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10 Gems of Bluesky Today – Day 343


Greetings everyone. I’m writing this from my phone, which is doable, but a little clunky. One problem is that I can’t see image attributions from the image library, so I apologise in advance that I didn’t credit the photographer who took the title image.

Anyway, back to the gems from the good place. Here we go:

Too soon?

Cool selfie

What a wonderful thing to just find

The oldest known map in the world

This Babylonian tablet is the oldest known map of a culture’s world. The Euphrates runs top to bottom with Babylon the horizontal rectangle. Other circles depict cities & peoples. Mesopotamia is surrounded by the “bitter sea” & foreign lands shown as triangular mountains.🕰️C9th-7th BC🏛️BM📷 mine

— Carausius (@carausius286.bsky.social) 2026-05-16T06:29:06.820Z

This eagle could win a dance-off

Yes, feels like an odd thing to say

I watched this several times. It’s mesmerising.

Fascinating productivity invention

This tiny fish is stunning

This is the first ever video footage of the larval stage of an extremely rare Groenveld’s Stingfish (Minous groeneveldi).Shot on scuba, over very deep water, far offshore, while drifting with the plankton, at night. #groenveldsstingfish #blackwaterdiving #larvalfish #tulamben #stonefish

— Chris Gug (@gugunderwater.bsky.social) 2026-05-15T15:52:56.516Z

And for the timeline cleanse: A sibling reunion

And with that, as always, I wish you all a good morning, g’day, or good night, wherever you are on this round rock we all call home.

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