#archaeobirds 🪶

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads! Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession. From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio #Archaeology

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Hallo darlings! Voor de goede moed hier een foto van de belachelijk knappe kat van mijn kind.

At almost 2,000 years old, this child’s wooden toy sword is a remarkable survival from Roman times! Found in the living quarters of the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda fort in 2017. Dated c.120 AD. Chesterholm Museum 📷 by me #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology

I have an email taped up on the wall in front of my writing desk with three words on it. I look at it whenever I doubt what I'm doing, whenever I'm having a rough morning, I look and I remember I can do this. It's from Stephen King It says, "This is good."

The impulse to make a Little Guy transcends time and space.

I’ve always loved Japanese #netsuke and this ivory caricature of a Dutchman and his dog was too good not to share. Netsuke is a toggle. Japanese men used netsuke to suspend various pouches and containers from their sashes by a silk cord. Period, 18th century. #VandAMuseum 📸 me

@daniellehirsch.bsky.social Veel plezier bij het congres! Ik kan er helaas door ziekte niet bij zijn, maar moedig vooral al onze lieve partijgenoten aan om de lijn te volgen die Emma Curvers hieronder beschrijft. Hup door! 💪🏻 💚❤️

I’m a MAJOR owl fan, but my favourite is the burrowing owl: ✔️v frowny & grumpy-they know what you did last Tuesday ✔️digs holes then peeps out of them ✔️EXPERTS at the wobbly head bendy neck owl thing ✔️long leggies ✔️does very silly running on said leggies 10/10 no owly notes HIGHLY recommended

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

@frankmeeuwsen.com Tip voor je project 🙂

This is so wholesome I don’t know what to do with my face.

u know what 2 do.

Sometimes you hear a knock on the front door but it isn’t a knock it is a hawk smashing into it with a freshly caught blue jay.

De woede spat terecht uit elke letter www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...

Mijn adres klopt!!1!

Do YOU remember “the 21st night of September?” Earth Wind & Fire’s co-writer Allee Willis said she told the band: “We can’t leave ‘baa-dee-ya’ in the chorus. That has to mean something.’” Maurice White replied: “No, that feels great. That’s what people are going to remember. We’re leaving it.”

Onze democratie is een lekkend huis, waar herfstige buien naar binnen slaan en regelmatig óók een leiding springt. De Forum-motie kreeg een meerderheid met PVV, BBB, SGP, JA21 en VVD – steeds onwaarschijnlijker dat die partij ooit terugkomt op een liberale, rechtsstatelijke, verantwoordelijke koers

So obvious

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit. Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil. 1🧵 #PlaymobilÖtzi #PlaymobilInfestation

Today’s bargain joy from the tragedy rack at my local nursery: a dwarf cypress that had Seen Some Shit, and therefore was on sale for a considerable discount. I forgot to take a “before pic, sorry - but here it is without its crushed half + enough dead foliage to stuff a pillow.

Slate! Caliban! Learned Edmund! 🤩

Thirty relatively intact iguanodon skeletons were found in a coal mine in Belgium in the late 1800s. Louis Dollo, who supervised the first assembly of these fossils, believed it was a biped, as it is shown here. We now know that this was a quadruped, meaning it walked on four legs instead of two.

Goed stuk van @renataverloop.bsky.social: We hebben geen AI, maar juist menselijke kracht nodig. preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...

@verkade.eend.nl Achjee, ome Steve wordt al net zo wiebelig als mijn vader...

Ik vond 'Relay' echt een topfilm, mensen. Aanrader als je van paranoia-thrillers houdt 👍🏼 share.google/91sp8zYVBMTx...

Shiva Nataraja mon amour 😭

@rachaelherron.bsky.social I think this will interest you.

Weapons-grade bollocks! 👍🏼

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Ooievaar op lantaarnpaal, check.

De Tjeenk! 😍 www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Ik hoor dat meerdere stukken overheid misbruik maken van de dubbele val van het kabinet om nog even snel al onze gegevens naar Amerika (MS-365) te verhuizen. Het is toch om je dood te schamen. Maar ben bang dat ze er mee weg gaan komen. Ik schreef hier eerder over: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

@verkade.eend.nl Kijkt!

This is an extraordinary book, highly recommended.

Dit is ook heel, erm, kunstzinnig.

Och! En 😍

De modderpoel in. Dat moet dan maar. Wel even nadenken hoe dan zonder mijzelf te verliezen.

Kikkers! 😻

Flashback Friday: Ruby-crowned kinglet, December 20th, 2022. Don't think I ever posted this one—and if I did, I had about 200 followers here at the time.

@kjcharleswriter.com Look, it's a trend! Huzzah!

Potdikkie, dit is niet zo mooi. Ik ga mijn partij lastigvallen om @barbarakathmann.bsky.social hoger op de lijst te krijgen. 💪🏻 (En kan iemand @jessesixdijkstra.bsky.social inlijven en behouden voor de politiek?)

Een blogpost zoals ze niet vaak meer geschreven worden. 🐍👍🏼

"Voortvarend maar kalm uitpluizen, iets anders zit er niet op. Stel daar vooral een minister voor aan." 👍🏼

Zeer lezenswaardig stuk! archive.ph/zxCSy

Potdikkie, tentoonstelling gemist 😭

Norwegian home invasion.