made these sterling and lapis lazuli earrings

it's this emoji ☹️

when I saw some ancient gold coins at a museum the other day I was struck (no pun intended) by how sharp the text was, only having seen weathered examples in cheaper metals or illustrations & photographs didn't prepare me for that

love this painting my niece did

been in a miserable rut lately and it will need to be addressed but I've also been making progress with something thatll be good for me in the long run. just wish everything could be fixed at once

went to a watch and clock collector swap meet and it was pretty cool, got some interesting odds & ends. also bestowed the not something you see every day award to whoever showed up on this

found a computer chess game that I can sometimes beat on the lowest difficulty. I don't see myself getting much better without formal study so I'll probably just play until I get tired of it

had a rough meltdown may but I'm optimistic about jeltdown june

don't come a knockin

looking out the plane window yesterday I saw a big figure 8 thing that looked like it could be a particle accelerator and I was like huh I wonder if that's fermilab. googled an aerial view just now and it was

I am obligated to tweet this annually. Sound has to be on, ideally at a high volume www.youtube.com/watch?v=o589...

had a nice trip but now I'm itching to get back to my normal crappy life that fucking sucks

had a very strong reaction to this painting today. her facial expression is so heartbreaking www.artic.edu/artworks/113...

hanging out again

👽

you're telling me south china mourned this post

friend's cat was sitting on my stomach for a while. I guess I've never really thought about how much cats weigh

saw a june bug thrashing around on its back so I flipped it over thinking I was doing it a big favor. but then it flew off, immediately flipped over again and successfully righted itself while I was deliberating whether to help

two good business names I saw today: "computer brain" & "pregnant planet"

gas is under $5/gal here. thats cute 🙄

I think this is the one that finally made me understand his whole deal

happened again

I wonder what the old man wants with this lump of foul lard

everywhere I've ever been has better tap water than where I live

visiting a friend who lives in a big city and I'm trying not to go hayseed mode staring up at all the tall buildings

2/2

I know this is gauche and I'm sorry but I found these and wanted to bring them over here

heard a kid on the bus tell his friend "I was eeped, I was mad tired"

current main shoes were starting to wear out so I bought another identical pair, idk if thats something a lot of people do but it feels like something I'd do

its the time of year when a bunch of crane flies swarm around the grate up on the wall of my room and it sounds like they're all in here buzzing around

saw a big green katydid on the sidewalk today 👍

got a new ID and the picture is the worst I've ever had but I also look pretty much the same as the previous one from 10 years ago..swings and roundabouts...

feels like it happened 5000 years ago but the weird lump from when I smashed my thumb at work hasn't grown even halfway up the nail

I have a friend who used to eat them plain straight out of the can. he still may for all I know

Railbus through Rice Fields (2022) Available as art print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

youtube video title had well tempered clavier abbreviated as wtc and it made me think "bach did wtc"

she was playing it again today along with darude sandstorm

my niece was mad about another kid winning a prize so she wrote "suck it sadie!" on a leaf

just had about half of a tangerine that had mold inside it, amazing coincidence

need this

set up a different watchmaker's lathe that I have a wider range of attachments for and practiced dialing in my 4 jaw chuck, it's like being back in a real machine shop

iktf..

its too bad rudy giuliani is still alive. he's already had a long life and will escape justice etc but I'm looking forward to living in a world without him

an Ohio honey-hunter, who seeking honey in the crotch of a hollow tree, found such exceeding store of it, that leaning too far over, it sucked him in, so that he died embalmed

leaving my book cabinets open even though I might end up hitting my head on them one of the next times I go over there..chekhovs gun ass

how it feels to be unemployed on international workers day

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every night I'm too cold for like an hour because I don't think about turning off the ceiling fan