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omgcheckplease_feedIKEA Finds: ‘Tis the Season for the Cutest Cookie Tins
22 Oct 2025 11:00ikeahacker_feedIKEA has done it again — turning everyday essentials into irresistible holiday finds. On a recent stroll through the store, I stumbled upon the new VINTERFINT collection, and tucked among the ribbons and wrapping paper were the stars of the show: three delightfully festive cookie tins shaped like Santa and his snowman friends. They’re the kind of small-but-special IKEA treasures that make you smile instantly — charming and affordable. Part décor, part storage, and 100% joy-inducing. Ideal for stashing cookies, […]
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Lake Lewisia #1319
20 Oct 2025 17:13![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaksA local potter is asking for help, particularly from video game enthusiasts, with their latest project in repaired objects. Caches of pots have been hidden around town--and yes, some of them have small prizes inside, of course--and volunteer adventurers are being asked to find and smash them with gleeful abandon. The broken pots won’t go to waste, as they will be used for kintsugi and mosaic work that will pay homage to dungeon crawling tropes and the economics of destruction in storytelling.
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AWS outage
20 Oct 2025 10:11alierak posting in ![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
dw_maintenanceDW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.
Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.
Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.
Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.
Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.
ikeahacker_feedWhere there’s imagination, there’s usually a mess, and that’s not always a bad thing. Jeannine Bietau @modernity.focus said she originally picked up the new IKEA BERGIG bookcase for books. But inspiration struck, and she simply had to turn it into this cute, functional art station for the kids’ room. The BERGIG book display unit is now a charming, kid-friendly art desk that keeps the mess (mostly) contained and the creativity flowing. Turn a Bookshelf Into a Kids Art Desk What […]
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No Ego-Searching
19 Oct 2025 22:04questionable_content_feed
nothing good has ever come from ego-searching
Fresh(-ish) Far Side Cartoons
19 Oct 2025 22:41wondermark_feed
Back in 2020, an official website was launched for Gary Larson and his comic The Far Side, which until then had only existed online as unofficial fan archives and so on.
Along with the site, which reruns a smattering of daily cartoons, there was a section called “New Stuff” in which Larson described the joy of learning to draw with a digital tablet for the first time.
Since then, the “New Stuff” section has been very infrequently updated with new cartoons — including one quite recently. It’s lovely to see more work from Larson; for many of us, The Far Side is like an old friend.
I also recommend looking through the “Sketchbooks” section to see a ton more proto-comics and draft ideas, many of which might easily have become a classic during the comic’s run.
Done This Week
19 Oct 2025 11:41scrubjayspeaksOh, I have had to witness way too many dick swinging contests this week. The details are unimportant and too exhausting to recount. I finally resorted, for the work-related bits, to summing up the situation as “nothing was damaged and no one was hurt, and that’s all I’ll say.” Which is damning with faint praise, and intentionally so.
For the personal bits, all I’ll say is, buddy, if you find yourself needing to flirt that aggressively to get that little response, consider that you ain’t shit and should stop embarrassing yourself.
There was a bit of an incident with my tablet, wherein it got dropped in a mud puddle. It’s okay. I dipped it in a bit of water to rinse the grit out of the charging port and speaker holes, then turned to good ol’ 99% IPA to dry it out and make it stop complaining that moisture was detected. Still, I decided I needed to make it more of an indoor device--I already had to replace it at the beginning of the year, and I don’t fancy doing it again.
Since the reason I had it with me outside was to listen to podcasts, I went looking for an app to use on my phone instead. I’m now using Pocket Casts rather happily. It took ages to re-up all my subscriptions and download the episodes I had on the tablet again, but I’m finally there. I’ve had to resign myself to having my phone on me more than I ever used to (and now two of them because of my work phone), so I guess this was one of the last holdouts. On the plus side, I can listen to podcasts easily while at work, which is a nice treat.
I was very happy to get out my painting supplies for a little project yesterday. It’s been a long time since I did any art-art, rather than fiber arts. I’d like to get back into drawing.
Had a good rain storm early in the week and then went back to mildly warm temps. Oh, October, you’re so much better than the months that came before you.
Lewisia: 3 new pieces written
Day job: 43.5 hours
Art: painted a watercolor birthday card!
Gardening: succulent club meeting
Listening: Under the Covers Vol. 4 by Ninja Sex Party (always a good nostalgic time)
Aftermarket Parts: removed the protective covers from the tattoos
Clock Mouse: 1096 words
Other: attended birthday party >__<...
For the personal bits, all I’ll say is, buddy, if you find yourself needing to flirt that aggressively to get that little response, consider that you ain’t shit and should stop embarrassing yourself.
There was a bit of an incident with my tablet, wherein it got dropped in a mud puddle. It’s okay. I dipped it in a bit of water to rinse the grit out of the charging port and speaker holes, then turned to good ol’ 99% IPA to dry it out and make it stop complaining that moisture was detected. Still, I decided I needed to make it more of an indoor device--I already had to replace it at the beginning of the year, and I don’t fancy doing it again.
Since the reason I had it with me outside was to listen to podcasts, I went looking for an app to use on my phone instead. I’m now using Pocket Casts rather happily. It took ages to re-up all my subscriptions and download the episodes I had on the tablet again, but I’m finally there. I’ve had to resign myself to having my phone on me more than I ever used to (and now two of them because of my work phone), so I guess this was one of the last holdouts. On the plus side, I can listen to podcasts easily while at work, which is a nice treat.
I was very happy to get out my painting supplies for a little project yesterday. It’s been a long time since I did any art-art, rather than fiber arts. I’d like to get back into drawing.
Had a good rain storm early in the week and then went back to mildly warm temps. Oh, October, you’re so much better than the months that came before you.
Lewisia: 3 new pieces written
Day job: 43.5 hours
Art: painted a watercolor birthday card!
Gardening: succulent club meeting
Listening: Under the Covers Vol. 4 by Ninja Sex Party (always a good nostalgic time)
Aftermarket Parts: removed the protective covers from the tattoos
Clock Mouse: 1096 words
Other: attended birthday party >__<...
Sunday Secrets
18 Oct 2025 14:40post_secret_feed
Hi Frank,
I’m from around same area as this person. Growing up me and my friend would read secrets together and talk about them in our small corner of the world.
After highschool we lost touch with one another but almost every Sunday when I pull up PostSecret I would stop and think about them for a second.
Where were they? What were they thinking of? Did a certain secret envoke joy, sorrow, longing?
So friend in our little precious part of the world. I do they when they check PostSecret that they think of you and what your relationship meant to them.
I know because I’m the same.
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Lake Lewisia #1318
17 Oct 2025 16:21scrubjayspeaksEver since the call had come, after hours while he was cleaning up the barbershop, he had been preparing for the special client. Alongside the usual scissors and combs and clippers, he laid out hedge trimmers and pruning shears, carefully sharpened and sterilized like any of his other tools. When the dryad arrived, tangle of vines and twigs trailing over his shoulders, the barber ushered him into a chair and asked, "How would you like it?" with something close to his usual confidence.
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Genius Way to Hide Your TV Without Tools or Damage
16 Oct 2025 11:00ikeahacker_feedHate how your TV sticks out like a sore thumb? Joanna did too. When she wanted to create a welcoming guest room, the wall-mounted TV was ruining the vibe. “I don’t want to see it every time I walk into the room. Given how far it’s off the wall, all I see is wires,” she lamented. However, she knew guests would appreciate having their own television. Therefore, she came up with a clever hack to hide the TV when no […]
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Lake Lewisia #1317
15 Oct 2025 17:36scrubjayspeaksThe old church had been carefully preserved both architecturally and culturally, from the basement to the bell tower. The bat sanctuary in the tower supported native species while also ensuring that unsettling clouds of dark bodies would burst forth at dusk, even in the absence of local vampires. The basement, home to weekly support meetings for the doomed and rummage sales, remained well-stocked with lightly mildewed old books in such traditional genres as "eerily prescient historical diaries" and "pseudo-Latin grimoire mixed in amongst the crockpot cookbooks."
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