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dozydawn · 12 days
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helena rubinstein “four-cast” lipstick set, 1949.
so cute & clever! meant to be a sideways view of a lock, the lipsticks are even spooled like security pins.
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deliacore · 1 year
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"This is the Lockpicking Lawyer, and today we will be tracking down the checkered-suited man who shot me in the head and stole my platinum chip. As you can see, there is not enough pick protection in the world to stop this quest for vengeance."
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copperbadge · 7 months
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[ID: A photograph of my hand, with a small brass-colored combination lock sitting in it; the lock's shackle is closed, and there is a line etched in the side of the body where the three numbered wheels that make up the combination is set. In the photo, the combination is set to five six five.]
When I was in Amsterdam last April, I happened to find a luggage lock; I had left my pack in a locker in Centraal, the big train station, and I found this little combo lock when I was retrieving my bag at the end of the day. The shackle, the curved part, was "locked", but the tip wasn't in the slot, so it was basically locked in an open position.
I often find lost things like keys or chains or rings, and if they're obviously of low value and there's no obvious way to return them, I generally keep them and make little lucky charms of them. I already had a scrounged charm for that trip: a D-ring that I'd been using but which had broken, wrapped in a cord from a drawstring shopping bag that I'd gotten when buying some necessities I'd forgotten to pack before leaving. So I tied the lock onto the cord with the D-ring and stuffed it in my bag to deal with later.
When I got home and unpacked I thought I could probably make something more interesting out of it, so I tossed it into my "to deal with" basket, and just today dug it out to mess around with it. I queued up some lockpicking videos and it turns out if you push up on the shackle while turning the wheels, usually the wheels will "pop" and then freeze up, one by one, giving you the combination. I'm rather proud that I was able to pick the combination -- eyes closed, it actually worked better doing it by touch -- and get the shackle up, then properly lock it. I was a little shocked it worked, honestly. I figured it was somehow broken, but now I've got a new lock! The combination was 565, but I've reset it to zeros for now.
I'm still planning to make it into some kind of lucky charm but that'll be a lot easier now that it locks properly. Kind of a fun way to spend half an hour.
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foone · 1 year
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practice locks (for learning lockpicking) are annoyingly sexy. I kinda want to use these for all my locking needs. they're just cooler than boring regular locks, which hide all their secrets inside.
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gavamont · 6 months
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A wizard that uses a really long key as his magic staff. The key doesn’t have any magic properties, but it is the key for his wizard tower, so if you wanna break into there you better have 7 foot long picks and an ass load of paitence.
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jana-aych-ess · 6 months
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need dick from a girl who slides her tools into my keyway. who feels the pins inside of me slip and knows how to snap them into place. need top from a girl who holds tension with one hand, who manipulates my interior with the other. need her to decode me, and file the shape of my voids into a clean, blank key. need her to hang that key by her bed so we can look at it and wonder at what a simple mechanism I actually am once you understand me
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erisgivesmeflowers · 2 months
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budewfan · 1 year
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Hey, sorry, I sent your boyfriend to the LockPickingLawyer. The video's less than 3 minutes long. Yeah, he pulled out the wave rake.
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aquar-io · 8 months
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mods are asleep… post lockpicking wins
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skelevenn · 10 months
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May Sketch a Day #27
this took way too long  >_< Also yes I know lockpicking technically takes two hands
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trivalentlinks · 1 month
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so i joined a locksport club recently, met some friendly and kind, but slightly weird people (most of them go to defcon, if you know the type), and i learned something kind of cute (in a slightly weird way)
so you know those love lock bridges, where people lock padlocks with their and their partner's initials written on them, and throw the keys in the river to symbolize their love?
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In most towns, the local government heavily discourages this practice, considers the locks to be litter, and routinely hire people to cut off the locks and throw them away when they're starting to weigh down the bridge.
anyway, apparently if you have a friend who's been going through a rough break-up or is otherwise feeling romantically disillusioned, you can sometimes help them feel better by inviting them out to go steal locks with you from the local love-lock bridge
(you can then donate the locks to your local lock-sport club to gift to beginners for practice, they (an obviously neutral party) told me)
(also the lock-sport club does this together as a group sometimes, and we were more than welcome to bring any romantically disillusioned friends along)
(it's not theft! these locks are considered abandoned property. in towns that consider the locks litter, it's really a public service, if you think about it)
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dozydawn · 4 months
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adinafay · 6 months
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I like to try and pick my own locks because I'm too lazy to swap around all the time. Sometimes I'm real stubborn about it and use a lot of tools too.
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I like to imagine Astarion is just fuming nearby and making snarky comments the whole time. He knows better than to try to push his way in and take over but my Tav's taking so fucking long and breaking all his tools godsdammit.
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asyncmeow · 10 months
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hello, this is the lockpicking catgirl
what i have for you here today is a chastity cage. it's currently stuck closed, without me having access to the key, and i'm going to try and get it open.
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So... I've picked up a new hobby...
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lady-inkyrius · 5 months
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New hobby time
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