🫡🥰🇺🇦Sandra Andersen — Member of the Norwegian Parliament.
She left behind a comfortable seat in parliament, a peaceful life, and prestige. In 2022, she came to Ukraine and joined the International Legion as a combat medic.
Kyiv region. Mykolaiv. Donbas. Kherson.
Under fire, in the mud, through relentless shelling, she saved the lives of Ukrainian soldiers.
On the front line, she found more than a purpose. She met a Ukrainian marine known by the call sign “Jabari.”
In 2024, they got married. In 2025, their son was born.
Ukraine gave her everything: purpose, love, and a new family.
Sandra, you are living proof that true heroes do not sit in comfortable offices — they wear body armor bearing the Ukrainian trident.
Eternal respect and deepest gratitude from the Ukrainian people.🫡🥰🫡🥰🫡🥰🫡🥰
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
#Ukrainerussianwar
BREAKING 🚨: Scientists have discovered a hidden web of fungus beneath Earth's surface stretching 110 quadrillion kilometers — long enough to reach the Sun nearly a BILLION times.
It's like the Astrophage from Project Hail Mary… except it was under our feet the whole time.
Honestly, i don't understand this economy when nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents but nursing home aides need to use food banks.
daycare is so expensive it eats up one parent's entire paycheck and yet daycare providers only make $10/hr and need second jobs.
college costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and puts students into debt for life and yet we have thousands of professors living in their cars.
everything we need is astronomically expensive and yet almost none of the money we pay is going towards the people actually doing the work and providing the services.
I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
Ants are matriarchal.
Lions are matriarchal.
Boars are matriarchal.
Goats are matriarchal.
Orcas are matriarchal.
Buffalo are matriarchal.
Hyenas are matriarchal.
Lemurs are matriarchal.
Humans are matriarchal.
Bonobos are matriarchal.
Meerkats are matriarchal.
Elephants are matriarchal.
Honeybees are matriarchal.
“Why do those men hate us? They hate us because they need us, they fear us, they understand how much control it takes to keep us in line, to keep us good girls with our hymens intact until it’s time for them to fuck us into mothers who raise future generations of misogynists to forever fuel their patriarchy.”
Officially 1 month since I switched to a flip phone.
- Everyone is more severely addicted to their smartphones than I thought. Once you have a dumbphone, you'll frequently find yourself as the only person in the room not on their phone. It's not just teenagers, it's parents and adults of all ages. It's like everyone is stuck in a trance. 75+ year olds might be the only exception.
- All the objections I previously had for getting a dumbphone have turned out to be overblown and/or solvable. My iPhone addiction had fed my brain excuses to not do this earlier. If you really want to make the switch, you can.
- I've felt embarrassed to pull out my flip phone in public at times, for fear of being different or drawing too much attention to myself. But I have learned to just own up to it. Most people end up saying something like "Oh, I probably should do that too."
- I am using my brain more. Even though my flip phone has Waze, I find myself memorizing maps and roads. I'm more bored and get lost in my thoughts. I'm using paper and pen more. Increased desire for tangible things > digital things.
Overall, it has been a great experience and I plan on never going back.
Need a fence? What you really need is a deadhedge.
It's a barrier made of dead branches stacked between two rows of posts. You feed it with branches, fallen limbs, and woody yard debris. Over a season it becomes denser than most commercial fencing. Over years, the bottom layers compost down and the top gets refilled with whatever you trim that week.
Wrens, robins, and ground-foraging birds nest in the structure. Hedgehogs, field mice, frogs, and toads shelter in the base. Solitary bees, ladybirds, and beetles overwinter in the cavities.
Germany has been planting deadhedges as wildlife corridors since the 1990s. The UK uses them for riverbank restoration.
A wood fence costs thousands of dollars and supports no wildlife. A deadhedge costs nothing, gets denser every year, and provides habitat for dozens of species you want in your yard anyway.
Wow. This NYC pop up is 🔥
The Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room is open as a public installation displaying all 3.5 million pages of the released and partially redacted Epstein files, printed and bound into 3,437 volumes.
This shouldn’t just stay in NYC. Take it on the road.
In 1962, Brendon Grimshaw purchased Moyenne Island in the Seychelles for roughly $11,000. At the time, the small island was completely barren and uninhabited.
Over the following decades, Grimshaw dedicated his life to restoring its ecosystem. He personally planted more than 16,000 trees, created walking trails, and reintroduced endangered species — most notably giant Aldabra tortoises — transforming the once-desolate island into a lush, thriving nature sanctuary.
Despite numerous offers from wealthy developers eager to turn the island into a luxury resort, Grimshaw consistently refused. He famously rejected a $50 million bid, determined to keep Moyenne Island as a protected natural haven open for people to enjoy rather than a private commercial venture.
In 2009, his vision was permanently secured when Moyenne Island was incorporated into the Sainte Anne Marine National Park, becoming the smallest national park in the world.
Grimshaw lived on the island until his death in 2012, leaving behind a remarkable legacy of conservation and environmental stewardship that continues to protect this unique paradise for future generations.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but can we start a Class Action Lawsuit against the U.S Governent?
U.S Citizens vs United States.
Gross negligence in handling taxpayer funds would be a good start.
Who's with me?