Good morning!
A reminder: all life on earth is one huge family. Looking at this tree never stops to amaze... 👇

Society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable.

Louise Bourgeois - Spider 1996

Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) her Spider never gets old.
#LouiseBourgeois #contemporaryart

"Girl in a Red Kimono" by George Hendrik Breitner (1857–1923)

"Girl in a Red Kimono" by George Hendrik Breitner (1857–1923), featuring the original portraits of Geesje Kwak, one of Breitner’s most prominent models.

In 1895, Geesje emigrated to South Africa, where she tragically died of tuberculosis just a few years later, at only 22 years of age.
#breitner

A near insult to neanderthals 😂

Moment crew docks at International Space Station The crew blasted off from Cape Canaveral in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket.

Moment crew docks at International Space Station. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Idem dito

Ik kijk er niet zo zwart wit naar. Al snel is iets uit context.
Er zijn veel bewegende onderdelen, geopolitieke machtsverhoudingen, zoals ze werkelijk zijn versus hoe ze in onze hoofden spelen en uiteraard de wisselwerking daartussen. Mijn ervaring is dat Joris dingen zegt die (mij) inzicht geven.

"By the time anyone noticed that single, tantalizing signal in Kepler’s vast dataset, the telescope had been mothballed, decommissioned into a graveyard orbit after running out of fuel."

Whoops! 🤦

Amen, Joris!
Well put.

An ochre toned mosaic capturing a rock outcrop on Mars.

An ochre toned mosaic capturing a rock outcrop on Mars. A bit of one of the rover wheel and its shadow can be seen in the foreground.

Mastcam mosaics captured two days ago by Perseverance. The rover must be getting close to its next major science target: Lac de Charmes.

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#Mars Jan. 30, 2025 - Sol 1758 🧪🔭
Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Early car design gives a hint about the way our brains work! 👇

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Utrecht city wall around 1770.
Possibly by Isaac Lodewijk La Fargue (1726-1805).

George Hendrik Breitner 1897

Love that.
Einstein may have quoted Alexandre Dumas, who wrote in an 1865 French publication: "Une chose qui m'humilie profondément est de voir que le génie humain a des limites, quand la bêtise humaine n'en a pas".

♥️ Nice noise!

Yummy!
But where is the Knäcke?

Hilarious Clinton

Observation.
The human brain, as I understand, is running on a mere 20 watts of power. It is terrible at spotting what is and isn't real, it conserves energy using shortcuts, making us easy prey for lies, conspiracies, and tribalism.

20 watts.
No wonder we love shortcuts.

Not for sale.
Not for bribery.
Not for grabs.

Europeans will fight for Greenland.
#standwithgreenland

We have all been desensitized by the word salads of this wanna be authoritarian orangutan.

And I'm not even American.

It all reminds me of Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil".

Empires in decline suffer from:
1. Micro-militarism abroad
2. Political extremism

History repeats itself like a spiral.

Nature is:
◇ mind bogglingly beautiful
◇ horrendously indifferent
◇ cleverer than you are (Orgel's 2nd)
◇ ...
◇ ...

What would you add to this list?

Massale protesten in Iran De afgelopen dagen gaan omwoners van verschillende Iraanse steden zoals Teheran en Mashhad de straat open. Ze demonstreren tegen het Iraanse regime en de macht van de streng islamitische leiders.

<3 in support of the protests in Iran
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Gift of The Estate of Thomas Chimes and Locks Gallery

Thomas Chimes, Satie, 1987
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137659

Happy 2026!
A new dawn. A new day.

is=it

Verdrietig, kwaadmakend, machteloos.

The iconic Vondelkerk went up in flames this night. This church was part of my childhood memories.

Was is worth the few minutes of fireworks?

I'm sad and upset. Now I'm not anti fireworks but please keep this sh!t central, safe and controlled.

#vondelkerk