Bradley Schaefer

[Bradley Schaefer @Delroy767897]

@BenBajarin The utility is there - the security over governance is not - once that is sorted, Enterprize use will skyrocket.

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

What an amazing and breathtaking photo…

Photo by Elle Lookbook…

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

Travel back in time 114 years to the summer of 1912. This imposing figure is named Kopeli, the Chief of the Snake Clan Priests at the Hopi Snake Dance Ceremony in the Pueblo of Walpi, Arizona.
I have cleaned-up this stunning photo by Franklin Price Knott which was taken in 1912 but not published by the National Geographic until 1916. it was taken using an early colour glass-plate process and isn't colourised.

[Vitto Rivabella @VittoStack]

I always thought I had a pretty good eye.

Studied fine arts.
Good at spotting patterns.
Pretty observant.

Then I found this account.

Whoever runs it sees things I didn’t even know could be seen.

[Bradley Schaefer @Delroy767897]

Well said.

[Bradley Schaefer @Delroy767897]

@SethSummersTV Take my money !

[Bradley Schaefer @Delroy767897]

@pmarca FORWARD

[laura franch @franch_laura]

Hoy te invito a disfrutar del veraniego trabajo del pintor británico Gordon Hunt (Nottingham, 1958). Su obra es una celebración absoluta del sol, el aguas y las vacaciones. Creo que te gustará.

👇🏻Hilo.

[Bradley Schaefer @Delroy767897]

Good stuff.

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

America will either collapse into a Communist hellscape whose leaders are pupetted by the CCP or flourish and become a 1000 year interplanetary empire that builds a Dyson Swarm and colonizes Mars.

No middle ground.

[Bradley Schaefer @Delroy767897]

@TheNBABase Bread and Circus.

[Japan Embassy DC🌸 @JapanEmbDC]

Happy Fourth of July and happy 250th to our friend and ally from all of us at the Embassy of Japan! 🇯🇵🇺🇸
Japan's celebratory gift of 250 cherry blossom trees was planted around the Tidal Basin in spring.🌸

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Happy 250th Birthday America! 🎉 Tokyo is celebrating with you tonight with beautiful fireworks lighting up the bay and Rainbow Bridge plus Tokyo Tower glowing red white and blue!

It makes me so happy as a Japanese person to see this warm friendship. Real allies celebrate together like this.

God bless the USA and God bless Japan 🇺🇸🤝🇯🇵

[Bradley Schaefer @Delroy767897]

@jimrome Jameson orange for the old fashioned Jim.

DO IT…DO IT…

[Bradley Schaefer @Delroy767897]

@Polymarket Fantastic. Cherry trees are great.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Japan declares its friendship with the U.S. is “stronger than ever” as it gifts an additional 250 cherry blossom trees.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.

The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.

Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.

Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.

Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.

These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.

So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.

114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.

[Bradley Schaefer @Delroy767897]

@JustineBateman Bateman for CA Gov!!!