Monument

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[–] Monument 9 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Are you saying wheat domesticated early man?

[–] Monument 2 points 8 hours ago

I got my wife a Legion Go in May and immediately installed Bazzite on it. I think I had a few minor issues, but nothing like what this blog post is talking about. It was a shockingly easy process!

And yeah, it totally rules as a gaming machine. I’m honestly jealous and am waiting for generational improvements to happen in the space before I buy another handheld. (Or possibly, I’ll buy the Steam Frame instead.)

[–] Monument 25 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Her name is Juniper! We mostly call her June Bug, though.

[–] Monument 1 points 11 hours ago

I’m not sure if I’m sharing the link the right way, but here’s Juniper and her big brother.

 
[–] Monument 16 points 21 hours ago

Work took a meta turn today.

Someone reached out to ask if I was really in all the meetings I’m booked for, only to give up and schedule their meeting for sometime in February because I didn’t respond in a very timely fashion … because I was in a meeting.

[–] Monument 3 points 2 days ago

Ah, there goes my efforts to elevate cheese wax to the pantheon of duct tape and WD-40.

[–] Monument 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ooh. That makes sense. I read that on a side effects list and thought it was interesting, but didn’t realize that was the mechanism of action.

I would suppose if someone grows breast tissue from using testosterone, then they should use less. (Which kind of means my original comment is a bit circular, or rather, the surgery would perhaps be unnecessary if the correct amounts/dosage were used.)

[–] Monument 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We recently adopted a kitten that was fostered before she could be adopted out by the local animal shelter.

To say that she’s the best, most lovely, and well adjusted cat is an understatement. We have two dogs and a year old one orange brain cell cat (who is also very sweet, but he comes on strong).

She walked into our lives utterly fearlessly. She purrs so loudly at the slightest affection. She wrestles with our other cat, who is 10x her size. She’s getting confident with the dogs - she’s currently sleeping between my wife and our velcro heeler, touching both of them.

We’re really grateful for her, and for the love and care that was given to her. Although we adopted her from a local shelter, we know the people that fostered her, so we know she was found eating trash with her littermates in a neighbor’s yard. She was just a street kitten with no mom before she got scooped up and shown all the love, which we see every day.

It’s hard, sometimes unforgiving work, but not unnoticed, and not without impact. Thank you for caring.

[–] Monument 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why did the cam assembly erode away?
Is there wear from the operation of the plug, or perhaps an even smaller leak somewhere else that caused this erosion?

What I’m getting at, obviously, is that perhaps another baby bell wax fix is in order, either as a surrogate for a missing bushing or pad or as a stopper for yet another leak somewhere else.

[–] Monument 16 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Ironically, one of the side effects of using testosterone - commonly used for men with low testosterone - is breast tissue growth.

Surgery to remove it would be a double whammy of (CIS) gender affirming care.

[–] Monument 6 points 4 days ago

Second vote for a laser level. It’s still miserable, but easier.

[–] Monument 6 points 4 days ago

Commander of Russian separatist forces.

So — Russians that are fighting for Russia (the country), not Putin. They’re currently aligned with and fighting alongside Ukrainian forces to undermine Putin.

 

Screenshot of the linked article, highlighting the publication date of September 8, 2025

So, did my Etsy curses work? Time will tell. […] For now, we can only trust in the timing of the great unknown. […]

And to you, Mr. Kirk: May the rash come swiftly.

 
 

I keep two old box knives in the kitchen junk drawer. One has a regular blade on it, and the other has a hooked blade because I think they’re safer and run less risk of damaging the stuff inside the box. But sometimes, you just need a regular box knife. They’re both old and handle rough, but they have seen a lot of use.

Last night I was painting. While trimming some masking tape against a hard edge I realized the blade on the regular box knife was a bit dull, so I went to change it. While flipping the blade around to the unused side, I noticed there were no more spare blades in the handle.

Today I bought a new pack of blades. They purport to be better quality and will stay sharper longer than the original set of blades that came with the knife, but I guess we’ll see how that holds up with use.
While adding the new blades into the handle, I decided to go ahead and clean up both knives - get all the tape residue out, and clean the internals. Then I gave the slightly rusty patina’d slide mechanisms a couple drops of 3-in-1 oil. I also gave the blades in the handle a drop along their sharp edges for good measure.

They open and close very satisfactorily now.

 

They were power napping between play fighting sessions.

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