Eva H

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Kingfishers dive at 25–40 km/h, hitting the water with pinpoint precision.

[Robert E Fuller @RobertEFuller]

Kingfishers take the egg shells out once the chicks have hatched🥚 This one has six more to go !

🎥To film this secretive behaviour in colour, I trialled fine lights made by @Adaptalux

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

This octopus is a master of camouflage.

[Kathrin Henneberger @KathrinAnna]

Lebwohl Bundestag, hallo Klima APO. Farewell Parliament. Hello climate movement. (English below)

Für mich hat es leider für einen Wiedereinzug knapp nicht gereicht. Ein fettes Danke an alle, die in den letzten Wochen so hart gekämpft haben und herzlichen Glückwunsch an alle (außer den Faschisten) die es wieder ins Parlament geschafft haben.

Die letzten drei Jahre konnte ich trotz den Widerständen sehr viel für Klimagerechtigkeit erreichen. Angefangen beim Kohleausstieg, der Rettung von fünf Dörfern, dem Ausstieg aus dem Energy Charter Treaty, dem Entstehen des Loss And Damage Fonds, dem Umschichten von hunderten Millionen im Bundeshaushalt für Klima und Biodiv… und der Unterstützung von Klimaaktivistis in anderen Regionen der Welt, gegen fossilen Extraktivismus und für Menschenrechte und Umweltschutz.

Vielleicht sollte ich ein Buch schreiben: Klimaaktivisti im Bundestag, kann das gut gehen?!

Unfortunately, I did not manage to be re-elected to the German parliament. This means that some groups and activists will receive less of the protection and support that I was able to give as an MP. I am very sorry about that. Please keep in touch so that I can support in other ways. The fight for climate justice continues. The climate movement is urgently needed.

[Anna Bahr @anna_bahr]

In the middle of winter in Omaha tonight, @BernieSanders spoke to 2,400 working class Nebraskans.

We were forced to turn away 800 people at the door.

More than 130,000 tuned into the livestream in real time.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I have a message for Trump supporters:

First, focus not on what he says, but what he does.

Second, if you believe in the Constitution, you cannot support the richest guy in the world unilaterally cutting programs that were authorized by Congress.

[Sismo Astronomy @sismoastronomy]

Big one is coming !!!
Another Oarfish on the shore in Mexico. 🚨
They are fish that live in very deep waters, they usually come to the surface due to tectonic activity and announce earthquakes.
#Santorini #έκρηξη #Σαντορίνης #Θήρα #σεισμός #Θήρα #Αθήνα #BreakingNews‌ #έκτακτεςειδήσεις
#EarthquakePH #Sondakika #Sismo
#earthquakes #deprem #terromoto #σεισμός #izmir #Emsc #kandilli #Anss #Usgs #krdae #Csem

[Ingwar Perowanowitsch @Perowinger94]

Korrektur: Es werden sogar 150 neue Bäume gepflanzt. Nicht 90. Zumindest ist die Quelle mit 150 aktueller.
https://t.co/O6bNSA5bUe

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Doctor Irving Finkel holds a 3770 year old tablet containing god Enki's conversation with Sumerian king Atram-Hasis (Noah's figure in earlier versions of flood story) and instructions on how to build an ark for him. Noah's ark was first described as round boat with diameter of 220ft.

Irving Finkel, an english Philologist and Assyriologist. He is Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in Department of Middle East in British Museum, where he specialises in cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia. Irving Finkel is the curator from central casting, where he is in charge of museum's 130,000 clay tablets, he looks after its collection of board games and has made it a personal crusade to preserve old diaries. Since a lifetime spent examining clay tablets of ancient Mesopotamia has left him seemingly unaffected by the cares of the workaday world. He has spent 20 years investigating one that challenges the story of Noah and the flood...

"The man who is tired of tablets is tired of life," he announces in his delightful new book, The Ark Before Noah, which sets out to demonstrate that the biblical flood narrative was derived from stories that had been embedded in Sumerian and Babylonian society and literature for thousands of years. The book revolves around a clay tablet dating from about 1800 BC with 60 lines of cuneiform (tiny, wedge-shaped script on tablets), which relate part of the flood story. Finkel first encountered this "Ark tablet" almost 30 years ago when a member of the public brought it to show him. He has spent past 20 years translating the text and putting it in the context of other flood literature, and is now ready to unveil it to the world. This is in the form of his book and a Channel 4 documentary, shows building the ark to specifications on Finkel's tablet to see if it floats.

Finkel's bombshell and the point of the Channel 4 programme – is that he reckons original ark was round. "The fact that the ark was round is the headline finding," he says. "It's something nobody in the world had anticipated because everybody knows what Noah's ark looked like." All those pictures of oblong, multi-decked boats that look like neat country cottages will have to be redrawn.

The mobile phone-sized ark tablet is housed in a posh-looking red box with "Instructions on the Building of the Ark" written on it. Finkel takes tablet out of the box and lets me hold it – a chance to commune with the ghosts of ancient Mesopotamia. I manage not to drop it. As well as casting new light on the shape of the original ark, it also contains the first written allusion to the animals "going in two by two". In book, he describes unearthing this reference on the broken, weathered tablet with its worn-out wedges as his "biggest shock in 44 years of grappling with difficult lines in cuneiform tablets ... I nearly fell off my chair." He is good at conveying the excitement of academic discoveries, a television natural.

He could have written up his findings in an academic tome that would have pleased his peers, but he has instead produced a digressive, amusing, personal book for the general reader, a book that is willing to ask big questions – such as how did Babylonian ark story find its way into the Bible? – and make the odd educated guess. "There's very little in existence that helps people with this subject. Mostly we're orientated to make it seem forbidding and difficult."

"When I first wrote the book I did it feeling that all my colleagues were going to read it and they'd be saying [puts on whispery academic voice] 'I rather doubt ...' But when I wrote the second draft, I suddenly had this brilliant idea that I would forget my colleagues existed and write for everybody else, which was very liberating. It meant I could speak with my real voice." In the book, Finkel explains his own route into Assyriology and his continuing love affair with the subject.

British Museum

#archaeohistories

[Kein Bock Auf Nazis @KeinBockAufNazi]

Auf der Straße 24.000 Menschen bei der Demo in Bochum, in der Luft mehr als 200 Drohnen von uns!
Nächste Woche alle wählen gehen. Scheiß AfD, Scheiß Rechtsruck! 💪

Danke an das tolle Team von @flyingstars.art für die Umsetzung.
#stabilbleiben #fckafd #keinbockaufnazis

[Max  @__maxnum__]

Ein so unglaublich starkes Kampagnenvideo von Frauen gegen Merz! ❤️

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Watch moment man is swallowed by humpback whale https://t.co/60qvOCyWYo

[Irene @irene_makarenko]

⭕️#Greece. After the earthquakes on #Santorini, 11,000 people left the island with a population of 15,500. 5 thousand remained...

The land level has risen by ab. 40 cm, revealing the old Street of the Kings in the ancient city of Myndos. It had been under the sea 2,000 years🙄

[🎼 sedrul @sedrul08]

#HappyFriday
(Picasso)

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Elon Musk, the richest guy in the world, is going after USAID, which feeds the poorest people in the world.

Next, he’ll go after the programs that impact you: Medicaid, Medicare, community health centers, Pell Grants, affordable housing.

We can stop him.

[Sismo Astronomy @sismoastronomy]

Big one is coming !
Oarfish on the shore in Santorini.
They are fish that live in very deep waters, they usually come to the surface due to tectonic activity and announce earthquakes.
#Θήρα #σεισμός #Αθήνα #BreakingNews‌ #έκτακτεςειδήσεις
#Earthquake #Sondakikahaber
#deprem

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

The world’s richest man has decided that the world’s richest country shouldn't help some of the world’s poorest people.

This is blatantly illegal. An unelected billionaire cannot simply shut down federal agencies authorized by Congress at will.

[Kathrin Henneberger @KathrinAnna]

📢 Volle Solidarität mit eurem Streik! ✊🚍🚆

Heute streikt @verdi in Mönchengladbach für bessere Arbeitsbedingungen im ÖPNV – und ich stehe an eurer Seite!

Ihr seid das Rückgrat der Verkehrswende. Ohne euch gibt es keinen Nahverkehr, keine Mobilitätswende und keinen Klimaschutz. Ihr bringt täglich Millionen Menschen sicher von A nach B – dafür verdient ihr mehr Wertschätzung, bessere Bezahlung und faire Arbeitsbedingungen!

In unserem Wahlprogramm ist klar: Wir setzen uns für bessere Arbeitsbedingungen und gerechte Löhne im Nah- und Fernverkehr ein. Denn nur mit euch gelingt die Verkehrswende!

Solidarische Grüße aus Mönchengladbach 💚✊

#ÖPNVStreik #Solidarität #MehrWertschätzung #Verkehrswende #KlimagerechteMobilität #Verdi

[Mud Wizard 🧙 Mönch von Lützerath @MonchLutzi]

I AM FREEEE 🧙‍♂️
MUD WIZARD IS FREE !
DER MÖNCH VON LÜTZERATH ist nicht im Gefängnis !

After a maximum risk of 5 years' imprisonment for violence against a police officer, today the German state, represented by the public prosecutor, wanted to sentence me to 8 months' imprisonment. But the judge gave me a penalty of €4,200 plus legal costs.

I'm very happy! I hope the prosecutor won't appeal this decision and get stuck in the mud of a longer legal procedure! 1 week of waiting and we'll know!

#MudWizard #Lützerath

[Grundrechtekomitee grundrechtekomitee.bsky.social @grundrechte1]

https://t.co/iU9h90X6hh