krista chael

artist/ citizen scientist 🌲🌎🖥🕳🔦🕊

[krista chael @kchael]

@amandafortini Looks amazing! Wish I could be there 💐

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

[MoundLore @MoundLore]

The Giant Figures Carved Into the Desert Floor—Only Visible from the Sky

They were never meant to be seen from ground level.
And for over 1,000 years, no one did.

Then in 1931, a pilot flew over the California desert—and saw something impossible.
Massive human shapes etched into the earth.

This is the story of the Blythe Intaglios. 🧵

[krista chael @kchael]

@walterkirn @countyhwy Tehachapi

also from Willin’
also my town where we love @countyhwy -at least my husband and I do. ☕️⛰️ Reading it here on the back porch in the fresh mountain air is one of our favorite things to do.

[krista chael @kchael]

@urbanponds101 Beautiful! Funny how the blooming cycles work sometimes isn’t it?

[krista chael @kchael]

@ZubyMusic 💯

[krista chael @kchael]

@walterkirn My husband worked at Mojave Air & Space Port- UFOs are the least disturbing rumor about that place.

[Love Music @khnh80044]

62-year-old Susanna Hoffs performing "Manic Monday"
Have a great Monday, guys! 🤗

[Gregory L Little, Ed.D. @DrGregLittle2]

Salmon Ruins, and Ancestral Puebloan site near Farmington, New Mexico.

[krista chael @kchael]

Yikes! Where did the ecco fit in?

That was a great screening last Saturday btw- and a fun Q&A even if some of our brains were still spinning too much to get our questions together (it was lots of info in that film).

I happened to be in LA for work and was delighted to attend- wouldn’t have known about it if I didn’t follow you here 🙏@walterkirn

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Almonds are an environmental catastrophe.

People hear that and assume you mean in some abstract, projected, 2050 kind of way.

No. Present tense. Happening now. Today, while someone posts about their oat-and-almond-milk morning ritual and refers to it as 'conscious consumption.'

- 1.1 trillion gallons of water used annually in California alone
- 1,900 gallons required to produce a single pound of almonds
- 10% of California's entire water supply consumed during historic drought conditions
- Approximately 50 billion bees killed per year from pesticide and fungicide exposure during mass pollination events
- Entire Central Valley sections converted to monoculture desert requiring permanent irrigation infrastructure
- Fungicide cocktails applied during February bloom, peak bee vulnerability, routinely implicated in colony collapse
- Almonds provide essentially no complete protein, moderate oxalate load, and require industrial processing to make palatable
- Virtually every almond ever eaten has been shipped internationally at least once

The person drinking almond milk in a reusable cup is, on balance, responsible for the deaths of more living creatures before 9am than a British beef farmer manages in a fortnight.

But the cow breathed out, so.

[FUNNY DROPS @toondrops]

Looney tunes writers were MENACES.

[krista chael @kchael]

@DropSiteNews @ryangrim Thank you Ryan Grim 💐

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

Meowzart by Haburu

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.”

— John Muir

[Johnny Cadillac @lippyent]

Truth

[krista chael @kchael]

@AuthorGFAllen Yes, Ursula K. Le Guin

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“The fact that we are connected through space and time shows that life is a unitary phenomenon, no matter how we express that fact.”

The visionary evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis, who would have been 88 today, on the spirituality of science and the interconnectedness of life https://t.co/jY07YlEkxS

[krista chael @kchael]

@amandafortini It could be that more people on X prefer e-books and that’s why people responded negatively to your preference. I also prefer physical books 📚

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

“If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
(art by Sukanya Ayde)