"An embroidered globe made in 19thc US when girls were allowed at last to learn geography. The school couldn’t afford globes so the girls stitched their own, sewing down the boundaries of their New World. The globes were only 5” high" via @ sewingmatters & @ Sirensongs #womensart

Noah's Ark is insane. Catching two of every animal? It took me 3 hours just to get one cat to the vet.

The pubs in Richmond & Cremorne are packed following the Melbourne Marathon. Young adults certainly not talking about “negative equity” as the media would like you to believe. They’re enjoying life - Chugging ice cold beers & late lunch on this glorious day.

The internet is 99% garbage. But if you know where to look, it’s an absolute goldmine. Here are 50 legendary websites that feel illegal to know and will save you thousands of hours👇 1. zoom.earth — Watch the world via live satellite imagery 2. flightradar24.com — See every plane currently in the sky 3. marinetraffic.com — Track all ships at sea in real time 4. windy.com — Live map of winds and storms 5. lightningmaps.org — Watch lightning strikes hitting Earth in real time 6. earthquake.usgs.gov — Live list of recent earthquakes 7. submarinecablemap.com — Ocean cables carrying the internet 8. globalforestwatch.org — Watch forests disappear from space 9. worldometers.info — The world's statistics, second by second 10. internetlivestats.com — Current number of tweets and searches being posted 11. thetruesize.com — Compare the true sizes of countries 12. oldmapsonline.org — Maps from centuries ago 13. davidrumsey.com — Archive of 150,000 historical maps 14. openstreetmap.org — World map drawn by volunteers 15. window-swap.com — Look out the window of a random person around the world 16. virtualvacation.us — Virtual walks through cities 17. mapcrunch.com — Teleport to a random spot on Earth 18. atlasobscura.com — Catalog of the world's strangest places 19. neal.fun — Interactive knowledge experiences 20. htwins.net/scale2 — Scale journey from atom to universe 21. eyes.nasa.gov — Explore the solar system in 3D 22. stellarium-web.org — Real sky map in your browser 23. apod.nasa.gov — NASA's astronomy picture of the day 24. images.nasa.gov — NASA's entire visual archive, free 25. pudding.cool — Visual articles told through data 26. ourworldindata.org — The state of the world with real data 27. gapminder.org — What we mistakenly think we know about the world 28. informationisbeautiful.net — Visualizing complex data 29. data.worldbank.org — World Bank's open data 30. data.tuik.gov.tr — Turkey's official statistics database 31. archive.org — Archive of millions of books, films, and software 32. gutenberg.org — 70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired 33. openlibrary.org — Record of every book in the world 34. loc.gov — U.S. Library of Congress digital archive 35. europeana.eu — Europe's cultural heritage archive 36. dp.la — America's digital library collection 37. artsandculture.google.com — Tour museums from home 38. rijksmuseum.nl — Download artworks in high resolution 39. wikiart.org — Archive of 250,000 artworks 40. publicdomainreview.org — Forgotten visual treasures of history 41. openculture.com — Free archive of culture and education 42. metmuseum.org — Met Museum's open collection 43. musicmap.info — Family tree of music genres 44. radiooooo.com — Pick a country and decade to listen to that era 45. listen.hatnote.com — Turn Wikipedia edits into audio 46. wikipedia.org — Random knowledge well 47. timeanddate.com — Time, sunrises, and sky events 48. sciencedaily.com — Live stream of science news 49. arxiv.org — Free preprints of scientific papers 50. observablehq.com — Visualize data with live code Save this. You’ll definitely need some of these later. 🔖 Follow @justinbrave21 for more useful websites, AI tools & tech resources.

Kathleen Ferrier d otd 1953, age 41 - what a loss. Bruno Walter: "She was in art and in life a shining example, and whoever listened to her or met her personally felt enriched and uplifted. By her sublime art and by her loving nature she gave happiness and received happiness."

Interesting because most Australian uni students I’ve spoken to are tired of carrying the can in group assignments for international students with often little English and the knowledge they’ll never get an F because they pay.

This is great news. Sarah is awesome. Now, bring back The Drum. People have constantly told me how much they miss it, ever since it was axed, like Sarah, apparently on a whim. theguardian.com/media/2026/o…

The LNP opposes laws mandating truth in political advertising. But false and misleading AI slop? Looks like they’re just fine with it.

If sheep need humans to shave all that wool off because otherwise it keeps growing, what were sheep doing before humans showed up with scissors?? Like was everyone just walking around as a giant ball of wool??