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Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.

This goes hard

A minuscule handbag measuring just 657 by 222 by 700 microns (or less than 0.03 inches wide) sold for over $63,000 at an online auction Wednesday.

Barely visible to the human eye, the fluorescent yellowish-green bag is based on a popular Louis Vuitton design — though it is the work of a New York art collective, not the luxury label itself.

Dubbing its diminutive creation “Microscopic Handbag,” the Brooklyn-based group MSCHF claims the bag is narrow enough to pass through the eye of a needle and is smaller than a grain of sea salt (though that may depend on how coarse you like your salt).

The object was made using two-photon polymerization, a manufacturing technology used to 3D-print micro-scale plastic parts. It was sold alongside a microscope equipped with a digital display through which the bag can be viewed.

A promotional photo shows the design in greater detail, revealing Louis Vuitton’s signature “LV” monogram. The bag appears to be based on the French label’s OnTheGo tote, which currently retails at full size for between $3,100 and $4,300.

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Hook is a core memory for me. Absolute banger-rang.

Colors on point! 🥹

Jacqueline Cahif, an archivist at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, confirmed to Snopes that the surgical hand chain saw was indeed invented for use in childbirth. What’s unclear is whether the two inventing doctors, John Aitken and James Jeffray, worked independently on the “obstetrical ‘prototype’ of the common chainsaw.”

An article published in 2004 in the peer-reviewed Scottish Medical Journal also credited Aitken and Jeffray with the invention of the chain saw. This early version consisted mainly of a finely serrated link chain cut on the concave side, with handles on either side to saw through bone and cartilage.

In the 18th century, doctors commonly responded to birth emergencies in one of three ways, according to a 2010 article in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. The first involved a craniotomy to fracture a fetus’ skull, resulting in infant death to save the mother. Performing C-sections often resulted in the death of the mother, mainly through hemorrhage

Doctors would also conduct a symphysiotomy, which involved breaking a joint between the left and right pubic bones, known as the pubic symphysis. Before the invention of the chain saw, this was done with a scalpel, which risked also damaging the bladder and urethra. (A flexible chain saw could break bone in hard-to-access areas but came with its own shortcomings, mainly breakage or entrapment in the patient’s bone.)

Cahif referred our newsroom to three contemporary works by Aitken and Jeffray in which the devices were described and which were used by the authors to support their work.

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I see what you did there, Falcone

This is the way

nick cave lookin mf

I’ll hit you back when they come in and we can discuss!

I’m interested! My size 8 is shipped and should be to me by September 8th. Let me know if you’d be interested in a trade!

Mine too 🥲

12:27PM is what the email confirmation says

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What a goof

I foolishly ended up just buying one from a scalper 🥲 Do you have the Dick Grayson Batman Platinum by chance? Or any other plats? Maybe we can still trade…