AJ Jones

Proudly on the Spectrum. 🏳️‍🌈 Writer✍️ Processing the world…creatively. Storyteller* ~ experimenting with various media.

[AJ Jones @ajjonesrox]

Man, the Bicentennial was so much better than this Semiquincentennial bullshit…

[Nuelxx @nuel_szy]

Autism is wild because I’ll miss a social cue but notice someone’s entire emotional state shift by 0.02% from across the room.

[Cuffian @CuffianArt]

Hot Rocks 🎨
acrylic painting on canvas
12x10”

[Olga Tuleninova 🦋 @olgatuleninova]

Vitaly Makarov (Russian, 1971)
"Fresh" 2020
Oil on Canvas
Private Collection

[Deb @DontCallMeDebby]

Timeline cleanse.

[𝐬𝐨𝐯 ᯓ ✈︎ @sovietsoleri]

Its impossible for me to stumble upon glass bricks and not feel a tingling in my soul. Gorgeous gradients of colour and light fractured into memory.

[Team Sand @Team_Sand]

Zach Lahn's POV

[carmeladonnafugata @carmedonnafugat]

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Georgia O'Keeffe (Blue – A, 1959)

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[burt berman @bbu]

Thornton Willis,
Stairway to the Stars, 2015

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Scientists have reinvented the gear for the first time in 5,000 years.

How? By swapping out solid mechanical teeth for dynamic fluid flows.

For thousands of years, machines have depended on the exact meshing of physical gear teeth to transmit motion—a principle originating in ancient China that still suffers from issues like wear, contamination by debris, and misalignment.

Now, researchers at New York University have developed an innovative "fluid gear" system that removes these mechanical contact points entirely. By submerging rotors in a carefully chosen liquid, the team showed that a driven rotor can create precisely controlled fluid currents to spin a passive rotor. This setup mimics traditional gears or pulleys without any direct physical contact, using the liquid itself as invisible, wear-proof "teeth."

What makes this breakthrough especially powerful is its flexibility: unlike fixed metal gears, these fluid-based mechanisms can dynamically adjust their speed ratios and even switch rotation directions on demand. Simply by varying the gap between rotors or the flow velocity of the liquid, the system can shift from counter-rotating like classic gears to co-rotating like a belt-and-pulley drive.

This advancement promises major improvements in robotics, precision machinery, and other fields by offering a robust, jam-resistant alternative to conventional mechanical components. The research, published in Physical Review Letters, points to a future where complex machines might transmit power through flowing liquids rather than clashing metal.

["Hydrodynamic Spin-Coupling of Rotors",
J. Zhang et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 084001 (2026).
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.136.084001]

[World's Amazing Things @Hana_b30]

WHAT A SHOT! 🦅

Eric Lillard, a photographer in Colorado, captured this photo of two bald eagles making a heart formation! 🫶🏻

[Luiz Santos Official @LuizSantosMusic]

Joan Miró - Gaudí VI, 1979 #art #arts

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Just a shadow, but it instantly boosts the aura

[horse @horsetwting]

i need a girlfriend but im lowkey chopped af

[Nuelxx @nuel_szy]

Person: “So… we’re just going to sit here and do our own thing?”

Autistic Person: “Yep.”

Person: “We’re not going to talk?”

Autistic Person: “Only if something important comes up.”

Person: “And this counts as hanging out?”

Autistic Person: “This is premium hanging out.”

[Lisa RichBrook @MooGooAcu]

📷Polina Plotnikova

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Sums it up.