Kim Vertue

@kimvertue.bsky.social

Artist in progress, find me on Medium: https://medium.com/@vertuekim

Today’s Autumn Arrival Spotlight is the Goldcrest! ✨ Our tiniest bird takes on an epic journey, with arrivals from northern Europe and Russia joining our resident birds in autumn. Weighing just 5-6g, it’s incredible to think such a small bird can make it across the sea!

🌝 祝福中秋佳节快乐 🐇 月圆人圆事事圆满 🥮 Hoping for an elegant, ethereal evening - so, it’s time for the perfect accompaniment & suitably celestial song + MV from 🧸 #咬人猫 🪷 #Yaorenmao aka Ririchiyo the Biting Cat 🐾 playing the dual role of Chang'e & Jade Rabbit 月白 Moon White ⚪ youtu.be/PihiXh5VNbM?... #music #中秋节

【咬人猫】月白 ❤️ MV [Yaorenmao Channel]

YouTube video by 咬人猫Yaorenmao

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🥮 in place of mooncakes we pitched-in & made a batch of scallion pancakes in honour of Ming Yi (Lu Yuxiao's character in 'Love in the Clouds') plus they are an acceptable lunar-looking & tasty substitute to get Mid-Autumn Moon-Viewing Festival underway 🌝 #food

three photographs by Remy Dean one of the uncooked rolled-up rolled of scallion stuffed dough - some straight out of the pan - one looking light golden and textured to resemble the harvest moon, presented on a plate with a simple art nouveau rim pattern

SOS (save our snails) "British zoos are setting up 'ark populations' of the glutinous snail (Myxas glutinosa) one of Europe's rarest species, using creatures bred in a back garden in Ceredigion." "Beguiled by their cuteness" 🐌 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #conservation #Wales #Cymru #kawaii

Zoos help to save snail found in only one lake in Wales

Once prevalent across the UK, this mollusc is now only found in one lake in Wales.

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"During the most recent Ice Age, when much of the British Isles were beneath a vast continental glacier, the depleted sea levels opened a walkable 'lost land bridge' between modern-day Pembrokeshire & the south-east tip of Ireland, around Rosslare..." BBC 🦣 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cave art discovery suggests first humans in Ireland came from Wales

During the most recent Ice Age, researchers believe there was a "lost land bridge" between Wales and Ireland.

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Hello World!👋 This is the Bluesky debut of 'Found Worlds' a Medium Publication for diverse writers & readers. Let's share our journey of discovery as we explore global culture, arts, languages, travel tales, histories & media - a search for knowledge, beauty & connection. medium.com/found-worlds

Shintei - Chikyu Bankoku Hozu (Squared Map of all the Countries on the Globe) is a Japanese world map by Suido Nakajima made in 1853 (Kaei 6)

At 00:35 CEST today, the Artemis II mission successfully launched, marking the first human journey to the Moon since 1972. Six Timepix chips developed #AtCERN will measure the radiation environment inside the spacecraft that will orbit the Moon during @NASA’s Artemis II mission.

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