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This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

Jason White on water management – cartoon Newly built AI datacentres suck up vast quanties of water – while drought warnings increase across Europe and Africa

Yet another way in which AI is awful 😓

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NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1-NANCY IS RIDING HER SCOOTER WHEN SUDDENLY A MAN IN A CONVERTIBLE HITS A MUD PUDDLE AND SPLASHES WATER ALL OVER NANCY P2-NANCY IS VERY ANGRY,SHE FOLLOWS THE CONVERTIBLE ON HER SCOOTER P3- NANCY SEES THE MAN STOPPING HIS CONVERTIBLE P4- AS SOON AS THE MAN STEPS OUT OF HIS CONVERTIBLE NANCY RUSHES BY HIM ON HER SCOOTER AND SPLASHES WATER ON THE MAN

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
July 30,1951

A photo of a rosy maple moth on a human fingertip. It is yellow and pink in color with a fuzzy texture. Its wings are held above its body.

Ever seen the rosy maple moth? Its vibrant color provides camouflage among the fruits of red maple trees. With a wingspan of up to 2 in (5 cm), this silk moth is nocturnal & solitary. It can be found throughout North America.
Photo: Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarre, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

'Oxford Circus Underground Station' (1905) by Maxwell Ashby Armfield

(Government Art Collection)

The cover of a book featuring a spider in the middle of a spider web, surrounded by snakes. The top reads: THERE'S DEATH IN THE POT and is accompanied by a skull.

"There is Death in the Pot" — front cover for an early 19th-century book on culinary poisoning.

A pink cat mascot with a white face stands and waves in front of an urban train station.

Koronon, a pink cat who promoted safety measures during the pandemic, popped up in Tokyo today.

‘Boiling frog’ effect makes people oblivious to threat of climate crisis, shows study Research shows people’s response to binary data could drive more effective ways of communicating gravity of crisis

The increasing number of extreme climate events – floods, wildfires, hurricanes, etc – has NOT raised awareness of the threat posed by climate collapse. Instead, people change their idea of normal: the “boiling frog effect”.

But “before and after” data can help.
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YouTube video by Kate Bush - Topic How To Be Invisible (2018 Remaster)

#detectivesongs
#MusicChallenge

24 Disappear

How To Be Invisible, Kate Bush (2005)

I found a book on how to be invisible
Take a pinch of keyhole
And fold yourself up
You cut along a dotted line
You think inside out
And you're invisible

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Art by Margaryta Yermolayeva

Illustration of a raven with clocks as eyes, reading a book by candlelight.

When you should be sleeping but just have to read one more chapter

Photo of a flame carpet moth hanging out on a wall in a garden.

Lovely little moth hanging out in the garden yesterday evening. Think it's a flame carpet 😊

#moths #bugs #BugSky #wildlife #nature #animals

Gigantic wooden sculpture of a troll between four large trees. His hands wrapped around two of them. My lovely wife is standing next to the troll looking up at him and is dwarved by the sculpture. He is wearing a necklace of birdhouses to interact even more with nature.

This is Jakob Two Trees, a wooden troll living in the forest created by Danish artist Thomas Dambo. It's huge. 14 ft tall. There are six of them in the #PNW (each different). Amazing - just there, out in the woods, for all to see!

#art #seattle #love #socool #photography #sculpture #hiking #walk

make it exist

Illustration divided into two frames. The upper frame shows a cut-through depiction of a flooded village with intact church and stunted trees, green in hue under the water as fish swim past. Below is an innocuous, conventional scene of a peaceful reservoir in sunlight

I used to find this picture - and the whole concept - of a flooded valley quite haunting.
Actually, I still do

Artist: Ronald Lampitt
(Our Land in the Making, 1966)

'Soho Twilight' (1924) by Christopher RW Nevinson

(Private collection)

Photo of street art including a large bird mural on Great Victoria Street in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Street art on Great Victoria Street, viewed from the bus.

#Belfast #StreetArt #Art #ArtSky #ArtOfBlueSky

BELFAST is relatively flat. Yes, there are a few interesting hills to the north of the city, but in general, it is one of the most cyclable cities in the UK. Apart from the fact the infrastructure (for cars, bikes, pedestrians, public transport) is terrible.

M. C. Escher (1898-1972), “Puddle” (1952), woodcut in colours, on Japan paper, 32.3 x 24 cm (image).

Photo of 2 white morning glory flowers among the green leaves of a laurel hedge.

Morning glory flowers among the foliage of our front laurel hedge.

#gardening #GardenSky #GardensOfBlueSky #plants #PlantSky #PlantsOfBlueSky

The hardest disbelief to suspend about the show.

'Storm Light', Shepherd's Bush (2024) by Leslie Dabson
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Windswept Island
Shannon Craig-Morphew
2025

Photo of a brown guinea pig lying in its enclosure. Mainly only the guinea pig's head is visible, because its body is concealed by fabric curtain tassels.

Photo of a white and beige guinea pig's head, peeping out of a wooden tunnel in its enclosure.

Mabel & Meryl doing their best to stay cool 🧊🧊

#GuineaPigs #pets #PetSky #PetsOfBlueSky #heatwave

Artificial grass catches fire at Derbyshire farm in heatwave A plume of black smoke is rising from a farm in Stanton, near Swadlincote.

Artificial grass: the gift that keeps on giving.