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Tattoos, unlike scars, you get to choose. And each tattoo I have is full of so many of my own choices — each of them represents such an important part of me. When I get a new tattoo, it's like me saying: I want my story told in this color, and this size, in this location, that looks like this, and reminds me of...

A model-led push for change has split Melbourne's life-drawing scene. Life modelling attracts people from all walks of life to showcase their bodies, but some in the industry say a reckoning is due for artists who overstep boundaries.

Today the US Senate voted to pass a defense bill that bans coverage of gender-affirming care for the transgender children of military service members. The vote passed 85-14, with 37 Democrats joining the Republicans in supporting the bill."This legislation permanently bans transgender treatment for minors, prohibits critical race theory in military academies, ends the DEI bureaucracy, and combats antisemitism [sic]" - House Speaker Mike...

Remember back in the early 2020s when life was easy and we had nothing to worry about but deadly murder hornets? Well, good news! We don't even have to worry about them anymore, at least in the US: The USDA reports the murder hornet is now eradicated.

The McRib is back. But you impugn and derogate the sandwich. Then make your own. The Food Wishes guy can show you how. So can Joshua Weissman.

For centuries, gyros, shawarma, and döner kebab have had two things in common: one is that their names all derive from words meaning "to turn," and the other is that they all turn around a single old-fashioned axis. With modern technology, we can do better than that. Behold: Gyroscopic Gyros.

When most Americans think of "comic books" and "graphic novels", they think of one of the two "major" publishers - Marvel and DC. But outside of manga (which is becoming by far the largest segment of visual art in the US), the largest publisher of graphic novels is Scholastic - and it's not even close. And this revolution is in large part due to...

... Across the River and Into the Trees is a direct transcription of Hemingway's embarrassing middle-aged infatuation with a girl whose dialogue, according to [his wife] Mary, was "banal beyond reason'". Autumn in Venice goes some way to explain why that novel, which in all seriousness he considered "a helluva book", if not his best, is quite so fascinatingly atrocious, and, in the estimation...

Making a watch from scratch; like really from scratch (reddit thread. via HN). Here's the imgur gallery with dozens and dozens of photos, including hand made screws.

It's Tuesday, a perfect day to listen to some Mud, featuring the particularly pleasing vocals of Les Gray and guitars by Rob Davis. Let's focus on their 1976 album It's Better Than Working. Recommended tracks: It Don't Mean a Thing. Nite on the Tiles. Beating Round the Bush. Sweet and Sour Lady. Or just listen to the whole thing!As far as I can see,...

Do you have some bulk parts that you need oriented? You need vibratory feeder bowls! Want to learn more? Feeder University has you covered.More tips for tooling your bowl, and a collection of 50 hand drawn diagrams of various part alignment methods from the Vibratory Feeder Company.

At least 37 people appear to have been butchered and likely eaten in a Bronze Age massacre in Somerset, England.Scientists have uncovered the aftermath of an "exceptionally violent" attack about 4,000 years ago in Somerset when at least 37 people appear to have been butchered and likely eaten. It is the largest case of violence between humans identified in early Bronze Age England, which...

It's been a year since Metafilter aired The Great British Post Office Scandal. Sir Wyn Williams, chair of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry is now taking final submissions from interested parties. Edward Henry KC's piece to camera [15 min], on behalf of sub postmasters, is a great exercise in rhetoric. In the tradition of It is not even the beginning of the end...

Trump eyes privatizing U.S. Postal Service, citing financial losses - "Told of the mail agency's annual financial losses, Trump said the government should not subsidize the organization, the people said. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to reflect private conversations." [link-heavy FPP] President-elect Donald Trump has expressed a keen interest in privatizing the U.S. Postal Service in recent weeks, three people with...

In the 1980s and '90s, a wave of unapologetically queer cookbooks beat the odds and made it to print. queer historians have since concluded that The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book was the first lesbian cookbook ever (the year was 1954), and amongst dykes who cook, it's the stuff of legends. This is in part due to the fact that it wasn't just a...

The James Brown Show is both an enactment — an unlikely conjuration in the present moment of an alternate reality, one that dissipates into the air and can never be recovered — and at the same time a re-enactment: the ritual celebration of an enshrined historical victory, a battle won long ago, against forces difficult to name — funklessness? — yet whose vanquishing seems...

A soft furred hedgehog, a high-altitude crocodile newt and a keelback snake are some of the of the 234 new species to have been found in South-East Asia.

Scientists explore why penguins on this island are bolder and more aggressive. There are only a few little penguins left on Granite Island, South Australia but they're bolder than most and researchers are keen to find out why.

You have a massive collection of e-books, music, video games, software, and movies that you bought as a digital download, and you probably think you own them, like you own a physical book or a DVD. Think again. from Do I really own the digital media I bought?A "Digital Rights Byte" from the EFF Others include: Why is it so expensive to repair my...

Friendly and Hostile Analogies for Taste. Artistic Taste is like...: A. Physics. B. A Priesthood. C. A Priesthood, But With A Fig Leaf Of Semi-Fake Justifications D. As Above, Except The Justifications Are Good And Important E. BDSM Porn F. Like Fashion. A counterargument to this essay provides a definition of taste.Don't know if these articles are paywalled so here are the two links....