Wren

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[–] Wren@lemmy.today 4 points 13 hours ago

I knew a highschool art teacher who woulds give any female student more then 80% because "women already get everything they want."

Your lack of real world experience is showing.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sushi is a vessel for wasabi.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 14 points 5 days ago

I hope this means less incest porn.

 

As with many of these terms that appear on social media or the rest of the Internet, it's not clear who specifically originated the "seagulling" term. But it is clearer why people have been giving this dating practice the bird, so to speak. It's similar to the tendency of seagulls to grab food whether or not they are hungry simply because they don't want others to get the food.

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submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Wren@lemmy.today to c/cool_rocks@lemmy.today
 

I didn't know what to do with them all, so I made this with chain, copper tape, solder and a piece of wood.

It's mostly rose quartz with an amethyst, a couple jade and a few I'm not certain of.

 

I sewed the wings on upside down.

I bought the pattern from https://www.annwoodhandmade.com/ — a site I previously posted here with all her free patterns and project ideas.

 

Despite Israel and Hamas reaching a ceasefire agreement on October 10, 2025, Israeli attacks have continued to kill hundreds of civilians in Gaza. Now, nearly seven months after the fighting was supposed to have ended, Christians and Muslims alike struggle to observe their holy traditions while in the throes of war and grief. See our report and video from this year’s Ramadan in Gaza City.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I, too, was raised catholic.

 

We got some smokey quartz, regular quartz, and I think some gneiss.

The regilar quartz was in as part of another batch, but the other rocks stayed ugly so I switched them out.

 

Lots of sewing and a few other crafts. I've already made one of her paid patterns — had no idea she had free ones, too. UNTIL NOW.

So I'm sharing with all of you.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago

The original umber earth pigments were legit made like this, the naturally dark umber was literally burned to turn it reddish brown. However, with modern synthetic replacements, iron can be burned to get the darker iron oxide and chemically oxidized to get the redder version.

Umber is such an old pigment it appears in cave paintings tens of thousands of years old.

 

I just got a whole bunch of old leather belts from a closing thrift store. In searching for what to do with them, I found this.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 31 points 2 weeks ago

As someone who's had to design graphics with a manager backseat driving, yes.

Are you sure you want 300 characters on a business card? It wont be legible. Yes, I know it looks big on the screen, it's called zo... oh okay. And a boat in the background? But it's for an event without boats. Yep. Okay. It represents freedom and people will understand? There's your boat.

A month later someone posts a worst business card top ten list for likes and everyone blames the designer.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep. Lived above a restaurant so I wasn't getting rid of them. All the caulking, glue traps, diatomaceous earth and poison I could afford wouldn't get rid of them. It's been two years and I still think I see them when something moves at the corner of my vision. I have nightmares about turning on the kitchen light.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Every few months I get the sudden urge to eat a whole bunch of celery. The desire comes unbidden and the imbibing happens in a near fugue. I do not enjoy it.

For the next two days whenever I shit I, forgetting about the celery, believe I have worms.

 

When I discovered the beige rocks on the left side, which had been in the tumbler for about two weeks, weren't going to be interesting, I switched them out for the smokey quartz and a few other things I'm not sure of on the right, which have been in for less than a day. The quartz in the middle were tumbled with the beige rocks. I included those in the new batch, too.

 

I followed this to make by first stained glass — which I will not share. I encourage you to share your projects, though!

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 15 points 2 weeks ago

They better be. I've met straightedgers and I don't want them nuclear capable.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 6 points 2 weeks ago

I'd hit that. But my self esteem is so low my kink is showing an interest.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

I understood pseudo masculinity without the explanation. I haven't seen any evidence yet that the term has been confused.

But any term for a gender issue is going to be misconstrued and confused, just look at the term feminism.

 

Scientists have discovered all five nucleobases—the fundamental components of DNA and RNA—in pristine samples from the asteroid Ryugu, according to a study published on Monday in Nature Astronomy. The finding strengthens the case that the ingredients for life are abundant in the solar system and may have found their way to Earth from space, according to a study published on Monday in Nature Astronomy.

Life as we know it runs on DNA and RNA, which are built from five chemical bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil. A team has now identified this “complete set” of nucleobases in rocks snatched from the surface of Ryugu in 2019 by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2, which successfully returned them to Earth the following year.

 

President Donald Trump appears to have endorsed eugenics during a call in to “The Brian Kilmeade Show” on Friday, telling the Fox News host he believed the country has people in it who are “bad” because “there’s something wrong [with their] genetics.”

“A lot of them were let in here; they shouldn’t have been let in,” Trump said, referring to the perpetrators of a spate of recent attacks, including two men who brought explosives to a far-right protest outside New York City’s mayoral mansion earlier this month.

“Others, they’re just bad, they go bad. Something wrong,” he continued. “There’s something wrong. Their genetics are not exactly… they’re not exactly your genetic. It’s one of those problems, Brian. It’s a terrible thing. And it happens.”

 

The idea that aliens assisted the builders of ancient monuments was promoted by the Swiss author Erich von Däniken in his bestselling book Chariot of the Gods – published in 1968. Von Däniken died in January 2026, but his vision of ancient astronauts still captivates millions.

The author had pointed to ancient structures such as the pyramids, along with enigmatic ancient artefacts, as supposed evidence that beings from beyond Earth shaped the civilisations of the past.

Though these ideas have been repeatedly debunked, television shows such as the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens continue to air similar narratives.

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