Katie

hey I know that everything feels bleak and barfy right now, but if it helps a little, please remember that sea stars can regenerate a lost limb and sloths can hold their breath for 40 minutes and all houseflies buzz in the key of F and otters hold hands while they sleep and penguins propose with a pebble and everything around us is actually quite magical all of the time too

I f*cking knew it

@krp234 Hi Kevin, where is this? Thx

Quick hike before the rain this morning

1. Another fascinating story: where does the meter really come from? 🧵 Someone recently pointed me to a French video about pyramid construction, in which they hint that it somehow relates to the size of water droplets 💧 But they don’t go into detail. So I did some digging. And as usual—it’s mind-blowing.

@grizzledcheese sciencealert.com/mysterious-ric…

@grizzledcheese Or gold veins in “mountains”, for example. There are regions that contain "bonanza" abundances [of gold]... How these gold veins form in time spans as short as days from hydrothermal systems that only contain trace amounts of the metal has been a geological mystery.”

Remember, I keep saying to look at embedded timbers & pipes in the caves. Not embedded in a mountain. Installed in a structure that turned into a mountain.

Who where these steps built for? 🤔

So, get this. . . A 5,900-year-old whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) forest has recently thawed out from beneath receding alpine ice in the Beartooth Plateau in Wyoming. The trees were found at 3,100 meters in elevation, some 180 meters above the current tree line. 🌲 🔗 newscientist.com/article/246339… If the globe is hotter now than it has been at any point in the last 100,000 years, as some “climate experts” claim, then how did those trees get there? 🤔 Unicorn farts? 🦄 Leprechaun puffs? 🍀

Thoughts?

😂

If the structural similarity between hemoglobin and chlorophyll doesn't fascinate you, then I'm not sure we can be friends.

Thread of some surprising things that are older than other things Notre Dame predates the Maori settlement of New Zealand

The beautiful sound of the Notre Dame ‘Worker’s Choir’ rehearsing. More than 80 engineers, architects, carpenters, crane operators, construction workers… who all worked on the Cathedral’s restoration have formed a choir that will perform inside Notre Dame next week.

Just good to know stuff is all I’m sayin

@Cortex_Zero I’m no expert, but 444 can mean that your spiritual team is supporting you every step. Can show up towards the culmination of a period of major challenge or change. Basically, they are right beside you as you stagger across a finish line. You got this.

This week, I think I've seen 222 and 444 about a dozen times each. Anybody have any personal insight to add here outside of the typical Angel Number Meaning Google search? 😅 #ufox #ufotwitter

Property taxes should be outlawed. And before someone says “aLL tAxEs sHouLd be ouTlaWed” yes, but property taxes in particular are the most unjust. Every other tax is based on a share of a transaction. You always know upfront what this share will be. Property taxes, on the other hand, are based on a “value” assessed by the same entity levying the tax. Your town or county literally “decides” what your property is worth (assessed value) and then demands a share of it, regardless of your ability to pay. Fail to pay and they take the property for themselves. The model is actually worse than an unrealized gains tax; you aren’t just paying the tax on the gain, you are basically paying a percentage of whatever they decide the value is, every year in perpetuity. That’s why it’s is the most unjust tax. That’s why it should be abolished.

Today is public holiday in Spain and literally thousands of people in Valencia came out to help the victims of the October 29 disaster armed with shovels and brooms. A flood of people against the flood of water.

It really is just as beautiful as you’d imagine #northernlights

Someone else said: “Art Nouveau is when it looks made by elves. Art Deco is when it looks made by dwarves.” And after looking into it, I think they’re a genius and 100% correct.