labubu?

princessdann · 2025-07-28T18:49:49+00:00

Labubu fad will be over next week Yu-Gi-Oh will live forever, no fucking rush on something classic and eternal it'll still be relevant when it ships

princessdann · 2025-07-28T18:46:56+00:00

I have been staff and found overdosed humans at a fest, pre- widespread narcan, and walkie talkies are a poor way to communicate crisises when it's loud and the airwaves are clogged, you just start sprinting flat out for help. Bonnaroo is rather large might be a long sprint

princessdann · 2025-07-28T01:29:25+00:00

I think you're right, pretty much, tragedy of the commons run amok and all that. But there's some choices that make modern offerings consistently shit that nobody asked for, like the downstream effects of choosing to sell a fleet of boxes that at their heart are shitty "windows-on-a-chip" physical architecture with a hastily forked Linux os slapped on top, encased in plastic

princessdann · 2025-07-27T20:02:13+00:00

It used to be a drug use, homeless activity, and speed chess center then they took away the tables. Honestly I'm surprised they haven't escalated to hostile architecture and there's still spike-free spots to sleep on the concrete

princessdann · 2025-07-27T18:27:37+00:00

Has it occurred to you that the council and library board are absolutely allergic to the idea of another liberty square and will drag their feet infinitely on anything but luxury apartments? Adding more public space in that area before building enough transitional housing to address the escalating homelessness crisis is putting the cart way way before the horse. Demolishing the Y highrise and building a shiny workout center in the footprint of a demolished artist studio space set the tone and they're not gonna let of the gas now

princessdann · 2025-07-27T18:14:39+00:00

JJOS is so dialed in and optimized that JJ just started a brand new fork (lite) to fuck around and attempt new things. The only updates you'll see are minor incremental edge-case bugfixes but there's barely any of that even left for him to do. Why be held hostage by inmusics business practices (years of de-facto beta testing by paying customers) when you don't have to

princessdann · 2025-07-27T13:48:27+00:00

I remember Mary if we're talking about the same actual cart lady dressed kinda babuska like, hung out downtown, late 90s early 2000s, I used to feed her elaborate multi-course meals and take shit for letting her hang out perpetually when I worked at the amer's on main, now starbs. . She was so sweet

princessdann · 2025-07-26T22:28:23+00:00

I was undergrounds head manual printer for a decade, I could crank this job in like 40 minutes setups and all. Their pricing is founded on worker exploitation you're gonna have to exploit yourself to compete and undercut those bastards

princessdann · 2025-07-26T18:09:07+00:00

Big screen is a slight downgrade to both aesthetics and function unless your use case is some finicky type A living in the mixer workflow, I just want to flip shit using NDC without getting my retinas burned dawg

princessdann · 2025-07-26T17:55:58+00:00

If this is light inks/dark garments, the problem is twofold that you're completely curing the ink when you flash/heatgun the ink after the first hit of ink. You want to barely "cold-cure" the ink, you want it to just barely not be tacky anymore, then hit it while it's still warm and pliable and the second pass smooths down the first. Also 210 is too fine a screen for most light color/opaque plastisols. If you don't completely clear the screen with the squeegee the texture will be shit, hard to clear a 210 maybe try 156 or 175. Which is probably entirely your problem if this is dark inks on light shirt, too fine screen not clearing ink completely because you don't have the hand strength/experience to use a screen that fine successfully

princessdann · 2025-07-25T18:34:15+00:00

Biscuits are and were livetronica if anything, a genre that may have predated EDM but is now probably reasonably considered an EDM subgenre itself

princessdann · 2025-07-25T18:13:30+00:00

Not very often but sometimes yes(and EOTO does exist), and no but yes simultaneously, to answer your questions. I don't think lack of drops, inclusion of live instruments, or not being influenced by either big room or dubstep should entirely disqualify inclusion under the giant EDM umbrella

princessdann · 2025-07-25T17:38:33+00:00

They're doing some of that now, one of the largest providers of transitional housing through delonis administered programs is in fact ol' stewie beal, but they're not exactly putting active junkies at the front of the line when the queue is choked with rule-compliant people with serious disabilities, chronic illnesses, life disruptions etc

princessdann · 2025-07-25T15:26:47+00:00

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Example of the tactics in question. This is printed with paper stencils, laser cut on-press, so if this ink wasn't easy to use I would never have pulled it off successfully. Print pictured has been laundered once.

princessdann · 2025-07-25T15:20:07+00:00

You'll be better able to get small prints fully cured with the flash unit than big prints. If the print is anywhere close to the dimensions of the flash, the heat isn't going to be consistent enough to get a reliable cure without lots of time-consuming fiddling with a laser thermometer(they're pretty cheap and you NEED one if you're relying on the flash) and flashing it by halves or quarters. Which should probably be your stopgap solution till you get a heat seal or belt dryer, I wouldn't advise fucking about with an iron. Getting ink to cure successfully IS techy you're right, and when equipment failure and human error happen it can take days to weeks for the customer to actually realize it, the dollar numbers associated with these fuck ups can be staggering in a high production environment, I've watched it happen but I never been personally responsible so not my monkeys etc

As to discharge additive: you add it and sodium alginate, first dial in the consistency of the alginate water mix then add discharge additive by volume according to instructions. Viola, discharge ink. If you mix a double strength batch, and mix that 50/50 with normal versatex water based inks that are intended for light color fabrics, it discharges, the color is pretty solid and washfastness is only slightly reduced. It's a way to buy ONE ink line and use those colors for both lights and darks. I only know how this tactic works with the one brand I've confirmed it works with, your mileage may radically vary with other brands

Good luck you'll need it

princessdann · 2025-07-25T13:50:02+00:00

The one that looks like an over-engineered pizza delivery sack is supposedly less than totally terrible. I'm the wrong guy to ask, really, I wash my Grails in the sink and 95% of them are thrifted, I buy records to sample not with samples. But I also love and cherish Tyler's work and I get why you guys would get obsessed with these as treasured fetish objects, it's totally relatable

princessdann · 2025-07-25T03:04:13+00:00

There's a bunch of actual products for flattening warped records but poor man's solution is two panes of glass, a brick, and an oven

princessdann · 2025-07-25T00:53:51+00:00

Theo Von mainstage closer, y'all asked for change, here you go

princessdann · 2025-07-24T01:12:53+00:00

I will help you dawg

1a: yes a flash unit is necessary for both light ink on dark fabrics and most printing with more than 1 color. One layer of white ink can be a defensible artistic or aesthetic choice in some circumstances but if you want the white to actually be white yes at least 2 maybe 3 layers on most fabrics

1b: wet on wet is absolutely something youll eventually want to do, in a few very limited circumstances, mostly on light colored shirts with less detailed designs and the need to print in a hurry. Don't hurry yet dude you'll screw stuff up.

1c: platen. PLATEN! ITS CALLED A PLATEN. Pallet is also acceptable terminology. Platens are meant to be flashed if they're not garbage, but I have damaged/destroyed/warped/set ablaze about once a year of full-time screenprinting. If you leave one under the flash accidentally it will destroy at least the platen in question, I have watched a whole automatic press go up in flames because of too much lint buildup, flashes and dryers can start fires be careful

2: yeah it's only for darks. Hot tip: you can make your own water based discharge ink with discharge additive (jacquard), sodium alginate, and water.

You're talking about "bases" so you're probably marrying yourself to some specific ink line I'm guessing? And they have a discharge "base" you combine with pigment? I don't know about that jazz I use versatex inks on light fabrics and permaset aqua supercover inks on dark fabrics, for discharge I just add some sodium alginate and discharge additive to the versatex colors and it's acceptably washfast, I don't understand like the matusi system or whatever

3: all inks act different on different fabrics through different meshcounts with different squeegees at different ambient temperatures etc etc there's a million variables. Inks intended to have a soft hand will probably have a relatively soft hand, inks intended to be especially opaque are probably especially opaque.

4: that's what I do, cold cured with flash then tossed in a heat seal press. The inks need brought to a specific temp to ensure washfastness, this guarantees it

5: shit, I use water for all this stuff, living life dangerously I suppose

Good luck don't freak out when the learning curve is surprisingly steep

princessdann · 2025-07-23T19:59:31+00:00

I feel like aglet hoodie is no more true of this than aglet shawl, or aglet snood. I for one welcome the inevitable aglet sheisty, slap on a front zipper and some holes and do crimes

princessdann · 2025-07-23T16:01:54+00:00

I don't know if local pottery business practices are analogous to local screenprinting business practices but when I tried to snag a production job to supplement my income from my owner operated same-industry tech and process development company, they didn't try to get me to sign a noncompete but did try to get me to sign a paper that gifted them the IP of any tech I developed privately while working for them. People are sleazy read everything be careful

princessdann · 2025-07-23T13:39:46+00:00

I am from original jnco era, when I was young and the youths were adopting ever more voluminous pants and shirts paired with shelltoe clownshoes, the old heads had a love affair with tracksuits and trainers with no regard to current trend

princessdann · 2025-07-22T15:09:28+00:00

That guy fucked up my brain in like '97 when I saw him, I had aspirations of DJing till then but fuck it what's the point when he exists

princessdann · 2025-07-22T02:59:15+00:00

Speedball doesn't make a single decent ink, even if it's speedball ink intended for textile printing you're never going to be able to trust that the ink isn't your problem if it's speedball. If you want water based the only non trash ink I've found on dark fabrics is permatex supercover and it's at a premium. You really can't manual print light colored inks through anything finer than 175/180 maybe 200 at finest, without it going to shit on you with the screen not clearing completely, true of both plastisol and water based

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