#utility boxes

[smallcitybombreport]

[esotericallymelanated]

ART AGAINST THE WORLD!!! The whole world is a canvas, so create!!!!!!!

Love seeing these all around LA. Hidden gems around the city. Check them out before they get tagged up or before city covers them like they always do.

[fagtainsparklez]

this is like. all fully speculation. but i was rewatching some of jaiden’s nuzlocke videos, and them combined with a recent clip of hers i saw talking about how she’s not even sure why quackity chose her for the qsmp made me connect why he might’ve picked her. because like. i think nearly everyone was a bit shocked, if not confused, to see her on the lineup. despite having been in the scene for a while—her first public animations were for ihascupquake, after all—jaiden isn’t your first thought when you think of minecraft youtubers. as far as i’m aware, she was on one smp before the qsmp—epicsmp, and we all know how that ended.

no, jaiden isn’t who you’d think of when you think minecraft youtuber. but she is who you’d think of when you think storyteller. which, yeah, is kind of obvious. there’s a whole subcategory of youtube for animated storytellers, and jaiden’s been one of the front runners for years now. but the thing about jaiden specifically is that she doesn’t just tell stories. she shapes them. you can really see that the most with her animated nuzlockes. she’s given scenarios and events that are largely random and arbitrary, fully just game coding and out of her control, and she turns them into her story. her platinum nuzlocke specifically highlights this with the giratina, two jaidens storyline she creates to explain her resetting the run and attempting the elite four again.

live mcrp HEAVILY relies on having to go with the flow of the game, and learning to work around in-game mechanics and limitations to create a storyline out of. things that are story-important, like pets or npcs, are fragile and can be taken away at any moment, be it by a mob, glitch, or player error. you have to be able to think on your feet to not only work around it, but create a narrative to explain that decision fitting into the canon and story instead of just taking it at face-value. and that’s exactly what jaiden’s been doing for years now with a lot of her gaming-based content. quackity would need people accustomed versatile storytelling as much as he’d need people accustomed to survival minecraft itself, and jaiden is nothing short of an expert at her craft

[captainhysunstuff]

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Part three of their date: an unconventional visit to a nearby alley so Light can clear his head and try to get to the point of the outing. The events lead him to becoming confident enough to move onto the next stage...

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[nixthelapin]

Big Brain Idea:

Confirmed info:

Hawkmoth cannot send out more than one Akuma at once (minus when using Catalyst to become Scarlet Morh)

Outside of a certain range, Hawkmoth cannot control his Akuma (source: s3, Startrain)

Akumas can be trapped in a jar and not be able to escape (source: s5, Representation)

The idea:

After a battle, instead of purifying the Akuma, Ladybug should trap it in a jar then send it to the moon with the Horse miraculous. Boom! No more Akumas :D

[eriecanal]

Detroit sports legends are recognized downtown as the city prepares for the NFL draft

[female-buckets]

The Mercury exceeded expectations by turning what looked like another Aces blowout into 40 minutes of tight competition. And Diana had a classic shooting performance. And the team showed some promising chemistry and connectivity in the season opener with their best player BG out.

Phoenix fans are encouraged by the positive trends we saw in that game. But DT is never satisfied without a win!

It's only game one! Game one of year 20! But it doesn't matter where she is or how many years she's played. The fire never dims 😏

[pencilbrony]

Box cutter breakdown

[rambunctioustoons]

doing some minor formatting edits.. wh... whog... was gonna tell me it was "utility knife", not "exacto knife". also it was "x-acto knife" and not the specific tool i meant anyway HHH jksf

[smallcitybombreport]

[thepoisonroom]

What's a little free library? And what's wrong with them lol

these guys. they're basically book drop boxes where anyone can leave or take stuff!

there's nothing inherently wrong with them but proponents sometimes make a lot of big claims about their effects on literacy and book access that aren't substantiated by evidence! they mostly occur in affluent neighborhoods rather than underresourced ones and don't really address structural causes of low literacy rates and/or the exclusion of functionally illiterate people from public life and resources. plus even in the imagined use case of, say, neighborhood members taking free books to improve their reading skills, it's not like they're generally well-supplied or -curated collections of books. like there's utility in having free book drop boxes for people to pass stuff on, i'm just a smidge skeptical about the positive impact of my neighbor's 500 chicken soup for the soul books interspersed with evangelical pamphlets. my thought with them is that they're often more of a vanity project that lets people pat themselves on the back without taking any substantive action to affect positive change in their communities.

also, like, cases of LFLs being policed to prevent "theft" (see earlier rb) raise a lot of questions about who LFL builders consider to be the proper users of purported community resources. i would bet an arm and a leg that the people crying theft in their LFLs don't like seeing unhoused people and/or people of color in their neighborhoods using the LFLs? like bro if it's free then what do you mean when you say you're having a problem with theft make it make sense! just contribute that time and energy to your local public lib or school district, which is likely vastly more equipped with the expertise, infrastructure, and community relationships necessary to effect positive change on literacy access in an underresourced community

[indig0trolls]

christ i gotta.get the shit from under my bed

[skrubu]

A Week Before May by Pekka Nikrus Via Flickr: Spring? Yes, there was exceptionally heavy snowfall on April 23, 2024. ➡️ Diptych / Triptych

[blondiest]

i know in my heart shit is going south when i have like 10 tabs open on surrealism and imagism for this WIP

[comfy--angel]

Utility box art

San Diego

Olympus C-765 Ultra Zoom

[the-kipsabian]

got hit with that Mental Illness™ again while watching old episodes so gonna gif some kips :)