*How "weird" are bronze toiletries sets from the Saltovo-Maiatska culture, of the Siverskyi Donets River basin (8th–10th centuries), consisting of a comb, tweezers, and a hairpin?
*I'd judge those are pretty darn weird. #everydayweird […]
*Pics (and quite a long essay about domestic design) or it didn't happen #Toasters #everydayweird #AlexanderCalder
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*Yeah, toasters, with a design frisson that mere air-fryers have never managed
*I hope the Bsky-people will forgive me for the extra cognitive-dissonance today.
Someone in Iran is trying to plug in a toaster this morning; their normal-breakfast-routine, not what it was #everydayweird
*You would think that "the mud of the Thames" would be Britain's most boring and mundane writerly topic, but if you've got enough transformational potency in your verbal mystifications, you can make any everyday thing intensely weird #EverydayWeird #Dunsany
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