bro not to start again on names but do u ever think abt how some names have been used for centuries, millenniums even…like how many times has the earth heard a mother calling, ‘krishna!’…how many times have the stars caught a lover whispering, ‘miriam’…how many times has the ground we’ve walked on and continue to walk on felt vibrations of a friend excitedly yelling, 'sarah!’

shit man this got me emotional

left: the Nebra sky disc, circa 1600 BCE, showing the Moon, Sun, and stars in gold on copper - the oldest depiction of the cosmos in the world

right: the Webb Space Telescope photo, July 2022, revealing thousands of baby galaxies forming in the early days of the universe - humankind’s deepest look into the sky

Also i dont know if you guys have ever seen medieval beekeeper garb, but:

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Its the best!!!

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Nope!

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Woodcut from 1545! 😊 respect our basket faced cousins 😡

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The Beekeepers, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1568

Now that plague doctors are cultural icons I want these to be next and I hope we arbitrarily decide that the two are somehow rivals.

why would they be rivals, they're dating and bop their masks together to kiss

The birds and the bees

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They’re dating  ❤️

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“Three swans in flight”, 1945, by David Lloyd Evans (b. 1916)

signed and dated ‘I Lloyd Evans-1945’ (upper left)

coloured chalks on buff paper

24 ½ × 18 ½ in. (62.2 × 47 cm.)