Stunning Camera Trap Survey Captures Elusive Snow Leopards Across China petapixel.com/2026/07/07/s...

#TombTuesday Top tomb in London's Brompton Cemetery: Frederick Leyland, collector and supporter of Victorian avant-garde artists eg Whistler and Rossetti. And Burne-Jones, who designed this. Portland stone, with roof and floral decoration in copper work, within ornate railings topped w lilies.

When the work meeting is almost over and that one co-worker keeps asking questions.

Me pretending to injure myself at work so they'll send me home.

Four parties have agreed to form a city government to run The Hague, nearly four months after the local elections in March.

New Rijksmuseum displays show personal stories from Holocaust www.dutchnews.nl?p=269685

Bubble & Squeak. Undated postcard from my collection.

Drei Manul-Junge sind im Zoo Korkeasaari in Helsinki geboren worden – der bislang größte Wurf des dort lebenden Paares. www.nordisch.info/panorama/dre...

Kimika Hara, contemporary Japanese embroiderer #Womensart

'Corn field in summertime' by Dorothea Sharp (1873 –1955), British painter best known for her landscapes and naturalistic scenes #Womensart

#BornOnThisDay Artemisia Gentileschi and Käthe Kollwitz, both born on this day, 8th July, both extraordinarily talented artists #womensart

'London Bridge: Adelaide House and Fresh Wharf, London' (1913) by Charles Ginner (London Museum)

Ancient Egyptian hedgehog shaped pottery vessel 🦔❤️ Dated c. 1539-1292 BC. Ashmolean Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

Archaeologists unveiled two discoveries in Egypt. Dakhla Oasis: A beautifully preserved 4th-century Byzantine city, complete with a basilica, fortified walls, and homes. They found 200 inscribed pottery shards and gold coins from the reign of Constantius II.

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

It goes like this the 4th not 5th, and Jaws is on, your spirits lift, but you never found that anchor suit now did ya

I have resting Edvard Munch's "The Scream" face

There are a lot of billboards advertising vasectomy clinics in Florida as well as extremely lax motorcycle helmet laws, sort of a two-pronged attack

This was unpinned for a month while I was doing my birthday fundraiser, but don't forget my starter pack of bluesky cat accounts run by real people who use ALT text! go.bsky.app/J8yqxnN

Babies. ☺️ Photo from my collection, no date/info.

We meet again, Manul Monday.

Petrona Viera (1895-1960), Uruguayan painter known for being the first female professional painter in Uruguay #womensart #SouthAmericanArtWeek

'Battersea Bridge to Albert Bridge' (2023) by Liam O'Farrell liamofarrell.com

Delightful little brown mouse nibbling at a walnut. From a #Roman ‘unswept floor’ mosaic by Heraclitus. Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effects! 2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse... #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

Neolithic flint dagger blades from various sites around Lake Constance. The wooden handles haven't survived. The flint material was sourced from the Southern Alpine region, highlighting early trade networks and cultural connections between the Alpine Foreland and... 🧵1/2 📷️ @almbawue.bsky.social

Daily painting of #sunflowers in support of #Ukraine Johan Teyler - Zonnebloem 17th C.

I don't give a fish's tit about football or the World Cup, but on behalf of everyone who does, I'm disgusted to hear that Trump has just crapped in your salad. Shameful. #fifa

Euthanasia accounted for nearly 6% of all deaths in the Netherlands in 2024, up from 1.9% of deaths in 1999, according to new research commissioned by the health ministry.

Temperatures to climb back above 30° this week www.dutchnews.nl?p=269960

"Linda, we both know that it's not my birthday. Yesterday wasn't my birthday either, or the day before. Have you considered maybe reading a book? Taking an online cooking class? Also, it might not kill you to vacuum."

True love. ❤️ Photo from my collection, no date/info.

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Ruth Hollingsworth, Odette, c.1915 British painter #WomensArt

Photographer Chantal Pinzi's photogragraphic series of women skateboarders around the world #WomensArt #Monday

'Hammersmith Bridge at Sunset' by Tushar Sabale tusharsabale.com

Wow, these ancient Egyptian linen tunics are 3,400 years-old! They belonged to Kha, who was the ‘director of works’ responsible for the design and construction of royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings. 📷 Museo Egizio, Turin collezioni.museoegizio.it/en-GB/materi... #Archaeology

Just another monday... A grumpy #squid on a Greek #fish plate from Apulia, dating 330-300 BC. Fish plates were decorated with various examples of seafood. They were invented in Athens in the 5th century BC. Most of them are found in Southern Italy, where they were produced in... 🧵1/2

This made me giggle. Poor God. 😂🤣