another fine mess I've gotten myself into

galwednesday on AO3, they/them, 30s

[ahedderick]

This is the most beautiful scientific diagram I've ever seen.

Also a great example of why pink is a tint of red, but also a completely different color. Erbium? Neodymium? So beautiful.

[eldritchjackalope]

Manganese was one of the additives originally included to produce clear glass by neutralizing the greenish color cause by (cheap) iron rich sands! It was obviously later discovered that it turns purple (amethyst) with extended exposure to sunlight. It's also called solarized glass.

Lockhart, Bill.  2006b. The Color Purple: Dating Solarized Amethyst Container Glass.  Historical Archaeology 40(2):45-56.   https://secure-sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/TheColorPurpleLockhart2006.pdf

(for extra historic bottle info https://secure-sha.org/bottle/index.htm )

[nonasuch]

hey did I ever post the best business card I’ve ever been given by a customer?

a woman wanted me to let her know if I had a particular item in storage, and she went to get a card out of her purse and went ‘oh no. I’m out of my work cards, I’m so sorry about this’ and handed me this:

apparently her husband made them for her as a joke but then she just had like 300 of them so they’re her backups when she runs out of her real business cards.

[vintage-treasures]

René Lalique "Owls Bracelet" c. 1900–1901 This is a signature Art Nouveau creation by French master jeweler René Lalique (1860–1945). Lalique revolutionized jewelry by making design and artistry more valuable than the gold and gems. This cuff, crafted from gold, frosted glass, enamel, and chalcedony, was acquired directly from the artist by collector Calouste Gulbenkian and forms part of the world’s largest Lalique collection. Each owl carved from glass is a powerful symbol of wisdom and secrets.

Location Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal.

[campsis]

Eden Kalif, Good Cats

[forgotten-emerald]

[histrionic-dragon]

--Eva Stratt

[adhdwannabewriter]

Writers, which software do you use?

Google docs

Microsoft word

Ellipsus

Libre office - writer

Notepad (the fuck is wrong with you lol)

Pages

Other (comment, please, esp if you recommend it)

Checking results

Voting ended onJul 20

I used to use Google docs, but the white mode only was really annoying me (tires my eyes), so I swapped to Ellipsus (which I genuinely love and recommend), but it was bothering me a bit that I need wifi in order to use it, so now I switched to LibreOffice Writer, which I do like.

It very much has a Microsoft Word feel, but is open source and you need no accounts to use it. It's local on your device, so no AI can scan it, and no wifi is needed.

I still wish it had the Google Docs cards, because, bitch, that thing is so good for easy organizing.

[loveridden1999]

problematic sudoku solving skills gap

[featuringmarkhoppus]

[badassdemonsword]

You couldnt come up with a jollier name for a bird if you tried

[minmos]

this thang has one of my favorite ebird descriptions of all time

[teethwreath]

god this tickles me

(OP's tiktok here)

[weepingwidar]

Anthony Hurd (American, 1975) - You Have This Hold Over Me (2025)

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Feels like a bad idea maybe

[garaks-padded-cell]

americans be like dude learning to drive isnt that bad but they dont know youre in ireland sharing a lane with a horse who is a bad person. And the horse and the instructor are friends and he keeps dapping the horse up through the window. And the horse called you a bitch under his breath so quiet the driving instructor is trying to convince you that you must have misheard him but you didnt. and theres a roundabout coming up and the horse didnt indicate

[hideback]

Cicada, Stages of Conventionalization

Hugo Froelich, Keramic Studio Magazine, 1905

[killue]

the world is my whale carcass

[carfuckerlynch]

hey does anyone have that poem. about the author seeing two boys cuddling on a hotel lobby couch, where he refers to it as something like an island of safe anonymity or smth. its been 5000 years my college boyfriend had it written out and pinned to his wall

[carfuckerlynch]

THANK YOU @witchoflight it is indeed "on traveling together" by Kayleb Rae Candrilli

[cuppydogshane]

that is actually my main principle of explicit fic is that the personalities stay On during sex.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Your partner came back from the dead after being missing for decades. Every one of their friends who they went with ended up dying a horrible death.

Now, somehow, their entire mental health is based on the continued life and happiness of this fairground goldfish that they picked up.

Neither of you know the first thing about how to care for even a healthy fish. This fish has been poorly cared for, has multiple diseases and the person who handed it over explicitly didn't expect it to live nearly as long as it already has.

You're frantically googling how to set up a fish tank, where to buy fish food, can you even take a fish to the vet? Your partner wants you to know that they're happy they made it home and survived their horrific ordeal, but also that if anything happens to the fish then they're going to kill everyone on this planet and then themself.

You're honestly wondering if you're even helping the fish, or just prolonging its suffering, but your partner will only accept medical help for their many injuries or engage in basic self-care once they're confident that the fish is being looked after.

So you get a tank. You set up a filter and all that stuff. You learn way more than you ever wanted to know about water temperature and ph and nitrate levels. The fish is safe. You start to develop some affection for the little guy. Your partner begins to recover. The fish begins to recover.

Which is when you learn that in its 'healthy' state, the fish regularly refuses to sleep when tired, keeps begging for food that is obviously unhealthy for it (and struggling to eat the food that you do provide because “it tastes gross”), and continually tries to persuade your partner to take it out of its nice safe tank so it can go explore the wonderful world of Outside, where the slightest mishap will kill it instantly.

Your name is Adrian, and you kind of wants to strangle this fucking fish, statement.