The ancient Greek princess Io visiting the second Delphic Festival in May 1930. Original colour photo taken by mr. Maynard Owen Williams. Just in case Christopher Nolan wants to make another film about the Greek classics. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_(myt...

Even with barely any clothes on, covered in sand and sweating in the hot baking sun, our ancestors looked cooler ;) Photos taken by Sam Shere in 1946 at Rockaway Beach in New York.

A Martian Eclipse: Phobos Crosses the Sun: What's that passing in front of the Sun? It looks like a moon, but it can't be Earth's Moon, because it isn't round. It's the Martian moon Phobos. The featured video was taken from the surface of Mars in 2022 by the Perseverance rover.

Carunculated Caracara spotting the landing. These birds are only found in the high Andes Mountains of Ecuador and southern Colombia. They will feed on almost anything including worms, maggots, rodents, birds, and lizards. Caracaras are in the same family as falcons. 🪶 Antisana National Park, Ecuador

On Bob Dylan's birthday, a thread about the story behind the remarkable photo below: Dylan driving away from Andy Warhol's Factory with one of Warhol's Silver Elvis paintings—a painting now worth millions of dollars—on the roof of his car

Some weevil goodness. This little friend has excellent camouflage for life in a mossy environment. (Coelosternus sp.) El Refugio de Intag, Ecuador #invert

I looked up this warbler to see if it migrates and Birds of the World said nope, "sedentary". The Spectacled Redstart calls the Andes Mountains home from Colombia south Bolivia. Like our North American warbler friends, this bird feeds on insects. 🪶 Guango Lodge, Ecuador

The Tropical Royal Flycatcher is a bird that nests in tropical riparian zones and they have an incredible crest that can be difficult to see. They display their crests during courtship, but they also spend a lot of time preening after catching insects and they'll often throw their crest then.

Before people think this Trump surrender in Iran is a one off, remember: Trump negotiated the deal with the Taliban that lead to our shameful withdrawal.

Jamaican model, singer, and actress Grace Jones was born #OnThisDay in 1948. She wore a hooded bandage dress with openwork lacing on the side from Azzedine Alaïa's S/S 1986 collection to accompany the designer as he accepted an award at the 1985 Oscars de la Mode. #fashionhistory

French fashion designer Pierre Balmain was born #OnThisDay in 1914. Balmain designed this strapless Orlon satin "Antonia" evening dress, embroidered with metallic threads and appliquéd with silk chiffon roses, for his S/S 1954 collection. Palais Galliera collection. #fashionhistory

English ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn was born #OnThisDay in 1919. She was photographed with Yves Saint Laurent wearing the designer's c. 1965 white silk crêpe cocktail dress with a cut-away bodice, trimmed with black Petersham ribbon and bows. Fashion Museum Bath collection. #fashionhistory

343 years ago, on the 24th of May 1683, the Ashmolean museum in Oxford opened on Broad Street. The initial collection was acquired by Elias Ashmole from John Tradescant the Elder and John Tradescant the Younger. #otd #history🗃️

In the 1980s, a suitcase marked “private” was found in a barn near Oslo. Inside? Hundreds of playful, radical photos by the couple Marie Høeg and Bolette Berg — subversive visions of gender and sexuality in early 1900s Norway: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/berg-and-hoeg/

When watering your tree, concentrate efforts under the canopy of the tree, as this is where most of the roots are likely to be. Ensure that you water evenly so that no matter where the roots are, they get some water. 🌳 💧 #TreesLoveCare

Let’s be clear, the slush fund isn’t toxic just because it’s corrupt. Everything Donald Trump does is corrupt. This became toxic on day one because Donald Trump is no longer untouchable. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...

The amazing Berlin gold hat is one of four gold hats known to date. Three were found in Germany, one in France. The purpose of this #BronzeAge objects are unknown. They are all similar in shape and pattern. Their conical shape resembles a wizard’s hat, which led to speculations that...🧵1/3 📷 me

Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond from May 24, 1936.

In Youyang Zazu, the Walnut Monster (胡桃怪) is ancient China’s nightmare of transformation: wasp, walnut, old man, hunger. During the Dali era in Weinan, a boy woke at midnight to see a pale, toothy elder enter the house. His mouth gaped like a winnowing basket, and1/2 #folklore

The Dukes of Galliera: an Italian duchy held by Genoese aristocrats then Orleans princes who act as Spanish infantes. Along the way, a Princess of Monaco and the owner of the Hotel de Matignon. In Two parts: The Brignole-Sale family and the Dukes of Montpensier dukesandprinces.org/2026/05/24/g...

Her hand, with a wedding ring, rests casually on his shoulder. A hint of a blush, a wide smile. This couple, probably Isaac Abrahamsz Massa and Beatrix van der Laen, look entirely at ease together.  👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200109346

52 Photos Of The Enthralling Life Of Frida Kahlo By Erin Kelly These Frida Kahlo photos prove that the renowned Mexican artist lived a painful yet profoundly influential life. allthatsinteresting.com/frida-kahlo-... #art #lgbtqia

Grand salon de l’Hôtel des Invalides visité hier soir durant la Nuit des musées.

Crowned Woodnymph #hummingbird at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #costarica #birds #nature

The maiko Tanewaka performs “A Brilliant Brocade of Chrysanthemums”. Kyo Odori Program, Kyoto, Japan

For this #SpoliaSunday, a page from #Florence’s "stone library". ​In the early C18, the #Riccardi family transformed the courtyard of #palazzoMediciRiccardi into an open-air museum, cementing #Roman inscriptions and #spolia #sarcophagus fragments directly into the walls. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Readers of weird fiction: I recommend William Sloane's two short novels, TO WALK THE NIGHT (1937) and THE EDGE OF RUNNING WATER (1939). "Weird" is apposite, they both exceed genre boundaries with mysterious deaths, a touch of science fiction and an overwhelming atmosphere of horror.

To bring a smile to your face A 2,000 year-old figurine of two ‘Dancing Dogs’ 🐾❤️ Blackware ceramic, Colima, West Mexico, 200 BC - 200 AD. 📷 Princeton University Art Museum #Archaeology

Will AI dull the cognitive faculties of humans? Yes. Tools like ChatGPT help us figure things out. But we lose the opportunity to develop our judgment and reasoning. “When we invent for convenience, we lose skills that are no longer necessary.” www.forbes.com/sites/ayteki...

Different shades of Iranian Turkic-Islamic architecture

The teenage diaries of Queen Victoria — born #onthisday in 1819. The excerpts included in the 1912 book span from 1832, when Victoria was 13, to 1840, the same year that she married her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha at the age of 20: publicdomainreview.org/collection/q... #otd

Aste Hampe #German #engineer #statistician #physicist #economist 1 of 5 women amongst 500 men @tum.de qualified 1931. 1960s Professor @ Uni of Marburg. Women's Eng Soc's 1st #German member, 1929 wrote article on experiences as young woman engineer b. #OTD 24 May 1907 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asta_Ha...

I really think people have forgotten what a dynamite good girl artist Stan Lee was.

I found the Spectacled Owls hunting in the forest this morning at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #owls #nature

Visual development art for Me and My Shadow (canceled), DreamWorks Animation Pieces by Griselda Sastrawinata-Lemay and Jason Scheier

Black Cats, by Japanese artist Tadashige Nishida (1993).

📚 What book are you currently reading? Woman reading at a window, 1913, Albert André (1869–1954). Oil on canvas, 61 x 50cm. WA1937.34

The stairwell of Mousa Broch on the western shore of the Island of Mousa in the Shetland Isles. The broch was constructed in the Iron Age in around 100 BC. 📸 My own. #StairwellSaturday #Mousa #Shetland #Archaeology

24 May 1936 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Isajah Mermelstein, was born. In 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- ▶ WEBINAR: Deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/M42znxofU5Q

23 May 1941 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Robert Spiero, was born in The Hague. He was deported to #Auschwitz in February 1944 and murdered in a gas chamber.

Messier 2: After the Crab Nebula, this giant star cluster is the second entry in Charles Messier's famous list of things that are not comets. M2 is one of the largest globular star clusters now known to roam the halo of our Milky Way galaxy. It was once described it as a nebula without stars.

This near-infrared image released on May 6, 2026, shows a section of one of the spiral arms of Messier 51 (M51). M51 is one of four nearby galaxies observed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in a study of nearly 9,000 star clusters.

1️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ That's one million pages digitized and counting. The Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley marks this major milestone in its LoCAL Digitization Project. An archive of California local government history searchable online. Learn more: igs.berkeley.edu/news/one-mil... 🧵 1/5

I’m sharing it a little late this year, but if you’re still swimsuit shopping, remember that the color of a person’s bathing suit can be lifesaving www.today.com/parents/colo...

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

24 May 1930 | A French Jewish girl, Tova Zarcon, was born in Paris. On 20 January 1944 she was deported from Drancy to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

Shah Cheragh Shrine and Mosque  Complex in Shiraz, Iran. The complex is known especially for its fabulous interior of mirror  mosaics, Shah Cheragh shrine is one of the most prominent sites of pilgrimage in Iran....

#RomanSiteSaturday - The Roman bridge at Alcántara in Extremadura, Spain, is an exceptional example of Roman engineering. Built over the Tagus River in Lusitania c. AD 104-106, it was dedicated to Trajan by local populations. It spans the river at almost 200 m and rises 40 m above the water.

An allegory of the continent America, pictured riding atop an armadillo, from a late 16th-century Dutch print: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/america-a-personification-ca-1590