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Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.
a rock climber on a reddish wall at right: in the background a rocky, brush-covered hillside sloping to a sandy beach with blue water
What's better than climbing? Climbing on a crag a minute's hike above a beach on the Aegean Sea, where you can pack up, walk down, drop your helmet and pack on the sand, and jump into blue water.
A woman in a climbing helmet and blue shirt holding some ropes at the anchor of a climbing route - behind her are dramatic cliffs and a green valley
Feeling pretty pleased with a fun lead in gorgeous country - on the big wall above Leonidio
A mountainous landscape with trees in the foreground and a ridge line in the background with steep bare rock
Yep! Two weeks here. The climbing has been terrific and Arcadia is God's own country
The moon in the night sky, clearly a sphere illuminated from below: in the foreground is a church spire and some dark hills
The moon over Leonidio tonight was spectacular. So clearly a sphere up there in the sky
An imposing rocky mountain above brushy slopes and a few olive groves on its skirts. There is a small white house with red tile roof in the trees at lower left. Tucked into the cliff high up on the mountain is a small white building in the far distance
This morning, just above Leonidio, looking up the valley toward the small white dot that is the monastery of Agios Nikolaos of Sintza. I really love this place.
A goat with long brown hair and very long horns that spiral sideways from its head. Its face is blunt and black. It is standing on a steep, grassy but rocky ledge among some trees looking back over its shoulder at you.
This goat 100% looks like it's about to say "Wouldst thou like to live delicously?"
A Greek town with white or yellow walls and red tile roofs, overshadowed by huge red stone cliffs
We're in Leonidio, and the limestone is impeccable. It's a long way from any major centre and a small town, but surrounded by great, newly developed rock. Like, SURROUNDED.
A person at the top of a cliff at left: a view down to a valley and town on the Aegean Sea behind her
We are still having a great trip :-)
A woman in a bright orange tank top and dark pants climbing a rock face framed by vegetation; beyond the rock face is a calm bright blue sea and blue sky
My friend Chantalle on the line I really wanted us to get on at this area, because I wanted pictures
There used to be a speed camera here.
You want a fuckin' WELCOME to a small Greek town, show up on Easter weekend. Wow.
good LORD
No injuries! Just limestone and tiny Greek towns <3 Thanks!
A scene of a steep valley with a set of sharp red cliffs above a small town with white buildings and red roofs, with sloping farmland in the foreground
Okay, trying to get my head around it, but I'm heading back to this landscape for a couple of weeks tomorrow and I am really expecting it to help my brain a LOT
One thing to think about is that this is the astronauts' first smell of Earth. Sea air and burning hydrocarbons.
There's a breeze that they'll be feeling after days in a capsule. There are fans there, because without fans CO2 will build up around you. But not a breeze like off the ocean.
I have to miss this talk because I'm not going to be in the country but I am definitely going to catch the recording. (This is being put on by the historical society that my parents are super involved with in my home community and it looks really fascinating)
The Fourteenth State? Never! The year is 1776, and New England Planters living along the Saint John RIver have decided to join their fellow revolutionaries to the south. Raising a militia of volunteers, sympathizers, Indigenous allies and a few disgruntles Acadians, will they succeed in creating "New Massachussetts"? "Rebels on the RIver" - with Dr. Gary Campbell. Sunday, April 12, 2:00pm (AT) - 112 Rte 616 (The Old Schoolhouse) The first of our 2026 History Speaks lecture series, click here for details
Did you know New Brunswick had a population of Planters who were sympathetic to the American independence movement? And in 1776 they raised up a militia to make the Nova Scotian colony (NB now) part of the American rebellion. Watch online here! www.keswickridgehistoricalsociety.ca/history-speaks
The Artemis capsule descending to Earth, with three red-and-white parachutes deployed and a wide white course cloud behind it.
Humanity: Pretty awesome, sometimes.
why am I sobbing watching that little Nespresso pod zoot through the atmosphere with its huge ass parachutes
They're going 250,500 mph and will be at 0 mph in like 10 minutes, this is NUTS
I heard today that 569,000 Fahrenheit (the reentry temperature) is... half the temperature of the surface of the Sun? Like WTAF. And the speeds they're going at, plus how very very slowly the Earth is growing in the camera's viewfinder? The Earth is SO HUGE
It paused and if I don't touch it it won't refresh, so I'm not touching it. It's so cursed.
Yeah, all the extra conversions they're putting themselves through in order to talk in Imperial, lol. But I love the science communication they're getting in. Right now they're talking to the crew of the retrieval ship and giving such a great picture of how huge and complex this operation is
The live chat at the side though.... yeeeeeesh. Real galaxy brains in there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6No6...
Shot from a camera on the exterior of the Orion spacecraft with the Earth looming large ahead of it
This live broadcast is bonkers
Old, and gramatically correct😜
Note to self: Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria is a goddamn liar, just talk to the person, they are not mad at you just because you got all up in your head about something you think you did to them and then they used a period at the end of their last text to you
Cracking subway ad in Tokyo.
