#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXyloid This Binzuru (Pindola Bharadvaja) wooden statue outside Todai-ji Buddhist Temple is rubbed by thousands of visitors hoping to alleviate their ailments. Nara / Japan '2016 [Nikon D7000]
Jorge Rodrigues 🇵🇹🇺🇦
@kindresilience.bsky.social
Savepoint: Portugal | Weapon of choice: Nikon | Interests: wildlife, science, history, arts&culture | Looking forward to: connect with people who are willing to think by themselves instead of following political agendas
A small scarab soaked in waterfall mist. The metallic green on the beetle is not pigment, but structural color (a result of micro-structures that reflect only certain wavelengths). If you look closely within the droplets, the green is refracted into other hues. (Dichelonyx sp.; Montana) #Bugsky 🌿🐙📷
A gondolier's mandatory uniform: blue or red-striped shirt, dark blue or black trousers and black shoes. Straw hat is optional. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUniform Venice / Italy '2015 [Nikon D7000]
Frozen in time due to +20 meters of Vesuvius' 79 AD spill, this triclinium had a mosaic depicting Neptune & Salacia (Roman versions of Greek Poseidon & Amphitrite). Water deities drowned in the pyroclastic flow. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTime Herculaneum (Ercolano) / Italy '2015 [Nikon D7000]
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSongs "We Are Family" - Sister Sledge (1979) Lisbon / Portugal '2025 [Nikon D7000]
Happy centenary, David! Attenborough’s 100 most spectacular TV moments
Happy centenary, David! Attenborough’s 100 most spectacular TV moments
He has been besieged by birds, had 120m crabs try to crawl up his trouser leg and stayed cool beside an erupting Icelandic volcano. As David Attenborough turns 100, we celebrate his most extraordinary adventures
theguardian.com
Europe is not just about geography, it's also about the values and principles we share. That’s why we are glad to welcome Canada at the European Political Community meeting today to discuss common issues. We will be talking about connectivity, but also resilience to the threats we are all facing.
"Day 069, orbit 1071 — The gyroscope, key to maintaining a spacecraft attitude in space 🌀 The Station relies on four Control Moment Gyroscopes (CMGs), large spinning wheels that use angular momentum to keep it properly oriented," explains @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot. 🎥 NASA/ESA
Missing Nikon ambassador Jenny Wong @jdubcaptures.bsky.social around here...
Polar Regions Through the Lens with Jenny Wong — RAW in FOCUS
Canadian Photographer Jenny Wong’s mission is to document wildlife and the environment throughout our planet’s most sparsely populated regions, especially in the Arctic.
rawinfocus.com
"AI output now constitutes more than half of the internet. The algorithm is an ouroboros, incessantly retraining on itself: its output slick, seamless and unmistakably airy. Eventually, even those who see in it wisps of the divine (...) will come to see just wisps." Alexander Hurst @ The Guardian
A glimpse into Stefano Unterthiner's work
Crested black macaque - Stefano Unterthiner
stefanounterthiner.com
"Day 066, orbit 1021 – As our trajectory carries us over the Kazakh steppe, bathed in shades of beige and ochre – home to Soyuz lift‑offs and landings – Lake Balkhash suddenly comes into view, a vivid oasis in turquoise tones", shared esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot yesterday on social media.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOForOld Old wood at Old Bridge (Ponte Vecchio) Florence / Italy '2015 [Nikon D7000]
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNonsense Only in Japan can you find Nemo kart racing on a public road :) Tokyo / Japan '2016 [Nikon D7000]
#Artemis II update: our European Service Module's main engine performed the translunar injection so precisely that flight controllers in Houston decided to cancel the first of three outbound trajectory correction burns on the way to the Moon 🥳
With an Atlantic Search and Rescue Region (SSR) almost the size of the entire continental Europe, today Portugal finally put in orbit a satellite with radar technology, together with 5 others launched aboard a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg (CA) on Transporter-16 Mission.
FA: "Too often, naive political leaders assume that devastating the enemy militarily necessarily equals strategic success." A month and +850 Tomahawks later, Epic Flurry is a complete nonsense to the (still) most capable military in the world.
Foreign Affairs@foreignaffairs.com · 4mo agoThe costs of the war in Iran will outweigh its benefits, write Richard Betts and Stephen Biddle. “In just its first weeks, the war has cost many billions of dollars in direct expenditure, reduced support for Ukraine, and shocked the global economy.”
Layers of History... #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLayers The 5-story Tower of Yasaka, is what remains of 6th century Hōkan Temple complex Kyoto / Japan '2016 [Nikon D7000]
"Qeshm(...)'s silent salt caves and ancient shrines serve as a reminder that while past empires and military coalitions like those of the Portuguese and British have eventually faded, the geological fortress of the strait remains anchored in the turbulent tides of history."
Inside Qeshm, Iran’s underground missile fortress and geological marvel
From the Valley of Stars to underground missiles, Qeshm Island is strategic ground zero for the US-Israel war on Iran.
aljazeera.com
