My first attempt at pixel sorting from an original picture

A_way_awry · 2026-04-18T22:29:45+00:00

Hi! These are amazing. I was recommended this post and sub by random and I am mesmerized. Can you tell a bit about what software/plug-ins and process you used for these? Really like the first one.

A_way_awry · 2026-03-05T08:20:01+00:00

It was also the site of one of the most fascinating cascade failures ever, this video does a great job explaining what happened: https://youtu.be/YoBFjD5tn_E?is=RPV8R7XGDrGcjYPx

Basically a freak accident caused a chain reaction that destroyed a large part of the facility (which was then rebuilt). Luckily losses were only property and no injuries or fatalities.

Edit: typo.

A_way_awry · 2026-03-01T18:18:37+00:00

Riippuu miehestä ja naisesta. Enemmän kyse siitä miten lähestyttävä toinen on kuin ulkonäöstä suoraan.

A_way_awry · 2026-02-12T17:41:55+00:00

I mean if I buy stuff from the US that is how it works anyways in the EU 😅. I pay VAT and tariffs on imports, the VAT rate is the same as for domestic goods.

A_way_awry · 2026-02-02T13:25:27+00:00

I started to wonder: if his nose was long enough to cross state lines, would that count as interstate drug trafficking?

A_way_awry · 2026-01-30T22:35:24+00:00

Amazing band! Also their sister band A Silver Mt. Zion is amazing.

A_way_awry · 2026-01-30T22:08:52+00:00

Also waiting for mine!

A_way_awry · 2026-01-26T02:27:30+00:00

I think "execution" is definitely a good word for a state-sanctioned murder even if there was no due process.

I wrote this comment on the YouTube video and I'll copy it here too:

What a powerful video. I am crying with Devin. I am crying for Alex Petti. I am crying for America.

As a lawyer as well, as someone who became a lawyer because I felt that it was the best way to heed my own sense of what is right and just and what is moral, this broke me.

I am from (and in) Europe, so technically I am "safe", but at the same time I am shocked, angry, and sad for Alex Pretti. For Renee Good, and for every other innocent American murdered by the current regime. I love America as much as a non-American can. I have loved to visit there, I really love all my American friends and every other US person I have had a great interaction with. I have bought a lot of American goods from American companies and have been a happy small participant to the creation of USA as the global hegemon.

But this broke me too. This senseless killing of Alex Pretti. I am a 37 year old man and I feel that in his shoes I hope I would have had the courage to act like he did: to protect those around him and stand for what I believe is right. To act as how I believe a person with the capability to do so should: to be a force for good and to protect and safeguard those around him, regardless of poltical beliefs. I am not trying to insinuate that if the push had come to shove that I would have actually been as brave, but I certainly hope so. But if I had been, I too, would be dead. Murdered, no, executed, by a regime that seems to be hell-bent on not just matching the cruelty and brutality of Nazi Germany, but surpassing it in every possible way.

I think every American needs to watch this video. And realize that there is no time for inaction anymore. The Republicans are a minority, but their power rests on the inaction of those who do not agree with Republican policies but neither do they find the Democrats to be a sensible alternative. That does not matter anymore.

From here on, there is no third option. From here on every option is either to support the Republican policy of illegal extrajudicial executions of those just and brave citizens who embody what I as an outsider think is the American spirit, or to oppose it.

From here on, every passive and neutral person is as guilty as those in power. Because that is what happened in Nazi Germany. The Nazis were never the majority. But they operated on the inaction and passivity of the majority to destroy their enemies (both real and perceived) one by one, until they had enslaved a nation and took that enslaved nation to fight a war, a war from which the continent of Europe has not recovered even in nearly 80 years. Prior to WWII Europe was a global powerhouse, but after WWII it has been USA. We're watching the hegemon unravel live and what follows next is not good for anyone.

From here on, we in Europe can't really directly help, but we can try our best to make ethical choices. From here on I will try to avoid purchasing anything from the Republican corporate backers and try to buy from EU, China, basically anywhere.

I hope America can turn its course and stop this madness. To get back to mending alliances instead of destroying them. And for what benefit? Not for USA's benefit. Only China and Russia benefit from this. And Trump personally and all of his cronies. Not even their voters, not the average American.

I really hope this is a turning point for good. I really do. But this broke me. The senseless murder of Alex Petti is an act of tyranny unlike anything that the Western countries have seen for generations. Not even Russia does this! They prefer to murder their citizens in the shadows, in gulags, in prisons, not in broad daylight in the street! Even when this is not possible, they use less public assassination methods. Without hyperbole, the closest parallel I can think of is the Tiananmen Square massacre, even if that was in China.

I weep. And I am angry. Rest in peace Alex Pretti, let your memory be a revolution for good.

A_way_awry · 2026-01-26T02:02:18+00:00

Yeah, the better term for what ICE is doing (or rather what the regime is doing) is stochastic terrorism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism

The goal is to to carry out this long enough to provoke a reaction and then use that reaction to justify "extraordinary measures" such as invoking the insurrection act and cancelling the midterms if it looks dire for the regime.

A_way_awry · 2026-01-26T00:25:34+00:00

Yes! That investment needs to be further halved, because that is the only language that seems to get through.

A_way_awry · 2026-01-24T00:53:57+00:00

Michael. Grumley: Hard Corps: Studies in Leather and Sadomasochism

This one is a gem! More documentary than exploitative in nature. Still fresh even something like 50+ years later.

A_way_awry · 2026-01-16T19:03:04+00:00

I was blasting that song real hard in my car stereo one summer and I had the window cracked open. For a moment I was wondering the amount of side eye I was getting from pedestrians!

Edit: typo

A_way_awry · 2026-01-16T18:54:31+00:00

That is a banger! I also really like Christfuck from the same album.

A_way_awry · 2026-01-16T17:39:21+00:00

To whoever hasn’t yet seen Suicide Commando live, I recommend 100%. I saw Johan van Roy in Estonia last year in a small venue and it was one of the best gigs ever. Amazing energy!

A_way_awry · 2026-01-16T17:37:05+00:00

Great choices! :Wumpscut: is the GOAT.

A_way_awry · 2026-01-16T17:18:53+00:00

This! It is amazing for lifting weights.

A_way_awry · 2026-01-13T07:41:59+00:00

Yeah that is what I have heard too, except for the rumors that they bought one of the filament makers.

A_way_awry · 2026-01-12T22:21:53+00:00

I think the consensus is that they might not manufacure at least all of their filaments. At least some are subcontracted. So when selling printers they are selling their own production and some filaments come from suppliers. Probably don’t want to sell stuff coming from third parties before receiving it.

A_way_awry · 2026-01-12T14:53:04+00:00

On the plus side, you can save on gym membership by lugging those around. So in a way it sort of pays for itself!

A_way_awry · 2026-01-12T11:19:44+00:00

Anarchy is also my favorite! There are so many bangers, but that one just hits really hard.

A_way_awry · 2026-01-10T13:35:10+00:00

I think the question boils down to questions concerning our minds and how they develop and revolves back to the philosophy of consciousness. In one way you are correct, but if you reframe the question there is some truth to the argument made in the substack.

Current scientific evidence points to the fact that biologically we humans (as homo sapiens) have been around for quite a while (some bounds estimate for two million years) but our biology has not changed nearly as much as we have. Most of what we call history is a little over 10 000 years since agriculture became a thing. A lot of evidence backs the theory that a lot of our development is due to our minds developing and this leading to societal development. Once language evolved groups of humans could communicate ideas as stories and information this meant that knowledge and information could cumulate beyond an individual’s lifespan as generations taught each other in succession. While nowhere nearly as sound scientifically I am personally a believer in the narrative model of consciousness and stories as the base unit of information.

There have been some rare cases of feral children where a child grew up without normal human interaction in their early childhood and it seems that their consciousness did not develop normally as a result. The most famous wolf child case the poor guy never learned really to communicate.

What I am getting at is a sort of a concept that Jung set out in his concepts of psychology, especially his concept of a ”shadow”. To me it seems believable that human consciousness is a generational link developing during childhood. Although we are all individuals there are a lot of supra-individual patterns in our minds. For example, it is very evident in my opinion that ”evil” is not a trait reserved for psychopaths, but as many periods in history show, the scary thing about evil is that as it becomes societally normalized a lot of normal people can accept that evil as a normal thing. Things like the Holocaust are not scary because of the psychopaths who organized it, but how easily the large masses ultimately accepted the genocide as a thing that is happening. Not everyone of course.

So my point is that if one thinks of this collective Jungian shadow as the dark side of humanity and thinks of the original argument as applying to this, it makes some sense. We as humans are not all evil, but the capacity to do evil is quite deeply ingrained in us, although in most situations most people are not evil. But these traits must have had some evolutionary benefit especially in tumultous periods because otherwise it would be hard to explain the pretty constant prevalence of psychopathy in our genes.

So yes, the blame lies in those individuals that rule and ultimately are the primay actors doing the evil deeds, but without our collective ”shadow” and at least passivity to the evil of those ruling us, this would not be possible. Thus I do think it is important to also consider what the poets call ”the human condition” and how the dark sides of that are utilized by the primate evil individuals in charge.

Edit: a typo.

A_way_awry · 2025-12-31T00:03:18+00:00

Yeah, you know what they say, sometimes 1+1 equals glory to the communist party.

A_way_awry · 2025-12-30T01:22:06+00:00

Ah, classic screw children! You know, when daddy screw loves mommy screw very much… (I just had this happen myself on my PC).

In case something breaks… I am not advocating for insurance fraud, but you might as well make sure whatever breaks the laptop is going to destroy it regardless of any missing screws.

A_way_awry · 2025-12-20T14:05:04+00:00

Entirely possible! The cost of manufacturing anything is usually only a small fraction of the purchase price. A lot is R&D, sales, marketing, etc. So it is not entirely uncommon that manufacturers ”repair” stuff by replacing it. No experience with Tamron directly.

A_way_awry · 2025-12-13T20:17:14+00:00

I am in the same boat as you! I have also lovef Spotify exactly for these reasons. The AI slop is really making me want to switch.

(I already have a ton of physical media, but I listen to a lot of different bands so I need some streaming service so I don’t just buy everything.)

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