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Hey what about 7?!
Just kiddin’!

Below: a pair of ceramic vases in the shape of shoes. Above: illustrations of the shoe-vessels.

Shoe-shaped ceramic vessels, buried with a skeleton missing both feet at 6th-century-AD Germany.
In medieval Europe, physical disability was seen as an impediment to moral goodness. The shoes may have symbolically 'restored' the body.

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#FolkloreThursday 🏺 #Archaeology

Reflections on the Forth.

A 4 minute long exposure of the Forth Bridge.

13 March 1943 | Germans began a 2-day liquidation of the ghetto in Krakow.

Hundreds of Jews were killed in the streets. Some 8 thousand people who were able to work, were transferred to the forced labor camp for Jews in Plaszow.

The remaining people were deported to #Auschwitz.

Millecrocii

Photo of crocuses .

Crocuses.

”might be a technical glitch”

I think BoS are just realising they had massively misunderstood the assignment. for clarity, it is not normal feature to see others’ transactions.

Camouflage cat

this is like

the thesis statement of our times

The top half of a cat is concealed behind a gold curtain, its bottom half exposed.

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.”

Charles Bukowski, (from) The Last Night of the Earth Poems

...these lines, from Bukowski 💫

I need no luck that is not also yours, so I send it to you.

Franz Kafka, 1913.

kitty

🔥

I have questions. Why is my bowl half full. Why is the door closed. Why are you working instead of petting me. Please answer promptly.

Happy National Answer Your Cat’s Question Day.

#AnswerYourCatsQuestionDay #CatThoughts #CatLogic #CatLife #PetHumor #pawlidays #myholidayworld

The earliest Brimstone butterfly I've ever seen in the UK, in my Sheffield garden this morning. Spring is coming! Looking forward also to the European butterfly spotting holidays I'll be guiding for @mariposanature.bsky.social from May to July! 🦋

Eurasian Nuthatch (Sitta europaea) on a slim tree trunk facing vertically downwards.

#BirdOfTheDay theme today is #BirdsInTheirElement, birds in their natural environment. In this case, it's a nuthatch, in classic pose.

#birds #photography

Sunset in Malibu. Large rocks jug the shoreline meeting the Pacific Ocean. Purple and pink skies usher in the evening

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.—Nelson Mandela

Pic of the day

#photography

UK blocking Trump from using RAF bases for strikes on Iran The disagreement over the use of British sites is behind the US president’s withdrawal of support for the Chagos Islands deal, The Times understands

BREAKING: President Trump has apparently withdrawn his support for Keir Starmer’s deal to hand the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius because the UK has not agreed to allow the use of British bases to attack Iran

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The log might not judge but the owls...

Siskin, this morning at Westhay Moor