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Knee / leg brace, Germany, mid 16th century

from The Germanisches National Museum

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Boat-billed Heron (Cochlearius

cochlearius) in Costa Rica

by Stephen Powell.

#birbs

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Malaysian Fire Snail (Platymma tweediei), family Chronidae, found in 2 montane forests of Malaysia

photographs by @maxs6461 

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The Five Senses by Henri Guillaume Schlesinger (French, 1814-1893)

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when i started my last director job at a university, they told me one of my duties would be to write all the chancellor’s letters. me: “cool. but why though?” them: “English isn’t the chancellor’s first language.” me: “I’m aware of that.” them: “the chancellor likes the suggestions that autocorrect gives him if he misspells something.” me: “Ah.” them: hands me a copy of a letter the chancellor sent to a donor who had just given a million-dollar gift to the university, which includes the following: ‘The profundity of your gift fills us with the greatest horror. In recognition we have prepared a special plague to compromise you and your family’. 

Which is why to this day when I’m struggling to communicate in a different language, i remember the chancellor, who was Doing His Best, and i try to give myself a break.

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Mean fish

Mafia

Fishia

They're so silly hihi

#twst #them

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Happy Birthday Bauzhu!

#genshin impact

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Lime pot in the shape of a cat, Thailand, 11th-12th century

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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commission from @coyotegoth for @hopesage of their sona riu ! 🐰💗🌿 commissions open

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Huang Yongyu

Rat

Ink and colour on paper

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extremely weird to think about the fact that the internet is a collection of physical objects, like, if i send a message to a person on another continent, there's a continuous physical path that each packet followed between each of our routers and it probably passes through an undersea cable which doesn't feel like something that should be real how did people manage that

#a colleague recommended to me a book on the subject #“Tubes” by Andrew Blum #said colleague used to work in telecommunications and now is responsible for all the physical parts of our networks #so i trust his judgement #it's not technical enough by my taste but gives a solid introduction if you're curious how the physical network of the internet is organized #and why #admittedly i read it in translation and thus can't speak about the language beyond that even not in english it sounded Very American

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We're mauve-struck! 🤩

The mesmerizing mauve stinger is a stunner, literally! Although small in size (its bell can be a few inches in diameter), its long tentacles and the bumps on its bell pack a powerful punch to protect from predators and paralyze prey.

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Dog keeps stealing my ball of yarn and all I can think of is this manuscript illustration 🥺