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Clinically depressed, chronically online,
Socialist discordian statist for open science,
Independent journalism and gay crime.

My Communities:

!Independent_Media@lemmy.today — Independent world journalism news feed.

!indy_news_canada@sh.itjust.works — Independent news from Canada.

!wildfeed@sh.itjust.works — Trash. Global, diverse news, reports, blogs and listicles.

!art_alchemist_guild@lemmy.today — Ask, share, learn and show off with the most DIY of artists.

!cool_rocks@lemmy.today — For cool rocks.

!everyday_socialism@lemmy.ml — For everyday socialism.

I keep making communities. Please help.

This is my main account.

Other Me:
icytrees@sh.itjust.works
woad@lemmy.ml

Former Me:
ceedoestrees@lemmy.world
icytrees@lemmy.today
trash_goblin@piefed.zip

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  • The original umber earth pigments were legit made like this, the naturally dark umber was literally burned to turn it reddish brown. However, with modern synthetic replacements, iron can be burned to get the darker iron oxide and chemically oxidized to get the redder version.

    Umber is such an old pigment it appears in cave paintings tens of thousands of years old.





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    14 days ago

    Every few months I get the sudden urge to eat a whole bunch of celery. The desire comes unbidden and the imbibing happens in a near fugue. I do not enjoy it.

    For the next two days whenever I shit I, forgetting about the celery, believe I have worms.



  • I’m still new to this so my experience is limited.

    I did some lapis lazuli with the specific purpose of collecting the sludge to make paint, so I used steel balls instead of tumbling media - it worked but it was clear they would take a very long time. Lapis lazuli is a hard rock.

    Kyanite is another I wanted to destroy, a softer, mica-like rock, and it fell apart easily.

    I try to tumble similar size and hardness rocks together and just happen to have a lot of quartz right now. Jade and serpentine do well in the tumbler, too.