I'm a middle eastern historian. My own family were made refugees. And this is my honest view of the Nakba (“catastrophe”) - the displacement of around 700,000 Palestinian Arabs during the 1947–49 war surrounding the creation of Israel.
— SK Tedeschi (@skedeschi) May 17, 2026
A thread. 🧵
I don’t exactly have scientific data to support this, but I firmly believe that the sound of rain on the roof enhances the reading experience by at least 57%.
— Wholesome Side of 𝕏 (@itsme_urstruly) May 17, 2026
WATCH: Footage shows a World War II-era seaplane making an emergency landing on a street in Phoenix, Arizona last month.pic.twitter.com/QeEAlX6zRW
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 17, 2026
The “gonna run a great Western nation into the ground and go live my best life” starter pack pic.twitter.com/lX7U41jEwM
— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) May 17, 2026
As a compliment to the phone-fertility discourse, I want to mention that I saw a conference presentation using Indian data on this topic.
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) May 17, 2026
They used lots of staggered phone introductions and found that fertility fell *within India* with phones. https://t.co/EtHKRinKGp
The “secular” French Revolution executed three times as many people in 9 months (17,000+) as the “religious” Spanish Inquisition did in 350 years (5–6,000).
— John Dickson (@johnpauldickson) May 16, 2026
Law 10 pic.twitter.com/Gp7nUfjt6O
— Niccolò Machiavelli | The Prince ⚔️ (@NiccoloDaily) May 17, 2026
אלכסנדר המילטון ידע עברית שוטפת (נכון למה שהיה נחשב לשוטף במאה ה18) ואת עשרת הדיברות בעברית בעל פה כי הוא למד בבית ספר היחיד באי נביס שהיה מוכן ללמד ממזר - בית הספר היהודי. https://t.co/sX6mxlBhJm
— (((Gabriella))) (@2samadams3) May 17, 2026
Hang it in the Louvre https://t.co/eh4VfU6nFo pic.twitter.com/5UysTJVllF
— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) May 16, 2026
Taxation forcibly transfers money from men to women.
— Freedomain - with Stefan Molyneux, MA (@StefanMolyneux) May 16, 2026
Women still claim to be oppressed.
Ends civilization. pic.twitter.com/we92graCna
I was wondering why the Mormons decided to settle in Utah rather than going all the way west to California, which was still largely uninhabited before the gold rush of 1848.
— Theo Jaffee (@theojaffee) May 17, 2026
Turns out they actually did consider this, and Mormon pioneer Sam Brannan led 238 Mormons to Yerba Buena…
“When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard "having children" as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come. For Nature knows nothing of pro and con.”
— The Culturist (@the_culturist_) May 17, 2026
— Spengler https://t.co/VXTGlt3iIz pic.twitter.com/nLsYWbZHul
Silver Swan Automaton… no motors, built in 1773 and still working perfectly.
— Marwa ElDiwiny (@MarwaEldiwiny) May 17, 2026
The Silver Swan is powered entirely by mainsprings and brass clockwork gears.
Why did we stop creating such elegant engineering and beautiful pieces of art… timeless and built to last? pic.twitter.com/R3dVv1Wlpd
Officers pulled this guy over for a broken tail light and suspicion of DUI. What they got instead was a sobriety test they will never forget.
— Giggling Ganon (@GigglingGanon) May 16, 2026
We’ve seen thousands of hours of body cam footage, but this footage from Conway, Arkansas, remains in a league of its own. Most drivers… pic.twitter.com/0qVUZdSKGJ
Christians are the ones who built civilization. pic.twitter.com/jYNICQbk46
— Kangmin Lee | 이강민 (@kangminlee) May 17, 2026
Occupants of a sod house in Drenthe, the Netherlands, photographed standing outside in 1936...
— ArchaeoHistories (@histories_arch) May 17, 2026
Sod houses were a form of rural housing built from compacted earth, peat, grass, and turf, commonly used in regions where timber and stone were scarce or expensive. In parts of the… pic.twitter.com/4uBPWWuVv1
➜ Es fácil ser comunista desde la comodidad de un país capitalista.
— Diego Angulo (@AmoaHamlet) May 16, 2026
➜ Es fácil ser comunista desde el privilegio de una universidad privada.
➜ Es fácil ser comunista desde la tranquilidad de la libertad de expresión.
➜ Es fácil ser comunista desde una cuenta premium.
➜ Es…
This farmer has a puppy that hasn’t been trained to herd sheep yet. He lets her into the pen and instinct immediately takes over. She somehow just knows exactly what to do. Kind of crazy. pic.twitter.com/dBH7BeIQ7s
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) May 17, 2026
In 1562 a French gentleman was arrested for attending meetings of Protestants, but was acquitted after admitting he’d only gone in the hope of participating in the orgies Catholic propaganda claimed Protestants got up to. pic.twitter.com/bnuHMy2YHl
— Stakeholder Consultant (@echetus) May 17, 2026
For a long stretch of time about 40% of high school seniors agreed with this statement:
— Ryan Burge 📊 (@ryanburge) May 16, 2026
"If we just leave things to God, they will turn out for the best."
Then it started dropping noticebaly in 2016 and bottomed out during the start of the pandemic. pic.twitter.com/b2CIJIO623
Vishapakar are massive carved monoliths found across the Armenian Highlands, dating back to the Chalcolithic period around 4200–4000 BCE. Archaeologists believe they were erected by ancient communities tied to water cults, who likely used them in rituals connected to irrigation,… pic.twitter.com/QljjInOGv2
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) May 17, 2026
“By my count, the syllabus assigns roughly 45 pages of canonical Western philosophical writing across the entire quarter, against more than 500 pages of contemporary work organized around identity, oppression and indigenous ways of knowing ... There is no Aristotle, no Augustine,…
— Niall Ferguson (@nfergus) May 17, 2026
È un piccolo gioiello Arabo Normanno a me molto caro, è accanto alla facoltá di architettura …… periodo di leggerezza di allegra di giovinezza !
— urbana (@percontomio70) May 16, 2026
Chiesa di San Cataldo sec. XII.
Palermo pic.twitter.com/eEtJY9cyL8
It's worse than you think. The IDF has trained dogs to pilot aircraft. Fully 25% of the sorties against Iran and Hezbollah have been carried out by Belgian Malinois. pic.twitter.com/WzuVTFXYFt
— Jerusalem of Iron 🇮🇱 עם ישראל חי (@jerusalemofiron) May 14, 2026
Fascinating data, @BradWilcoxIFS does incredible work.
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) May 16, 2026
Grateful that right-leaning young adults want marriage and families.
What agenda can win back the others? To encourage family life into the future?
For Christians, the answer is obvious, but are there also secular ideas? https://t.co/MY6iJAfqJL
The only reason we have Vivaldi's music (of 4 seasons fame) is because some guy in the early 1900s found it in the basement of a monastary. Before that it was lost for 200 years! https://t.co/JcZzmHAJGu
— Will I Am - e/acc (@SouthernWintrs) May 16, 2026
Whoa, Mexico now has a lower birth rate than the US! pic.twitter.com/SXMQ7jWEtg
— Devon ☀️ (@devonzuegel) May 16, 2026
If you ever want to see an Islamist caught in a blatant lie in real time, then watch this. @mehdirhasan stands on a stage and begins his speech filled with complete garbage and deliberately misquoted and false statements. He knew his audience are none the wiser, and he does… pic.twitter.com/dDjZMB4UB7
— Mor Edge Insight (@MorEdge_Insight) May 16, 2026
buddy, I was writing 10 page papers without having read the book. https://t.co/P5pPLTX9aW
— JD Flynn (@jdflynn) May 16, 2026
The birth order effect on IQ follows the social order, not the biological one.
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) May 16, 2026
When an older sibling isn't alive, the oldest sibling has a similar IQ to typical first-borns. pic.twitter.com/2veUcpuLeJ
Perspectives: Mozart premiered an entire opera about the Muslim enslavement of Europeans in Vienna in 1782, within 100 years of the Ottoman siege of that city.
— Anna D. West 🇺🇸 (@SlimWiggy) May 16, 2026
All of Europe, with Vienna at the center of the fight and with Barbary pirates still capturing innocent Christian… pic.twitter.com/25ob3dQHGG
*very educational * ⚠️👇🤙 pic.twitter.com/Q2UkgGZ0YL
— Michael P. Bornemann (@MPBHH) May 16, 2026
The UK just deployed a political weapon it's only used once before in modern history.
— 🇺🇸 Edward T. Winslow (@EdwardTWinz) May 16, 2026
And nobody is talking about what it just backfired into.
🚨 🚨 🚨 KEIR STARMER BANNED FOREIGN JOURNALISTS FROM ENGLAND TO STOP A RALLY → IT PRODUCED THE LARGEST ANTI-GOVERNMENT MARCH IN YEARS… pic.twitter.com/foaKixfE4T
Mother Nature said “everything must go” 🌬️ pic.twitter.com/qo6gswaGE1
— AccuWeather (@accuweather) May 16, 2026
Most left vs. right wing occupations in USA. (Measured by donations.) pic.twitter.com/hReyeC2LHs
— Emil Kirkegaard (@KirkegaardEmil) May 16, 2026
Actual story:
— John Ringo SF Author (@Jringo1508) May 16, 2026
German (and American) rocket scientists knew that requiring the massive bells of the Apollo was a non-starter. The machine to make them would cost millions that nobody would spend.
One redneck machinist* said 'Gimme a weekend.'
Started after everybody left on… https://t.co/dOhnAADQnR
⚡️Higher education is entering its liquidation phase as a mass middle-class belief system.
— SightBringer (@_The_Prophet__) May 16, 2026
The demographic cliff is only the visible trigger. The deeper break is that the entire college model was built on three assumptions: there would always be more students, families would… https://t.co/YDqT5jxoe4
Open ocean submarine transfers are no joke. I did one on Ohio in the 90s in this exact area.
— 🇺🇸𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿⚓️ (@USN_Submariner) May 16, 2026
This is a September 2009 MEDEVAC: a Bangor-based Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine getting help from an Air Station Astoria USCG MH-60. The sailor was flown to OHSU in Portland. pic.twitter.com/BcJBdn19px
Women who end up having kids are having a similar number of kids as mothers 20 years ago (and in the US, actually slightly more kids!)
— Devon ☀️ (@devonzuegel) May 16, 2026
But the proportion of women who have any children has fallen steeply in the past 15 years, the primary driver of declining fertility rates at… pic.twitter.com/vqX72MBDSF
Je me rappelle au lycée, j'avais une prof de français qui me répétait : « Rousseau, c'est mon auteur préféré. » À l'époque, j'étais complètement illettré, je n'avais pas lu un roman.
— Brivael Le Pogam (@brivael) May 16, 2026
Depuis, j'ai rattrapé un peu le retard. Et force est de constater : Rousseau est lui aussi un… https://t.co/3OJj1uYMOl
Today in 1220, King Henry III laid the foundation stone for the Lady Chapel in Westminster Abbey. pic.twitter.com/TyFDOa1QVz
— Today in History (@TodayinHistory) May 16, 2026
Woke is a death cult that executes common sense and devours anyone who tells the truth
— X Freeze (@XFreeze) May 16, 2026
It spreads insanity like a plague and turns mental illness into the new standard
Worst of all, it has turned pure evil into a religion and demands we worship it pic.twitter.com/ipoiP2w0HH
Ancient amber pendants worn by hunter-gatherers during the Danish Mesolithic some 10,000 years ago!
— Alison Fisk (@AlisonFisk) May 16, 2026
📷 National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen https://t.co/WkTBBBpqSK#Archaeology pic.twitter.com/0ZuN2r2ni9
You have every right to know what your government is doing, and they have no right to know what you are doing.
— Free Talk Live (@FreeTalkLive) May 15, 2026
That is why they are called public servants and we are called private citizens.
Instead, the relationship has been inverted. The state hides behind secrecy, classified…
During the 2022 Buffalo blizzard, Jay Withey went door to door asking for shelter. Ten times, he was turned away.
— Wolf of X (@WolfofX) May 15, 2026
So he broke a window at Pine Hill School and led 24 stranded strangers inside, including seven elderly people whose cars had run out of fuel.
He found cereal in… pic.twitter.com/sltJznZ6BZ
I put a prompt injection into my LinkedIn bio and recruiters are messaging me in Old English and calling me Lord. pic.twitter.com/2v1c0iXqaF
— tmuxvim (@tmuxvim) May 15, 2026
A shocking new study finds that the desire for children has collapsed among young people in China.
— More Births (@MoreBirths) May 15, 2026
In the most recent data some 32% of 18–24-year-olds, and nearly half of young women, said they don't want any children at all. 🧵. pic.twitter.com/jlITCMGe5y
Mel Gibson spent $70M of his own money making two consecutive films in languages nobody on Earth speaks conversationally. They generated $733M at the box office.
— Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) May 25, 2026
The Passion of the Christ. Aramaic, Hebrew, and Latin. $30M self-financed after every studio in Hollywood passed.… https://t.co/krcKK89XQM
The most upvoted comments on this NYT piece about the migrant child crisis: https://t.co/Fi8I4PV60j pic.twitter.com/oqaDzWUuQy
— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) May 14, 2026
The 17th-century bronze relief located at the base of the Statue of St. John of Nepomuk on the Charles Bridge in Prague, Czech Republic. pic.twitter.com/vJEhFE8dDL
— HerodotusWave (@HerodotusWave) May 15, 2026
😂 okay, this skit is hilarious.
— DocumentingLibs (@HistorianUSA1) May 14, 2026
We live in a society where people just throw stuff away… like this toaster.
It was FREE on the street.
‘Sure it didn’t work, but a solder here and a solder there… took me literally five seconds to fix this thing.’ puts bread in like a proud… pic.twitter.com/xRGcqpObTr
Such a hubbub about something that Dick and I told you 32 years ago. Sorry to sound preachy, people. But the idea that this is news is ridiculous. The fact that it IS news is an indictment of journalism.
— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) May 15, 2026
In the table, "Other under-represented minorities" refers to Latinos.… https://t.co/MvWyAtZ13m pic.twitter.com/yR7sjBvW3G
The deadliest climate-related disaster in modern history originated in the Pacific Ocean. Between 1876 and 1878, severe droughts struck vast regions of the globe. Monsoon rains failed across India, northern China experienced catastrophic crop failures, northeast Brazil dried out… pic.twitter.com/0d9HrQcWg4
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 15, 2026
You traveled to Gaza to find claims of dog rape and published them without corroborating evidence but went to Portland and couldn't find any evidence of ANTIFA. https://t.co/L0wYl7vQWG
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 14, 2026
🧵The quiet revolution in robotics isn't humanoid, or world models..
— Lukas Ziegler (@lukas_m_ziegler) May 15, 2026
It's the rise of inspection & maintenance robots, quietly scaling across dirty, dangerous, and distant industrial environments.
This sector is projected to hit $8.3B by 2030. Let's break down why it's growing… pic.twitter.com/jf4sRcruBb
IT’S ALREADY HAPPENING YOU GUYS!! Incredible work @LisaRFoster, well done!! pic.twitter.com/YYHbE64vAD
— Latinos Por Pratt (@LatinosPorPratt) May 15, 2026
40% of Americans have never heard of the term "Christian Nationalism"
— Ryan Burge 📊 (@ryanburge) May 14, 2026
9% have read a great deal about it.
The groups that are the most aware of CN?
Atheists and agnostics.
The least?
Catholics.
Link to report in the comments. pic.twitter.com/ywruXeLbEl
Fifty years have passed since this photograph was taken. Jocelyne Khoueiry, just 20 years old at the time, along with six other women,all members of the Christian Lebanese Phalange, defended a building in Martyrs' Square,Beirut,against an assault by 300 Islamists.
— Azat (@AzatAlsalim) May 15, 2026
Real Feminism. pic.twitter.com/FD7iyvi36Q
Wealthy parents are going to start sending their kids to "low tech" private schools while working class kids are going to be handed tablets filled with ed tech and AI. Writing by hand and turning in paper assignments will become the new upper-class cultural symbol. https://t.co/UIjyZXwGrH
— Corey Walker 🇺🇸 (@CoreyWriting) May 15, 2026
Antique reading chair from the 1800s pic.twitter.com/LrR1Ujs3sN
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) May 15, 2026
An interesting concept idea: the bicycle lawn mower pic.twitter.com/v6mrWLCvoC
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 15, 2026
Statistical fallacies that you will want to avoid. Source: https://t.co/gVRcszOQkH pic.twitter.com/aEWfRYC9Ld
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) May 15, 2026
OTD in 1673, Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette and five voyageurs leave Saux St. Marie in two canoes to begin a four month journey to find the Mississippi.https://t.co/DSS6EkeROm
— TheHistoryOfTheAmericans (@TheHistoryOfTh2) May 15, 2026
The world after Western dominance won’t be neutral. It will belong to someone else.
— Konstantin Kisin (@KonstantinKisin) May 14, 2026
The “multipolar world” is being sold as the end of Western hypocrisy and the solution to the failures of the current order.
But power never disappears, it shifts. And an unstable multipolar… pic.twitter.com/cRP9NgO6HU
🚨#BREAKING: Numerous Residents are furious after dozens of empty Waymo autonomous vehicles reportedly flooded an Atlanta neighborhood, circling a cul-de-sac for hours without passengers and causing major frustration among locals. pic.twitter.com/aEmdh4iFS4
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) May 15, 2026
🚨 BREAKING: The New York Times reveals that Israel has successfully trained a dog to take over Nakatomi Plaza and steal $640 million in negotiable bearer bonds pic.twitter.com/wfo9fW0f82
— Kyle Mann (@The_Kyle_Mann) May 15, 2026
The iPhone Era really tanked girls' expectations for marriage and motherhood.😢@grantjbailey pic.twitter.com/02C1Biq1eZ
— Brad Wilcox (@BradWilcoxIFS) May 15, 2026
It came to pass, that in the ambergris affair Stubb’s after-oarsman chanced so to sprain his hand, as for a time to become quite maimed; and, temporarily, Pip was put into his place.The first time Stubb lowered with him, Pip evinced much nervousness; but happily, for that time, escaped close contact with the whale; and therefore came off not altogether discreditably; though Stubb observing him, took care, afterwards, to exhort him to cherish his courageousness to the utmost, for he might often find it needful.Now upon the second lowering, the boat paddled upon the whale; and as the fish received the darted iron, it gave its customary rap, which happened, in this instance, to be right under poor Pip’s seat. The involuntary consternation of the moment caused him to leap, paddle in hand, out of the boat; and in such a way, that part of the slack whale line coming against his chest, he breasted it overboard with him, so as to become entangled in it, when at last plumping into the water. That instant the stricken whale started on a fierce run, the line swiftly straightened; and presto! poor Pip came all foaming up to the chocks of the boat, remorselessly dragged there by the line, which had taken several turns around his chest and neck.Tashtego stood in the bows. He was full of the fire of the hunt. He hated Pip for a poltroon. Snatching the boat-knife from its sheath, he suspended its sharp edge over the line, and turning towards Stubb, exclaimed interrogatively, “Cut?” Meantime Pip’s blue, choked face plainly looked, Do, for God’s sake! All passed in a flash. In less than half a minute, this entire thing happened.“Damn him, cut!” roared Stubb; and so the whale was lost and Pip was saved.So soon as he recovered himself, the poor little negro was assailed by yells and execrations from the crew. Tranquilly permitting these irregular cursings to evaporate, Stubb then in a plain, businesslike, but still half humorous manner, cursed Pip officially; and that done, unofficially gave him much wholesome advice. The substance was, Never jump from a boat, Pip, except—but all the rest was indefinite, as the soundest advice ever is. Now, in general, Stick to the boat, is your true motto in whaling; but cases will sometimes happen when Leap from the boat, is still better. Moreover, as if perceiving at last that if he should give undiluted conscientious advice to Pip, he would be leaving him too wide a margin to jump in for the future; Stubb suddenly dropped all advice, and concluded with a peremptory command, “Stick to the boat, Pip, or by the Lord, I wont pick you up if you jump; mind that. We can’t afford to lose whales by the likes of you; a whale would sell for thirty times what you would, Pip, in Alabama. Bear that in, mind, “and don’t jump any more.” Hereby perhaps Stubb indirectly hinted, that though man loves his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
But we are all in the hands of the Gods; and Pip jumped again. It was under very similar circumstances to the first performance; but this time he did not breast out the line; and hence, when the whale started to run, Pip was left behind on the sea, like a hurried traveller’s trunk. Alas! Stubb was but too true to his word. It was a beautiful, bounteous, blue day; the spangled sea calm and cool, and flatly stretching away, all round, to the horizon, like gold-beater’s skin hammered out to the extremest. Bobbing up and down in that sea, Pip’s ebon head showed like a head of cloves. No boat-knife was lifted when he fell so rapidly astern.Stubb’s inexorable back was turned upon him; and the whale was winged. In three minutes, a whole mile of shoreless ocean was between Pip and Stubb. Out from the centre of the sea, poor Pip turned his crisp, curling, black head to the sun, another lonely castaway, though the loftiest and the brightest.
Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore. But the awful lonesomeness is intolerable. The intense concentration of self in the middle of such a heartless immensity, my God! who can tell it? Mark, how when sailors in a dead calm bathe in the open sea—mark how closely they hug their ship and only coast along her sides.But had Stubb really abandoned the poor little negro to his fate? No; he did not mean to, at least. Because there were two boats in his wake, and he supposed, no doubt, that they would of course come up to Pip very quickly, and pick him up; though, indeed, such considerateness towards oarsmen jeopardized through their own timidity, is not always manifested by the hunters in all similar instances; and such instances not unfrequently occur; almost invariably in the fishery, a coward, so called, is marked with the same ruthless detestation peculiar to military navies and armies.But it so happened, that those boats, without seeing Pip, suddenly spying whales close to them on one side, turned, and gave chase; and Stubb’s boat was now so far away, and he and all his crew so intent upon his fish, that Pip’s ringed horizon began to expand around him miserably. By the merest chance the ship itself at last rescued him; but from that hour the little negro went about the deck an idiot; such, at least, they said he was. The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the misermerman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad. So man’s insanity is heaven’s sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then Uncompromised, indifferent as his God.
For the rest, blame not Stubb too hardly. The thing is common in that fishery; and in the sequel of the narrative, it will then be seen what like abandonment befell myself.
In March 1948, Frank Sinatra helped Teddy Kollek, a Haganah representative (and future Jerusalem mayor), smuggle an estimated $1 million in cash to a New York pier to pay for arms destined for the nascent State of Israel. Sinatra acted as a courier to bypass FBI surveillance,… https://t.co/pcj116t3HO
— Nancy Sinatra (@NancySinatra) May 15, 2026
You didn’t “think it through.”
— Rabbi Shalom Landau (@RabbiLandau) May 14, 2026
Your emotion decided in 0.3 seconds.
Then your brain walked in
like a corrupt lawyer
and built a case for it.
That’s what most people call “logic.” pic.twitter.com/zwwmeceK7W
This 1600-year-old Goblet shows that the Romans were nanotechnology pioneers....
— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) May 15, 2026
colorful secret of a 1,600-year-old Roman chalice at the British Museum is the key to a supersensitive new technology that might help diagnose human disease or pinpoint biohazards at security… pic.twitter.com/23HypAlHF3
Become ungovernable pic.twitter.com/78D8XmfHrI
— Truthacabra (@Truthacabra33) May 13, 2026
The great illustrated encyclopedia, the Nuremberg Chronicle, appeared in 1493. Despite its age and value it's a much more common book than the average academic monograph published in 2026: over a thousand copies still exist, whereas the typical academic work prints a few hundred. pic.twitter.com/tx3fdxr1uu
— Antigone Journal (@AntigoneJournal) April 22, 2026
There was a massive DOJ study done decades ago that among people in Federal custody, the single trait career criminals had most in common was that they had all gotten caught as a teenager and the case resolved in a way that left them feeling like they 'got away with it.'
— J.T. Alexander (@JTAlexander) April 20, 2026
More in… https://t.co/3Mhfi2Tvg8
Four photos of Wimbledon’s Centre Court show how tennis has shifted: from grass worn across the whole court (serve-and-volley era) to damage almost only at the baseline today. A slower, power-driven game played from the back.
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) April 23, 2026
The 1970 picture (top left) shows the grass played… pic.twitter.com/QBSYE0WFsX
Guardian US opinion columnist on left; Guardian UK sports writer on right. Both articles published on the same day, three hours apart.
— Charles Arthur (@charlesarthur) April 22, 2026
Never seen the schism within the organisation laid out so clearly. (A number of UK staff think some US staff are bonkers.) pic.twitter.com/sD98dKexhU
Energy is prosperity. The demise of German and British industries is caused by energy policies.
— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) April 20, 2026
You cannot have well-paid jobs, economic growth, and high energy prices.
Want to help the climate? Invest in nuclear. It’s not one or the other. Why do Greens hate nuclear so much? pic.twitter.com/VaWqYOnKx1
One of the GREATEST Biblical Archaeology Discoveries in History? pic.twitter.com/MDVvXbEzHK
— Frank Turek (@DrFrankTurek) April 20, 2026
"Feminization equals wokeness."
— Camus (@newstart_2024) April 19, 2026
That single sentence from Helen Andrews at NatCon 5 stopped me cold.
She argues that everything we call wokeness — empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition and hierarchy — is simply the downstream result of… pic.twitter.com/DGWtbm5Xt4
These are the authentic sounds of musical instruments used in ancient times. pic.twitter.com/SjXOIssZjX
— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) April 22, 2026
About 54% of U.S. adults (ages 16-74) — roughly 130 million people — read below a 6th-grade level.
— Athenaeum Book Club (@athenaeumbc) April 20, 2026
Why does nobody talk about this? pic.twitter.com/Mw6aP39xfM
Winnipeg is in the geographic centre of Canada and perhaps our cultural centre in terms of defining what is really Canadian — not just because it’s called Winterpeg. Vancouver culturally associates with San Francisco or Seattle, Calgary with Dallas, Toronto with New York, and Montreal with Paris.But Winnipeg is a place unto itself, a place that reflects the vast space and isolation one feels in countless Canadian communities from the Maritimes to northern Ontario to the interior of B.C.In such communities, the glue is neighbourliness, a thirst to find a middle ground, a place where everyone has something in common.
Any man who thinks bullying is ubiquitously inappropriate has the survival instincts of a deer gazing longingly at headlights.
— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) May 29, 2026
For most of human history, communities had weak formal institutions. Public ridicule, shaming, and ostracism were used to enforce norms.
Examples:… https://t.co/njbFS7fCLV
This Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looks so modern, yet it was made over 2,000 years ago!
— Alison Fisk (@AlisonFisk) April 20, 2026
Ancient glassmakers created the tiny flower pattern using a technique now known as ‘millefiori’ (thousand flowers). A timeless design still made by glassmakers today!
British Museum… pic.twitter.com/t0JEGjZArM
The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.
— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) April 18, 2026
The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to… pic.twitter.com/CTg7Wec8bQ
Barred owl shows the full range of motion.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 22, 2026
Owls can rotate their heads up to 270° without harming blood vessels or cutting off circulation.pic.twitter.com/fZnRbSlfB2
Brutal line in Politico pic.twitter.com/Zc4BC19CIi
— James Heale (@JAHeale) April 20, 2026
Theophilos PalaeologosC.P. Cavafytranslated by Rae Dalven.This is the last year. He is the lastof the Greek emperors. And alashow grievously they speak when they are near him.In his despair, in his painKyr Theophilos Palaeologossays, “I’d rather die than live.”Ah, Kyr Theophilos Palaeologoshow much longing of our people and how much exhaustion(how much weariness from injustices and persecution)your five tragic words contained.
Narcissism has taken over the feminist movement.
— Femme (@FemCondition) April 20, 2026
"Paralleling previous research, higher pathological narcissistic grandiosity was found to be statistically significantly related to greater involvement in feminist activism. Unexpectedly, gender did not moderate this…
Isaac Newton's college notebook, handwritten by the genius himself around 1664 pic.twitter.com/LZHtCnlNfP
— Black Hole (@konstructivizm) April 19, 2026
Somewhere in the twentieth century, we took the foods that had built every healthy human population on earth and quietly replaced them with their industrial caricatures.
— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) April 19, 2026
Butter swapped for margarine.
Lard swapped for seed oil.
Full cream milk swapped for skimmed.
Liver…
Fabergé Eggs, perhaps considered one of most famous examples of exquisite and luxurious craftsmanship to this day; Fabergé eggs were originally commissioned by the Russian Imperial family in late 1800s AD. Tsar Alexander III wanted a richly jeweled egg as an Easter gift for his… pic.twitter.com/vPmZrEabb7
— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) April 22, 2026
I haven't laughed this hard in a long time!! pic.twitter.com/fRtWoz9Z28
— Branch Floridian (@JackLinFLL) April 19, 2026
Six Bronze Age shields from Scotland, each over 3,000 years old, have been returned to the National Museum of Scotland. pic.twitter.com/RaVPuLMkFz
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) April 20, 2026
Do you want to know what Israel does?
— Gummi (@gummibear737) April 16, 2026
What Israel does is prevent the United States from needing to have a much larger military presence in the Middle East
What Israel does is what Europeans failed to do in Europe with regards to Russia
That's what Israel does https://t.co/0omY4MZv4R
Mel Gibson was right all along pic.twitter.com/SUYEDjzfWG
— MERICA MEMED (@Mericamemed) April 20, 2026
Macron, Starmer, and Meloni opening the Strait of Hormuz 👇 pic.twitter.com/TXvKJrk14P
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) April 17, 2026
As a percent of GDP, hyperscaling isn't that extreme. The railroads were goddamn crazy, though! https://t.co/2OESGnu3JD pic.twitter.com/PHkCBG8gtd
— Quintin Pope (@QuintinPope5) April 17, 2026
The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 stands as one of the most spectacular vindications of free market principles in modern American history. Before deregulation, the Civil Aeronautics Board controlled every aspect of commercial aviation: routes, schedules, and most critically,… pic.twitter.com/thdjhS7uQv
— Handre (@Handre) April 19, 2026
Yale’s long-anticipated report: Elite universities, including Yale, played major roles in degrading themselves. It urges Yale to recommit itself to protecting free speech zealously, but also cautions that fixing academia’s toxic culture will be neither easy nor quick (Clip: NYT). pic.twitter.com/rWMbFW7jGg
— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) April 15, 2026
The great social evil now is relative poverty. Having succeeded in eliminating the mass hunger and life-threatening conditions in which so many once struggled to survive, we must finish the job and go on to abolish inequality which is the great injustice of our own age. The inference is that some people being relatively less well off than others is the precise moral equivalent of people starving to death while others feast.Ironically, it is the great success of free market economics and the unprecedented mass prosperity it has produced which brings this reckoning. The economic system that has delivered more people from poverty than any previous one in human history is now attacked for failing to bring everyone’s lifestyle to the same standard all at once. There are some real problems with this. If everybody must be equally well-off all the time, there can be no significant movement up or down. That would rule out what might be seen as a natural trajectory from less successful to more successful, or from early struggle to affluent independence, perhaps involving personal resourcefulness or a climb up a professional ladder.Relative poverty, so long as it is not permanent, is the obverse – the other side of the same coin – of social mobility. If there is a political guarantee of economic equality, as there was supposed to be in the old Soviet societies, the possibility of individual self-improvement is lost. For some people to be better off than others is not, in itself, morally unacceptable: their affluence may be a reward for talent, effort and risk-taking. (The argument that such traits are themselves unfair advantages is beyond ridiculous: it is positively pernicious.) Of course, they might have achieved their success through unscrupulous means, but that is the kind of moral affront which laws and social disapproval are intended to prevent.The idea that anyone who is significantly better off must be, by definition, immoral is what lies behind the logic of a wealth tax – which is, in effect, a success tax. This is the real crux of the matter. Personal achievement and self-improvement are among the greatest satisfactions life has to offer. The possibility of moral agency and the scope for taking individual responsibility are probably the defining attributes of emotional maturity. We have spent a generation or so arguing about whether the government should guarantee equality of opportunity – which would provide as many people as possible with the chance to experience these things – or equality of outcome which would, by definition, eliminate them.Relative poverty – which is to say, being less well off than some other people – is not, in itself, a bad thing, so long as it is temporary and remediable. It should be something that you can escape, leave behind, look back on as a formative time. (You may have guessed that I speak from experience here.) But the possibility of it must exist.
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