stuff to see here

Bi-pan solidarity

Lesbian-ace solidarity

And the

Asexuals aren't inherently LGBT and don't belong, either (unless they also happen to experience same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria). Some aces are also pretty homophobic.

We are stronger as a united front!

all ships, and rights for one are

rights for everyone!

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢

No. 15 (Two Greens and Red Stripe), 1964

signed, partially titled and dated 'MARK ROTHKO 1964 #15' (on the reverse) oil on canvas

93 × 69 in. (236.2 × 175.3 cm.)

📸 thanks to Mark Cashion who takes a lot of good pictures from auction houses and contributes them

© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

This is one of my personal favorites and it's up for auction because Agnes Gund, who bought it directly from Rothko, died and she was one of the good people in that world.

Not a biologist, but the evolution of mammals is way more granular than you might expect. Humans are the sole surviving species of the genus Homo, which was a real party before the other ones went extinct. You're in for a fun time.

Domestic cats are believed to be domesticated not from tigers, but from the African wildcat:

Which evolved to be small just because it's sometimes more useful to be small.

And no, hamsters are not off-brand rats. They're part of the rodent order, which includes beavers, moles, capybaras, guinea pigs (yes, also wild) and lots of other fun things:

On World Ocean Day.

“What we enjoyed most on Awashima Island was the chance to spend time along the shore and discover the ocean. We learnt to dive there, and were amazed by the strange and beautiful creatures we encountered. Most of them we had never seen before. But even here, so far from home, we recognized some of the creatures. This was both surprising and comforting, and it got us thinking—aren’t all living things related in some way? It’s water that connects marine life in Awashima to the freshwater life in Ganjad. Around the world we use different languages and give different names to seas and oceans, but they’re all related. Most rivers flow into the sea, and common currents connect nature and people to each other.” – from The deep, for the text Arun Wolf and Gita Wolf from an oral narrative by Mayur Vayeda and Tushar Vayeda.)

The Vayeda brothers tell their journey from an indigenous Warli community in Maharashtra, western India, growing up in the village of Ganja, to a small Japanese island called Awashima. They connect the village stream they knew from their childhood to the deep oceans they encountered in Awashima.

Four small prints (Peony and Snail, Plum Blossoms and Macaw, Cherry Blossoms and Full Moon, Bird on Aronia Branch (mid 1830s) by Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858).

Woodblock print published by Izumiya Ichibei.