Hannah

[j @xowinri]

"Same handwritings para sa napakaraming pangalan at iisa ang pirma ... you didn't ask?"

"I did not see the acknowledgement receipts."

"Parang nagmaang-maangan ka. Again, is it blind loyalty?"

sheeesh diretsahan talaga kay sen raffy #VPonTrial

[Tock @yvan_theriault]

En ce début d'année 1962, sur la base de Cap Canaveral, un homme refuse de monter dans sa fusée. Les ingénieurs de la NASA paniquent, le compte à rebours est suspendu, et des millions de dollars sont en jeu. L'homme fixe ses supérieurs et répète une phrase qui va entrer dans l'histoire : « Si la fille dit que les chiffres sont bons, alors je suis prêt à partir. »

Cet homme s'appelle John Glenn, et il s'apprête à devenir le premier Américain à tourner autour de la Terre.

À cette époque, la NASA vient tout juste d'installer d'immenses ordinateurs électroniques pour calculer les trajectoires de vol. Mais dans la cabine de pilotage, le astronaute ne fait absolument pas confiance à ces machines métalliques. Il veut une vérification humaine. Et pas n'importe laquelle.

Il exige les calculs d'une femme de 43 ans, assise à des centaines de mètres de là, derrière une table en bois.

Cette femme s'appelle Katherine Johnson.

Pendant des jours, Katherine s'enferme avec ses feuilles et ses crayons. Elle aligne des milliers d'équations complexes, recomptant chaque décimale à la main pour tracer la route exacte qui doit ramener l'astronaute vivant sur Terre.

Elle travaille dans l'ombre.
Elle travaille sans reconnaissance officielle.
Elle travaille dans un bâtiment soumis à la ségrégation raciale.

Parce qu'elle est une femme noire dans l'Amérique des années 1960, Katherine n'a pas le droit d'utiliser les mêmes toilettes que ses collègues blancs. Elle doit traverser le campus à pied, sous la pluie ou la chaleur, juste pour trouver un sanitaire autorisé. L'administration ne lui donne même pas le titre de mathématicienne : sur son badge, il est simplement écrit « ordinateur ».

Mais dans sa tête se trouvent les trajectoires de la conquête spatiale.

Pendant que les machines électroniques hésitent, Katherine aligne ses chiffres. Elle vérifie l'angle d'entrée. Elle valide la vitesse de descente. Elle pose son crayon, lève les yeux et donne son feu vert.

John Glenn monte dans la capsule. Le vol est un succès absolu.

Elle a calculé la route du premier Américain dans l'espace.
Elle a tracé l'orbite autour de la Terre.
Elle a guidé le vaisseau Apollo 11 jusqu'à la Lune et assuré son retour.

Sans ses calculs au crayon à papier, l'Histoire américaine n'aurait pas eu le même visage. Pourtant, pendant des décennies, son nom est resté soigneusement effacé des livres d'histoire.

Ce n'est qu'à l'âge de 97 ans que le président Barack Obama lui remet enfin la plus haute distinction civile du pays, la médaille présidentielle de la Liberté. Katherine s'est éteinte paisiblement en 2020, à l'âge extraordinaire de 101 ans.

Son histoire nous rappelle une vérité fondamentale : les plus grands esprits de ce monde s'élèvent souvent là où la société cherchait à les maintenir dans l'ombre.

La vraie grandeur ne dépend ni d'un titre, ni d'un privilège, mais de ce que l'on choisit d'accomplir quand personne ne nous attend.

[Gia ෆ @giajeon1997_]

Isipin niyo ganito kalaki binabayaran nating tax pambayad palang ng interest ng utang ng bansa tapos yung minamahal niyong VP gumagastos ng daang milyon para sa sarili nyang security. Tangahan niyo pa haha

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Two important lessons for 2026:

- Discipline is the real flex.
- The calmer you are, the clearer you think.

[Vidit Sharma 🇮🇳 @TheViditsharma]

Five elephants were swept away by the devastating floods in Nepal and somehow reached Uttar Pradesh. ���

What hapened next is truly heartwarming. The Uttar Pradesh rescue and wildlife teams stepped in and safely rescued all five elephants. 🙏❤️

In the midst of such a challenging situation, this is a beautiful example of compassion, courage and humanity towards wildlife.

Wildlife cannot speak for themselves. They need our protection, our compassion and our commitment to keeping them safe. ❤️

 heartfelt thank you to the UP Wildlife team, rescue personnel and every person involved n this incredible rescue effort. 🙏

Every life matters. Let’s protect and save our wildlife. ❤️

#ElephantRescue #WildlifeRescue #UttarPradesh #NepalFloods

[Teacher E @E4thofjuly]

🙏🙏🙏

[Restored by Christ @Godislove7261]

Not compartmentalizing my faith anymore. Jesus isn’t just for Sundays, He��s literally everything I do. 🙏🏽💛

[Sean @ChristIsComing5]

7 REASONS TO THANK GOD TODAY:

1. He woke you up today.
2. It’s a new day.
3. You have the Word in your hand.
4. You have food to eat.
5. There is a roof over your head.
6. He will never abandon you.
7. God’s love for you NEVER changes!

[Hannah @Hannah1114248]

Just like the mining companies...
Dapat kung may mag i-invest kasama dapat yung technology transfer.

[ABS-CBN News @ABSCBNNews]

A lawmaker and an expert weigh in on the proposed Pax Silica hub, especially about its possible environmental effects.

[DAVAOMIGRANT @nabunturanguy]

Col. Raymund Dante Lachica was NEVER an employee of the Office of the Vice President, and therefore NOT A BONDED officer, and yet, HE WAS ENTRUSTED TO HANDLE ₱500M in confidential funds by Sara Duterte! Something smells fishy. Something smells like a SCAM!

[The Philippine Star @PhilippineStar]

GOD SEES EVERYTHING YOU DO 👀

For your ways are in full view of the Lord, and he examines all your paths. — Proverbs 5:21 NIV

[Jesus is Christ @JesusisChristX]

Amen

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Stay one night at a traditional Japanese inn
and the goodbye will break you a little.

You arrive. Your shoes vanish.
They come back cleaned, turned around,
pointing toward the door for the day you leave.

Tea appears before you think to ask.

You go down to dinner, and while you eat,
someone slips into your room and lays out your futon,
folds back the sheets, dims the lamp.
No note. No tip expected.
Tipping doesn't exist here.

Then you leave. And this happens.

The owner walks you out. The staff follow.
The cook comes too, still in his apron.
They line up in the road, and they bow.

Your car pulls away. They keep bowing.

You turn in your seat and watch them shrink
through the rear window, still bowed,
until the road bends and takes them away.

They don't stop when you stop looking.

Every hotel I've ever stayed in gave me service.

This was a family in the middle of a mountain road,
bowing to a stranger,
thanking me for letting them take care of me.

I cried in the car.
I'm not even a little ashamed.

[Chel Diokno @ChelDiokno]

Bawal daw magpahaba ng buhok? Grabe naman!

Sa budget hearing ng Commission on Higher Education (CHED) ngayong araw, kinuwestyon natin ang mga patakaran na tila sumusupil sa freedom of expression and assembly ng ating mga mag-aaral.

Nangako si CHED Chairperson Shirley Agrupis na aaksyunan nila ito.

Dahil dito, mas lalong dapat maisabatas ang ating Students’ Rights and Welfare Bill (HB 767) para maprotektahan ang karapatan ng bawat estudyante.

Panoorin ang video at mag-comment kung may ganitong isyu sa school ninyo.

[✞ Richard ✞ @Richard_gh1]

Trust God

[Immortal Tessy @TheresaArueyin1]

I just found another beautiful promise in Scripture.

Malachi 3:10 says: “I will pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.”

May this be your testimony.
May God open the windows of heaven over your life and bless you beyond what you imagined.

If this promise is for you, comment “Amen.”

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

The world's oldest café has one item on the menu.

It has been in Kyoto since the year 1000.

Not the 1900s. Not the 1800s.
The year one thousand.

It's called Ichiwa. A tiny tea house by a shrine gate,
run by the same family for 25 generations.

They sell aburi-mochi: little rice cakes on bamboo skewers,
grilled over a charcoal fire, covered in sweet white miso sauce.

That's it. That's the menu.
It has been the menu for a thousand years.

When this shop opened, Vikings were still raiding Europe.
The samurai class didn't exist yet.

And a family in Kyoto lit a charcoal fire
and started grilling mochi for tired pilgrims.

That fire has customers to this day.

Reporters have asked the family the secret
to surviving a thousand years.
The answer is almost embarrassing in its simplicity:

they never expanded. Never franchised.
Never added a second item.
They decided one small thing mattered,
did it perfectly, and kept doing it.

For a millennium.

My favorite detail:
across the street stands their rival,
a shop selling the same mochi since 1637.

Four hundred years old,
and the neighborhood still thinks of it
as the new place.

An order costs about three dollars.
You sit on a bench by an old shrine,
and you eat the exact same warm, smoky sweet
that a dusty traveler ate in the year 1000.

Some countries put history behind glass.

Japan hands it to you on a skewer
and asks if you'd like more tea.

[Sara Mary 🇬🇧 @saniyafatma1278]

She shaped every feather, every petal — with quiet care and a hopeful heart 🐦🌸
It wasn’t for attention. Just to share a little beauty with the world.
But when she held it up… no one even looked.
Some talents whisper. And still deserve to be seen.