Gossamer Lights in the Evening

I'm a scientist. Former paleontologist. Current biochemist. She/her. Demi or ace. Somewhere in there.

[lamignonette]

[timewasjustadream]

Paw print info:

Paw prints on a floor tile in 12th c. St. Peter Church in Wormleighton, England (The earliest post I've been able to find is from August 2023 on Twitter. This post says the prints are in St. Mary's Church. But there is no St. Mary's in Wormleighton. There is one in Wormsley nearby. It is possible the comments in the post clear this up, but I don't have an account so I can't read them. All the later postings of this image seem to just copy/paste the exact words from the 2023 posting, except that they change the church to St. Peter.)

Paw prints on a medieval manuscript from Dubrovnik, Croatia

Paw print on a brick from Phnom Penh, Cambodia in an old ruin

29-million-year-old paw prints from a cat-like predator in a preserved volcanic ash layer in Oregon

[government-cy-op]

Just found 2 copies of a 19th century naturalism magazine and LOOK AT THEIR LITTLE ICON

[lilyblisslys]

me with the. When she. When her. When the she her me

[mollyjames]

[timewasjustadream]

From artist Beth BeRad

[anthrophobixx]

I had a dream where Brock was revealed to be a butch lesbian at the end of journeys and he thought that "ash and the others already knew" and the entire internet started losing their minds over it and after a couple hours the pokemon company tweeted "surprise faggots" with a picture of Brock holding a poorly edited lesbian flag

I tried to recreate it it looked smth like this

[hypnosispkmn]

In light of recent events (my main got a pkmn related hit post ppl see the butch brock vision)

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[zakiyah]

"ingredients you can pronounce" learn phonics. coward.

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[keresacheron]

Dinosaur cartoon.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Important reminder

[geeky-fuckery]

This reminds me of the fact that "Ancient Egypt" goes back so many thousands of years, that the most recent "Ancient Egyptians" were already studying (even more) Ancient Egypt.

[charlesoberonn]

Not even the most recent ones. It was an Egyptian prince from the 13th century BCE studying and restoring artifacts from the 26th century BCE.

[charlesoberonn]

For context, the last Pharaoh, Cleopatra VII, lived in the 1st century BCE. Prince Khaemweset, known as "the first egyptologist", was as ancient to her as the pyramids and tombs he was studying were ancient to him.

[theaudientvoid]

I remember having me mind completely blown when I learned that the "New Kingdom" was pre-Bronze Age Collapse.

[oxeanic]

This has totally be mentioned in another fork of this post, but it reminds me quite a bit of Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum, a museum in Ur, c. 530 BC, which housed mesopotamian artifacts dating back in some cases to the 20th century BC

[ringneckedpheasant]

I am always saying this during museum visits

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[everydaylouie]

i didn’t know that about you, primeape

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[timewasjustadream]

Apparently my neighbor (the one I don’t like) is extremely impatient. I had a new range delivered today. The delivery guys backed into his parking space that was open because it was easier for them to make the delivery. The timing happened to be that the delivery was in progress when my neighbor got home. Instead of waiting ~3 minutes, he slammed and stayed slammed on his horn for most of that three minutes. While he could definitely see two guys going into my house with a range and leaving with one. Really shows the type of person he is.

[snoopyoftheday]

hi snoopyoftheday i am your and snoopy’s biggest fan, do you have any good snoopy quotes i could put on my grad cap?

[timewasjustadream]

I did some paint your own pottery this weekend. The other side has the other Peanuts square.

[woodstocksnoopy]

[timewasjustadream]

I did some paint your own pottery this weekend. The other side has the other Peanuts square.

[labelleizzy]

[eriyu]

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

I have never seen the 2nd object before, but with the Power of Algebra I now know it's a saw horse

Information is WILD

[frogribbit]

i wish people would stop romanticizing not eating breakfast and not getting enough sleep and being dependent on coffee to function and always being in a bad mood and treating yourself poorly because that behavior is very unhealthy for you

[flameraven]

He’s right.

[thehmn]

This is such a funny painting to me.

It’s Caravaggio’s “The Calling of Saint Matthew” depicting Jesus choosing Matthew as one of his 12 disciples.

Matthew was a tax collector, hated by all, so he points at himself like “…Me? Are you pointing at me? Are you sure? Me? Of all people? Me?”

I feel like it could be a fantastic meme template if the meaning of the painting was more widely understood.

[dunsparcee]

I sneeze

[internetwes]

[hotlikeaspicymeatball]

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[clementine-kesh]

i’ve made this post a million times but it really does drive me up the wall when people think that the phrase “everything is political” means “everything is related to current political happenings” instead of “everything is a product of its context”