Drone photography creating a wonderful illusion! Shooting during early morning or late afternoon with the low sun is necessary to project shadows that are elongated and darkly defined! The black cast of shadows from the giraffe are amazing.

Spider which uses spring trap to catch prey discovered bbc.com/news/article...

Possum on the wire and Melbourne in the background.

I’m Australian, so I know how to cope with heatwaves: here are my tips for keeping cool

About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons

💪

Skills of a librarian

​A 175-Year-Old Shipwreck, Lots of Booze and an Island’s Quest to Survive www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/w...

A stunning 2,000 year-old #Roman bowl made of translucent blue-green mosaic glass 🩵 Looks like it contains the cool turquoise blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea! 🌊 Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me #Archaeology

XTC - Generals And Majors. Yes, that is Richard Branson of Virgin.

Octopus Teapot by Japanese ceramic artist Keiko Masumoto #womensart

Placed in an orphanage for a month at 8yrs old because his parents were so poor, here's a shirt-monogrammed, full-blown Hollywood star TONY CURTIS, at the Dorchester Hotel — London in 1957.

I want all the Grace Kelly costumes in this film! #RearWindow #TCMParty #EdithHead

Saw this today and it was totally awesome. Mackenzie (Bell Shakespeare) limelight-arts.com.au/reviews/mack...

💫 “SPEEDING down the hill!” #LUFC x @RedBullUK

Farm dogs trained to herd seagulls instead of sheep at Sydney hotspots

#Ootd is this 1959 Jacques Heim evening dress. It was apart of the cecil Beaton Collection. Beaton, famous fashion, society photographer, and overall personality. collected outfits from designers and the elite for his collection, which he exhibited in 1971. #Fashionhistory

For those days on the boardwalk in the blazing sunshine, a toile de lin, a beautifully detailed linen ensemble by Vera Borea, edged in blue from the mid #1930s #PalaisGalliera #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Matt Smith Goes Dark on ‘House of the Dragon’ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/a...

Lighthouses of Ireland - a re-render of another of the archive from Twitter. This seems to have re-emerged recently with a LQ version reposted all over the place, but not on Bluesky unless I missed it. Here is a HQ re-render with full duration. Data from 🇮🇪 www.irishlights.ie and msi.nga.mil

Sadly realising the world has far too many people who ask 'is it spicy?'

The Major Oak, Ancient Tree of Robin Hood Legend, Has Died www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/w...

A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone

The Tassie devils in my neighbourhood keep stealing shoes and laundry, but I adore them | Kelley Swain

In Ancient Pits Near Stonehenge, Scientists See Hints of Solstice Ritual www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/w...

Matthew Rhys, the star of the seafaring horror-comedy “Widow’s Bay,” also spends his downtime on the water. Before the first season finale of the show, we spent the day with him at the marina in Brooklyn. nyti.ms/3QzUyqO

🌳🏹🌳🎶😢 youtu.be/ULaY8vDXBmo?...

Ancient oak tree believed to have sheltered Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest is dead, experts say

The Major Oak has died 😕🌳 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wessex Archaeology suspect they have uncovered a prototype for world-famous Stonehenge site in Wiltshire www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I'm just done. Done. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Can somebody explain to me why the rule is "if you can't make rent, cut out the streaming apps, lattes, and avocado toasts" but it's never "if you can't afford your workers a living wage, cut out the mega-yachts, rockets, and spaceships."

Translation Tuesday! Very simple one: "Hat of crepe. Gown of levantine trimmed with self-fabric flounces." From the Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1818. hub.catalogit.app/search/genes... 🗃️🪡

What else were you doing in 1982? smash hits 22 july 4 august 1982, page 17 Full mag --> https://archive.org/stream/smash-hits-22-july-4-august-1982#page/n16

Detector teams in Wellington react to ‘intel’ from the public about pest sightings as part of the country’s push to eradicate all introduced predators www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

The short-lived series had blood, guts, sex and epic stakes. It also had the ride-or-die friendship of a pair of foot soldiers www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Going to bed exhausted. Dug a deep hole and buried my darling old trickster cat. The effort not to cry is shattering.

‘Have I been influenced, or is this actually me?’ How personal taste fell out of fashion

“Not all of us want new cars. Some of us want trains and buses that come every 5 minutes.” - @myvoicemychoice.bsky.social

Lovers, housewives, deserts and dogs: David Hockney’s greatest works – in pictures

‘Flamin’ cockatoos’ have lost much of their habitat to bushfires. Can the species survive?

Yes, but why

‘Hyper-stylised, ultra-cool visions’: 10 ways David Hockney changed art

I was a hardcore twitcher. I understand why the Cocos booby has Australia’s birders in a frenzy | Andrew Stafford

‘Flamin’ cockatoos’ have lost much of their habitat to bushfires. Can the species survive?

Palaeontologists say evidence pointing to Australia's polar past shows that many dinosaurs roamed the country when the south east was still within the Antarctic Circle.