#galapagos — Public Fediverse posts
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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
-- H. L. Mencken⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HLMencken #Politics #Populism #Stupidity
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
-- H. L. Mencken⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HLMencken #Politics #Populism #Stupidity
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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What on earth is going on around the Galápagos? A reported covert CIA operation targeting fishing boats, with people missing and innocent civilians killed 😳
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What on earth is going on around the Galápagos? A reported covert CIA operation targeting fishing boats, with people missing and innocent civilians killed 😳
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Revelan operación encubierta de la CIA contra pesqueros ecuatorianos
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.telesurtv.net/revelan-operacion-cia-pesqueros-ecuatorianos/
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Revelan operación encubierta de la CIA contra pesqueros ecuatorianos
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.telesurtv.net/revelan-operacion-cia-pesqueros-ecuatorianos/
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🟡 DroneAttack | 6/10
🇪🇨 🇺🇸Drones attacked Ecuadorian fishing boats near Galápagos
Three Ecuadorian fishing vessels disappeared or were attacked between January and March; survivors said drones struck two boats before armed personnel aboard a US-flagged vessel.#OSINT #NewsGroup #DroneAttack #Ecuador #Galapagos #CovertOps
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Covert #CIA program said to be behind mysterious attacks on #Galápagos boats
A surveillance plane flew from El Salvador toward the #FishingBoats before #drones attacked, flight data shows.
#Trump #MafiaState #law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Ecuador #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #InternationalLaw #imperialism #geopolitics
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Covert #CIA program said to be behind mysterious attacks on #Galápagos boats
A surveillance plane flew from El Salvador toward the #FishingBoats before #drones attacked, flight data shows.
#Trump #MafiaState #law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Ecuador #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #InternationalLaw #imperialism #geopolitics
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeBernardShaw #Democracy
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeBernardShaw #Democracy
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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The Galapagos Bullhead Shark is nocturnal and rarely seen — it spends its days tucked into crevices and comes out at night to hunt crustaceans on the reef floor.
https://scubahanknyc.com/2026/07/09/galapagos-bullhead-shark-heterodontus-quoyi-fernandina-island/
#Galapagos #Sharks #ScubaDiving #MarineLife #underwaterphotographygraphy
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The Galapagos Bullhead Shark is nocturnal and rarely seen — it spends its days tucked into crevices and comes out at night to hunt crustaceans on the reef floor.
https://scubahanknyc.com/2026/07/09/galapagos-bullhead-shark-heterodontus-quoyi-fernandina-island/
#Galapagos #Sharks #ScubaDiving #MarineLife #underwaterphotographygraphy
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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertGreenIngersoll #Kindness #Virtue
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertGreenIngersoll #Kindness #Virtue
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnKennethGalbraith #Economics #Humor
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnKennethGalbraith #Economics #Humor
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Hammerhead shark silhouette in the Galápagos — one animal moving through a baitball in open water, photographed from below.
https://scubahanknyc.com/2026/08/09/hammerhead-silhouette-galapagos/
#ecuador #Galapagos #hammerhead_shark #Nature #photograhpy #Scuba_Diving_Galapagos #Sharks
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Hammerhead shark silhouette in the Galápagos — one animal moving through a baitball in open water, photographed from below.
https://scubahanknyc.com/2026/08/09/hammerhead-silhouette-galapagos/
#ecuador #Galapagos #hammerhead_shark #Nature #photograhpy #Scuba_Diving_Galapagos #Sharks
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Hammerhead Silhouette, Galápagos
In the Galápagos Islands, hammerhead sharks are often encountered by divers in significant numbers due to the nutrient-rich waters. A single scalloped hammerhead was observed moving effortlessly through a school of fish, illustrating the species' critical conservation status while also highlighting the strength of ocean currents in this unique ecosystem.https://scubahanknyc.com/2026/08/09/hammerhead-silhouette-galapagos/
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Hammerhead Silhouette, Galápagos
In the Galápagos Islands, hammerhead sharks are often encountered by divers in significant numbers due to the nutrient-rich waters. A single scalloped hammerhead was observed moving effortlessly through a school of fish, illustrating the species' critical conservation status while also highlighting the strength of ocean currents in this unique ecosystem.https://scubahanknyc.com/2026/08/09/hammerhead-silhouette-galapagos/
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
-- James Branch Cabell -
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
-- James Branch Cabell -
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
-- Soren Kierkegaard -
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
-- Soren Kierkegaard -
29-Jul-2026
#InvasiveSpecies emerge as a driver of human #displacement, new research shows
In #kenya Opuntia stricta has displaced pastoralist communities, while the invasive little #fireAnt has led to farm abandonment in #NewCaledonia, the #Galápagos Islands and #FrenchPolynesia. #WaterHyacinth has disrupted fishing livelihoods in much of Africa.https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1138014 #science #ecology
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29-Jul-2026
#InvasiveSpecies emerge as a driver of human #displacement, new research shows
In #kenya Opuntia stricta has displaced pastoralist communities, while the invasive little #fireAnt has led to farm abandonment in #NewCaledonia, the #Galápagos Islands and #FrenchPolynesia. #WaterHyacinth has disrupted fishing livelihoods in much of Africa.https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1138014 #science #ecology
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La Fundación de conservación #Jotocoto informó este jueves del inicio de la Red de Pesca Responsable de #Galápagos, que busca fortalecer el compromiso con la conservación marina. 🌊🐠
NCC IBEROAMÉRICA https://noticiasncc.com/cartelera/06/04/crean-red-de-pesca-responsable-de-galapagos-para-potenciar-la-conservacion-marina/ -
Freedom is a balancing act that requires knowing when to relinquish authority.... Too much control prevents us from seeing possibilities beyond our immediate desires. Too much order stifles the healthy chaos, the restlessness, of a truly open mind.
-- Andrew Shapiro⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AndrewShapiro #Authority #Freedom #OpenMind
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Freedom is a balancing act that requires knowing when to relinquish authority.... Too much control prevents us from seeing possibilities beyond our immediate desires. Too much order stifles the healthy chaos, the restlessness, of a truly open mind.
-- Andrew Shapiro⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AndrewShapiro #Authority #Freedom #OpenMind
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Galápagos Daisies Show Parallel Evolution Through Different Genetic Pathways
📰 Original title: Scientists found evolution repeating itself in the Galápagos Islands
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Free speech is just free speech. It takes actual humans making the effort to talk to each other to transform speech into something more vital and more valuable.
-- Dahlia Lithwick -
Free speech is just free speech. It takes actual humans making the effort to talk to each other to transform speech into something more vital and more valuable.
-- Dahlia Lithwick -
This tiny, blue #octopus is new to science
Nearly 1,800m beneath surface of #Pacific, an ROV was creeping along slope of a #Galápagos seamount when its camera caught a tiny, dark blue octopus perched in sediment — an animal no human had seen before.
Researchers have named species Microeledone galapagensis. Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, it is also fully grown — a combination that may help it reproduce faster than larger relatives.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tiny-blue-octopus-new-species
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This tiny, blue #octopus is new to science
Nearly 1,800m beneath surface of #Pacific, an ROV was creeping along slope of a #Galápagos seamount when its camera caught a tiny, dark blue octopus perched in sediment — an animal no human had seen before.
Researchers have named species Microeledone galapagensis. Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, it is also fully grown — a combination that may help it reproduce faster than larger relatives.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tiny-blue-octopus-new-species
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Children are never good at listening to their elders, but they never fail to imitate them.
-- James Baldwin⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JamesBaldwin #Children #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Children are never good at listening to their elders, but they never fail to imitate them.
-- James Baldwin⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JamesBaldwin #Children #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
-- Barbara Tuchman⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BarbaraTuchman #Learning #Experience
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
-- Barbara Tuchman⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BarbaraTuchman #Learning #Experience
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Flock of American flamingos, Isabela Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador
© Tui De Roy/Nature Picture Library
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A soft-feathered booby perched on rough-textured lava rock. #BirdOfTheDay #TantalisingTextures
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A soft-feathered booby perched on rough-textured lava rock. #BirdOfTheDay #TantalisingTextures
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We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
-- Frank Moore Colby -
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
-- Frank Moore Colby -
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
-- W. H. Auden -
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
-- W. H. Auden -
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify... into every corner of our minds.
-- John Maynard Keynes -
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify... into every corner of our minds.
-- John Maynard Keynes -
Tiny alienlike blue #octopus discovered lurking off the #Galápagos Islands
On an underwater mountainside some 1,773 meters below the #ocean’s surface, they discovered a little blue octopus. On a video of the excursion, the scientists can be heard chuckling and cooing over the creature: “Is that a cute little guy or what,” says one team member, followed by another, “Oh my goodness, that is adorable.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny-alien-like-blue-octopus-discovered-lurking-off-the-galapagos-islands/
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The war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
-- Roland Barthes -
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
-- Francis of Assisi⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrancisofAssisi #Necessity #Possibility
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos