Cosmos and #Culture
The #Menorah as an Epistemological Allegory for Celestial Ontogeny
Read theorionblogown.blogspot.com/2023/12/cosm...

#Science #Physics #Chemistry #Biology #Astronomy #Genetics #Neuroscience #Quantum #Astrophysics #Biochemistry #cargocult #pacificisland #ww2 #genesis #thomascook

"PALMed Off is a special four-part series of Follow the Money exploring the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme, an Australian Govt guestworker program that could be putting people from nine #PacificIsland nations & #Timor-Leste at risk of modern slavery.” #auspol #PALM #modernslavery

Huahine: The Smart Traveler's Alternative Huahine is a serene and spectacular Society Island that many people compare to Bora Bora before the crowds.

French Polynesia, as it used to be. #travelsky #overtourism #huahine #frenchpolynesia #pacificisland

Activists from Sudan, Myanmar, Pacific Islands, and Taiwan receive human rights award The Right Livelihood Award has been given to activists from Sudan, Myanmar, the Pacific Islands, and Taiwan. The foundation announced the winners on Wednesday.

#RightLivelihood

Among others, the youth-led organization #PacificIsland Students Fighting #ClimateChange and Julian Aguon were awarded the prize “for carrying the call for #climatejustice to the world’s highest court, turning climate action into a legal responsibility.”

apnews.com/article/swed...

land of the night cactus
Hawaii

#photography #nature #botanical #mysterious #pacificisland #flora

wild sea
Hawaii

#photography #seascape #ocean #wildness #nature #pacificisland #explore #waves

path to a mysterious land
Hawaii

#photography #landscape #trees #followthepath #explore #mysterious #pacificisland #flora #lonelyplanet

This, when a nation gives a shit.

#Australia #Tuvalu #PacificIsland

#China and #PacificIsland countries will strengthen relations, and deepen exchanges in education, culture, and other fields, to jointly promote the civilizational advancement of human society. @asiapacific.bsky.social www.asianpacificcenter.org/people-s-da-...

Wang said that under the strategic guidance of their leaders, the comprehensive strategic partnership between #China and the #PacificIsland countries has shown new vitality, achieved new accomplishments and reached a new level. @asiapacific.bsky.social www.asianpacificcenter.org/people-s-da-...

These Pacific Islands are building walls to stop rising seas. Will it work? 🌊 #risingsealevel #PacificIsland #climatechange #Netherlands www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

"The #WPS resolutions are the basis of our peacebuilding architecture but implementation has been uneven" - @noelenefiji.bsky.social emphasizes the need to investment in #womenled #prevention & active #participation.reminds #PWMNColloquium to bring out & highlight the #PacificIsland #WPS legacy

Promotional image for the book 'Climate Politics in Oceania: Renewing Australia-Pacific Relations in a Warming World' by Susan Harris Rimmer, Caitlin Byrne, and Wesley Morgan.

This #AAPIHeritageMonth, explore the climate politics shaping #PacificIsland nations and beyond.

🌏 "Climate Politics in #Oceania," published by @mupublishing.bsky.social, unpacks Australia-Pacific relations in a warming world.

Available now via #JSTOR Path to Open program: bit.ly/3GOcKrB

#Europe #Mexico #Canada #Africa #SouthAmerica ##Asia #MiddleEast #PacificIsland countries #CentralAmerica #penguins

Do not come to the United States. No one is safe here. Even supporters don’t understand that one can become an enemy on an insane whim of which all of this is anyway, an insane whim.

Prompt: Federated States of Micronesia, May 2nd, 2025, Micronesia Day, social media post, rich culture and heritage, beautiful nation, Pacific Island, specific fact about the holiday, tone, particular audience. , HD, sharp focus, stunningly beautiful, hyper-detailed, Tiny cute isometric in a cutaway box, soft smooth lighting, soft colors, 100mm lens, 3d blender render Negative prompt: , extra eyes, bad eyes, ugly eyes, imperfect eyes, deformed pupils, deformed iris, cross-eyed, poorly drawn face, bad face, fused face, ugly face, worst face, unrealistic skin texture, out of frame, poorly drawn hands, cloned face, double face, blurry, bad quality Text model: gemma3 Image model: Ultrium

Okay, here's a social media post for today, May 2nd, 2025, focusing on Federated States of Micronesia:

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Happy May 2nd! 🎉 Today is **Micronesia Day** in the Federated States of Micronesia! 🇵🇼 Let's celebrate the rich culture and heritage of this beautiful […]

[Original post on mstdn.forfun.su]

Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes.bsky.social) The Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development is a boon to Beijing’s designs on Pacific island nations and weakens America’s national security, the former…

The Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development is a boon to #Beijing ’s designs on #PacificIsland nations & weakens America’s national #security, the former China policy lead for #USAID told lawmakers Wednesday.
@wyattwolson.bsky.social

GPPAC Pacific & Pacific Women Mediators Network on LinkedIn: #shepersistedforpeace Weaving Our Mat, Sharing our Her'Story and Talking about Our Ocean of Peace: This week the Pacific Women Mediators Network in collaboration with GPPAC Pacific…

This week, we're Weaving Our Mat & Sharing our #PacificIsland #Gender #Peace #Security her'story. Wonderful to be enabling #diverse #women to come together to
talk about #OurOceanofPeace:
www.linkedin.com/posts/gppac-...

‪Cash & Carry

Rarotonga, Cook Islands 2012

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from Photoseries "People (diverse)" / "Menschen (diverse)"

#publictransport
#travel
#people
#atw
#cookislands
#pacificisland
#rarotonga
#streetphotography
#snapshot
#photography
#clockwise
#paradise

The #joy of having a week where we weave together #PacificIsland strands of organising ....

Map of #PacificIslandnation of #Vanuatu

The #PacificIsland nation of #Vanuatu is currently undergoing the implications of #climate-driven #sealevel change. Threatening humans’ lives and homes but also their unique history, cultural traditions as well as ecosystem functions and ecology. 1/8 #CoastalHistory #fishweirs

Dropping in on Da Shop Books Books + Curiosities at the Hawai'i Library Association's conference. What a representation of Pacific Island books! Scott Goto and Chris Caravalho, I saw your books there! #kidlit #pacificisland #independentbookstore #aapi #hawaii

More #IndieBookstores to support:

-Native Books: Kānaka 'ōiwi wahine (Native Hawaiian woman) founded & owned, AMAZING collections across genres & in multiple #PacificIsland languages, community art & activism collabs & support. Cried the 1st time I walked in.
www.nativebookshawaii.org