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Dangerous_beans

@Dangerous_beans@aus.social

Generic weird nerd, queer and trans, and blade witch. I'll share various bladesmithing and other projects, but this will probably be 50% cat photos. Very sober

Sense of humor removed to make space for more facts about 1980s Toyotas

Member of the aus.social moderation team, but no official stuff on this account

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

Dangerous_beans, to random
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Is it appropriate to play with the electric chainsaw on Christmas eve? Or is that a slightly rude amount of noise?

Dangerous_beans, to random
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Google: "We're optimising out search to sell you shit"
Me: "OK, I'm after a 25x12x400mm HSS bar"
Google: "no idea"

🙄

Dangerous_beans, to random
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Me: "i'm feeling better, more energy, maybe i'm recovering?!"

goes to supermarket

"Nope, gonna hide and cuddle Voss"

Dangerous_beans, to random
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I guess I'm moving my Irregular Biology Facts newsletter. I knew substack weren't perfect, but i just wanted to talk about vole chromosomes not run my own email server
I'll let you all know when i find somewhere else

Dangerous_beans,
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Did you know that in some Ellobius genus voles there is no Y chromosome? Instead the genes that trigger development of males has moved to an X chromosome
Other Ellobius voles do have Y chromosomes, so there is an ancestral Y chromosome

quixoticgeek, to random
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A couple of years ago a friend gave me a sous vide kit, I taught myself how to use it, did some fun experiments, and as a result have cooked some of the best steak I've ever eaten. Unfortunately it's kinda ruined eating steak in restaurants as it's usually not as good.

Similarly when I started playing with writing I learned about Chekhov's gun. As result of which it's kinda ruined a lot of movies and TV. Everything's become very predictable...

Oops.

Dangerous_beans,
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@quixoticgeek I had the same thing when i learnt to homebrew (before i stopped drinking). i was pretty good at it, made some great beer, and became a giant beer snob :P

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Update, Ashton Forbes is in my YouTube comments accusing me of defamation 💀 https://youtu.be/I7HCEio9Cwo

Dangerous_beans,
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@rebeccawatson It's interesting how both him and a bunch of commenters here went immediately to calling you or him mentally ill

Dangerous_beans, to random
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"Alone on Christmas day? We're having a party with free booze! Come be part of the community"

Looks unimpressed in former alcoholic

Dangerous_beans, to random
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Re this post: https://chaosfem.tw/@beatrice/111603048288183844

When I first got my oestrogen tat I wasn't quite out at work, and a bunch of people were asking me about it. One coworker who was a devout Catholic and former organic chemist wandered up to the group, looked at my oestrogen tattoo, looked at me, and just said "oh"
Then he wandered off

Dangerous_beans, to random
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Well fuck

Dangerous_beans,
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Microwaved it a couple of times to accelerate the drying, and applied some wax. There's nice colour and figure there, just too many holes

Another shot of the outside, showing different patterns and the contrast between the sapwood and the heart wood
A photo of the bowl upside down, showing the detail on the outside
A photo showing the grain and gum pockets in the outside. Also a bug hole and the hole in the bottom

Dangerous_beans, to random
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The obsession with DeLoreans is weird. If you want that sort of shape there are cooler 80s cars with a similar style. Being mid engine is a plus, but that's all it has
It's only because it was in some movies that nerds are obsessed with

Dangerous_beans, to random
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I burnt my lunch :blob_cat_ohnoes:

Dangerous_beans, to random
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Humanity:
"What if we took an animal who's survival strategy is freak out and run away, bred it to have even less brains, and then sat on it's back?"

18+ Dangerous_beans, to random
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Not finished, but getting there (knife photos)

A view of the right side of the knife, the main difference being the maker's mark at the base of the blade

Dangerous_beans,
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The wood in the photo above is from a firewood pile
I think there's an interesting thing with custom knives, where most of the cost is in the labour and knowledge but it's hard to explain that to those not familiar with the process. The hard parts of that knife are grinding it thin, polishing the hamon, and having the aesthetic sense of the entire piece

If i had used fancier materials (burl, damascus, ect) the blade may look a lot more impressive, but it wouldn't be any better as a knife

However that impressiveness may make it easier to sell, and it's not much more work
$600 for a knife with a firewood handle is maybe a stretch, $900 for the same knife with mammoth ivory is an easier ask

Dangerous_beans, to random
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Today's English is BS moment is typing flood too many times

quixoticgeek, to random
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Welcome to the 40+ of you who have followed me since my thread on thread and knives. I hope you'll stick around. But don't be surprised if I mostly moan about computers, and transport.

Warning, toots may contain traces of feminism.

Dangerous_beans,
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@quixoticgeek I was going to say I'm not here for "trace" feminism. Ladle it on!

Dangerous_beans, to random
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Chocolate is an alloy

Dangerous_beans, to threads
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I think joining the fediverse is a good thing AND we should also all block them

Open standards are good and threads gives people more choice

But also meta are a bunch of dickheads and don't moderate their user base to make them safe for everyone else

So basically they can join but have to hang out with poa.st until they learn to be better

quixoticgeek, to random
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We have an utterly fucked up idea of what counts as technology. Something that projects many of our biases including gender, and race.

To many these days it's only technology if it's electronic, and used by western men. But to take such a narrow definition is to ignore the amazing technology that surrounds us, and upon which our society is built. As such. It's time for a thread. I'm gonna talk about two different items you use every day, and the technology that goes into them.

1/n

Dangerous_beans,
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@quixoticgeek The best food analogy for steel is actually chocolate. You want to mix in some sugar and some milk powder to make it tasty, and this needs to be well incorporated to stop it having a weird texture.
Also getting the right crystalline structure is really important for both good chocolate and working with steel (as you get into later)

Dangerous_beans,
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@quixoticgeek There's also a technological aspect in how we run mass societies. Humans are not evolved to handle millions of people, so how do we organise them to get vaccines and help with garbage collection and the like.
IMO, a lot of politics and religion can be seen as trying different social technologies to organising people to different ends

Oozenet, to meta
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Please help me find a new instance. I'm super sad about @Gargron 's gullibility and poor ethical choices about meta and need some suggestions. I'd like a decent charachter limit i.e. min 1500. And I really want to be able to know exactly who is running it and exactly what the moderation policy is.

Help me fedizens. You're my only hope.

Dangerous_beans,
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@Oozenet you don't have to be Australian to join us

seachanger, to random
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men will literally drive huge trucks instead of going to therapy

Dangerous_beans,
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@seachanger meanwhile i'm driving a tiny truck instead of going to therapy... :blob_cat_ohnoes:

Toastie, to random
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Prediction:

-Threads incorporates to fediverse
-All content appearing on threads becomes property of Meta
-Masto posts appear on threads and become property of Meta
-Privacy ruined
-Fediverse ruined

Is there another possible direction this goes?

Dangerous_beans,
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@Toastie I don't see how that would fly legally? Federation is reproduction of the original work, it doesn't mean the ownership changes

Dangerous_beans, to random
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This weather is making me ponder shaving my head

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