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Ezekiel 25:17

[danonino @labastits]

Don’t be hatin

[RaffsMMA @RaffsMMA]

One of the coolest things about MMA is how little distance there is between the fans and the fighters.

Your favorite fighter isn’t hidden behind a stadium or a franchise. You can literally walk into their gym, take a class, and end up training alongside them.

There really isn’t another major sport like it.

[Hudson @GuzzleGuinness]

In France, the baguette is price controlled, in Italy the espresso is cheap, in Germany the beer purity is protected by a 500 year old law…

and in America, Costco keeps the hot dog at $1.50 under threat of death.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A frog the size of your fingernail lives at this waterfall, inside a single species of plant. It is born in one, mates in one, raises its tadpoles in one, and dies in one. The whole species is found in this small corner of Guyana and nowhere else on Earth.

The plant is a giant bromeliad. It belongs to the same family as the pineapple, with long stiff leaves that spiral out from the center and trap rainwater between them in small pools. Those pools are the frog's entire world. Males defend one plant as their home territory. They carry tadpoles on their backs from pool to pool. The females lay extra eggs that never hatch, so the tadpoles have something to eat. The entire species lives in a patch of forest under 8 square miles.

The waterfall makes all of this possible. Water drops 741 feet in a single fall, more than four times the height of Niagara. Every four seconds, enough water goes over the edge to fill an Olympic swimming pool. No other single-drop waterfall on Earth carries that much water.

When the water hits the bottom of the cliff, the impact throws up a permanent cloud of mist. The wind pushes the mist back up over the cliff edge. Up top, the mist soaks the rocks and the trees, building a narrow strip of cool, wet, foggy forest in the middle of a hot, lowland jungle. Nothing else for hundreds of miles has this same environment.

Almost half of the plant species that grow only in this part of northern South America are found inside this one national park. Swifts (small, fast birds) nest in a hidden rock shelf right behind the curtain of falling water. The falls have been a wall to fish for so long that the fish living above the cliff are trapped up there. With nowhere to go, they evolved into species that exist nowhere else. Researchers sampled 28 fish species above the falls. 4 of them live only there, and 6 more may not yet have a name.

Kaieteur sits on a giant slab of ancient rock called the Guiana Shield. It is about 1.7 billion years old, and it is completely separate from the Amazon basin. The river feeding the waterfall (the Potaro) flows east into another river called the Essequibo, which empties into the Atlantic Ocean without ever touching the Amazon. That separation, plus the Shield's age, is the whole reason this frog and these fish and this little patch of cloud forest could evolve here in the first place.

A British surveyor named Charles Barrington Brown was the first European to lay eyes on the falls in 1870. The local Patamona people had known about them for centuries. Take the waterfall away, and most of what lives within a mile of it, the frog included, would have nowhere left on Earth to go.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A mother sperm whale came up from half a mile down with a giant squid still in her mouth. A diver named Ludo caught the whole thing on camera. Nobody had ever filmed this before in human history. That was last September.

A Smithsonian scientist named Michael Vecchione confirmed the species. It was an adult giant squid, an animal so hard to find alive that for a century we mainly knew it from beaks pulled out of dead whales and the occasional body that washed up on a beach.

We have known these two fight for centuries. Sperm whales kept surfacing with large circular marks on their heads that matched the suckers on giant squid arms. Their stomachs were full of squid beaks, the one part of a squid that cannot be digested.

The evidence was everywhere. The event itself had never once been seen.

This hunt happened in complete darkness. The whale was far deeper than any sunlight reaches. She found the squid the way sperm whales always do, by making sounds that bounce off things around her. Her clicks hit 236 decibels. A jet engine runs at about 150. She is the loudest living animal on earth, and those sounds are how she sees in the dark.

Her brain weighs seven kilograms. Five times heavier than yours.

For a sperm whale, this was a routine meal. One whale eats four to eight hundred squid every day. The whole species eats about 110 million tons of squid every year, more than every fishing fleet on earth pulls out of the ocean combined.

In the full uncropped video, you can see her baby swimming right next to her. Sperm whale calves do not go deep on their own. They only dive when their mothers bring them. She was teaching the baby how to hunt. That detail is the one that stayed with me.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Every generation’s slang reveals what they’re starved for.

Boomers said “buddy” and “pal” because male affection had to be disguised as casual. Gen X said “dude” because emotional distance was the whole personality. Millennials said “bro” because closeness was finally allowed but only through irony.

Gen Z says “king” and “queen” because they grew up being ranked by algorithms from age 11. Instagram followers, TikTok views, like counts. When every platform is scoring you, the counter-move is crowning each other. The slang became a micro-validation system running in parallel to the one that’s destroying them.

“Twin” is the most revealing one. In a culture that monetizes uniqueness and rewards differentiation, the highest compliment became “you’re literally me.” That’s not a nickname. That’s a nervous system looking for safety in sameness.

The mattress sizes thing is funny. The pattern underneath is a generation building its own status economy because the default one made them miserable.

[Dieudonne HARAGIRIMANA @diharagirimana]

I just discovered a new idea in the world of grafting.

[shala @imnothing_333]

i dont care anymore

[danonino @labastits]

I have Dany stuff to do

[danonino @labastits]

First name greatest last name ever (middle name mistake)

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

The Pamir Plateau, also known as the "Roof of the World", is a mountainous region located in Central Asia.

[danonino @labastits]

Fear knocked on the door, faith answered, and there was no one there

[𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐮𝐤𝐮𝐧𝐚 ☢ @King_Sukunaaa]

imagine trying to make friends and it gets posted like this

[tiramiseww @winterrmuse]

You're not HER

[danonino @labastits]

I love my mommy so much

[nero @nero_txt]

my plundering ass thought this was a vessel upon the high seas 😭😭

[danonino @labastits]

Just be there now

[danonino @labastits]

Just a two dimensional creature lost in our three dimensional aquatic world, longing for a purpose

[Sami Gold @souljagoyteller]

Do you guys remember that Shirley Temple Golden Collection commercial that played 24/7 on kids TV networks from the early 2000s to the early 2010s? What was that. Who was that advertised for