Sheard sheep

Baaaa. And stuff.

[T R U T H P O L E @Truthpole]

🚨 Breaking - Brazil has released its national UFO files ahead of schedule. The collection contains 893 documented incidents spanning 1952 to 2023, organized chronologically and now publicly accessible through the SIAN National Archive platform.

This major disclosure move adds significant new data to the global UAP conversation from one of the most active regions in recent months.

Link in the comments

[TheNewPhysics @CharlesMullins2]

🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST CREATED QUANTUM STATES THAT ONLY EXIST WHILE YOU KEEP SHAKING THE MAGNETIC FIELD.

By rapidly switching (or “shaking”) magnetic fields at precise frequencies, researchers have engineered entirely new quantum states of matter that cannot exist under normal, static conditions.

These exotic “driven” states appear only while the periodic driving continues the moment the shaking stops, the system relaxes back to normal.

Why this matters:
• This is Floquet engineering using time-periodic driving to create temporary quantum phases
• The states rely on rapid switching of magnetic fields to modulate energy density and stabilize transient spin-wave patterns
• They only exist in this “driven” regime and disappear when the driving stops
• It opens a new way to explore quantum matter that is impossible in equilibrium

The deeper implication is mind-bending:

We can now create quantum states that are fundamentally “time-dependent” they only live as long as we keep driving the system.

This could lead to switchable quantum materials, new types of quantum sensors, and a better understanding of non-equilibrium quantum physics.

What do you think how wild is it that some quantum states only exist while you keep “shaking” the system?

Follow for more frontier quantum physics.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

In 1204, a Japanese poet wrote in his diary that the sky turned blood-red for 3 straight nights.

800 years later, scientists confirmed it: he witnessed a monster solar storm so powerful that if it hit today, it would fry nearly every satellite in orbit.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

A popular ride from 1932 in New York called "the human table."

[The Wolf Man @iTheWolfman]

The most cheerful backstabbing in human history 😂

[TheNewPhysics @CharlesMullins2]

🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST TRIED TO SLICE A SINGLE PHOTON IN HALF MID-PULSE… AND CREATED SOMETHING FAR WEIRDER.

You can’t just cut a photon like a wave on a string. When researchers used a super-fast optical shutter to slice a photon while it was passing, it didn’t split into “half lit / half dark.”
Instead, the photon’s quantum state transformed into a bizarre superposition something that only exists in the strange rules of quantum field theory.

Why this matters:
• A single photon is not a simple particle or wave it’s a quantum excitation of the electromagnetic field
• Cutting it mid-pulse with an ultra-fast shutter forces the system into a new kind of entangled state
• The result is a superposition that can’t be described by simple “left side / right side” thinking
• This reveals deep new insights into how quantum light behaves when manipulated on femtosecond timescales

The deeper implication is fascinating:

Even something as fundamental as a single photon doesn’t behave intuitively when we try to divide it. Reality at the quantum scale refuses to be neatly chopped it reinvents itself into something stranger.

This kind of experiment pushes the boundaries of our understanding of quantum optics and could have implications for future quantum communication and computing technologies.

How weird is it that you can’t simply “cut” a photon in half?

Follow for more mind-bending quantum physics.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

The hardest part about looking back at a job you poured everything into is realizing you worked through your breaks, picked up the slack, missed time with your family, took on unnecessary stress, put off vacation days, and burned yourself out for a company that didn’t even notice.

[Sheard sheep @delightphil]

Bloody hell, even senior recruiters I was stalking on LinkedIn to network my way into a new job have Open To Work on their profiles.

[Sheard sheep @delightphil]

"We're waiting for you..." sounds like a threat. Lol.

[Uber Support @Uber_Support]

@barbosapaulinaa Hola @barbosapaulinaa, leímos tu solicitud de facturación. Síguenos en @Uber_Support y escríbenos por DM los detalles. Te esperamos. https://t.co/sd7yH5jmbJ

[Sheard sheep @delightphil]

You know times are tough - just saw a bulk pack of baked beans on someone's vision board.

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

Our VP of Operations decided the team was feeling disconnected, so she booked a mandatory offsite retreat.

We were told to wear comfortable clothing and prepare for deep vulnerability.

That's the most terrifying sentence you can read in a corporate email.

We drove two hours to a conference center that looked like a repurposed summer camp from the 80s.

First on the agenda was a trust exercise facilitated by an external consultant named River who wasn't wearing shoes.

River told us to pair up and stare into our partner's eyes for 3 uninterrupted minutes.

I was paired with Dave from accounting.

Dave has a slight lazy eye, so I wasn't entirely sure which pupil I was supposed to be spiritually connecting with.

We just stood there in agonizing silence while I mentally calculated my remaining PTO days.

After the staring contest, we had a whiteboard session to redefine our departmental synergy.

We spent two hours debating the difference between a mission statement and a vision statement.

Nobody actually knows the difference.

It's all just a linguistic word salad used to justify executive salaries.

We finally agreed on the phrase "Empowering scalable solutions through agile collaboration."

That means absolutely nothing.

It's a sentence constructed entirely out of LinkedIn buzzwords generated by a panicked committee.

For lunch, we were served individually wrapped artisan sandwiches that tasted like damp cardboard.

The afternoon activity was a simulated survival scenario.

We had to pretend our plane crashed in the tundra and rank 15 items by their survival importance.

Our marketing director insisted the magnetic compass was more important than the waterproof matches.

I tried to explain that knowing we're freezing to death facing due north doesn't actually help us survive.

She accused me of not having a growth mindset.

I agreed to rank the compass first just to end the conversation so I could sit down.

We theoretically froze to death in 20 minutes.

River clapped his hands and said our collective failure was actually a beautiful triumph in conflict resolution.

We finished the day with an acoustic guitar circle where the CEO played Wonderwall.

I'm updating my resume tomorrow morning.

[Indie Game Joe @IndieGameJoe]

So I found this indie game where you play as one of three monkeys trying to defuse a bomb - one is blind, one is mute & one is deaf🍌

- Blind monkey can only touch bomb
- Mute monkey has the manual, can't speak
- Deaf monkey can see everything, can't hear

It's called BOMBANANA!

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

This woman moved in for a closer shot of a shoal of sardines

What happened next blew her mind

[Matt Loszak @MattLoszak]

2 billion years ago, a nuclear reactor geologically self-assembled and turned itself on.

No humans were involved. Only rock, groundwater, & natural uranium.

It ran intermittently for hundreds of thousands of years.

Here's the story of Oklo (not the company, but the place!):🧵

[Ayaan 🐧 @twtayaan]

LibreOffice might be the greatest revenge fork in open source history.

In 2010, Oracle bought Sun Microsystems and inherited OpenOffice, the free office suite millions of people depended on every day.

Oracle had a well-known reputation for acquiring software and squeezing it dry, and the developer community was not going to let that happen to a tool they had built their workflows around.

They created the Document Foundation, forked the entire codebase, and launched LibreOffice. Same software. Zero Oracle.

Oracle told contributors to resign from the OpenOffice council. Nobody listened.

The community kept building, as if Oracle did not exist. Every update, every bug fix, every feature shipped without asking anyone for permission.

By 2011, Oracle gave up and handed OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation like a kid returning a toy they broke.

LibreOffice kept shipping. Today, it runs on millions of computers, and entire governments across Germany, Italy, and France have officially ditched Microsoft Office for it.

OpenOffice still exists under Apache. It just hasn't had a major release in years.

Microsoft charges you $99 a year for Office.
Google charges you $12 a month for Workspace.
LibreOffice charges you nothing.

The most interesting part of this story is that Oracle technically owned the code.

What they couldn't own was the community.

[Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday]

🚨: Scientists are Pretty Sure they found a portal to the Fifth Dimension.

[BlueBriefing🎬🍿 @Uzonna7]

Netflix cancelling 1899 after that finale should be studied in war crimes class.

They gave us the wildest mind-bend since Dark then said 'nah, too expensive.' BRING BACK MY SIMULATION SHIP.

🎬🎥 1899 🔥♥️

[80s Nostalgia Channel @80s_channel]

Our childhood in a single picture..

[Manifest_Lord @Manifest_Lord]

Tibetan monks discovered a point on the inner forearm, when pressed for 60s before sleep increases melatonin by up to 40%.

It has been in Tibetan medical texts for over 1000 years.

Western sleep medicine never acknowledged it exists.

It needs no supplement. No prescription. 🪡

[Lost Internet @LostMemeArchive]

Excel 95 had a secret Easter egg called the Hall of Tortured Souls.

If you followed a weird set of steps, you could enter a Doom-style 3D maze hidden inside a spreadsheet program.

90s software was genuinely unhinged.