The forthcoming auction of a suite of aquamarine and diamond jewels, as well as an emerald and diamond ring, has stirred up big conversations in Belgium and Spain

I took one look and wondered if they were Schiaparelli. Only she would do that. 🤣

@juliethecranky.bsky.social this is a fascinating view of the mechanics of dresses in the 18th century.

Remember when we used to talk about the Epstein files? God remembers.

All right, my lovelies, I need y’all to help a bitch out. I need you to check my math. Am I crazy? Or just can’t divide? It’s a story problem, I’m sorry about that.

Oh, and the swelling is down in my foot. From a nerve block. Welcome to #CRPS. Weird Is the word of the day. Every day.!

Pistachio, creme brûlée, coconut with coconut cream filling, and a PB&J - all from doughnut plant. The square ones in my mind taste better. lol.

Him and TR, Wilson, and Carter. What a group. TR also had a Medal of Honor (which I find ridiculous, to the point I’m tempted to do a drunk history on it).

Look at this absolute queen

Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem

Actually this *is* the future liberals want, the fact it's sending Stephen Miller into conniptions is just a side benefit

The thing is, some people can make mistakes, get things wrong, be careless, etc. But that’s not what Jennings did here. Jennings knowingly, purposefully and intentionally lied to utterly distort what was said, which CNN pays him to do every day. CNN is the enabler of this.

Sculpture by Mark Richard Hall

Got a nerve block yesterday. Same doc did it, as the others. He plays 80s music and sings along. Yesterday it was Michael Jackson. I was wearing my “Magneto made some valid points” tee, and he casually said “Magneto was right, it was his methods that were wrong.” Cool doc continues to be cool.

These are cold rise vanilla doughnuts absolutely stuffed side to side with Basque cheesecake, with a Nutella line decoration and icing sugar finish. BK Bakery, London Ontario. February 2024. I'd say they were damn close to morphine.

And since we’re talking drugs and donuts, 🍩 have an article that is my first go to. Yes Wikipedia. The journals and so forth are all in a handy list for you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

My local donut shop does a pistachio-dosed angel-cream donut, frosted with chocolate and crushed pistachios.... 😋 Pure bliss.

There was a place on the northern-ish end of the boardwalk in #Ocean City ( #New Jersey, east coast US). They had a donut machine in the front window, dropping cake donuts into hot oil. We’d get up early, ride our bikes down. Eat them fresh, still warm, on the boardwalk watching waves. Mmmm.

It’s an urban legend that Edgar Allen Poe was addicted to Bavarian Crème Bismarks.

with a Cheetos Flamin' hot chaser

Morphine filled doughnuts

Voodoo Donuts in Denver. It’s a whole ‘nother level of donut creations. It’s like stepping though a portal to enter a quilt exhibit and finding yourself in a whole different dimension featuring flying squirrels spraying silly string.

So there’s a thing. When you’ve been in pain, your brain cranks out pain chemicals. If you suddenly shut off the pain, the chemicals keep coming for a while and it is the best high. It needs to be a pill.

@juliethecranky.bsky.social Fabulous baroque pearl dragon!

@juliethecranky.bsky.social these are amazing and I thought of you.

@juliethecranky.bsky.social www.instagram.com/p/DTbIUm8jHe...

MIL did tequila shooters for her birthday. Haha, okay then.

Hub and I are arguing over what’s better, donuts or morphine. I’m arguing donuts. He says I’ve never had to live with me on no pain meds. But donuts. The cake ones, with cinnamon-sugar. Or Boston Creams. Or chocolate iced with sprinkles…

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

For three, four tears while I’ve been sick, I’ve been pulling books out of the reference stacks (living room) and then dropping them unto a pile when finished. Today is the day to put them away. Kid and hub want to help, but don’t know the catalogue system hub calls “-Dewey Decmish”.

I saw this cat and knew it was cital to the #JewelWatch filks over here. Kitty looks like I feel, wearing a magnificent necklace. youtube.com/shorts/1JvaM...

A rare and wonderful survival from Viking-era York! A delicate hood-shaped silk cap, c. AD 900. Silk was an exotic material in 10th-century Britain, imported to York from Persia via a network of Viking trade routes. Yorkshire Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

Yesterday was a very surreal x-ray appointment. They wanted images of the stoma (a hole into my stomach left from a feeding tube) so they can figure out how to deal with it. Now, I think we can all agree that my body is weird as fuck.

So, new folks, one thing I talk about here is my health. What it’s like to live with the government controlling my medication, being dismissed, and so on. You don’t have to commiserate. I’d rather you think about it. And maybe laugh on some occasions. 😁

The aforementioned sketch: youtu.be/yQ1pO-tZbYA?...

On your travels, watch for a PopShelf store - they have long racks of the good brands of pens & mechanical pencils, at discounted $1, $2, and $3 price points, with big pads of doodle paper for trying them.

VIa @notbeforenoon.bsky.social Because they didn’t understand the geological classification, they often used what we call semiprecious if it was pretty enough. And so, lots of really good quartz jewelry. #JewelWatch

Oh good, I was afraid I was explaining something you already knew. There is a famous one, with nanoparticles of gold, changes color. Lycurgus Cup. Roman, ~350ce. You can see it’s a cage cup, also glass. Details in the alt text.

@juliethecranky.bsky.social Thoughts?

Worth noting that this was already a well-established skill more or less 4500 years ago smarthistory.org/victory-stel...

Boucheron and Chopard at the Critic's Choice Awards! Elle Fanning needs a goddamn necklace. youtube.com/shorts/bhnnW...

I can never figure what in hell is going to get popular around here. SERIOUSLY?

#knitting help. I'm casting on 150 sts, worsted cotton, #8 circular. How many inches do you think I'll need the needles to be? I haven't done this pattern in 2+ years, I don't remember.

All right, strange question, do y’all buy your everyday writing utensils (ballpoint pens, pencils, not fountain pens)? Or do you just use freebies from your dentist or whatever. I’m buying a box of a dozen pens I like, and wondered if anyone does it.

Bur wait. Did someone say British redcoats? youtube.com/shorts/-ZnCj...

Talking about giant diamond necklaces last night, I thought of this one but couldn’t remember the guy’s name. Anyway, convertible tiara alert. youtube.com/shorts/Vzjra...

The gemma Augustea, a low-relief cameo cut from onyx (19cm by 23cm), dating to c. AD 10-20, possibly the work of Dioscurides. Augustus carries the augur’s staff and above him floats the symbol of his star sign, Capricorn with an eight-pointed star behind, and the eagle of Jupiter beneath him.