Duchess Urvogel
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A 150m year old fossil with pretensions. Here for history, Kpop, and birds, in no particular order. I lurk to avoid predators, so no point in following me. She/her
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Tennessee is set to reintroduce the Red-cockaded woodpecker, a species that has been absent from the state since 1994.
The Red-cockaded Woodpecker to be Reintroduced to Tennessee - The Cumberland Naturalist
The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, in partnership with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service has announced a plan to reintroduc...
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November 29, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Tennessee is set to reintroduce the Red-cockaded woodpecker, a species that has been absent from the state since 1994.
I wasn’t even going to cook for thanksgiving this year but now I feel compelled to go start fires in the backyard
Now is the time to prepare to not set your house on fire this Thanksgiving.
November 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I wasn’t even going to cook for thanksgiving this year but now I feel compelled to go start fires in the backyard
Some serious wisdom, this
For every $500 sushi experience, we need to have a $1.75 horrible macaroni experience.
It’s how life balances itself out.
It’s how life balances itself out.
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Some serious wisdom, this
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I love this painting so much. Such “what? Like it’s hard?” vibes as she dangles his head like a small purse
Women messing with men’s heads du jour: Lovely Judith with head of Holofernes, 1616. You will be seeing this exact composition a lot, because Cristofano Allori kept painting it. And today is his day.
October 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I love this painting so much. Such “what? Like it’s hard?” vibes as she dangles his head like a small purse
I had his Judith and Holofernes hanging in my office at work for years for its perfect balance of glam and murder. Bonus: it creeped out the right people
Born on this day in 1577, in Florence, Cristofano Allori. Son of the painter Alessandro Allori. And here he is, by himself.
October 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I had his Judith and Holofernes hanging in my office at work for years for its perfect balance of glam and murder. Bonus: it creeped out the right people
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Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day
October 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day
Looks like an AO3 tag, is on auction at Sotheby’s for an opening bid of 10,000 GBP
September 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Looks like an AO3 tag, is on auction at Sotheby’s for an opening bid of 10,000 GBP
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on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic
August 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic
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Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.
August 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.
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If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:
Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.
Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.
It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”
Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...
August 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:
Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.
Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Every Tuesday a glossy magazine publishes a new piece like “Women: Have They Gone Too Far?” by somebody with a Pulitzer.
July 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Every Tuesday a glossy magazine publishes a new piece like “Women: Have They Gone Too Far?” by somebody with a Pulitzer.
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the world is just better with trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people in it
full stop
full stop
June 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
the world is just better with trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people in it
full stop
full stop
SEVEN SEAS GOT LITTLE MUSHROOM
May 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
SEVEN SEAS GOT LITTLE MUSHROOM
WTF fortune cookie?
May 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
WTF fortune cookie?
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This is such a perfect article. Absolutely satisfying. I fucking love journalism. slate.com/culture/2025...
It’s One of the Weirdest Mistakes in Movie History. I Spent Months Investigating How It All Went Wrong.
The story behind cinema’s most mysterious bird.
slate.com
May 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This is such a perfect article. Absolutely satisfying. I fucking love journalism. slate.com/culture/2025...
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“This my pious Mother bore and brought up eighteen children; she often had the plague and many other severe and strange illnesses, and she suffered great poverty, scorn, contempt, mocking words, terrors, and great adversities. Yet she bore no malice.” -Albrecht Dürer
May 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
“This my pious Mother bore and brought up eighteen children; she often had the plague and many other severe and strange illnesses, and she suffered great poverty, scorn, contempt, mocking words, terrors, and great adversities. Yet she bore no malice.” -Albrecht Dürer
Living through a plague and then fighting for the right to vote is not as fun as the Sunfire romances led me to believe
May 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Living through a plague and then fighting for the right to vote is not as fun as the Sunfire romances led me to believe
🤞🤞🤞
May 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
🤞🤞🤞
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Dev Patel is set to star in and direct a new revenge action thriller ‘THE PEASANT’
The film follows a shepherd in the 1300s who embarks on a rage-fueled campaign against a group of mercenary knights who ransacked his community
The film follows a shepherd in the 1300s who embarks on a rage-fueled campaign against a group of mercenary knights who ransacked his community
April 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Dev Patel is set to star in and direct a new revenge action thriller ‘THE PEASANT’
The film follows a shepherd in the 1300s who embarks on a rage-fueled campaign against a group of mercenary knights who ransacked his community
The film follows a shepherd in the 1300s who embarks on a rage-fueled campaign against a group of mercenary knights who ransacked his community
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The Papal conclave is expected to start between the 6th and 12th of May. Eurovision is between the 13th and 17th of May. Social media is about to get very confusing.
April 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The Papal conclave is expected to start between the 6th and 12th of May. Eurovision is between the 13th and 17th of May. Social media is about to get very confusing.
I know we’re all struggling to survive these days, National Tsunami Warning Center, but the ALLCAPS seems a bit alarmist here
March 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I know we’re all struggling to survive these days, National Tsunami Warning Center, but the ALLCAPS seems a bit alarmist here
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George Lowe, who voiced Space Ghost on different Turner shows across multiple decades, has died. The faux professionalism he lent his interplanetary late-night host is what made SGC2C work.
Space Ghost Coast to Coast Only Worked Because of George Lowe
George Lowe, who voiced Space Ghost on different Turner shows across multiple decades, has died. The faux professionalism he lent his interplanetary late-night host is what made SGC2C work.
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March 6, 2025 at 4:25 AM
George Lowe, who voiced Space Ghost on different Turner shows across multiple decades, has died. The faux professionalism he lent his interplanetary late-night host is what made SGC2C work.