Kim

Entrepreneur in Tourism, Me-i-Farm, and the Creative Economy

[Infinity: HexaDome Tactics @Blindspot_Games]

Tactical 1v1 PvP where every move counts!

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

America’s largest groundwater supply is slowly running out.
The Ogallala Aquifer sits beneath eight Great Plains states, stretching from South Dakota to Texas. It is one of the most important water sources in the country, helping support corn, wheat, cotton, livestock and other major parts of U.S. agriculture.
It provides roughly 30% of the groundwater used for irrigation in the United States and supports around one-fifth of the country’s agricultural output.
But the aquifer is being drained far faster than it can naturally refill.
In many areas, recharge is less than an inch per year. Meanwhile, large-scale irrigation has pulled massive amounts of groundwater from the system for decades.
According to U.S. Geological Survey data cited by Newsweek, water levels in some parts of the High Plains aquifer have dropped by more than 200 feet since large-scale irrigation began.
That matters far beyond the farms sitting directly above it.
The Ogallala acts like a buffer against drought. When rainfall is low, farmers can use groundwater to keep crops alive and stabilize production. But as water levels fall, that safety net weakens.
Experts say farmers may not simply spread less water across the same land. Instead, many may shrink the amount of land they irrigate, keeping yields high on smaller areas while allowing more fields to depend only on rainfall.
That could reduce overall food production and make harvests more vulnerable to drought.
The ripple effects could reach grocery stores. Much of the corn grown in the region is used to feed livestock, meaning water shortages can eventually affect meat, dairy and food prices.
The Ogallala is often described as “fossil water,” built up over thousands to millions of years.
Once heavily depleted, it cannot be quickly replaced.
The challenge now is not just finding more water. It is figuring out how to farm, monitor and manage groundwater before one of America’s most important food-producing regions loses the resource beneath it.
Learn more:
"The Largest US Groundwater Supply Is Running Out."

[Psychology Today @PsychToday]

Dogs' tails primarily help them maintain balance. But new research shows that they're also remarkably accurate barometers of canine emotions—if we know how to read them. https://t.co/Ab9xiSiVDD

[Kim @Kymstudio]

@WuodJery @gabrieloguda @NdindiNyoro Anaitwa Ngwai Kibaki. Ngwai is slang for bhang.

[Pascal @creatorpascal]

https://t.co/GkwlrFxt7Y

[The Future of Farming @Agriculfuture]

Pure enjoyment 🐷

[Brian Entin @BrianEntin]

Neighbors have put mattresses and plexiglass up in their windows to block the noise from this data center in Virginia.
It's a high pitched whine from the natural gas turbines that power it.
The noise never stops 24/7.

[I @W_Asherah]

After being in the UK several times, I think I finally have a summary of something that's been disturbing. Our tourism sector is monolithic in an insidious way. "Come see animals" - that's it. Meanwhile what makes good tourism is "come see who we are".

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

The Augustinians had no website when Pope Leo XIV became their global leader in 2001 — so he taught himself web design and helped build one from scratch. https://t.co/IBzgSlV9TR

[Waihiga Mwaura @WaihigaMwaura]

"The number one priority of our foreign policy is to protect the American people. We can not and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States" ~ Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them." #MagnificaHumanitas

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Without the fire of the Spirit, the Church remains a prisoner of fear, timid in the face of the world’s challenges, closed in on itself, and thus also incapable of entering into dialogue with changing times. #Pentecost

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

Col. Douglas MacGregor on Economic Blowback:

“Our farm sector is now strained under a diesel and fertilizer cost shock. Farm bankruptcies are up by 46%.”

[I. Cox @IanECox]

Kenya needs a revolution in architectural design in all sectors.

Currently it is one of the worst in Africa.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

No nation, no society, and no international order can call itself just and humane if it measures its success solely by power or prosperity while neglecting those who live at the margins. Indeed, Christ’s love for the least and the forgotten compels us to reject every form of selfishness that leaves the poor and the vulnerable invisible.

[KTN News @KTNNewsKE]

Kenyan researcher Professor George Njoroge wins Sh446 million award alongside UK scientist Professor Robert Bristow, for advancing early detection of oesophageal cancer.

[Rasna Warah @RasnaWarah]

Is this the plan?
1. Kill agriculture
2. Kill the informal economy
3. Kill SMEs
4. Defund education and health
5. Kill the people
6. Share land and loot with foreign corporates.

[ibtisem 𓂆🕊️ @ibti_16]

The back of a Namibian laborer covered in scar tissue from years of whipping by a German farmer named Ludwig Cramer, (1912–1913).

Taken by the Rhenish missionary Johann Jakob Irle.

[Akech Andrew @akech_andrew]

Ethiopia made sure the first African Social Media Influencers Summit happened in Addis Ababa.
Ethiopia invited 61 top influencers from 30 African countries joining her 120 influencers.

181 influencers that have a combined total of 471 million followers to promote Ethiopia's tourism and culture.
African influencers telling African stories and beauty.