tumblr posts with context and sources

Reblogging posts with context. Adding context or sources to some without. Sometimes killing jokes for the sake of accuracy. Submitted posts and corrections welcome.

[vieneinpace]

William Etty's Male Nude, with Arms Up-Stretched (1828) revamped by Astra Zero

[so-much-for-subtlety]

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The original painting is below. Etty never publicly exhibited this studio study and the work remained in his collection until his death. Etty is sometimes considered the first significant British painter of nudes (female and male), and while successful professionally and critically, was also often criticised for being indecent. (Wiki)

Astra Zero is a Canadian digital artist, who among other things creates reworkings of historical art. He describes his process on his Instagram (in the how & why bit). (Insta).

[natalieironside]

My boyfriend was showing me his cat and I leaned over to kiss the cat on his soft little baby head and he went "meow" and scrambled away because I'd been wearing my headphones and I accidentally jabbed him with the microphone.

And I said "Damn, this is exactly like in the Iliad"

[rebels-cairn]

#explanation: this references the scene where Hektor the prince of troy goes to his wife after a battle and leans in to kiss his son #(who is still a baby and being held in andromache's arms) #but his son cringes away in fear of his father's battle helmet #it's a gut wrenching scene about how war dehumanizes you and separates you from the people you love #this interpretation implies that being a gamer is analogous

[koredzas]

Piero di Cosimo - Venus, Mars and Cupid. Detail. 1490

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Euplagia quadripunctaria, common English name "Jersey tiger moth".

Widely distributed across Europe and parts of the Middle East.

Large groups of adults of subspecies E. q. rhodosensis can be found on occasion aestivating (sheltering from the summer heat) in Petaloudes, on Rhodes, in a place that has become known as the Valley of the Butterflies. [Wikipedia]

Euplagia quadripunctaria - Wikipedia

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[turtlezen42]

oh my God. The US is becoming an absolute hellhole.

[sonneillonv]

This video is about a scam taking advantage of people who have had family members detained by ICE. Please watch it, so you can recognize the signs if any of your neighbors are vulnerable!

[scenerwiththegreenery]

Adding a few links, because it's always good to vet raw information you receive online. TL;DR: This is TRUE. While I can't confirm her anecdotes, the events as presented are aligned with recent, known scams.

There are plenty of news articles and blog posts about this, but I chose these three because they are reputable sources about the claims made:

the American Bar Association (which is specifically mentioned in the video)

the American Immigration Lawyers Association

the National Immigrant Justice Center

I know that, in these times, there are some claims that we cannot vet as well as we would like to. But I was able to find recent information about this scam (and others!) on all three of the above-listed sources.

These links include more information on how to spot fraudulent "immigration attorneys," where to report suspected scams, and how to find a legitimate immigration attorney.

CHICAGO, Nov. 19, 2025 — The American Bar Association (ABA) recently documented more than a dozen reports nationwide of individuals fraudule

Charity Anastasio, AILA Senior Counsel, Practice and Ethics, details the recent surge in immigration scams and the coordinated and sophistic

Who Can Answer Your Immigration Questions? Private Attorneys: Call the American Immigration Lawyers Association at 1-800-954-0254 for a refe

[nudityandnerdery]

The Twilight Zone

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[famouspainterwombat]

[niftyandinterestingstuff]

Wait 'til you see what it is... cool!

[dreamsaremywords]

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1938's Razor Blade Sharpener - Siemens - Restoration

Here is a new video !!This is a rare razor blade sharpener made between 1928 and 1938 by the Austrian company Siemens.It must have been very

[sitting-on-me-bum]

“The Dragon and the Sun”

by Damien Esquerre, University of Wollongong.

“This photo was captured on a sunny summer day in Canberra. Bearded dragons (Pogona barbata) love to bask under the sun in their eucalypt woodland habitat. I used a fish-eye lens to capture the habitat and the sun in the composition to have a detailed portrayal of the lizard's ecology.”

British Ecological Society Photo Contest

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Current competition is open until the 30th September! You do not need to be in, from or your photo have anything to do with, the UK to enter.

Categories for entry are:

1. Animals

Celebrate the diversity and complexity of animals through photographs that tell a unique story about their behaviours, challenges, and habitats. Showcase a species in its environment—whether depicted alone or as part of a population. While other species may appear in the frame, the focus should remain clearly on one.

2. Plants and Fungi

Showcase the power of plants and fungi with stunning images that focus on a single species. Whether focussing on their vibrancy, unique forms, or spectacular habitats, we want photographs that capture our fascination with these remarkable organisms.

3. Interactions

Highlight the intricate relationships within ecosystems or communities by focussing on the interactions between species. From symbiotic partnerships to predator-prey dynamics, your photographs should emphasise the connections that underpin nature.

4. Ecologists in Action

Demonstrate what it means to be an ecologist by showcasing yourself in action. Whether out in the field or in the lab, we want stories that highlight the vital contributions ecologists make to understanding and protecting the natural world.

5. People and Nature

Capture the complex interplay between humanity and the ecosystems that sustain us. Showcase the challenges, resilience and beauty of the natural world, highlighting stories shaped by human impact.

6. Nature, Food and Farming

Explore the balance between agriculture and ecology, showcasing the indispensable role of landowners, farmers and their supply chain in shaping sustainable, nature-friendly landscapes. We’re seeking inspiring photographs that demonstrate thoughtful management of land to produce food while preserving and boosting biodiversity.

7. Mobile Ecology

Embrace the spontaneity of smartphone photography in this year’s brand new category. We’re looking for images that showcase how our pocket devices empower anyone to capture fleeting moments with nature in our daily lives and tell powerful stories of the ecosystems around us.

8. Up Close

Discover the breathtaking artistry of nature that so often goes unnoticed by the naked eye. Celebrating these intricate shapes, patterns and textures, we invite photographers to unveil the hidden wonders that lie just beneath the surface through macro photography.

[thememedaddy]

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$4.75 in July 2008 has the same buying power as $6.98 in 2025, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics's CPI calculator (source).

However, inflation does not go up the same across everything, e.g. in the last 12 months, the price of food at home has increased 2.2%, but the price of food away from home increased 3.9% (source).

[fidgetspringer]

Adjusting a hiking pack: How to not be That Guy.

Comfortable is the goal!

First some backpack anatomy.

Before you do this, load some weight into your backpack. Make sure it's packed comfortably with the heaviest weight close to the middle of your shoulder blades.

Step 1. Loosen all the load bearing straps on your pack. (Belt, shoulders, lifters.)

Step 2. Put your backpack on and hoist it up so that your belt is around your waist, not your hip bones. Tighten enough so that the belt rests on your hip bones without being able to slip down too far over them.

Step 3. Tighten your shoulder straps. Just whatever feels ok for now.

Step 4. Tighten the load lifters to pull your pack against your body.

Step 5. Go back and make sure your shoulder straps aren't too tight or too loose. You want them to barely be touching the tops of your shoulders when you straighten your back. Letting the weight rest on your hips.

Here's a video of me adjusting my pack:

Now, go for a hike/walk and adjust as you go. If your shoulders start to feel tired or sore, hoist your pack up higher and tighten the belt a bit more, then loosen the shoulder straps a few cm until it feels better.

The goal is for as much weight as possible (at least 70%) to be on your hips not your shoulders. I guess people think that spreading the weight out onto your shoulders means it doesn't feel as heavy on your legs? But your legs are going to be carrying the sum total regardless. All you're doing is spreading the misery to more of your body.

[womany]

Photos of Jewish butch lesbian icon, Hannah Gluckstein from Brighton Museum’s Gluck: Art & Identity exhibition.

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Gluck was born Hannah Gluckstein, but preferred to be identified only as Gluck ("no prefix, suffix, or quotes") and when an art society Gluck was vice president of identified Gluck as "Miss Gluck" on its letterhead, Gluck resigned. In the absence of more information on either pronouns or identity, the National Portrait Gallery refers to Gluck as "Gluck" or "the artist" (rather than she, he or they).

Gluck's romantic relationships were exclusively with women, including Nesta Obermer (who Gluck referred to as "my darling wife" in letters) and the journalist Edith Shackleton Heald.

[ceevee5]

[samrobotize]

People in the USA should be reading foreign news.

This is what they did to a Canadian

Quebec man warning Canadian boaters after he was detained by U.S. Coast guard, put in jail cell

A Quebec man says he is outraged after the U.S. Coast Guard accused him of fishing in American waters and then arrested him before putting h

A Quebec man says he is outraged after the U.S. Coast Guard accused him of fishing in American waters and then arrested him before putting him in a jail cell for nearly two hours.

Edouard Lallemand, 60, said he nearly drowned during the ordeal last Sunday afternoon after the Coast Guard’s boat “pushed” his boat, causing it to capsize.

Days after the incident, he’s still shaken up.

“I’m never going to be the same,” he told CTV News.

[phynali]

Seconding that Americans should read and seek out foreign news. Seriously. The BBC, the CBC, the Guardian app, GroundNews, whatever. Stop relying on fucking.... the NYT or MSNBC or whatever y'all are watching.

People aren't traveling to the US. Even Forbes is reporting a 29 billion dollar loss to your tourism industry for this year. And literally everyone outside of the US is like "yeah of course that tracks, I keep reading news stories about citizens from my country being detained when they go there".

(to say nothing of the incredible anger amongst Canadians for the annexation threats and tariffs attempting to create economic pressure to capitulate to the orange one's bullshit, let alone stories like what happened to the man in the story linked above. We are NOT taking our tourism dollars south anytime soon)

Begging Americans to learn about the world outside of the US.

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Travel industry staffer twice detained at US airports warns Kiwis to avoid country if possible

Source: New Zealand Herald, 19th May 2025

New Zealand Reconsiders Travel Advisory for U.S. After Eight Kiwis Detained at U.S. Border Under New Immigration Laws

Source: The Travel, 26th April 2025.

US deports German teens upon arrival from Auckland

Source: The Economic Times, 21st April 2025

These countries have issued travel advisories for the United States

Source: Conde Nast Traveller, 27th March 2025

[horsefigureoftheday]

Horse colors are easy. For example, the left horse is flaxen liver chestnut and the right horse is silver dapple

Left is mealy and right is pangaré

Left is flaxen chestnut and right is dark palomino

Left is perlino and right is amber champagne

Left is dun and right is buckskin

Like I said, easy!

[alithographica]

This Horse Bullshit (Horseshit?) Explained, Briefly and Incompletely:

Horse coat genetics rely on a handful of coat genes but lots of genes modify those coat genes. The first layer is pretty straightforward. Horses have two genes that produce one of three base coat colors: Chestnut (reddish brown), bay (brown), and black (...black). The intensity (shade) of these colors vary, but it's fundamentally just those three.

Then there are a ton of genes that dilute those colors. Some of those genes are dominant, others are recessive, and others are dosage-dependent (one copy will have an effect, but two copies produce a stronger effect). There are also other genes that produce white within hairs or produce specific distribution patterns.

The specific coat + modifier combinations have specific outcomes, so horse people have gotten very granular with their descriptive terms and it looks utterly incomprehensible to an outsider. Generally, the muzzle and eyes will tell you a lot, but sometimes it truly does come down to needing a DNA test or pictures of the parents.

Okay so...

Flaxen liver chestnut vs. silver dapple: Liver is a shade of chestnut, and flaxen horses are horses that have a particular gene that causes lighter manes/tails than coats. However there are other genes can also cause lighter manes/tails too—silver dapple is one of them. Silver dapple dilutes a normally bay or black horse so that you have a flaxen effect on the mane/tail and sometimes also a dappled (spotted) coat. These are known to be stupid hard to distinguish in some cases but genetically, a FLC has a chestnut base color and silver dapple has black or bay.

Mealy vs. pangaré: ...ngl I have no idea what the difference is here (op help??). Regardless, mealy/pangaré are patterns that produce lighter hairs around the eyes, nose, belly, and legs. It's a common gene and can show up in addition to most any other coat pattern.

Flaxen chestnut vs. dark palomino: Flaxen chestnut is same as above, but with a lighter (non-liver) shade of chestnut. Palominos are also chestnut horses but carry a single cream gene, which dilutes them to give them that lighter mane/tail. (If a chestnut horse has two cream copies, it's cremello. A bay horse with one cream copy is buckskin, and two copies is perlino.)

Perlino vs. amber champagne: Perlinos have pink skin without much freckling, so their coat looks really consistent—and they also have blue eyes, thanks to that double cream copy. Champagnes have pink skin with dark freckles—note the pink nose/lips and darker spotting on the ribs and thigh. They also usually have brown eyes by the time they're adults. (To my knowledge, the champagne and perlino effects are also notable within specific breeds—so if you were hypothetically very knowledgeable, you might know whether the genes were champagne or perlino without really needing to investigate.)

Dun vs. buckskin: Notice the stripe on the spine of the dun horse. It's a little hard to distinguish on the photo, but duns also have bars (stripes) on their legs—you can see a couple darker stripes near where the black leg blends into the main coat. If you /don't/ see the dorsal stripe or bars, it's a buckskin...probably. Other genes can sometimes also make or hide those effects. DNA tests are helpful here.

Hopefully that's mostly correct/intelligible; it's a little simplified. Horse genetics are one of those things where it initially seems super complex, then you learn a bit and it starts to seem controllable...so you read a little more and it's back to being too complex.

[horsefigureoftheday]

The difference between mealy and pangaré is a lot easier to spot on bays (I chose chestnuts as examples to be annoying lol). It's the same gene, it's just different expressions, from what I learned. Like splashed overo vs medicine hat. What I learned is that mealy horses have stark white muzzles, while pangaré horses have a gradient

But now I'm wondering if this difference is just a colloquialism...

In any case, they're not to be confused with seal brown, which is entirely unrelated, as you can tell by the darker eye rims:

[horsedetector]

Horse detected!

[horse-colorimetry]

Genotypes comparison (to the best of my abilities)

Flaxen (liver) chestnut: e/e The genetic causes of flaxen chestnut are unknown, but the flaxen trait seems to be polygenic and recessive. Black silver: E/_ a/a Z/_

Mealy/pangaré genetics are unknown. Left is a chestnut dun: e/e D/_ and right is a flaxen chestnut.

Flaxen chestnut: e/e n/n Palomino: e/e Cr/n

Perlino: E/_ A/_ Cr/Cr ch/ch Amber champagne: E/_ A/_ n/n CH/_

Bay dun: E/_ A/_ D/_ n/n cr/cr (Wild) buckskin: E/_ A/ d2/d2 Cr/n

Seal brown: E/_ A/_ Just like a bay horse. The difference between the two hasn't been discovered yet.

[bovineblogger]

ophelia..

[bunjywunjy]

psst quick note to everyone calling this a Water Buffalo:

this is a cow 🐄🐮

[bovineblogger]

hi! this is a young water buffalo! pay attention 2 the shape of its face, nose, and how big its ears are! :3

images (x) (x)

[bottledfool]

water buffalo of the lake, what is your wisdom?

[bovineblogger]

oats

[audacityinblack]

Something I find interesting is the way he's breathing.

He's lifting his head up just enough to inhale above the water, and then exhaling it slowly under the water. This is the technique human swimmers are taught, to make sure their lungs are empty for a quicker inhale when they come back up for air so they can keep a good oxygen cycle going. When you're holding your breath, the oxygen in your blood breaks down without being replaced. At best this will make you tired faster, at worst it can put you into a state of asphyxia, trigger your gasp reflex, and possibly cause you to drown.

This water buffalo can stay underwater like this for hours just by breathing this way.

[power-chords]

This is INSANE!

[o-kurwa]

[niftyandinterestingstuff]

That’s going to be expensive!

[what-username-where]

Me: oh damn that's a lot of roof, you're right that'll be really expensive

Me at the end of the video: *jaw drops* OHHHHHH NOOOOO NOW I GET IT

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Location: Memphis, USA. Year: 2020.

Source: Jalopnik

[excitementshewrote]

[disc80s]

it’s the “date of birth: 1303 BC” for me...

[theoutsanityshoppe]

“Profession: King (deceased)”

[grabyourpillow]

Fact checked: it's false! ❌

[grabyourpillow]

Because I can't help myself, here are the key points of the article disproving it:

The transfer of the mummy happened in 1976, not 1974

The fake-passport presents as a biometric passport, which are only delivered since 2008 in Egypt

The barcode on the fake-passport comes from the original blog article posted on the website heritagedaily.com. it's written underneath

This heritagedaily is a blog dedicated to paleontology and archeology that CLEARLY STATES THE FAKE PASSPORT IMAGE WAS CREATED TO ILLUSTRATE THE BLOG ARTICLE

The creator of the heritagedaily website confirmed to the fact-checking website linked above that he created it in 2018 and then republished it in 2020

Other versions are online, one more minimalistic, another in Arabic. All are false.

The mummy was received in France in a big show, with honors becoming of a sovereign. No mention of passport in any interview or article from that time.

The person in charge of documentary studies at the Egyptian antiquities Department of the Louvre Elisabeth David states that there is no fundament for the existence of a passport.

There is NO FRENCH LEGISLATION ACCORDING TO DECEASED HUMAN PEOPLE REQUIRE PASSPORTS

Mummies aren't even considered as "people" in case of a transport they are considered as "goods".

Elisabeth David cites a report from the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle (National Natural History Museum) issued in 1985 as possible reason for this confusion:

[Translation by me: "Obviously, for such a grand figure to leave Egypt, obtaining a "pass"(port) required reaching out to the highest authorities of both countries, after reaching a mutual agreement, after long and tedious negotiations."]

Okay so obviously I'm not a professional translator so I'm not exactly sure how it reads in English, but in french it's pretty clear that the person writing just uses the term "passport" as a metaphor for the long and tedious procedures required to get the mummy out of the country, just as for issuing a passport. She uses it so the sentence reads as "obtaining an okay [to pass through]".

(Anyone who's ever had to deal with the french administration will have similar feelings on such a matter.)

TLDR: THE WHOLE IMAGE WAS CREATED TO ILLUSTRATE A BLOG ARTICLE. THERE IS NO SUCH FRENCH LEGISLATION

Mostly English-speaking websites relay either the default faulty assertion, or the version according to which only the photo is fake but there was a passport, probably because they don't have to the original 1985 report that mentions this "passport" nor access to this fact-checking article that provides the full context. (The latter part of the sentence is a hypothesis by ME)

MISINFORMATION SPREADS FAST BUT FACT CHECKING TAKES HOURS

PLEASE BE MINDFUL OF WHAT YOU BELIEVE

The original fact-checking article cites and links all relevant sources. This website is a trusted fact-checking website operating under strict guidelines. It is a foundation with no political, commercial, or ideological ties.