@stlbibliophile.bsky.social
St. Louisan, I love to learn about books, birds, nature and history.
Mother Gaia to celebrate Pride Month tonight after sunset
01.06.2025 15:33 β π 13929 π 1513 π¬ 148 π 60Dark skies reflect my sadness at the firings of all the humans that help keep the #GreatLakes as healthy as possible. Tonight I mourn the loss of the 14 @usfws.bsky.social employees that kept the invasive sea lamprey at bay. My fishery will be hurt. π’π’ππ
21.02.2025 00:16 β π 7303 π 1352 π¬ 174 π 58I had a walk today and thought about the relationship between civility, discomfort, and abuse.
Some of you know that βcivilityβ is one of my hard βughβ triggers. This thread will explain why.
A Knight's Tale is Heath Ledger's best role and I will not be debating it.
A Knight's Tale is also basically a perfect movie. I will not be debating that either.
Sincerely delighted to discover, 45 minutes into this nearly-wordless three-hour documentary about French monks who take vows of silence, that among the reasons they *can* talk is "to make sure the monastery cats know when it's mealtime by making little kitty-calling noises at them."
11.01.2025 16:18 β π 19413 π 3074 π¬ 230 π 172pluto: lord i see what you have done for the brontosaurus
08.01.2025 18:01 β π 501 π 139 π¬ 7 π 0mine will always be the sperm whale who reacted to a Roman soldier throwing a bottle at him off the Byzantine coast by sinking every ship he could off that coast for the next 60 years and had the emperor declare him an enemy of the state and name him after the Titan who attacked mount olympus
04.01.2025 21:05 β π 6666 π 1385 π¬ 85 π 128Yes, it was 2004. That was a good party!
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If you see this post. Add a picture from your favorite museum visit this year. I'll start - from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
31.12.2024 21:14 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0
From the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore
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First released in St. Louis in 1870, the Eurasian Tree Sparrow has slowly expanded its range into parts of Missouri, Illinois, and southeast Iowa.
Nahant Marsh, Scott County, Iowa.
#birds #birdsofbluesky #wildlife #nature #sparrows #photography
Foggy morning
Foggy tree
Foggy street
That fog this morning was stunning! π #stlwx
28.12.2024 17:13 β π 32 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
North St. Louis sunset
Bevo Mill sunset. St. Louis
St. Augustine, St. Louis Missouri
A Muny sunset. Forest Park, St. Louis Missouri
St. Louis skies are my jam π
#stl #stlouis #photography #sky #sunset
The main arcade in the arcade building in St Louis Missouri
Only took me 11 years to finish editing this set.
The Arcade Building - St. Louis, Missouri.
Fun fact: it reopened around a year and a half after I shot these. Clearly, theyβre faster than I am.
#abandoned #stlouis #restored #historicbuilding #preservation
Subtitles arenβt just for deaf or hard of hearing players. Theyβre important for players in loud environments (who canβt use headphones), non-native speakers who rely on text to follow dialogue, and many neurodivergent folks who struggle to focus or process audio quickly. Just to mention few.
01.12.2024 11:55 β π 22365 π 2801 π¬ 691 π 241
Thinking about how the stereotype of the "slow" southerner came about because so many of them had hookworm
Public health is a goddam gem.
The rotation periods of the planets, side-by-side
18.11.2024 20:31 β π 702 π 205 π¬ 40 π 16NEVER FORGET THE GREAT EMU WAR.
09.08.2024 00:01 β π 480 π 163 π¬ 12 π 11
A map of flight paths emanating from breeding colony of gulls, with this caption: Early on, LifeWatch noticed something odd. Most gulls were making daily trips to Mouscron, a city on the French border 65 km away. They went to investigate and found the birds bingeing on discarded snacks at the Roger & Roger potato factory.
Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory
15.11.2024 20:15 β π 16011 π 4317 π¬ 248 π 446
Orange cat with fluffy tail curled up in a red bed
So cozy
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