Reposted by BoNick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 18hLLM (Large Line Man) solves math problem 192328467
Reposted by BoRN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 30/09/202630 Sept 1782 // 100-gun 1st-rate HMS Ville de Paris, captured from the French in a damaged state at the Saintes on 12 April 1782, was sailing from Jamaica (where repairs had been carried out) to England when her convoy was struck by the violent storm of 16-17 September. She was left heavily damaged. 1154
Bo @bobou.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Reply per interaction is higher on bluesky than threads. Do you notice any quality difference in replies on threads vs bluesky? 101
Reposted by Boc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 13/09/2026At least 40 ant genera are known to use "cooperative transport" in similar ways, but only Leptogenys, to my knowledge, forms these ant-to-ant daisy chains. Here are some Longhorn crazy ants (Paratrechina longicornis) pulling a dead cockroach by the conveniently long antennae. (📷: Dee Davidson) 211616
Reposted by BoJohn P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Of course I had to start searching for more Malm Whale images and found this one. Now I want to start a rumor that this whale was also the inspiration for the Kool-Aid Man "Wall Burst" ad campaign. Oh yeah! 09120
Reposted by BoUnofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Cambodia unveils a statue of famous landmine-sniffing rat Magawabbc.comCambodia unveils a statue of famous landmine-sniffing rat MagawaThe statue honours the late African giant pouched rat who sniffed out more than 100 landmines during his lifetime. 4761192
Reposted by BoLetters of Note @lettersofnote.com · 12/02/2026Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin 157102983045
Reposted by BoRN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 14/08/202514 Aug 1917 // Q-ship HMS Prize (ex German schooner Else) was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB.48 in the Western Atlantic, with all 27 crew lost. (Image: painting c1922 by Charles Dixon of the sinking of U.93 by HMS Prize, 30 April 1917, National Maritime Museum) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory 1323
Reposted by BoRN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 15/08/202515 Aug 1742 // During Admiral Anson's voyage around the world 50-gun HMS Gloucester (launched 1711 and rebuilt 1733-7) was abandoned off Guam and burnt to prevent capture by the Spanish. She was in poor condition and had suffered severe damage in a storm. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory 1162
Reposted by BoI support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I'm now obsessed with this image of sailors on the deck of a U.S. Navy gunboat during the Civil War. The guy with the banjo. The guy with the pipe. The guy reading the newspaper. The guy holding a dog. catalog.archives.gov/id/526207 39618117
Reposted by BoThe Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 17/06/2025Due to rising temperatures the 17th century graves of Dutch whalers buried at Spitsbergen are defrosting and decomposing. Some unique finds have already being lost for ever. A thread🧵 Woollen Caps, 17th century, recovered in the 1980s. www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collectio... 411120
Reposted by Bovideogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 06/06/2025skull island, sega sc-3000 (1984) mocagh.org/loadpage.php... 0697
Reposted by Bosherri cola ✺ @sherricola.bsky.social · 16/05/2025GREGG WOOLARD www.greggwoolard.com/works #artsky #contemporaryart 1526
Bo @bobou.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Sometimes I download an Aubrey-Maturin audio book and the narrator isn’t Patrick Tull and it makes me SICK lol. 0 chance an AI would have any art/whimsy/joy/skill/heart/emotion etc 1110
Reposted by BoBo @bobou.bsky.social · 30/11/2023Searched hat on the whaling museum website and this guy came up first 101
Reposted by BoBo @bobou.bsky.social · 08/12/2023On deck of a whale ship. From the New Bedford whaling museum archives. Maybe 1880ish 221
Bo @bobou.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Radio said he might start today…. I know that means 1.1 innings but still 100
Reposted by BoRobert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 10/03/2025The Moby Dick fandom is dying. Retweet if you're a true Dickhead 211795659
Reposted by Bopixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales" 485192562131
Reposted by BoDr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Next up for #HistoricalHearts on #ValentinesDay A 440-pound heart from a blue whale, the largest-known animal to ever exist. It was so big, it had to be doused in 1,000+ gallons of formaldehyde before being plastinated by a team at Royal Ontario Museum. More: www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/pains... 617839
Reposted by BoCraig McGowan @craigmcg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Ghost Ship. Well it actually isn't, but seeking this beautiful wooden 3-mastered schooner motoring in the fog in the Svalbard archipelago, I had to shoot it. Landscapes will always remain my first preference, but if something else photogenic pops us, well why not... #photography #fineart 627526
