Repping the Sengoku Samurai Armadillo

I saw the Matrix in the theater last week and it’s inspired me to make this silly trick tutorial for one of my oldest tricks, The Matrix.

If you liked this, and want to learn more tips about the Matrix and “alpha style” flow, check out this longer video https://doctorpopular.com/popcast-yo-yo-vlog-the-matrix/

Using Mk1 Exia

Some from earlier 🪀

Took me all day to figure out barrel rolls pretty excited to learn more! Recommend me easy tricks to practice and any pointers would be nice too

I’m dying laughing at their dynamic and insights, even as they tear apart books I quite liked. Anyone else?

I just finished this and wanted to share how good it was. It’s investigative journalism, about Laura Owens, the very mentally ill woman who manipulated (at least) 3 men into complex relationships.
Really well done podcast.

On this sad day, here’s a reminder that the excellent “Dolly Parton’s America” podcast miniseries by Radiolab host Jad Abumrad exists. It’s from 2019, but if you want to learn why so many people feel the loss of Dolly so acutely, this is the best place to start.

Now go hug someone you love.

Hello all, I’ve listened to podcasts for around 7 years now. I’ve been keeping a long list in excel of ones I’ve listened to so there’s over 200+ here. To preface I only really listen to long form investigation and documentary and occasional series. I don’t like sensationalised gore or violence, or missing persons or just general murder ones for murders sake and I’m also British so I have no interest in US centric/politics stuff. So this is a mix of different stuff that isn’t the above. They are ordered from my best to worst 0-10(subjective of course.) there’s probably a few I’ve missed but feel free to send any you think I have (if you manage to get through the list of course.) thanks!

Sea of Lies (CBC)

Long form investigation

Dead body pulled from the ocean and the identity leads to internation con man

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Outlaw Ocean Series 1

Long form investigation

exposes rampant crime, lawlessness and human rights abuses in …

I am an avid podcast listener and over the years have listened to a lot of true crime podcasts. I have always had mixed feelings about the genre, particularly from creators without any expertise in the field.

Lately I have found them too disturbing. I tried thinking about what engages me with them and I think it is the mystery and storytelling. I have always felt more intrigued by the murderless stories about white collar crimes, scammers, deception etc and this type of true crime I can still stomach.

So Reddit, what are good podcasts when you just can’t do true crime anymore but still want mystery, intrigue and good storytelling?

I like the interesting, niche stories…idk. I like the female podcasters/queer. It’s very engaging and fun and funny. Idk. I love the heavy research and backstories.

give me some recs… I like what to carry, what to burn more than you’re wrong about now, but i used to be hooked to you’re wrong about.

i also used to like small doses by amanda seales but fell off.

My 9 year old has just recently started willingly reading at night on his own. He picks up a graphic novel every night and reads it for an hour. His teacher will not allow them to read graphic novels in class due to the fact they lack literally sentence structures. He is dyslexic and has adhd so this has been a huge hurdle and I now feel like he feels shame for liking these books. can you help me find a good transition for him? He enjoys creepy stuff, history, Greek mythology (Percy Jackson is too hard for him), fun facts, outdoors, legos, art. I don’t know where to start. It seems like everything jumps from graphic novel to chapter books and I need a middle ground as a stepping stone that can hold his interest.

Hi all,

Last weekend my family and I suffered a devastating house fire. We humans all barely made it out, but we lost all our possessions and also our precious three kitties passed away due to smoke inhalation.

I’m suffering major trauma and anxiety especially at night, and I need a comforting book that will help me heal and relax me at night. I don’t like high fantasy or anything that will be too cerebral.

I think it would be comforting to read books with kitties in them too, so that’s not a dealbreaker.

I like slice of life, cozy fiction… I want to escape to a heartwarming, lovely place where nothing bad happens.

Just please nothing involving trauma, death, fires, etc.

I want a book which accurately depicts someone being driven to insanity. I’m aware that many such stories books have been written like this (the first that comes to mind is The Yellow Wallpaper, which I plan on reading soon) but I want to ask for any lesser known or exceptionally well written books which depict a character’s distraught mental state.

Also, if there are non fiction or real life examples of things written by people who are ‘going insane’, I’d be interested to know about them.

This is mostly because I want to try and write in a style similar to this without coming off as completely insensitive.

Okay, don’t call me homophobic for this, but I want some books with gay subtext rather than explicit gayness. I’m a gay teenager, and live with my parents in the DEEP south of Louisiana. They can not find out or I deadass know they will disown me, and I’m a broke bit so I can’t really do that rn 😭 hg moved away and she was my supplier of books like that. Obviously if I could I would read LGBTQ books, but my parents are very involved in my life and it’s hard to hide things from them. As long as it doesn’t say anything about gayness on the back or if you look it up it’s good with me! I like coming of age books a lot, any recs will be great though ❤️❤️❤️ and any advice on how to hide gay books from my parents accepted too

Edit : THANK YOU ALL SOO SO MUCH FOR YOUR RECS!! MY TBR LIST JUST WENT FROM LIKE 2 TO 200. I LOVE ALL YALL ❤️❤️

To be specific: I mean background bees/secret bees. I do NOT mean a bee book. The book cannot feature bees, as that is not good for some reason. Like imagine you were valuing a book solely on the amount of bees one could identify and point at in the background/periphery of the story. This is a serious request.

Please suggest the title and approximately how many bees are able to be pointed at.

Thank you in advance!

Pretty much every discussion I’ve ever seen online about Robert Caro’s The Power Broker talks about how they can’t believe a 1000+ book about municipal zoning laws and committee authority can be such a page turner. The story of Robert Mose is one of the most popular history books of the 20th century. In part, this is because the skill of the author and the delicacy which they handle your attention. What are some other books that come to mind that are hard to recommend to people due to their dry topic?

I’m talking about a video game that made you fall in love with gaming, made you want to explore more, a game that was the foundation for you to dive deep in to that world or even become pro at gaming. For me i’d say Elden ring or red dead redemption 2

I really like the impact said returns have, such as in Metal Gear Solid 4, where you return to a ruined Shadow Moses from Metal Gear Solid 1, or Resident Evil Requiem, where you revisit a destroyed Raccoon City (esp. the Police Station) that you’ve spent so much time on in Resident Evil 2 decades earlier.

Do you know any comparable games?

Title basically, I want games where the player character (or at least a very important character) is terminally ill and a large portion of the story revolves around that terminality, thank you in advance.

RPG where fighting is an actively bad idea and should be avoided

I’m in the mood for a shooter of some sort, but want one where the bullets hit the enemies hard. What I mean by that is that I’m not shooting to plink down an HP bar, but 2, 3, or 4 shots pretty much stops an enemy. Not necessarily looking for a MilSim, even though Ready or Not is a good example of this.

Games like RDR2 also fit this mold, since few enemies can take more than a few chest shots, and each hit you land really feels heavy, disrupting the target for a moment.

Hello all,

Due to health reasons I cannot use a keyboard and controller for extended gaming sessions due to injury to my wrist. I have a mouse set up that works. These are the games that I have previously enjoyed that are just played with mouse (I don’t know if there is a term for games that only require a mouse if there is please let me know!)

- slay the spire (1 and 2)

- dorf romantik

- toem

- plants vs zombies games

- stacklands

- balatro

- soverign tower

- sisterhood of the cosmic wheel

- inscryption

(Just to make it clear I am not looking for idle clicker games etc I want an involved game that only requires the use of a mouse.)

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/7a8556165319489cb7aa58654ba0e621 [Edited to make it more efficient]

iOS already has screen time activity limits, but it is WAY too easy to just ignore it for another 15 minutes repeatedly or the ENTIRE DAY. So I created an automation that closes the app if you try to open it when you’ve been on that app too long.

It works well with iOS native app activity limits by giving you some leeway. Let’s say that you’re scrolling reddit watching a video and the activity limit kicks in before you can finish the video. You can ignore the activity limit once to finish your meme and once the shortcut limit is exceeded, the next time you open the app you’re sent to the homepage. For example, if your app limit is set to 30 minutes, you can set the shortcut limit to 35, to give you just that little bit of leeway.

The neat part is that it works when you’re home BUT if you wanna kill time when you’re NOT home or traveling, you can …

Just found out it’s actually possible to turn photos into
B&W using nothing but the default basic actions in the Shortcuts app—zero Al or code like JavaScript required.

Only 8 actions.

How to use:
- Run it directly and select a photo
- Use it from the Share Sheet
(Tested and working on iOS 26)

Show me some love. It’s one of my biggest shortcuts that I’ve built.

Primarily it gives you outfit suggestions based on the temperature throughout the day.

I’ve posted this here before. But what changed is I localized it into 7 different languages. It took a while to change all the text into variables.

Languages supported:

- English
- français
- italiano
- 日本語
- português
- español
- Deutsch

I apologize if there are any errors. Be gentle.

Plus there is a whole settings menu. You can have it only give you the weather summary or just what to wear or both.

It’s highly customizable.

Hi, I’m pretty new to using shortcuts and have only done pretty basic things so far, such as creating shortcuts to open an app, so I can use custom icons.

I have been transferring a lot of stuff from Apple to Proton, including my contacts, and as of right now, Proton does not have a separate contacts app, nor can it be set as default contacts app. (Attached screenshot from Proton’s website.)

So, until that changes, I was wondering if it would be possible to create a shortcut that opens Proton Mail and automatically brings up the contacts, rather than inbox, and if so, how to set it up.

TIA!

How can I create a shortcut that turns on my multiple daily alarms for the morning? I have multiple alarms set in case I sleep through and I turn them off once I wake up. I then have to turn them all back on manually, just looking to see if there’s a shortcut I could create that turns them all on at midnight for example, I wake up the next day turn them off and they’ll just turn themselves back on?

Como um viajante frequente, eu estava enfrentando um problema chato: ter que ficar trocando entre planos de celular e redes 4G e 5G. Depois de algumas pesquisas, encontrei alguns atalhos que facilitam essa mudança, mas geralmente funcionam apenas para quem usa um único chip. Então, fiz algumas modificações para simplificar minha vida e adicionei os atalhos no centro de controle para ter acesso mais rápido. Aqui estão eles:

• 4G/5G: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/4afe3717e15b40588d17547c9c1f872d

• Mudar Rede: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d8da6960c7d24ec3ba6152d15946a1f0

Eu não criei esses atalhos, apenas os modifiquei para o meu uso, eles estão disponíveis nessa comunidade há muito tempo.