Christy

Nothing to add here, just lurking untill XShitter will implode indefinitely.

[NASA's Johnson Space Center @NASAJohnson]

Where are you spending your summer days? 🏖️

If you can’t constantly keep your toes in the sand, here are some photos to enjoy as the International @Space_Station orbited approximately 250 miles over popular beach destinations. Do you recognize any of these getaways?

[Joop van Schijndel @joopvs]

Mona Keijzer bij WNL op zondag: Als je een smartphone hebt kun je geen vluchteling zijn. Hoe diep kunt u zakken mevrouw Keijzer om uw populistische achterban te bedienen? Ik denk dat u niet slim bent maar wel sluw. Een gemene manier van opruien.

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

Burrowing Owls photographed by Peter G. Arnold

[Jeremy London @SirJeremyLondon]

The first time I saw one of these I impulsively started to cry. In a weird moment of awe and wonder, I was so grateful to exist in a world where this amazing creature exists. I do believe there’s more beauty here than ugliness. Maybe I’m a fool, but if a leafy sea dragon is possible… anything is possible.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Leafy seadragon.. 😊

[Kevin → Plant Daddy @KevinEspiritu]

Today I traveled to a small mountain town in Japan to learn a dying art (literally): natural indigo dyeing...

Most "indigo" today is synthetically derived. A chemically identical blue molecule, brewed in a factory from petroleum, reduced with industrial chemicals...

It's MUCH cheaper than natural indigo and you're probably wearing it right now in your pair of jeans.

Natural indigo is something else. It's aliiiiive...

The dye starts in the leaves of the indigo plant as a colorless compound called indican. The leaves get composted and fermented for months into a dark mass called sukumo

That goes into a vat with wood ash, wheat bran, sometimes sake. The ash makes the solution highly alkaline and bran and sake feeds it. Why? The vat is a living culture. Microbes do the work that factories do with chemicals...

I decided to attempt a "double gradient" with a nice cut of of cotton cloth. First, I hooked it to a wooden contraption that allowed me to dip it evenly into the solution...

I dipped and pulled it out and it wasn't blue. It was green. In the vat the indigo is in its dissolved form, "white indigo," and it comes out looking yellow-green...

Then you rinse off the solution and in a few seconds, the green crawls into blue right in front of you. That's oxygen bonding to the molecule and turning it back to true indigo, now locked into the fibers

Dip. Rinse, Oxidize, Repeat. Each cycle goes darker. I dipped each side 7 times, carefully planning the dip length and depth to create a beautiful gradient effect

It came out amazing for my first attempt and more importantly I learned yet another amazing process that's slowly being lost to the sands of time

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I don't know why any of you haters are surprised I'm the one actually engaging here.

You're the ones who've obsessively pored over the 10,000 photos, the 30,000 text messages, and the 128,000 emails from my hacked iCloud and stolen devices.

If I am anything, I am prolific.

You know what you won't find? Any of the most heinous, hateful things you keep posting about me.

What you'll find from me here is the same thing you found there.

Total transparency. Finally on my terms. Not yours.

[Anime Aesthetics @anime_]

Hayao Miyazaki giving his cat a lecture

[Jessica Meir @Astro_Jessica]

There is a lot going on right now on the @Space_Station, but fortunately we are all safe and witnessed a spectacular southern aurora show yesterday thanks to a recent solar event.

[Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunt]

Remember.
June 6th 1944.

[Cindy de Nijs @CiNNeR_]

Er is meer. Van hem kwam de mondkapjes werken niet. Verpleegkundigen weten niet hoe ze hun werk moeten doen. Hij was de bejaardenhuizen vergeten. Carnaval vier je in kleine groepjes. Kinderen besmetten elkaar buiten op de fiets maar niet in de klas. Onjuist en onwetenschappelijk.

[Christy @mswickedtwitty]

@SchaapmanKarina Van harte gefeliciteerd!

[AriannadaTodi @AriannadaTodi]

Oggi è la giornata mondiale dei gatti medievali brutti.

[Tatiana Walk-Morris @Tati_WM]

For the love of God, bring back fact-checkers. Bring back copy editors. Bring back public editors. Bring back standards. Everybody tighten TF up.

[Bert Mulder @BertMulderCWZ]

Hoe is het mogelijk dat Jaap van Dissel
3 uur lang over het begin van de pandemie is ondervraagd zonder dat er ook maar 1 vraag is gesteld over de illusie van groepsimmuniteit als basis voor de bestrijding terwijl de WHO dat in 2020 onethisch en geen optie noemt?

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I see your profile picture. That’s Johnny Cash. My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668 amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did. Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them.

That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving.

You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.

[Jippeke 🍉🧙‍♀️🍀 @Monstergoldie]

Krankzinnig. In Italië lagen de lijken in de kerk en werd de ene na de andere doodsklok geluid, maar toen Corona in Brabant was ‘speelde het virus zich onder de radar af’. Aangekomen in Nederland was COVID-19 minder erg? Minder dodelijk? Wat? #PECorona

[SamvanSeerenberg @SamvanSeeren]

Mevrouw @ingridmichon van de @VVD: het is niet netjes om van bestaande ernstig zieken, en volledig arbeidsongeschikten -20% inkomen af te pakken. Wat is daar netjes aan? Ze hebben al 25% en meer ingeleverd he? #VVD 🤥 #D66 #CDA @2eKamertweets