We'll see what happens.🌻

Interested in democracy, human rights, and bringing tfg to justice. Also a little science, humor, adorable animals and important developments in Ukraine.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Say goodbye to synthetic fertilizers.

Dr. Mariangela Hungria, a renowned Brazilian soil microbiologist at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), has been awarded the 2025 World Food Prize—often called the "Nobel Prize for Food"—for her groundbreaking advancements in biological nitrogen fixation.

Over more than four decades, Hungria developed over 30 microbial technologies, including inoculants and co-inoculants that enable crops (especially soybeans) to harness symbiotic soil bacteria. These bacteria naturally convert atmospheric nitrogen into plant-usable forms, dramatically reducing or eliminating the need for synthetic nitrogen fertilizers.

Her innovations have transformed tropical agriculture, boosting yields sustainably while cutting costs and environmental harm. In Brazil alone, these biological solutions are applied across more than 40 million hectares of farmland (primarily soybeans), saving farmers an estimated US$25–40 billion annually in fertilizer expenses.

The environmental benefits are equally profound: by replacing chemical fertilizers, her methods prevent the release of over 180–260 million metric tons of CO₂-equivalent emissions each year (figures vary slightly by source and year, with recent estimates around 230–260 million tons for recent seasons).

Hungria's work has helped position Brazil as a global agricultural powerhouse, turning it into a leading soybean producer with high productivity and lower ecological footprint. Her low-cost, eco-friendly approach offers a scalable model for enhancing food security worldwide, proving that powerful solutions for sustainable farming often lie in the soil's own microbial communities.

[World Food Prize Foundation. Dr. Mariangela Hungria Named 2025 World Food Prize Laureate for Revolutionary Work in Soil Microbiology]

[We'll see what happens.🌻 @_Blerk_]

@TWMCLtd It’s no wonder he got on well with trump. They think the same way. Fuck the small guy. Hideous people.

[Martyn Ziegler @martynziegler]

"This amounts to blackmail" - Prince Ali of Jordan on pressure exerted for his FA to endorse Infantino

[We'll see what happens.🌻 @_Blerk_]

@TheTweetOfGod Umberto Eco, writer: “The tragedy of the Internet is that it has promoted the village idiot to the level of bearer of truth”

[Joe Trippi @JoeTrippi]

Umberto Eco, writer: “The tragedy of the Internet is that it has promoted the village idiot to the level of bearer of truth” - AS USA https://t.co/fJjQ3PA7Ah

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

1/n Watching Kennedy make one false statement after another on @CNNSOTU @DanaBashCNN
1. The U.S. neither had the highest number of Covid deaths (that was India by 4X) nor the highest death rate.
2. The U.S. did have 200,000-300,000 unnecessary deaths among people who refused Covid vaccines
3. It was indeed the governors who issued stay at home orders after ICUs across the country were overwhelmed with sick and dying patients

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Don’t fall for the fake Fox/GOP outrage. Two weeks ago the House passed a bill that greenlighted the transfer of Spanish territory to Morocco. Every Republican except me voted for it, but now THEY are acting shocked at the invasion.
https://t.co/a7ROEAtoOD
https://t.co/886sJycfeL

[We'll see what happens.🌻 @_Blerk_]

@bryan_johnson This is not far from a blue zone diet, like it or not.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

48,300 of the 50,000 would-be migrants have already gone back to Morocco...

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

All European nations to boycott World Cup if Fifa goes ahead with controversial investment plan https://t.co/ZRDHCn9k0b

[We'll see what happens.🌻 @_Blerk_]

@jamesstout @John_Hudson Not to mention Mozambique becoming totally landlocked 🤣

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

As temperatures rise, “America is making a concerted effort to make the problem worse as fast as it possibly can,” argues environmentalist Bill McKibben.

“We've shut down wind farms that are 90% finished off the Atlantic seaboard, put the federal land off-limits to solar panels, done every possible thing we could to buck up 18th century energy technology.”

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

Punch went scorched earth..🐒🧸😅

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

The truth stated here is a different kind of power than having the power to arrest someone.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

If Russia were run by a rational person, it would have thought very hard whether the systemic destruction of its economy — refineries, logistics, shipping, oil and gas infrastructure — is not too steep of a price to pay (in addition to hundreds of thousands of lives) so that it could raise a 🇷🇺 flag over the ruins of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk sometime in 2028.

[Clayson Monyela @ClaysonMonyela]

Mamela wena @elonmusk

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hunter Biden on Trump: “We’re living under a dictatorship right now. It’s less Adolf Hitler because he’s not as concentrated as that. It’s more Idi Amin. It’s buffoonery, complete and utter incompetence. On top of a giant grift of the likes no one in the world has ever seen”

[We'll see what happens.🌻 @_Blerk_]

@bryan_johnson Sounds like hell

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

😂🏆

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

You can't even set most gym treadmills to the speed this guy just broke the MILE world record at. They max out around 12 to 14 mph. Josh Kerr held 16.2 mph for the entire mile today: 3:42.66, breaking a record that had survived 27 years.

The pace on this new mile record is just wild.

It works out to 13.8 seconds per 100 meters. Go sprint 100m all-out right now. If you're slower than 13.8, Kerr was moving faster than your sprint, and he did it 16 times in a row without stopping.

In 1954, Roger Bannister ran the first four-minute mile, a barrier people once argued was the limit of human physiology. Put Bannister's race on the track next to Kerr's today, and Kerr finishes while Bannister is still 110 meters back, coming off the final bend.

The man who lost the record, Hicham El Guerrouj, set it in 1999 with no pace lights and no super spikes. Beating him took 27 years of shoe technology plus a four-month engineering project Kerr named after the goal time itself. The margin: 0.47 seconds.

And El Guerrouj isn't finished. His 1500m record, set the year before on the same track, turned 28 this week. Only three men since have even broken 3:27. One record fell today. The harder one is still standing.