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Stephane
@stephfr.bsky.social
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Neurodivergent, eco/climate anxious Homo sapiens.
Photography, Science, History, Poetry, the Dictionary, Geology, Paleontology.
🌎 Born @ 323 ppm CO2
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The future has flown away

My son has left

To embrace the vast sky

Pierre-Louis, 1991-2025
October 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Paris.
Église Saint-Etienne-du-Mont.
The rood screen.
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Despite a construction of the choir, then of the nave, spread over about thirty years, the architecture of the building offers a remarkable uniformity, clearly visible at the level of the piles and the vault. The Gothic architectural style is enriched with a Renaissance ornamentation, in a very harmonious marriage. A magnificent jube (rood screen), the only one left in Paris, cuts the building in two. Architectural and artistic feat, its design dates from the early 1530s. The tribune, nine meters long, is supported by a basket-ended vault that culminates at four meters. A typical ornamentation of the early Renaissance (the écoinçons) is combined with the classical Gothic style of the railing and stairs, a style not without a Mooorish influence.
June 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Paris. Église Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, built from 1492 to 1626. Here, the nave-transept crossing.
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The nave-transept crossing is one of the masterpieces of this church, built around 1584-1586. This vault is a magnificent example of the transition from late Gothic to Renaissance style. The thirds that divide the space are gothic, as are the hanging keys and the openwork discs with fine chisels that furnish these spaces. The other motifs of ornamentation are totally Renaissance. The artistic fantasy of the whole is typical of the late 16th century. The central hanging key has a height of 2.40 meters. It is kept in balance almost five meters below the top of the vault thanks to curved links stiffened by an invisible metal reinforcement, present from the origin.
June 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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It was a picnic with a view.
West of Paris.
📷 🌞 🍀 🌳
A panoramic photo taken from the edge of a pond. The various plants and tree species that border this body of water offer a beautiful palette of greens. The sky is blue with some cumulus clouds reflected in the water.
June 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Lost Album Covers of the 70s for @cerishields.bsky.social
May 26, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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The garden vista.
Lush greens.
Peacefulness.

🏡 ⛲️ 🌳 🪴 🫜
The view from the top of our garden, by the terrasse. On the right is the pond. The left path leads to a pergola, the right path to the arch, which opens onto the orchard. The vegetable plot is set at the bottom of the land, by the tree line where a river flows.
May 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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The swallows have returned in large numbers this week.
Such beautiful birds.

@manelcamacho.bsky.social
A swallow on an electricity cable, with a clear blue sky
May 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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The dominant color in the garden this week.

Spring is an opportunity for the mind.

#spring #iris
🌱 💙
At the top center of the photo, a blue iris in full bloom, several others in the background. At the edge of a pond, the sky is blue with a few small clouds.
April 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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A beautiful visitor while gardening : a female Calopteryx virgo.
The body is blue-green metallic iridescent and the eyes blue-green. The female has brown and fairly dark iridescent wings, adorned with a small white spot near the end. Its abdomen is blue with a bronze part at the end.
April 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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In the pond of our garden, a happy frog again, this time croaking, in video.
🐸
April 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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The Euphorbia myrsinites is a feast for some polistes.
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A poliste feasting on the flowers of an Euphorbia myrsinites.
April 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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We have some very happy (and very noisy) frogs in the pond.
And hundreds of tadpoles.
☀️ 🐸
A male green frog sunbathing in a pond. A female green frog sunbathing in a pond.
April 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Spring starts here when my Euphorbia myrsinites is in bloom.
Lush greens 💚
The center of a flowerbed in my courtyard shows in the foreground a flowering Euphorbia myrsinites. Just behind, with a disc of white marble pebbles at its base, my first homemade bonsai. All around are different succulents. The different and rich shades of green, together, are visually attractive.
March 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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🕰️Sunday Read is a Genius Loci Digest Special Edition - The Ultimate Guide to Time Travel - 10 Places that slow down time...
✨a #thread to counteract difficult times✨Please share it if it helps you...🪄 - but less of that and more of this..
February 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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The ballet of the cranes.
Elegance and endurance.
February 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Happy 216th birthday to Charles Darwin ! 🎂🎉
The famous photo of Charles Darwin with the caption « Viva la evolution »
February 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Never heard of this optical phenomena before. I wonder what people in the past would have made of that burst of reflected sun rays.
apod.shinyakato.dev Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · Feb 4
🔭 Anticrepuscular Rays: A Rainbow Fan over Spain

Image Credit & Copyright: Julene Eiguren

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25020...
A rainbow is pictured over the sea between an island and land. A series of light rays appears to connect the horizon to the rainbow. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
February 4, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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📹 I offer you few seconds of peacefulness, far away from the world craziness.
I so enjoy living where we are.
South West of France.
💙 🦋 🏞️ 🦢
February 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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I'm exhausted and this feels like the best option for #FossilFriday this week.

This is coprolite. What is coprolite, you ask? It's fossilized feces. It's mineralized, doesn't smell. It's important for science to find pollen or pieces of bone.

Also proves you can polish a turd.
January 31, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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My first #FossilFriday post!
Here is a nice piece of petrified wood I found in the river that originates in our village.
Two more photos 👇🧵
A pie a of petrified wood
January 31, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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We all need some mušēṣi lemnūti good boys right now.
moudhy.bsky.social Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · Jan 30
For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources.

On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.

dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”

munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”

mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”
Photo of 5 dog figurines in profile facing to the left in a staggered line. The closest one is reddish, the three in the middle are beige, and the furthest is dark grey. Each one has a cuneiform inscription on their side.
January 30, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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A. Hitler toppled the German democracy in only 53 days after taking office (Jan. 30th, 1933).

Mass deportations started with political opponents to the first and newly built Dachau concentration camp, officially announced by H. Himmler on March 20th, 1933.

No one was taken by surprise.

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auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · Jan 27
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
January 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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🐕 His Lordship resting on the sofa, because his two beds downstairs are not as good as this space, which is less and less mine.
A close up photo of our dog, Borgia, resting on the sofa. The wrinkles, the hippo nose the long chops, the tiny ears and the stubbornness : yes, he is a real Shar Pei !
January 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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The world’s richest man is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla
.
Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...
Heil Tesla
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
www.youtube.com
January 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Self-portrait on the bus to the Shoes
January 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM