what's the source

✶ sometimes i find where pictures are from ✶ Header/icon: Sindy Süßengut ✶

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✶ saraheshaw on instagram ✶

[pepsi-maxwell]

has anyone got that post with the comic atrip alien that says "what channel is the women's wrestling on"

[fallout-lou-begas]

i've got you

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✶ Image by Spain Rodriguez, published in Warrior Women: Spain Vol. 2 ✶

Source information taken from this post (🔗).

[dankolara]

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✶ Photo courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. ✶

Located with citation here (🔗), but the source page has not been confirmed and neither has the photographer.

The picture is a World War II gun emplacement on Eastern Island, Midway Atoll (Hawaiian: Kuaihelani or Pihemanu), surrounded by nesting Laysan albatrosses.

What the albatrosses need the gun for, we can only guess.

[beammeupplease]

David Hockney.

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This image is not by David Hockney.

✶ whatsthesource verdict: possible AI, pending confirmation. ✶

The rationale: Based on reverse image searches, the image likely originates in 2025, but the original poster has not yet been identified.

Here is the earliest time stamped post found so far (🔗). However, it is unlikely to be the origin post, as a less-cropped version of the image in the tweet can be found here (🔗). The tweet may be the source for the attribution to David Hockney.

Due to unusual textural artefacts, the image may be AI generated or taken on an AI-enhanced phone camera, but the quality is too low to be sure.