Lacci

@lacci

I studied physics in undergrad at Notre Dame and did some physics grad school. I do wildlife and landscape photography. I have OCD and hereditary hemochromatosis. 🔵

339 Folgt342 Follower6.293 Posts

YouTube YouTube Bluesky

bdsm fetish

Ist das dein Profil?Übernimm es — dann gehört dir lacci.dirty.social.Profil übernehmen

Lacci@lacci· 24d

Hexagon!

Lacci@lacci· Jun 30

A round kumihimo disc that says "The BEAD SMITH" with cords laid out on it. 8 are dark red and 8 are royal blue. The ends of the cords are wound on bobbins. A pair of carabiners have been hung from the center of the strings (one small with a larger one attached). A cat lurks stealthily in the background.

Lacci@lacci· Jun 30

A round kumihimo disc that says "The BEAD SMITH" with cords laid out on it. 8 are dark red and 8 are royal blue. The ends of the cords are wound on bobbins.

Lacci@lacci· Jun 25

@iwriteok.bsky.social This series of episodes is phenomenal. One thing: A "surrey with a fringe on top" is actually not a reference to Surrey the place but to a style of horse drawn carriage (pictured) which would have been something a country person would have thought was quite fancy in like 1890.

Lacci@lacci· Jun 25

I just spent a while tying snake knots. :)

A long string of Tibetan snake knots in rainbow paracord.

Lacci@lacci· Jun 2

Those are very cool. In Tennessee there was a massive and hideous statue of Nathan Bedford Forest that a man sculpted out of fiberglass bathtubs that was kind of a shrine of sorts to white supremacy. Thankfully it finally got removed in 2021. I like the Marian bathtub grottos infinitely more.

An indescribably bad equestrian sculpture of Nathan Bedford Forest with a pistol. His horse looks like it's throwing him.

A close up of the horses head and Forest's upper body (in the statue). It looks really ridiculous and unhinged.

Lacci@lacci· May 26

Apparently the NYT is just having AI write captions for images now and publishing them without checking. Which is crazy given that it's not good at that.

A screenshot of a NYT post with an image of a woman walking in the street in front of a bus under a mural of a woman holding a baby wrapped in an Iranian flag. The caption reads "A woman waves an Iranian flag in Tehran, Iran. The authorities imposed an internet blackout during the war with the United States and Israel. Credit...Arash Khamooshi/Polaris for The New York Times" Clearly there is not an actual flag in the image and no one is waving anything.

Lacci@lacci· May 18

If you see this then post your getaway vehicle.

A schematic of the Project Orion spacecraft designed by the US in the 1950s and 1960s. It was to be powered by detonating roughly one small nuclear bomb per second behind it. It had a large shield and multiple stages of shock absorber to even the force out. The concept was tested in a variety of ways and engineered in detail and actually is very workable. The idea was formulated after solid metal objects from near nuclear tests were found surprisingly intact at large distances after nuclear tests. A thin layer of plasma forms at the surface of the object the blast is incident on and that can shield the object while it's accelerated by the expansion of the superheated plasma. It's immensely more efficient than chemical rockets. But setting off a bunch of nuclear bombs in the atmosphere (even small ones) is not generally advisable for a variety of excellent reasons and the plan was dropped when the US and Soviet Union agreed to stop doing atmospheric nuclear tests.

A diagram of one of project Orion's propellant charges. It is designed to focus a nuclear blast in the direction of the spacecraft and accelerate a superheated plasma to provide as much thrust as possible. It's hard to overstate how wild it is that these were actively being engineered and they were planning to test prototypes in the near future when The Limited Test Ban Treaty went into effect in 1963.

Lacci@lacci· Apr 15

I'm pretty pleased with how this turned out

A small lavender macrame bag with a wrist loop and a fringe

Lacci@lacci· Apr 9

I pictured a halberd because Swiss guards, but an antipope made sense when I saw the Avinion papacy thing. I wondered if they were threatening to elevate like Cardinal Dolan or Cardinal Burke as some kind of rival pope or something. It seems farfetched that even those two nuts would do that though.

An image of the Swiss guard marching in a line wearing brightly colored striped uniforms and helmets with red feathers. One man has a spear with a leaf shaped blade and the rest have halberds with the exception of the man leading the group who's uniform is a different color and who has no obvious weapons.

Lacci@lacci· Apr 6

I'm in the middle of this book, which so far is very good, and it goes through a lot of the histories and specifics of this whole strategy (though no Overton so far) and how it has spread to and manifested differently in different countries. So I've been thinking about all this too much.

Lacci@lacci· Mar 12

I was shocked I scored this high. I'm missing a whole color receptor in my eyes lol.

Lacci@lacci· Feb 24

A photo of a sunset with lit clouds over a snowy suburban street.

Lacci@lacci· Feb 21

This is what a pattern maker's vice looks like. The jaws swivel so it can grab irregularly shaped objects. And then the whole vice can be rotated in the normal axis to face any direction (and locked).

An image of a pattern maker's vice attached to a workbench. I wish I knew how to describe it. It's cast iron and sticking up from the bench and has wooden jaws.

Lacci@lacci· Feb 17

Lacci@lacci· Jan 31

Spring will be here someday.

Lacci@lacci· Jan 23

@patrickwyman.bsky.social I was listening to your Tides Q and A and I thought you might be interested to know there is a fantasy novel centered around a fictionalized version of a late antique siege: Sixteen Ways to Defend A Walled City by K. J. Parker. It's fun.

The cover of Sixteen Ways To Defend A Walled City. It is a faux medieval illuminated manuscript and has a column of black and white stylized spearmen on the cover.

Lacci@lacci· Jan 22

Fuchida systematically lied about Japanese naval operations in any area foreign scholars couldn't easily check. He got his account published far ahead of any other histories by manipulating postwar censorship. His work is long discredited in Japan but continues to be cited by anglophone historians.

Cover of Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan, the Japanese Navy's Story
Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya

Lacci@lacci· Jan 7

Why does my Google search say of Sigma Aldrich's methyl iodide page: "Discover the power of Iodomethane (Methyl iodide), an award-winning colorless liquid!" I can't actually find that text on Sigma Aldrich's site.

A google search for methyl iodide. Sigma Aldrich's page says "Discover the power of Iodomethane (Methyl iodide), an award-winning colorless liquid!"

Lacci@lacci· Dec 14

Now I have some supercooled sodium acetate solution.

A round one liter flask on my counter full of a clear solution of sodium acetate liquid. It has plastic wrap over the top.

Lacci@lacci· Dec 14

75% acetic acid and 500 grams of baking soda. It's not violently reacting because the reaction is endothermic and it's made itself too cold to go fast. In fact I think a lot of the acetic acid froze for a while.

Lacci@lacci· Nov 25

💜💜💜

Lacci@lacci· Nov 14

Do you remember when tons of people believed satanic cults across North America were engaging in the mass ritual sacrifice of infants? Michelle remembers.

A marketing photo of Peppridge Farms Farmhouse Thin and Crispy Butter Becan cookies.

Lacci@lacci· Nov 14

It's funny, historians often say T. E. Lawrence looked nothing like Peter O'Toole and I'm always slightly baffled. They certainly look like different people but if you told someone they were brothers or father and son I don't think people would balk at that.

T E Lawrence in uniform circa the first world war.

Peter O'Toole pretending to be T E Lawrence in traditional Arab garb.

Lacci@lacci· Nov 13

A late post for November 11th. A poem by Wilfred Owen. "Dulce et decorum est" means "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country." It's a line by Horace.