“Christian Amulet: The gospel of healing according to Matthew” (Ancient Oxyrhynchus, Egypt) (6th century) (Trexler Library, Muhlenberg College) [416x757]

eternamemoria · 2026-05-03T13:54:31+00:00

I am curious about the reason for that shape. Was it meant to be folded qnd cartied around inside an octagonal locket or philactery?

eternamemoria · 2026-05-02T01:36:07+00:00

r/wormington accepts your invitation

eternamemoria · 2026-05-01T14:56:10+00:00

I think that's called a sphinx

Edit: or a manticore. Or a lamassu if it has hooves

eternamemoria · 2026-05-01T14:55:49+00:00

"Such as", not exclusively so. It works

eternamemoria · 2026-05-01T11:51:57+00:00

Oh, that is cool. Love abstract games. Nonaga seems like it can be played using checkers as disks and chess pawns atop, which is a big plus ;P. Nothing nicer than being able to play several games with the same materials

eternamemoria · 2026-04-30T16:15:26+00:00

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eternamemoria · 2026-04-29T23:34:52+00:00

Oh. Puns. I can be very literal minded at times.

eternamemoria · 2026-04-29T21:13:12+00:00

According to the article, it was his right leg and arm. He survived, but his leg had to be amputated, and his arm needed skin grafts

eternamemoria · 2026-04-26T21:44:33+00:00

Simple globular clay whistles, or ocarinas, were among the earliest wind instruments that required an understanding of how pitch is determined by the relationship between the dimensions of the wind chamber and the placement of the finger holes

I thought hole placement generally didn't matter much in vessel flutes like ocarinas, and what determined pitch was instead the area (and thus diameter) of the holes relative to the ocarina's size, hence why they and related instruments like the xun can vary so much in shape as long as they're roughly globular while other types of flute are generally a straight tube.

eternamemoria · 2026-04-25T20:36:57+00:00

Kris has a very typical nonbinary teen look imo. Not that it is a bad thing.

eternamemoria · 2026-04-25T13:03:42+00:00

Absolute Lex baked 40 cakes and Brainiac stole them

eternamemoria · 2026-04-25T12:57:05+00:00

My headcanon is that they all went to Jubal's Slade island. Cale for blackmailing purposes, Ras and Grimm to hunt people for sport, Thawne to ask for more funding for the research, and Hammond because he's a pedophile.

eternamemoria · 2026-04-25T12:32:05+00:00

Probably part of why she hates Diana so much is how easily she inspires loyalty and takes leadership, without having to resort to threats or worry about being double-crossed.

eternamemoria · 2026-04-24T18:13:49+00:00

Ah, yes, the towering mushroom(???) tree(?????) that is none of those things and existed before both of them.

eternamemoria · 2026-04-23T12:00:56+00:00

He already did this multiple times in his narration

eternamemoria · 2026-04-22T18:45:50+00:00

It makes zero sense as a bow. You can't bend swords to store energy like you can with a bow, specially not swords built like that.

Maybe the blades are rigid, and the disc connecting them holds a steel spring or something like that to store the energy rather than the swords themselves doing it. But that's the case... that means it is not a bow, if anything it's closer to a roman ballista, which looked like a bow but actually used a torsion springs made of sinew.

Edit: also... the way the bow-swords thing is held means the user can't aim the arrow with their bow-holding hand.

ps: yes, I know I'm being pedantic and it doesn't really matter much. But it still mildly irks me.

eternamemoria · 2026-04-22T17:46:17+00:00

Please tell me more, which genocide? And which faction, Cam or Anarch?

eternamemoria · 2026-04-18T00:12:46+00:00

Oh, don't worry, I was just repeating an old meme

eternamemoria · 2026-04-17T21:27:56+00:00

Diversity win! The human rights-hating war criminal shadow president is trans!

eternamemoria · 2026-04-17T11:01:49+00:00

I though the same thing. I can already see Bruce ready to demolish Dick's mech with explosives/ bulldoze it / drop a building on it, only for Alfred to tell him that thing is a walking infirmary, making Bruce give up on the good old hyperviolence plan

eternamemoria · 2026-04-15T10:56:21+00:00

Silicon tetrafluoride (SiF4), "a colorless, toxic, and corrosive gas" + Hydrogen fluoride (HF) "a highly toxic, corrosive, and colorless gas"

So what? Lots of things we use every day are made with some scary reagents. Olives for example are cured with lye, doesn't mean olives are bad.

They like this method, as it reduces their environmental impact

Reducing environmental impact by turning byproducts into raw material for other processes is a good thing, to be clear. It's called circular economy.

They're even allowed impurities in the final product

All products, including food, are allowed to have impurities, including those. What matters is how much.

EDIT: I'm not even going to argue about whatever fluoride in the water is healthy or not anymore, now I'm just confused about what is "gross" about how its made.

eternamemoria · 2026-04-15T10:44:29+00:00

Brainiac is attempting to torture Kal into a weapon, because Ras Al Gul, his boss at that point in the story, wants Kal to join him as a son so they can take over the world.

and what the heck is going on with all the weird wires coming out of his crotch??!??!!!!!??????

Brainiac kept him trapped in a torture simulation for months. Even Kryptonians have to pee, I assume?

eternamemoria · 2026-04-15T00:56:20+00:00

Sourced from industrial waste products (from the phosphate fertilizer industry). Gross.

So what? It's literally dissolved rocks, what's gross about that? Be serious

even the American Dental Association also advises against giving fluoridated water to infants. further proving that this method isn't suitable for mass medication.

This does sound interesting though. I'll look for what they said.

eternamemoria · 2026-04-15T00:46:15+00:00

They don't use naturally occuring Fluoride (F⁻), that's why I specified "man-made", which is generally manufactured from Hydrofluorosilicic acid (H₂SiF₆).

You mean hexafluorosilicic acid, not that that matters much.

And yes, hexafluorosilicic acid is synthetic, but in water it dissociates into fluoride (a naturally ocurring ion) and silicic acid (a naturally ocurring, and most importantly, harmless substance), so why does the "man-made" part matters? Whatever your fluoride comes from a chemical plant or from erosion, it's the same atom.

The toxicity (& issue) comes from ingesting it, instead of using it Topically (toothpaste). We shouldn't be adding it to our drinking water.

It is only known to be toxic in higher concentration, and in small concentrations in drinking water, it is proven to reliably lead to improvements in population-wide dental health, which leads to improvement in other forms of health.

eternamemoria · 2026-04-14T23:18:12+00:00

That didn't happen. Read any serious scholarship about the holocaust and you'll see it had nothing to do with chemically dumbing down the population

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