Strange Women Lying in Ponds

History. Art. Culture. The Written Word. Comedy. Curiosities. Nature and The Sciences. Anything Else That Holds My Attention. Combinations Thereof. And The Occasional Disjointed Personal Post. ((Hodge-Podge)) Welcome Bid. "Queen of the Cultured Wilds. Empress of the Empty Space between Words. Grand Duchess with Dominion over Damasks" - shilohta "The best mystery I've ever discovered" - R a n d e h

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"Not morning dew, but excess water oozing from the plant itself forms these droplets on the edges of strawberry leaves." Life Nature Library: The Plants, Frits W. Went, 1963.

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Girl whose most frequent mistake is inaction voice: wow I keep making mistakes I better not do anything

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Jair Bolsonaro’s son sentenced to four years in jail for seeking US interference in father’s Brazil coup trial

Brazil supreme court finds that Eduardo Bolsonaro – who resides in the US - tried to get sanctions put on judges trying ex-president over co

Brazil’s supreme court has sentenced Eduardo Bolsonaro to four years and two months in prison after finding him guilty of courting US ⁠interference in his father’s coup plot trial last year.

The office of Brazil’s ‌prosecutor general had ‌charged Eduardo Bolsonaro – who lives in the US - courting interference from the Trump administration to help Jair Bolsonaro’s case, by imposing sanctions on the court’s justices and tariffs on Brazilian goods.

His father, the former far-right president, is serving 27 years in prison for plotting a coup in 2022 after losing the elections to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

The younger Bolsonaro, a former lawmaker, moved to the United States in 2025, months before ‌the trial that convicted his father of plotting a coup.

In the US, he has been ​active in building support, especially from the Trump administration, for his father. Eduardo Bolsonaro said in a statement after Tuesday’s conviction that he had not been properly notified about the court’s legal ⁠process.

He had previously told Reuters that his work in ​the US ​was not aimed at getting ​his father acquitted by Brazilian courts, but ​at forcing the ‌Brazilian supreme ​court to ​punish officials who, according to the son, were not complying with Brazil’s constitution.

In July last year, a Brazilian supreme court judge ordered that the bank accounts and assets of Eduardo Bolsonaro be frozen over allegations that money being sent to him by his father was bankrolling his efforts to lobby the Trump administration to help Bolsonaro avoid punishment for the alleged coup attempt after the 2022 election.

In March, the former president was allowed to temporarily be placed under house arrest for three months due to ill health after being diagnosed with pneumonia and treated in an intensive care unit.

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China, 1964-65. Emil Schulthess

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Léon De Smet (Belgian, 1881-1966), Rhododendrons, 1912. Oil on canvas, 71 x 83 cm.

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Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

Full Commentary

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ruins of St Andrews Cathedral in Fife, Scotland

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wooow, labour MP btw

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not just any MP, but an undersecretary for migration and citizenship. this guy is one of the MPs that has a direct hand on the genuinely horrific treatment of migrants and refugees in the UK, including shipping them off to the UK's former colony after unilaterally declaring the colony to be safe, as well as stripping the migrant and refugees of their heirlooms in the name of "paying for their migration in the UK with their own assets." Starmer's cabinet is filled with people whose bloodsoaked hands will never wash out like these.

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Look at this sweet, beautiful creature!

[postcards-daily]

Cape Disappointment Lighthouse - Washington (Photo by Craig Tuttle)

"Situated at the mouth of the Columbia River, this lighthouse flashes its warning of rough bar conditions year around."

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In my ravenous search for some unheinous thing with which to play my vast and ancient music library, I've discovered beautiful FOSS creatures feasting upon the corpse of WinAmp

And what this means is I can now play music with an interface made up of pixel art old enough to rent a car

The internet is beautiful forever

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Also i highly recommend getting a gaggle of friends together and scrolling through the piles and piles of archived winamp skins together. Peak experience.

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Carl van Vechten (American, 1880 - 1964)

Carmen de Lavallade, 1955

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Winning Penn Station Redesign Features Trump’s Name

Renderings of the station redesign show the president’s name carved into a wall, raising questions and concerns.

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The Simpsons (1989-present)

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The poster I from whom I found the quiz disabled reblogs. This quiz is so fun!

What Movement Would You Have Joined in Early Modern Europe? A Typology Quiz — theodramatist

A typology quiz for the years 1500 to 1789. Thirty-four questions, thirty-four types—humanist, Puritan, philosophe, magus, salonnière, merce

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if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.

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⛰️ Atlas de la flora alpine 4. Genève, Georg & Co., 1899. Original source Image description: Illustration of two tubular blue alpine flowers, identified as Gentiana Froelichii, or Froehlich’s Gentian. Each flower is elongated and closed with delicate petals, attached to green slender stems growing from a cluster of narrow, pointed leaves. Visible roots extend downward, showing the plant’s structure. The illustration is detailed and botanical, set against a plain beige background with the page number 335 in the top right corner. The text below names the plant and notes its habitat in high-altitude eastern Alps, flowering from August to September.