People are turning semen into jewellery in new fashion trend
Aisha Nozari



Jizz jewellery, anyone? You’ll be pleased (or devastated) to know that people are now turning semen into wearable pieces, so next time you dump a load, consider upcycling instead of just aiming for that sad old sock.

Jeweller and sculptor Amanda Booth crafts intricate pieces out of semen samples sent to her workshop by clients, which she dries and powders before moulding into trinkets.

Since she started her business in 2021, Booth has also made wearable pieces out of cremated remains, locks of hair and breastmilk.

tting in the smell all day and it's just... We did it in the morning one day and it was just like, 'No, I'm never doing that again',”

When Booth began her business last year, she started sharing her work on TikTok, prompting one person to ask beneath one of her videos whether or not she’s ever considered making pieces out of ‘man juices’.

Booth half-jokingly floated the idea on Facebook, and was met with serious online orders.

Booth teamed up with her husband Jesse Mullin to trial the process, working out she’d need at least a teaspoon of jizz for the right ‘clay-to-cum ratio’.

After sharing a TikTok post about her first semen pieces last month, Booth’s video has blown up and her DMs are chock-a-block with requests.

Epsy, one of Booth’s clients, explained to Vice that they’d ordered a ‘pearl’ jizz pendant because they wanted something that would represent her and her husband’s ‘dominant and submissive’ relationship.

Epsy explained: “We ended up opting to have my husband use a condom, and then cut the end off of the condom, to deposit the sample in a specimen tube. We then sealed the tube with electrical tape around the cap, and vacuum sealed it before placing it in a padded envelope, to be mailed.”

Jenna Schatzman, another client, revealed she and her husband wanted a semen ring, explaining: “He was immediately intrigued and thought it would be such a fun way to have something I could wear that is almost as a reminder of our love and sex life.”

Fisherman catches 90-million-year-old fossil of extinct fish during fishing tournament



A fisherman has just snagged the catch of a lifetime, managing to pull up a 90-million-year-old fossil of an extinct fish in a South Dakota fishing tournament.

Andy Moore, from Omaha, Nebraska, was participating in a fishing tournament on South Dakota's Missouri River when he snagged his line on what he assumed to be a rock.

Speaking to WOWT, Moore described the feeling of fishing as: "That primordial jolt you get in your spine, and it goes right to your brain." Though, despite being an avid fisherman, he recalled that he wasn't faring too well in the tournament.

"I pitched my jig and it's horrible. It's like way left and I'm like, 'oh man,'" he said.

The fisherman, who was sinking his line in Yankton, South Dakota - around 160 miles from Omaha - decided to go and check out what had gotten caught on his line.

"I get up to it, and I'm like, 'Oh wow! That’s kind of cool.' I thought it was a big catfish skeleton or a deer skeleton. Something told me to take a picture of this," he added.

So, the fisherman took several images and uploaded them to his social media: "So I go back, and I'm like click, click, done. Back to the tournament."

It wasn't long before his photos received attention, with Moore telling KETV: "I have a friend DM me, a couple, going, 'Dude, did you know that's a 90-million-year-old fossil?'"

He continued: "Another guy called, 'dude do you realize what you have there?' I'm like, 'no.'"



After several more comments and messages, Moore decided to contact the Army Corps of Engineers, who he knew controlled the riverbed, per KETV. Having noted down the GPS point of where the fossil was, Moore and a retired geologist came back to the site of the alleged fossil.

"He jumps out of the boat. You know, he's in his boots. And I'm just like, he's just like, 'oh my god,'" Moore recounted. The fossil ended up being identified as a 90-million-year-old xiphactinus audax - AKA a 'bulldog' fish' - according to the geologist, who had a permit to excavate Moore's lucky find.

"Here you go guy, here is this rock that we need you to present to this geologist that needs to be on display for everybody in the world to enjoy and to look at for educational purposes," said Moore.

Per People, the fossil will be displayed at the Lewis and Clark Visitor Center in Nebraska.

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[PennySerenade]

A Toronto house less than 10 feet wide just hit the market for nearly $2M



If you aren’t looking closely, you could miss 138 St Clarens Avenue – the newly listed home in Toronto’s Little Portugal is only eight feet wide.

The property hit the market this week, listed at $1,950,000, realtor Keven Trudel with Real Estate Bay Realty told CTV News Toronto Friday.



“What we see outside feels pretty narrow, but once you're inside, I think they did a fantastic job designing the place to feel big,” he said.

The custom-built, three-storey property is currently split into three separate units, each with their own private entrance, and a basement.

In total, the home is approximately 1,700-square-feet, with three bedrooms and four bathrooms.

Acknowledging what may come across as a steep price tag for a small property, Trudel says the home was listed at $1,950,000 because it was a labour of love.

“It’s one of my client’s creations,” he said. “It's a little pricey, obviously, because we're on a little bit of land, but it's also valuable because it's rare and different.”



While Trudel says it could quickly be altered to be a single family home, he doesn’t envision the property acting as such.

“It would be really good for investors,” he said, “or make an incredible AirBnB.”

The home at 138 St Clarens Avenue isn’t the first ultra-thin build in Toronto. Last year, 154 Hamilton St. in the city’s east side sold for $1,750,000. It's four storeys tall and just about ten feet wide.

[BigGlen]

Box of reptiles mailed to the wrong address in New York



PORT CHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Several live lizards were wrongly delivered to a residence in a village north of New York City.

“Needless to say the addressee was quite startled when they opened the box,” Port Chester police wrote on Facebook.

Police received the call about the reptiles just after noon on Saturday. They posted a picture on Sunday of three dark-colored lizards held in a large white container. It was not immediately clear whether there were more reptiles not pictured.

“If you lost your lizards and iguanas we have them at the police department,” police wrote.

They said they held the animals until a local animal sanctuary could pick them up for safekeeping.

[lush]

TV review: 'Lord of the Rings' introduces precious new heroes
Aug. 31, 2022 / 10:01 AM*


Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) and Halbrand (Charlie Vickers) hunt orcs. Photo courtesy of Prime Video

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, premiering Friday on Prime Video, is a triumphant return to Middle-earth after the lackluster Hobbit movies. Yet, it also is a TV series, not just a long movie chopped into hour-long episodes.

Stories follow Young Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) on her quest to defeat Sauron and his orcs, when the rest of Middle-earth believes them vanquished. Future J.R.R. Tolkien books and their movie adaptations already have proven Galadriel right.

Young Elrond (Robert Aramayo) seeks backup from his dwarf friend, Durin (Owain Arthur). Elf Arondir (Ismael Cruz Cordova) and his forbidden human love, Bronwyn (Nazanin Boniadi), set out to investigate what is poisoning the land.


Durin (Owain Arthur) leads the dwarves. Photo courtesy of Prime Video

A group of Harfoots, ancestors of Hobbits according to Tolkien lore, try to stay out of danger. Harfoot children Nori (Markella Kavenagh) and Poppy (Megan Richards) find The Stranger (Daniel Weyman) in the woods and try to help the giant.


Poppy (Megan Richards, L) and Nori (Markella Kavenagh) are Harfoots. Photo courtesy of Prime Video

The Rings of Power introduces epic battles at the front of the premiere episode. Elves sword-fight orcs in the rain, while dragons battle in flames overhead. A snow troll shows what kind of new Middle-earth creatures one might meet in the show.

However, the show can't be as action-packed as the movies, and it's not. The first two episodes are action-moderate, enough for a weekly adventure, but also leaving enough time to just live with the characters.

Still, it gets going quickly to lay out all the characters we're going to be following every week. The first two episodes balance subplots and attend to their characters, and do so as well as the movies balanced each character's separate quests.

The scripts maintain the Tolkien-esque dialogue, flowery enough to seem magical, but still decipherable English. An early highlight is a complaint about ice caves after sunset: "How long can human flesh endure where sunlight fears to tread?"

Clark also rolls her Rs when she talks about Sauron, which is consistent with the accents in the movies.

Elves, humans, dwarves, Harfoots and giants are different sizes, and the show conveys the disparity mostly through staging and perspective. A dwarf home is built with low-enough ceilings that an elf has to duck and still may hit his head on arches.

A map of Middle-earth helps convey a sense of geography, but what helps the most is that filming occurred in New Zealand, not on a green screen stage. The fantasy world looks real because they are in a physical place that happens to be the same one in which the movies filmed, too.

Even when the characters enter sets that are clearly extended digitally, like the dwarf caves, they've spent enough time on location that the viewer has a sense of place.

Episode 2 closes out with some exciting peril, too, so it's possible every hour will deliver some Middle-earth action. Even if it doesn't, Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has earned the right to take its time.

Fred Topel, who attended film school at Ithaca College, is a UPI entertainment writer based in Los Angeles. He has been a professional film critic since 1999, a Rotten Tomatoes critic since 2001 and a member of the Television Critics Association since 2012. Read more of his work in Entertainment.

[johngriffen]

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​Naked sunbather chases wild boar through park after it steals his laptop bag

A naked sunbather was seen chasing wild boar through a park after it stole his laptop bag.
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But the cheeky boar and its two piglets appear to be too quick for the sunbather, who can't keep up with their speedy little trotters.
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[ozswede]

Oh my gourd: Nebraska man paddles 38 miles in hollowed out pumpkin

Step aside, ultramarathoners: America has a new endurance athlete, and he’s as gourd as it gets.

A Nebraska man has set a new world record after he paddled 38 miles down a river in a huge, hollowed-out pumpkin he grew himself.

Duane Hansen of Syracuse, Nebraska, completed his journey last week, according to a Facebook post from the city of Bellevue on Saturday.



Photos on social media show Hansen crouched inside the giant squash, which weighed in at 846lb, according to the Facebook post. Officials said Hansen set off down the Missouri river around 7.30am and completed his journey just after 6.30pm.

It might look like fun – but you’d butternut try this at home. The 11-hour voyage appeared to take a physical toll on Hansen, who named the orange vessel Berta. “I went 38 miles down the river without standing up in that pumpkin and my knees still hurt,” Hansen said in a video posted by Reuters. “I probably won’t try this again,” he added with a smile. “If somebody breaks this record, I will bow down to them because they are tough.”


The journey took about 11 hours.

He told the Omaha World-Herald he had endured collisions with a sandbar and a rock as well as heavy rain and cold.

“I thought, ‘I’ll just paddle harder and warm up.’ I wasn’t thinking about quitting,” he said. “I went another four to five miles and it rained again. Berta is only about eight inches above the water line. I’ve never paid so much attention for so long in my entire life. It was tough.”

Hansen is described in the Facebook post as a “longtime Nebraska resident who enjoys growing large pumpkins, gourds and other vegetables as a hobby” and was inspired to vanquish the previous record after seeing another paddler attempt it. “Seems like a unique if not slightly crazy way to celebrate his 60th birthday, which was yesterday,” the post read.


‘Seems like a unique if not slightly crazy way to celebrate his 60th birthday,’

Hansen asked city officials to bear witness to the feat so that it would be recognized by Guinness World Records. The organization has not yet validated the results, according to the Washington Post, but it confirmed it would beat the current record for “longest journey by pumpkin boat” currently held by Rick Swenson, who traveled 25.5 miles (41.038 km) in Grand Forks, North Dakota, in 2016.

Pumpkins are famed for their ability to reach extraordinary sizes, with some varieties weighing over 2,000lb.

(I can't believe that there actually exists a world record for ‘the longest journey by pumpkin boat’. I need to get out more... )

A Tiny House in Manhattan Has a Link to the Underground Railroad

Before it was a clothing store, it was a bar, and before it was a bar, it was a key part of American history.



In a city of showy skyscrapers climbing ever higher in their bids to catch the eye, the beguiling little brick-and-wood house at 2 White Street in TriBeCa is striking precisely because of its humble scale and design.

Built in 1809 by Gideon Tucker, a school commissioner who ran a nearby plaster factory, the two-and-a-half-story, Federal-style corner house is exceedingly rare as a Manhattan home whose sloping gambrel roof and original dormer windows have survived more than two centuries.

The ground floor of the little house was divided into multiple storefronts, which in the 20th century held a variety of mom-and-pop shops serving a working-class neighborhood known until the 1970s as Washington Market: a corner barbershop with a candy-striped pole, a cigar store, a liquor store, a travel agency and a footwear shop with a distinctive shoe-shaped sign suspended above West Broadway. Now combined into a single storefront, the current retail space retains raffish details of its liquor-store days, including a retro red-and-blue neon sign and period gilt window lettering advertising cognacs and cordials.

In the past 14 years, the building has become a fashion destination, as two haberdashers — first J. Crew and now Todd Snyder — have sold men’s wear from the evocative corner storefront.

Less well known, however, is 2 White Street’s antebellum incarnation as a destination of a very different kind: the home of a prominent Black abolitionist minister and a possible stop on the Underground Railroad, the network of Black and white activists who helped African Americans flee Southern slavery before the Civil War. From 1842 until his death in 1847, Rev. Theodore S. Wright lived in the house, helping conduct fugitives to freedom in more-Northern parts of the country or Canada.

Although 2 White Street was declared an individual landmark by the city Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966, followed by the house’s inclusion in the Tribeca East Historic District in 1992, neither designation report even mentioned Wright. In the years since, the minister’s obscurity has persisted. In interviews, three tenants who operated out of the corner storefront over most of the past 28 years said they had never heard of Wright or the building’s abolitionist history until informed by a reporter.

View: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/28/real ... ition.html

[Fatima99]

'Immortal' jellyfish could provide clues to anti-aging



A team of experts, led by the University of Oviedo in Spain, have mapped the genetic code of Turritopsis dohrnii, the only known species of jellyfish that is repeatedly able to revert back into a larval stage after sexual reproduction.

The creatures use their "superpower" to avoid predators and are able to revert back to a cyst and begin the road to maturity again.

Scientists are hoping that the marine animal enables them "to better understand the keys and limits of the fascinating cellular plasticity that allows some organisms to be able to travel back in time".

Monty Graham, a jellyfish expert at the Florida Institute of Oceanography who was not involved in the research, does not believe that the study has any immediate value.

He said: "We can't look at it as, hey, we are going to harvest these jellyfish and turn it into a skin cream.

"It's one of those papers that I do think will open up a door to the new line of study that's worth pursuing."

Firefighters find 'unusual smell' aboard plane was bottle of nail polish



An "unusual smell" that prompted five fire trucks to respond to a plane at a North Carolina airport turned out to be a bottle of nail polish, officials said.

American Airlines Flight 563 arrived at Charlotte Douglas International Airport from Philadelphia at 7:50 a.m. Wednesday, and an airline representative said passengers were off-boarded as normal.

The spokesperson told Queen City News the ground crew members opened the luggage compartment about 8:15 a.m. and immediately noticed an "unusual smell."

The Charlotte Fire Department dispatched five trucks to investigate the odor.

"Firefighters arrived, checked out the hold and discovered one of the containers inside the hold contained a bottle of nail polish that had broken," the spokesperson said. "The smell was from the broken bottle of polish. No one was injured, and the plane is back in service."

[PennySerenade]

P.E.I. teacher discovers 300-million-year-old fossil during walk on the beach



A Prince Edward Island school teacher has made a major paleontological discovery -- a 300-million-year-old fossil.

Lisa Cormier was walking along the beach at Cape Egmont in western P.E.I. when she noticed something strange and decided to take a closer look.

“There were ribs,” she says. “When I looked more at it I saw a spine and a skull.”

A Prince Edward Island school teacher has made a major paleontological discovery -- a 300-million-year-old fossil.



Lisa Cormier was walking along the beach at Cape Egmont in western P.E.I. when she noticed something strange and decided to take a closer look.

“There were ribs,” she says. “When I looked more at it I saw a spine and a skull.”

There have only been two articulated skeletons -- bones preserved together in their natural arrangement -- ever found on the island.

P.E.I. is famous for its beaches and cliffs, and those cliffs are the reason fossils are being found in the province.

As the cliffs break down and erode away, they expose the rock underneath -- and sometimes they expose more than rock.

While it may look like one, experts say Cormier’s discovery isn’t a dinosaur. The fossil may be the first of its kind ever found.



“Here on Prince Edward Island, we don’t have any dinosaur fossils, unfortunately, but the fossils of the creatures that lived here 300 million years ago were just as cool,” says Laura MacNeil, owner of Prehistoric Island Tours. “Basically, all of the rocks are about 60 million years older than the dinosaurs.”

Cormier says that hasn’t dampened her spirts at all.

“To have more knowledge about humanity and the story of the earth is very, very special,” she says. “Can’t wait to figure out what it is and learn more about it.”

It’s possible that, if the fossil is found to be a new species, it could be named after Cormier.

The last animal found in the area was named Erpetonyx arsenaultorum, after the Arsenault who discovered it.

Meanwhile, there is hope among the island’s palaeontological community that the visibility of these finds will lead to more discoveries.

“As people learn about what can be found here and what these types of fossils look like, it’s very possible that in the upcoming years, that there could be a lot more getting uncovered and discovered,” says MacNeil.

[BigGlen]

Ginger Cat Appreciation Day was founded in 2014



Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Ginger Cat Appreciation Day, celebrated annually on Sept. 1, was founded by a Wisconsin software engineer in 2014 to pay tribute to his longtime companion.

Chris Roy of Milwaukee founded Ginger Cat Appreciation Day in 2014, after the death of his orange cat, Doobert. Roy had taken care of Doobert ever since finding him as a stray kitten 17 years earlier.

The feline also inspired Roy to found a company called Doobert, which aims to use information technology to match animals in need of care with specialized rescues and volunteer transporters around the country.

Other holidays and observances for Sept. 1, 2022, include Building and Code Staff Appreciation Day, Chicken Boy Day, Emma M. Nutt Day, National Cherry Popover Day, National No Rhyme Nor Reason Day, National Tofu Day, Pink Cadillac Day, Save Japan's Dolphins Day, Toy Tips Executive Toy Test Day and World Letter Writing Day.

[goldie0608]

Man Organizes Redo of School Football Match After 50 Years of Feeling Guilty for Scoring Dubious Goal



An Englishman has organized a replay of a school football match after 50 years of feeling guilty for scoring ‘foul’ goal.

Graeme Jones admitted to shoving a goalkeeper who had the ball in his hands, “ten yards” over the goal line in the dying seconds of a match to earn a “dubious” draw in September, 1972.

But the former Royal Navy training instructor said he was determined to “put right a wrong” after learning of the result’s lasting impact on his aggrieved local rivals.

It was no mean feat either, as Jones had to spend 18 months assembling the same line-up from the Gayton Primary School team, in the Wirral, who took on St Peter’s School half a century ago.

And before Saturday’s game (Aug 27), they even recreated an old squad photo that had appeared in a lo

Graeme’s bitter rivals went on to take a stunning 6-2 win in the one-off geriatric grudge match.

And though he was left feeling disappointed with the final result, Graeme said he could now put his “demons to bed”.

“We got stuffed because they had to bring on a couple of [younger players],” said Jones. “But my demons have been put to bed and my conscience is clear now, and we would have still lost regardless.”

“As I said before if we lose, we lose, and I wanted to turn a wrong into a right.”

It became all the more urgent to put the matter to bed, since during 2020 lockdowns when the idea of organizing the game came to Jones, he discovered that his neighbor from the St. Peter’s team had never forgiven him for playing dirty all those years ago.

“He told me, ‘I remember that game, and I’ve never forgiven you,'” said Jones. “‘You shoved the goalkeeper about ten feet behind the line in the corner kick in the dying minute, and your school PE teacher [the referee] gave the goal.”

“I was a center-half back in the day, and I just came up and bulldozed my way through,” he reminisced. “You wouldn’t get away with it today.”

Over the next couple of years, Graeme went about tracking down every former player who’d been in his school team’s original starting line-up. He had to bully a few and plead to others, but he managed to get the exact, albeit greyer, starting team as before.

Graeme even managed to get in contact with his former PE teacher, Alan Jones, who had awarded his team their controversial last gasp equalizer. Graeme was amazed to find that Jones is still alive, fit, and healthy in his early to mid-80s. The former-teacher observed the coin toss for first possession to ensure there was no foul play.

The two teams played a 30-minute-a-side match at nearby Heswall football club’s ground, with a raffle set up to help buy Graeme’s old school a new team kit.

And though Jones said that “the best parts of him are in a hospital bin” and that the team of golden oldies wouldn’t attempt another match, he said they would continue to meet up and renew their bonds following the now iconic fixture, with 522 years of memories between them all.

[Governor3]

Bodega Cat Exonerated in Stunning Court Decision
A deli worker remains solvent and a cat remains unbothered.

A courtroom sketch of Joseph Blanco v. G&J Deli Food Corp.

In June, Hell Gate reported on a Manhattan small claims case involving Negrito, a bodega cat who by most accounts has spent the majority of his life on the corner of Audubon and West 187th in Washington Heights. The trial, which included two dogs serving as character witnesses and several submissions of video evidence, unfolded over the course of a few rather chaotic hours, and we encourage you to read our coverage in full here. But briefly: This April, a resident of the neighborhood was walking his pit bull puppy when Negrito allegedly attacked the dog, incurring significant veterinary bills. Arguing that the cat belonged to the bodega in which it was occasionally fed, the resident filed suit against the manager of the deli, seeking a not-insignificant sum of $5,000.

We’re pleased to announce that on August 4, the Honorable Elena Baron reached a decision on Joseph Blanco v. G&J Deli Food Corp.

It reads as follows:

After trial this case is dismissed. It is well settled in New York that when harm is caused by a domesticated animal, its owners liability is determined solely by application of the rule articulated in Collier v. Zambito, 1NY3d 444 (2004), a rule that requires a finding that the domesticated animals’ owner knew or should have known of the animals’ vicious propensities before strict liability for the animals’ actions can be imposed. Bernstein v. Penny Whistle Toys, Inc., 40 AD3D 224 (1st dept. 2007). Claimant here failed to present any evidence stating either that the cat at issue had any vicious propensities or that the alleged owner or caretaker of the cat knew of such propensities that would endanger the safety of the persons and property of others. Accordingly, the case is dismissed.

The cat remains in good spirits, and is still often spotted in front of the deli it occasionally calls home:

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No justice, no peace - Gov

[lush]

Suspected trespasser in Florida woman's yard was a massive iguana
Sept. 1, 2022 / 3:54 PM*



Sept. 1 (UPI) -- A Florida woman who feared someone was repeatedly trespassing in her back yard said she was surprised to finally catch the culprit on camera -- an unusually large iguana.

Sheri Sotheby said she had heard strange noises in her Marco Island back yard on multiple occasions and thought someone might be trespassing repeatedly on her property.

"I've always been cautious because I constantly hear something out there," Sotheby told WBBH-TV. "I just had never caught it on camera."

Sotheby said her suspicions turned to the animal kingdom when she found droppings in her yard.

"I wondered if someone's pet was in the yard, so that's when I checked the camera," she said.

The homeowner said she was shocked to see the animal behind the constant noises.

"It was a large iguana," Sotheby said.

Ella Guedouar, a graduate student at Florida Gulf Coast University, confirmed the animal recorded by Sotheby appears to be a particularly large green iguana.

Iguanas are an invasive species in Florida and were introduced via the exotic pet trade.

Alfredo Fermin, a trapper contracted to remove iguanas on Marco Island, said the population of the reptiles has been booming in recent years. He said he does not expect the population on the island to ever be fully eradicated.

"If you remove five, 10 more are just going to show up," Fermin told the Marco Eagle in 2021.