As I share this reality, I will receive endless hate mail that the erasure of Christians in the region is due to the Jews. Wake up. https://t.co/j628jgrIKx
— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) October 9, 2024
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
History
An Insight
We can dress it up as we like, but the blunt truth is that an enormous number of the people who run the mainstream media are monumentally silly. https://t.co/yQ3WD12OIS
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) October 7, 2024
I see wonderful things
Camille and Katrina were ca 25-28'. https://t.co/mUV0y8Gn5r
— Miles Smith IV (@IVMiles) October 10, 2024
Offbeat Humor
I understand that, in the real world, with mortgages and children and a job on the line, this can be difficult for good people to do. I honestly do. But the correct answer in this situation is still, “I literally asked a guy questions on television, go fuck yourself.” https://t.co/VufWtvSuzS
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) October 8, 2024
Data Talks
Thousands every month, that is https://t.co/65mPIR2d4m pic.twitter.com/RxNDqyZY9L
— ~~datahazard~~ (@fentasyl) October 8, 2024
Golden Afternoon, 1908 by Frederick Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935)
Golden Afternoon, 1908 by Frederick Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935)
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Monday, November 4, 2024
History
Born today 319BC King Pyrrhus of Epirus who fought both Rome and Carthage. He gave the world the phrase "a Pyrrhic victory" for a success so costly that it counts as a defeat🏛️ pic.twitter.com/Xa62uRgxtw
— Roman History (@romanhistory1) October 8, 2024
An Insight
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
— John Locke (@JohnLockeQuote) October 8, 2024
I see wonderful things
One of the gorgeous rooms of one of the palaces of the City Palace Complex (Raj Mahal), situated in the city of Udaipur in Rajasthan - India.
— Sarahh (@Sarahhuniverse) October 10, 2024
It was built over a period of nearly 400 years, with contributions from several rulers of the Mewar dynasty. Its construction began in… pic.twitter.com/vvhxx4Odxe
Offbeat HUmor
“With someone else’s butt, we can all be whores” where was this in my econ textbooks https://t.co/wBwg0lWGjM
— Angantýr (@BasedNorthmathr) October 8, 2024
Data Talks
Since arriving in China, meetings founders and VCs have left me with a very dim view of the current state affairs.
— Eleanor Olcott (@EleanorOlcott) September 12, 2024
Things are so bad.
In 2018, 51,302 new startups were founded. Last year, that number was down to 1,202.
It took a while for that number to sink in. pic.twitter.com/oCeO2sAssc
Sunrise, 1983 by Kurt Solmssen (American, 1958 - )
Sunrise, 1983 by Kurt Solmssen (American, 1958 - )
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Sunday, November 3, 2024
Suicide In The Trenches by Siegfried Sassoon
Suicide In The Trenchesby Siegfried SassoonI knew a simple soldier boyWho grinned at life in empty joy,Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,And whistled early with the lark.In winter trenches, cowed and glum,With crumps and lice and lack of rum,He put a bullet through his brain.No one spoke of him again.You smug-faced crowds with kindling eyeWho cheer when soldier lads march by,Sneak home and pray you'll never knowThe hell where youth and laughter go.
History
it's kind of crazy that, like, every other early- to mid-20th-century intellectual was overtly fawning over Stalin and we all just sort of shrugged and moved on
— TracingWoodgrains (@tracewoodgrains) October 8, 2024
often hardly even a mention in their bios
"yeah, supported the rise of a murderous regime. whoopsie. nbd"
An Insight
The thing to grasp about the regime is that it's not interested in governing the people but controlling them and extracting resources from them. America is facing what many European countries, and the UK, are now facing: a simmering conflict between state and nation. https://t.co/ijOTBl29vA
— John Daniel Davidson (@johnddavidson) October 7, 2024
I see wonderful things
The Andromeda galaxy is 6 times bigger in the sky than the full Moon: it's just too dim to clearly see it with the naked eye.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 9, 2024
This composite image shows what it would look like at night if it was just brighter.
[📸 Tom Buckley-Houston] pic.twitter.com/aAdjEqnpiY
Offbeat HUmor
Panic In Florida As Biden Instructs FEMA To Set Up Floating Pier For Aid Delivery pic.twitter.com/VKB5zeNzow
— Associated Fress (@AssociatedFress) October 8, 2024
Data Talks
NEW BLOG POST: The Inevitable Upward Revision in FBI Violent Crime Numbers
— Sam E. Antar (@SamAntar) October 5, 2024
✅John Lott/@JohnRLottJr , writing for the New York Post, revealed that the FBI quietly revised its national violent crime rates for 2021 and 2022 in its 2023 report.
✅This revision shows a 4.5%… pic.twitter.com/lBWh4z218a
Unknown title by Jose Escofet (Spanish, 1930 - )
Unknown title by Jose Escofet (Spanish, 1930 - )
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John, Jack and Alice
John Tenniel was the chief cartoonist of the British magazine Punch for some fifty years as well as the original illustrator of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass in 1865 and 1871 respectively.
The Nemesis of Neglect, a famous image and article published in Punch magazine on 29 September 1888 when Jack the Ripper, an unidentified serial killer, was stalking the streets of Whitechapel, London. The image was drawn by John Tenniel. It depicts a phantom in the street… pic.twitter.com/U1CThjtLwX
— ArchaeoHistories (@histories_arch) November 3, 2024
There floats a phantom on the slum’s foul air,Shaping, to eyes which have the gift of seeing,Into the Spectre of that loathly lair.Face it – for vain is fleeing!Red-handed, ruthless, furtive, unerect,‘Tis murderous Crime – the Nemesis of Neglect!
Saturday, November 2, 2024
History
Wild that Sears and Roebuck had a warehouse the size of a small European country and you could basically put a letter in the mail and a few weeks later your house showed up in pieces at your nearest railyard pic.twitter.com/o4CRAkUZq5
— Rust Belt Kid (@rustbeltkid1) October 7, 2024
An Insight
If I belong to the sex class whose body is provably organised to produce eggs rather than sperm, and to bear rather than beget children, I am a woman. Also members of my sex class: women with Swyer syndrome, though our chromosomes differ. pic.twitter.com/ie06Kh7X3V
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 7, 2024
I see wonderful things
Bumpy ride into Hurricane #Milton on @NOAA WP-3D Orion #NOAA43 "Miss Piggy" to collect data to help improve the forecast and support hurricane research.
— NOAA Aircraft Operations Center (@NOAA_HurrHunter) October 8, 2024
Visit https://t.co/3phpgKNx0q for the latest forecasts and advisories
Visit https://t.co/UoRa967zK0 for information that you… pic.twitter.com/ezmXu2Zqta
Data Talks
Trade routes in the Middle Ages. pic.twitter.com/N4ljanSbLq
— Vintage Maps (@vintagemapstore) October 7, 2024
Friday, November 1, 2024
History
Great Chicago Fire broke out today 1871: pic.twitter.com/CfSKWiC1WQ
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) October 8, 2024
An Insight
If I belong to the sex class whose body is provably organised to produce eggs rather than sperm, and to bear rather than beget children, I am a woman. Also members of my sex class: women with Swyer syndrome, though our chromosomes differ. pic.twitter.com/ie06Kh7X3V
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 7, 2024
I see wonderful things
I love this Pierre Poilievre guy, he’s the same guy who in a short 2-minute clip effortlessly dismantles the whole media’s deception, all while munching on an apple! https://t.co/PnZ82xSiMG pic.twitter.com/JincVoHFpx
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) October 8, 2024
Offbeat Humor
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered!" - George Best and Michael Parkinson. pic.twitter.com/0TIFAte9Vk
— Sports & Betting History by BestBettingSites (@CDCHistory) October 7, 2024
Data Talks
Little graph to remind you how unbelievable it is that you can instantly contact someone anywhere on the planet for free
— Tim Urban (@waitbutwhy) October 7, 2024
[graph from The Rise and Fall of American Growth] pic.twitter.com/yvCsUVFavP
Dusk, Anticoli Corrado, 1921 by Charles Cundall
Dusk, Anticoli Corrado, 1921 by Charles Cundall
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