I love her. Hearing her speak her poetry in her native language is like music.

David Attenborough [whispering]: “Tamanduas distinguish themselves from all other anteaters by being the only genus that communicates exclusively through interpretive dance.”

an orange cat

Accurate

Good morning from Zitoun :) #AtlasLions Yay!

Inge Burgerhoudt, contemporary ceramics artist from the Netherlands who works under the title Kleur Keramiek #Womensart

Beth Robertson Fiddes, contemporary land and seascapes painter whose work captures the wild nature of the Scottish highlands and Western Isles #WomensArt

'The Crown', Islington (2025) by Sarah Lundblad sarahbethlundblad.art

#SaxonSunday 10th C monumental #StoneworkSunday cross shaft w elaborate decoration: eg acanthus top rt rare in S England but has parallels 8th C Jerusalem. Found in East Stour Dorset chimney breast 1939 then used as garden ornament; BM acquired 1969. Faith Museum, Auckland Project, Bishop Auckland.

This funerary wreath is made of everlasting flowers (Helichrysum stoechas) and is more than 1,700 years old! It was found in a tomb of the #Roman period in Hawara/#Egypt and has survived due to Egypt's dry climate. Dating 2nd/3rd c. AD. On display at British Museum 📷 me

Clay goblet from Early Bronze Age Troy. Known as a depas goblet after the Homeric ‘depas amphikypellon', recent residue analysis shows these two-handled vessels were used for drinking wine some 4,250 years ago! Istanbul Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

Bubble & Squeak. Undated postcard from my collection.

A new study presents evidence of fire-making on a 400,000-year-old buried landsurface at Barnham (UK), where heated sediments and fire-cracked flint handaxes were found alongside two fragments of iron pyrite, a mineral used in later periods to strike sparks with flint.

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Here's a shot I got two years ago today in #Tacoma. Me and a buddy were watching a humpback at Point Defiance when he yells "incoming!" Luckily I was quick on the draw. #Birds #Photography #Nature #Raptors

Mother, no. Photo from my collection, no date/ info.

Who saw that coming?

If you let Trump talk, he'll have solved both WW I and II. In fact, if it was up to him, he retroactively deserves all previously awarded Nobel Peace Prizes. What a fucking lunatic!!!!

#Caturday is every day 🐈😻😼

New podcast alert! Tomorrow on #LadyKillers, it's 1831, and we investigate the case of a female bodysnatcher. Join us on BBC Radio 4 at 3pm, on BBC Sounds, or wherever you get your podcasts. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

The Hidden History of a 19th-Century Photograph and the Mystery of Its Unnamed Girl petapixel.com/2025/12/27/t...

The latest installment in my ongoing efforts to be denied entry to the United States.

David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

Undated postcard from my collection. I love the white business on the side! It kind of seems like an accident rather than a deliberate choice but it looks very cool.

Two frosty days and the Dutch are out in force on their skates www.dutchnews.nl?p=261540

Number of murder victims in the Netherlands drops below 100 www.dutchnews.nl?p=261572

' #Winter night' by Canadian born printmaker and artist Carol Collette #WomensArt ❄️

St Mary's Church, Huntingfield, Suffolk, UK. The ceiling is considered a masterpiece of Victorian decoration and was created by largely unrecognised artist Mildred Holland in 1859-60, the wife of the church rector #WomensArt

Neal Street, Covent Garden, London - December 2025

The most adorable chess piece ever! A knight, made of antler. Dating 11/12th century Found at the Burgstein, Lichtenstein-Holzelfingen. 📷 me #archaeology

So, my dear Tweeties and Butterflies. Yesterday I promised you something. So here are my souvenirs from the Neues Museum in Berlin, where I was yesterday. Unfortunately, it's only allowed to photograph Nefertiti from a distance and only from the side 🥺.

Research examining ancient sewer drain sediment suggests the Roman soldiers garrisoned at the fort of Vindolanda suffered with intestinal worms and diarrhoea – despite their toilets, baths and drinking water system.

Op 29 december 1539 vloog de toren van de Grote Kerk in Den Haag in brand na een blikseminslag die de torenspits en het uurwerk verwoestte en de kerk beschadigde. Ook huizen in de omgeving werden zwaar beschadigd. Prent van Pieter v.d. Croos, charter uit 1540, Haags Gemeentearchief 1)

Op 28 december 1947 werd op de Israëlitische begraafplaats in Wassenaar een gedenksteen onthuld ter nagedachtenis aan gedeporteerde en vermoorde Joden uit Den Haag en omstreken. 1)

Brexiters didn’t win the argument in the first place. They bought brexit with a criminal overspend using stolen data, targeting undecided voters with millions of lying dark ads. They lied throughout. Not “losing the argument”; voters seeing the lies for what they were thecritic.co.uk/brexiteers-a...

1991: The United States thinks it has decisively won the Cold War against Russia. 2025: The United States' foreign policy is being dictated by Russia.

I've been trying to imagine the last days of the Worst People in the World. Donald Trump: dies while still President, in the comfort of a bed with lots of drugs, but silently hated by everyone in the room, all of whom do a subtle fist pump when the monitors go flat. Thread [1/5]

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.

Busy place this morning! Have a fantastic Sunday.

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