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Written by Three Chords and Forsooth! on 2025-01-25 at 20:09

This morning at my local beach. I was too late to catch the gorgeous sunrise, but this view is always interesting to me. Always.

[#]LakeErie #photography #winter #snow #ice #water #rustbelt

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Written by Three Chords and Forsooth! on 2025-01-25 at 19:13

Have you ever had the experience of being away from your #Fediverse account (e.g., #mastodon) for a few days and having a follower or mutual ask about your absence?

(this might only make sense if you've been on the fediverse for at least a couple of months, but answer if you think it's relevant)

Boost for visibility?

[#]poll #socialmedia #experience

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Written by Three Chords and Forsooth! on 2025-01-25 at 14:03

There are only four personalities. Let me explain...

[#]thefifthelement #scifi #personality #meme

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Written by Three Chords and Forsooth! on 2025-01-25 at 00:49

The best #ska #meme I personally know. OK, I don't know many ska memes. This might be the only one. But I love it.

(Thanks to @abovearth for noticing I was missing alt-text and providing some)

[#]music #emo #punk

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Written by Three Chords and Forsooth! on 2025-01-25 at 00:42

The Mustard Plug is the band I wished Mighty Mighty Bosstones could be*. I heard their insane/amazing/perfect cover of The Freshman on late-night radio in #ColumbusOhio in the late #90s on our excellent (now dead) radio station #CD101. Every once in a while I just dial up a Mustard Plug song and wish I was at a concert in the 90s banging my head with the actual #ska fans.

Beer (song) by The Mustard Plug

https://song.link/us/i/487580168

• There are other ska bands that fit this description, too, but I'm not well-versed in ska, so if you have suggestions, I'm all ears.

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Written by Three Chords and Forsooth! on 2025-01-25 at 00:33

The Mustard Plug - The Freshman

https://song.link/us/i/1591125105

If you ever thought that this ultra-emo tune by the Verve Pipe wouldn't work as an angry, driving #ska tune, you were mistaken.

[#]FortnightFridayMusic #youth #90smusic

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Written by Three Chords and Forsooth! on 2025-01-24 at 23:10

Remembering when I lived in #SouthTexas a friend's little boy (about age 6?) was singing a religious song but got one word wrong. It should have been "homeless" but he walked around the house singing,

"We are not Gómez, Gómez, like the Christ child was..."

We already know his middle initial was H. and now we know he was Jesus H. C. Gómez.

[#]kids #misheardlyrics

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Written by Three Chords and Forsooth! on 2025-01-24 at 18:33

For maximum #mentalhealth, you should clean under your fridge and stove

1. Regularly, or

2. Never

[#]hottake #cleaning #ick #ew

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Written by Three Chords and Forsooth! on 2025-01-23 at 20:55

General "what I'm doing" post.

Making a sled. We have lots of snow. I bought a cheap whitewater #kayak last year and finally got around to committing crimes against paddlesports.

Next:

1. Steering/brakes

2. Soften the coaming (i.e. edge)

3. Reattach the seat?

[#]MakersHour

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Written by Three Chords and Forsooth! on 2025-01-23 at 20:51

Q4: Are there any new making or crafting skills you are hoping, or would like, to learn or try this year (or in the near future)?

1. #Welding. I did oxy-acetylene welding in high school and nothing since. I frequently have projects that would benefit from welding.

2. #Casting (i.e., metal). I'd like to create a tiny forge for casting aluminum parts. I've seen How-Tos for this online, but haven't dived in, yet.

[#]MakersHour

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Written by Three Chords and Forsooth! on 2025-01-23 at 20:49

Q2. What new skills have you learned recently? Was there one which you thought would be really hard, but surprised yourself when you found you could do it?

I'll go with slightly less recent (3-4 years ago): I learned I could make geodesic domes. It's multiple little skills instead of one big one, but it has been an absolute delight.

[#]MakersHour #geodesicdome

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Written by Three Chords and Forsooth! on 2025-01-23 at 20:48

Q1: ...what you have made or created differently, with alternative, new, or infrequently used, skills?

I'm a middle-aged person in the rural northeast US (currently). It seems like many things I've done have involved new skills; I enjoy trying new things (not always perfecting them, though).

Epoxy resin is a material I've had to learn some skills with. I've used it to coat #3dprinting objects (diluted with denatured alcohol it's cheaper than commercial smoothing agents), seat beach/sea glass in mosaics, repair various things, create various decorative items (often combined with a drop or two of alcohol ink), coat the surface of a play/work table, etc.

I also used it to make a "book safe": I removed the spine and covers of the book, dipped all the pages in thinned bartop #epoxy #resin, then clamped the pages all shut for a few days while the resin cured. After that, a drill and coping saw were all I needed to cut out the middle "hidden compartment" part. I glued the covers & spine back on, and the results were fairly nice. The advantages of using resin over glue included (1) not spending hours gluing all the pages and (2) working with the combined pages as if they were a solid block of plastic-wood, instead of hobby-knife cutting through layer after layer.

[#]MakersHour

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Written by Three Chords and Forsooth! on 2025-01-23 at 20:23

Hey, did the infosec.exchange icon change from a red shield/triangle thingy to the blue Mastodon logo in the last 24 hours or so?

[#]infosecExchange #question

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Written by Three Chords and Forsooth! on 2025-01-23 at 14:24

"Gulf of America" is "Freedom Fries" for the kids of the Republicans who still believe Dubya found the WMDs.

[#]uspol #hotTake #fuckMAGA #geography

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Written by Three Chords and Forsooth! on 2025-01-23 at 13:09

Cheating for a sixth song because... come on, it's peak Talking Heads

Talking Heads - Blind

https://song.link/us/i/20833699

[#]ThursdayFiveList #cheater #six #blind #TheLight

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Written by Three Chords and Forsooth! on 2025-01-23 at 13:07

[#]ThursdayFiveList today is #TheLight

The Be Good Tanyas - Light Enough to Travel

https://song.link/us/i/1469091275

Elephant Tree - Dawn

https://song.link/us/i/1555220263

The Smiths - There Is a Light that Never Goes Out

https://song.link/us/i/800157892

Love and Rockets - The Light

https://song.link/us/i/7059863

Bikini Kill - Feels Blind

https://song.link/us/i/1039728809

I was trying to arrange these from lighter to darker, but I couldn't decide how to define that: thematically? musically? Anyway, it's five songs. About light. Arguably.

Neurothing is on hiaitus. This is... choke what they would have... sob wanted: for us to blows nose carry on without them ugly heaving crying in the bathroom

[#]light #music #dark #blind #

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Written by Three Chords and Forsooth! on 2025-01-23 at 02:38

Chef: "This creation is based off of Mexican tamales and Vietnamese pho."

Based off of. They actually said based off of.

[#]PetPeeveAFood

[#]HashtagGames

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Written by Three Chords and Forsooth! on 2025-01-23 at 02:33

Keeping this #meme chain going...

[#]chatgpt #romance #llm #electricity #energy #waste #sex #TheFutureIsNow

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Written by Three Chords and Forsooth! on 2025-01-22 at 20:25

Bumper-sticker academic moment

"Women in the audience... the time in your life when you have the highest probability of being murdered is when a man looks at you and says, 'What? You don't love me?'"

-- David Buss, circa 2010, summarizing his research on murder

(Notes: IIRC Buss reported that >95% of all murders were about "reproductive uncertainty," not money or power or status or grandpa's will. Men get murdered, too, at much higher rates, and most of those are about sex/reproduction/relationships, too. If you're an American woman you still don't have a very high absolute likelihood of being murdered, but murders of women are almost all because someone is upset about #sex/#reproduction/#relationships. Most often, within that category, it is the person the woman just broke up with, told to go away, etc.)

[#]professor #crime #statistics #academic #story

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Written by Three Chords and Forsooth! on 2025-01-22 at 20:15

Bumper-sticker academic moment

"Geez, who knew reading about sex could be so boring?"

-- My PhD adviser, circa 2002, commenting on a draft of my dissertation

[#]academic #professor #story #badumTss

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