mm wouldn’t exactly say piles, the people there didn’t seem brave enough to put most of the conceivably used stuff out. there was still some opportunity though!

in total we’d reckon we picked up about five twelfths of a bushel of stuff, mostly implements of restraint but also a nice little hitachi wand and some very aesthetically fitting garter straps. plus a few nipple clamps 'cause the sellers probably didn’t know they were also for similar activities.

I proudly show off our new spanking horse …

usually the university students here don’t have that much actual bondage stuff (mostly just penetrative toys) but perhaps they just might have these due to how nicely they look to work with those sex machines. we prioritize comfort so its probably wouldn’t really be our jam though? but who knows. or maybe it could be! only one way to find out ofc…

on the car’s roof rack

not owning a car, our options are really only the (fare-free) public transit bus or the bicycle and both of them seem equally funny to bring such a thing home by

we were biking through some residential area while running errands and came across that stuff (plus a couple other things we could fit on our bike). it was an impulse buy heheh

one of our collars used to be for one of our cats but for some reason she hated it in particular but it still looked really cute when we tried it on in the mirror (a couple years ago) and so we figured it would probably look cute on others as well. and it has. do see @SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone’s note about pet collars though!

another was from an estate sale with a little new-in-box bdsm gear. it is more “purpose-built” and is a bit wider and quite better for pulling and stuff. we actually also got a cute little pink choker with spikes from there too and have used it as a collar too but its not the best.

we have also gotten a couple from a local shop which specializes mostly in leather boots and stuff but offers collars too in good sizes!

our favorite impromptu leash is the detachable strap on our handbag, but we got one from that estate sale too (its literal garbage though), also one from that aforementioned store, and a couple from a pet shop. we have also cleaned up and used a stainless steel chain harvested from a broken engine hoist.

may your uh, friend enjoy :3

this is very awesome ty for sharing <3

oh and last night we were having trouble sleeping so like at three quarters to midnight we grabbed some random ipod on our shelf with a broken screen and decided we were going to fix it, grabbing a couple tools and bringing it to this state within 40 or so minutes (a bit of cleaning was involved). why are we like this~

hell yeah! our specialties are pretty much all STEM stuff so that works out nicely hehehe

oh y’all is totally ok. still thnx so much, you’re the first to have ever asked!! that means a fair bit to us.

going a little more in depth, in short we are sapphic and the person we were snuggling with is a boy. and like we are totally okay with snuggling and stuff but we really really don’t want them to get it in their head that we are a romantic opportunity(s).

they are also very very starved for attention & touch so we are unsure they have that self restraint—they are very puppy-like in that regard! we really do care about them and we just don’t want them to become really sad if they end up attempting that route and get told no.

oh well, will hopefully sleep soon and stop imagining my own posts happening to be ans getting all giddy about it…

you deserve some plushies girl! plus if you are bringing others to your bed, they’re bound to enjoy the additional company too =^.^=

this certainly brings up some thoughts, given how much of that bulleted stuff we did with a friend yesterday (especially that last one). it feels wrong to talk about it openly on the internet so we won’t delve into it here, but your writing really… helps.

its not like anything bad happened, it was really fun and awesome!! there have just been some conflicting thoughts amongst us about, like, what our friend may expect and stuff, cuz we aren’t into them romantically. at all.

your notion of progression puts our varying thoughts into so much more perspective, even if it was said for markedly different reasons.

really, thank you <3

on a less brain-intensive note, this abstract sorta art style is really really pretty!!! well so is your art in general hehe. but as far as more abstract stuff goes this actually has meaning to us.

hope your breakfast is yummyy!

sadly the diffusion layers and sheer number of light sources work against that. due to how rear projection TVs work though perhaps what you are talking about can be done with one of them!! certainly gonna write down this thought for the future

also, thank you for the continued enthusiasm. it really really does mean a lot to us for someone to actually find what we do like… actually cool and interesting. ^//w//^

oooo that sounds very fun as well. making a really big print of one is challenging though and we don’t have a whole lot of film photos at all. but maybe an old film reel cut up could be fun :)

we don’t have any medical x-ray images at our hand, but on our commute we do bike right past a place with various x-ray machines and SEMs that we may be able to get a radiograph of something interesting at. perhaps even part of the LCD timing board from the TV itself!

ty for the idea!!

(the thread continues here!)

as you ask :)

im meeting with some old friends for … plant-based hotdogs and poker.

yay thats awesome!! hope the food is yummy and the joy is bountiful. stay sweet <3

hehe those are very fun too. in the metal shop we work in we have a comically large 36" CRT computer monitor—not television! it has a DE-15 plug and all—and our strategy of moving it around was just an engine hoist lol

omg thank you!!! you are very wonderful and you can absolutely do cool stuff too, we believe in you :D

well, in short, this electrical transformer lowers the input voltage by 26 times, but because of P = VI (power = volts × amps) the amps must go up by 26 times, and P = I²R (power dissipated (heat output) = amps squared × resistance, assuming R is constant) makes them become very very violent in an arc fault (kinda like a short circuit; the power gets concentrated in one place) on the secondary (“output”) side.

in reality its a bit more complicated and R is probably not going to be constant but either way that little ² means you are going to have a very bad time if this secondary (which is almost certainly supplying gobs of power) has an arc fault.

the 391 cal/cm^2 and “Flash hazard at 18 in” means that if you have your hand 18 inches (45 cm) away from the secondary, it is estimated that every square centimeter of something (skin) exposed in the direction of it will receive 391 calories of energy in an arc fault. one calorie is the amount of energy needed to heat one milliliter (1 cm³ of water) by 1 degree celcius.

dividing out the cm², this means that such an arc fault has enough energy to theoretically heat your exposed skin up uniformly by 391 degrees celcius to a depth of one centimeter. again, reality differs—it will not be exactly 391 calories, it will not be uniform, and your skin will be beyond burnt!

of course, that’s not even getting into the explosions and stuff that would also take place that result in the “NO SAFE PPE EXISTS” label, where PPE is personal protective equipment.

the solution to eliminating the hazard here if you absolutely must get near this transformer is to turn it off (deenergize it) so you don’t need the PPE. but there have been some interesting situations in history with immensely hazardous objects that were deemed necessary to approach and couldn’t be disabled, where it was dangerous to the point those around simply didn’t wear PPE because it would do nothing. the harvey casino bomb comes to mind!

putting a new spin on “arc flash” ;)

not the best CRI ever and kinda high drive voltage, but still promising

probably gonna go grab some white LED strips. will provide some more updates in some time :)

sure!! so far:

on this topic, a cool idea we just thought of is to take an LCD TV with a broken LCD panel (which we have), take out the panel assembly, remove the LCD glass, and install a printed piece of artwork (perhaps something over top to protect the artwork? or maybe not), from there hooking up the backlight to its own power supply and putting the thing up with some framing/trim or maybe just on its own. in fact we might actually start on that right now. yay distractions!!! x3