Sue Moffitt

Currently 'follow' the grandkids ! Grew up in Kimberley cyclones & wildlife.

[Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue]

A breathtaking tribute to Master Hongyi (1880–1942), modern China's iconic monk, artist, and poet. Sculpted by Tian Guoran (2022), the figure beautifully emerges from the raw tree itself—half carved, half untouched wood. 🪵✨

[Sue Moffitt @mofsu]

@Chronocivilis @TheProjectUnity Perhaps the Roman gods were also just some ancestral actual pivotal people at some distant point in the long past, who became mythologised over time as a cultural memory

[mary poppins @ozgal1965]

Labor’s wasted $700k on a bubble curtain - saving the giant cuttle fish

It was built around a small, specific strip of the breeding reef at Point Lowly to shield stationary eggs.
The Adults Swam Into the Danger Zone and died

Cuttlefish only spend a few months at Whyalla to breed. The rest of the year, they migrate out into the wider, open waters of the Spencer Gulf to feed.
Because the toxic bloom has lingered extensively along the broader South Australian coastline, the cuttlefish were exposed to the toxins out in the open gulf long before they ever could make it back to breed
The curtain was completely useless against this because it could only protect the empty breeding ground, not the migratory route

Scientists and communities share the frustration that the project was reactive crisis management rather than solving the root problem.
Authorities built the curtain as a last-resort shield for the next generation (the eggs), admitting they had no viable way to filter or clean the open ocean for the adult population.
The Current Devastation: Local operators, like the Whyalla Dive Shop, have had to cancel their entire seasons. With only a few dozen skittish cuttlefish spotted so far, the community is bearing the direct emotional and economic brunt of a systemic environmental failure and labor’s wasted $700k on tax payers money that failed to save any cuttlefish - let’s not forget the bubble curtain was never turned on either.
It was a political event to make it look like Labor were doing something.

@GLH_books

[mary poppins @ozgal1965]

Several tour operators have decided to cancel this year’s giant cuttlefish tours because only a few have arrived so far.
Last I saw there was 8 that arrived last week.
By this time of year, there are normally Tens of thousands but sadly that hasn’t happened this season.

We all know the reason: the babies that hatched last year didn’t survive. We all saw their cuttlebones wash up in the thousands along the Yorke Peninsula.

It’s a sad blow for Whyalla’s tourism industry and devastating for the giant cuttlefish themselves.

With the millions of toxins over in EP right now ,
even if some tried to make the journey they would have died along the way..

I’m
Still hoping they will arrive in the next week .. 🙏🙏
@GLH_books

[Backpirch Weather @BackpirchCrew]

The Earth just experienced FOUR significant earthquakes in a single day.

First, it was a Magnitude 5.6 in California’s Redwood Valley.

Then, 7 hours later, a devastating “double” quake inflicted massive destruction in northern Venezuela. The first one at Magnitude 7.2, followed by an even larger Magnitude 7.5 only 39 SECONDS later.

Finally, a mere 25 minutes after the Venezuela twins, a Magnitude 6.9 marine earthquake struck offshore of Kuji, Japan.

Very rare to see this much seismic activity across the globe in such a short period of time.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Terrifying footage shows a Venezuelan man rushing down the stairs of his building during the earthquakes.

Cracks can be seen in the staircase as the structure shakes around him.

[Sue Moffitt @mofsu]

@Graham__Hancock I am so glad to hear your news, and that you are with your family and recovering well. I have been rereading Fingerprints of the Gods waiting to hear how you have been going.

[Sue Moffitt @mofsu]

Looking forward to it in the South

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

'In June, when the jewel climbs up
highest in the year into the heavens,
brightest of stars...
At that time the fairest of lights
likes to gaze longer upon the earth,
to move more slowly across the meadows.'

Anglo-Saxon writers on the summer solstice: https://t.co/koxgcemjp7

[Norann Voll @NorannV]

Beautiful winter solstice here in the northern tablelands: from here on out, more light.

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated.

His name is Qing Li.

He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea.

The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason.

Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005.

He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest.

Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty.

The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected.

The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly.

Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty.

Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month.

Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet.

The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation.

The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall.

When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab.

Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system.

This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress.

A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower.

The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down.

Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks.

They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone.

The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk.

After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature.

What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care.

But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free.

The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish.

Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens.

Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.

[Sue Moffitt @mofsu]

@Graham__Hancock Thank you for all the gifts and insights you have given us in your books, works and new ways of thinking. I look forward to your next book ! All the best for your upcoming operation and wishing you a speedy recovery.

[June Goh @JuneGoh_Sparta]

I used to be in charge of all the crude and product tank inventories in the refinery.

Here is a simple picture of the operating levels of the tank. You've got deadstocks at the bottom of the tank because the pump nozzle is positioned slightly above a certain level. We used to call this 'the unpumpables'. Go below this level and your feed pump would cavitate. Big no-no.

Then you get a minimum working level after catering for contingency levels (e.g. enough product stocks to cater for x days of unplanned shutdown).

And although you have a huge tank that can technically fill to the brim, the actual working volume at the top is lower than the absolute max to also factor in for contingency levels (e.g. enough capacity to store off-spec rundown for an unplanned shutdown). Tank top scenario is a horror nobody wants to face due to risk of loss of primary containment (i.e. a safety incident).

In the current low stocks environment in the US, you are going to 'scrape tank bottoms', up to the minimum working level. So you will always have some stocks because you can't draw to absolute zero.

#oott

[Sparta @SpartaCommo]

Beijing is drawing SPR, redirecting refinery yields, and keeping crude available for the rest of Asia.

The byproduct: 5 mb/d freed up for the world. @NGCanalyst on Trade with Conviction.

Full episode in the comments 👇

#oott #crudeoil #oiltrading #commoditytrading

[June Goh @JuneGoh_Sparta]

We are heading back to the days of black-and-white. Depressing.

[Sandy Horne @SandyHorne61]

Pildappa Rock, Eyre Peninsula.

[Sandy Horne @SandyHorne61]

A rock parrot ... on a rock!
Louth Bay, Eyre Peninsula.

[Music Jim 🎩🪄 @MusicJim2]

John Williams 🎩🪄 Main Title from Star Wars: A New Hope 🎬

Performed with the Wiener Philharmoniker.

May the Fourth be with you ✨

#StarWarsDay

[Turbine Traveller @Turbinetraveler]

Circled in red are the United B767-424(ER) main landing gear tires just above the bakery truck.

[GANDI @GandiiSol]

@TheInsiderPaper @grok whats the drivers name