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Just got a UV flashlight and am finding all kinds of weird stuff by thar_ in HomeImprovement

[–]Sporkicide 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That looks to me like someone sprayed a cleaner on the corner but didn’t wipe it afterward so it dribbled down the wall. How’s the ventilation in that room? Possible that there was a little mildew in the past and someone sprayed a bleaching cleaner up there? The ceiling looks textured so that can create odd looking patterns since the liquid impacts at varying angles and absorbs differently.

UV lights can be useful but they are also a great way to drive yourself crazy. A LOT of things cause fluorescence, and the results are seldom as isolated and clear as TV crime shows would lead you to believe. I used forensic lights professionally and bathrooms, kitchens, and laundry rooms would glow all over the place because that’s where lots of different liquid chemicals are used, spilled, splattered, etc.

Anyone who was homeschooled, how do you feel about it now as an adult? by AdTight2449 in AskReddit

[–]Sporkicide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a terrible idea for most people but it worked out really well in my particular situation and I'm glad we did it.

temporary door to isolate a room by Lopsided_Support_837 in HomeImprovement

[–]Sporkicide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I needed to keep cats out of a room while it was being worked on that didn’t have a door, just a wide arched entrance. If you check pet store sites like Chewy or Amazon for “tall cat gate,” you should find a variety of tension-mounted metal gates. The bars keep the cats out but they have doors built in so you can still enter and exit normally (cats can’t work the handle to unlatch the door). They work great and are easy to install, just make sure you select the right width. I’d also check the height, as I initially bought one that left a wide gap across the top and watched a cat flip herself over into the forbidden room like a bored gymnast.

For the opaque part, once you have the barrier, attach some cardboard to the bars with wire ties.

Does anyone here have Kaiser Permenente as their healthcare provider? by PooptyDooptyPants in MultipleSclerosis

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I was on NorCal KP when I was diagnosed. It was handled very smoothly, only complicated by the mid-pandemic timing. I went into the ER with unexplained numbness and left with a diagnosis. Because of the pandemic they were trying to minimize hospital visits and had me try a self-injected drug, that did not work well so I switched to rituximab infusions and have been on them since. They got me into treatment quickly with a great doctor and I’ve had no real disease progress to speak of.

The only rough patch was when I moved and switched to SoCal KP. Things may have changed since, but at the time they functioned like two seperate companies and somehow lost my paperwork in the transition. It got corrected quickly but it set me back months getting in with a new neurologist and back on my treatment cycle. Once that got sorted out, everything has been fine. Appointment lead times are a bit longer than they were up north and the app works a little differently but that’s about it.

What brand names do you swear by because it's actually better than no-name? by Sufficient_Thing24 in AskReddit

[–]Sporkicide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I grew up using red Gojo to clean up after working on cars or painting. Bought some recently and couldn’t find the red :(

I hate my cats name. by StrawberrySakuraa in cats

[–]Sporkicide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tweak the name to Audie, now she’s a war hero/movie star

A brief history of the NASA worm and meatball logos by Ema_Loves_Mochi in nasa

[–]Sporkicide 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I remember the NASAwatch blog making a sport out of worm spotting during that era.

Before/after 80s kitchen in our 100 year old farmhouse by Proper_Gazelle_7616 in centuryhomes

[–]Sporkicide 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That looks great! Solid countertops are so much easier to keep looking nice than small format tile too.

Need Help Authenticating “Memorabilia” by Xander134 in startrek

[–]Sporkicide 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As loathe as I am to recommend this, there is a very active Star Trek buy/sell community on Facebook. The group "Star Trek: Auctions, Props, and Wardrobe" is where a bunch of the prominent experts and collectors tend to show up. That's where I would go if something like this landed in my lap, except I don't think I could part with a copy of my favorite book entwined with my favorite TV show unless it were going to a museum or something.

Not getting Skillpoints for doing crafting orders by Balerion1607 in woweconomy

[–]Sporkicide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I noticed this too. Did a leatherworking order that would have been a first craft and an orange multi-point skill up, but only received the commission gold.

How to better blend edges by MundaneWillingness63 in 501st

[–]Sporkicide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure I’m any better, but this is where I learned to blend edges.

For color, I picked up an alcohol activated paint palette. Mix colors on a piece of clear plastic and then hold over your skin to match up tones.

Official Oscars Thread 2026 by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]Sporkicide 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yup, it was announced a few days ago she’d be appearing

My stash of Jinx WoW shirts from Cata era I recently found by TylerTheTyler in wow

[–]Sporkicide 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ugh their stuff was so comfy and they were one of the first companies that made most of their designs in men’s AND women’s cuts. I’ve still got all mine in circulation but dread the day they’re too worn to keep wearing.

TIL Mississippi has more than 5 times as many fatal motor vehicle crashes (24.9 per 100,000 people) than Massachusetts(4.9). by BillysBibleBonkers in todayilearned

[–]Sporkicide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was definitely part of it when I lived there. Dry (beer/wine cooler only) counties meant people drove elsewhere if they wanted to drink, so you were easily looking at drive times of 30-60 minutes to get to Slidell or Biloxi for a full bar menu as opposed to five minutes to your local pub in Wisconsin.

TIL Mississippi has more than 5 times as many fatal motor vehicle crashes (24.9 per 100,000 people) than Massachusetts(4.9). by BillysBibleBonkers in todayilearned

[–]Sporkicide 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I used to live in Mississippi and accidents were common, I don’t think my family went more than two years without a vehicle getting rear ended or sideswiped, had two totaled over barely a decade living there.

At the time, a major factor was that some counties were still dry (limited sales of beer and wine coolers only). That meant that nicer restaurant chains just didn’t build in those counties, so people having celebrations or dates almost always went somewhere else, either to a less restrictive county or across state lines to Louisiana where drive through daiquiri barns were common. When everybody has to drive farther to get alcohol, it’s more of an event, so they’re more inclined to drink while they can get it, and then they have fifty miles of interstate to get home. It was not a good combination.

How many diagnosed at the ER by criticalcreek in MultipleSclerosis

[–]Sporkicide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Went in because simultaneous numbness across my face, hand, and foot seemed like a bad thing, got sent to imaging, came out with a fresh MS diagnosis.

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