Just me putting up random things

38, M, the Netherlands, merchant navy 2nd engineer, camping nerd, single/available

[oldfarmhousefallfeatures]

Word of hope

[weergang]

!!!!!!!

[christslamb]

German hunting knife, 19th century

[ltwilliammowett]

Bark Europa

Source

[iiumz]

[spacemancharisma]

do y’all remember usernames??? from back when every fuckin website didn’t need your email phone number home address social security number just to join/sign up for something?? when you could make website-specific accounts that weren’t linked to literally anything else??? they tried to boil us like a frog slowly switching to “username/email” and then just asking for your email. but I remember. I remember usernames.

[ltwilliammowett]

A Dutch flute ship becalmed, by Ludolf Backhuysen I (1630–1708)

[postcard-from-the-past]

Port scene in Hamburg, Germany

German vintage postcard

[srcee]

i love taking care of others, i really do, but sometimes i wish someone would take care of me

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

today I learned that in 2008, the city council of florence overturned dante’s sentence of execution if he returned from exile. yes, dante’s inferno dante, who died in 1321.

but the funniest part of this is not that they were debating the exile of a man who has been dead for over 500 years.

the funniest part is that the vote was 19-5. five people voted to uphold dante’s exile.

[stabethadeathwhisper]

The objectively funniest part of this is actually that the city that holds his remains, Ravenna, refused to give his remains back. This was a ploy from florence to have his remains moved back for the tourist money and its been ongoing for a long time. Florence had a fake tomb built in the city to trick people into visiting, and have tried to force the return of the remains.

His actual caretakers have been very steadfast in keeping them hidden, moved, or generally out of reach to respect his choice in life to never, ever, ever return to florence, even when he was first offered the chance to return. This is at this point an almost millenium long feud that florence is really, really mad about losing

[mysteryteacup]

so basically the five people who wanted to uphold his exile were in the right

[t13shoots]

Sail 250. Norfolk,Va.

[barbariankingdom]

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[weergang]

Wat is eigenlijk een "opinie maker"

Is dat niet gewoon een influencer op de klasieke tv....

[ltwilliammowett]

The Chalupa a basque whaling boat, 16th century, Red Bay, Labrador, NL, Photo by Snuffy

Some basque whaling boats from the sixteenth century were recovered at Red Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador by archaeologists from Parcs Canada, in underwater excavations of the San Juan Whaler, sunk in 1565 and it is the oldest whaling boat known.

[sacred-portal]

[maureen2musings]

Lavertezzo & Foroglio, in the Ticino region of Switzerland

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