Strange Women Lying in Ponds

Félix Buhot - Lever de lune sur Saint-Malo (ca. 1887)

Cartonnage panel of ba-bird. Egyptian

Hellenistic period, Ptolemaic Dynasty

332–30 B.C.

This cartonnage (painted, plaster-soaked linen) panel from mummy trappings depicts an image of a Ba, a “spiritual” aspect of a deceased person customarily in the form of a human-headed bird. In this case it is shown wearing sun disk on its head and holding an ostrich feather (symbol of order, truth) in each claw. Painted detailing is rendered black lines with orange, orange-red, blue, green, and white. A few very small fragments have torn away and are missing, but it is generally in good condition.

The Ba was thought to be an mobile aspect of a deceased individual, manifesting especially upon death and having the ability to travel between the earthly world of the living and the afterlife realm of the dead. Museum of Fine Arts Boston

I do not approve of tomfoolery on my dash, everyone open a book and start reading

Sounds great! Let me just see what I’ve got on my bookshelf

Wow… Looks interesting! I wonder if I could learn anything from it.

You would have this at your disposal wouldn't you you impish clown

Excerpt from this story from the New York Times:

President Biden and Congress have wrangled a big political deal to raise the country’s debt ceiling.

Tucked into that deal are some changes to how the government approves new projects that bear on the country’s climate goals, whether pipelines or bus lanes. While these tweaks are fairly modest, they’re part of a broader push by many lawmakers for something known as permitting reform, which could affect how quickly the United States cleans up its climate pollution.

Permitting reform refers to efforts to change the rules, including those under the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, that govern how, and how quickly, federal agencies authorize big projects. That could be congestion pricing on cars in Manhattan or a big solar array on federal lands, or, hardest of all, transmission lines that can go through many state and city jurisdictions.

The debt ceiling deal would surely speed up one thing.

That’s the Mountain Valley Pipeline. It’s a big win for the established oil and gas producers and their champion in the Senate, Joe Manchin III, a West Virginia Democrat. How polluting the pipeline would be is a matter of debate. But opponents say a new gas pipeline, which would operate for decades, defies the scientific consensus that the world needs to move quickly away from fossil fuels in order to slow down climate change.

So would renewable energy projects get built faster?

That’s unclear.

One section of the bill is designed to speed up energy projects of all kinds, polluting or not, by designating a lead agency to oversee environmental reviews and requiring that they are completed in one to two years. In theory, that could speed up oil and gas projects as well as renewables. But those deadlines could prove tough to enforce, and some experts say those changes would have only a modest impact.

It doesn’t resolve the most urgent question.

Most significantly, the bill leaves unsettled whether the permitting of new transmission lines will be accelerated.

Anyways happy late bretnesday this tweet still fucking cracks me up

hindu frog wedding ceremony to bring rain

Eloa, Sister of the Angels. 19th.century. Joseph-Michel-Ange Pollet French 1814 - 1870. marble.          http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

Hokkaido, Japan - Ainu are the indigenous people of Hokkaido. You can see an Ainu village headman as well as an Ainu woman. The pictures are around 100 years old.

if we all spent just six hours a day working on some kind of complex tapestry in contemplative silence nobody would have the problems they currently have

we would have entirely NEW problems. the tapestry discourse would be intense

Pan-Fried Cabbage and Noodle Bun

Léon Brunin - Teatime (1887)

A Gold and Megalodon Shark Tooth Necklace Found at Titanic Wreck

A lost necklace made from the tooth of a megalodon shark has been found in the iconic wreckage of the RMS Titanic.

The necklace hasn’t been seen since the infamous sinking of the luxury passenger liner—considered to be the most advanced of its time—111 years ago.

The Titanic sank after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic, about 370 miles southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia on April 15, 1912. The ship was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City.

The disaster resulted in the deaths of over 1,500 people—more than two-thirds of the crew and passengers who were onboard at the time.

The story of the tragedy holds a special place in the popular imagination, having been the subject of exhibitions, documentaries and Hollywood blockbusters—including James Cameron’s 1997 Academy Award-winning drama.

The necklace was found by Magellan, a company based in Guernsey, a self-governing British Crown dependency located in the English Channel, near the coast of France. The firm specializes in underwater site investigations and seabed mapping.

As part of an underwater scanning project, Magellan snapped 700,000 images of the Titanic wreck using two submarines. Using these images, the company then created the first-ever full-sized digital scan of the Titanic, providing a remarkable new view of the wreck.

Among the images captured, the Magellan team managed to spot the megalodon tooth necklace, which also contains gold.

The find was “astonishing, beautiful and breathtaking,” Magellan CEO Richard Parkinson said in a statement.

Megalodon is huge shark that is thought to have become extinct around 3.6 million years ago. Considered the largest shark to have ever lived, the earliest known megalodon remains date back more than 20 million years.

Magellan didn’t extract the megalodon tooth necklace from the wreck due to an agreement between U.S. and U.K. authorities that prevents such removals by members of the public.

By Aristos Georgiou.