Monochrome photograph featuring a sitting white woman holding a card with an oval hole to her eye, facing right wearing a dark dress

Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (1837-1899), Italian aristocrat & pioneering figure in the early history of photography #WomensArt

Japanese Aquarium Drops 2026 Version of Flowchart Illustrating Their Penguin Relationships. This Year There's an English Version. Penguins, the way they waddle around and protect their eggs, are often thought of as cute, cuddly and romantic. But those who observe them for extended periods know they have a dark side. Two aquariums in Japan, Kyoto Aquarium and Sumida Aquarium, have been keeping obsessive tabs on their penguins,

Two Japanese aquariums have released their 2026 flowcharts of their penguins’ relationships. “Penguin drama can include serious crushes and heartbreaks but also adultery and egg-stealing.” [spoon-tamago.com]

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I really hope so.

Laura Boswell, Scottish, Wet Spring Woods, reduction linocut, 23 layers across two blocks, edition of 18, 34 x 51 cm

Sitting here crying while after getting WhatsApped the photo on the right, so let me tell you a little story about how we got here from the photo on the left and why repatriation research matters!

Sending thanks and best wishes from Scotland.
This thread is just wonderful!

Register to vote Register to vote to take part in elections in the UK. Includes how to get on the electoral register and how to update your address on the register.

🗳️ REGISTER TO VOTE 🗳️

Monday’s the deadline – so if you haven’t registered to vote for May’s local elections, do it here 👇
https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

I’m not sure why I’m getting such a kick out of this, but on my walk this morning, my foot slid on something laying on the sidewalk. Looking down, angry and expecting to see a pile of dog crap, I found, much to my delight, that for the first time in my life, I’d actually slipped on a banana peel.

An orange cat spied between two train seats.

A beautiful passenger on the train between Paris and Avignon.

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

Hungary is the happiest place on earth right now!

random crossing lines of backstitch and running stitch in lilac silk thread. Photobombing bird pincushion looks on, supremely smug in the knowledge that he will upstage my work every time

9th April, daily stitching marking the passage of time
#intuitivedailystitching #textileart #embroidery #stitchjournal

Two Valais Blacknose sheep walking through long green grass at the base of a mountain. Source: National Geographic Animals

Love this! No manipulation. No tracking. No prediction. No algorithm. Just the music..

Women made the bras and girdles and women made the spacesuits

Canoeing at #dusk. #peace #kootenaylake #canada

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In other news, there is nothing better than coming home to two dogs who believed you might have gone away forever and want to smother you with doggie kisses for thirty minutes for not having gone away forever after all.

The absolute best.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection

Simultaneous Self-Portrait by Enrico Prampolini, 1918
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137533

If you need a break from all the serious stuff on your feed, try my mini starter pack of quirky accounts. Sometimes I just realllllly need a break from politics and the general on-fire-ness of the world.

go.bsky.app/Eg4UPfb

“I asked ChatGPT”- ok well I asked the mycelium and it said to plant more trees and to tell you to return to the forest

A lamb and its mum in the lush Derbyshire hills in Spring on a sunny day. The lamb is looking directly at the camera, ears out-stretched.

Fill your ears with spring. ☀️

Episode 60 - Soundscenes of spring from the Derbyshire hills (46 mins)

The sound of the countryside on a bright April day.

Best with headphones > radiolento.podbean.com/e/soundscene...

When I first moved to a little country town when I was 5 the library was one of the first places my mum took me. They had a limit on how many books you could take out, but the librarian saw I was hungry for more and let me take out however many books I wanted. We were dirt poor, but I never felt it

I did this on Twitter years ago and got some amazing answers. Let's see if we can get #LibrariesChangeLives trending and show what amazing things can grow from properly funded public services and the value of providing free access to books, reading and educational resources for all.

🚨 Christina Koch has officially become the farthest any woman has ever traveled from Earth

What the fuck are we doing

19th and early 20th century America was a land of beautiful language

Carved a banjo frog 🐸

#art #linocut #illustrator

Please remember that dandelions are not truly weeds. They are the bees first meal in the spring. Grow and protect the dandelions, save the bees and you save the world.
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