Reblogged trippypeas
I sent you omens and all kinds of signs please respond
Reblogged sashayed
its 1am and i am overwhelmed with love for a person who kindly and knowledgeably answered questions on a forum about niche topics. this is not the first time and it absolutely will not be the last
I wanted to figure out how to identify/describe a silver blade vs a steel blade for a fic, and I found a post on silver-collecter.com from 2010, and answers from a man named uncle_vic:
in this same thread, olewheat asked about another silver piece; uncle_vic explained that blades were not made from silver, because it'd be too soft - often carbon steel would be silver plated, and eventually get pitted.
after a volley of questions, several users asked if they could contact uncle_vic directly. vic responded, very kindly:
I am always, always charmed by a clearly veteran hobbyist helping out new people on a forum, and i wanted to see what else uncle_vic posted, what other nuggets about his life i could learn, and it turns out he was a pillar of the community:
He joined in 2006, when the website was only 2 months old, and throughout the next 6 years, he helped many identify their silver pieces, and welcomed them all with: "Hi there and thanks for joining us", and always ended with a "Regards, Uncle Vic"
He helped so often, he'd post on the social thread to let people know he'd be gone without internet access for an extended period of time!
These often didn't get many interactions, but he did so anyway, like a journal made public: one about how a hurricane was reaching him in Baton Rouge; several about his fishing trips, like this one in 2011:
A year later, he wrote a similar vacation post, which became his final topic on the forum, titled: "Gone fishin'".
In May 2012, 3 months later, a newer user asked Vic what type of fishing he liked.
Vic replied: (content warning for cancer)
This was Uncle Vic's last post on the silver-collecter.com forums. Unflinchingly honest, and this time, instead of his usual "Regards", he ended with "Keep the Faith".
According to the obituary posted in the same thread, he passed away the next day, at his camp on the Tickfaw river -- well known for fishing.
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This isn't the first time I've come across kind, dedicated forum users, usually knowledgeable retirees, who suddenly stop posting; it certainly won't be the last. But everytime I fall in love with them, and in turn, with humanity even more, to see what we leave behind.
A retired Cajun lawyer from Baton Rouge found a silver collecting forum from a hobbyist magazine in 2006, and decided to spend the next 6 years, up to his dying day, sharing his life, his love, and his knowledge with strangers.
Thank you, Uncle Vic, for the forum users you helped; thank you for the countless, anonymous users who found your posts through search engines like me.
I'm glad your corner of the internet exists so that, 12 years since you've been gone, I can visit and you can still teach me a whole lot about identifying silver and silver makers.
paris - the origins of Discord
The Christmas before Paris transferred, he sat his brother down in front of the old desktop computer that their mom used mostly for playing online Scrabble with strangers and talked Hector through setting up a rewards system in the form of collectible “coins” for a Formula 1 Discord server Hector was responsible for moderating now that Priam was graduating.
Paris really did like F1, actually, but as far as he could tell, Hector only liked F1 the way that Hector liked most things, which was to say vaguely and with an attitude that suggested it was an inconvenience to him.
This single Discord moderation tutorial would somehow prove to be a key decision of Paris’s life, because at some point between June and December, when Red Bull took the Constructor’s Cup and user A.Res12 was crowned Racing King, people at Hector’s college got really weird about it.
Like, really weird.
Literally nobody seemed to even care about the racing or betting. But the server’s leaderboard had become, for reasons beyond understanding, a vital part of the school’s social hierarchy, and Paris — who had, if he was honest, completely stolen the entire system from a wool spinning website run by the drummer of his dad’s band — was its god.
Which had meant nothing to Paris until he got to this school, and suddenly everyone wanted him to, like, hang out.
With them.
At their houses.
Reblogged thedreadpiratematt
Willem Dafoe for GQ Italia (2023)
Reblogged bob-belcher
I'm normal in a lot of ways (enjoy bread, etc)
Reblogged sashayed
The ‘Solar Do-Nothing Machine’ designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1957 as a kinetic aluminum sculpture
Reblogged smellectric
serious answer: I ran some quick math (below the cut) and found out that this ant would impart about ten times the amount of energy as an impact by a 45kg Howitzer round, or one thousand times the energy yield of a typical handgrenade. Ordinarily I would expect something like an ant to disintegrate on impact at high speeds, but there is simply so much energy in that ant that it would have nowhere else to go but forward - even if it completely exploded on impact without penetrating, you would definitely die and definitely need a closed-casket funeral. If it simply went straight through without meaningful disintegration, carrying the majority of its energy away with it, with this being a hypersonic projectile (actually, it's a relativistic one) it still would definitely shred at least a grapefruit-sized hole in you just from cavitation damage. Given the ridiculous speed, it would also create a significant amount of heat and a concussive sonic shockwave as it did so, definitely killing you instantly and probably turning you into charred ground beef.
TLDR yes you would be super mega dead
oh but the ant so small I can take it
that's true I didn't think of that
Reblogged conniecorleone
According to the company’s website, “Baking Pitchfest 2024” offers a product edition geared toward baking brands founded and owned by people of color across the U.S., and a bakery edition, which focuses on people of color-owned bakeries in the Northeast and Washington state. “Half mentorship, half competition, Baking Pitchfest is an accelerator program designed to foster greater inclusivity and creativity in the baking world by providing equitable opportunities for People of Color entrepreneurs,” the website states, adding that winners will receive financial support, mentorship, and exposure. But the initiative has generated outrage amongst conservatives online, who have blasted the competition eligibility rules as discriminatory against white people.
One X user critical of King Arthur Baking’s contest posted an email she received from the company in response to her complaining. “Helping build joyful, equitable communities that celebrate diversity is an important part of who we are as a company,” the email states, later adding: “We love baking with anyone and everyone. Our simple expectation is that everyone show respect for one another.”
Time to buy more King Arthur Flour!
If you need more reason to support them, they’re worker owned.
Also they actually are working on regenerative agriculture:
Also they do blog articles about adaptive baking:
You know, way too often I find articles talking about how the maker of some product I use is actually Evil. It's really nice to get the opposite.
Reblogged queenhappier
where is all the art that perfectly appeals specifically to my exact tastes and desires and nobody elses
Reblogged thedreadpiratematt
chavis mármol, "untitled destruction project," 2024, nine-ton quarry stone replica of colossal olmec head dropped on blue tesla model 3
Reblogged sarah-yyy
Psych − 5.05: Shawn And Gus In Drag (Racing)
Reblogged sashayed
Dostoyevsky sorts of ideas/Charles, 2024
Oil on cardboard, butterfly and moth specimen
Arisa Yoshioka
Reblogged carriecmoney
yesss im always saying this like sure i can give you logical advice but at the end of the day you can just do what you want to do until youre sick of it. cant move on cant switch gears til youre sick of it so go ahead and indulge