anymore. I hate that this is the shit I’m stuck writing about and that things are somehow worse than when I wrote this.

People who are not involved in front line mental health and substance use work may not understand how bad this is, but fuck me, this is bad. So many people are going to needlessly die. Community funded work cannot replace what these grants funded

Fuck These Fuckin Facists" by The Muslims from the album 'Fuck These Fuckin Fascists youtu.be/Q-7-DDgUh_E?...

As much as I complain about my 12 hour shifts, I don't think I could ever swing working five days a week again.

I cannot emphasize enough the absolutely seismic nature of the shift between “children are what happens to you, especially if you get married” and “you can choose whether, when, and with whom to have children”

I heard the reason ICE agents wear masks is that they are subhuman beast men, who must conceal their hideous visages to pass as our fellow citizens

they abolished the department of education, we do not need a trojan horse to abolish ice we can just do it

At Mass today, the priest's homily praised the Woolworths sit ins and basically said that keeping your promises in baptism requires a similar bravery, persistence and acceptance of potential bodily harm to protect our immigrant neighbors today. There was thunderous applause after.

Dug out the Clifton jointer today to true up some bloodwood and forgot how nice the iron plans are when you start working tropicals.

This is not how I sing, but this is so heavy; I want the next tells record to be this insane. killingpaceva.bandcamp.com/album/killin...

Protect the dolls includes The bricky ones. The awkward ones. The ones who can’t do make up right. Not just the dolls that turn your prurient desires up.

Just got a targeted ad for the new Rockler vertical clamps and I'm wondering why I've never seen these before. I built my bench with enough work holding I don't need them, but they'd be handy for any site work and I would have loved them starting out with a porch railing as a bench.

We are so back, y’all.

Pete Seeger- War Song Medley/Waist Deep In The Big Muddy (live on the Smothers Brothers Hour 1968) youtu.be/qHETC5qAnqo?...

Okay but running an Iori dash grab thing underneath a Sagat fireball in CvS2 is the most satisfying feeling

I know how to spend a Saturday night. (There’s a hardcore show I could go to but I just had a massage today and I need to just relish in feeling loose for once)

SNK’s owners bought the rights to put Kenshiro into City of the Wolves in order to make you forget about the rapist they forced into the game, which will then cause the game with the rapist in it to sell more copies, and justify their earlier decision to put a rapist in it.

hey does anyone have any hot tips for how to stop being incandescently enraged to the point where it’s not productive or healthy

I went thru so many outfits and styles before settling back on “same as before, but with tits and makeup”

Men at a wedding in an ill fitting suit with like, ugly wrap around sunglasses they ran to the car to go get as the sun hits the horizon is never not a look that will make me laugh, I don't know why

After a lifetime of not knowing what was going on and false starts before I knew it was a thing you could be, I came out as trans ten years ago today.

Gentle Observation 362 - Fake it till you wake up. patreon.com/kochalka (see more links in bio)

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

The Trace has done great work tracking violence from ICE agents/raids. Renee Good was not the first and I don't see a path forward where she's the last. www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...

I know someone else needs to hear this - you don't have to watch videos of violence to condemn the acts. Especially those of us who've been on the receiving end of violence don't need to watch others beaten/murdered. Traumatizing yourself won't do you any good. It won't make you a better advocate.

Hello this is your lawyer speaking -- every day is Shut The Fuck Up Friday!