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[dogpuppy]

[hexjulia]

look at the cute cow angel i saw when i tried to link to the correct page of that manuscript.

(the Apocalypse of Saint-Sever, (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 8878)

[xanaxfarts]

Katsushika Hokusai: ‘Agate’ (1822)

[wizardarchetypes]

I’m lying on my belly beneath birch trees, talking to my long distance best friend on the phone, absentmindedly picking up fallen pieces of bark and peeling them apart. then i picked one up that has a poem written on it?!

… / first summer after the divorce / … / waiting in the park / my teenagers on their phones / roses still in bloom / … /

[unteriors]

Clydebank Road, Balmoral, Victoria.

[doktorvelociraptor]

Holy shit. Thats pub carpet!

Town hall hotel in north melbourne has it (albeit well loved)

The Corner hotel also has it and recently got a collab to knit jumpers with the same pattern (photo borrowed from soundmerch)

And I was racking my brains trying to remember where else had it and literally looked down…

I’m keeping this pub a secret though

[eurig-morgan-deactivated2017121]

Baby armadillo plays with his toy

[puppy95]

Are you fucking kidding me

[figpal]

i have never been happier 

[tony-the-tigers-juicy-armpit]

Gen alpha is so brainrotted because there’s too many satellites affecting their astrology. These babies got Starlink #637 in Pisces and BeiDou in Aries and ISS in Virgo and shit, its like spiritual microplastics

[e-n-d-a-s-h]

Liz Toohey-Wiese, 2024.

"A sign installed in the largest wildfire burn I’ve ever seen, along the BC/YK border. Borrowing the aesthetics of BC Recreation Site signs, once again pointing to the overlaps of outdoor recreation, resource extraction, and the consequences of the climate crisis. Most recreation sites in BC exist along previously built logging and mining roads.

“Forced into a great and difficult transformation” was a line I heard in a lecture on Buddhist philosophy I was listening to on my drive up north. But it became another mantra I thought about while living in a place that’s been utterly transformed by resource extraction over the past century, and as I thought about the burnt landscapes I drove through."

More here.

[elbiotipo]

Still firm on my idea that we should ban advertising.

[elbiotipo]

In the Biotipist People's Republic the only advertistments you would get would be giant posters of Yuri Gagarin telling you to support space exploration.

[kropotkindersurprise]

There is this artwork (by British artist Marcus Coates) at Utrecht Centraal train station that I adore. Every day it shows a new fact about what's happening in nature on that day. For example in this picture I took last month, the sign says:

14/03 Today in nature: Litte moorhens start constructing their nests.

It never fails to cheer me up when I walk by there :3

[kropotkindersurprise]

20/05 Today in nature: The first red deer calf is born.

[kropotkindersurprise]

17/06 Today in nature: Bats are active again and catch thousands of insects at night.

[kropotkindersurprise]

15/08 Today in nature: The moles cast out their young.

21/08 Today in nature: Young bats are starting to catch insects by themselves, and no longer rely on their mothers' milk.

07/09 Today in nature: The last Common Branded Skippers (Hesperia Comma butterflies), show themselves while flying around.

[kropotkindersurprise]

(tags by @queerasaurolophus)

Happy Moles Cast Out Their Young Day to all who participate!

[zegalba]

Polycoria, apathological condition of the eye characterized by more than one pupillary opening in the iris.

[archivalwork]

Resurrection or 狂野时代 (2025) dir. Bi Gan Debut: May 22, 2025, Cannes Intl. Film Festival, France Frame size 1.33:1; Digital-SLR color video; recorded on Arri Alexa 35

[angelicmarble]

[konoko]

[crabussy]

Why do kiwis have such massive fucking eggs “it’s because they are related to ostriches and-“ yeah ok but like why didn’t they evolve smaller eggs if I was in charge I would do that shit pronto. Thoughts?

their big eggs are actually that size for a similar reason to human babies having massive heads!! being bigger at birth can be important.

kiwi are trying SO HARD to become mammals. fur-like feathers, whisker-like feathers, little beady eyes, nocturnal, great sense of smell.... that's basically a mammal!! they're well suited for life on the forest floor.

their big eggs work alongside these adaptations to give them a leg up in the bird world. their young hatch already feathered! they're precocial, which means they're born with the ability to open their eyes and move around. like foals.

big egg = more powerful offspring from the get-go. babies don't need to spend precious time vulnerable while they develop on the ground when they've already done all that in the egg!

(unfortunately, with the introduction of mammals to aotearoa, these adaptations are a little less useful...)

[nothingimportantanywhere]

Important addition: baby kiwi come out of the egg looking like they've come out of a shower with a hangover

[assortedinsanities]

They look like one of the downsides of emerging from an egg fully formed is how aware you are off just having come out on egg. First minute alive, already dealing with some fucking experience.

[frostedmagnolias]

18ct Gold Ring set with a Carved Labradorite of a Lion’s Head

c. 1900

[dogpuppy]

[cucurb]

hey guysss so unfortunately the rumors are true and im leaving the narrative. Buttt the good news is my absence will create such a gaping hole in your lives that it will become a sort of presence itself, and so in a way it will kind of be like i never left! But i am. Leaving just to be clear.