You know what your problem is? You fail to imagine a world outside the United States. You’re just not thinking about other countries, you know? Cuba, Russia, Canada. They might as well not exist, to look at your Twitter stream, what with its tweets from the CDC and the EPA and the FDA and the TSA and the ... we'll just stop there. Well, we can help you conquer your unwitting chauvinism with a few suggested non-US social media follows.
Follow Roscosmos on YouTube
Rockets rockets rockets rockets rockets. Gaagh, and there’s a rocket on a special rocket TRAIN. A rocket train, there is a special train for rockets!
And don’t give me that excuse that you don’t speak Russian. Whatever. You don’t have to speak Russian for the overhead view of Earth around minute one of this video to make your stomach drop.
Follow The Kenya Tourism Board on Twitter
It took us, like, 25 minutes to write this blurb because we couldn't stop scrolling down for more jolts of Animals Doing Amazing Things. The lion mom with her itty-bitty cubs trotting down the road. Some rhinos snuzzling. A deer-kinda-thingie. Good for your occasional creature hit with a dose of culture to boot.
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Look, I know, and you know, exactly what CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is really for: To open up a doorway to a parallel universe so that the greys and the reptilians can have easier access to our government offices and precious bodily fluids. But the CERN officials, they continue to maintain that they’re just “examining dark matter” and “looking for Higgs bosons.” So fine, let them give you their official updates on some of the most amazing physics research being done today (they collided particles at 13 TeV for the first time ever yesterday!). [#video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/zTl4O7Qvsfs]||||||
Follow the BC Ministry of Transportation on Twitter (or not, since you probably don’t live there) Number of followers of the New York Department of Transportation’s Twitter feed: 59K. Number of people who live in New York: 8.4 million. Number of followers of British Columbia’s transportation Twitter Feed: 46K. Number of people who live in British Columbia: 4.6 million. In your face New York City DOT! In! Your! Face! Per inhabitant, British Columbia has you pwnd! Woooo woooooo. Take that NYC! Suggested by @P_Lavoie
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Follow the US Department of the Interior on Instagram
OK so now you, international people, this message is for you. The photos on the US Department of the Interior’s Instagram feed are all totally calendar-worthy and will make you want to come visit us. Which you should do, really, because it’s lovely here. Foxes, sunsets, canyons of varying grandeur. It’s just really …. nice and soothing.
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