Dave Solverson

Chicka chicka boom boom.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago:

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

[Alfinetei @ALFINETEI]

🚨VEJA: Piloto mostra um lindo ipê-rosa florido, se destacando em meio à imensidão da Amazônia.

[Dave Solverson @DaveSolverson]

@maxlugavere Sauteed spinach, crispy potatoes, 3-4 eggs, pico. Clean up the slop with cottage cheese.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A mother sperm whale came up from half a mile down with a giant squid still in her mouth. A diver named Ludo caught the whole thing on camera. Nobody had ever filmed this before in human history. That was last September.

A Smithsonian scientist named Michael Vecchione confirmed the species. It was an adult giant squid, an animal so hard to find alive that for a century we mainly knew it from beaks pulled out of dead whales and the occasional body that washed up on a beach.

We have known these two fight for centuries. Sperm whales kept surfacing with large circular marks on their heads that matched the suckers on giant squid arms. Their stomachs were full of squid beaks, the one part of a squid that cannot be digested.

The evidence was everywhere. The event itself had never once been seen.

This hunt happened in complete darkness. The whale was far deeper than any sunlight reaches. She found the squid the way sperm whales always do, by making sounds that bounce off things around her. Her clicks hit 236 decibels. A jet engine runs at about 150. She is the loudest living animal on earth, and those sounds are how she sees in the dark.

Her brain weighs seven kilograms. Five times heavier than yours.

For a sperm whale, this was a routine meal. One whale eats four to eight hundred squid every day. The whole species eats about 110 million tons of squid every year, more than every fishing fleet on earth pulls out of the ocean combined.

In the full uncropped video, you can see her baby swimming right next to her. Sperm whale calves do not go deep on their own. They only dive when their mothers bring them. She was teaching the baby how to hunt. That detail is the one that stayed with me.

[Dave Solverson @DaveSolverson]

@DobzMiles Meanwhile... Cabrera hasn't even made his first start. caissie will still need to adjust to pro pitchers once they have more scouting reports on him. Remember how Morel started off with Tampa?

Our reactionary world is exhausting. Oh and we can root for both players too...

[jeffonsports @jeff_on_sports]

this is far from a unique take but i’ve BEEN saying matas buzelis is one of the biggest poster headhunters out there. always trying to do something crazy

[Dave Solverson @DaveSolverson]

@KristopherDrew_ Thinking the exact same thing with that shot.

[Dave Solverson @DaveSolverson]

@dhruvrrawani @vivekguptaa Get on the stair master lol.

[Dave Solverson @DaveSolverson]

@RelayTS Does anyone else feel the representation between the yellow palate from the Abyss and the dark blue palate from the upside down and how the group moved beyond it?

[Dave Solverson @DaveSolverson]

https://t.co/tyVFvoCz8g

There's a warmth in the eyes
And a clearness of thought
When the deepest of sighs
And the frankest of shadows are gone

[Dave Solverson @DaveSolverson]

@StephenM Why are you associating a Christmas concert with global immigration dilemmas and problems?

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

I went back to Luke this morning just to revisit the story of Christmas… and Luke 2:7 hit me like an arrow to the chest:

“She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in cloths and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.”

We romanticize that line so much that we forget how brutal it actually is. If the gospel narrative is true, then that’s not a cute nativity detail. That is the most explosive statement in human history.

The God who created galaxies entered His own creation… and there was no room for Him.

No royal welcome, no palace, no safety, no honor, not even a bed. He comes into the world He made, and the doors are closed in His face.

This is the single greatest scandal of Christianity: God doesn’t supervise salvation from a throne. He steps into it. He doesn’t arrive in glory. He arrives vulnerable. He doesn’t come intimidating humanity into submission. He comes as a child who can’t even hold His own head up. If you were inventing a religion, this is not the story you’d write.

Luke is quietly showing something staggering about God’s character:
He wins, not by force, but by love.
He saves, not by domination, but by self-giving. He comes close, not as a King demanding space, but as a Savior entering even when there is “no room.”

And that manger isn’t sentimental. It’s confrontational.

It confronts our pride, cos humanity has always had space for power, wealth, celebrity, and status… just never space for God unless He serves our plans.

It confronts our illusions of strength cos God is showing that real power isn’t the ability to crush. Real power is the courage to empty yourself for the sake of others.

It confronts religion, cos God bypassed temples and elites and arrived where animals feed… then announced His coming not to emperors, but to shepherds.

Luke 2:7 tells us who God is.

He is not distant, He is not indifferent, He is not cold sovereignty. He is the God who chooses weakness so He can stand with the weak. He is the God who walks into human pain instead of observing it from afar. He is the God who would rather be rejected with us than reign without us.

If this verse is true, Christianity isn’t just another belief system. It’s a radical claim that the deepest power in the universe is love; not might, not fear, not spectacle.

So yes… this verse broke me today.
Because if this is who God is… then hope isn’t sentimental. Grace isn’t theoretical. And Christmas isn’t “cute.”

It’s God stepping into history quietly…
exposing us gently… and saving us completely. Luke 2:7 isn’t a children’s story. It’s a revolution.

Merry Christmas 🎄❤️

[Christopher @molochofficial]

All truly great Christmas media recognizes the inherent melancholy of the holiday season

[Dave Solverson @DaveSolverson]

@matthewdmarsden I can't wait for all the reactions for when Dr. Doom kills Steve Rogers.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The hunting strategy of the Peregrine Falcon

The fastest animal on Earth

[Dave Solverson @DaveSolverson]

@BuzzPatterson You realize the fact he is paying for it appears to give him more power over the project. It's not some admirable act to constantly give him kudos for.

[Ben Devine @Chicago_NFL]

Good. Better. Best.
Never let it rest.
Till your good gets better,
And your better is best!
#DaBears

[Dave Solverson @DaveSolverson]

@JoJoFromJerz The bike caravan is a cool idea. The nakedness. Not so much.

[Dave Solverson @DaveSolverson]

@Cobratate Coming from a person who has no offspring. No thanks to your advice.