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The Great Torc from Snettisham, England dated from 100 BCE on display at the British Museum in London, England

This torc is one of the most elaborate golden objects from the ancient world. It is made gold mixed with silver and weighs over 1 kg.

Torcs are made from complex threads of metal, grouped into ropes and twisted around each other. The ends of the torc were cast in moulds and welded onto metal ropes.

Photographs taken by myself 2016

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At the gate for my flight home from visiting friends and there's a woman here with a service Shiba Inu. No pics because he has a Do Not Disturb vest and taking pics of strangers is illegal but I need to stress how ON DUTY this animal is. Ears up. Eyes doing Lazer scans of everything. Examining everyone who passes within 10ft like a security guard. Ass planted on her feet. I have never seen a dog with such intense chivalric guardian energy before. He has tiny eyebrows and they are FURROWED with concentration.

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not to be a number nerd on main but 2025 (45^2) will be the only square year most of us ever experience. the last one was 1936 and the next one will be 2116

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I'm at the doctor's office and a teenager who's like 7 fuckin feet tall just walked in and told the receptionist their name is Sequoia lmao. like is that a chosen name or did your parents somehow know you were gonna be the size of a redwood tree

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Women scientists made up 25% of the Pluto fly-by New Horizon team. Make sure you share this, because erasing women’s achievements in science and history is a tradition. Happens every day.

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http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150712

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I have an important announcement: there is a post on here that annoys me.

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So I've been thinking about a discussion over on the Discworld reddit recently

Basically someone was like 'Discworld has become my go to cosy read'

And someone was like 'Disword isn't cosy it's actually very satirical and can be quite scathing and not escapist fluff'

But to me I would also class Discworld a cosy/comforting read.

And I think the fact the series does go to some pretty dark places is part of why I find it comforting, because Discworld doesn't shy away from the fact that bad things happen and you have to just get on with it and the fact it's full of characters who are often kind of fed up with everything but still go and do the Right Thing anyway even if it's hard and I actually find that more comforting than if it was like 'Oh nothing bad ever happens' setting.

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Tolkien's letter to Milton Waldman.

Me, to the the kind souls that are my writing friends. The "I shall inflict some of this on you" resonates deeply.

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I think it’s funny. And the people have spoken.

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Uh i sure hope there's not

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Lots of indie pattern companies will have just one free pattern to entice you, often a tshirt - I've personally got a lot of mileage out of the plantain tee but if that's not your vibe I think all of the options here are reputable (even before AI there were a lot of "free sewing patterns" on the internet that were frankly a bunch of crap.) Threads monthly have quite a few more roundups of patterns and from a quick look they seem to be largely decent companies, though I can't spseak to all of them.

Peppermint mag has a backlog of patterns too - they used to be free, I've just found out now that they've moved to a pay-what-you-can model - it looks like the older patterns start at $0 but some of the newer ones have a minimum price to get. Understandable - I was always surprised how much they put out free - but still a loss

Hey folks - I'm in need of some simple sewing patterns for clothes - shirts, skirts, pants, shorts - so that I can actually make some learning progress on this thing.

Do any of you have good (preferably free) sources for those kinds of patterns?

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''i wasted those years'' who cares. you lived the only life you could've lived in those moments

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