1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (313+ words) Greeting to all the Gemologists out there. Today is father’s day in Australia, so I wrote this a day in advance, as I will be spending the day with my gorgeous wife and kids. To those in the US: I…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (120+ words) CTV News Sawatsky Sign-Off: Bling Van Adam finds out how a Nanaimo, B.C., woman transformed her life through rhinestones. The moment Duane 'Keffe D' Davis was found guilty of the murder of Tupac Shakur U.S.-Canada trade talks stall as war of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (110+ words) After twenty years of working almost exclusively in black media, Odilon Redon made a radical change in style—abandoning his signature noir aesthetic for bold color. Ok, this is bad, I know, but I couldn’t help but snort with laughter....

3+ week, 1+ hour ago   (418+ words) Greetings everyone. I hope you have enjoyed a peaceful and relaxing weekend. Today was the first real spring like day we’ve had in a while. Sunny and really pleasant. I got out in the yard, mowed the lawns, trimmed the…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (69+ words) My first search engine. Conserve The Sound: An online museum of vanishing and endangered sounds www.conservethesound.de In these times, sometimes you just gotta have a laugh. Life cycle of a strawberryOriginal post Mysteriously using words like "we" and…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (10+ words) BIG Pop-Up: 'They need to do this every year' GazetteXtra...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (143+ words) It is Friday again!! What a crazy week (aren’t they all lately). Is the Strait open or closed today/ Will IT happen today? Who knows? So let’s just launch into the good stuff instead. Hmmmm…He had a good point…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (294+ words) THAT is pretty wild. I’m not sure that was safe, but it certainly is out there… Possibly the greatest single male athletic performance of all timeOriginal post Who tortures a kitten???? Seriously!!! A boy and his kitten …. Clearly there was…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (397+ words) Greetings fellow newshounds and doom-scrollers. Time for our end-of-week respite from all the madness in the world. Here we go: Sadly, I’m now old enough to remember being excited by these… Throwback Thursday High Tech That is one wide tree…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (418+ words) Before today’s Gems, I’d like to point out to you that we now have social media embeds in comments, as kos announced yesterday afternoon. Now, I will warn you that the Bluesky embeds, in particular, are a little weird — they…...