insane how many people just have these incredible artists in their families who get no recognition outside of crocheting circles because this art form is devalued for its association with women
in my country, the word for crocheting, is used metaphorically, to compliment a surgeon’s work.
every AFAB person my mother’s age and older, had practiced this craft at one point on another.
My mom has made literal paintings, that decorate our house for years (I’ll come back with pictures when I visit next) you can only see that they are crocheting when you go very close.
as promised here’s my mom’s crocheting “paintings”
There is another one but it had been stored many years ago, (i remember it from my childhood) and sadly it is probably damaged by mold, it depicted wild horsed running in nature
Like now that I am awake I need to reiterate how huge this is. It was presumed harvested to extinction by the Romans. It was a favorite flavoring and according to historians one of the best contraceptives ever known. True or not it would be fantastic to study that but it being extinct made that impossible.
This is such a huge deal! I hope they get it figured how to grow it.
The species has been known since around 1900, but this scientist has been studying it for a long time, and the paper builds a case for why he thinks it’s the same plant as silphion/silphium.
It grows in only a few spots in Turkey near what were ancient Greek villages. The author suggests that the seeds were smuggled out of their original North African habitat long ago and a small population established in Turkey. The seeds require cold stratification to sprout, which partially explains why ancient writers thought it could not be cultivated. It takes 9 or 10 years to produce seeds, after which the plant dies. The sap smells similar to how silphion sap is said to have smelled (pleasant, sweet) but tastes acrid. It contains many chemicals with known or potential medicinal properties, some of which silphion was used for. It was claimed to be a contraceptive but I think it’s a stretch to say it was one of the best ever known, since we have absolutely no evidence and in general, natural contraceptives aren’t anywhere near as effective as modern ones like the pill.
The plant resembles depictions on coins, but I don’t think the author makes a strong case concerning seed and leaf shape. But a small population breeding in isolation for 2K years is bound to be somewhat different than the parent population, so who knows.
I wish I could use some of this in a Roman recipe. Asafoetida is the usual substitute, but the Romans considered this vastly inferior to silphium. I’d so love to try something from Ferula drudeana!
I want an ice maker and enough room in the freezer for a pizza and that is IT.
I want the dumbest fridge you got. Gimme the orange tabby of refrigeration. I want my fridge to pull the wrong lever and turn my enemies into llamas instead of killing them. I want the following features: keeps things cold, has compartment that keeps things colder, a door that opens and shuts.
How is bnha anime of the decade…… they aren’t even anime of the hour of the minute of the second
The notes on this post were so toxic that staff just axed em
1969………
Yes, when the original post is deleted from the server (not just the blog, but the Tumblr servers), there is no root post for notes to be added onto, and also no root post for time to be counted from, so it starts from zero. Most computer operating systems use Unix, which was launched in 1971 with t.he epoch date of midnight on January 1, 1970 as 1. Therefore zero is one second behind that date: December 31, 1969. Also, very unfortunately, this also means nobody except you and anyone you reblog it to will see this explanation, as you cannot open the notes to see comments when there are no notes.
Tumblr is truly one of the webbed sites ever
But how did it get deleted from the tumblr servers?
“average president has 2 felony charges” factoid actualy just statistical error. average president has 0 felony charges. Felonies Don, who lives in a state of disgrace (Florida) & has 92 felony charges, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
It’s really this. And some people (guess who) really hate it.
We have in this equation many, many people who, more than anything else, fear their own deaths… the final and most dreadful loss of control. After they die (and here comes their greatest terror!) the young will remake the world in their own image… there being no (putative) grownups any more to stop them.
So they’re presently trying to alter political structures all over the planet in such a way as to prevent the Naughty Youngs from too quickly undoing everything their (theoretically Wise Old) elders have done. They’re intent on running your lives by their rules for absolutely as long as possible, even after they’re dead.
…Now. There’s a lot of “Don’t expect the young to save us!” stuff out there, and sometimes I half suspect those other People are behind that too. (Admittedly, it’s too easy when you’re young and busy to blink your eyes open after a long night out and mutter “Yeah, you made this mess, save yourselves!”)
But there’s a way in which this is also ridiculous. Because… honestly. They expect a generation (indeed, more than one generation) raised on Luke Skywalker to fall for that?
Pitiful.
There are way too many potential heroes out there. Likely enough you’re one. You don’t even have to blow up a fully operational battle station to manifest this heroism! Just vote. Or help someone vote. Or more than one someone. Help voters in your community to register. Help defeat obvious attempts to gerrymander voters out of control of their own districts. Do the little things. Enough little things can’t be stopped by the forces that assume everybody else to be as lazy and selfish as they are.
You outnumber the fascists. Stand up and act like it. “Snowflakes”, they call us? Get enough snowflakes together and you’ve got an avalanche. Tried standing in front of one of those lately?
Meanwhile, I for one have no problems with saying, loudly, “Save us, O Young! You’re our only hope.” (Imagine me as a holographic projection if you must.) :)
And for now, I’ll be out there doing what one person can.
800 years ago at All Saints Church in Hereford, England, a skillful carpenter carved this gentleman high up in the dark roof where nobody could see him. Five years ago they built an extra floor with bright lights for a restaurant.
Janus, who also has two hearts, two pairs of lungs and two distinct personalities, would not have survived long in the wild as he cannot retract his heads into his shell to seek shelter from predators.
But at the Geneva Natural History Museum, where he hatched in 1997, Bourgoin and her team of carers - who believe he is the world’s oldest bicephalic tortoise - can cater for his every need!
He is under constant surveillance in case he flips over, which could be fatal, and survived a bladder stone operation in 2020. His heads need periodic treatment with vaseline to stop them getting sore when they rub together.
His two personalities also generate different moods and tastes that can occasionally lead to conflict, for example over which direction to walk.
“The right head is more curious, more awake, it has a much stronger personality. The left head is more passive and loves to eat,” Bourgoin said, adding that one head was partial to endives and the other to carrots.
This is wonderful. I love this so much. Conjoined turtles, having a long happy life and being taken care of is wonderful.
