okay yeah sure

Construction in Depths by Naum Gabo, 1944 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137459

(1/2) Resembling the tiny parts of an impossibly intricate and eye-catching timepiece, strewn from a watchmakers toolkit, these are in fact fossil Crinoids, Corals, Bryozoans and Brachiopods.

thinking about My Father's Camry Filled With Leaves again

Linger Adele Webster n.d.

NGC 3607 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/cXvHs3

Nine years ago today 🌿 Telesonix jamesii, our Alumroot Brookfoam, blooming on Elk Park Knoll #nativeplants

Cidaroid urchin, cup coral, not sure which coral, anthomastus?, crnoid with some long arms on a black coral @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 939 #deepwonders #MarineLife

The western painted turtle is the only turtle species native to Alberta. Although they can be found in a number of spots in the south, Lethbridge is often the best and easiest place to spot them. #turtles #Alberta #Canada #wildlife #yql

🐨 The mammals of Australia: . Sydney: Thomas Richards, government printer, 1871.. [Source]

Today is Septidi the 17th of Messidor in the year 234. Messidor is the month of harvest. Today we celebrate redcurrant.#JacobinDay See today's page

🏔 The flora of the Alps; London, J. C. Nimmo, 1896-1900. [Source]

Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago! From West Tofts, Norfolk 📷 MAA Cambridge University collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/4509... #Archaeology

3:20:04 AM on Thursday, July 2, 2026, over the Philippine Sea.

The Eads Bridge https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/32494/

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i did a triple take at this line. the university of michigan apparently jeopardized a grad student's status and got him detained by ICE for almost a month on this basis, which i can only convey to non-academic folks as "absolute horse shit"

the minnesota 15, indicted by the federal government for their work against ICE, leave the federal courthouse in downtown minneapolis after their first appearances and are joined by supporters waiting outside

breaking:

counterpoint: it is, in fact, a huge "sacrifice of our guiding principles" to jettison the "of the world" part of "workers of the world"

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Peanuts by Schulz: Saturday, May 12, 1951

3:57:28 AM on Saturday, June 27, 2026, over the Philippine Sea.

Titan 2015-OCTOBER-02 - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/KeaTTz

My Mom when I tell her the animal video she sent me is AI

Au Museo Chiaramonti (Braccio Nuovo) du Vatican, magnifique statue en marbre de la 2ème moitié du Ier siècle représentant le Nil, qui devait se trouver dans un sanctuaire dédié à Isis (retrouvée en 1513 sur le Champ-de-Mars, copie probable d'un modèle d'époque alexandrine en basalte noir). #HDA

Backrooms is about the corruption of forms with their function removed, which is what's happening everywhere around us now

can’t tell yall enough what a breakthrough it was for me to learn from this interview that most people just want to feel like they’re being obeyed they rarely follow up on whether you actually obey them

the recurrent attempts to sell us gadget goggles illuminates two factors that have been driving tech development for at least a decade or two: 1. appears to be the realization of fantasies cultivated in science fiction 2. enables a program of mass surveillance and lucrative data-gathering

Daniel Garber Tohickon, Delaware River in Pennsylvania, 1920

It took me months to figure out how to extract 30,000 careers from the Colonial Office List; it took a little over a day to repeat the full process for the Indian Office List. The visualization now shows the very different global geography of these two bureaucracies in the British Empire.

Edward Hopper - "Railroad Sunset" (1929)

Omg I just discovered there are four scissor-tailed flycatcher fledglings learning to fly in a nearby tree. Look at these fluffy little cuddle buddies! 😭 #Photography #Birds

they’ve been trying to sell us their shitty goggles for well over a decade now, it’s the ultimate example of technology that no one wants but it gets infinite VC dollars anyways

I understand the excitement about technology “rediscovering lost texts.” I do, & I get the media hype. But I wish people knew that there are hundreds of thousands of “lost” texts just sitting in manuscripts in libraries, which have never been published outside of those single manuscripts. 1/n

Honestly I think part of the reason trans narratives are enjoying such wide popularity and discussion (even if cis people refuse to discuss them without stripping them of the trans elements first) is simply that "change or die" is an increasingly relevant theme for an increasing number of people

the thing that greatly perturbs me about this is that nature has like 95 different highly effective solutions for this but everyone is like no no not like that, it has to be attached to /not/ protecting the rest of the natural world.

Antibes Seen from the Salis Gardens - 1888 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10297

Paul Landacre

Cawing Crow — Ohara Koson, c. 1900

#JohnSingerSargent Two Wine Glasses, (1874)

Dora Maar Chaise dans un parc, Paris, c. 1926

I especially love this diagram.

imo one of the most thoughtful things one can do right now is to reflect on and reimagine your relationship to images and writing, and what it really is that you value in them, as here

The proliferation of digital slop images has undermined my interest in digital art as a medium. Not for any moralizing reasons, but I find that I’m becoming more aesthetically interested in physical media because of an inherent tangibility to its craft that the endless virtuality of digital lacks.

Blue-Bird-Pumpkin https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483179

Samuel Palmer, Oak Trees, Lullingstone Park, pen, brush, brown India ink, graphite, watercolour, gouache and gum Arabic on wove paper, 1828.