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In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

Because you deserve nice things,one of my favorite wholesome videos.

Today we celebrate Madeline Kahn on the 83rd year of her birth with her duet of Sing After Me with Grover.

I honestly do not want to be friends with you if Madeline or Grover or Madeline and Grover together do not make you smile.

Post box cover. Welsh flag, dragon, castle daffodils

Giant Panda lounging against a tree branch.

We'd like to wish all our animals a happy Labor Day, except Gerald, our Giant Panda. He hasn't done a damn thing since he got here.

Timeline cleanse

In the bookshop this morning:

PARENTS: “Okay, we’re leaving now.”

CHILD: *pulls another book from the shelf and sits down *

CHILD: “Then I guess this is goodbye.”

Amboli Purple Forest Crab: Rain-Loving Phantom of the Ghats | Roundglass | Sustain Meet the Amboli purple forest crab (Ghatiana atropurpurea), a rare arboreal species found in rain-filled tree hollows of the Western Ghats

@jopabinia.bsky.social look!

roundglasssustain.com/species/ambo...

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I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia

For a medieval monastic chronicler, a headline to die for

death to tyrants! from disney’s animated robin hood

“keep politics out of kids movies”

disney in 1973:

Ranking my daily mood on a scale from baby Tawny Frogmouth to baby Albatross.

I would add Kandukondain Kandukondain (Tamil, 2000). It's a Tamil retelling of Sense and Sensibility. Since there storyline is familiar it's usually a good introduction. Also Aishwarya Rai and Tabu are familiar to audiences outside of India. Can be found as I Have Found It as well.

Tawny frogmouth chicks are much the same— angry cotton balls.

A pea-sized #Argonaut #octopus hitches a ride on a chain of cloned #salps, as they drift through the open #ocean together.
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#papernautilus #nautilus #cephalopod #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater #comensalism #symbiosis

Modest proposal : when Murdoch finally dies, we entomb all his loyal employees with him like the pharaohs of old

“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing

Historians dispute Bayeux tapestry penis tally after lengthy debate Two Bayeux scholars at loggerheads over whether dangling shape depicts dagger or the embroidery’s 94th phallus

If you're having a difficult day, have a read through of this article on the urgent question of whether the Bayeux Tapestry has 93 or 94 penises.
And people say history is boring.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Historians will fight about anything.

Medieval illustration of a nun plucking wiener fruit from a wiener tree. As you do.

Surprisingly prescient depiction of a Producer selecting guests for a history podcast.

Two photos. In the first, deep in a conifer forest a man in winter clothes holds a reindeer and sprays something from an aerosol can on the antlers. The second photo is of a small town street in the dead of night. Little shops and dim street lights. A deer stands in the middle of the road. It's barely visible, just a feint silhouette. But, its eyes and antlers glow like something ancient and supernatural.

To prevent deer from being hit by cars Finland has tried using reflective paint. (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/avoid-deer-strikes-finland-painting-deer-antlers-reflective-paint-180949792/)

File this under "solutions to modern problems that summon the old gods."

An emu head tilted back, mouth open

Emus catching snowflakes 🪶

His guinea pig

"I hate these people."

—Dot, Sunday in the Park with George

Brown mohair plush fully jointed teddy bear. The eyes are black boot button and the nose, mouth and claws stitched with black wool. There is the Steiff trademark metal button in the left ear. The accessories are two kilts, a beret, a houndstooth suit comprising jacket, trousers and hat, and a homemade metal and cloth gas mask.

This bear's name is Ted. His gas mask was made by his owner Elizabeth's mum Muriel in the early 1940s, to protect him and get Elizabeth used to wearing one. Ted also has other outfits including an American zoot suit.
Ref MISC.787:1, V & A Museum.

As Trump's latest genius move sees him launch a trade war with penguins, I'll again share a slang French phrase for telling someone they're a bozo / a few sandwiches short of a picnic. It goes t’es pas le pingouin qui glisse le plus loin and it means “you’re not the penguin that slides the farthest”

An ancient manuscript. Along the left margin is a drawn-on octopus whose tentacles point out important sentences on the page.

In the 14th century, someone who didn't have a highlighter handy thought to use octopus tentacles to mark the most important parts. I love it so much

(Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)

a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing . Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.

Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

The Ladakh women’s ice hockey team is cooler than the ice they play on High up among the jagged mountains of Ladakh, India’s first-ever women’s ice hockey team is pulling out all the stops to whack the puck and the patriarchy. Come rain, shine, heavy snow—or even its com...

Very cool (literally) story about women’s ice hockey in India and the commitment these women have for using hockey to help their communities in Ladakh.

www.vogue.in/content/the-...

Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice Photographer captures 20-minute clash between birds emblematic of Canada and US amid high trade tensions

"Despite multiple attacks by the eagle, the goose remained unbowed. The raptor, defeated, flew off."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Sending virtual hugs.