apis

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[–] apis 3 points 6 months ago (6 children)

More soulless than the unused boardroom of an SME based in a small industrial estate built in the late 1990s.

Spotlight hell, pseudo-idyllic Edwardian childhood signifiers, 20 shades of griege, an auditorium worth of chairs & sofas arrayed about the pool, bizarre proportions, including in the original house due to unnecessary removal of walls.

View of the distant trees from the glass extension in photos 12 & 13 marred by service station style landscaping in the near to mid-ground.

[–] apis 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The few that might like the idea are too lacking in power to attempt, and in any case are easy for a flight between Israel & the US to avoid. Can't even see any of them denying access to their airspace.

He'd also unlikely to be travelling via a regular commercial passenger flight, as Navalny was.

[–] apis 4 points 6 months ago

Sounds like less boozy Jägermeister (also made by monks) with added caffeine.

Had always assumed it would be fizzy.

[–] apis 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Similar situation here but with clothes moths & carpet beetles. Also very keen to avoid harming the spiders.

Was just vacuuming before getting out the diatomaceous, & noticed far fewer than normal, and last winter there were notably fewer of the big house spiders coming indoors to mate.

[–] apis 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Aye, but let's not reduce plant-based lives to a few leaves of bare iceberg lettuce with occasional cherry tomato.

Rejecting animal exploitation is glorious in itself, and (handful of very rare medical conditions excepting), requires no diminution in sustenance, deliciousness, sensuality & social aspects.

None of these images are lifted from ads or articles promoting steps toward an ever more ethical lifestyle, and if they were they'd be so unsustainable as to be counterproductive. They're just pushing more capitalism via dodgy beauty standards of the ruling class (with hefty side helping of "you tried that juice fast that one time to get into that dress, you couldn't possibly go vegan, here's some nice dead bullock instead, and lashings of drugs & cosmetics tested on animals to mitigate the toll which eaten animal fats take on your body")

Vegans are as prone to the ease of junky food as everyone else, but let's not pretend that we're on undressed fucking lettuce & about it. Though I suppose I too would be cackling mirthlessly about it if I were, whether in a hide-the-pain-Harold way, or more likely, paradoxical euphoria from lack of nutrients & dopamine in the brain.

[–] apis 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Eh, wash & glaze are kinda the same from our perspective as viewers - just differentiates type of solvent used, as determined by binding media.

[–] apis 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Heavy draperies added to censor the painting seem to follow the same shape on the lower body, and the article mentions Artemesia's delicate glazes under the overpainting.

So though the article doesn't state that she painted this translucent veil, or if it is included in the digital reconstruction to indicate a query researchers were unable to resolve categorically, she included similarly diaphanous fabric in this nude https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Artemisia_Gentileschi_-_Sleeping_Venus.JPG

[–] apis 5 points 6 months ago

Yes, but now consider the state of the ladies in the OP who have tomatoes.

Insanity lies beyond the crisis

(actually love tomatoes, but may be faintly deranged also)

[–] apis 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If conditions cannot be guaranteed, the court can uphold his appeal and deny the order.

Whether or not that ruling would in turn be appealed by the US DoJ to the UK Supreme Court is moot. Ditto chance of success if it is. Between impinging on the right to freedom of expression & the horrors of the US penal system, extradition is likely illegal under UK human rights law.

[–] apis 2 points 6 months ago

Because though uPVC windows lack the myriad advantages of wood or stone frames, sometimes it is better for the ongoing fabric of a building to just get it weatherproof until someone comes along who can afford to put in more suitable replacements.

Then white uPVC frames are much cheaper than coloured versions.

Can't speak for the baby blue.

[–] apis 2 points 6 months ago
[–] apis 2 points 6 months ago

Ffs, I get that Tories are wantonly destructive ghouls, but every damn day they scrabble to yet another unplumbed awful.

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