James M. Bowers

A dabbler in many things. He/Him

[Printables.com @printablescom]

Water propagation is a great way to multiply your favorite plants or herbs right at home. 🌿 Designer Fifindr came up with Hydroponic Growing Lid. This lid features built-in basket holders for plant cuttings and herbs, ensuring your plant won't slip into the water, drown, or lose its balance. It easily fits onto almost any glass jar you have at home and is available in 66, 82, and 100 mm sizes. ✨ https://t.co/4QGaHnR1mX

[Adam Wong @Engineer_Wong]

The business logic is this: for a product like an air purifier—where interpreting performance metrics requires some math skills—charging a higher price and pouring a large budget into influencer marketing seems to work. AirFanta, by contrast, prices its products with relatively low margins, so it simply can't meet the demands of most influencers on the market.
We have no choice but to rely on honest reviewers—like HouseFresh—and on organic, user-driven recommendations on platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit.

[Froglet 🐸 @froglet80]

@Mutualaidboost2 bills coming due. if i cant pay rent i need to at least help with expenses.

https://t.co/3cqMvsTNGH

https://t.co/rmFZGwg5bW

details here, thread open to all ⤵️
https://t.co/VthDGgaja3

[bobricius @bobricius]

Bare PCB for DIY assembly #ZEPIR
Raspbery Pi Handheld are ready for sale at @Elecrow1
-Display 2.8" IPS 320×240 ST7789 SPI
-Keyboard 7×10 GPIO matrix 70 keys, software scanned
-Audio PWM mono amplifier + speaker
-best for Zero 2 W
-USB-A host
-18650 bat

https://t.co/odWrmi9Rd3

[Printables.com @printablescom]

Adding some custom electronics to your project? ⚡ Red Haniwa designed this short inline automotive blade fuse holder to protect your power supply and electronics. Made for standard-size automotive blade fuses, it allows for easy fuse insertion. Plus, you can quickly check if a fuse is blown without removing it. https://t.co/ZH3wSedp87

[Froglet 🐸 @froglet80]

Y'all my sister's van is about to get repo'd. Her husband is out of town (truck driver) and she is at home with a toddler in a rural area. They can't lose their vehicle. $318 needed ASAP.

Comment or message me to get her info if you can help 🙏
(I'll give you her contact info & direct pay to her)

I know everyone is struggling but just help me spread the word in hopes it reaches someone that can help🙏

This is the least I can do when she dropped everything with no warning to drive 160 miles round trip to help me move when I lost my camp a couple months ago but I just aint got the cash myself right now or it woulda already been done 😭

[thunderba11r @thunderba11r]

Guiding me all the way to TacoBell today

[Dark Road Games @dark_road_games]

Sometimes I forget how "normies" see the world. There are people out there that believe "consumers just decided to switch to streaming and give up physical media".
Youtube lost money for a decade before it made a profit.
Spotify lost money for 17 years.
None of this is accidental or organic. People didn't "choose" these systems. They outright rejected them for literally decades while these systems operated at a loss that made competition with them impossible, funded by people who wanted to change the world into what we have now. A system where you own nothing, consume whatever is offered on-demand and nothing else, and you have no privacy or anonymity.

Netflix killed Blockbuster with by-mail PHYSICAL MEDIA at a loss. The entire time they were eating Blockbuster's business they were losing money. After Blockbuster died, Netflix phased out physical media and I remember the severe backlash, but the choice was streaming or nothing. Still many (maybe most) people just cobbled together private collections from bargain bins and garage sales. Netflix continued to lose money....10 BILLION dollars of loses in the 2010s even after Blockbuster went out of business.

Understand the truth, that a cabal of global institutional investors funded companies that nobody wanted for literally decades at a cost of untold billions of dollars....until there was NOTHING ELSE LEFT for you to use.

[Vivian @suchnerve]

“Van life” being a cutesy rebranding of homelessness has been a heck of a depression indicator tbh

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

Added options for box and exhaust fans to the parametric air purifier builder for when you need a lot of power and aren't concerned with noise.

The double hole is to run zip-ties through the grill, around the fan frame to secure it to the top of the filter box.

[James M. Bowers @jaities]

@suchnerve Have you seen NightHawkInLight's video on Phase Change Materials for use in cooling? Pretty interesting stuff: https://t.co/JBMLjfbJqL

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Ngl when I was young I thought things were bad because solutions were complicated, and now I’m older and realize things are bad because the solutions are often simple, but they would inconvenience affluent people, or those who aspire to be, and religious fanatics.

[Ivan l'Africain @AlterIvan1]

@readingafricana Please boost!

https://t.co/4Tz47P800C

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

Can now make 1-, 2-, and 4-filter versions. Easy filter changes, no tape or disassembly. Just slide the filter in the slot.

Automatic alignment holes for gluing work with pins made from cut lengths of 3D printer filament.

Can locate the power cable pass-through wherever you like🤓

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down:

https://t.co/n8Az3Tkwmo

[Dana Parish @danaparish]

While I appreciate this post (yes on tick removal method!), 341k ppl were misled by dangerous myths. To clarify:

1. THERE’S NO SAFE TIME FOR A TICK TO BE ATTACHED. They can be partially fed and transmit pathogens in minutes.

2. Single-dose doxy DOES NOT PREVENT LYME!!! It may only prevent rash, making diagnosis much more complicated.

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

With everything we are hearing right now about ticks this seems like good information to share.

“Here’s what I’ve learned after more ticks than I care to count.
First, whatever your uncle told you, forget it. No matches. No nail polish. No Vaseline. No soap on a cotton ball. All of those do the same terrible thing, they stress the tick out, and a stressed tick empties its gut back into the bite before letting go. Which, if you think about what that actually means for a second, is literally how Lyme and the rest get transmitted so you’re not speeding up its exit. You’re making it throw up into you.
Fine-tipped tweezers. Grip right where the mouthparts enter the skin, not the body, the head. Pull straight up, steady, no twisting, no jerking. It’ll feel like it’s resisting because it is, the mouthparts are barbed. Just keep the pressure on and it lets go in a few seconds. If a piece breaks off in the skin, leave it alone. Your body pushes splinters out. Digging around with a needle does more damage then the fragment ever would.
Clean it with alcohol or soap. Wash your hands.
Now here’s the part most people skip: don’t flush the tick.
Tape it to an index card. Clear packing tape right over the body, write the date and where on your body it was, and stick the card in a drawer. If you come down with anything weird in the next 30 days, rash, fever, joint pain, that flu-that-isn’t-flu feeling, that tick goes with you to the doctor. Some labs will test the tick itself, which is faster and often more reliable than waiting for antibodies to show up in your own blood. A dated tick taped to a card is one of the most useful things you can hand a doctor who’s trying to figure out what’s wrong with you.
The other thing worth saying out loud: if the tick was engorged when you pulled it, and you can’t swear it was off your body within 24 hours, call your doctor that same day. Don’t wait for a rash. Fewer than three out of four Lyme cases even produce the classic bullseye. A single preventive dose of doxycycline within 72 hours of a deer tick bite cuts the Lyme odds way down, and most docs in tick country will write that prescription without giving you a hard time, especially if you walk in with the tick taped to a card and a clear timeline.”

[holocene @holo_cene]

only 2 people bought online tickets since this post 😭 i still need 120 online or IRL so i don’t lose money 😣 please share to your Parisian or alternative music lovers friends!!

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

Working on a parametric 3D printable Tempest filter box builder that will fit any size filter and any fan arrangement🤓. It then automatically slices it into chunks to fit your 3D printer build volume. Still have to clean it up and convert it to JSCAD or something that will run in a browser, but getting there.

It will go on https://t.co/xKuP7LlljR when it's done to complement the lasercutter parametric model builder we have there now. Will take a while to print but a lot more people have 3D printers than lasercutters...