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They actually make physical media for a much larger percentage of movies than they ever did in the past. Often with a lot more care than any small release was treated in the early dvd days. Its just if you only watch streaming stuff or the big new recent box office hits you won't see that. It is so ridiculously easy to get physical media for movies that even 5 years ago you couldn't even find. Like yes Netflix is a stingy bastard but so many things are available on disc WITH special features than ever before

A brief intro to stamp making!

These are regular pink erasers from the supermarket. I'm going to make a flower. First, I trace the eraser itself to get a feel for the size.

I trace the design for each color of ink on separate pieces of tracing paper, then tape them onto the erasers and rub the graphite side down to transfer the image. Any paper that holds graphite will work for this.

Since I'm using red, blue, and yellow ink, I'm layering the stamps over top of one another to produce secondary colors like green and purple. I use a V-shaped carving tool most of the time, just a cheap one I got in a kit at Michael's. Almost anything sharp will work.

I got these Ranger ink pads also at Michael's, they're working for me so far. Slightly nicer ink pad brands usually also sell bottles of refill ink, so you don't need to buy a whole new pad when one runs dry.

Most of the time involved is spent carving the rubber and testing the print as you go. Be careful to carve in the direction away from your hands.

I think these worked out pretty well! Thanks for reading, and have fun!

Seen a couple posts on the dashboard lately about writing with ADHD. So, for the ADHD and neurodivergent folks who like writing but struggle sometimes… check out StimuWrite.

You can set it to make little sounds as you type (or leave them off), and emojis pop up in the corner. You can change the background, dark and light themes, set your word goal, and it gives you a percentage and total word count at the bottom. Though it’s more meant for getting a draft written up, so it doesn’t have spell check or anything like that. You’re meant to just copy and past what you write here into Google Docs or Word or Scrivener or whatever else you use and go from there. Honestly love it when I’m struggling to get words down, though. And apparently there’s an update now for StimuWrite 2?👀

Anyways, give it a try if it looks like it may help. It’s currently name-your-own-price.

One of the best ways to make an edible is to take weed you don’t care about (really old, lots of sticks, etc) and make weed butter. Bear in mind that with this method your whole house will smell like weed.

I like to use the full fat plugra or Kerrygold but you can use any type of butter you want. Melt the butter in a pot with about 4 cups of water, keep it around 145 degrees. While you’re doing that, toast your weed in the oven on a sheet pan at a verrrry low temperature (145 degrees is what you’re aiming for) for about 15 minutes.

Once the butter is melted and your weed has been lightly baked, wrap your weed in some cheese cloth and make a lil bundle and steep it in the pot like a tea. Leave it for 3hrs. The THC gets absorbed by the fat in the butter. After that, pull the pot off of heat, squeeze out your weed bundle of as much liquid as possible, and put the pot in the fridge for about 4 hours, overnight if possible. The butter will separate to the top of the water, and then you can pull it off, dab it dry with a paper towel. Voila, now you have weed butter that will taste like ass but you can put it in cookies, brownies, cakes, etc. I made a coffee cake outta mine that had some of the most hardened stoners I know one their backs for like a whole day.

Happy baking 💖💖

omggg thankyou

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Tiny kitty that can be made with 2 pipe cleaners. If you care. If you even care.

no, listen, when I say I want to integrate more specific solarpunk stuff in my life, i don’t mean to ask for yet again new “aesthetic” clothes that now you have to buy or make to show your support of the movement (screw that i’m consuming enough as it is), or more posts about impossible house goals, or whatever, I’m asking you what my options to build a portable and eco friendly phone charger are, im asking you viable tiny-appartment edible plants growing tricks on a budget,  im asking tips to slow down when my mind and society tell me im not fast enough, i don’t need more rich art nouveau amateurs aesthetics or pristine but cold venus project, okay, i know i should joins associations where I am tho i’m constantly on the move, thanks for that, just, you know, can we get a bit more practical ??? how do I hack my temporary flat into going off the grid for the time i’m here