💙Dirk Matter

Working in IT and having to deal with numptys on a daily basis! Wish I was a spaceman!

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

We are causing #globalwarming 100 times faster than past natural changes

We are taking Earth’s 🌎 climate beyond natural limits, with CO2 & temps levels not seen for 3 million years.

No time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy

[Astronomiaum @astronomiaum]

Este pássaro acabou de descobrir que bolas de golfe quicam no concreto, e ele está se divertindo como nunca 😂

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

Australia sees the Moon upside down

Same Moon, same craters but flipped

Earth is a ball, so people in opposite hemispheres stand with heads pointing opposite ways in space. Look up, and your whole view rotates 180°

The Moon never changed

Your planet flipped your perspective

[💙Dirk Matter @DirkMatter]

RIP David Hockney

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

Mama elephant thanks a person for giving water to her thirsty baby..🐘🥺❤️

[İzafiyet @Statikoo]

Mars'taki gezici aracın gece gökyüzünden aldığı muazzam görüntü

[Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno]

Security Footage Captures Brave Horse Protecting Woman During Earthquake

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

A robot.

On an asteroid.

300 million kilometres away.

Alone.

Took this photo of the surface of the asteroid Ryugu.

Then it died there, and it's still there now.

We have never gone back.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

🚨: Astronomers found a planet that has no land, no continents, just water from pole to pole. And its may even run deeper than anything on Earth.

They have a name for this true 'water world': TOI-1452 b.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers.

When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it.

They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long.

In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it.

The flowers attract a standing army to our fields.

We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

In 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise. Imagine if we had listened to him them.

No time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate

[alpha man @alphaman_111]

Dr. Frank Mayfield was visiting the Tewksbury Institute when, on his way out, he accidentally bumped into an elderly cleaning lady. To make conversation, he asked, “How long have you worked here?”

“I’ve worked here almost since it opened,” she said.

“What can you tell me about the history of this place?” he asked.

“I don’t know much,” she said, “but I can show you something.”

She led him down to the basement under the oldest part of the building and pointed to a small, rusted cell. “That’s where they used to keep Annie Sullivan,” she said.

“Who’s Annie?” he asked.

The maid explained that Annie was a young girl who had been brought there because no one could control her. She screamed, bit, and threw her food. The doctors and nurses couldn’t even examine her.

“I was just a few years younger than Annie,” the maid said. “I used to think, ‘I’d never want to be locked in a cage like that.’ I wanted to help her, but if the doctors couldn’t, what could I do?”

“One night I baked some brownies after work. The next day, I put them outside her cage and said, ‘Annie, I made these for you. You can take them if you want.’ Then I walked away, afraid she’d throw them. But she didn’t. She took the brownies and ate them. After that, she was a little kinder to me. I started talking to her, and one day, I even made her laugh.”

“One of the nurses saw this and told the doctor. They asked if I’d help them with Annie. So whenever they needed to see her, I went in first to calm her, explain things, and hold her hand. That’s when they discovered Annie was almost blind.”

After a year of slow progress, Annie was sent to the Perkins Institute for the Blind, where she learned to read, write, and later became a teacher herself.

Years later, Annie came back to Tewksbury to visit and help. The Director told her about a letter he had just received from a desperate father. His daughter was blind, deaf, and thought to be “crazy.” He didn’t want to send her to an asylum and asked if anyone could come teach her.

That’s how Annie Sullivan became the lifelong teacher and companion of Helen Keller.

When Helen Keller later received the Nobel Prize, she was asked who had most influenced her life. She said, “Annie Sullivan.”

But Annie replied, “No, Helen. The woman who changed both our lives was a maid at Tewksbury who once brought a little girl some brownies.”

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

What would you do in this situation???

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

NASA has now confirmed the existence of 5,602 exoplanets in 4,166 different planetary systems..

[peter heselton he/him @heselton]

An old but relevent track for bandcamp friday...

https://t.co/n0XaRiGIVZ

Only £1!

[P. Against The World🤘🏿🕊 @chillin662]

Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23

She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24

Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method"

It took 90 years before her original research papers were found (1/2)

#FBA

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Not a single one of them will be alive in 10 years but we’re letting them destroy everything for those left behind.

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

🚨 JUST IN: A migratory bird just shattered world records — flying 8,425 miles (13,560 km) NON-STOP across the Pacific without landing once.

The bar-tailed godwit doesn’t stop to eat, drink, or sleep during its migration across the Pacific Ocean. Its journey from Alaska to Australia takes roughly 11 days of continuous flight, covering over 13,000 kilometers through storms, headwinds, and open ocean with zero land beneath it the entire time.

Before departure, it does something almost surgical to its own body. It shrinks its digestive organs down to almost nothing, converting the stomach, intestines, and liver into raw fuel. The bird essentially eats its own gut to make room for fat reserves that will power its wings for nearly two weeks straight.

The brain doesn’t fully sleep either. Half of it stays active while the other half rests, alternating in shifts mid-flight at altitude over the open Pacific. The godwit is simultaneously unconscious and navigating with magnetic field sensitivity that no human instrument in the 18th century could replicate.

What makes this genuinely staggering beyond the physical record is the navigational precision involved. The bird leaves Alaska and arrives in New Zealand with accuracy that would embarrass early GPS systems. It reads Earth’s magnetic field, atmospheric pressure gradients, star positions, and potentially quantum-level compass mechanisms inside its eye that literally let it see magnetic field lines overlaid on its visual field.

Evolution spent millions of years building an aerospace navigation system inside a 300 gram animal.

We spend billions engineering machines that do what this bird does on instinct, fat reserves, and half a sleeping brain.
The longest recorded non-stop flight by a commercial aircraft is around 20 hours.

This bird does 11 days.

Without a runway.

[The Left Bible @theleftbible]

The NHS that Nigel Farage wants to destroy 👇

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

No CGI, no movie magic—just the surface of Mars in high definition. It is absolutely wild that we have eyes here.

140 million miles away from everyone you know!