
Small reminder for my Texas/southwest peope. Going to be expecially nasty next week. Stay hydrated, stay cool, keep an eye on your neighbors.
Popping this back up, since it’s getting hot here, and won’t get any cooler ‘til October. Stay hydrated, friends!

Goodness! This Little Free Library in Normal, Illinois couldn’t be more perfect. 😭

JUST ANNOUNCED: Ghost Files Returns for an exclusive Disney Haunted Mansion Special Episode NEXT FRIDAY! Don’t miss it!

Puppet History RETURNS for another season!
Remember the date: JULY 7

Practical tip for those dealing with wildfire smoke now: you can make a very effective air filter for a reasonable amount of money using a box fan & one of those filters meant for your furnace.
Also, I've managed to pick up 2 of the box fans for very cheap/free from yard sales. Make sure you get a filter rated for wildfire smoke, I think this one cost about $20.
These make a huge difference in the indoor air quality.
Posting again because of the fire situation up in Canada and resulting smoke. If you're dealing with wildfire smoke, these are surprisingly effective and relatively cheap.
Just tape the filter to the fan, making sure the air can't sneak around the edges. I used painter's tape, but I'm sure duct tape or similar would work just as well.
Here's a link to the cube version:
And the illustration
[Image Descriptions:
Top, two images. Both images show a white box fan with blue tape covering the corners and holding in place a filter (presumably a furnace filter as described by the rest of the post). The filter is almost identical size to the box fan (presumably both 20″x20″, as described in the lower image). The second image shows a person’s hand reaching for the controls on top of the fan. The tape covering the corners also ensures that more air flows directly through the fan and. The fan seems to be facing away from the filter, so that the air blowing out is pulled through the filter first.
Bottom image: Detailed instruction sheet for making the Corsi-Rosenthal Box Filter. Presumably these instructions also show up as plaintext on the site linked above the image in the previous addition to the post. At the top of this sheet, before the instructions, there is a bubble in the left showing a simple depiction of the cube as it looks when fully constructed. Next to this is text that reads “DIY Air Cleaning: Making a ‘Corsi Air Box’ / ‘Comparetto Cube’
Cost: < [ $175 USD ]
Impact: Can add the equivalent of [ ~ + 3 Air Changes Per Hour ] to a typical classroom”
Below this is instructions, shown in five steps with images for each and step summaries at left. These read, step by step:
Gather Materials, with a large 1 in a circle before the preview images. The first material shown is MERV 13 Air Filters (20″x20″), displayed as four very light gray squares with black outlines. Under the four, for clarity, is X4. The second material is a Box Fan (20″x20″), displayed as a grid-covered square, with orthogonal lines representing the thickness of it, containing a circle in the middle for the rotor and eight elliptical fan blades coming out of the circle. The third material is Cardboard Sheets (20″x20″), displayed as two darker gray squares with black outlines. Under reads X2. The fourth and last material is Duct Tape, displayed as a roll of tape.
Note Filter Flow Direction, with a large 2 in a circle before the images. The first image here is, portraying the square MERV 13 filter rotated away to read text on the top, a rhombus in the same light gray as before. A zoom-in circle comes out of this to show where MERV 13 filters have printed on their sides text and an arrow, reading AIR ↑ FLOW, the arrow pointing up in the middle being a heavy white arrow with black outline. Text to the right of these images read “MERV 13 filters have a preferred airflow direction, indicated on filter frame.
Arrange ‘Box’ parts, with a large 3 in a circle before the images. The first image shows the parts as if they are being placed directly into the cube arrangement, with labels to the left - the fan is shown above the cube, pointing up, labelled Top: Fan, the four filters are all shown arranged with the faces of the cube, labelled Sides: Filters, and the cube’s base rests on one of the pieces of cardboard flat on the ground, labelled Bottom: Cardboard. To the right of this, the same image is shown with arrows representing airflow, pointing in through each filter towards the circle, and up out of the fan. This has a note to the left of it that reads “Orient filters & fan so that air flows into sides & out top.”
Prepare Fan Shroud, with a large 4 in a circle before the images. The first image is the fan with dotted circles drawn over its corners, to emphasize the text which reads “Corners of box fan create ‘back flow’ (which) can reduce performance...” which is concluded by the text at the end reading “... which can be prevented by making a circular shroud from cardboard sheet (using fan diameter).” The image in between tghe text portions shows the piece of cardboard with a circle cut out from it, shown above the box fan. The diameter of the circle is approximately the diameter from the edge of one fan blade to the edge of an opposite one, so that the fan should circulate air effectively through the hole in the shroud.
Assemble and seal, with a large 5 in a circle before the images. The text here is in two parts as it was with the last one, reading “Use duct tape to connect parts and make an air-tight seal...” with a drawing of the filters taped to each other and to the box fan above them by heavy borders of duct tape, followed by the text “... and add shroud to top of fan.” An image of the shroud lying flat down, drawn at the same angle as the fan, is above that. The final image is the same as in the top left, showing the cube fully assembled, with all four sides of filters taped thoroughly but not excessively to each other and to the box fan above, and the shroud held on by a square of duct tape itself to prevent air from going out the corners. It shows the electric cord of the fan coming out of one of the sides and plugging in to a wall outlet. It is drawn in a large circle.
At the bottom are a few lines of summary information:
“Typical estimated CADR (Clean-air delivery rate): [ ~ 600 CFM ] (Cubic feet per minute)
Equivalent ACH (air changes per hour) = CADR * 60 / Room_Volume
E.G.: For 30 feet x 30 feet x 10 foot room, typical estimated equivalent ACH [~ + 3 ACH ]
(For comparison: Typical classroom ACH < 3 ACH; ideal ACH: 6+ )”
The very bottom instructs, “for more background & references, visit: [ edgecollective.io/airbox ]
This os SO ADORABLE AND WHOLESOME
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welp. i was THISCLOSE to posting an adolescent “i hate everything” post… and then i saw this.
Literally just let this play 8 times in a row and my smile never faltered even once 😁
This healed me….
I reblog this every time and I every time I know I am doing the right thing.
@loricameback is back
I LOVE THESE GUYS!!
I wAnT a StOrY wHeRe ThE vIlLaIn GeTs ThE GiRl
In Galavant (2015)
- Protagonists love interests chooses Villain over him in the first episode, that's not even a spoiler, that's in the trailer
- Love Interests becomes the Villain by S2
- First Villain becomes the Protagonists' sidekick later and has one the best written redemption arcs on television
- Henchman betrays the Villain and becomes one of the Antagonists, but cannot dismiss a deep friendship to his former master and saves his life, falls in love with another Villain and embarks on a quest to save the Villain from the corrupting forces of dark magic and overall is one of the best written morally grey characters out there
- Protagonists sidekick gets trapped and forced to serve Villains and develops a touching friendship with one of them and still later rallies people to rise against their tyranny
- Love Interest backstabs the Villain she chose in the trailer but does not end up with Protagonist
- Sidekick has lied to their parents and told them he is the Protagonist and has got The Girl
- Those are not in chronological order
- Best friends are forced to duel each other
- Princess trains the Knight
- "You know, it's 1256... The 'yo mama' jokes are getting really old..." "So is yo mama".
- A city takes apart King's castle to build homes and shops for everyone and establishes a democracy
- There is a wizard called Xanax (unfortunately played by r*cky gerva*s)
- There is a Ye Olde Gay Pub called The Enchanted Forest
- "I'm not an animal! I mean, sure, I'll kidnap a woman and force her to marry me but after that - I'm all about a woman's rights! I'm a modern 13 century man!"



















the baseball we deserve
(this is the savannah bananas. they dance. they wear kilts. they Love The Boys. also they have a dance team made up of seniors called the banana nanas, a "dad bod cheerleading squad", the man-nanas, and a charity organisation focused on foster care called bananas foster)