I managed to get a holly blue with wings open 😍🦋 #butterfly

I recommend floor-level lighting if only to make your cat look like she's about to tell you a scary story

Worn #onthisday in 1923 by West Ham captain George Kay and Boston Wanderers captain Joe Smith, shaking hand for the shorts-suited ref before the kickoff of the first ever FA Cup final match played at the newly completed Wembley Stadium in London. The Bolton Wanderers won 2-0. #OTD @gettyimages.com

The Bath https://clevelandart.org/art/1941.70

“not to point fingers but-“

I have actually read (and loved!) Someone You Can Build a Nest In but I hadn’t even thought of classifying that as cozy horror although I do see why you would! I have also read a LOT by T. Kingfisher and I think I know which ones you mean.

Cozy horror

Ochre limewash in sunshine, a glorious thing. (Little Hall, Lavenham, Suffolk).

In the 1890s, the world turned purple. Known as "The Mauve Decade," this era was defined by a specific shade of violet that took over everything from fashion gowns to everyday style.  #FashionConservatory #FashionHistory #MauveDecade #1890sFashion #VictorianStyle #ColorHistory #VintageFashion

"All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience" - #MaryWollstonecraft, born on this day, from her early feminist text 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' 1792. UK women's suffrage banner by artist Mary Lowndes, 1908 #WomensArt

Andrew Wyeth, "Master Bedroom," watercolor on paper, 1965 (cc: @sarcher.bsky.social)

Tonight's goodnight image is 'The Enchanted Road', Frank O. Salisbury, oil on canvas, 1928 or before. Sleep tight.

A Borogove!

Gothic Town Hall and Cathedral in #Bremen, Germany. #Photography #UNESCO #MedievalMonday

As I reap my crop in the wasteland, and only dig up what I do need I’m happy I don’t need convincing that the dandelion is not a weed. 💛 -Lindsy Laurie #Bloomscrolling #ImageAndverse #stunday #flowers #photography #EastCoastKin

*taps the 1979 IBM management document*

THREAD 🧵 Who are the world’s top military spenders? A Swedish-based think tank has documented the rise in military spending from countries across the globe. #Infograph

Very much enjoying the jury at a concealed infant inquest in London 1902. They wanted to HORSEWHIP the young man who had impregnated the mother, because he'd since married someone else, then they called him a SCAMP

Will dress fancy for BBQ.

We are Making a New World https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-nash/we-are-making-a-new-world-1918

Happy birthday to Baldwin Hamey Jr, born #OTD in 1600, and possessor of one of the best hats in the museum. 🎩👒🎓

Incomparably fantastic portrait of a pensive, slightly melancholy man in the 1430s by Robert Campin, whose day was today.

Glass aryballos (perfume bottle), late 6th–5th century BCE Class: Glass Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean Medium: Glass https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/255484

FYI: some extremely stupid people are going to try to shut this place down at some point

If your AI doesn’t sing about tandem bicycling, it isn’t worth the price paid.

This is a portion of the surface of Venus, seen with radar. The field of view is about 630 km across. This kind of surface morphology isn't seen anywhere else in the Solar System... except perhaps Earth.

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt #Monday

It is comical to the rest of the world (at least our Government) that instead of addressing the access to guns, the United States Government wants to build larger buildings to hide in. Truly amazing.

Artist’s impression of Trump’s ballroom.

Puddles have grown into swimming pools at Umani and the mudbath is deep enough for a dip. Not everyone is a fan of the recent wet weather: Amali flat out refused to come out of her overnight stable one morning until it had brightened up! sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/keepers-diaries

#Abla: well, are we going for a walk, or what?

Prince Albert, Duke of York, wed Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey #OnThisDay in 1923. Madame Handley-Seymour made this prototype of the bride’s Medieval style dress of ivory crepe de chine applied with cloth of silver and pearl studded bands. Sold via Dreweatts. #fashionhistory

Worn #onthisday in 1987 by the hair-metal band Poison, posing for an @latimes.com profile in Hollywood, CA. "With the band members' pretty faces aglitter with makeup on the cover of their million-selling album, Poison looks like an all-female band," the reporter wrote. #OTD @uclalibrary.bsky.social

Dublin pub, photo by Carina Hedlund, Swedish social worker and photographer.

My wife snapped this amazing pic of the Empire State Building tonight

Lad on the train is talking to his mother about his London marathon experience... "I don't mind losing to somebody who broke the world record, you know? How long did I take? About five hours, Mam."

A 3,500 year-old Minoan clay pot shaped like a modern shopping bag! 🛍️ From Pseira, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum. 📷 by me #Archaeology

Gender War II came out of the unsatisfactory treaty which ended Gender War I twenty years before.

Today is World Penguin Day! Here is a waddle of emperor penguins marching in front of a ski-equipped U.S. Navy LC-130 in Antarctica in 1987. Did you know that a group of a penguins on land is called a "waddle" but a group in the water is called a "raft"? #WorldPenguinDay

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

'Orange Tree' embroidery design by May Morris ( 1862 – 1938) pioneering English embroidery designer, jeweller, and key figure in the Arts and Crafts movement, who founded organisations to help female artists #Womensart

he was nothing but a humbug, trying to be a bugbear.

John Wicks versus Joe Wicks: Squat Squad

What an experience for all of us.

Normal people have absolutely had enough and they are starting to cook lmao

#Penguins, n.d., by #NorbertinevonBresslernRoth (Austrian, 1891-1978). Private collection? Source, www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4... #artherstory #womenartists #WorldPenguinDay

The Dusk Walker . #scary #creaturesart #creatureconcepts #creaturesketch #monsterartwork