ApathyTree

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[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yep, all the (original) doors and hardware in my house have been painted over. So many layers of paint. Unfortunately they have also had stuff screwed in, nailed in, have been drilled through for various additional hardware, etc. so they can’t really be refinished to be restored..

I’m repainting them and changing the hardware out completely (it’s the old style inset locking mechanisms, so limited options), but that’s all I can do without replacing the doors themselves.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

“Some DIY is fun, some is stuff we do by mistake because ‘well how hard can it be anyway?’ and it teaches us a lot for the next project. The rest we do purely to spite ourselves, because we should be able to do it, damnit!”

-thing I said to a friend who asked why I was putting so much effort on myself when I could just buy a flat-pack for the same cost and 99% less effort.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago

My understanding is that while they can make a new queen under the radar, hypothetically, the slightly different scent of her eggs/haploid larva is seen as a hostile invasion and it’s quickly dispatched by loyalists, which is why non-main-queen offspring rarely happens.

Something like because they are all essentially genetically identical, they all have the same pheromones, but the next generation won’t.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Those look neat, I didn’t know baby blue beetles existed! (I’m not super surprised by that since they also come in gold, and there are more beetle varieties than anything else, but still)

Thanks for sharing!

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Do you have the ones where you are definitely an adult, your current self, and still getting shunted back to highschool? I’ve had those, try as you like to explain it nobody believes you..

I don’t have dreams of being a kid but I occasionally have one like that as adult me.. it’s kinda trippy.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My recurring stress dream is someone chasing me and it’s like I’m running into a gale force wind, try as hard as I might I can barely move. I’ll be tipped forward struggling to put force into my legs and just, no result. Each foot goes down right where I picked it up from, or maybe a few inches forward.

Then of course they catch me, and my ability to fight back is equally shit, like full force punch barely grazes them sort of stuff.

I’m fairly certain it’s all due to the lack of actual bodily response in my sleeping self, because I’m pretty aware of that sort of thing (I’ve used my pulse to determine lucid dreaming status for decades, as it doesn’t exist in dreams, and on the occasions I’ve tried to wake myself from them I can feel the sleep paralysis preventing willful movement)

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

What kind of beetles?

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

That assumes a level of competency I doubt musk is capable of.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

Super sorry for the delay - life stuff got hectic

I think whatever you are planning would be perfectly fine for my needs, since I don’t need much. I was more just looking to see if it already existed but if it leads to a cool collab, that’s pretty awesome too and I’d love to use whatever comes out of it :)

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

I mean I’m down but idk how to do shit until I find a guide for it 😅

So like I’m super nervous but I’m into it.

@Darorad@lemmy.world might be into this also. Idk how mentions work but now you both got one, and I feel fancy.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

You and @haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com would probably be good to chat about that :)

I don’t know shit about shit. I’d love to pretend I do but I don’t and getting competent people together is probably a win

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