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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 7h

Yūsai-san examined an imperial kōrozen-no-gohō in the possession of Kōryū-ji (広隆寺), and managed to reproduce the dye used in creating the garment. Because the dye behaves mysteriously in different lights, it is known as 'maboroshi-no-zome' (幻の染 'phantom dyeing'). #Japan

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Rachelvira 🦇 @nottheroyalairforce.cc · 22h

"Can I just give you $10?" 😭

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

While renovating her 1870 Victorian home, this Yorkshire woman uncovers a beautifully preserved Victorian tessellated tile floor. IG: @mellyreidhome www.instagram.com/mellyreidhom...

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Olivia C. caught baby elephant "Matope" at the Dallas Zoo having the time of his life. His name means "muddy water" in Swahili. A classic case of nominative determinism: a water-loving elephant named Muddy Waters. Matope reminds you to hydrate. Mother Mlilo is there to make SURE you do. ❤️🫂🐘

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Do y'all have an obvious favorite photo of your dog? Because I sure do, and it will forever be this one of him photobombing Devil's Tower lol.

A photo of my dog photo-bombing Devil's Tower. My dog, a husky/malamute/wolf with black and tan fur is sitting in front of the towering rocky pillar with a large smile and tongue hanging out.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 05/10/2026

Two skulls converged with a crack, and I— I was, I guess, an owl guy, And that has made all the difference

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Chris Miller @goramtor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Come for a stroll in my backyard. Autumn in the north woods. :) Lizzy the puppy shall guide us.

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We went to the Hagerman Wildlife Refuge on the OK/TX border this evening and saw....just a few pelicans. 😍

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Two of the world’s largest pine cones. A heavy Coulter pine (Pinus coulteri, left/taller) and a long sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana, right/shorter. IG: @bigtreehunters www.instagram.com/bigtreehunte...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos, sculpture with Azores crocheted lace #WomensArt

Photo of a sculpture resembling a snake covered in green lace

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Paint me like one of your dead medieval knights.

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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Plotting to take over the world….

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This beautiful box dates from 18th century China. It resembles a six-petaled flower, and features a phoenix and eight symbols of Taoist immortals inlaid with turquoise. The Eight Immortals (Ba Xian) are a group of ancient heroes in Chinese mythology who fight for justice and vanquish evil.

A gold box with turquoise phoenix and emblems of eight Taoist Immortals

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Station Master Mikan comes out to inspect the passengers.

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Lyndie Chiou @lyndie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It was going *so well* until this chess-loving security guard showed up to advise my teen! Let's just say I had fun walking amongst my troops and directing strategy against the duo-mind hive.

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c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Nunchuk tutorial: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

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Northwest Trek Wildlife Park @nwtrek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hawthorne, the rescued grizzly bear, enjoying today’s sunshine in his weeble. ☀️ 📹: Keeper Caroline

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PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Seed Shanty

Song birds sing a sea shanty aboard a schooner boat loaded to the deck with bags of seed: “Seed, Seed, Seed! All the seed we need!”

Captain Robin Cornwallis has seen something through his spy-glass which causes him grave concern, even as the singing continues (“On this we are agreed…”)

Spyglass view: A pirate ship approaches. At every level of the ship, it is crawling with scurvy, rascally squirrels, each with their eyes aimed at the bird’s ship. “Seed, seed, seed!” the crew continues.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 17/09/2026

Wake up new precious baby you shouldn't approach just dropped.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

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Plot Twist Daily @plot-twist-daily.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That bathhouse dig gave up my favourite Roman small find: dozens of intaglios out of the drains, semi-precious stones worked loose from bathers' rings when the hot water softened the glue. People lost their jewellery in the sauna and archaeology got a gemstone catalogue.

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Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The English artist Leonora Carrington lived in Mexico and was inspired by Indigenous mythology. She painted her mural ‘The Magical World of the Maya’ (1963-4) for the Museo Nacional de Antropología. The painting depicts imagery from the Popol Vuh, the sacred text of the Maya. #WyrdWednesday

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I. Can’t. Wait.

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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Apparently the commander of the International Space Station brought her dancing pants to space with her

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Daniel Álvarez @dalvarez-01.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A fascinating Maya bird mask, dating to the Classic period (600–800 CE). Seen at the Museum of Anthropology of Mérida. Another angle of the same mask in the thread. #Maya #Archaeology #Mérida #Yucatán

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Bart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Burial 39 Offering from El Perú-Waka' (Petén, Guatemala 600-650 CE) features 24 Maya clay figurines in a circle. They represent a royal court, including a shaman and four dwarfs, acting as supernatural guides to help a deceased ruler navigate the journey into the underworld after passing away.

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Jessie🦇 @atropius.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

who are you and what are you doing in my house #art

sketchbook page with a drawing of a chunky orange cat with an angry-looking face. She's sitting with her front paws together, turning her body into a triangle. Drawn in yellow and brown colored pencils

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This remarkable view was captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover from Gale Crater on Mars. Unlike Earth, where sunsets often glow with shades of red, orange, and gold, a Martian sunset can produce a striking blue glow around the setting Sun.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A tortoise holding up the pillar of the world at the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, Spain.

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A few places on this beautiful planet that made me feel (and look) small.

A selfie of me standing on the edge of a tall, rugged red rock cliff overlooking a vast canyon landscape and the Green River some 1,300 ft below, all under a soft, cloudy, golden sky.

The House group of sequoia trees with 6'3" me standing right in front of them for scale as they tower over me out of the frame.

A distant selfie of me standing in nearly waist deep water of the middle of the Rio Grande River with massive canyon walls on either side and clear blue sky overhead.

A photo of me standing near the base of the powerful Skogafoss waterfall in Iceland. I am center frame, wearing a gray and orange jacket, and standing on light-colored rocks. I am dwarfed by the entire frame filled with white water plunging down the falls.

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Eloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

- Scarlet-headed Blackbirds (Amblyramphus holosericeus) in the Pantanal, Brazil. - Photo courtesy of Ester Ramirez.

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🇹🇭Nene Royal🇹🇭 doing Metallica's Master of Puppets. She's pretty damn good. Only 16 but you'd think she's a seasoned rock goddess with how confident she blasts through it. 🤘🤘🎸

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What a moment…💕 IG: Roslyn Farm & Vineyard Charlottesville, Virginia

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AnthroBOOlogal 👻 @anthropologal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I took a pic of some stardust that was the oldest thing I’ll ever see at the NHM in London this summer!

A vial with a teeny tiny bit of white dust at the bottom behind a big magnifying glass in a museum.
Star dust
Cold Bokkeveld meteorite (carbonaceous chondrite, CM2)
The smudge of white powder at the bottom of this little tube is the oldest thing you will ever see.
We know this because it contains a chemical signature different to anything else in our Solar System.
Known as pre-solar grains, this mix of microscopic diamonds and other minerals was created billions of years ago by a generation of stars predating the Sun.
It was extracted from the meteorite displayed here by one of our scientists.
Observed fall in 1838, Koue Bokkeveld Mountains, Western Cape, South Africa
Donated to the Museum in 1839

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... it’s 2026 & for the first time, the UN voted to allow Africa to be accurately scaled.

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UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale

Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland

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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

this second session being impossible to schedule is the most D&D thing you could possibly imagine

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Stevie Kilner @1steviekilner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If anyone would like to see a short video of a cat saying “well, hi!”, this is your lucky day.

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is the 300-year-old Yew Tree Tunnel at Gormanston Castle in County Meath, Ireland 🇮🇪

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A dog takes his first steps on a custom 3D printed prosthetic after weeks of fittings and physiotherapy, and his gait changes instantly.

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