Sam Love

Im the American dream. Im the definition of white trash ballin. INSTAGRAM: sammmwiisee

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A rare image of the Sphinx taken from a hot air balloon in the XIX century. This is before excavation and restoration.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Nashville Zoo has launched a public campaign to block construction of a proposed 69,000-square-foot AI data center that would sit directly adjacent to habitats for endangered animals, including vulnerable clouded leopards.

Zoo officials warn that the facility’s constant noise, bright artificial lighting, and electrical hum could seriously disrupt animal behavior, stress levels, and long-established breeding programs. The zoo is home to more than 3,700 animals representing over 350 species and maintains one of the most important collections of rare and endangered wildlife in the United States.

This conflict highlights a growing backlash against the rapid expansion of data centers driven by the AI boom. These facilities require massive amounts of electricity and operate 24 hours a day, prompting communities nationwide to raise concerns about energy consumption, water use, noise pollution, and environmental impacts. Wildlife conservation groups are now joining the resistance.

More than 180,000 people have already signed a petition opposing the project.

The developer behind the data center states that it will use waterless cooling systems, meet all local noise regulations, and comply with environmental standards. However, zoo leaders argue that the location itself, immediately next to sensitive animal habitats, makes the project unacceptable regardless of technical mitigations.

The dispute underscores a broader challenge of the AI era: how to build the vast digital infrastructure needed for artificial intelligence without placing undue pressure on local communities, ecosystems, and wildlife.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Morgan Freeman is turning his entire 124-acre ranch in Mississippi into sanctuary for bees.

Alarmed by collapsing bee populations, Freeman decided to act back in 2014. He imported 26 beehives from Arkansas to his ranch in Mississippi and planted fields of clover, lavender, and magnolia – creating a pollinator paradise across the entire property.

What began as a personal hobby quickly became a full-scale conservation effort. Bees pollinate about 80% of the world’s flowering crops – including many fruits, nuts, and vegetables. One healthy colony can pollinate up to 300 million flowers in a single day. Without bees, ecosystems collapse. Food systems follow.

[Classic Rock In Pics @crockpics]

Michelle Phillips, a founding member of The Mamas and the Papas.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Statue of a woman named Danuta Danielsson in Sweden who became a hero in 1985...

In 1985, during a march organized by the Nordic Reich Party in Växjö, Sweden, a woman named Danuta Danielsson stepped out of the crowd and struck a neo Nazi demonstrator with her handbag. The moment lasted only seconds, but it would become one of the most recognizable images of civilian resistance in modern European history.

The photograph was taken by press photographer Hans Runesson and shows Danielsson mid swing as the uniformed marcher recoils. It was not staged, symbolic, or planned. It was instinctive. Danielsson had no political platform, no organization behind her, and no intention of becoming a public figure. She was reacting in real time to the sight of open fascism marching through her city.

Danielsson was the daughter of a Holocaust survivor who had endured imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp. For her, the march was not abstract ideology or historical reenactment. It was a direct echo of lived trauma. Friends later said she was deeply affected by the demonstration and acted out of personal pain rather than political calculation.

The image spread internationally and became a visual shorthand for everyday courage. A single unarmed civilian confronting hatred without permission or protection. In Sweden, the photograph entered textbooks, exhibitions, and public debate about resistance, memory, and moral responsibility.

Decades later, a statue depicting Danielsson with her raised handbag was proposed and eventually installed near the site of the march. While some controversy surrounded whether she would have wanted the attention, the statue came to represent something larger than the individual. It honored the idea that resistance does not always come from leaders or movements, but from ordinary people refusing to stay silent in the face of hate.

Danuta Danielsson struggled with mental health later in life and never sought fame for the act. Her family has emphasized that the moment should be remembered not as violence, but as a spontaneous human response to the return of an ideology that once destroyed her family.

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[Sam Love @iamsamlove69]

@StandUpForElonn 0

[Sam Love @iamsamlove69]

@Elonpappy 16

[Sam Love @iamsamlove69]

@DonaldTrumpnq EEEEEEE

[Classic Rock In Pics @crockpics]

Janis Joplin in London, 1969. Photo by Malcolm McNeill. Joplin was in London for her only solo appearance at the Royal Albert Hall, which took place on April 21, 1969. The English band Yes was the opening act for the show.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Dog sliding down in the snow.. 😊

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Capybaras are herbivores, therefore harmless to other animals around them. They're easy-going semi-aquatic mammals, social, friendly, and gentle, and get along with just about everyone, so it makes sense that other animals would enjoy their company

This is an example

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

A gargoyle is simply the protruding part of a pipe that serves to deflect water that would otherwise accumulate on a roof. It is by no means a medieval invention: Egyptians, Greeks and Romans used them in ancient times, in order to prevent moisture from destroying their ceilings.

In fact, French word gargouille is a derivative of the verb gargouiller, which in turn derives from Greek gargarizó: to gargle. That is precisely what, as an architectural element, the gargoyle is in charge of: a gargoyle collects and then expels water away from the roofs and walls of the building. Technically speaking, the fantastic stone carvings that do not serve as functioning downspouts are known as grotesques, not gargoyles, though popular imagination lumps them together.

The celebrated historian and art critic Jurgis Baltrusaitis, one of the founders of the school of comparative artistic research and author of the book The Fantastic Middle Ages, is a constantly cited authority when it comes to the study of the presence of the monstrous in medieval art. Baltrusaitis explained that the half-human and half-animal creatures of antiquity never disappeared completely in Europe. The presence of the gargoyles, then, could be explained as a survival of these Greek and Roman motifs in later European art.

Other sources attribute the use of gargoyles to a legend linked to the life of St. Roman, bishop of Rouen. According to legend, St. Roman managed to subdue a dragon – named Gargouille, “throat”– by merely showing him the cross. The Saint then tied a rope around the dragon’s neck and led him to the center of the city, where the dragon was killed and burned. However, the head and neck of the beast could not be consumed by the flames. Thus, St. Roman decided to hang it from one of the walls of the cathedral, as a warning: evil stalks, and can only be overcome by the cross.

Of course, this is but a legend. Some other historians point out that the use of gargoyles and grotesques in cathedrals also has a pedagogical function: the fantastic beasts reinforce the notion that evil remains outside the church, metaphorically and literally, and that evil flees from the holy places: “Upon this rock I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it.” It was a way to graphically represent what is written in Scripture, in times when there were few who could read and write.

📷 : The Gargoyle of Notre Dame overlooking Paris, 1910.

© @Dr_TheHistories

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[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

[Grateful Dead @GratefulDead]

It is with heavy hearts that we mourn the loss of Donna Jean Godchaux. Her unmistakable voice and radiant spirit touched the lives of countless fans and immeasurably enriched the Grateful Dead family. Her contributions will forever remain part of the tapestry that continues to be woven. We send our deepest condolences to her loved ones and ask for privacy for her family during this time.

Photo by Jim Marshall

[SnarkTank @TheSnarkTank99]

@DonaldJTrumpJr And your daddy loves his makeup.

[Sam Love @iamsamlove69]

@ILoveMyDogs2023 @DonaldJTrumpJr Jr probably doesn't know himself. He said, "When did this happen?!"

[Rep. Sam McKenzie @RepMcKenzie]

I said what I said. Thank you @CompassKnox for the opportunity to respond to my fellow Knox County Representative’s comments.

[Brook Jolley @Brookjolley]

@tnhousegop Have you guys checked into how your Mr Speaker @CSexton25 has been claiming a travel per diem from Crossville ever since he moved to north Nashville in 2020, stealing thousands of dollars?

Will Mr Speaker Cameron Sexton be expelled for his theft?

[The AEGIS Alliance™ @AEGISAllianceTM]

@BrianManookian @CSexton25 @TheTNHoller @NC5PhilWilliams @TNLookout Those two brave and courageous Black Tennessee expelled Reps. of the Tennessee Three should've never been expelled in the first place while insurrectionists are still in Congress with no consequences. I bet they win the special elections. #standwiththetennessee3

[Bryght @Bryghtd1]

@BrianManookian @CSexton25 @TheTNHoller @NC5PhilWilliams @TNLookout Why wait? They've expelled 2 & are now threatening to defund projects that have already been allocated for if they're brought back. How many more punches in the face must the Dems take before punching back, drop the threats & just do it. They didn't GAF & we shouldn't either.