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Jorge Rodrigues 🇵🇹🇺🇦 @kindresilience.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

#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]

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 12/06/2026

眼と脚がはったつした巻貝。ぴょんぴょん動く姿から高知では「チャンバラ貝」って呼ばれているよ。あと美味しい

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

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 🌿🐙📷

$A macro photo, side view, of a green beetle with orange legs and a dark thorax and head. The beetle is covered in drops of water of all different sizes (from a waterfall nearby). The beetle is clinging to a wet rock covered in pale yellowish-green lichen. The water droplets act like little prisms, refracting the light into highlights of purple and blue on the beetle's green back.$

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Jorge Rodrigues 🇵🇹🇺🇦 @kindresilience.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

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]

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Jorge Rodrigues 🇵🇹🇺🇦 @kindresilience.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

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]

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Jorge Rodrigues 🇵🇹🇺🇦 @kindresilience.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSongs "We Are Family" - Sister Sledge (1979) Lisbon / Portugal '2025 [Nikon D7000]

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

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.

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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 23/04/2026

"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

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Jorge Rodrigues 🇵🇹🇺🇦 @kindresilience.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

"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

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CONTACT LIGHT @contactlight.de · 22/04/2026

Hard to find... Happy #EarthDay #EarthDay2026 April 22 contactlight.de forallmankind.de

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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 21/04/2026

"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.

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Jorge Rodrigues 🇵🇹🇺🇦 @kindresilience.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOForOld Old wood at Old Bridge (Ponte Vecchio) Florence / Italy '2015 [Nikon D7000]

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Jorge Rodrigues 🇵🇹🇺🇦 @kindresilience.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNonsense Only in Japan can you find Nemo kart racing on a public road :) Tokyo / Japan '2016 [Nikon D7000]

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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 04/04/2026

#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 🥳

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Jorge Rodrigues 🇵🇹🇺🇦 @kindresilience.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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.

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Jorge Rodrigues 🇵🇹🇺🇦 @kindresilience.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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.

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Jorge Rodrigues 🇵🇹🇺🇦 @kindresilience.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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]

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Jorge Rodrigues 🇵🇹🇺🇦 @kindresilience.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

"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."

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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.

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Jorge Rodrigues 🇵🇹🇺🇦 @kindresilience.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

"PLAYING A DANGEROUS GAME of follow the leader, the helicopter carrier U.S.S. Guadal-canal sails with a convoy of reflagged Kuwaiti tankers and other U. S. warships." Text by Thomas J. Abercrombie Picture by Steve Rayner National Geographic May 1988 #Iran #Hormuz #Persia

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Jorge Rodrigues 🇵🇹🇺🇦 @kindresilience.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJuxtaposition 4 centuries apart: Osaka Castle vs Osaka Business Park Osaka / Japan '2016 [Nikon D7000]

Foreground: Osaka castle. Background: a slice of Crystal Tower on the left, the Twin 21 towers (OBP Panasonic + MID) and Matsushita IMP Building on the right.

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Abstract sculptures from nature in the Empty Quarter desert… #photography #art #nature #landscape #desert

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Jorge Rodrigues 🇵🇹🇺🇦 @kindresilience.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

A traditional cedar ball (杉玉 = sugidama) hanging in front of a brewery means sake is available for purchase. #BlueSkyArtShow #Round Takayama / Japan '2016 [Nikon D7000]

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Jorge Rodrigues 🇵🇹🇺🇦 @kindresilience.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

"Closing the strait, which Iran has threatened, would erode the world's current oil surplus, increasing prices - and international tensions." Thomas J. Abercrombie in 1988 for National Geographic #Iran #ReleaseTheFiles #Persia

A 17th Century map in Portuguese showing former Nossa Senhora da Conceição Fortress, Strait of Hormuz

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Son of Sandor @sonofsandor.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Iran’s occupation by British and Russian troops augmented by US forces, had far-reaching economic and political consequences. The authoritarian government of Reza Pahlevi was replaced, under his son, by a weak, constitutional regime for which Iran was ill prepared. history.state.gov/historicaldo...

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Historical Documents - Office of the Historian

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Jorge Rodrigues 🇵🇹🇺🇦 @kindresilience.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Is it a worm? Is it a millipede? No, it's a Haplophilus subterraneus (a centipede) #AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHs

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Jorge Rodrigues 🇵🇹🇺🇦 @kindresilience.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913) wanted his engines to run on vegetable oil. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEponymous Lagoa / Portugal '2021 [Nokia 5]

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Jorge Rodrigues 🇵🇹🇺🇦 @kindresilience.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

A dramatic moustache for this week's #AlphabetChallenge. #WeekDforDramatic Tokyo / Japan '2016 [Nikon D7000]

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/01/2026

Being armed isn’t a shooting justification in itself. And def not after you’ve been disarmed

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Jorge Rodrigues 🇵🇹🇺🇦 @kindresilience.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks Rereading late Michael Axworthy's take on the history of an ancient and fascinating nation, again in convulsion. Freedom will come from inside, no need of ignorant external actors. Soon it's youth will be singing "Baraye".

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Jorge Rodrigues 🇵🇹🇺🇦 @kindresilience.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAbstract Here we go again! Starting with an abstract pattern on a mossy roof. Thank you @sheena-mck.bsky.social for this new round of amusement :) Porto / Portugal '2015 [Nikon D7000]

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Jorge Rodrigues 🇵🇹🇺🇦 @kindresilience.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

"Coisa que gosto é poder partir sem ter planos. Melhor ainda é poder voltar quando quero." "Love being able to leave with no plans. Even better is being able to return when I feel like." Fernando Brant (lyrics) in Milton Nascimento's "Encontros e Despedidas" (1985) #LyricsForPeace

Crop of cover picture from Milton Nascimento's album "Encontros e Despedidas" (1985)

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