Steph' Thorpe

Yay he's back and getting his new feathers!

The author with a Moomin doll on her shoulder.

Remembering Tove Jansson on her birthday 🎂
With a Moomintroll doll in Helsinki
📷 Lehtikuva, 1954

"If I could live it all over again, I'd do it completely differently. But I won't say how."

They excuse war crimes.

They arm apartheid and genocide.

But don't you dare protest for peace.

Because that's real terrorism.

Already stressed and we have only played one game⚽🐏

🌟 legendary astronaut James Lovell who led two moon missions has died, at age 97.

in 1970 my father, the renowned portrait photographer Cavouk, took this beautiful photograph of Lovell in his Toronto studio.

Perfect

He will end up giving Putin Alaska at the rate he's going...

If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK

behold: a woman

This would be so funny if it weren’t happening in real life

Met Museum photo of an Ancient Egyptian artist’s painting of a swallow on a flake of limestone, dated to the New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, c. 1479-1458 BC. The sparrow stands in profile with head to the right. It is delicately painted with a pinkish body. The outline and details are highlighted in a reddish/brown pigment. It’s legs, eye, and beak are painted black. Limestone flake dimensions H. 6.6 cm x W. 10.6 cm. This may have been a practice drawing of the sparrow hieroglyph which was used for words meaning ‘small’, ‘poor’, or ‘bad’. Egyptian artisans who decorated tombs and temples made practice sketches on flakes of limestone which are known by egyptologists as ostraca (singular: ostracon). Sometimes the drawings were used as a template when transferring an image to the wall of a tomb or a temple. Limestone flakes were readily available for this purpose as by-products of the construction of temples and rock-cut tombs. A number of ostraca were recovered at Deir el-Bahri during the 1922-23 MMA excavations.

Artists have always loved to sketch!

Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC.

Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used small flakes of limestone as sketchpads!

MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

A bee with blue fur

A bee with blue fur

A blue bee! This is the blue carpenter bee, Xylocopa tumida.

I was SO excited to find this animal just before dawn at Trus Madi Entomology Camp in Borneo.

So full of beauty.

Yuck, just yuck. Money doesn't buy you taste.

it’s basically trite to note at this point but if this were any other president, and certainly a democrat, spending a ton of money to gild the white house would be a legit scandal

Thanks for sharing that. Now I have it stuck too😂

Semi-Annual-but-no-so-serious-mid-month-reminder to follow and tag your #AvianAugust creations!

We have a Bird Art and Artists feed going and helps find more artists focused on ornithology Artwork. ( No NFT/AI/Crypto )

Remember to hashtag your art with #BirdArt to boost 👀 your posts!

New poster. Stylised Purple Heron head and neck. With the name of the bird written in Japanese ( I hope correctly).

Morning all. It’s Friday. Herein lies the weekend. Have a yourselves a purple heron. You’re welcome. xx

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FFS🤬

Wow I never knew they reacted to UV like that! So cool.

Nothing quite like a UV Hedgehog!
🦔 🔦 ✨🩷🩵 #mammals #norfolk #nocturnal #summer

Original sketch available. 🙏

Brown pencil on Sennelier Le Maxi sketch paper, full sheet approximately 149 mm square; image approximately 90 mm square.

£90 + £6 UK or £12 International postage.

Or please feel free to make an offer. I won't be offended.

Every day I’m inspired by the bravery of these courageous ICE agents.

Looking back on the video where Jesus is super into having a guy start a small business instead of multiplying loaves and fishes

I have severe ME and it feels like a slow, lonely death. It’s like gravity is turned to the max and I struggle to move my body. My brain feels like it’s on fire most of the time. It’s hard to think. It’s like trying to think through tar. I’m housebound because leaving is so exhausting.
#UnitedForME

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Get ready to submit your biometric data to the state so they can determine whether or not you’re allowed to piss

An old diesel (I think) locomotive parked in a siding just to the east of Ulaanbaatar's central railway station. It's grey and red with a yellow lightning bolt stripe running around its front.

A close up shot of the front of an old diesel (I think) locomotive parked in a siding just to the east of Ulaanbaatar's central railway station. It's grey and red with a yellow lightning bolt stripe running around its front.

A shot of the side of an old diesel (I think) locomotive parked in a siding just to the east of Ulaanbaatar's central railway station. It's grey and red with a yellow lightning bolt stripe running around its front.

After years of waiting they finally opened a convenient footbridge over the rail track that runs through Ulaanbaatar. And for Bsky's train nerds I thought this old diesel thingy looked pretty cool.

Thanks everyone for the lovely comments, much appreciated. For those who asked, this is on my website and available to buy. xx

www.edwardphilips.co.uk

Ah sorry to hear you aren't well. Hope recovery is fairly quick for you🤞. Being ill with chronic health issues is no fun.