To my friends in the media:
This is a time of high drama, I agree. But while you gossip endlesly about who's in and who's out, you have almost entirely ignored the Public Order Bill that was passed in the Commons this week: the most draconian legislation of the modern era.
One of the strongest typhoons to make landfall in Japan 🇯🇵 is happening right now.
Emergency flood warnings in force with 4,000,000 people told to evacuate their homes.
2 million people in southwestern Japan have been ordered to evacuate today ahead of Monster Typhoon Nanmadol. 500 mm of rain and wind gusts of up to 250 km/h are expected. So much energy in the system - This is a new world - a new climate.
There are no plants in this picture.
pink: orchid mantis
brown: ghost mantis
dark green: hooded mantis
light green: leaf insect
grey: cat-eyed mantis
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Kallima inachus, the orange oakleaf, is a butterfly found in Tropical Asia. With wings closed, it closely resembles a dry leaf with dark veins and is a spectacular and commonly cited example of camouflage https://t.co/Gni6zCMGpn [source of the gif: https://t.co/RSSUeIGwJx]
Normally, the Atacama Desert in Chile, receives less than 12 mm of rain a year. However in the years when rainfall is unusually high, between September and November, this can happen. It's called «desierto florido» [read more: https://t.co/6fnXePD94X] [📸https://t.co/XfYLsERXx1]
Perhaps we’re too busy racing furiously towards a non existent finish line, towards the next novel development, to realise that we’ve gone off track altogether.
Technology has become a hedonistic fantasy which knows no end. One which has lost sight of its ‘why’. Unnecessary “tools” created in the race for an unquenchable thirst for novelty. #morning#meditation#musing
It would be naive to pretend that technology hasn’t drastically improved the world as we know it. Of course it has. The fact I can share these words worldwide in seconds is just one example. But it’s important to question; what’s the end goal? Where is it all headed? Why?
Knowledge of the mind vs knowledge of the heart: Many of us “know” the most righteous way to live; how best to act, communicate, and exist in the world. However, until we truly “know” with our hearts, as well as our minds, it is impossible to embody that knowledge in our being