I wasn’t sure how to preserve newlines in the Lemmy markdown, but I think I got it now. Thanks.

What about “makes me laugh”?

PVC pipe glue. Don’t ask.

… for about 10 minutes.

I may have just customized the starter page template and written my own css. It’s not too complicated. I like the simple wiki look more than a full featured website. Heavily inspired by the wonderful website of Inigo Quilez.

Andreas’ “gallery” plugin was a great way to share my photos. I believe I tweaked the code to read exif data from the jpegs to extract the comment/description and display it as a caption.

“Graphviz” was also wonderful for generating flowcharts and organization charts for my work.

My present website runs on dokuwiki, though it’s pretty bare bones and not doing anything fancy. Just an English-Japanese bilingual setup.

djdupriest.org

I used dokuwiki extensively over the years to manage projects, organize data, and build public web pages now and then. It’s been a pleasure to use.

Yuzu Weeb.

This style masturbator is by far the best I have used. Easy to hold even when slippery, easy to clean, and very inexpensive. There is a nicer, four-finger version that I own, but this one from Amazon is probably similar.

https://a.co/d/095d8ytr

Dinky my oiter

Maybe a colony of enteridium lycoperdon slime mold? Yours looks disturbingly like teeth. Some look like this.

[Edit] Nope! Dead man’s fingers for sure!

Something Somewhere One at a Time

The One Amigo

Maybe it seems a bit mundane, but I was moved to tears watching the live footage of the Artemis reentry shot out of the window. It’s an unedited 25 minutes of visuals and sounds that the astronauts saw and heard as they returned to Earth, and it has some of the most beautiful “real” things recorded for all to see.

Between the gorgeous blue planet and blackness of space you see the fiery reentry and flakes of spacecraft burning off into the distance as the capsule makes a mind-bending descent into the atmosphere. The video includes live telemetry about speed and G forces, as well as all the sounds of the maneuvering thrusters doing an algorithmic dance to keep the angles exactly as they need to be

It’s one of the most wonderful things I’ve ever seen, and makes me proud of all humanity has achieved.

Worth a watch!

If COVID looked like this thing nobody would think twice about getting vaccinated.

What an incredible find! It’s like pixel art way before pixels were a thing. The amount of information is overwhelming, so maybe it would help to see a few examples from the database. Here’s a few interesting ones I picked out.

American cities should have looked like this 20+ years ago.

More like “one nation under gold”.

As usual the blue jays had made a mess at the bird feeder, which a couple of pigeons were now lazily picking out of the grass.

I hope everyone remembered to wear sunscreen!