Today we experience the shortest day and the longest night of the year. This is not just a date on the calendar β 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.
#AstronomicalCycle #ShortestDay #WinterSolstice #BrighterDays #TowardsSpring #NewHorizons
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For some organisations, the venn diagram of "not providing enough information" and "spreading unnecessary noise", seems to be a circle.
Do you support Luigi?
youtube.com/watch?v=fn0ip11OwGβ¦
Huge numbers of the population feel sympathy for the action for which Luigi Mangione has been charged. The mass sympathy elicited by this act speaks volumes about the political vacuum in the USβ¦
#SocialMurder #Violence #DenyingHealthCare #Bipartisan #Unity #ClassWar #Murder #Assassination
I have a silly blog post idea brewing.
We use the number 12 and its multiples a lot in life - like the hours, minutes and seconds of the day.
Do you have other examples for uses of 12?
Thank you :)
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"Look at the world! See it aching! Itβs got so many problemsβI promise you, thereβs one with your name on it."
Lovely piece from Adam Mastroianni on underrated ways to change the world:
#MorningAll & #TZAG Gβday 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 ! ππ«ΆπΏοΈπ
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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, putinβs hybrid war in Europe is heating up and for fear of escalation we have encouraged global nuclear proliferation
π¬ γThe 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.γ
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.
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in reply to Henry Fisher • • •A woolly mammoth stands in a snowy forest at night. The trees are covered in snow and illuminated with warm, golden lights. Above, the night sky is filled with stars, a galaxy, and several constellations outlined in white. A faint aurora borealis is visible in the sky.
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