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lesbian history archive

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Gang-Gang Cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum), L - male, R - female, family Cacatuidae, SE Australia

photograph by Jenelle Gavin

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Check out this adorable dung beetle out here doing what he does best, helping the ecosystem. His name is Yancey 🤎🖤🤎

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LOL

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Swarms of mayflies can be so large they appear on Doppler radar. ©NatGeoAnimals

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thought it was a one-off thing, but i've now seen multiple pictures and videos of red-bellied woodpeckers touching other birds with their tongue at bird feeders. why are they suck little freaks?

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The Beatles are back together

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Emak-Bakia (1926) - dir. Man Ray

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One of my favorite historical tidbits is that Arab traders, for centuries, fooled Europeans into thinking cinnamon came from a rare, vicious and fearsome cinnamon bird.

The belief was so prevalent, in fact, that the mythical cinnamon bird shows up in the writings of Herodotus and Aristotle, all the way into medieval European manuscripts where it’s illustrated in all its fierce, cinnamony glory:

Pliny the Elder expressed skepticism of the bird in his writings, rightly assuming that it was a tale invented to keep control on the trade and prices by reducing competition, but the belief was already so widespread that it persisted in many areas into the early 1300’s.

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Bronze snake bannister located in the main hall of the Sejm (the lower house of the bicameral parliament) Poland. Designed by Bohdan Pniewski.

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Illustration of Plesiosaurs by Zdenek Burian, 1963 - “Prehistoric Sea Monsters”

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Alexandra Finkeldey (@scatterbee)

Guardians

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Happy May Day all. Solidarity and all that jazz.  For your brain, some history on May Day and how it came to be: 1. The Zinn Education Project:  May 4, 1886: Haymarket Tragedy

2. IWW Historical Archives:  The Brief Origins of May Day

3. NPR : What is May Day? For the most part, the opposite of capitalism