#rhomboidal

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Geneva ‘74 50 years on: Michelotti Lem. The Laboratorio Elettrico Mobile has started as an idea by engineering journalist Gianni Rogliatti who proposed an electric car with wheels in a rhomboidal layout. Michelotti built the prototype using bonded aluminium with the centrally placed rear wheel driven by 48 Volt batteries. It was displayed 50 years ago at the 44th Geneva Motor Show

[waystarresourceco]

Kieran Culkin on Roman's playboy image and the way the actors/writers understanding of backstory fits together. (x)

[flippy-floppy]

my favorite thing about stewy is that yes he is hot and charismatic and cool but critically he is also a lame-ass finance bro. two truths can coexist. like...! he dates a girl who hosts yuppie arthouse sex parties then gets panic attacks at said sex parties! "if you eat it fast enough you actually burn off the calories it's like a loophole"! it's about the balance! the biodiversity!

[lokh]

been walking around like this all day

[starstruck-critter]

ive posted about my aliens here before but i dont think ive ever posted my rover oc, so here they are! EXPLORER and its rhomboid friend :]

[radicalribbit]

tldr at the bottom

alright so i found out about another very unconventional artist and.... im currently going insane cause it has 7 monthly listeners on spotify and their oldest album is from last year but their music is so funky and groovy and the lyrics have some kind of weird ass meaning LIKE LEMON DEMON AND THATS really good like thats how you get good lyrics with funky music in the background,,, also their name is "ol' tangerine and the rhomboids" but even though that sounds like a collab theres no such thing as a single ol' tangerine and a single the rhomboids as that wouldve appeared on spotify while i was looking for them

but like im getting this out here because they deserve WAY MORE than 7 listeners and theyre unconventional like will wood tally hall lemon demon tmbg ALL O THOSE GUYS AND I WANT OTATR (ol tangerine and the rhomboids) TO JOIN IN WITH THE FUN okay so since most of yall arent used to readin allat heres the

TL;DR: new unconventional artist makes funky groovy music yall go listen to ol' tangerine and the rhomboids or i wont have any community around them to be autistic with

[gatekeeper-of-witchcraft]

a back massage wouldn’t be enough I need someone to pull my right arm completely off and wring out the muscles of my shoulder blade like a damp rag

[tracing-lines-in-the-infinite]

Dropout sending me an email to make sure I know my subscription is going to renew and charge me is so funny to me. Like yes I'll pay $60 for another year of the best collection of shows I've ever watched- I just paid more than that for a doctor to tell me the muscle I thought I injured is indeed the one I injured and give me a referral for physical therapy to a place that doesn't do physical therapy. And a Dropout subscription lasts an entire year!

[bilolli]

Speedpaint under the cut :D (it has music because it comes from Instagram lol)

[balkanradfem]

Neck pain update!

Okay so last time I wrote about this, was when I got the MRI results for my neck, which was blank, zero issues found. However the pain in my neck was still so bad I can't walk without pain, can't jump or run at all, and can't carry anything over 2kg. I was too scared to try and fix it on my own, because messing with an injured neck without training is dangerous, and can do damage, so I didn't want to risk making it worse. However, if the scans say the neck is fine, then I can't really ruin it, right, so I've started looking for exercises that don't hurt.

As I was looking for neck-related exercises on youtube (they all hurt too much), youtube was starting to recommend me back exercises as well, some of them specifically for Rhomboid pain. Now, I didn't know what this rhomboid was, but it so happened that I had pain in that exact spot, between shoulder blades, but that pain came and went, so I thought it must be psychosomatic (when you have chronic pain you assume most of what hurts is psychosomatic).

Anyway, I decided to do those exercises because it's much less scary to work on back pain, and they didn't hurt as much. Then I found, in the same source, some neck exercises that seemed a bit dangerous; they instructed me to lay down with my neck hanging over the bed, then hold my own head with my arms, and move it, like I'm fixing it in place. I was shocked to find out that this didn't hurt me, so I did that exercise twice. And then the shocking thing happened.

That exercise immediately changed how the pain felt while I was walking. Before, I used to feel every step as a punch to the back of my neck; now it was to the back of my head. This made me dizzy, nauseous and want to vomit, the first time it happened, and I was very scared that I made it worse. Pressure and pain where my brain is, felt even more serious than neck pain, and I didn't repeat that exercise ever again, in hope the pressure and pain in my head would go away. It didn't, however, go away, but I learned to deal with it, and it became somewhat bearable. I am due in few months for a brain MRI so if there's something actually wrong with my brain, I will find out then. I am suspicious though that maybe there's some muscle in my back that is extending up to the head causing issues. But I don't know if there is such a thing.

I kept doing the exercise for the back pain, but the back pain did not go away from it, the exercise just keeps getting more painful as I keep doing it, unsure whether I should just stop.

After that I fell depressed for a while, and just played stardew valley laying down using my touchpad, and this is where the pain got worse in my left arm. Before that, my arm hurt a little, if I was bending it backwards or extending it too far or carrying anything, but now, it hurt a lot, at all times, whenever I was trying to do anything at all. I thought I made it worse with my irresponsible video gaming, my wrist was now hurting badly too, and I couldn't bend my arm to use the laptop anymore. I tried with my right hand and then my right hand started hurting too.

I was trying various wrist exercises thinking it was the video game problem, that made no difference whatsoever, so today I finally looked up all possible causes of pain in the arm, and found something that was close to the pain I felt - coracobrachialis muscle pain. I've never heard of that muscle, but it's under the arm and connects the back and arm, and can get damaged from overuse. I found instructions on how to locate it, and upon pressing on it, I felt such intense pain I was crying and curled into a ball for a while, it's clear to me that this muscle is in bad condition.

Now, all the pain relief instructions for this were to give this muscle a massage, but I absolutely cannot do that, I can't touch that muscle, I can't press on it, the pain of just the smallest pressure is insane, while I'm happy to have found the source of my arm pain, I am absolutely lost as to what to do with this. Does anyone have any knowledge or experience with this specific muscle? I can't force myself to massage it until I find a way to somehow relax it, or relax the area around it, so that it would be this painful to touch.

Also, the neck itself has shown some tiny improvements. It feels like it got a little stronger, because now I can lift my head while lying down, which I couldn't do before. I can sometimes sit for a bit more than I could do before, I was limited to 20min of sitting before I had to lie down, now I can sit for an hour (with discomfort, but not pain). It still hurts while I walk but now it's more like pressure than being hit with pain, my head instead takes the hit. If I try to run, I get intense pain and pressure in my head, and it extends to my neck as well.

I think I did something okay along the way, maybe few mistakes. There's probably more than one problem with my muscles, I suspect, and I hope I will find ways to resolve them one by one. I even thought for a second that I maybe lack collagen because I'm vegan but then when I looked it up, it's something body produces by itself and doesn't need a supplement. So it's just a big mystery at this point. I still blame that tree-falling accident because this wasn't going on beforehand.

[trevlad-sounds]

Retro Murmeration Rituals

Released 22 March 2023

Wojciech Golczewski-MONO:04

Magic In Threes-It's Good to be the King

CIALYN-Convivium Isle

Gustavo Jobim-At the occult library

PILOTPRIEST-Bonus Track: The Canyons

The British Stereo Collective-Dread

Com Truise-...Of Your Fake Dimension

Stellarays-Pastoral Drama

Rolf Trostel-Bao

The Heartwood Institute-Great Gable

HOME-6

Folclore Impressionista-BONUS: Sound and Vision (7" extra track)

Rhomboid Mane-Obrist

RIEUX-Revok

Joel Vandroogenbroeck & Walt Rockman-Fairy Tale

Richard Demaria-Studio 96

Panamint Manse-LandMarks

The Overload-The Subliminal Man

Rising Sun Systems-Arcane Marine Biology

TALsounds-Soar

Richard Bone-Saiyuji (Dawn) (Daniele Baldelli & Marco Dionigi Remix)

Harvey Sutherland-Jouissance (Adrian Sherwood On-U Sound _Pure Enjoyment_ Dub)

Jake Schrock-Cosmic Ocean

Twilight Sequence-Looking at Lifeforms

Pabellón Sintético-2001

Everyday Dust-Setting Up The Lab

HAWKSMOOR-Porte-Cochère

Maston-Strange Rituals

Vic Mars-Ident A

Correlations-Side On

Mark Barrott-Dr Nimm's Garden of Intrigue And Delight

[totally-correct-shenanigans]

Claptrap: Let's all be needlessly ominous for the rest of the year.

GLaDOS: If you live that long.

[orangephoenix6]

Not sure why I like these two so much, but I decided to draw them in the style of the reboot.

[kittymeiga]

The guardian of the dome!

[labratboygirl]

remember when i said i was making ubiquitous dread into an ocverse ………. yeah heres some trashman

[starstruck-critter]

more rhomboid stuff, this time on their clothing

more info and explanations under the cut

rhomboid’s simple clothing style serve a pretty similar function as simple clothing on humans, to protect sensitive areas from sunlight and other hazards, along with avoiding taboos. In the right there is an example of what something like a t-shirt + pants would like for a rhomboid. It covers sensitive areas such as the mouth and reproductive organs while still leaving things like the air breathing opening and their smelling hairs untouched so they can work freely. This piece of clothing is very drapey, to help with airflow in the kinda hot conditions the rhomboids live in (they do live in somewhat of a tropical area in the equator of their home planet), but also to make it way easier to put in, since getting things that wrap around on with no fingers and joints in your hand at all is kinda hard. Despite making it easier they still do need the help of another rhomboid or a machine to put their undergarment on. Pretty much all rhomboids use this in their day to day life, and they are always plain since this pieces of clothing are manufactured and rarely hand made.

Now for the fun stuff, the clothing used just for the sake of self expression. Unlike us, the rhomboids don’t express themselves through visual things, such a nice little pattern or a bright color, since they aren’t able to distinguish things like that with their senses. Instead, they use textures to make what they wear fun and catered to themselves. In the left u can see a rhomboid using something simple, kinda like a tee with a fun pattern, jeans and fancy shoes. They do use a lot of details even in their simple stuff, mostly because most of their fun clothes are hand-made and easy to add things to, so they like going wild with it. Most of these clothes have parts of plants,fungi or even animals in order to make them textured, glued by their hand-glue to the fabric. Textures made using the fabric itself are pretty hard to see, because they are very hard to do, and usually requires either a very specialized machine to be made. Because of this, those types of clothes are often considered fancy and elegant, only used in special occasions or by rich rhomboids. A fun little detail is that things with holes usually are considered a little bit over the top, kinda like having a very big and colorful print on a shirt or some patterns like christmas sweaters.

The heat pad works as something similar to perfume. This is because rhomboids can see heat and heat gradients, and usually use them to identify other rhomboids from their surroundings. Something like a heat pad would make it so that the heat gradient used by rhomboids to identify each other is slightly different, stimulating a sense that is usually not stimulated for the sake of self expression, similar to how perfume would make u smell different than normal just because, thing that usually only made by visuals.

The biblically accurate rhomboid is a really rough idea on how rhomboids would actually look like in full color. Since they aren’t visual creatures (nor is most of their planet) they didn’t evolve markings to deter predators or attract mates. Instead their coloration would be a result of having to absorb sunlight to heat some parts of their body (their face to help with hydraulics and make anti-glue and their tail in reproductive seasons (????? ), and to make the gradient necessary for distinguishing each other on “far” distances.