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[橘 みちる @michiru_view]

🎨Marianne Stokes
“Hungary (1909)”

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Climate change

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Female frogs use a survival strategy called thanatosis where they become completely immobile to avoid unwanted mating

Researchers observed this behavior in European common frogs, noting that females entered a rigid, death-like state when approached by males they did not select

[gregorio catarino @gregcatarino1]

“Life is a sum of all your choices”. So, what are you doing today?“
― Albert Camus

[Artprice.com @artpricedotcom]

Artprice offers the world a liber mundi: “Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI” by Thierry Ehrmann — the revenge of literary minds in the digital age. Neither apocalypse nor machine cult, but a third path to remain free. 1,800 pages. Raw typescript. Free. Read, download, share.

[Latido Terrestre @NaturPictures]

Cuando te obligan a ir al evento pero vas con cero ganas y la peor actitud.🤣

[Léon Chaland 🇪🇺 @LeonChaland]

Tonight all of Europe is behind Spain.

To victory 🇪🇸🇪🇺

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Andy Serkis reading Trump's tweets in Gollum's voice is the best thing you'll see on social media today.

[Sabri Amca @SabriAmca1453]

🟥 Donald Trump, günde 12 kutu diyet kola içiyor.

Trump: "Çimlerin üzerine döküldüğünde çimleri öldürüyor, bu da vücuttaki kanser hücrelerini öldürdüğü anlamına geliyor.”

Bence beyin hücrelerini öldürmüş
Şimdi mesele anlaşıldı 😄😄

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

The President of the United States addresses the nation about the Islamic Republic of Iran, flanked by the Easter Bunny.

We are living in a simulation.

[Jesús López @_JesusLopez_]

Una genialidad en la TV británica, sobre cómo se toman sus vacaciones los ingleses en España

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

Some days you can’t love social media enough. This is one of those days. It began like this. Someone stole 12 tons of KitKats.

And then the replies started coming in. Scroll down.

[Mattia Nelles @mattia_n]

Oleksandr Yakovenko, the founder of TAF Industries, one of Ukraine's largest drone makers wrote a good response to @RheinmetallAG's Papperger's irritating statement. I used AI to translate it for you. It is worth reading in full.

"Dear Mr. Armin Papperger, CEO of Rheinmetall,

When you called Ukrainian drone manufacturers “Ukrainian housewives with 3D printers in their kitchens,” you demonstrated how deeply the European defense establishment still fails to understand the nature of modern warfare.

This is not about emоtions. This is about battlefield reality.

Here are the figures your industry refuses to acknowledge:

In 2025 alone, Ukrainian drones carried out 819,737 confirmed strikes. They accounted for 90% of all combat losses of the Russian army—more than all other types of weapons combined.

A single company, TAF Industries, produces up to 100,000 FPV drones per month. Over any given 90-day period, the products of my company alone have more confirmed hits than your entire fleet of equipment over its entire history of combat use across all conflicts. And most importantly—I built this company and achieved these results in two years, not fifty. Think about that.

Our drones achieve greater kinetic effect in three months than your flagship platforms have in half a century.

Why? Because the battlefield has changed, while your business model has not.

Russian electronic warfare has rendered GPS-guided Western munitions (Excalibur, GMLRS, etc.) almost ineffective.
Expensive and complex systems designed for wars with air superiority and conventional “peer-on-peer” conflict have become easy targets for drones costing $500–2,000 that attack them from above.
The cost-effectiveness ratio has been turned upside down: one 120mm Rheinmetall shell or one anti-tank missile costs more than a dozen of our drones—yet our drones still prevail.

This is not a “Lego game.” This is industrial Darwinism in real time. We iterate weekly. We lose factories to missile strikes and rebuild them within weeks. We print parts in basements and deploy 100,000 strike systems per month, while your engineers still require 3–5 years and hundreds of millions of euros to certify even minor upgrades.

The war in Ukraine is not a temporary anomaly. It is the first true drone-industrial war. And it has already proven that outdated European platforms—no matter how expensive or “serious”—are becoming increasingly irrelevant if they do not integrate the very technologies you are mocking.

So when you say “this is not innovation,” I hear something else: “We do not want to admit that the future is being written in Ukrainian workshops, not in Düsseldorf offices.”

The hashtag #MadeByHousewives is trending for a reason. Because these “housewives” destroy more enemy equipment every month than entire European armies do over full campaigns. And they do so while your industry continues to sell 20th-century solutions at 21st-century prices.

The invitation stands, Mr. Papperger. Stop laughing at the kitchen table. Come and learn how the war of tomorrow is actually fought. Because the next time someone asks, “Who needs tanks in the age of drones?”, the answer may be simpler than you think:

Those who still believe in 1979 will lose to those who are building in 2026.

With respect (but with facts),

Oleksandr Yakovenko
Founder of TAF Industries
One of those “Ukrainian housewives”"

https://t.co/oZnXASQAYw

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1870, a German chemist named Erich von Wolf was analysing the iron content of various vegetables.

He made a decimal point error.

He recorded spinach as containing 35mg of iron per 100g. The correct figure was 3.5mg. The misplaced decimal sat in the nutritional literature for decades, entirely unchallenged, because nobody particularly felt like re-testing spinach.

In 1929, the Popeye comic strip launched. The creators cited the iron content of spinach as the scientific basis for their character's powers. By this point, the decimal point error was already sixty years old and fully embedded in received nutritional wisdom.

The error was identified and corrected in 1937. The correction was not issued with anything approaching the cultural reach of the original claim.

Popeye continued punching things.

The actual iron content of spinach, 3.5mg per 100g, roughly where it was always supposed to be, is further complicated by the fact that spinach is among the highest-oxalate vegetables known.

Oxalates bind to iron and calcium in the gut and remove them before absorption. The iron in spinach absorbs at around 1–2%, compared to 15–35% for haem iron from red meat. You would need to eat roughly a kilogram of spinach to absorb the iron equivalent of a 100g beef steak.

There is also the kidney stone question. Spinach contains around 970mg of oxalates per 100g: one of the densest plant sources. Chronic high spinach consumption, particularly raw in daily smoothies, is a documented pathway to calcium oxalate kidney stones.

The smoothie industry has not issued a correction.

Popeye is still a sailor.

[XAlertWorld @xalertworld]

🚨 INDIA 🇮🇳‼️ | Estudiantes del Instituto Politécnico Gubernamental crean un extintor de incendios por ondas sónicas que apaga el fuego mediante sonido, sin agua ni productos químicos. Vea la prueba en directo 🔥📢

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🔴 How did the nondescript son of a blue-collar worker gain the power and influence to destroy the lives of so many?

After months of trawling through the Epstein files, our writers pin down the elusive truth behind the question: who was Jeffrey Epstein?

Find out what they uncovered here ⬇️
https://t.co/ysxoNkQOCG

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 US war with Iran has now cost an estimated $21,000,000,000 since strikes began.

[Mark Cockerton @CockertonMark]

The USA took 829 days to support their allies in the 2nd World War.
Pass it on.

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @CrimeanVoyager]

Kharkiv. Right now.

A russian-iranian Shahed hits a dormitory. Fire. Evacuations underway.

When it’s Dubai, the world is outraged.
When it’s Kharkiv, the world scrolls past.

Ukrainian lives are not worth less. Our lives are not cheaper.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Tourists from across the planet just watched drones crash into civilian areas in Dubai. Non military targets. That might sound shocking, but Russia has been doing that to Ukraine for years. They are still doing it tonight. It’s vital to remember.