Current out-of-bounds item list for reference:

  • Fidget and other sensory toys because I feel like moving in a certain way purely for the sake of itself isn’t in the spirit of these challenges.
  • Alternative “wellness” products that largely function as placebos by being in the general vicinity of a person such as crystals and “energy focusing copper coils” and the like. Weird looking traditional instruments like a special type of gong or something are acceptable.
  • Specialty massage products are fine provided they’re mostly used to massage an area other than the genitals (at least, assuming I can tell, but I’m fairly knowledgeable in that area). I do not use sex toys at all for these challenges (that’s just not what my aim here is). It’s also still ok if the specific massage philosophy claims to have other, pseudo-scientific benefits such as for chiropracty or acupuncture, as long as the tool itself is an actual massage tool.
  • objects that are mostly or entirely ornamental / decorative in nature like jewelry and sculptures. I’ll still use something that is an ornamental version of something that has a specific non-ornamental purpose (ex: a lot of traditional fibercraft tools or recreational drug equipment for weed or caffeine). Hair ornaments and pins are fine as long as they have some specific niche use such as ornamental hair rollers or having an interesting closure for pinning your shawl in a specific way or something.
  • tools that are too broadly applicable such as specialty abrasive drill bits or specialty brushes where what makes them use specific is stuff like size shape and bristle stiffness which are still pretty broadly applicable (a little brush with a long handle has a looot of different uses, think about everything you can do with a used toothbrush).
  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 hours ago

    zerk fitting grease gun attachment. I use one to connect to the zerk fittings in linear reciprocating ball bearing carriages for various machines

    When you squeeze the handles the tabs protrude and spread, allowing them to fit around the zerk fitting which has a lip when you release the handles. The fitting has a sitting loaded ball that gets depressed, opening the channel for the lubricant to flow in. You then pump the lubricant with a different handle or it can be powered.

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    16 hours ago

    How the heck do you always seem to have these clean background stock photos?

    Do you own these things and take pictures in a lightbox?

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    It is an alternative wellness sensory toy using an internal chakra crystal to stimulate a very specific body region—ostensibly for the purpose of massage. While it is primarily ornamental in nature and not typically put to practical use as massaging alternative wellness sensory toy, tradesmen have utilized these as specialty abrasive drill bits when curling their hair or pinning their shawls in very specific ways

    🔗 No intelligence, artificial or otherwise, was used for this comment

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    18 hours ago

    Is it the nozzle for that thing the killer in No Country For Old Men used? 👀

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    Nozzle for a pressure washer. Flat sides on the back seem to indicate you can use a wrench to tight it on something, like a hose or fitting.