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  Gorge de Pigeon glassware, Charles X More: https://www.messynessychic.com/2024/10/30/collectors-item-du-jour-the-pigeon-pink-treasures-of-post-revolutionary-france/

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  TIL that Ancient Egyptians invented an early form of the pin-tumbler lock. (notes in post) A pin tumbler is a component within a cylinder lock that, along with others, prevents movement unless the correct key is used. Locks themselves are mechanical devices designed to secure doors or receptacles, requiring a key or specific manipulations to open. The pin tumbler lock, a modern adaptation of an ancient Egyptian principle, uses pins of varying lengths that must be lifted to precise heights by th...

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  Bas-relief portrait of a woman from the Tomb of Ramose, in the Ancient Egyptian Necropolis of the nobles at Thebes, near Luxor, Egypt Liberated from the evil empire, but I couldn’t find a great summary page including this exact piece. Frustrating! Anybody have a good reference page for this one?

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  "Quamvis incredibile, semper est solutio!" (otherwise known as the famous Aztec Téchcatl, sacrificial stone) [awkwardly dedicated to my guys] (notes in post) The Téchcatl (sacrificial stone) was the altar on which human sacrifices were made by extracting the hearts of the victims. It was built into the floor in front of the temple entrance, where it faced the figure or face of the god installed at the far end of the interior. The present example differs from other known téchcatl in th...

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  Devil's advocate-- the Industrial Revolution has led to heaps of the 'prosperity' we moderns have enjoyed, while effectively destroying our future via various forms of pollution, directly because too few heeded caution and considered the importance of sustainability. It became all about money at almost every level, and unchecked capitalism is ultimately a tyrant, as we're now discovering via late-stage capitalism. While the rich get richer and fascism rises around the world, of...

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  Huh! Could you explain the context...?

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  Some years back, a little family of squirrels got in to our attic and made it their playground. After the outer hole was patched, I began humanely trapping and releasing them with good ol' peanut butter as the bait. I then had the idea to add some white spray paint to their backs, to make sure they weren't still getting back in. Actually I only tagged one squirrel that way, as it just... well, something felt off about the process, and I only needed one test subject, I thought. A co...

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  This is an excellent question IMO, and I'm sure you'll receive plenty of excellent (and energetic) responses, but I do want to point out something which chronically gets overlooked, as part of these discussions. Ready? *Homo sapiens* is traditionally a tribal, social, and clan-based animal, not unlike our cousin chimpanzees, and others such as wolf & dog packs, elephant herds, parrot flocks, and a couple other examples. Our organisation upon such likely goes back at least 2.4Myr...

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  Sand of various types are running out around the world, and it can be quite the expensive challenge to get the right type for your particular project, many times involving trying to preserve land from water erosion. Maybe industry is working to create artificial sand grades for current and future projects, I'm not sure...

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  Holy wowsers, those are incredibly detailed. If you look at the other collections there, that really shows up on the larger stuff, like pottery, shoes, etc.

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  Where the foopin’ are you seeing a “furry?”

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  Almost seems like something fitting for Blackadder 1 or 2. The first series would have worked in particular, in which he wore that beyond-ridiculous codspiece. I’d say it worked pretty well, given that he was such a sniveling coward in the first series. 😄

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  I'm still depressed that aphids wiped out my little window plant garden a couple years ago, but this post gives me hope. I wasn't using seeds, but simply getting further growth out of stuff I'd got at the local market, such as radish, scallions and a couple other herbs. I have very little experience with this kind of setup, but it's always a good time to learn. Bookmarking it for future reference. Thank you for this, JayKrown. Hi, @nacktmull@lemmy.world :D