Pretty little emerald in a gold and diamond setting. Ring does not fit on the seller’s finger so they are showing it on the middle phalanx of the index finger. The ring is on backwards- their palm would be facing up for this photo.
My favourite thing about people selling rings online is when the rings are far too small for their fingers but they have a pop at it anyway.
Screenshot of a map of North America labeled “Bald Eagle range map by ABC” that shows bald eagle ranges for breeding, wintering, and residency. There’s a distinctive hole or gap exactly mirroring the borders of the U.S. state of Nevada
Why do bald eagles hate Nevada
Are you ready for the annual eBird/Clements taxonomy update? Happening as soon as tomorrow! Details at ebird.org and explore the species on Birds of the World (birdsoftheworld.org). The site will be open access from 29 Oct-7 Nov.
birdsoftheworld.org/bow/home
Title of book “Glimpses of Bermuda” in very nice all caps font. I do not know what the font is, but its proportions bring me joy. Book is from 1930’s ish? There is no date that I can see.
Bring back beautiful fonts you cowards
i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”
A list of the largest US ISPs from May 1996. The full table includes Subscribers, Signups/Week, PHone Nubmer, Home Page, Montly Fees, and cost per hour. The top ten are Netcom, Spry Net, PSINet, Global Network Nav, Concentric, EarthLink, IDT Corp, Internet America, TIAC, and Mindspring.
It is now believed that there may be hundreds of thousands of people on the Internet
Reddit post showing picture of a living room titled “What colour is missing?”. The floor is brown, the walls are cream, the sofa is beige, the carpet is beige, the coffee-table-type thing is beige, the tv stand is beige.
The year is 2025. Colours will not be invented for another 43 years.
Thanks for the shout-out, Karl! Not sure I ever expected this map to be a substitute for Strava :-)
For those that are interested, here's my project page for this diagram of Spokane's streetcars in 1912: transitmap.net/electric-rai...
Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet
Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet
A photo of Gavin Newsom's tweet that contains the California Republic flag.
I live in California and somehow I still always think "why is the bear missing a head" when I see this flag.
Job opportunity Principal Curator of Collection Development (Archaeology), National Museum Cardiff , Closing date 29th August nmwtest.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...
I would love a museum which is devoted to the museum interactives that were going to be amazing but didn’t quite work or were unreliable.. but here they are fixed and they do work and they deliver what we hoped for.
I suspect the maintenance team costs are high
Photo of Tom Lehrer
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
An orange and white cat with yellow green eyes looking at the camera as if to say "I'm watching you in the bathroom."
This is what haunts my bathroom. If you go to the bathroom and try to close the door, he appears.
the survey for the northeast corner of the loop
recently found the city of chicago maintains a web page where you can put in any address and see a scanned copy of the original public land survey map for that area
gisapps.chicago.gov/KioskMap/?ma...
#TapeIsEvil
If you've just joined and need to catch up on this day-to-day look back, start here. 👍
If you want the full deep dive history, go back to January 1 😉
long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.
If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.
Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22
7 Simple steps you can do right now for bird conservation:
Make Windows Safer, Day and Night. ...
Keep Cats Indoors. ...
Reduce Lawn, Plant Natives. ...
Avoid Pesticides. ...
Drink Coffee That's Good for Birds. ...
Protect Our Planet from Plastic. ...
Watch Birds, Share What You See (for science)
PowerPoint slide that says: “does America do it, if yes, then no”
Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
SawStart xkcd.com/3067
look it hasn’t worked the last 15 times but maybe *this* time a round of cuts to essential public services will lead to economic growth and prosperity
Cain smiting Abel with God's Expulsion of Cain from the Garden of Eden, by Sebastiano & Marco Ricci, 1716, 📸 via @PeteBlackburn
One of the funniest long-term trends in The Onion is their deeply impassioned, and surprisingly knowledgeable, gags about marine biology. @whysharksmatter.bsky.social
A small cat with light tabby markings sticks her head out from the cabinet where someone was attempting to shelve their linens.
Ms. Helpful is helping.
For one beautiful moment, I thought we were going to get a thread about Canadian tuxedos.
