Reposted by Wuggly UmpBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Currents on the Schelde River between Boudewijnlock and Prosperpolder (Antwerp, Belgium) over 24hr period 26716
Reposted by Wuggly UmpSean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The Appalachian Mountains are older than *bones.* Like, when they first formed, no creature on earth had evolved a skeleton yet. They're older than our current continents; the Scottish Highlands were once part of the Appalachian range, before the split. 1309
Reposted by Wuggly Umpwelcometoyourdoom.bsky.social @welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social · 01/08/2026The German-made printing presses they imported to England starting in the 15th century didn't have the letter thorn, so they decided the "y" looked enough like it. That's why "ye" is pronounced just like "the." 13111
Reposted by Wuggly UmpLiv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Blue stripes on dish towels have apparently been around for a v v long time. 323851
Reposted by Wuggly UmpDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 05/07/2026In the 1560s, the volcanic tropical island located in the South Atlantic Ocean, Saint Helena (left on the image), was in big trouble, when a sea monster with an experimental hairdo and twice as big as the island (right on the image), met spontaneously in the wide open sea. #skystorians 821843
Reposted by Wuggly UmpWIRED @wired.com · 05/07/2026A new study has succeeded in mapping, on a global scale, the fungal network that supports plant life and helps regulate our planet’s climate. www.wired.com/story/theres...wired.comThere’s a Global Network of Fungi Under Your Feet. This Is the First Complete MapA new study has succeeded in mapping, on a global scale, the fungal network that supports plant life and helps regulate our planet’s climate. 9341112
Reposted by Wuggly UmpAbbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Created by Argentine animator Santiago Bou Grasso, The Employment (2008) is a short animated film about the absurdity and dehumanization of labor. It went on to win more than 100 international awards, becoming one of the most acclaimed animated shorts of its era. 02311
Reposted by Wuggly UmpChise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 29/04/2026This is the most detailed 3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell to date, obtained using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets. 🔬🧪 21757511756
Reposted by Wuggly UmpKarl C Krumpholz @karlckrumpholz.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Some inks and line work of buildings, water towers, and a cityscape over my pencils for an illustration in my next comic IN THE CITY, Part 5. About two or so hours of work compressed into about 90 second. 35311
Reposted by Wuggly UmpDr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 09/03/2026So Prototaxites are not fungi (probably), not flora, and possibly not animalia, and were around more or less only in the Devonian... probably not aliens, but they are very much outside the major kingdoms of life as we know it. 🧪 Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 12510
Reposted by Wuggly UmpRosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 12/01/2026Wildlife tracking tips. A wintry comic from last year. 121860547
Reposted by Wuggly UmpKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 12/01/2026Friendly reminder that we call eggplant eggplant because the "normal" eggplant used to look like this 1195414880
Reposted by Wuggly UmpCrits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 10/01/2026Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment. 169106313850
Reposted by Wuggly UmpToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 02/01/2026A cubic millimeter of mouse brain with 75,000 neurons, vizualized by Quorumetrix Studio: youtu.be/blaS5fBJdsE Watching the way the signals propagate through the layers, with pyramidal cells integrating and processing 11,061 inputs at a time is mindbending. 06911
Reposted by Wuggly UmpGwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 15/12/2025People who drive in Philly, do we think I can safely go to Cherry Hill and drive back with a bookcase strapped to the top of my car today? It is a weird measurement that actually works for my hallway so I really want it, but I am not a super experienced driver and don't want to take risks, either 10223
Reposted by Wuggly UmpScott 𐚁 🦇 Cave 🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025“boy, I bet this waterfall and burial mound are at the bottom of a lake” he said, weary of the way east coast landscapes have been treated 1194
Reposted by Wuggly UmpLar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 23/10/2025From the Larchives: The Rocky Horus Picture Scroll. One of my favorite works. I had the assistance of an Egyptology PhD student to translate the Time Warp phonetically. Enjoy :) 301657712
Reposted by Wuggly UmpKatie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Illumination workshop on Saturday 29 November @rcpmuseum! ⭐Artist-led practical session you'll leave with your very own illuminated letter made with REAL GOLD. 📚Inspired by the beauty of medieval manuscripts with a chance to see one up close and personal. history.rcp.ac.uk/event/illumi... 032
Reposted by Wuggly UmpFomo Simpson @haliphacks.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Deer + bunny + cargo shorts = kangaroo 34326
Reposted by Wuggly UmpJournal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Camille Pissarro played a major role in developing impressionism, and was father figure to many impressionist artists. But, like many others, he sold little during his lifetime. Here’s his View of Studio, Éragny, Pear Trees in Bloom ■ Rue Saint-Honoré, Afternoon Rain (1890s) 19115
Reposted by Wuggly UmpBrilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Topographic Map of Italy More about Italy: brilliantmaps.com/country-m... 082
Reposted by Wuggly UmpRamin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 13/10/2025The art of Conversation, René Magritte (1898 - 1967) 18315
Reposted by Wuggly Umplos 🦦 @los-los.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Roman doctors be like: HE NEEDS A 4, STAT 39845
Reposted by Wuggly UmpRabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Albrecht Dürer, Studies of hares, ca. 1501-5 .Pen and black ink 110717
Reposted by Wuggly UmpJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 15/09/2025art deco is short for arthur decoration. not many people know this 3653876
Reposted by Wuggly UmpDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Hi, this is a slow moving thread of #earlymodern images enriched with Smartphones used for selfies. #HistSelfie The first selfie comes straight from the 1560s, and you see a German Landsknecht taking a stormy selfie. 36921
Reposted by Wuggly UmpToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Ultracool dwarf stars can be found with Earth-sized planets inside the habitable zone: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Small cold stars are far more numerous than Sun-like stars, so this greatly multiplies the number of possible habitable zones in the galaxy. 1172
Reposted by Wuggly UmpGary Hornseth @garyhornseth.bsky.social · 31/08/2025A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice 591906592
Reposted by Wuggly UmpOctober’s Awesomer (Kevin McLaughlin) @voilakevin.bsky.social · 29/08/2025My son's favourite story from Toronto History www.thestar.com/news/gta/for...thestar.comForgotten Toronto: Inside the great ‘clown riots’ of 1855 — and the coverup that changed the city’s policing foreverHow a normal circus visit turned into a vicious battle between clowns, firefighters and the powers that ran Toronto. 0218
Reposted by Wuggly UmpFR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 25/08/2025[cat training class] INSTRUCTOR: open your textbooks to chapter 3 and then slowly push the book off the desk 224454
Reposted by Wuggly UmpAnthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Flash flood threat in California today, particularly in the Sierra Nevada, as monsoon moisture combined with an easterly wave triggers scattered to widespread thunderstorms. #CAwx www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/metwatch/met... 2117
Reposted by Wuggly UmpJoe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 20/08/2025This area in northwestern Minnesota is a good example. At the time of the land survey (1870s-1880s) there was vegetation that sounds like oak savanna or aspen parkland on a lot of the dark-colored prairie soils to the northwest. bsky.app/profile/more... 121
Reposted by Wuggly UmpSusanne Kuijpers @susannekuijpers.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Net te zien in de mist: knobbelzwanen in het licht van de opkomende zon 3632
Reposted by Wuggly UmpSalty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Me, Louis Armstrong, and Tom Waits sitting at the diner, stirring our coffees, clearing our throats for 2 hours 2737195
Reposted by Wuggly UmpJeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 05/08/2025You may have noticed most of the tropical activity this season has been “close to home” in the NW Atlantic / SE coast. That’s because this season the relative warmest water is there (deep red=record), not in the main development region. Thus, for now the focus remains close to the SE US coast. 16511
Reposted by Wuggly UmpMateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Visited a very special friend today! Possibly a once in a generation exhibition in Chantilly, showcasing the recent restoration of the most magnificent medieval Book of Hours. Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, Musée Condé MS 65, 15th century 211115
Reposted by Wuggly UmpBrilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 03/08/2025The 17 Oddest Shaped Countries In The World & How They Came To Be brilliantmaps.com/weird-cou...brilliantmaps.comThe 17 Oddest Shaped Countries In The World & How They Came To Be - Brilliant MapsBelow is my purely subjective list of the 17 oddest and weirdest shaped countries in world and why they are the shaped the way they are. 011
Reposted by Wuggly UmpCycling Historian 🚴♂️ @cyclinghistorian.bsky.social · 21/05/2024A really nicely done agricultural history documentary on the Minnesota flour industry. #aghsitory #history youtu.be/w8zlDoquXww?...youtu.beFlour Power | Full DocumentaryFlour Power explores how milling made Minnesota. The story charts the growth of wheat farming, the harnessing of water power, the founders of the flour milli... 052
Reposted by Wuggly UmpNeglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 02/08/2025A little tale about Dorothy Richardson and her use of ellipses in Pilgrimage. asterismbooks.com/product/pilg... 0308
Reposted by Wuggly Umpkir @kirlax.bsky.social · 28/07/2025It’s been a minute since the last observed Moss Monday, so here’s some moss for you. have a great day 073
Reposted by Wuggly UmpDemand-Side Sheepdog @writing.dog · 24/07/20253. In a group chat earlier today I called Saki’s “The Open Window” the greatest short story of all time. I stand by that, this being an opinion thread and all :p Saki packs so much into every line. “Romance” in my bio here is meant the same way Vera means it :Pamericanliterature.comThe Open WindowThe Open Window by H.H. Munro (SAKI) 131
Reposted by Wuggly UmpNews 3 Now / Channel3000 @channel3000.com · 21/07/2025We'll be entering into a ring of fire weather pattern next week meaning the heat and humidity climb as we sit on the edge (the ring) of a high pressure system to our south. Wisconsin could be under this pattern for a week to week and a half. #wiwx 012
Reposted by Wuggly UmpMovies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Since we're talking about AI art again, here is my periodic recommendation thread of art supplies for the adult beginner. This is my under $20 Blick pick. The brush is quite snappy and ideal for someone who has never used a brush before. The paper is cellulose but quite good. 7314106
Reposted by Wuggly UmpAmerican Cinematheque @amcinematheque.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Just announced! 🌊⚓️ Enjoy a FREE screening of the new 4K restoration of MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (2003), co-presented by Beyond Fest. Plus, free 🍿 + 🥤 courtesy of Disney! See Peter Weir’s adventure film at the Egyptian on 8/1: www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/... 3497
Reposted by Wuggly UmpCrazyMyra @outonthemoors.bsky.social · 12/07/2025How many cats does it take to change a lightbulb? 18230
Reposted by Wuggly UmpWeatherMatrix @weathermatrix.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Heavy rain, as much as 3"/hr is affecting areas north of Kerrville/Hunt, TX this evening. Two "Considerable" Flash Flood Warnings are out. Camp Mystic area got heavy rain earlier. 041
