Samuli Björkling

Finnish manga artist (#Vartijat4), advocate of Uralic languages and a steamy tamperelainen 🇫🇮🇸🇪🇫🇷🇧🇪🇪🇪🇯🇵🌍

[Samuli Björkling @mistersopuli]

#Vartijat4 posteri 1

[Ian Mac Eochagáin 🇮🇱🇺🇦 @maceochi]

Suomeksi ”toinen käsi ei tiedä, mitä toinen tekee”.

[Declaration of Memes @LibertyCappy]

What is the greatest movie of your childhood?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Humans set this mountain on fire every February, and they've done it for 700 years. That fire is the only reason it looks like this.

Ōmuroyama is a scoria cone that erupted exactly once, about 4,000 years ago, then went permanently silent. The eruption lasted long enough to pour lava 4 kilometers to the sea, build the entire Jōgasaki Coast, and stack this perfect 580-meter cone. Then nothing, ever again. Geologists call it a monogenetic volcano. One shot, one shape.

Left alone, that shape would vanish. Shrubs and trees would colonize the slopes within decades, roots would break up the smooth profile, and in a century you'd have an ordinary forested hill indistinguishable from the ones behind it.

So every second Sunday of February, the town of Itō burns the whole thing. Crater first, then a ring of fire lit at the base that races to the summit in about 30 minutes. The burn kills every woody seedling while the grass roots survive underground and regrow, and those roots armor the slope against rain and typhoons. The practice started 700 years ago to harvest thatch for roofs. The thatched houses are gone. The fire never stopped.

Walking on it is banned. You take a chairlift up, loop the 1 km crater rim, and ride back down. Japan designated it a national natural monument in 2020, which makes it official: a landform preserved in its natural state by burning it to the ground once a year.

Ancient volcano, kept looking ancient by 700 years of scheduled arson.

[Esse @DetectivEsse]

Legends games really got some of the best UIs both visually and gameplay-wise in this whole series I love the contrast between them

You can really tell one game is in the distant past and one is in the present but technologically advanced

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

How giraffe coat patterns differ across Africa.

Not all giraffes have the same coat pattern. Across Africa, different populations developed distinct markings that often reveal where they come from. Reticulated giraffes have large geometric patches outlined by bright white lines, while Masai giraffes are known for their irregular, jagged spots. Other populations, including Rothschild’s, Angolan, West African, and South African giraffes, each have their own recognizable pattern.

These differences evolved over thousands of years as geography limited contact between populations. Rivers, deserts, forests, and vast distances allowed giraffes to develop unique appearances through genetics and natural selection. While no two giraffes share the exact same pattern, each population has a distinctive regional style. Modern genetic research even suggests that giraffes may represent several separate species rather than a single one.

[Brilliant Maps @BrilliantMaps]

The Brandt Line is a famous world map concept from the 1980s that divides the globe into the “Global North” and the “Global South.” It was created by Willy Brandt, a German politician, to highlight global inequality.

🔹 Above the line = Wealthier, more industrialized countries (North America, Europe, Japan, Australia, etc.)

🔹 Below the line = Less economically developed countries (much of Latin America, Africa, and Asia)

The idea wasn’t about geography alone, it was about economic differences, showing how resources, wealth, and development were unevenly distributed across the world.

However, it has some pretty serious flaws.

More about the concept: https://t.co/sJydZZ1CvN

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Graph of the first nine harmonics and an x-ray of a conch shell's inner structure

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

This Japanese restaurant logo is simultaneously a Japanese crane and a hand holding chopsticks.

[Dr. Kohan🏛🏛🏛 @kohantoys]

Hermosas infografías de @lavanguardia acerca de la Sagrada Familia, buena información y buenos dibujos. En esta época de falopa IA, es lindo ver diagramas claros y precisos.

[Xplora @XploraSpace]

☀️🌍 Aujourd’hui, 21 juin, c’est le solstice de juin. L’hémisphère Nord atteint son inclinaison maximale vers le Soleil, ce qui en fait le jour le plus long de l’année. Dans l’hémisphère sud, c’est l’inverse, avec le jour le plus court de l’année.

[La Sagrada Família @sagradafamilia]

Aquest diumenge hem gaudit d'una cercavila de cultura popular per celebrar la finalització de la torre de Jesús i la commemoració del centenari de la mort d'Antoni Gaudí. Diverses colles de la ciutat i del barri han omplert de vida la ciutat i hem celebrat una veritable festa de commemoració col·lectiva. 🙌

[R.Suguri @Rsuguri_]

先日、遂に完成してしまったサグラダファミリア

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Architect Antoni Gaudí designed the Sagrada Família so that its central Tower of Jesus Christ would rise prominently above the basilica, while remaining lower than the mountain of Montjuïc out of respect for God's creation, reflecting his belief that no human achievement should surpass the work of the Creator.

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

No AI. Just human ingenuity for the divine

With the blessing of Pope Leo XIV, this was the breathtaking inauguration of the Jesus Christ Tower at Sagrada Família.

A magnificent tribute to Antoni Gaudí on the 100th anniversary of his death

[Seida Sohrabi @SeidaSohrabi]

Tästä syystä Suomi on maailman parhaimpia maita maailmassa 🇫🇮

Sananvapaus, oikeusvaltio, ihmisoikeudet, tasa-arvo, puhdas luonto ja vapaus elää omanlaista elämää ilman sortoa eivät ole itsestäänselvyyksiä. Ei varsinkaan valtiottomille kurdeille ☀️

[La Sagrada Família @sagradafamilia]

We see the tower of Jesus Christ illuminated for the first time!
The light show, starting from the base up to the illumination of the cross, culminated with a composition of lights guided by drones that traced the figure of Gaudí and the phrase “first love, then technique”.

[Rosarinn @rosarinn]

🇻🇦サグラダ・ファミリアの完成予想AI

そうか...栄光のファサード（正面玄関）はこうなるのか...

via Arch_AI

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

The choir in the Sagrada Família is putting on the performance of a lifetime.

The vocals perfectly complement the stunning visuals of Gaudí’s cathedral!

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Barcelona, you win. Sagrada Família. Just incredible.

Watch the whole thing with the sound on

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Antoni Gaudí looking on the completed and blessed Tower of Jesus Christ in approval.

Well done, Barcelona!