I have scavenged furniture for years. Furnished houses and apartments and squats and warehouses and busses.

Have never knock on wood had bedbugs.

Learn what they and their eggs look like and inspect the shit you’re grabbing first.

Once passed on a really nice couch in a nice neighborhood, because I spotted a half of an ass of one.

The stained old victorian style couch in the winco parking lot was fine though, lol

Four exposures!

puffs pipe Three brain cells

still runs after her

astronaut on bicycle genny

Lost Boi

Don’t recall the author’s name, but it’s a great retelling of peter pan, pretty quick read

So! There’s a place in Philly called the Mutter Museum. Filled with all manner of human specimens of various ailments.

Absolutely fascinating. Like $20 admission. 100% worth it.

A couple of the pieces on display are the skulls and jaws of mouth breathers. I don’t know if they had an issue that required surgery that wasn’t available in the 1800’s, or if it was just bad habits, but.

Literally changes the shape of your bones. And therefore your face.

Fucking wild.

There’s a ‘free zone’ in Belize that ahh… It’s like a pustulant blister of capitalism. It’s gross. Feels gross. Everywhere that isn’t actively selling shit is a literal garbage dump, and there’s a ton of building carcasses with faded signs falling off of them. Looks like in its heyday it was at best a sleazy strip mall.

Also, I get it’s a restoration project, which are fun and wholesome, but Fuck push saws.

Pull saws are where it is at! Easier to keep on target, less work, and you can’t crease the blade on a cut and ruin the whole fucking saw

Though, I’ve never seen a pull saw you can play with a bow

I think you’re the only other fucker in this thread who may have used their hands before

How do you clamp a bolt head that’s recessed?

Drilling a spinning bolt is Not Easy. Not impossible, bit there’s better ways to go about things

No he fucking doesn’t

Wood glue isn’t going to hold on metal at all.

Anti-seize to stop spinning? What? No. Anti seize is shit you put on threads so that when you come back years later, they still move.

Long acting lubricant.

And drilling out a bolt that’s already spinning isn’t going to be a fun time

Super glue is super brittle. Will fail at the first bit of force

There’s no glue or epoxy on earth I’m aware of that will hold on metal well enough to handle the force of unscrewing a bolt.

You might solder nuts to either side, that might hold and be reversible.

The suggestions of drilling it out also won’t work well, if it’s already spinning in place, it will spin faster.

I know you don’t want to, but cutting a slot is your best bet. If you do it clean, it’ll just look like a screw. You could replace with a rivet if you really need a non-screw look for the finish

Super glue is super fragile

man we are all gonna end up in Gain Ground

no

You know, fairy tales for children generally involved horror, murder, dismemberment and worse.

To get the kids to be aware of the actual horrors of the world, which are worse.

Hearing a story about, or seeing a fictional or even actual video of some of the fucked up shit people do to each other for stupid fucking reasons is still not actually traumatic.

Experiencing depictions of such shit should absolutely bother you. Should absolutely put you a bit on your toes, in real life, on the daily.

So you can avoid those situations. So you know shit like that’s possible, and fucked up fuckers have done it and will do it, and they’ll think they’re right the whole time.

Because when it does actually happen, that’s when it is traumatic, and not just being smart and aware

Ruining your day isn’t ruining your life.

Life sucks. Get a helmet

eh, shit i’ve read and seen on a screen, while it may have bothered me at the time, isn’t actual trauma, which does not fucking ask permission.

And yeah, there’s media that triggers that-but it’s media. I close it. I leave. I can. it’s not actually happening to me, right now.

I think it’s a decent notion, to annotate. It’s for sure people trying to be good for one another, and that’s laudable.

But. As I said, the worst of the world does not ask permission, and I think enforcement of content tags or what have you would likely lead directly to even more oppression and censorship in the storm of that which we are currently in.

I will say ao3’s pretty on point about it, from what i’ve seen-it’s voluntary, and it’s actually voluntary. How you keep that across the ages is anyone’s guess