monochrome scarab lineart

2025-11-24,
of pine tar and the north

Medlar, Monday, 24 November 12025 HE
Nèfle, Quartidi, 4 Frimaire An CCXXXIV
H, a.d. VIII Kal. Dec. AUC MMDCCLXXVIII
13.0.13.2.1, 6 Imix 19 Keh, Mictlantecuhtli
19X06 | 2461004

peach-colored rose, San José, California

2012-11-17 – Olympus PEN E-PL1
peach-colored rose, San José, California

No Mercy – “Where Do You Go” ↗

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If sauna, vodka, and tar won’t help, the disease is fatal.

—Finnish proverb

early reports on Covid mentioned the virus could be killed with heat and alcohol and Finns breathed a sigh of relief – the Wikipedia article includes the above proverb on their page on tar along with mentioning Finns believed that tar would cure “even those cut in twain through their midriff” – thanks to its microbicidal properties, pine tar is used in traditional Finnish medicine, as a flavoring for candy and vodka, as a spice for meat and food, as a scent in saunas, as an anti-dandruff component in shampoo, and as a component of cosmetics

Tar ↗

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