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@Rainmaker1973 This is as fake as the one they're building in China.

The Great Green Wall is one of the most ambitious environmental initiatives in Africa’s history. Launched in 2007 by the African Union, the project aims to create an 8,000-kilometer-long belt of trees and restored land across the Sahel region, stretching from Senegal in the west to Djibouti in the east. More than 20 countries are participating, with 22 nations actively implementing the program, including Senegal, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Djibouti. Beyond simply planting trees, the Great Green Wall promotes a wide range of sustainable land management practices designed to restore degraded soil, enhance food security, generate employment, and strengthen community resilience to climate change. According to the official program and recent reports, approximately 15% of the wall has been completed so far. Even at this early stage, the project has successfully restored large areas of degraded land, improved agricultural productivity and water availability for local communities, and attracted more than $14 billion in funding and pledges. The initiative continues to demonstrate that coordinated, large-scale environmental restoration can deliver tangible benefits for both people and the planet.

@Interior @BLMNational I drove it in a Subaru outback sport. And no I'm not a lesbian. It was before lesbians discovered Subarus

The Alpine Loop is a rugged 4x4 road in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains. Climb to 12,800 feet, explore old mines and ghost towns, wildflowers and abundant wildlife. With no services or cell signal, it’s a pure backcountry adventure. Photo by @BLMNational

@WRETCHEDREDUX @Interior @RandyRRQuaid @BLMNational As long as there's no beavers living above you

@Interior @RandyRRQuaid @BLMNational You can even drink the water that drips down the mountain

@ClarkSchiring @Interior @BLMNational Well aren't you special?

@Interior @BLMNational If you are in a vehicle, that is not the "backcountry" SORRY TO BURST YOUR BUBBLE

@thecurioustales Yeah, whatever

Most people look at an opal and see a pretty stone. What they're actually looking at is a frozen accident of time so improbable it borders on impossible. Five million years for one centimeter. Read that again slowly. The opal sitting in a ring on someone's finger represents a span of geological patience that predates the entire human species. Modern humans have existed for roughly 300,000 years. The little gem catching light on a jeweler's velvet cushion has been quietly assembling itself for sixteen times longer than we've walked upright. To understand why opals are so strange, you have to understand what they are at the molecular level, because they break a fundamental rule of what we call a "gemstone." Diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires. Every classic gem you can name is a crystal. Its atoms lock into a rigid, repeating lattice, the same geometric pattern extending in every direction. That ordered structure is exactly what gives crystals their hardness, their cleavage planes, their fire. Opal refuses all of that. It has no crystal lattice. It's classified as a mineraloid, an amorphous solid, the same structural category as glass. At the microscopic level it's built from countless tiny spheres of silica, each one impossibly small, stacked together like cosmic billiard balls. And the magic, the entire reason opal does the thing it does, comes from how perfectly those spheres arrange themselves. When the silica spheres are uniform in size and pack into an orderly three dimensional grid, light entering the stone gets diffracted. The gaps between the spheres act like a natural grating, splitting white light into its component colors and bouncing them back at the eye. The size of the spheres determines which colors appear. Smaller spheres throw blues and violets. Larger ones release the rare reds and oranges that make certain opals worth more than diamonds by weight. This means the color in an opal is not pigment. There is no red dye, no green mineral, no blue compound. The stone is essentially colorless silica and water. Every flash of fire you see is pure structure, pure geometry, light itself being sorted by architecture too small to see. You are watching physics, not chemistry. The opal is a lens disguised as a jewel. Now layer the water back into the picture. That 6 to 10% water content is doing something almost no other gemstone does. It means opal is partly liquid history. The water trapped inside is ancient groundwater, sealed in during formation millions of years ago, fluid that touched a prehistoric world. And because that water is structurally part of the stone, opals can literally die. Take an opal from a humid environment to an extremely dry one and the water can escape over time. The stone crazes, cracks into a web of fractures, and the play of color fades forever. A diamond is functionally immortal. An opal can dehydrate and pass away like something that was once alive. There is a poetry buried in the formation process that most people never consider. Opals form when silica rich water seeps into cracks, voids, and cavities in rock, then slowly evaporates and deposits its silica load, layer by microscopic layer, over those incomprehensible timescales. Which means an opal is a fossil of empty space. It's the cast of an absence, water patiently filling a wound in the earth and turning the scar into the most colorful substance the planet produces. Some of the most spectacular opals on Earth take this even further. In parts of Australia, opal has replaced the bones of dinosaurs and the shells of ancient sea creatures, molecule by molecule, preserving the exact shape of a creature dead for a hundred million years but rendering it in rainbow fire. There exist opalized seashells, opalized teeth, opalized pinecones. Death and deep time and light, fused into a single object you could hold in your palm. When you grasp all of this, the casual phrase "it's just a gemstone" collapses entirely. Each opal is a five million year exposure of liquid that touched a vanished world, an amorphous structure that bends light through pure architecture, a partially living thing that can crack and die if you treat it carelessly, and sometimes a tombstone for an animal that breathed before the first primate existed. We mine these from the ground, polish them, and sell them in shops next to mass produced trinkets, rarely pausing to register that we're trading in compressed eternity. The planet spent five million years per centimeter making something beautiful with no audience in mind. We just got lucky enough to dig it up and notice.

Love this

@Turnerandhooch @KINGGGE_ Yeah and it looks like he has nine of them.

I paid a contractor $9,500 to renovate my kitchen. Halfway through the job, he disappeared. He didn't take the money and run. He was in jail. For six weeks, everything went exactly as planned. The permits were approved, demolition was finished, new cabinets had been delivered, and the electrical work had passed inspection. Then, one Monday morning, nobody showed up. His phone went straight to voicemail. By Wednesday, I was convinced I'd been sc@mmed. I contacted the suppliers, who confirmed they'd already been paid for the materials. I called the city to check the permits, and they were still active. The following week, his wife returned my call. She explained that he'd been arrested after violating the terms of probation from a case that predated my project. She had no idea when he'd be..........

@mike_hall_1 @femalebodybuil6 Yeah I feel like tofu burgers

@femalebodybuil6 ID SAY THEY USUALLY COOK BETTER BECAUSE THEIR MORE OPEN TO THE WORLDS CUISINE . WORST FOOD I EVER HAD WAS MY WIFES AND SHES TRUMP ALL THE WAY I AM TOO. AT LEAST I WAS IN 2016 NOW IM NOT SO SURE.. OUR GAS STILL AINT COMING DOWN LEAST NOT HERE IN NORTH GA .IS IT FOR YOU?

Can you name something ??.

@Mnmsmom22 @Gitmo99 Racist

@Gitmo99 Look how gentle they are with her even cut her in the front. Nobody’s cursing her out, grabbing her beating her or treating her like she is not a person. I guess it’s because she’s white. Smh

Debra Newton was arrested in November 2025 in The Villages, Florida, while walking her dog, after four decades on the run. She was wanted for the 1983 kidnapping of her 3-year-old daughter from Louisville, Kentucky. Extradited to Kentucky, she reached a plea deal in 2026 for felony custodial interference. Marion County Sheriff’s deputies approached Newton in her front yard while she was walking a small dog. A neighbor humorously joked to the deputies, "They're coming for you, Sharon," as Newton had been living under the alias Sharon Neely. In 1983, Newton told her husband, Joe, she was moving the family to Georgia, but instead vanished with their daughter, Michelle. She was previously on the FBI’s Top 8 Most Wanted Parental-Kidnapping fugitives list. The case was reopened after a Crime Stoppers tip. Following her arrest, Newton's charges were reduced to a misdemeanor under a plea bargain, and she was sentenced to two years of probation. Michelle, now in her mid-40s, was unaware she was a missing person until deputies notified her. Michelle and her father, Joe, have since been reunited. Michelle publicly expressed a desire to support both of her parents and focus on family healing. Some crimes have no statute of limitations and they are always looking for you.

@Softykjr I have a bad feeling about this.

Hearing good things about the new Seahawks owners. Doesn't mean squat yet, but hearing the executives including Schneider were impressed by them. Look forward to meeting them. This thing is important to all of us. Take care of it like the Allen's did.

UK police apparently don’t want anyone talking about this man who was attacked by a muslim migrant gang They told him not to talk about it So definitely don’t talk about it or share… that would be really bad…

@gbellseattle @thenewstribune I have a bad feeling about this.

Who are the new #Seahawks owners, the 2nd from out of town in the Seattle NFL franchise’s 53 years? Who is the primary, controlling owner? What will *she* change with the Super Bowl champions? What she, and they, should not change: @thenewstribune thenewstribune.com/sports/nfl/sea…

@FanDuel Yes, I'll never forget it

@FirstNameZak First snap of the game set the tone!

A sports moment that still gives you chills 📸

@Hot_Pepper76 The Guess Who and Alice Cooper opening for Frank Zappa.

One opening act. They completely stole the show. Who was it?

@catturd2 Yeah I remember when I was young and dumb about my first house. My neighbor convinced me to build a fence. When I got done I realized I had built a fence for him.

@washghost1 I just happen to be listening to police scanner app when this popped up

This is our future with these flock cameras. They really tried getting her for a crime she didn’t commit simply because she was in the area and they used the cameras as evidence

@Zaira583642 As it should be

Be honest

@Hickenlooper @BarackObama Did he expect you to sleep with him?

Thinking back on this day twelve years ago! @BarackObama, you’re welcome to come grab another beer and game anytime.

@StephenKing I got on here to call you a dumbass. So many people did such a good job already that I'm going to let it go.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! What exactly is the hold-up? IT'S THE FUCKING LAW!