Don't overthink the Trump admin's reasoning here. They don't have a grand scheme. They are willing to upend the international order because they think everyone else will be too scared to fuck with them. And whatever terrorist attacks this inspires against us will just help them electorally.

bruh

So I’m organizing the glassware and chemicals and I open a box of chemicals I had bought ahead of time. Little plastic pouch with the packing list and the step wedge I ordered, take the step wedge out, “huh what’s this little packet tucked insi- oh I really need to put gloves back on”

I picked up a couple red LED bulbs that are 630nm to replace the coated bulb thats not exactly multigrade friendly. They are, in fact, very red. No longer will I be printing in total darkness. Still gonna clean the darkroom top to bottom tho

shit, with the darkroom open again I now realize how many projects just unpaused DIY peel apart roll film for the shitty™ Polaroid 800 Fix the SRT 201's meter Check the bellows on the Graphic View and Calumet 4x5 CLA my supermatic Test the Hasselblad Learn carbon printing The eternal film backlog

Cracked open the darkroom and I am genuinely shocked that its free of concrete and drywall dust, lets fucking gooooo

Okay between @jessfromohio.bsky.social’s EE foray and my not feeling good about tech as a whole anymore from an ethics standpoint Kinda feeling like I should fuck it we ball into pharmacy school? Just pull a “How do you do, fellow kids” even though I’ve got a baby face

Since we're all posting our favorite shots of the year, I keep thinking about how good this one turned out It kinda sold me on Lucky SHD 100

And there's my last minute NYE plans, gonna load up shit like Time Splitters on my modded PS2 and head to my buddy's Hell, I can finally try Half Life Decay

I’ve reached my grandfather’s bottles from his pharmacy

It got up to 72F/22C yesterday and around noon it’ll be 22F/-5.5C

With memory prices going insane, are web developers going to stop using more system resources than what my linux host uses to play games on a windows VM?

Re: those chucklefucks that actually made rebuilding worse. So 3 feet was lost for putting in the french drain and I beams to reinforce the newly poured basement wall, but those guys that randomly decided to cut a countertop also decided to fuck all the baseboards.

Talking about metal can be weird sometimes because how do casually say yeah its a great mashup of doom metal and like a lighter thrash metal at times, anyway it’s called Goblin Cock and you should check out their album Necronomidonkeykongimicon

I MAKEDA PASTA 🤌

Mom quotes while making sauce “Cheap Lambrusco makes the best sauce, ya know the kind that you can barely drink. I don’t know why, I guess the old dagos always drank it”

Welp, in my flurry of cleaning 12 hours a day every day last week, I sprained my wrist and kinda overdid everything in my right shoulder and arm. Hopefully I can make the dough for the lasagna today without making it worse.

🎄☢ MERRY CHRISTMAS 2025 ☢🎄 (1/3)

All guns exist either on the femme to butch or twink to bear scales.

Okay I still remember how to operate an espresso machine. Thank you class I took at a local roaster when I was like 16

Couple years ago, I made my director super pissy when he told me to write a doc. It was supposed to be a tldr of every team’s documentation for a new product along with hyperlinks Except I can’t summarize what doesn’t exist yet. He said to get it done, to which I said “so you want me to bullshit?”

Cleaning is done, now to put everything back. Almost forgot to show this record. As the back describes, WEBN produced some comp. albums with local musicians. Of note is the first track from Wheels, the band lead by one of dad’s best friends Michael Baney.

Now I’m getting to the good stuff

Dusting my parent’s CDs and loosely categorizing them. Some are straight forward, a stack for beatles outside of the dad rock stack for sheer volume. Same with like Yo-Yo Ma versus Opera versus classical. Jfc I should’ve made separate stacks for Clapton, Linda Ronstadt, and Grover Washington Jr

Onto dusting vinyl and the stereo, but first a selection of soundtracks

I’ll once again bring up that any “oops sowwy, we fowgot dese pwaceholder textuwes” that some studio uses as an excuse when caught using AI is patently bullshit Why the fuck would you ever use a placeholder texture that looks real. You WANT a placeholder to scream “shit is broken” or isn’t finished

I know the running joke in security is, fuck this shit I’m going to be a mushroom and/or goat farmer. I should just manufacture. Bring back the family business boi Its just kraft paper, perchlorates, and a healthy respect (fear)

Finally done cleaning the unfinished side of the basement. Time for another four furnace fillers because I’m going to be running dual box fan air scrubbers while I clean the finished side of the basement. This carpet is probably fuuuuucked

Cleaning literally everything has the side benefit of finding shit like a print of my highschool project car

When it comes to goofy repair equipment, I think i have a little bit of everything

Oh they're *gone* gone

Man, what a fucking week

There was a microwave on top of the film fridge and I wiped around it before moving it. All that dust that is there regardless of the microwave blocking the rest of that surface That door is the darkroom door, and I am not feeling confident when it’s time to pop it open

Literature

Ordered hydroquinone, hypo, and more phenidone from artcraft. I'm going to try adapting a monobath recipe that uses 1% NaOH to accelerate the development. Although, every peel apart film recipe I've seen uses CMC as the emulsifier but I've already got gum arabic on hand so I'll try subbing it out

Tonight's stream is a little bracket elimination to help free up some space in Ix Mart for even MORE snacks! Vote for your favorites to keep them in stock and send the rest to the Hall of Fame where they will be immortalized and preserved for posterity ⭐ www.twitch.tv/ixellent 8PM EST

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Great example of print silvering on this portrait of (probably?) my grandmother. Probably from the mat being acidic

Just found an old wooden CCM stick signed by the entire Cincinnati Swords roster. A hockey team that only existed for like 3 years in the 70s

In the past two days I’ve burned through 3 cans of endust and worn a respirator for about 18 hours so far. Had to detour this morning to dig my car out of the snow and buy more cleaning supplies. There’s so much concrete and drywall dust

AYYYYY 🤌

Mom’s been playing mahjong with the other retired women and said “scadole” which prompted someone she never met to go YOU CALL ESCAROLE THAT TOO? and they apparently went so hard into being Italian that it made the white bread Germans uncomfortable

There's a file on my corpo laptop that I titled "please-god-why.xlsx" and I've forgotten what it is but, knowing me, the filename is well deserved. It will remain a mystery.

look at that beautiful pre-anniversary speed graphic

I’ve never bothered to open this cabinet before but since I’m cleaning literally everything I popped it open

I am now obligated by the #shittycamerachallenge to make my own instant roll film. I have been cursed, my fate is sealed. All Hail the Elder Gods

Well that's ominous

What the hell prompted Marcy Playground to get stuck in my head today?

I've been burning through P100 filters for my respirator and furnace filters for my DIY air scrubber at an alarming rate. Would've been cool if they set up a proper barrier instead of loosely draping plastic over things

God i love bullying