It's that time of year! Freshwater jellyfish are beginning their annual blooms in the northern hemisphere! Look for these ghostly creatures in lakes and ponds from Spain to San Fransisco, Seattle to Singapore! 🪼 Craspedacusta sowerbii 📸 in ALT from @inaturalist.bsky.social

Most famous today through the Simon and Garfunkle rendition of "Scarborough Fair," the original Scarborough Fair was established by Royal Charter in 1253, traditionally held on August 15 and lasting up until potentially September 29, drawing folk from all over. #FairytaleTuesday

Travel deep enough into the Backrooms and you will find Bjork.

@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 2d ago

Björk in 1996, by Takashi Homma

Rat Colony

When they hear the bells of its submerged churches ring, the crab fishers of Dedwick won't take their boats out. You can call it superstition or folklore. I call it wisdom born from grieving widows. You don't ignore warnings when it comes to the King-Under-the-Sea. – Evie Dellow #VOH

For #AncientSiteSunday let's go to my favourite #Roman site: the temple complex of #Baalbek, located in the Bekaa Valley, #Lebanon. The breathtaking site contains some of the largest Roman temples ever built. The so-called Bacchus temple is one of...🧵1/2 📷 Rami Rizk 🏺 #archaeology

Spider-Man feeding the spiders in the park.

I've been waiting for this very cool piece on pre-Viking ship burials to come out since Christina reported it out a few weeks ago. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

New evidence shows 'Viking burials' predate Vikings

The discovery of 1,300-year-old ship nails in a burial mound in Norway raises new questions about who was actually entombed there.

nationalgeographic.com

them: so what did you do this afternoon me: watched the annual rubber duck race. they didn’t even have to break out the leaf blower them:

Parks And Rec Wtf

Alt: Ron Swanson from Parks and Rec stands behind his deck staring in confusion as the words ‘what the hell just happened’ appear in mid air

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One really cool aspect of Tonic Masculinity is the confidence and willingness to look/act dramatically silly in the name of fun 😅👇

Warhammer Dan@jacketdan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dudes rock

APERTURE comes out this August! 🌈 For anyone who likes libraries with spiral staircases, old cameras, time travel, romance & mysteries Written by me & illustrated by @huenito.bsky.social from @nakamapress.bsky.social Pre-order APERTURE: bit.ly/4r8VdNj #pridemonth #comicsky

A Chilean salmon farm now draws about 57% of its power from panels laid over the water, cutting roughly 136,000 litres of diesel a year and silencing the generators. With the noise gone, thousands of salmon have gathered in the shade beneath the arrays. Ecoportal buff.ly/CwczkbP #ShareGoodNewsToo

An island in Chile covered its waters with floating solar panels. Soon, thousands of salmon had turned them into their home

An island in Chile covered its waters with floating solar panels. Soon, thousands of salmon had turned them into their home and were all thriving.

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HUNTER SCHAFER AND MICHELLE YEOH???????????? every sapphic age gap shipper on the internet just sat up straight

Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com · 2w ago

First look at BLADE RUNNER 2099. Hunter Schafer & Michelle Yeoh star. A brand new television series. Set 50 years after Blade Runner 2049, in a world where replicants have emerged on top after an uprising. Coming soon to Prime Video.

{watching this video of emily wilson reciting aloud from the odyssey in the original greek} Ma'am,, respectfully,,,, 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵

WRITERS: *editing* ALSO WRITERS: *getting idea for New Thing while editing*

Dwight Schrute Says 'It's True' Meme

Alt: Dwight Schrute from The Office says “it’s true,” speaking to camera as if sharing a secret

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If the actor with British accent is evil then you’re watching Sci fi. If the actor with a British accent is good then it’s Fantasy. If the actor with a British accent knocks something over then it’s a Rom com.

3 years after Raja Ampat’s walking shark won full legal protection, researchers off Sawinggrai village counted 2,462 per square km, the densest population ever recorded. These reef-crawlers barely move, which makes them easy to wipe out but quick to recover. buff.ly/IypEuj3 #ShareGoodNewsToo

New walking shark discovered as protected population booms

Researchers discovered the new, and already endangered shark in Papua New Guinea, while a study shows strong habitat allows them to thrive

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I saw some lovely lamps in Kempley Church and wanted to use it in a design. The mari has a bit of a saunty look to her

The movie "The Odyssey" is great. But if this was 1992, we would all be listening to the Bryan Adams power ballad hit "Making My Way to You (love theme from "The Odyssey")

Love this! Fat Sparrow netsuke from the Walters Art Museum on Instagram

Examinations of almost 4,000-year-old mummified princesses suggest that they were skilled users of the daggers, bows and other weapons buried with them, researchers report. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-egyptian-princesses-weapons-war

Ancient Egyptian princesses knew their way around weapons of war

Analysis of six mummies from ancient Egypt challenges the idea that the bows and daggers buried with some royal women were merely ceremonial.

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You might need this little soapstone carving of a whale today… (1200-1600 CE, Chumash culture, California, held at Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal)

the bunny is nomming on some greens

Sam Neil has so many great performances that it feels almost reductive to focus on one scene. Except it's one of the most iconic scenes in movie history and all of it, The groundbreaking CGI, the sweeping John Williams score *doesn't* work without the authentic joy and wonder of Neill's performance

Galileo Galilei - Autograph notes on the satellites of Jupiter, 14–25 January 1611

Every time this goes around I’m stunned that there are still people who’ve never seen it, this performance is to drag what the Mona Lisa is to paintings, but maybe you’ve never seen the Mona Lisa, so today is the day you shall behold it

Eric Ansley Díaz@geekboyeric.bsky.social · 4w ago

RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...