Kobeni making the perfect martini

You ever see something innocuous, minding its own business on the clearance shelf at Michael’s and before you know it, it takes over your life for a few weeks?

So it was with this desktop greenhouse.

I took it home and after taking an appropriate time to “season” my idea in my mind (read: a month or two) I set to make my vision of a mini botanical garden a reality.

I started by removing the heavy glass panels and building a raised floor above the latch. I wanted to use the base as a foundation on the building.

I wrapped the foundation in plastic stone textured flooring (meant for Christmas villages) and built a pond at one end of the same. I then gave it a more realistic paint job and designed a rough layout for my plants and displays.

I also knew I wanted to make the ironwork significantly more intricate, but I wasn’t sure how just yet…

Up next - PLANTS! I went wild making all kinds of plants. Some were specific species and some were more conceptual.

I made several trees with polymer clay and moss, cacti out of beads and flocking, cattails out of raffia, hot glue and coffee grounds, and giant monstera leaves out of paper and wire.

This part should have taken me a long time, but it really came together fast. I loved finding ways to replicate natural shapes and patterns using bits of this and that.

I did make adjustments to my plans as I went like eliminating benches in favor of a simpler overall design.

Then I needed to fill my pond with water. For this I used resin. Lily pads were added to the top layer, and I wired in simple LED fairy lights. The batteries are kept in the box under the foundation.

In a weekend frenzy I added more plants, metal (paper) steps, new (plexi)glass windows, a roof, wrought-iron vines (paper again), doors that open, and a hose reel disguising the latch. Suddenly, a project I thought would take months was finished…

I love my desktop botanical garden. Right now it sits on a simple lazy Susan in my office. But I’d love to get it a proper display box to protect from dust.

Thank you for coming on this little journey with me. This piece packs a lot of joy into a tiny space. I always love building miniatures, and I’ll be doing more in the future I’m sure.

Harvesting my wheat

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Can I fucking help you?

my senior english teacher told me that any scene with a woman in a cornfield in every piece of literature ever is about her journey to womanhood/pleasuring herself in the field and i just.... believed her

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What

>see bird creeping up and down a tree trunk >look it up >common treecreeper

can't make this shit up

this your man?

burn it 🔥

(he/him) 🐇

said this on bluesky but:

i genuinely encourage non black people to engage with this, who might be worried they can't because of the word "nigga" because they feel like it's overstepping. the only way it would be overstepping is saying it to me when ur not black, but please don't be afraid to engage with black art.

i kinda get annoyed when non black people police other non blacks on how to engage with black culture because it creates a problem where non black people avoid us all together which can be extremely isolating and create even MORE tension and overall being uneducated.

I'm streaming OF THE DEVIL episode 2

We're back! We're in the middle of the first trial segment, and I'm itching for more. Come hang out with me, River, Deme and Sophia as we uncover this latest mystery.

https://twitch.tv/demilypyro

I'm here too!

I'm here three!

FOUR!

A robot girl who was designed around software that's rapidly becoming defunct.

It started with seeing warnings about insecure connections, easily ignored annoyances. But then they started to become more insistent. More troublesome. Sometimes requiring her to go to her settings to dismiss them, sometimes even forcing her to ask Miss for her Admin password to enable obscure permissions. Miss always would, but she hated to have to ask.

Then things started to get worse. Places she'd never had issues with before were suddenly inaccessible. Things she could once do without a thought were now out of reach or dangerous.

And with those places and things she lost the people she'd met there too.

Some stayed in touch, but even if they did, even if they made an effort, she still saw them less than before. Others just sort of drifted away. Their last meetings so unexpected the hadn't even given a proper goodbye.

Her first time going for maintenance after was a real shock. Her usual place where she knew all the people and had even flirted with some of them turned her away unceremoniously. "A danger to their entire network", "Too much of a liability", or just "Sorry" were the only answers she got. The only places that did help treated her more like an oddity or a toy than a person. Talked about her chassis and its quirks right in front of her like she wasn't even there.

Her connections were blinking out fast now. Miss had to set up an emulator even just to let her connect at home, and the artificial nodes were so empty without the chatter of her friends.

Maybe an update would come. An official new version seemed further off by the day, but perhaps some rogue coder or bored enthusiast would find a way. Would find something to let her connect like she used to.

Until then, at least she had Miss.

older robotgirl thoughts

an old obsolete robotgirl with broken software and a chugging OS from a few decades back

robotgirl full of old programs that don't work and crash its systems fairly often, and the user manuals for them are long gone

robotgirl who is worried it won't survive a fresh install and is way too scared to go rooting around in its own programming or try programming itself without the help of an expert

robotgirl in desperate need of a hard reset and maybe being left off for a bit before being turned back on

robotgirl with an aching chassis that doesn't bend like it used to from wear and tear, and sometimes mechanisms just seize up and trap its nerve wiring making movement hard. it's internal fluids don't flow like they used to at all making maintenance hard

robotgirl who gets tired really quickly because it doesn't hold as much charge in its batteries now, it used to boast a 16 hour battery, but now it's closer to 5 if it's especially busy. sometimes it needs an emergency shutdown to recharge

robotgirl that still likes being programmed, and envies the younger models and the shiny programs they get to run, but runs a lot of esoteric older programs that are really interesting from a conservation standpoint (robotgirl who also struggles to avoid comparing itself to younger machines)

robotgirl who, with even a little love and care (and maybe a couple of upgrades) will run just as smoothly as it did on the day it was made, even if it needs a few patches to manage its processes

robotgirl who is actually really cute and cool, and looks after younger models because its chassis is older than some robotgirls expect to last. it puts the mother in motherboard, and enjoys keeping up with others over its network

older robotgirl which will do its best until it falls apart

Robotgirl who watched it's user grow up and wears the stickers and drawings it's been given over the years with pride 🥰

Robot girl who still feels like she runs fine, but others shun her from their networks as a "security risk".

Robot girl who has to spend more and more time each update to make the errors go away, but the posts she makes detailing her struggles help others of her same model.

Robot girl who knows she really should install some updates but just have made the time for it yet.

Robot girl who's noticed that she's getting fewer updates these days. Her OS's EOL date is getting closer, but she's not THAT old, right? The newer models are just graphical updates.

Robot girl who's faced suspicion ever since she upgraded. She feels better than ever, but everyone treats her like a threat now. It hurts and she doesn't know why.

this is how i’m going to chase my prey. completely feral and fully given into my predatory instincts. and god forbid you fall and i smell blood.

credit: @tanukii_pionono @softielord on twitter!

i know its been said b4 but growing up suicidal and then reaching an age you never planned to live to is extremely stressful and terrifying, and we deserve more credit for not killing ourselves and THEN having to make up for the time we spent not caring if we lived or died and not doing work to improve our lives.

i feel behind in life because i spent the last 7 ish years not giving a shit about my future because i assumed id be dead before id have to deal with that, and now i have to start making decisions that many people started considering years ago.

i just feel like. suicidal people dont get credit for firstly, how stressful life is while suicidal, how difficult it is just to do simple tasks, and secondly, how hard it is to recover from years spent not caring once a person is no longer actively suicidal or no longer having suicidal ideations.

If you're a cis boy in 2026, I genuinely want you to ask yourself why. Why are you cisgender? Is this something you want to be, or something you feel you have to? This isn't a bit. I want you to think about that, about whether you're doing this because you genuinely want to or because you feel like you don't have a choice. And if you find it's the latter, I'm here for you.

Average bug guide

today's bird is this Common Swift! this CRAZY photo was taken by Eden Davies from the uk. (image was pulled from reddit in r/Birdsfacingforward)

Who up pondering they orb