I didn't expect this to be a book stand🫪

Just wait for the ending pls 🤭🤣🤣

Thousands of people cast their votes to choose the world’s first pangolin emoji design. The winning artwork is taking the next big step towards official emoji status. Check out the full story: goodthingsguy.com/pangolin-e…

At 84 years young, South Africa's Johannes Mosehla has broken his own record as the oldest ever Comrades Marathon finisher. Read on tinyurl.com/y25fwacw #Comrades2026 #ActiveAgeing #RoadRunning

Today, we mourn the loss of Abdullah Ibrahim (1934-2026). A giant of South African and global jazz, we are honoured that his final public performance took place on the Rosies Stage at CTIJF on 27 March 2026. Rest in peace, maestro. Your music lives on. 🕊️🎹

Artist Yazi Yolcusu creates remarkable calligraphy using ordinary metal forks as his writing tools.

My latest @GuardianBooks cartoon

Een van ons land se endemiese skatte, die pragtige klein Knysna-seeperdjie. 😍😍 Kom saam op ’n onderwater- soektog na hierdie klein diertjes in die Knysna riviermonding. Skakel vanaand om 20:30 in vir hierdie avontuur in ‘Bewonder & Bewaar’ om 20:30 op Kyknet, kanaal 144.

The candy stripe mountains of Pallay Punchu, Peru 📹 annamariastravel

Meet one of the most adorable birds in the world Shimaenaga found only in Hokkaido Japan 🇯🇵 The long -tailed tit is also known as the winter bird.because they are mostly seen during winter. Shimaenaga affectionately called the snow fairy is fluffy round and looks like a flying cotton ball. #japan    #naturelovers #shimaenaga #birds

MEXICO HAS OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED ITS "STREET DOGS" AS A NATIONAL SYMBOL: THE "CARAMELO DOG" Mexico has formally acknowledged its most common street dogs – the mixed-breed, caramel-colored “Caramelo” dogs – as part of the country’s national identity. The recognition highlights stray and free-roaming dogs that have long lived in urban and rural areas across Mexico. These dogs are not a standardized breed but a widely shared local type known for adaptability and survival in street environments. The move is aimed at improving perception of stray dogs and supporting adoption efforts nationwide.

Unlike Meta, these bad boys never go down.

Art and Physics, a wonderful combo.

On 1 July 2026, South Africa's Chief Justice Mandisa Maya will be delivering the opening keynote address - titled "Judicial Leadership in a Constitutional Democracy" - at the Public Law Conference 2026. This conference is a global gathering of public law researchers, academics and practitioners. REGISTRATIONS CLOSE 15 JUNE, so register now if you're still hoping to join us - at law.uct.ac.za/publiclawconfe… #PublicLawConference @PublicLawConf

Dragonflies fun facts - Just one dragonfly can consume over 100 mosquitos in a day - Dragonflies can fly backwards - They have nearly 360° vision - Their wings inhibit bacterial growth due to their natural structures - They're actually beautiful

The countdown is over! A cool start, a warm finish, and 85.77 km of determination await. Conditions are expected to remain dry as thousands take on The Ultimate Human Race from Durban to Pietermaritzburg. Run smart. Stay hydrated. Embrace the journey. Good luck, Comrades!

The hardware store closes at 6PM.. It's 5:58 when a kid walks in. The kid can't be more than sixteen. Soaking wet and shaking from the rain... "We're closing." Tom says. "Please. I just need a lock. For a door." Something in the kid's voice. Terror. Desperation. "What kind of lock?" "I don't know. Just one that keeps people out." The kid's got a black eye. Fresh. The kind that's still swelling. Tom doesn't ask. Just walks to aisle seven. Shows him the locks. The kid reaches for the cheapest one, $8.99. "That one's garbage," Tom says, "Won't stop anyone determined." He hands him a deadbolt. Heavy duty. $34.99. The kid's face crumbles. "I only have twelve dollars." They stand there. Store empty except for them. Tom takes the deadbolt to the register. Rings it up. "Twelve dollars." "But," "Sale price. Today only." The kid knows there's no sale. Knows this old man is lying. Tries not to cry and fails. Tom bags it. Adds a screwdriver. Free. "You know how to install it?" The kid shakes his head... They drive in Tom's truck. Don't talk. The kid directs him to a rundown duplex on the east side.   Upstairs apartment. Door frame cracked. Old lock broken, hanging loose. Tom installs the deadbolt. Takes him fifteen minutes. Tests it. Solid. Hands the kid both keys. "Someone tries to get in, you call 911. You hear me?" The kid nods. Tom's halfway to his truck when he hears it, "Why?" He turns around. The kid's standing in the doorway, backlit, holding those keys like they're made of gold. "Why did you help me?" Tom thinks about his own son. Twenty years ago. Different city. Same desperate eyes. Didn't make it. "Because you asked," Tom says simply. He drives home. Doesn't tell his wife. Doesn't think much about it. Three weeks pass. A woman comes into the store. Tired eyes but smiling. "Are you Tom?" "Yes, Ma'am." "My son told me about you. The lock you sold him." She's crying now. "His father, my ex-husband, he's not a good man. That lock kept us safe until I could get the restraining order. Until we could breathe." She hands Tom an envelope. "It's not much. But it's the thirty dollars we owed you, plus a little more." Tom tries to refuse. She won't let him. "You didn't just sell him a lock," she says. "You saw him. You saw us. When we were invisible." After she leaves, Tom opens the envelope. Sixty dollars. And a note from the kid: "Installed three more locks for neighbors who needed them. Taught myself how... "Going to trade school next year. Maybe I'll work in a hardware store someday. Be someone like you. -Marcus" Tom's manager notices him crying by the register. "You okay?" "Yeah," Tom says. "Just... yeah." That night, Tom stayed two minutes past closing. Then five. Then ten. In case someone walks in at 5:58PM. Soaking wet. Desperate. Needing more than just a lock. Tom learned something. The last customer of the day may be the most important one we ever serve.

Thomas Deininger is a Rhode Island-based artist who creates complex sculptures from discarded objects and plastic waste to highlight issues of consumption, waste, and environmental pollution. Watch this 🤯 📹 tdeininger

“When our genes could not store all the information necessary for survival, we slowly invented brains. But then the time came, perhaps ten thousand years ago, when we needed to know more than could conveniently be contained in brains. So we learned to stockpile enormous quantities of information outside our bodies. We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called the library. A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.” — Carl Sagan

Never underestimate the power of millions of ordinary people choosing decency every single day