Day 9 of daily tweets. I can feel the habit forming! It was really hard finding good tweets today. The Twittersverse is dominated by the events in Charlottesville. Thus, there are more tweets in relation to that horrible clash. I despair for humanity when things like this happen in a supposedly peaceful democracy. Sometimes you only have to scratch the surface of civilization to find something very ugly.
Personally, I don’t understand racism. I know academically where it comes from of course. But, I just I don’t get why so many people have it as part of their make up today. I’ve watched dozens of documentaries about white supremacists, Nazis, and other such groups over the years in an attempt to try and get where they’re coming from. I don’t. It makes no sense to me.
In the end, I suppose it’s like religion. Unless it’s something that came from a traumatic experience, you have to believe it from when you’re a child. If you’re not taught it when you’re young, you couldn’t make someone racist as an adult, just like it would be very hard to make them believe in a god or gods.
Insect Tweets
Constantly relegating everything that isn’t a cat to “Other Animals” is a bit unfair, so I’m making an effort to change things. These beautiful fireflies were the prompt.
Surreal Photos Of Fireflies From Japan https://t.co/ywgO238eiH
— Life on Earth (@planetepics) August 13, 2017
Personally, I’d just squash them, but that doesn’t stop me appreciating what she’s doing.
That time I got Aedes aegypti males to use a speaker like a trampoline… they’re attracted to the female flight tone frequency playing! pic.twitter.com/X1gXwG3jKK
— Olivia Winokur (@oliviawinokur) August 12, 2017
Dog Tweets
This is one smart dog!
This dog…caught a fish…using croutons. Then walked off like Mufasa pic.twitter.com/qvN3vcbasg
— Cutest Animals Ever (@CUTEST_ANlMALS) August 13, 2017
Bear Tweets
The infectious joy here is just what we need today!
First Snow for a bear rescued from a circus. pic.twitter.com/G8PERRT7m5
— Life on Earth (@planetepics) August 14, 2017
Bird Tweets
Grebes are great!
Not much is known about the dance of the Hooded Grebe, except that it is pretty weird pic.twitter.com/CvjSfmyvhf
— Life on Earth (@planetepics) August 14, 2017
Reptile Tweets
Not sure why anyone would do this, but here you go anyway …
reptiles with hats pic.twitter.com/QzZpUUka93
— Cutest Animals Ever (@CUTEST_ANlMALS) August 13, 2017
Plant Tweets
New Zealand’s emblem is the silver fern. Here’s how they start life.
Spores of ????????’s emblem, the silver fern, grow into these little green hearts just 4 mm across. ???????????? @NZGreens pic.twitter.com/wXipOxvHeF
— Phil Garnock-Jones (@theobrominated) August 13, 2017
Political Tweets
I made mention of former Imperial Wizard of the KKK in my post on Charlottesville yesterday. Here he is confirming this is all about supporting Donald Trump and his agenda.
David Duke in #Charlottesville saying this Nazi, #UniteTheRight fiasco “fulfills the promises of Donald Trump.” pic.twitter.com/whTcWf0j8U
— Holly O’Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) August 12, 2017
Just sayin’ … 😀
when you have to use a polynesian cultural product (tiki torches) to defend and assert white supremacy ???? pic.twitter.com/m8QlStRW0H
— Tunde Olaniran (@tundeolaniran) August 12, 2017
I suspect not a lot of WWII vets would have sympathy for this crowd.
Can this be a US Vet? Wearing his Airborne Div Cap? I REALLY hope he’s just a poser who never served. He does look a tad young for Normany. pic.twitter.com/b5G7MC7qbt
— ????????Aunt Crabby ???????? (@DearAuntCrabby) August 14, 2017
Ha ha!
— mad max (@max_tesnow) August 13, 2017
This is good news:
Top military officials openly break with Trump to oppose his transgender troops ban https://t.co/Ev594KEUMK pic.twitter.com/Sk6xwwkkem
— The Hill (@thehill) August 14, 2017
Lovely picture …
You only need a little to have a lot pic.twitter.com/CYEIP8UvEi
— Free Syria Media Hub (@Free_Media_Hub) August 13, 2017
Entertainment Tweets
Amazing man.
Salvador “I don’t do drugs I am drugs” Dalí painting The Face of War, 1941. pic.twitter.com/hVPYblUnsF
— History In Pictures (@historyepics) August 13, 2017
The summer of love – how many of you remember it? My mother says that when ‘Yellow Submarine‘ came on I would go and get my toddler sized chair and place it right next to the radio.
George Harrison during the “Summer of Love” in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, 50 years ago this week: pic.twitter.com/InQfWpeq8Y
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) August 13, 2017
History Tweets
Love it!
Boston Bikie Gang, 1970s pic.twitter.com/7vDX56lA5N
— History In Pictures (@historyepics) August 13, 2017
It’s time for this one …
And is’t not to be damn’d,
To let this canker of our nature come
In further evil?— William Shakespeare (@Wwm_Shakespeare) August 13, 2017
Can I get a groan?
Vlad the Inhaler. pic.twitter.com/0yq7938Ekh
— Marshall Julius (@MarshallJulius) August 13, 2017
Science Tweets
Science, as always, is cool.
This pill could trick your heart into thinking you’re doing exercise pic.twitter.com/QcjSSmSN4R
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) August 13, 2017
Simply amazing.
This treatment could reverse memory loss in Alzheimer’s patients pic.twitter.com/yiskjbxKR0
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) August 13, 2017
An impressive young woman. This is what happens when you educate all your kids, not just the boys. Girls have just as much to contribute given the chance.
This 15-year-old is turning rice waste into wood pic.twitter.com/mXkh6K36Sm
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) August 13, 2017
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Racism: You’ve got to be carefully taught.