Wonderland

24, pan and poly. WA. It goes and you go with it.

[throughwinterfields]

Mads Peter Iversen

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

2,300-Year-Old Plush Bird from the Altai Mountains of Siberia (c.400-300 BCE): this artifact was crafted with a felt body and reindeer-fur stuffing, all of which remains intact

This stuffed bird was sealed in the frozen barrows of Pazyryk, Siberia, for more than two millennia, where a unique microclimate enabled it to be preserved. The permafrost ice lense formation that sits just beneath the barrows provides an insulating layer, preventing the soil from heating during the summer and allowing it to quickly freeze during the winter; these conditions produce a separate microclimate within the stone walls of the barrows themselves, thereby aiding in preservation.

This is just one of the many well-preserved artifacts that have been found at Pazyryk. These artifacts are attributed to the Scythian/Altaic cultures.

[uroko]

source

[fairydrowning]

"In March I'll be rested, caught up and human."

– Sylvia Plath, from a letter to "Aurelia Plath" written c. February 1953

[aer-head-deactivated20250315]

au plus près,

oil pastels

[just--space]

CMB Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe : Our Earth is not at rest. The Earth moves around the Sun. The Sun orbits the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way Galaxy orbits in the Local Group of Galaxies. The Local Group falls toward the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies. But these speeds are less than the speed that all of these objects together move relative to the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR). In the featured all-sky map from the COBE satellite in 1993, microwave light in the Earth’s direction of motion appears blueshifted and hence hotter, while microwave light on the opposite side of the sky is redshifted and colder. The map indicates that the Local Group moves at about 600 kilometers per second relative to this primordial radiation. This high speed was initially unexpected and its magnitude is still unexplained. Why are we moving so fast? What is out there? via NASA

[lehappybest]

[arjuna-vallabha]

Elephant at Amber fort, Rajasthan

[important-animal-images]

[cockhunt]

[corsolanite]

Literally an end of an era

[gefdreamsofthesea]

Hot take of the day: a worrying number of leftists are actually just Evangelical Christians with the serial numbers filed off

The world is sinful a capitalist hellscape but we just have to wait until the Second Coming the Revolution happens when everything will be magically fixed. Any attempt to make actual progress makes you a lukewarm Christian liberal anything less than the Apocalypse the Revolution (which we are forever waiting for btw) is completely useless . Also consuming certain media or makin certain lifestyle choices is sinful and unchristian bad praxis.

[figtreeandvine]

There's also a common obsession with an ideal "prelapsarian" past--Eden before the apple in Evangelicals' case, life before colonialism, industrialism, capitalism, Christianity, agriculture(!) in some leftists' case.

[j-k-i-ng]

“Forest Colors“ by | Jan Erik Waider

Jostedal, Norway

[michaelblume]

This is your annual warning that *there will be no warning* when fire season is about to start. Nobody’s going to post “Hey everyone, remember, fire season starts next Friday!”. The state will just catch fire. You will wake up and the sky will be orange. It could be tomorrow, it could be July, it could be August, we could get incredibly lucky and skip it altogether. If you hope to buy an indoor air purifier before fire season, if you want to ensure everyone in your home has a P100 for going outside, if you want to stockpile water and you haven’t already, the time to do it is today.

[the-suitelife-of-disneychannel]

my queen

[memeuplift]

[endless-puppies]

Puppy bundle!