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"Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit" (bell hooks) || journalist || campaigner || @amnesty || Easily distracte

Aug 10, 2020, 5 tweets

“In the calm universe there was a topsy-turvey planet

And on that tipsy-turvey planet were a billion topsy-turvey people

And in each of those tipsy-turvey people was a soul

And in each of those souls was a calm universe”

(Emerson “Collywobbles” Warner)

These are time lapse videos with the Milky Way fixed, while the earth rotates.

In truth, the Milky Way also rotates - we rotate around the centre at 828,000 km/h while the Milky Way imoves at 2'160'000 km/h.

For info on the author see
#CollywobblesDay.

And the full 360°! Hold on tight!

This film by Bartosz Wojczyński shows the daily rotation of the Earth

It’s called diurnal motion

The camera has been forced to rotate so that the stars remain fixed, and the Earth rotates around them. #CollywobblesDay

I don’t mean to worry anyone but, as well as the #COVID19 pandemic & accompanying far-right coup, comes
news that the Greenland ice sheet has past the melting point of no return.

The sheet contains enough frozen water to raise global sea levels 6 metres. google.co.uk/amp/s/www.forb…

"The art of creation lies in perceiving the particular & generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is the currency of human exchanges, which enables the sharing of states of the soul & conscience, & the discovery of new fields of experience."

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