#toothpicks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #toothpicks, aggregated by home.social.
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I call this one "Protector of the toothpick realm"
I guess I do have a thing for tentacles 😆 and this little man protects the toothpicks with everything he got! Made from polymer clay and painted with acrylics 🎨
#octopus #sculpture #protector #miniature #polymerclay #tentacles #acrylics #toothpicks #sculpting #sculpey #polymerclaycreations
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Amazing man...and a LOT of toothpicks.
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Toothpicks
23 May 2025 -
📖 For centuries, Lorvão (Penacova) was the Portuguese capital of #toothpicks.
As the authors recount in this article, tradition of handmade white willow toothpicks began in the Monastery of Lorvão during the 17th century. From the monastery, the craft extended to the local population.
The paper provides an historical overview and shows how the famous and award-winning toothpicks are made.
https://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/view/5938
#Heritage #OpenAcess #Ethnobotany #Histodons #LocalHistory #Palitos
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I still wear a mask for four reasons:
1. I don't want to get sick (Covid, obviously, but I haven't gotten sick in four years, so not just Covid, especially this time of the year) If there was one lesson to learn from the pandemic, it's probably this one: masks make you healthier.
2. If I get sick, I don't want to spread my germs (this is an essential reason, and it's disheartening how it doesn't even cross the minds of so many Westerners).
3. As peer pressure is a huge deal in Japan, it's also a signal to my students who may want to wear a mask but are afraid to, that my classroom is a safe space for them to do it (not so much this time of the year, but in the Spring and Summer it's a different story).
4. OMG, I'm out of toothpicks and can't brush my teeth and that sesame seed is stuck between these two teeth!!!
All of these are true.
#Masks #WearAMask #Covid #CovidIsNotOver (and #Influenza season is here too) #Toothpicks #SesameSeeds -
I still wear a mask for four reasons:
1. I don't want to get sick (Covid, obviously, but I haven't gotten sick in four years, so not just Covid, especially this time of the year) If there was one lesson to learn from the pandemic, it's probably this one: masks make you healthier.
2. If I get sick, I don't want to spread my germs (this is an essential reason, and it's disheartening how it doesn't even cross the minds of so many Westerners).
3. As peer pressure is a huge deal in Japan, it's also a signal to my students who may want to wear a mask but are afraid to, that my classroom is a safe space for them to do it (not so much this time of the year, but in the Spring and Summer it's a different story).
4. OMG, I'm out of toothpicks and can't brush my teeth and that sesame seed is stuck between these two teeth!!!
All of these are true.
#Masks #WearAMask #Covid #CovidIsNotOver (and #Influenza season is here too) #Toothpicks #SesameSeeds -
I just saw that scientists are trying to mimic meat more completely, with new textures. I was about to go “Yay science,” when I realized that I like things right where they are, now.
I like the taste of the vegetarian meat substitutes, right now. It tastes enough like meat to make me satisfied. If it had the texture of meat, I might not like it so much.
You see, meat is fibrous. And those fibres can get stuck between your teeth. Thus resulting in the need for toothpicks. I have never had to use a toothpick for any of the vegetarian meat products. This is a good thing. It is an advantage over meat in my opinion.
But wait. In the same news bite, they also said that the plant based texture they are experimenting with is really inexpensive. So the suspicion is that once they get this new meat substitute up and running, it will likely be cheaper than meat. So it may become more commonplace than the current meat substitutes.
In other words we could end up paying more to not use toothpicks. The premium vegetarian meat substitute is available now. So enjoy them right now.
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I’m a tiny bit jealous of transgender kids. They can, unbeknownst to their parents, be known by a different name in school. (At least in some parts of Canada).
I would have loved this and used it when I was younger, and heck, even today.
Back in those school years it would be fun to be known as Farty Mcfartface. Imagine that. You could make the teacher say fart twice, every time they addressed you. Of course it would be even better making the teacher say a swear word. But that’s not going to happen. If they ban them on licence plates they can ban them in your preferred name.
I do suspect that in the romance department that females wouldn’t like to go out with a Farty McFartface. So that would likely goad me into changing my name to something more normal. So from then on, I would like to be know as Gnorman Gnormal.
#farty-mcfartface #fibres-get-stuck-in-your-teeth #gnorman-gnormal #licence-plates-pan-swear-words #meat-is-fibrous #meat-substitutes-might-become-cheaper-than-meat #meat-texture #naming #school-name #toothpicks #transgender #vegetarian-meat-substitutes
https://larryrusswurm.com/2023/08/26/august-2023-grab-bag-o-humour/
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Some of you may be feeling left out; why don't you have this most masculine of bones. Fear not: you can purchase them on ebay by the bagfull. I'm not even remotely close to kidding.
#bestofebay #toothpicks #earrings #anatomy #evolution
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I think I just realized an important distinction between searching and filtering.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but a SEARCH looks only for hashtags, while a FILTER examines all of the text.
So someone who is fascinated by toothpicks will only find this post if I include a #toothpicks hashtag, but a toothpick-phobic person with a “toothpicks” filter will be able to avoid this post if I merely mention toothpicks.
Sweet. I love it here.
