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I always hated making them —pokey wires EVERYWHERE—but I am slowly starting to like it, or at least feel enough of a challenge to care.

And... on the blue crane it's fine silver, not sterling, and it doesn't oxidize. (But a very fine gauge which is nice.) Oxidizing then polishing the high points of sterling works like shading. But I'm about to order that hair-fine wire in sterling and that will make all my trees instantly better.🥇✨

Some are definitely better than others. It mainly depends on my mood tbh 🙃 —it's the last part of the process 😜

In a large velvet-lined jewelry box, broken into rows individual squares, are 10 wire-wrapped coins.

Two photos of a coin pendant with spikes, a little like a ship's wheel barometer. The coin is a 2008 South African 5¢ piece, side one with the secretary bird coat of arms and the second with "5¢" and a blue crane bird, with a little sterling silver tree of life over side two.

My first try, before the bag of coins my friend brought me. Two photos of a Sacagawea coin pendant with spikes, a little like a ship's wheel barometer. There is a sterling silver tree of life a thin crescent moon on side two.

Two photos of a 5¢ German Euro coin pendant with 4 faceted Czech glass beads and 7 short spikes around the outside, a little like a ship's wheel barometer. The front of the coin is a leaf and the back has a globe and "5 EURO CENT"

My friend brought me a bag of coins two Tuesdays ago and I can't stop. Coins were always hard—two-sided is hard, period, with wire wraps—but this works. And I like making them. 😊

"All of the Zoomers that work for me are bisexual, and all of them have long covid," he said. "I'll believe long covid is real when someone who is not bisexual has it." (This

Washington Post now interviewing my uncle?

I never do this, but you can buy it. 😉
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Badass cat's eye chrysolberyl pendant that almost looks radioactive sometimes. ✨ It's hanging against a gray background.

Cat's eye chrysolberyl point stone in copper pendant that I just made and looks enchanted. It's on a rock that's on a copy of Jane Austen's letters.

Cat's eye chrysolberyl and copper pendant looking half lit up. It's on a rock that's on a copy of Jane Austen's letters.

This stone looks radioactive and I love it.

How to Not Get Poisoned in America The minute I saw that Robert Kennedy Jr., a notorious disease-loving health crank, was going to be responsible for the nation’s health—and the health of its...

"You know, as an example, red lead was used to make cheddar... A can of coffee could be coffee, but it could be ground bone, or charred shells, or dirt." Deborah Blum on our bad food past -- and how to avoid it being our future:
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I do think a Beatles bio would be very difficult, but that's another reason to digitize literally everything we've got. All the relics. All the books. Because we need more biographers, more people to see different things, as we all do. It's the only way to get a more complete picture over time.

I do want to say that I never would have kept on with it at all after Fine Tuning finished if Sharon hadn't started going through the sources like a machine. She basically forced me into it by doing so much work, and making me laugh. I felt indebted to her and adore her, so I had to try.

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It went from 3 pages of this to 1 page of reruns. And probably, about the women, but a big part of it is probably because we were never really part of the adoration fan club. For me, I LOVED Tune In, but I am a citation miner. I want the primary sources more than anything. And so I found out.

The weird thing is that it went off like a bomb at first, but so much of the immediate attention was from absolute haters that I just went dark. It was too much. I am inching up to going on SATB, if Robert still wants me, but almost immediately papers quit quoting him. (Google alerts let me know.)

The bias is better acknowledged, but all is fair if it's true. That's the only yardstick that matters.

The history, not the place. Never been.

I love Hamburg.

Mine too. Sweet Georgie. I know he hates Paul with a white hot passion. When Sharon & I were doing this we would collect audio clips of him turning random questions into ways to knock Paul. He's very angry.
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I have trouble imagining how it will. I think it will be harder now. Much harder. But he really did a lot of things right. Just not the main thing. But I will say this: you feel it with him. Combining the culture so thickly was genuinely brilliant. I felt like I was there.

I don't hate him and feel sadness for him as a human. At the same time, I honestly cannot believe he got away with that for so long. Just rewriting “history.” That's my problem. That he just rewrote their lives. With—apparently—zero compunction. He had to wonder every day if he'd get caught.

There should never be one historian for anything. That's crazy. The biggest problem is that the information is so siloed. I want everything digitized. But however bad you think he is, he's worse. We never got past the audacity of his lies to shape a story. It’s more like fanfic. It's sad.

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Sterling silver pendant. Wire woven carnelian eye of horus with a sweet aqua chalcedony below it. It's big and weird and gorgeous. Pictured below a rock holding open a book of the Letters of Jane Austen.

Sterling silver pendant. Wire woven carnelian eye of horus with a sweet aqua chalcedony below it. It's big and weird and gorgeous. Pictured below a rock holding open a book of the Letters of Jane Austen.

Sterling silver pendant. Wire woven carnelian eye of horus with a sweet aqua chalcedony below it. It's big and weird and gorgeous. Pictured below a rock holding open a book of the Letters of Jane Austen.

Been busy and productive and not making much jewelry, but I love this freakish beauty.

Also, hi everyone.

i think it is very Good and Cool for the rule of law that a top staffer is behaving like a lieutenant in a high level drug enterprise

FINALLY. I'm surprised it took someone so long to say this—to find a way to frame it—but this is absolutely correct and somehow feels like a relief to read. A simple, truthful framing that cuts through the nonsense.

The End of the DEI Era As Donald Trump returns to the White House, a newly emboldened anti-DEI bloc has gained powerful allies.

"The New Segregationists" is a more accurate headline.

You could go through nearly this entire article replacing "anti-DEI" with "segregationist," and it would work.

Homogeneity is the opposite of diversity, which is what they aim for.
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A big reason the tech billionaires are so interested in government now is they’re not innovating or building anything of value so they need protectionism & monopolistic leverage

monumental success in deception in the propagation of the term “AI hallucination”instead of broken, dangerous & useless

JASNA 8-wk reading of Pride and Prejudice starts Sunday and I hope everyone is coming. Not that I know any JASNA people on here, but you could join!

How did we never figure out before that Lady Catherine got Georgiana Darcy a governess? I feel like an idiot. As always in Austen, it was there in front of our noses the whole time.

I want to write, “You WHAT?” but obviously not for you to answer it here, just because it seems like it has to be expressed. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯︎