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Shull 624: ſuch poor as ſhall be allotted

<i>Cymbasoma</i> sp. Floating amidst the ocean's plankton is a tiny monster, it has no mouth and it must mate, after which it will give birth to a new generation...

I've written a post about a tiny monster, a copepod which is monstrous by name and by nature.
It has no mouth and it must mate. As a juvenile, it lives in the body of a worm, and when it reaches adulthood, it pops out like a tiny xenomorph.
#Invertebrate 🧪
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/11/cymb...

Presented by Janet Wolfson de Botton 1996

Gilbert & George, Deatho Knocko, 1982
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1128968

When the lambs is lost in the mountain, they is cry. Sometime come the chudler. Sometime the wolf

While testing a top secret aircraft design during WWII, pilot Jack Woolams wore a gorilla suit and a bowler hat so that any witnesses who reported back would not be believed.

Dutch Interior

Dutch Interior https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/dutch-interior

Woman and Birds in the Night

Woman and Birds in the Night https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/not_detected_227949

Italian graphic designer Franco Grignani
Tensione Plurima-(228), 1964

#FrancoGrignani #OpArt

Pulgasari 1985 불가사리
Directed by Shin Sang-ok, Chong Gon Jo

In feudal #Korea, a group of starving villagers grow weary of the orders handed down to them by their controlling king and set out to use a deadly monster under their control to push his armies back. #filmsky

view from rooftop looking down at a lone figure in a dark coat walking through a blanketed town square, past red brick buildings during a blizzard

Christophe Jacrot

Bologna, Italy

Piazza Maggiore

NORMA CANDY

Wednesdays

Lou Cipher…

Illustration with a Falcon 9 topped with a Dragon capsule at the center. On both the right and left sides are two astronauts, one on top of the other, facing inward toward the rocket. The entire illustration is in shades of pink and red with black outlines.

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 28: Astronaut

Getting caught up after being down with a migraine yesterday.

#sciart #spaceart #art #illustration

I had that dream again

A map of all the different names for woodlice in the United Kingdom

I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.

And the inimitable @skot.bsky.social

Poster features a crude illustration of a half man half-fly vomiting.

Polish poster for THE FLY (1986)

Directed and co-written by David Cronenberg

Starring Jeff Goldblum - BOTD in 1952

Field Guide to Owls

A marvellous surprise delivery.
My Spydee senses are tingling
@gasmantell.bsky.social

‘A Field Guide to Owls’

An interesting Royal Mail delivery for a change @gasmantell.bsky.social

Hare riding a hound with a trained snail of prey
Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390

On a wet and drab Monday morning it is most heartening to see Blinky the Beswick #owl enjoy and relish in his copy of the delightfully owl-ficial #zine Field Guide to Owls by the talon-ted artists @gasmantell.bsky.social & @skot.bsky.social. Thank you 🦉

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.

Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.

This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

The Good, the Bad, and the Spidey.

NYCC, Friday.

On the set of Ed Wood's film Glen or Glenda (1953) are Ed Wood (left) and Bela Lugosi, candid photo in a room full of spooky props.

“One is always considered mad,

when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.”

-Ed Wood #BOTD

finger platter with dips

its a picture of a ballerina teaching future young ballerinas!!!

"Ballerina Aesha Ash wandering around inner city Rochester breaking the stereotypes about women of color and to inspire young kids."

A young Peter Lorre in Frühlings Erwachen A play by Frank Wedekind Volksbühne Berlin, 1929

A young Peter Lorre in Frühlings Erwachen
A play by Frank Wedekind
Volksbühne
Berlin, 1929
#PeterLorre #FrankWedekind