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[enchantedbook]

'Death of the Fairy Queen' by John Anster Fitzgerald, (1832 - 1906).

[strathshepard]

Cyrk (Polish circus poster, 1971, by Wiktor Gorka)

[aster-is-confused]

my favorite genre of bird picture

[official-ornithology-posts]

Official ornithology post

[grumme]

and this one!

[clawmarks]

Green Heron from The Birds of America - after John James Audubon - 1860 - via Bonhams

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

The concept that married people live longer is interesting. I'm sure there is some merit to the idea that if you're married there is someone there to nag you about going to the doctor, but I think much larger factors are having the finances of dual incomes and access to an immediate support person.

Surgeries require having a designated person to look after you. Many injuries require driving to somewhere like an emergency room which can be hard to do if you are the one injured. If you're home with the flu, it's hard to tell when it's bad enough to go to the hospital without another person checking on you. And if you pass out it requires another person to find you like that to get medical aid.

You can prop it up as the benefits of marriage, but I think there's a much deeper discussion to be had about how we've built society around marriage as an inevitable conclusion and neglected to build support systems that function outside of romantic pairings.

[boygoth]

Adrianne Lenker for The New York Times

[cawmeraman]

how fucking satifying are these pics, can you fucking believe the birds lined of like that ?????? it looks edited almost, love it ! love it !

[heaveninawildflower]

Terracotta figurine of a fox scratching his neck (Greek, late 6th–early 5th century B.C.)

Image and text information courtesy MFA Boston.

[weepingwidar]

Paul Rog (Russian, 1995) - The Girl in the Red Socks (2025)

[witchrealms]

(x)

[pleasecometomybonfire]

Orhoq after eating a seal

[catherinedesroches]

Catherine Desroches, God bless my international girlfriend, 2025, Graphite, ink, and pencil on washi

[michaelnordeman]

Cold, crystal clear groundwater bubbling up through the sand. This is Uhrilähde (”sacrifice spring”) in Jämijärvi, Finland. These natural springs create an almost hypnotic movement beneath the surface. The water remains remarkably clear and cool year round as it filters through layers of sand and gravel left behind by the Ice Age. 

Uhrilähde, Jämijärvi, Finland (22 May 2026). 

[kaylmao]

10000 YEAR OLD ROCK ART OF GIRAFFES FOUND IN LIBYA LET'S GO

[kaylmao]

YES!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lilacchao]

of note: 95% of libya is desert, and giraffes are not found there! but this predates not just the libyan desert, but the entire sahara desert it's a part of! giraffes aren't found there any more and this is a memory of a time when things were giraffier

also apparently this rock art dates across multiple periods spanning thousands of years? but i couldn't find much detail on that so i can't give specifics

but yeah, this isn't just a memory of giraffes, but of giraffes now absent encountered by people just 2000 years (the difference between the late roman republic and today) out of the ice age, in a climate unfamiliar to any of the hundred billion people born since the desertification of the sahara drove the ancient egyptians to the nile, near the start of the agricultural revolution

the time between this and the birth of the sahara was nearly as long as the time between the birth of the sahara and now, in which all recorded history is contained, and all languages we can recognise at all - the language and culture of these people would be totally alien to current libyans, twice the difference between the oldest european language and english, predating all but libya's mountains!

and we have pictures of giraffes of the time! what a beautiful gift from such a distant past

[skogsskratti]

Giraffiti

[grumme]

i feel like the internet / people on social media rn have Suddenly Discoverd Birds ? and, im sorry, i should never allow myself to be this annoying and mr know it all, but I feel like I own the right to state something here, as I have been obsessing over birds of all forms since I was 8 years old. #orginal fan. jk. Obviously you are kind of Obliged to learn about all small creatures crossing your way, flying above you or singing from trees and whatnot. anything else would be weird. they might be trying to contact you, or the world in general. anyway. I'm happy you went out and touched grass and noticed the world. it was there all the time. thank you good bye

[nevver]

Catch me if you can, John Divola (because)

[kyotoprotocols]

[curatorofbabel]

full kit by moey p. wellington