Sami

Mixed media visionary artist Taken 2/12💘

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone.

In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery.

In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years.

A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years.

Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply.

Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story.

One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.

[David Wolfe @DavidWolfe]

Thoughts? 🤔

[PNWGUERRILLA @pnwguerrilla]

Yeah…..so…..I will keep driving my 1980s vehicles, thanks though.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

«I wish I knew this sooner»

[SLO @SLOplays]

Technically these are all inspired by Hiei.

[oracle 𝟙𝟛🐺 @StormEllimac]

📌the more you know.

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

The science of fetal microchimerism should have broken the internet by now.

It hasn’t.

When I read about a research I was so curious to know what’s actually happening.

Fetal cells — carrying the child’s own DNA — cross into the mother’s bloodstream during pregnancy and never fully leave. They embed into her organs. Her heart muscle. Her brain tissue.

Researchers have found a child’s living cells inside mothers in their 90s, from pregnancies six decades old. The child left the womb. The cells didn’t.

And they don’t just sit there. They migrate toward damage. Women with heart injuries show fetal cells concentrated at the wound site. Women with thyroid disease show their children’s cells inside the affected tissue.

The body that built the child gets tended to, in return, by the child’s own cells. Nobody designed this consciously. Evolution quietly built a repair system out of the mother-child bond itself.

The brain side of this is equally staggering. Pregnancy triggers gray matter reorganization — a structural rewiring that sharpens threat detection, deepens empathy, fundamentally alters how a mother processes the world. These changes persist for years after birth.

Possibly permanently. A mother’s nervous system doesn’t return to its factory settings. It was updated by the experience of carrying another person, and that update sticks.

The part worth sitting with longest — women who experienced pregnancy loss carry fetal cells too. The cellular merging doesn’t require a birth. It doesn’t require years of raising someone. Those cells remain regardless of what happened after. A mother grieving a child she never brought home is grieving someone biologically still present inside her. The world consistently underestimates that grief. The science says we have no business doing that.

Mothers always knew the connection didn’t end at birth.

Turns out it doesn’t end at the cellular level either.

[Em- Nature Nurture🍂 @nnaturenurture]

One of the most detailed, time consuming pieces of artwork I’ve ever created, and one of the priciest. I really hope there’s still a place for handmade arts in people’s hearts, I would love for this to fine a home! For now I’ll enjoy it for as long as I can ♥️

[xander @beetlejarv]

if you guys liked the gorillaz mv you should watch puparia on youtube

[fiora ☀ @Fiorauchis]

Kali Uchis changed lives with this song

[JOKAMRREDPILLZ @JOKAQARMY1]

More Conspiracy facts you need to accept 💯

[rose @wynrosei]

The more you read it, the truer it becomes. Men will never understand that this is our daily experience, as common as crossing the street. We drown in the behavior that they try to chalk up as individuals, while we see an ocean.

[Hussain “Hoz” Shafiei @HussainShafiei]

Yep, this would be me homeschooling my son as well… 😂

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

this!

[oracle 𝟙𝟛🐺 @StormEllimac]

almost like it was by design… welcome to agenda 2030

[يــونس @1OS_4]

tap for a surprise

[Jerry Thornton @jerrythornton]

This is going to stick with me forever