Isnt this how we lost the recipe for roman concrete

puttering around the house is an underrated form a self-care. make some tea or coffee. put on a podcast. sort the mail. tidy some pillows and fold some blankets. start the laundry. thaw some soup. just casually wander around aimlessly doing little things to make your space and life a little nicer. who cares if you get distracted or only do a little. you aren't being productive. you're puttering.

Illustration by Seiichi Hayashi, 1981, scanned from “Japanese Woman,” published by Sanrio.

More rare scans

Terracotta vase - Sicily, 2nd Century

Metropolitan Museum of Art

inspired by a VERY excited tag someone left on a pic of a minoan-style squid

Dmitry Khramtsov (HRAM), “Akaname”

from ‘Сны чудовищ’ (Dream of Monsters) collection, 2024

not many things in life will make you feels as happy as rediscovering songs that used to be a big part of your life

yes... ha ha ha... yes!

Snail photography by Zheng Yi Liu, 2020

WHAT IS THE CHARGE? EATING A PENGUIN? A SUCCULENT ADÉLIE PENGUIN?

La Mode illustrée, no. 1, 7 janvier 1923, Paris. Pour le soir. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

To update this, the astronaut didn’t actually do it, she and her wife were getting a divorce and the wife plead guilty to lying to the feds about it

And framing your ex for a crime mid-divorce while they are actively in space is some Agatha Christie level shit

*gathers all of the people in the world who write the number 7 with a little dash in the center of it so I can study them like little critters and find out what makes them do that*

There’s actually a lot of history regarding the development writing systems and why there are different visual representations of numerals, but the short answer is: it’s regional, and you probably picked up how to make your numbers look based on your parents or your primary school teachers

I do it out of spite because in grade school a kids detective story identified the culprit by saying NO American wrote their sevens with a line and I thought that was super flimsy evidence and it made me so mad I started putting a line through my sevens so the fictional detective would be wrong and then kept doing it for several decades since.

I do feel one can’t underestimate the “elementary school child taught themselves how to do this Out Of Spite” crowd