Elizabeth Alfieri

[Elizabeth Alfieri @X0xDxD]

@EliasTheKid Proud of you! 🎈

[Elizabeth Alfieri @X0xDxD]

@EliasTheKid Congrats! 🎈

[Elizabeth Alfieri @X0xDxD]

@EliasTheKid You are loved by people you will never meet. I’m sorry for what you went through. Let God love guide you to people who will help you heal.🫶
Your mom didn’t deserve you. You deserve to thrive.

[Elizabeth Alfieri @X0xDxD]

@EliasTheKid joe deemilo sent me…& a bunch of others from YouTube. You Rock, guy! Sending you love and healing.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

A man constructed custom squirrel boxes with internal cameras to observe their behavior inside their nests.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is one of the most famous paintings in the world, yet few people know the story of the woman holding the parasol…

It was painted by Claude Monet in 1875, and she was his wife, Camille, out for a walk with their young son Jean near their home in Argenteuil, just outside Paris. Monet painted them outdoors on a windy day, from below, so that Camille stands against the sky, her veil and dress caught by the wind, looking down at us as if we had just called her name.

It feels less like a moment a husband didn’t want to forget.

Four years later, Camille was gone. After a long illness, she died in September 1879, at just 32. Five days before the end, a priest blessed the marriage she and Monet had made in a simple civil ceremony nine years earlier. And there, at her bedside, the artist did the only thing he knew how to do: he painted her one last time. Years later, he confessed that even then, sitting beside her, he caught himself studying the colors that death was leaving on her face, a moment he never managed to forget.

By then, she had appeared in some fifty of his paintings: in a green silk dress at nineteen, standing at a window, walking through the poppies with their little boy. Without ever meaning to, he had painted the story of her whole life with him.

Monet lived almost fifty more years, but on this canvas it will always be that summer afternoon, with Camille turning to look at him in the wind…

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

Boaters save a seal from orcas

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Little bro is facing an entity 100x his size and chose violence without hesitation. Respect.

[Elizabeth Alfieri @X0xDxD]

@HustleBitch_ It’s him. He has had facial hair for a decade. He’s in his 60s. Calm down.

[TheHouseoftheMuse @HouseoftheMuse_]

Karl does whatever he wants 🤣🐾

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

Few poems describe a gentleman's character better than Kipling's "If—," and few men read it better than Sir Michael Caine.

Have a great Friday.

[Farm Girl Carrie™️👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

In 1943, the Gestapo finally caught Raymond Aubrac, one of France’s most wanted Resistance leaders. The German secret police sentenced him to death, and his execution was only days away.

At the same time, his wife Lucie was six months pregnant with their second child. Most people in her position would have gone into hiding, grieved quietly, and prayed for a miracle.

Lucie Aubrac decided to do something completely different.

She got her hands on forged identity papers, created a believable cover story, and walked straight into the office of Klaus Barbie. History would later remember Barbie as the brutal Butcher of Lyon, but Lucie did not let fear stop her.

She looked him in the eye and successfully convinced him to grant her a final visit with her condemned husband.

But Lucie did not risk her life just to say a tearful goodbye. While she was inside the prison area, she was secretly memorizing the positions of the guards, counting the minutes between patrols, and mapping out the exact route the prison truck would take.

She was treating a desperate situation like a military operation.

On October 21, 1943, that prison truck rolled through the streets of Lyon. It was carrying Raymond and several other prisoners toward what should have been their final destination.

What the German soldiers did not know was that Lucie had spent weeks quietly assembling a dedicated team of Resistance fighters.

She planned an ambush with absolute precision.

When the truck finally reached the chosen ambush spot, her team struck fast, coordinated, and without a single moment of hesitation.

In the middle of the sudden gunfire and chaos, Raymond Aubrac was pulled free from the truck. Lucie, who was visibly and unmistakably pregnant, had organized every single detail of his dramatic liberation.

Right after the rescue, the couple had to go into deep hiding. A few weeks later, Lucie gave birth to their daughter in a secret safe house while German forces searched frantically for them across France. They managed to evade capture until the war ended.

When liberation finally came, the Aubracs did not just try to sit back and recover from their trauma. Instead, they rebuilt their lives and continued to serve their country.

Raymond became a celebrated engineer and entered public life to help rebuild France's infrastructure. Lucie became a respected historian, pouring decades of her life into making sure that the women of the French Resistance were never forgotten.

She wanted to make sure these women, who were so often unnamed in the history books, were written permanently into the record. Together, the couple raised three children, traveled the world, argued, laughed, and grew old side by side.

Years later, journalists asked Lucie what had compelled her to risk everything on that dangerous October day. She did not hesitate for a second. She looked at them and said, "He was my husband. What else would I do?"

In his final years, he continued speaking publicly to young generations about the Resistance, the power of memory, and the absolute obligation to tell the truth about history.

When Lucie passed away in 2007 at 94, and Raymond followed her in 2012 at 97, they left behind a 64 year marriage that was a testament to the ultimate triumph of life and family over hatred.

Their love didn't just survive a war it blossomed into a lifetime of shared smiles, proving that the greatest force in the world is a heart that refuses to give up on the one it loves ♥️♥️

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

This close-up of a Jumping Spider covered in pollen, captured by photographer John Oliver Dum, won second place in the 2026 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition

[Blonde of War (JJ) @BlondeOfWar]

May you and I be as unbothered as these little guys today.
They don't have a care in the world - bellies full, work complete, no worries, just peace.

That's what I hope for all of my friends today, for the Peace that passes all understanding. ❤️
Have an amazing day!

[Bruno @Bruno_onx7]

Happy little fox loves her human

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

Elephant caretaker returns after years away, and his elephants run towards him

[Elizabeth Alfieri @X0xDxD]

@WAServers @CollinRugg Cloning though? It’s creepy, no? Maybe I’m old school.

[Elizabeth Alfieri @X0xDxD]

What could go wrong? 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Warhound, a defense‑tech startup founded by Palmer Luckey and Ben Lamm, has raised $200 million in seed funding to genetically engineer war dogs for the U.S. military.

Lamm is responsible for the de-extinction of the dire wolf which died out ~10,000 years ago.

Warhound will find top dogs and then biobank their genetic material before cloning the proven dogs.

The company will take the cell lines for top breeds like Belgian Malinois and German Shepherd before editing the genes to make the dogs perform better and improve “things like speed and agility or enhance olfactory sensors for bomb sniffing and whatnot.”

Luckey’s Anduril will supply the dogs with advanced body armor, ear coverings, and other military technology like EagleEye, an artificial intelligence military helmet.

Anduril is also reportedly working with META on battlefield augmented reality eyewear.

Lamm says the genetically modified dogs with advanced equipment will not only make the dogs safer, but will also make the human handlers safer.

The first Warhound puppies will reportedly soon be cloned and incubated and will be born in early 2027 and then will begin training.

[Elizabeth Alfieri @X0xDxD]

@Rose_xao No

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🦧🦦 A Belgian zoo introduced a gang of otters to its orangutans to keep them from getting bored. And then all hell broke loose!

At Pairi Daiza Zoo in Belgium, staff came up with an unusual idea: let a family of Asian small-clawed otters share a habitat with the giant ginger orangutans.

And it turned out to be a brilliant idea! The little furry troublemakers started climbing out of the water, pestering the orangutans, and challenging them to play. And the orangutans happily joined in!

An orangutan named Ujian and his son Berani became especially close friends with the otters.

In 2020, photos of this adorable and unlikely friendship went viral around the world.