Marc

[Life Science @LifeScience_X]

Look at your hand differently.

[Astronomy Vibes @AstronomyVibes]

"We are made of starstuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself" and "The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars".

-Carl Sagan

[Proverbs & Poetry @poetryproverb]

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

— Steve McQueen

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”

—Plato

[Conor McGregor @TheNotoriousMMA]

JAMES 1:3 JAMES 1:3 JAMES 1:3

[The Secret @thesecret]

If you are just a little bit grateful, your life will change just a little bit. If you are very grateful, your life will change A LOT.

[Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ]

“The desert teaches you more about water than the ocean ever could.”

- Marcus Aurelius

[Words of Wise | Mindset Coach @Wordofwise_]

“When you're dead, you don't know you're dead. The pain is felt by others.
The same thing happens when you're stupid.”

— Ricky Gervais

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

“The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.”

— Aristotle

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

You’re standing on a planet with molten lava at its core. Trees are turning sunlight into air you can breathe. Your heart is beating without you asking it to. There’s a moon in the sky and bugs that glow. This whole thing is absurdly beautiful. Don’t forget to notice it.

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

"Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

[Philosway @philosway]

“People have beautiful things to say about you, but you must die first.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

[BLAIM GAME @BLAIMGame]

“We asked 48m voters ‘What would make you vote for Labour again’

You said - Gordon Brown

If it’s up there I’ll give you the money myself”

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Imagine being a Palaeolithic human.

You spend three days tracking a mammoth across frozen tundra. Risk your life with a sharpened stick. Finally bring the thing down. Crack open the skull for the brain fat. Shatter the femurs for marrow. Carve off the fatty cuts and feed the family.

And all the while, according to modern dietetics, you are slowly poisoning yourself with the deadliest food known to mankind.

But you keep doing it. For 2.5 million years. Generation after generation. Because you are, apparently, thick as mince. Just an absolute imbecile, refusing to forage for the wholegrain oats and chickpeas that the Guardian health section will one day recommend.

Strange thing happens though.

Your brain triples in size on all that deadly saturated fat. You develop language. You invent tools. You domesticate fire, then animals, then crops you didn't even need. You build cities. Cathedrals. Symphonies. Mathematics. You sail across oceans on hunches. You map the stars. You split the atom. You walk on the moon.

All while, we're told, slowly killing yourself with the exact food that powered every single one of those achievements.

Two and a half million years of suicide and you still managed to invent the wheel, the printing press, penicillin, and the internal combustion engine.

Then a man in a lab coat in 1977 looks at some flawed data, points at a steak, and says: "Actually, lads. You've been doing it wrong this whole time."

Evolution is wild.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The British Vitamin D problem is not new.

Britain sits between 50 and 58 degrees north. London is on the same latitude as Calgary. Edinburgh is level with Moscow. From October to March, the sun does not rise high enough above the horizon for the UVB wavelength your skin needs to actually reach the ground. You can stand naked in February noon sunlight on the south coast and produce essentially zero vitamin D.

This is six months of the year, every year, for the entire history of human habitation on these islands.

The British have known this, in their bones, for ten thousand years.

Look at what was eaten in winter, before anyone had ever heard the term cholecalciferol:

Oily fish. Herring, mackerel, sprats, kippers. Three or four times a week from October to March. A single kipper carries roughly 250 IU of D3.

Cod liver oil. Spooned into every British child between 1850 and 1980, a teaspoon at a time. Distributed free by the Ministry of Food in the war on the explicit understanding that British children needed it through the dark months. Rickets fell by 90 per cent between 1940 and 1960. Cod liver oil was the reason.

Liver. Eaten weekly in working households until 1985.

Egg yolks from hens that had been outside in the summer.

Grass-fed butter, made from cream from cows on summer pasture, the fat-soluble vitamins banked into the cream and eaten through the winter.

The British solution to the British problem, evolved over centuries by people who could not articulate the biochemistry but knew, with absolute certainty, what kept the children growing through the dark months.

Then between 1955 and 2010, the British removed almost all of them.

Cod liver oil reduced to a niche supplement. Liver dropped from weekly to never. Oily fish consumption halved. Eggs rationed by the Department of Health on cholesterol grounds since retracted. Butter replaced with margarine carrying no fat-soluble vitamins at all.

Result, by 2020: roughly half of all British adults are vitamin D deficient by the end of winter. A third of children. Rickets has reappeared in British paediatric wards. The NHS now recommends every adult take a supplement from October to March.

This is the NHS recommending in 2026 what the British diet was doing automatically in 1926.

The geography has not changed. The latitude is the same. The sun is still inadequate from October.

The food used to handle it.

The kippers are still being smoked at Craster. The cod liver oil is on the chemist's shelf. The liver is at the butcher. The butter is in the dairy aisle, behind the spreads.

The sun was always seasonal.

The food was the backup.

The backup got thrown out.

Get it back.

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

"Our distancing ourselves from people doesn't signify hatred or change. Isolation is the homeland of weary souls."

—Ernest Hemingway

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The global financial system is running a controlled demolition of fiat currency purchasing power and almost everyone in it knows but nobody is allowed to say it out loud.

The numbers in this chart are not a warning sign that something is about to go wrong. They are evidence that something has already gone wrong and the response is to keep the appearance of normalcy by issuing more debt every year regardless of conditions. The 2026 numbers are not a forecast of an upcoming crisis. They are the operating procedure of a system that is already in crisis but has chosen to manage it through gradual erosion rather than acute correction.

Every central banker knows this. Every treasury official knows this. Every senior financial executive knows this. They cannot say it because saying it would accelerate the thing they are trying to prevent. The system depends on confidence in the currency. If the people running the system publicly acknowledge that the currency is being systematically debased to manage debt obligations that cannot be paid in real terms, confidence collapses faster. So they manage the debasement quietly while publicly maintaining that everything is fine.

This is the actual social contract of late stage fiat. The people running the system know what they are doing. They know it produces a wealth transfer from savers to asset holders, from wage earners to capital owners, from the middle class to the wealthy. They do it anyway because the alternative is worse. The alternative is acute crisis, banking collapses, sovereign defaults, and political upheaval that could end the system entirely. Slow debasement is the lesser evil from their perspective. They choose it knowingly and they refuse to discuss it publicly because public discussion would prevent it from working.

The middle class is being quietly liquidated to keep the system functioning.

That is not a controversial statement among people who actually understand monetary policy. It is the operating reality. The wealth that the post war American middle class accumulated through wages and home ownership is being slowly transferred to asset holders through inflation and debt expansion. The mechanism is invisible to most people because it operates through the gradual reduction in purchasing power rather than through any visible confiscation. But the effect is the same. The middle class gets poorer in real terms every year while the wealthy get richer in real terms every year.

This chart is one more piece of evidence of the mechanism running.

The wealthy understand this and position accordingly. They hold scarce and productive assets. They borrow at low rates to buy more of those assets. The debt they hold gets inflated away while the assets they hold appreciate in real terms. The math is simple and it produces the wealth concentration that everyone notices but few people understand the mechanism behind.

The mechanism is the monetary system.

It is designed to transfer wealth from those who hold currency to those who hold assets.

That is the function. Not a bug.

[Universe Vibe @universevibe_]

Read this slowly

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

Modern man has forgotten that most of his problems aren't new and have already been solved. He just needs to read the great works of the past to find those solutions.

12 old books that will help you overcome any obstacle...

[Gitana @Gitana1369877]

"Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most." — Buddha