A sketch of a doorway at the entrance to an alleyway (known locally as a snicket or ginnel) through a 15th century timber framed building. On the right is an exploded view of the components used in the frame.

The snicket at 37 Shambles, York. The 15th century doorway to a passage that led to the private apartments at the rear of the building. The drawing on the left was made on site, the exploded view is based on the sketch.

#ArchitecturalIllustration
#drawing #PenArt
#ArtShare

Frog and Toad stuff their faces with cookies, one after another. From "Cookies" In *Frog and Toad Together*

Frog and Toad ate many cookies, one after another.

“You know, Toad,” said Frog, with his mouth full, “I think we should stop eating. We will soon be sick.”

“You are right,” said Toad. “Let us eat one last cookie, and then we will stop.”

A pub sign of a Medieval bum with a trumpet. Words: Never underestimate the value of a good pub sign

Why is it spicy?! 🌶️🐸

Bend in the River Epte - 1888
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Good night, lovely people and lovely dogs.
I hope that you have a fabulous day tomorrow.

“Wait a minute! Isn’t anyone here a real sheep?”

“Wait a minute! Isn’t anyone here a real sheep?”

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music

Several dozen folks did

Some even dubbed music over the original clip.

I haven't been able to get this out of my head.

So I give you

A Bluesky exclusive:

Reservoir Ducks

🐣 🪶

Bianca Ponzoni Anguissola
by Sofonisba Anguissola
1557

The artist's mother
#InternationalWomensDay

(Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt)

This image shows Dr. Georgiana Bonser (née Duthie), a prominent British physician and cancer researcher. Dr. Bonser was Manchester Royal Infirmary's first woman house surgeon. She served as a consultant at St James's Hospital and was a researcher at the University of Leeds. In 1953, she became the first woman chairman of the British Medical Association's Leeds Division. Dr. Bonser was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) in 1954. Wellcome Collection CC BY 4.0

🧵Dr. Georgiana Bonser was a pioneering scientist and the first female researcher at Yorkshire Cancer Research. Working in Leeds in the mid-20th century, she investigated unusually high rates of bladder cancer among local dye workers. Her research helped link the disease to chemicals

Water Lilies - 1914
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This view shows puffing dust bubbles and an erupting gas shell — the final acts of a monster star. It is about the star AG Carinae. The image showcases the details of the ionised hydrogen and ionised nitrogen emissions from the nebula (seen here in red). The blue demonstrates the contrasting appearance of the distribution of the dust that shines of reflected stellar light. Astronomers believe that the dust bubbles and filaments formed within and were shaped by powerful stellar wind . The star is surrounded by an expanding shell of gas and dust — a nebula — that is shaped by the powerful winds emanating from the star. The nebula is about five light-years wide, equal to the distance from here to our nearest star, Alpha Centauri.

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#Hubble celebrated its 31st anniversary with this impressive view of AG Carinae, a luminous blue variable (LBV) 20,000 ly away in the constellation Carina.

Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, A. Nota, C. Britt 🔭 🧪 ⚛️

➡️ esahubble.org/images/potw2...

#universe #space #astronomy #stellarastro #science 1/3

Painted portrait of the upper half of a white woman with dark hair tied, dressed in grey top

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth
Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell

I think we should allow Trump to choose Iran’s next leader as long as the rest of us can choose America’s. Because it’s clearly far too important a job to be left in the hands of Americans.

this is like

the thesis statement of our times

view during the evening of a dark hill in the bottom part of the picture, with the sky above almost covered by clouds colored gray and orange by the twilight

#scape #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #sky #clouds #SkyScape #CloudScape #Twilight #evening #photosky #PhonePhotography #photo #MobilePhotography #photography #Phonetography #AltText #NoAI #Horizon

Today's #Muppet GIF of the Day is...

BREAKING NEWS: Otter has had her nails done!

“Oo! Goldfish, everyone! Goldfish!”

“Oo! Goldfish, everyone! Goldfish!”

You are correct. Being an adult is utterly rubbish.

Καλημέρα

A roundish robot sitting on the floor, with its banded legs splayed in front of it. Its mouth is shut and its cheeks are puffed out or filled. Various lumps and bumps on its surface make it appear as if its interior has been packed with stuff.

464) Storagebot. Look after your precious things with this robot whose gullet is an interdimensional gateway to a pocket universe that is pleasingly roomy. Just administer a slight tickle to retrieve a possession. AKA Bot-of-Holding. #SmallRobotsRemastered

WAIT THEY CAN FUCKING DRIVE NOW

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman on a scooter in a street facing left dressed in a long black dress and hat

In 1916, Florence Norman, a suffragette in London, used a motorised scooter known as a Autoped #WomensArt
Every month on Womensart is #WomensHistoryMonth 💙

A robot in the form of an axolotl, the neotenic mole salamander species, specifically one of the domestic breeds which tends to be very pale in colouration with contrasting eyes and a wide, upturned mouth resembling a human smile. In other words, the ones that look like smol robots. It has three frond-like gills on each side of its ovoid head, a longish body with a tail that has both an upper and lower ridged fin, and banded arms and legs ending in jointed claws. A couple of air bubbles are drifting above it as it floats.

462) Axolotlbot. A friendly aquatic robot pal, for people who want an axolotl but might not be able to keep one easily, or as company for existing axolotls. #SmallRobotsRemastered

Closeup on the face of a sleeping Golden Pyrenees on a brown quilt.

Timeline cleanse. We could all use one.

Struggling with medieval contact lenses - 15th century, BnF Latin 919, f. 10v

A VERY handsome golden retriever sitting on a lawn and to the left are red tulips and white tulips and daffodils. Crikey, he's a good looking dog.

To mark the first day of (meteorological) Spring we've dug out a vintage photo of this handsome boy. 🥰🥰🌷
#SundayHuxley

People overseas love their kids just as much as you love yours. Your kids aren’t more special just because they were born on US soil

After years of Gregorian chants, Brothers Thomas and Edwin suddenly discover jazz - 13th century, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne, U 964, f. 405r