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Arnold Schwarzenegger taking ballet and posing lessons from dancer Marianne Claire in 1976.

fetish mule with ruffled ribbon - 8 inch heel, Austria, 19th century

bowknot leather jacket from didi moda fw 23 ⋆

YOU SURE ARE KILLING THAT SNAKE RODNEY, GOOD JOB

What the heck kind of bird is that?? (Also I hate that I had to stop for a second to ponder if the whole thing might be an AI fake somehow. The future is gonna be weird, man.)

Its a secretary bird! they are super rad and do look like some kind of dinosaur or elaborate puppet creation.

Maybe it's enrichment maybe it's predator training

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1921: four trans activists had their conversation interrupted by photographer Willie Römer. He took this shot outside Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science 12 years before Nazis stormed the facility and burned its books. The picture is among the most captivating I've colorized/restored from the pre-war era. You can see each subject's expression so clearly. Gwendolyn Ann Smith, the founder of Trans Day of Remembrance, wrote about the photo a few years ago: https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=news&sc=news&id=263408

The worst way to mark the anniversary of the Iraq War is to read the many self-pitying think pieces by American and British journalists distraught over how the war ruined their countries' fantasy liberal image. Instead, remember the millions of Iraqis murdered, mutilated, broken, and made countryless by imperial savagery. And never forget for one moment the legions of politicians, journalists, and capitalists who excused the slaughter and profited from the ruins.

BORGHESE GALLERY. ROME ITALY.

Fossils look best in bi lighting.

Plesiosaurus at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

THE Glizzy Gobbler Supreme

(when she says she likes to be degraded) you are dust and to dust you shall return

Nadja Auerman, Christy Turlington, Claudia Schiffe, Cindy Crawford, Stephanie Seymour by Richard Avedon for Versace Fall, 1994

Whimsical fans are not talked about enough

I’m biting that white guy