I literally only ever see those losers doing laps around my extremely chill residential block in admo, they aren’t doing shit except developing their appreciation for turn of the century vernacular rowhome architecture
Trump’s deployment of 2,000 National Guard’s troops to Washington DC had no ‘measurable effect’ on violent crime, says independent study @MilitaryTimes@NiskanenCenter https://t.co/XlOnImWrsW
A more interesting question than how they achieved realism is how they managed to carve this gem at all. The sealstone is only 34 mm long. The finer details are close to the limit of what is even resolvable by the human eye.
Which suggests the existence of (a) magnifying lenses and (b) stonecarving tools of commensurate size in an era without sophisticated iron metallurgy. I know fairly little about primitive stoneworking tools in particular, but another interesting thing to note is that agate tends to be somewhat harder than bronze.
the goal this summer is to wear the biggest possible pants. everyone in nyc is wearing the biggest possible pants. i’m in berlin now and the pants are huge
Why do they call it a Renaissance Fair when it's just D&D Tolkien Fantasy slop. Where are the Petrarchan Sonnets. Where are the Hussites. Show me the Hussites.
I’ve finished 12 but I’ve got like five or six more doorstopper nonfiction books on the run that I’ve been cycling between in the background as the mood strikes me
@mlstrat@ThursdayBeers1 I really think it’s this, bc I’m going through something similar. It helped that I lucked into an extended network of slightly older friends here in DC that made me feel a little less crazy for liking my independence