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[Cee Bee @CeeBeel56]

@Lammyisback Spell it out. Club me over the head with it.

[Cee Bee @CeeBeel56]

@WingRaider @SpectorsHockey Strange cat, love that.

[Paul @WingRaider]

@SpectorsHockey You wouldn’t think so, but if Detroit gets a GM in the next week or two. Edvinsson is a little bit of a strange cat, and may just take an 8 year deal rather than the 5 he should take.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets, remember that the goal is not to have more information, but to have more understanding.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

[Francisco Gómez de Tejada | arquitecto @gomezdetejada]

Así me imagino yo el éxito y la felicidad al final de una vida.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

[Meditations in Color @MeditateColor]

Published in Kyoto in 1930, Mizuki Heitaro’s Abstract Pattern Portfolio contained 99 designs built from geometric forms and complementary colors. An early Japanese encounter with European Art Deco and Constructivism.

[Itineratur @itineratur]

Una cosa que me gusta de Francia es comprobar que los impresionistas no se inventaron nada.

[𝓐⭑ @ayogiovanna]

Business idea: an ADHD hyperfixation hobby exchange.

You bought $300 worth of supplies for your new hobby, obsessed over it for three weeks, and now you never want to look at it again?

Perfect.

Trade your abandoned hobby supplies with another ADHD person for their abandoned hobby supplies.

Everybody wins. Nobody buys another $300 worth of shit. 😂

[For all Curious @fascinatingonX]

It’s OFFICIAL: Another major celestial events will converge on August 28 — a 6-planet alignment, partial solar eclipse, dark new moon, & a massive meteor shower.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.”

— Susan Sontag

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

In the early 2000s, a colony of little penguins living on Middle Island near Warrnambool, Australia, was on the verge of disappearing.

Foxes had discovered they could reach the island during low tide, and repeated attacks devastated the population.

What had once been a thriving colony of more than 500 penguins was reduced to fewer than 10 breeding pairs by 2005.

Faced with the possible loss of the colony, conservationists turned to an unusual solution. In 2006, specially trained Maremma Sheepdogs were introduced to guard the island.

Traditionally used in Italy to protect livestock from predators, the dogs were adapted for a new role: protecting penguins.

The first guardian dogs, Eudy and Tula, were placed on the island during the breeding season. Their presence was enough to deter foxes from approaching the colony, dramatically reducing predation.

Over the following years, the penguin population began to recover, growing from the brink of extinction to well over 100 birds, with some surveys later recording around 180 to 200 penguins.

The project became one of the world's most celebrated conservation success stories. For more than a decade, fox attacks were effectively prevented while the dogs were on duty.

Their importance became especially clear in 2017 when penguins arrived earlier than expected and before the guardian dogs had returned to the island. During that period, foxes killed around 70 penguins in a single attack event.

Once the dogs were reinstated, the attacks stopped again.

Today, the Middle Island Maremma Project is recognized internationally as a pioneering example of using livestock guardian dogs to protect endangered wildlife.

The remarkable story inspired the 2015 Australian film "Oddball" and demonstrated how a simple, creative idea helped save an entire penguin colony from disappearing forever.

[Victoria Davies @vickylovespups]

@WolfofX This is beautiful. Maremma dogs from Italy guarding little penguins in Australia. My own dog means the world to me & this just proves how remarkable dogs are.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I don’t think people understand that global warming doesn’t mean “no cold weather ever.” It means a warming planet destabilizes weather patterns, causing more extreme weather. This has been explained for decades and people still don’t get it.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

In 1963, a 21-year-old Paul Simon shut himself in a dark bathroom in his parents’ house in Queens and wrote “The Sound of Silence.”

He wasn’t mourning John F. Kennedy. He was sounding an alarm about something quieter and more permanent: the way television was beginning to isolate people from one another.

The song’s stark acoustic arrangement happened to match the national mood after the assassination, which is why many still assume it was written as a eulogy. It wasn’t. Simon later called it a “post-adolescent angst song,” born from the creeping urban alienation and the sudden dominance of mass media that defined the early 1960s. He kept the lights off deliberately—the darkness gave the bathroom a natural echo that inspired the opening line still known around the world: “Hello darkness, my old friend.”

Two large forces shaped the song.

First, television had conquered the American living room. Simon watched a culture start bowing to glowing screens and the advertisements that filled them. The “neon god they made” was not metaphor for the sake of poetry; it was a direct indictment of a society that had begun consuming words without speaking them, hearing without listening. Genuine connection was thinning while information poured in.

Second, a quieter form of youth alienation was already underway. Before the visible counterculture and anti-war marches of the later decade, the first wave of postwar baby boomers was coming of age in crowded cities and feeling strangely alone inside them. The song caught the earliest vibrations of the generation gap—the sense that the sanitized, consumer-driven world their parents had built no longer spoke to them.

The assassination did not write the lyrics, but it did help the original acoustic version find an audience on college campuses where students were grieving. Commercially the record still flopped. Simon and Garfunkel split up.

Then, in late 1965, producer Tom Wilson did something neither of them authorized: he secretly overdubbed electric guitar, bass, and drums onto the existing track. The electrified version rode the rising folk-rock wave straight to number one and turned a private bathroom meditation into a public anthem.

What began as one young man’s warning about silence became the sound an entire generation recognized as its own.

What is this generation basis for silence?

[Joely @Joely369]

@BrianRoemmele The Disturbed version gives me goosebumps every time.
https://t.co/uNDTu0Ys8J

[Wildlife Uncensored @TheeDarkCircle]

That must feel amazing

[𝒢𝑜𝓁𝒹 @vidxn_]

Being autistic is asking a clarifying question and being told you’re being combative. Good times.

[𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 @be_like_legend1]

BREAKING: LOW IRON REDUCES THE BRAIN'S ABILITY TO MAKE DOPAMINE.

And ADHD is already a dopamine regulation disorder.

If you have ADHD and you've never checked your ferritin, you need to read this.

[青巌 宗晃（ Seigan Soukou ） @atahuta123]

ADHDは先延ばし癖がつよくて、部屋が汚くて、うっかりミスが多くて、引き出しの中も散らかってて、興味のない事にはまったく無関心だったりしますが、アレはADHDは地頭がいいので「やるとなったらとことんやらなきゃ気が済まない」という”完璧主義”の自覚があり、”さすがに生活すべてをADHD全開で過ごすとヤバイ”という本能的理解から、あえて省エネモードで暮らしてるからこそ起こる現象らしいです