Today we experience the shortest day and the longest night of the year. This is not just a date on the calendar — it is an important point in Earth's orbit, symbolizing the end of an astronomical cycle and the beginning of a new one.
From this point on, it will not get any darker. Each following day will be a little longer, and our hemisphere will begin to receive more solar energy. We are taking the first step towards spring, summer, and new horizons.
Christmas and New Year are cultural symbols framing this objective natural process. Yes, we still have many cold winter days and snowy nights ahead, but with each dawn, we inevitably get closer to warmth and light.
Congratulations to everyone on the new astronomical cycle! May it be clear, bright, and full of energy for you.
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"Look at the world! See it aching! It’s got so many problems—I promise you, there’s one with your name on it."
Lovely piece from Adam Mastroianni on underrated ways to change the world:
#MorningAll & #TZAG G’day Squirrel Fans, hope I find you bright eyed & bushy tailed!
Saturday has got off to a slow start, just finished my breakfast & working on the first coffee of the day.
Gotta chunk of chores to sort out so will catch up with everyone later on.
Cashew later Peeps, have a fabulously nutty day #Today ! 😊🫶🐿️🖖
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What if russia wins in #Ukraine? We can already see the shadows of a dark 2025
By Timothy Garton Ash
Instability is growing, putin’s hybrid war in Europe is heating up and for fear of escalation we have encouraged global nuclear proliferation
😬 「The loss of a large amount of territory, the suffering of at least 3.5 million Ukrainians living under Russian occupation and the toll of dead, maimed and traumatised would amount to a terrible cost. This would not be the complete victory Ukrainians have hoped for and deserve; but it would still be a victory for Ukraine and a historic defeat for Russia.」
I beg to disagree. Hard.
Any conquest of foreign territory can be sold to the famously moronic russian masses as yet another "great patriotic victory", thus further feeding the centuries-old murderous trajectory of imperial expansionism.
Instead of forever teaching russians that their medieval policies of violence and thievery work, they should finally be taught that *crime will no longer pay*. The criminal must be the one paying the costs.
"Whether it’s his posts in favor of the far-right party Alternative for Germany, which harbors Nazi sympathizers, his regular communications with Russian President Vladimir Putin, his support of neo-Fascist Italian leader Giorgia Meloni, or his enmeshment with the Chinese regime, where fully half of his Tesla cars are manufactured, Musk seems fully invested in enabling a new world order favorable to autocracy."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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"Some people predict that Trump will eventually get rid of Musk, seeing the billionaire as too much competition. That is a misreading of Trump, who can take some humiliation –Russian television has mocked him and has showed nude photos of his wife—if the end goal is more profits and power for him. Autocrats are entirely transactional beings, and Trump and Musk likely have an understanding: each needs the other."
Musk is Rasputin to Trump’s Alexandra. The carrots he is offering are just too too tempting.
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