born to be mild

36, white, queer, femme, cis

[beardedmrbean]

Periscope up

[birds-in-posts]

Green heron (Butorides virescens)

[flareonfloof]

birds have secret bones we're not allowed to know about

[wizardarchetypes]

Awesome video displaying phenomenal craftsmanship—posted by one of my favorite Tiktok accounts: Tlingit_Haida

Aani (the land known as Southeast Alaska) has been home to the Tlingit and Haida Peoples since time immemorial

Edit: To clarify, this particular video features Git Hoan Dancers, of the Tsimshian Tribe. They say so in the video, but I realize my caption about the Tlingit and Haida Nations might cause confusion.

[xphaiea]

Ruslan Golovko

[pmamtraveller]

Hilma Af Klint, The Swan, 1915

[throatoftheworld]

Chalice of the Void by Seb McKinnon

[beautifulbizarremagazine]

Truly magnificent. A breathtaking reimagining of classical elements inspired by the intricate beauty of 16th and 17th century tapestries into a modern silhouette by Emma Moncrieff @emma.moncrieff_art.

Royal Regent Jubilee Dress Series Acrylic on canvas 1400x1060

[portalibis]

Venus in a Shell with Dolphins by James Pradier (1790–1852)

Telegram / Facebook / Sacred Ibis fb group

[pmamtraveller]

Jewels of the deep by artist Edward Julius Detmold

[dogpuppy]

[pineberry-princess]

[robert-hadley]

A FOSSIL FISH MORTALITY PLAQUE - From the Eocene (circa 50 million years ago)

Source: sotheby’s

[househunting]

$899,000/4 br/3 ba

Tucson, AZ

[miamaimania]

"Green Lady" ❦ bronze bas-relief, verdigris patina — a feminine face entwined with leaves and flowers

[eirene]

The Passer-By (Le Passant), ca. 1898 Robert Engels

[robert-hadley]

Needlework Sampler - The National Gallery of Victoria

[r2x2]

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

[cbarc]

Please save and share this info where possible. This report has since been removed by Amnesty International due to legal threats of libel from JK Rowling. This information is no longer easily accessible.

[notbecauseofvictories]

A customer contacted our team with questions, and then finished their email with: "I am daunted by the complexities and unknowns." I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since.

[cameoappearance]

Reblog if you are daunted by the complexities and unknowns

[probablyasocialecologist]

Study finds nearly every pre-2010 video game is unavailable

Games from older consoles are being made less and less available to the point so much of the industry's history could easily vanish without

[gay-jesus-probably]

Vimm's Lair: Preserving the Classics

Preserving classic videogames from consoles past.

I'm just gonna slide this on in here for anyone that is interested in preserving old games. They take it very seriously too, they want an archive of every single game. Like, they have lists of every game ever released for a system, and once that system gets old enough, they add it to their archive and start collecting. Their latest addition was the Xbox 360, they opened that vault up in September 2022, and proudly announced they'd finished their collection of games for it back in April.

Also, while their game archives are almost entirely complete, they've got another project of archiving the manuals that came with those games, and that is... considerably less well filled out. Their collection of Xbox 360 manuals is especially rough, they've only gotten manuals for three games. So if you've got some Xbox 360 games kicking around, and the manual's still with them, please consider scanning them and submitting them to the site!

Game preservation is important, but people rarely consider preserving the manuals as well; I really respect Vimm's Lair for being so thorough in their archival work.

[anachronic-cobra]

I've been using Vimm's Lair for years, I have yet to see a single bad link or virus on the entire site. It's arguably the safest and most comprehensive archive of video games in existence. Preserved history