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UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago

I dug up some clay in the backyard and I'm learning to write cuneaform by sharpening a stick on a rock.https://t.co/Qn26BObqTI

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9/12/2020
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

I'm I was going to fire it in my own home built clay kiln, but the weight and size of the kiln wasn't ok with the land owner, so I decided to use a toaster oven instead.https://t.co/7e9W6bf2D2

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9/12/2020
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago
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The first thing I hoped to write about is how to translate it from other languages. Then I'm going to write about how I'd build the kiln and dug up/filtered the clay, and ways of making fire.https://t.co/OrqTOZDZtM

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9/12/2020
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

It's amazing how you can learn to make your own books by studying the origin of surgery, realizing you can make needles and threads out of the bones of a dead calf.

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9/12/2020
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

People worship these information storage artifacts like some golden idol, not realizing you could just make your own.We lost skills in book binding when books turned into a commodity. At best we have replaced this with plastics.https://t.co/JFodcRjmP8

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9/12/2020
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago
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Those fancy plastic disks that they sell at a premium can be made for free using a milk carton.https://t.co/kROiDyuigC

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9/12/2020
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

Kids these days and their papyrus derived sheets of wood pulp bound up into a mass-produced grimoires. I bet they don't even know how to tan their own leather, much less make their own catgut to act as a binding thread.

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9/12/2020
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

I used to write on my jeans. My father was always mad about it.I showed him a version of this technique of paper making using old jeans: https://t.co/yeRj3EBaVk that I saw on PBS as a young child.He understood.https://t.co/5jlMxCXFIG

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UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago

Tools for Thought:Thomas Edison's Laboratory Desk Henry O. Studley's ToolboxSome random bridge that Bill Hamilton decided to carve math into.Lukasa boardsTotem PolesWorry StonesFidget CubesDanceDiceCasting LotsTarot CardsSticks https://t.co/Okxm8hLtGm

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9/12/2020
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

I consume information like I eat books.Pica makes me crave paper and glue.it goes away if I eat vellum.I think animal collagen ferments into butyrate & heals intestinal inflammation -> reduces pica.Irony is that everyone eats woodpulp based celluose.https://t.co/YkciIotul2

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9/12/2020
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

I learned how to make glue by reading an old roman grimoire on uses of animal collagen, while trying to find out what to do to reverse Crohn's associated intestinal degradation. I am made of glue, lol.https://t.co/ue2HZGAesJ

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UltimApe@ultimape• over 5 years ago

If you make bone glue using urine in a sauce pan, I highly recommend not eating out of said sauce pan.https://t.co/3ah1tJompDhttps://t.co/Pg7uLLPj1U

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9/12/2020
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UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago
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Ancient Chemistry is cool. So much can be made out of burning some cowbones (or lampoil) and boiling hide.https://t.co/JVEMWZuIP7A form of ink used on Ancient Chinese paper was basically exactly that.https://t.co/xCsJJR3BpXWith similar used by Greek, Roman, and Egyptian.

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9/12/2020
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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 5 years ago
Replying to @ultimape

What is this, a Grimoire for dolls?https://t.co/MszK44oh5o

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10/2/2020