ShadowShadow

Seeker of truth. Admirer of heroic acts in dire times as well as ordinary acts of kindness. All lives matter.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A pensioner from Siberia gave a home to an adult lynx rescued from a fur farm.

[Michel Lara @VeraCausa9]

Listening now to the unrivaled
sublimity of the Aria in Bach's 'Goldberg Variations' (1741) Masterfully played by an older Glenn Gould recorded in 1981 with an autumnal, contemplative tempo, which I personally preferred to the energetic one in 1955. Enjoy!

[SK @SteCK1878]

@wideawake_media @Logosintell Wait…I thought that was just a conspiracy theory?

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

When you tuck into Christmas food, it’s because of farmers.

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Today I met a man they call Black Noah and after spending time with him in Center Point, Alabama, I understand why. Calvin Tucker feeds nearly 100 cats every single day across 21 colonies, rescuing everything from cats and dogs to bees, birds, raccoons…and even a pig.

It all started with one cat named Henry who showed up at his job in 2015 and completely changed his heart. Since then, Calvin has rescued around 1,000 cats, feeding and caring for animals 365 days a year , leap years included. His dedication is something you feel deep in your soul.

He showed me the colony where he feeds eight cats twice a day, and told me about Lucy — a dog he fed for three years before she finally let him rescue her on his birthday. Today, she’s living safely with him.

If you want to support his mission, follow him on Instagram at @- blacknoah1 or look up Calvin Tucker on Facebook. He always says, “Don’t blindly support — follow me, see what I’m doing, and if you feel led, then support.”

Pure heart. Pure mission. Pure love for the ones who can’t speak for themselves.

[Why you should have a cat @ShouldHaveCat]

Excuse me, sir. I am an indoor cat.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 BREAKING UPDATE: National Guardsmen Sarah Beckstrom is NOT expected to survive, her father Gary told NYT

“I’m holding her hand right now. She has a mortal wound. It’s not going to be a recovery.”

Absolutely heartbreaking.

Pray for a MIRACLE and the Beckstrom family today 🙏🏻

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual."

-Henry David Thoreau

[ShadowShadow @ShadowShad80914]

@ClownWorld

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

The family adopted a kitten for their cat, and in less than a week they became inseparable best friends ❤️

[Legal Mindset @TheLegalMindset]

I dont ask for much, but I would ask everyone, to pause and take one moment in silence to pray for Nate. He is a real one, with a great family, friends, a uniter, and I know he still has a mission to do good on this Earth. Thank you.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Dr. James Salisbury, 1860s Civil War physician.

Union soldiers were dying. Not from bullets. From dysentery, scurvy, and typhoid.

The military diet: Hardtack, beans, coffee. Minimal meat due to cost.

Salisbury observed: Soldiers with access to beef recovered faster from everything. Wounds healed quicker. Infections cleared. Energy returned.

He started prescribing pure beef. Three times daily. Nothing else.

The results were so dramatic that officers started requisitioning beef specifically for sick soldiers.

Salisbury published his findings in 1888: "The Relation of Alimentation and Disease."

His conclusion: Most chronic diseases stem from improper fermentation in the digestive system caused by eating starches and vegetables.

His prescription: Minced beef, three times daily, with hot water. For weeks or months depending on severity.

He documented successful treatment of:
- Tuberculosis
- Rheumatism
- Mental disorders
- Digestive diseases
- Obesity
- Gout

His work was hugely influential. Salisbury steak was named after him. Originally it wasn't a convenience food. It was medicine.

By 1920s: Pharmaceutical companies developing antibiotics and drugs for the same conditions.

By 1950s: Salisbury's work is ignored, mocked, or forgotten.

Today: "Salisbury steak" is a processed meat patty with gravy served in school cafeterias. The medical application has been completely erased from history.

A physician who cured chronic diseases with beef was memory-holed because his cure couldn't be patented.

The pharmaceutical industry didn't just compete with his methods. They erased them from medical history entirely.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

If you like your slices of nutritional history, check out my new article about how the dietary guidelines were corrupt from the outset.

https://t.co/ys8jgcmLzo

[Truthstream Media @truthstreamnews]

Just learned the most widely read Frankenstein is a heavily edited, more "conservative" version Mary Shelley was pressured to put out in 1831 that tones down the "revolutionary" ideas in the 1818 original, so now I've got to read the "uncensored" version to get the real story as it was written and intended by the author.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Unpopular opinion but at this point, I'm willing to pay more money for appliances with zero 'smart' stuff & just knobs & buttons for everything

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

When the Japanese decide to master something, whether it’s cars, cameras, animation, knives, or yes, whiskey and craft cheese - they will perfect it into its final Platonic form.

How do they do it?

Obsession with kaizen (continuous improvement). And they will apply themselves relentlessly - without ego - to incremental refinement.

This is in contrast to the attitude of “Cha bu duo" (差不多), a Chinese phrase that means "close enough” or "more or less," which leads to cutting corners, a mindset and attitude that is common in China. In contrast, the cultural default in Japan is that “good enough” is never good enough.

The Chinese concept of 差不多 is a result of the Year Zero Mao introduced and decades of brutal communism, but it does lead to faster innovation compared to the slower kaizen method.

These days, the Japanese beat Scotland at the whiskey game, make the best pizza, and their cheesemakers in Hokkaido win the top global awards.

The Shokunin spirit (craftsman mindset) infuses Japanese culture with a respect for becoming a true master of one thing. You see this whenever you visit Japan.

A 21 yr old baker in Osaka might spend 10 years just learning how to shape croissants before he’s allowed to touch the dough at a top shop. That level of apprenticeship and pride in technique is rare elsewhere.

It’s not just Japanese autism but Japanese neuroticism that makes them obsessed about supply-chain control and ingredient quality. They’ll fly in Piemonte flour for pizza, Isigny butter for viennoiserie, or specific Scottish peat for whisky, then control every variable (water source, barrel toasting, humidity in aging warehouses) to a degree that’s just detrimental to profit margins.

We should thank the Japanese for their cultural operating system. It enriches everything it borrows from elsewhere, and then masters it.

This is why the world loves traveling to 🇯🇵

[ShadowShadow @ShadowShad80914]

@hunleyeric absurd propaganda brought to y'all by Hollyweird lol

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

When buttons were works of art. California. 1910–1940.

[Ryan B. Anderson @OldHollowTree]

I reject fatalism. "The West has fallen!" is for boring neurotics.

A man cannot fix national decline. You cannot reverse the big systemic problems at scale.

However:

A family can fix a home.
Homes can fix a town.
Towns can fix a region.

Make your efforts small and good.

[MILO @Nero]

In his name she encoded her end. Nailin’ Haley, she called him. Grace, justice and nominative determinism did the rest. So rare to see someone get exactly what they deserve this side of the grave. Delicious!