Christ, who said to the disciples "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you," can truly say to every group of Christian friends "You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another."
#CSLewis
Over New York Harbor, 2,977 drones lit up the sky in the shape of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers — one drone for each victim of the September 11 attacks.
Leeteuk is so kind, he not only came up to the railing to take a picture with the fan, but also had the patience to take a good picture. My idol is kind, humble, and loving. You're the best! @special1004#이특#Leeteuk#利特#イトゥク#朴正洙
Cr: the owner.
The biggest cheat code is to stop complaining and blaming. You’re giving your power away. Take ownership. Develop some agency. It may not be your fail but it is your responsibility. The best way to improve your life is to stop that shit and use that energy to improve your life.
friendly reminder:
you can start anytime.
you can brush your teeth in the middle of the day. you can wash the dishes at 2am. you can do things outside the normal times assigned by society.
#OTD in 1995, @NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day made its first post. With a new image each day, its archive is now the largest collection of annotated astronomical images on the internet. Do you have a favorite post? Check them all out here: https://t.co/FDhYwbOgCE
Houston, prepare for Earth joy!🌎
Today NASA announced the crew for the Artemis III mission, which will fly in low Earth orbit.
They’ll demonstrate rendezvous and docking capabilities with commercial human landing systems, a critical step in our return to the lunar surface.
Introducing Artemis III.
Four astronauts. Three launches. Two dockings. One splashdown.
In 2027, the Artemis III mission will practice docking the Orion spacecraft with two lunar landers in low Earth orbit — the capability we need to return humanity to the Moon’s surface.
A celestial meet-cute! 🥰
Have you seen Jupiter & Venus shining in the west after sunset? On June 9th, they'll be very close together in a planetary conjunction—when two planets appear near each other in the sky (even though they're still millions of miles apart in space).
Myth: "I only wear vegan fabrics. Better for the animals, better for the planet."
Let's check in on Doris's annual contribution.
Once a year, in late spring, Doris is sheared. The procedure takes approximately three minutes. Doris does not enjoy it. Doris does not, by any visible measure, suffer from it. Doris is, immediately afterwards, a noticeably more comfortable animal in the British summer.
The fleece weighs approximately 3 kilograms. It is sold to the British Wool Marketing Board for, depending on the year, between £0.40 and £2.50 per kilogram. The shearing costs more than the wool fetches. Brian is shearing Doris at a loss.
The wool is then:
- Naturally flame-retardant
- Naturally antibacterial
- Moisture-wicking
- Biodegradable
- Renewable, annually
- Carbon-storing while in use
The replacement, in performance fabrics:
- Polyester
- Polyamide
- Acrylic
- Polypropylene
- All petroleum-derived
- All shedding microplastics on every wash
- All requiring fossil fuel inputs to produce
- All non-biodegradable, with a typical landfill lifespan of 200-500 years
A single wash of a polyester fleece can release up to 700,000 microplastic fibres into the water system. These fibres are now in: every tested water source on earth, every tested human placenta, every tested rainfall sample, the deep ocean, the Arctic ice, and the lungs of marine mammals.
A single wash of a wool jumper releases: nothing. The wool, when eventually disposed of, returns to soil within a few years.
The fabric being marketed as the "ethical" alternative to wool is plastic.
The plastic is "ethical" because nobody has been asked to slaughter the polymer.
The polymer also has not been asked.
Doris, by being a sheep on a fell, is producing the most thoroughly sustainable performance fabric humans have ever made.
Brian is selling it at a loss.
The fashion industry, meanwhile, is selling petroleum at a profit and calling it ethical.
Reject plastic. Wear wool.
Doris is, this morning, growing next year's batch.
Soon... full moon!
The next full moon will light the night skies on Sunday, May 31. If you've ever wanted to take a great picture of the Moon, check out our Lunar Photography Guide for tips and tricks: https://t.co/wp8uMt6pVP
Just FYI, when you prepare food ahead of time it develops histamine more and more each day. So if you have a bunch of food in the fridge that you eat throughout the week and you dont feel well after you eat, that's why
High-functioning ADHD is replying to messages, meeting deadlines, making people laugh, showing up on time, and looking completely fine while your mind quietly burns itself alive behind the scenes. It’s becoming so good at masking the chaos that nobody notices how close you are to shutting down.
People praise you for being “disciplined” because they never see the hours lost frozen in bed, the exhaustion after basic tasks, the constant war inside your own head just to function normally. You learn to perform stability so well that your suffering becomes invisible. And the darkest part is eventually realizing nobody is coming to notice the difference between “coping” and “surviving.”