ironymaiden: Older Asian woman with curlers in her hair and a cigarette in her mouth. (hair)
2021-11-07 09:17 pm

Espionage Cosmetics kickstarter

apparently the pandemic was hard on the fancy nail nerds. they have a kickstarter going but they haven't funded yet with 16 days to go. i'm used to gaming stuff that blows through their goals ahead of time, so i'm worried this is going to fail.

Lookit:

image of 14 nail decal designs: space photography; Sherlock wallpaper and text from A Study in Scarlet; chain and scale mail; red and black skull lace; lighting strikes; pattern from Ahsoka Tano's montrals; one called "Just Breathe" that i don't know a reference for; red blood dripping over white nails; text from Pride and Prejudice with a floral theme; nebulae; tacky 80s textures; multicolored glitter; Jack Skellington stripes and pumpkins; rainbow mermaid scales; a variety of shark images
Reclaim the Sparkle

stretch goals get into things like Settlers of Catan and Loki.
ironymaiden: (internet!)
2020-10-17 01:51 am

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BEES this never fails to bring me joy

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2020-10-02 07:31 pm

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State Fact Sheets | Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection | Georgetown Law Fact sheets on the law around voter suppression and militia activity by state

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2020-09-18 12:31 pm

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Top Dog: An Oral History of ‘Wishbone’ – Texas Monthly the dog's name was Soccer and Mo Rocca was one of the writers

ironymaiden: (internet!)
2020-08-29 05:31 pm

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AI Weirdness • Planet Earth From Above the terrain in MS Flight Simulator 2020 is generated by AI using satellite images and Open Street Maps (which is crowdsourced) so there are some strange monoliths where folks entered a wrong building height, among other things.

ironymaiden: (internet!)
2020-08-28 10:31 pm

shiny object August 28, 2020 at 07:31PM

Ravelry: Clan of Two pattern by Tara M some nice person has made a chart for The Mandalorian's clan sigil

ironymaiden: (internet!)
2020-08-26 02:31 am

shiny object August 25, 2020 at 07:31PM

Free for developers A collection of services that are free for doing development, and info about the free usage limits of many popular tools.

ironymaiden: (internet!)
2020-08-23 11:31 pm

shiny object August 23, 2020 at 11:31PM

The Hate-Fueled Rise of r/The_Donald—and Its Epic Takedown | WIRED

Reddit is the first big player to deplatform these assholes.

ETA: fixed formatting

ironymaiden: (internet!)
2020-08-01 10:31 am

shiny object August 1, 2020 at 10:31PM

The Princess Bride Letters
In the back of the book you can mail in to get the missing emotional
reunion scene, but what you actually would get are these letters. William Goldman was a master troll. (And the book remains better than the film.)
ironymaiden: (internet!)
2020-06-10 09:31 pm

shiny object June 10, 2020 at 09:31PM

/r/curlyhair and #BlackLivesMatter : curlyhair nice post with some great history and background on hair. comments include an exhaustive list of Black-owned beauty brands. (i heartily recommend Camille Rose and Uncle Funky's Daughter.)

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2020-04-11 07:28 pm

shiny object April 11, 2020 at 12:28PM

Connections seasons 1-3 of the James Burke show on archive.org. chromecasts nicely.

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2020-04-08 03:21 pm

shiny object April 8, 2020 at 08:21AM

Public Domain Backgrounds for Zoom – The Public Domain Review first of a collection of interesting and attractive backgrounds featuring a lot of images that will frame or halo you.

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2020-03-31 08:01 pm

shiny object March 31, 2020 at 01:01PM

the PDR Colouring Book free public domain images collected and formatted for printing to color. includes Hokusai, Albrecht Dürer, Harry Clarke, Virginia Frances Sterrett, Jessie M. King, and Aubrey Beardsley.

ironymaiden: (internet!)
2020-03-26 02:19 am

shiny object March 25, 2020 at 07:19PM

Good Omens Stylometry — Elizabeth Callaway an R analysis shows which parts of Good Omens were primarily written by who, with confirmation from Neil Gaiman.