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watercolor painting of a very tiny kitten sitting with its front paws stretched. Its fur is white with patches of tabby grey, its eyes green and its smol snoot dark pink.

Cette carte est gravissime. Mais elle n'a pas fait la une de l'actualité. Pour moi, l'été 2026 marque un tournant. Après celui de 2022, il devient difficile de ne plus parler de "rupture écologique" ou de "point de non retour" pour une partie des milieux aquatiques français. 1/18

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June 2026: second-warmest June on record globally. Hottest June ever for western Europe. Hottest June ocean ever measured. If your memory says "it was like this in the 80s," your brain isn't remembering. It's lying to your face, and you're tipping it.

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Yes, elephant shrews are more closely related to actual elephants than they are to true shrews. Despite weighing only a few ounces, they share a major super-group ancestry with elephants, manatees, and aardvarks. IG: @love_animalsgram

🇮🇳 Inde: des inondations et des glissements de terrain dus aux pluies de mousson torrentielles ont causé plus de 100 morts depuis début juillet et forcé des milliers d'évacuations, selon un bilan des autorités mercredi.

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Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.

Most Pompeiians lived in multi-story dwellings without kitchens and got their food at thermopolia, essentially taverns with ready-made food and wine. There is a fine fresco and colored plaster lararium - shrine - above the counter at the thermopolium of Lucius Vetutius Placidus.🏺 1/ 📸 me

This beautifully painted lararium - household shrine - is found in the thermopolium of Lucius Vetutius Placidus. Since most Pompeiians lived in multi-story dwellings without kitchens, these hot food and drink establishments were critical, where citizens could purchase sustenance and consume it there, or take it home. This lararium depicts two Lares - protective spirits of the home (and business, it seems) - pouring wine from rhytons; a veiled Genius (protector of the home) in the middle, sacrificing to the gods and holding a cornucopia, symbol of abundance; the god of trade, Mercury, on the left, holding his caduceus and a bag of coins, which would bring success and abundance to the business; and finally the god Dionysus on the right, also a symbol of abundance in this establishment which served wine. 

Notably, stucco is used to create the small shrine, which is in the shape of a temple, including two Corinthian columns and a pediment. Stucco acanthus vines and volutes appear above the temple, and two painted agatha daemons (which appear as crested snakes) are facing a large egg on an altar, below. 

A 3 kg (6.6 lb) hoard of coins was found in one of the terracotta jars set into the counter, probably the last daily profits of the establishment. 

House and thermopolium of Vetutius Placidus, Pompeii (I, 8.8)

We’ve wrapped our African adventure. The trip ended with a few fantastic days on the coast of Mozambique, as the first visitors to Zimanga’s new lodge. We enjoyed spectacular scenery, lots of whale and dolphin action, snorkeling, and the kids even got to try fishing for the first time.

Fishing on the coast of Mozambique.