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[butchdeanjohn]

positive image: a portrait of gay america (1985) by stephen stewart

[herpsandbirds]

European Adders (Vipera berus), gettin freaky up in tha cut, family Viperidae, Helsinki, Finland

w/ some grass snakes (Natrix natrix) doing their thing underneath.

Venomous.

European Adders often form these mating aggregations, after emerging from hibernation, in which multiple males will try to mate with the same (much larger) female.

photograph by Antti Koli

[hitokouji]

[wendy-morgan]

[cherryfleischer-deactivated2026]

sexyback is a good song but the idea of justin timberlake being sexual disgusts me I don't even register him as a human being let alone a person or a man he's more akin to an old blind dog who pisses everywhere

[blacberries]

crochet colorwork ive done lately

[a-book-of-creatures]

The author must have been eating woodland salad, candied acorns, turnip pie, plum-cakes, bilberry tarts, arrowroot shortbread, and glazed maple shoots, and drinking flagons of October ale and raspberry cordial when they wrote this

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

Giant driftwood on a beach in La Push, Washington (2010)

[blackshvck]

the idea that every summer will be as hot if not hotter than this for the rest of my life is unbearable i need to (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health) murder an oil executive

[calleido]

blue tit

[vintageeveryday]

Ella Fitzgerald holding a basket of flowers while singing ‘A Tisket, a Tasket,’ 1946. Photograph by Eliot Elisofon.

[yohjimuse]

fog over water, isaac levitan, 1890s

[calellon]

i'll forever miss how the internet felt before you had to second-guess the authenticity of every single piece of media you came across. silly videos used to be just silly. fun was coincidental. wonder was just wonder. digital art had character and soul. AI has taken the taste out of everything and irreversibly poisoned the creative sphere and the people still pushing it forward are the doom of joy and hollowing out the quality of being.

[bebs-art-gallery]

Tide Pool (1980) by Jeremy Miranda

[shamebats]

The (European) sun is a deadly laser, stay safe everyone

[unfuckablebogtroll]

☝️🤓 it’s because the further you move toward the earth’s poles, the lower the angle of the sun is at the hottest parts of the day, meaning the radiation hits your whole body, causing it to feel 10-20 degrees warmer than the thermometer reading will tell you. People from tropical climes, aka close to the equator, are used to the sun’s radiation hitting a much smaller target- their head and shoulders.

Also the further you move toward the poles the more pronounced the difference between the length of day and night is. Worst part of a far-north (or south) heatwave is it doesn’t get dark long enough for meaningful cooling.

It’s not the heat. It very literally is the sun.

[torillatavataan]

[vrabia]

i couldn't tell you if the sun is uniquely evil in europe, but i can tell you the bigger issue is that climate change has been advancing in the region at a pace that urban infrastructure has no chance in hell keeping up with, at least for the next 1-2 decades. in many big european cities the 'old town' area is probably a paved square surrounded by historical buildings, maybe a cathedral, a monument, a statue or two, a fountain if you're lucky. that was fine back when 30 degrees celsius was a rare heatwave. it's a fucking nightmare when 38 degrees has become commonplace, because what are you gonna do? move a bunch of historical buildings to make room for enough trees to make a difference, since large green spaces are also limited to parks and gardens? build artificial cooling infrastructure around a 15th century cathedral? i'm not being pretentious, i'm saying whatever methods we develop for mitigating the insane pace of climate change should take into account the importance of cultural sites everywhere, not just in europe. it's the kind of thing where you need historians, curators and artists on the team, not just engineers and climatologists.

it's also a problem in modern urban spaces here. in eastern europe, big concrete apartment buildings built during communism are a common sight. great for affordable housing and the reason eastern europe has some of the highest home ownership rates in the world, but when it's 38 degrees out and you're walking on asphalt among literal giant slabs of concrete it's a nightmare.

i couldn't tell you about uv levels or the angle of the sun, but i can tell you europe is unprepared to deal with the current pace of climate change. if you're out in a european old town square like the guy in that screenshot and the thermometer says 30 degrees, it's a fucking lie. it's easily 40 degrees. you're not getting heatstroke because the sun is a deadly laser, but because you're in the middle of a very poorly controlled heat island (that you also might not have expected and prepared for if you came as a tourist). and i worry it's going to get worse before it gets better.

[herpsandbirds]

Sly Crayfish (Procambarus versutus), family Cambaridae, Okaloosa County, Florida, USA

photographs by Seth Patterson

[powerburial]

New macklemore “thrift store 2”

In the thrift shop at the hospital Found some clothes they dont need anymore Put the coat on and gain their memories