Not the least of the torments which plague our existence is the constant pressure of time, which never lets us so much as draw breath but pursues us all like a taskmaster with a whip. It ceases to persecute only him it has delivered over to boredom.
The American Civil War was the English Civil War. pic.twitter.com/vrX4h3h4J3
— Red 🎸 (@RedLeaderRobby) May 19, 2026
“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
— Mark W. (@DurhamWASP) May 19, 2026
G.K. Chesterton
Chesterton pictured with Maurice Baring and Hilaire Belloc by Herbert James Gunn [1932] pic.twitter.com/K5Gg43VJzY
One of the most shockingly underrated masterpieces of the Renaissance is Anthonis Mor’s portrait of Sir Thomas Gresham (c. 1560), now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
— Muse (@xmuse_) May 19, 2026
When people see it today, especially in high-resolution pics, they often mistake it for a 19th-century… pic.twitter.com/gExZ9ufIbX
>Black Guy 1 tries to steal White Guy’s bike
— pagliacci the hated 🌝 (@Slatzism) May 19, 2026
>White Guy beats up Black Guy 1
>Black Guy 2 tries to intervene and save Black Guy 1
>Black Guy 1 immediately tries to steal Black Guy 2’s scooter
Toronto is one of the most retarded places in the world.
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Over at Substack, @JoshEakle asks: "It's 2026, and I have yet to see an anti-almond farm protest." pic.twitter.com/UZwP7KgPCY
— Nick Gillespie (@nickgillespie) May 19, 2026
If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world for it is absurd to suppose that the endless affliction of which the world is everywhere full, and which arises out of the need and distress pertaining essentially to life, should be purposeless and purely accidental. Each individual misfortune, to be sure, seems an exceptional occurrence; but misfortune in general is the rule.
John S. Mill once said: “There are two kinds of wisdom": The 1st “depends on long chains of reasoning.” The 2nd "the wisdom of the ages"... "acquired by experience of life" and expressed as aphorisms "drawn by acute minds in all periods of history from their personal experiences” pic.twitter.com/UcOn4UBQUb
— Michel Lara (@VeraCausa9) May 19, 2026
We need an illuminated manuscript revival.
— Bluebell Raven (@BluebellRaven) May 19, 2026
1912 illuminated edition by Alberto Sangorski featuring Tennyson’s 1835 poem, “Le Morte d'Arthur”
Adapting the 5th-century Arthurian legend originally compiled by Sir Thomas Malory in 1485. pic.twitter.com/Uew21hagYi
'A party host is like a military general: calamities often reveal their genius.'
— Gareth Harney (@OptimoPrincipi) March 24, 2023
- Horace (Satires, 2.8) pic.twitter.com/L1RqaxErbS
Medical evidence can take about 17 years to change everyday clinical practice. pic.twitter.com/fYJU8voyCG
— Atanas G. Atanasov (@_atanas_) May 19, 2026
Lieutenant Frank Bethune objected when he was told to hold the Spoil Bank (south of Ypres) on 13 March 1918. He said it was ‘useless death trap’ but he was overruled. So, his whole section volunteered to join him. He issued each man with the following order: 1/3 pic.twitter.com/p9FIOWlvgN
— Andy Rawson (@AndrewRawson11) May 19, 2026
On May 18, 1939, Professor Tolkien gave his famous lecture “On Fairy Stories” at the University of St Andrews.
— Tolkien World (@TolkienWorldG) May 18, 2026
There he argued that fairy tales and myths are deeply human stories, not childish distractions. He believed fantasy allows people to experience wonder again, recover a… pic.twitter.com/9mG6TNjEzk
Azure blue swimming pool in the Hearst Castle.
— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) May 19, 2026
Many call it the most beautiful pool in history. pic.twitter.com/CJp2UiRrkD
Which way do windows open in Europe pic.twitter.com/Unn5e5Pysx
— Terrible Maps (@TerribleMaps) May 19, 2026
Many young adults imagine they can play the relational field hard through their 20s, then settle down to marry and have kids around 30—à la @alexandracooper.
— Brad Wilcox (@BradWilcoxIFS) May 18, 2026
And sure, some pull it off. More-educated, affluent Americans manage it more often than not.
But what most don't…
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We stopped in Cabimas, which was 25 miles south of the ferry landing at Palmerejo. There we had lunch at the Mene Grande Mess Hall, and I met some of the office staff. Lagunillas lay 23 miles further on to the south, and as we drove on down the shore of the lake, the hard-topped road turned into a dusty, gravel road. The native settlements became fewer and smaller. They also became poorer and dirtier! The houses were now wretched mud shacks with thatched, or galvanized iron, corrugated, roofs. The road was lined with oil pipelines, tank farms and pumping oil wells. In the populated areas, I noticed 55-gallon steel oil drums alongside the road, in front of each shack. These settlements had no utilities and drinking water was delivered into the oil drums by tank trucks. The streets were unpaved and there were open sewage ditches along the sides of the road.By the time we had reached Lagunillas, I was in a state of near-shock and panic, and I almost felt physically ill. This was the first time in my life that I had seen such abject poverty and filth. Lagunillas turned out to be the ugliest village of them all, and this was our new home for the next two years!It was with considerable relief that we entered the Mene Grande Camp just beyond the village. It was surrounded by a very high fence with barbed wire on the top, and there was a guard on duty at the gate. Entry was controlled to safeguard against sabotage and theft, as all of the common facilities were located here. There were offices, workshops, a dispensary, loading dock, storage tanks, derricks, pumping oil- wells, and endless pipelines. At one end of the camp were the social club and living quarters for the staff. The latter were composed of two World War II Quonset Huts, five family houses, three bachelor houses and two apartment buildings, each with two flats up and two flats down. Except for the Quonset huts, all of these buildings were wooden and built up on stilts in the typical style of the tropics. This was to improve ventilation and to try to avoid insects and other creepy-crawlies coming in.
In our area of the camp there were palm, mimosa, acacia and banana trees, hibiscus shrubs and many colours of the prolific bougainvillea vine. The greenery and flowers somewhat softened the industrial views. Although not pretty by any definition, it was at least a refuge from all of the squalor that lay just outside the gates of the camp. It gave one a comfortable sense of ‘apartness’. I might just survive!
We were assigned to a flat in one of the two-storey apartment buildings, which had been built as ‘temporary’ bachelor housing in 1929. The buildings had reportedly been condemned some years before our arrival in 1956. Nevertheless, the company was continuing to use them until plans for a new camp were realized.The camp lay right beside the lake, but was actually 12 feet below sea level. It was protected by a 20-foot high earthen seawall. We were happy to have an apartment upstairs, as we could see over the top of the seawall, and enjoy the views over the entire camp, as well as out over the lake. The activities at the dock were endlessly fascinating as workers and crewboats bustled back and forth. And the hundreds of oil derricks standing out in Lake Maracaibo were a rare sight to behold. As we had no air conditioning, being upstairs proved to have another advantage, as we had the benefit of the sea breezes that one did not get at ground level, back of the seawall.The stairs to our flat came up into a large screened veranda which ran the full length of the flat. There was a living room, dining room, kitchen, one bedroom and bathroom, in a shotgun arrangement. The rooms were high-ceilinged and spacious, and each had a doorway onto the porch. It had been freshly decorated for us in soft pastels with the woodwork enamelled white, except for the baseboards – which for some inexplicable reason were all painted an industrial, bright Kelly green!
A German carpenter reportedly left a pencil in the rafters while building a house in the 1600s, and it is now considered the oldest known surviving pencil in existence. pic.twitter.com/Ufh2E9ZbFY
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 19, 2026
Do. not. stop.
— Atlas Press (@realAtlasPress) May 18, 2026
Thoreau pic.twitter.com/WE1LIjATLt
An Art Deco terra cotta sculpture is located on the Expo Square Pavilion in Tulsa, Oklahoma. pic.twitter.com/xxowRyXnUB
— HerodotusWave (@HerodotusWave) May 19, 2026
Grandma always disciplined the kids with her slippers. If they misbehaved and ran off, she’d throw one and never missed.
— NOLLY (@omoelerinjare1) May 17, 2026
For her birthday, they placed a bottle on a distant table and handed her a slipper to aim at. She hit it perfectly. pic.twitter.com/7oGXW20dyW
Recent twin study published:
— John Rain (@johnthenoticer) May 19, 2026
As usual, the results show that genes have a far greater impact on IQ than the childhood environment.
⇒ The IQs of twins raised in separate homes converged over time.
⇒ This convergence was unrelated to how much contact the twins had with each… pic.twitter.com/8TbaIkTm3p
Sarmatian gold diadem (1st Century AD), was discovered in the Khokhlach burial mound near Novocherkassk, Russia 🇷🇺
— Dr. M.F. Khan (@Dr_TheHistories) May 19, 2026
The piece is crafted from gold and intricately decorated with various gems and materials, including garnet, almandine, glass, pearls, and turquoise. The diadem… pic.twitter.com/ONCL8PvwV7
I made this point in Facing Reality, but this puts it more vividly. The top 1 percent is where the progress toward authentic excellence begins, not where it ends. https://t.co/qrsVUUWUPa
— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) May 18, 2026
People who have found themselves in museums pic.twitter.com/O2jmVysV8T
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 19, 2026
"What about this passage from Mike Johnson declaring that our rights do not derive from government; they come from our creator... Is this him putting God above the Declaration of Independence?"
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) May 19, 2026
Truly the MSNBC clip to end all MSNBC clips.pic.twitter.com/Fy72cVrkgN
That coyote really is waiting for its hunting partner. Coyotes catch 34% more ground squirrels when they hunt with a badger than when they hunt alone. Three years of fieldwork in Wyoming during the 1980s, tracking pairs across the National Elk Refuge, pinned down that number.… https://t.co/Jw27pDYfaJ
— Anish Moonka (@anishmoonka) May 18, 2026
Today in 1980, Mount Saint Helens erupted in Washington State.
— Today in History (@TodayinHistory) May 18, 2026
It was the deadliest and most destructive volcanic eruption in US history. pic.twitter.com/Op14mfRUpd
Large numbers of apathetic non-voters are the sign of a healthy democracy because it means elections aren't existential. Example: Northern Ireland during the Troubles had the highest voter turnout in the UK. It went down after the Good Friday Agreement. https://t.co/4tdSaGsFkw
— Sherman McCoy (@wasphyxiation) May 17, 2026
If you visit London during a major event like the State Opening of Parliament or Trooping the Colour, you can see senior Warrant Officers and Drill Instructors actively using "pace sticks".
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 19, 2026
With a razor-sharp wrist motion, the guard plants the brass tip of the open pace stick… pic.twitter.com/vhdJAdxXEP
I didn't know Helen of Troy could generate so much conflict.
— Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) (@agraybee) May 18, 2026
Newly published: men who win the lottery are more likely to get married and have children. Women who win the lottery aren't.
— Whyvert (@whyvert) May 18, 2026
As in the Baby Boom: there was good income for young men (but not women) which boosted marriage and fertility. pic.twitter.com/H54WdZONlA
The 16th-century Persian Safavid helmet with a decorative metal face mask. pic.twitter.com/RQVjOTdoae
— HerodotusWave (@HerodotusWave) May 18, 2026
Reminder: All the worst ideas in history intellectually descended from socialism. https://t.co/uAjDnzjyLG pic.twitter.com/j4WNAe7sNY
— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) May 18, 2026
It's easy to forget that most of the stained glass in Sainte-Chapelle is 800 years old.
— World Scholar (@WorldScholar_) May 18, 2026
How do you even begin to design radiant beauty like this?pic.twitter.com/9i8Ld0NaPL
Absolute genius. The ability to squeeze intense humour out of one repeated phrase. The two greatest British comic actors of recent decades https://t.co/hbB1Oi5xPZ
— sean thomas knox (@thomasknox) May 17, 2026
Rates of childlessness at completed fertility in the U.S. were somewhat *lower* for women born in the 1970s than they were for those born in the 1950s. pic.twitter.com/gAnZv67fEg
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) May 18, 2026
How the keystone locks an arch together using compression, an ancient design still standing today. pic.twitter.com/QUug73RMrM
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 18, 2026
We need some way to make the stakes of this more clear. People have a finite amount of time in their life to spend on education. If you delay what they learn, they aren't just learning it later. They are learning less in total in their life. https://t.co/JNX5EazS0Q
— Ryan Moulton (@moultano) May 16, 2026
I just had the craziest experience at the airport.
— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) May 18, 2026
We are about to board a flight to Atlanta when the pilot from the incoming plane walks out of the jetway. Guy is probably late 50s, salt and pepper hair, military look. The kind of pilot you instantly feel good about seeing on… pic.twitter.com/njBUwfc8WG
In the past we had this TV show called Wonder Woman.
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) May 17, 2026
Everyone watched it for the awesome soundtrack and the safety-first messages. pic.twitter.com/kPyBpbem1o
A 2023 study in the National Bureau of Economic Research found that the 2006 law that uncapped federal borrowing for graduate programs didn’t improve access or degree attainment. Colleges merely raised tuition to capture more federal loans.
— Marian L Tupy (@Marian_L_Tupy) May 18, 2026
A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.
— Ihtesham Ali (@ihtesham2005) May 18, 2026
Her name is Audrey van der Meer.
She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and… pic.twitter.com/9FDGAKPA6I
This strikes me as one of the craziest posts of all time, especially from a lib. Wilson played "Birth of a Nation" on a big screen in the White House. He single-handedly re-segregated the Civil Service.
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) May 18, 2026
He presided over the implementation of the income tax (you might like that,… https://t.co/5nHD55bJfL
Not to sound geriatric but...you know what i miss?
— Jum (@JesterJum) May 18, 2026
Turning something on and it just works.
No account setup. No app download. No QR code. No "sign in to continue".
Just plug it in and it does the thing its supposed to do.
See now Oblivion shimmering all around us, its very tranquility deadlier than tempest. How little all our keels have troubled it. Our ships were all unseaworthy from the first.
— Durrell Society (@DurrellSociety) May 17, 2026
There goes the raft that Homer made for Helen.
— Lord Dunsany#homer#seaworthy pic.twitter.com/EmUm4c4rpN
Let’s get Romantic baby. pic.twitter.com/xLpEUwPYRR
— Daily Roman Updates (@UpdatingOnRome) May 17, 2026
Today, despite the global population surpassing 8 billion, fewer people live in extreme poverty than 200 years ago, when the global population was just over 1 billion. pic.twitter.com/oV89qfG5Ht
— Human Progress (@HumanProgress) May 18, 2026
Satellite imagery has revealed hundreds of giant ancient burial monuments scattered across nearly 620 miles (1,000 km) of Sudan’s Atbai Desert in the eastern Sahara.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 18, 2026
Using high-resolution satellite scans, researchers identified 260 previously undocumented “enclosure burials”,… pic.twitter.com/otbn9GDli8
Indeed, but cultural and intellectual publications (especially those with "New York" in their title) are consistently unintelligent when writing about intelligence. (Obvious political reason: If we aren't blank slates, then not all inequality can be blamed on injustice,… https://t.co/GUYhqwi2z4
— Steven Pinker (@sapinker) June 13, 2026
Frederick Douglass’ warning still holds.
— FIRE (@TheFIREorg) May 17, 2026
Free speech is never static and survives only when it's defended. pic.twitter.com/ip3IGpCvyJ
The beautiful white-faced Ibis, with its colorful purple, crimson, teal, and gold feathers, is sure to brighten your day!
— US Department of the Interior (@Interior) May 17, 2026
Photo by Leslie Scopes Anderson pic.twitter.com/UrN8WJTPox
Fixed that for you pic.twitter.com/mllQkBPp99
— Declaration of Memes (@LibertyCappy) May 17, 2026
That’s really interesting. Why do women in the US carry almost twice as much student debt as men?
— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) May 17, 2026
Do they study less useful stuff or is it something else? pic.twitter.com/7B0QSbytZP
The Angel of HadleyThe story of the Angel of Hadley is largely true. The two Cromwellian generals involved did seek refuge in the little town of Hadley, Massachusetts, from the agents of Charles II, and the Indians did attack Hadley during King Philip War. The version which follows was compiled from Judd's History of Hadley.When in 1645 Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads had crushed the forces loyal to the English monarchy, the king, Charles I, was tried and condemned to death by three judges Cromwell followers of high rank. Two of them were Generals Edward Whalley and William Goffe. Fifteen years later, Charles II was restored to the throne and the men who had condemned the new king's father were forced to flee the country. Generals Whalley and Goffe sought asylum in the American colonies where they settled for a time in Cambridge under the names of Richardson and Shepardson and spent their time attending church and lectures, and occasionally dining with the president of Harvard College. Aside from their pseudonyms, they made little attempt to disguise their identities in Puritan and antimonarchial Cambridge.But the news from home grew increasingly ominous for the two men. In February of 1661 colonial authorities received orders for the arrest of the generals. Friends decided that they must be sent well away from the Massachusetts Bay area. An Indian guide took them west to Springfield, and there other sympathizers helped them reach Hartford and then New Haven. But King Charles was determined to have the generals and dispatched two royalists to hunt them down.The royalist investigators demanded warrants to search New Haven for the men in hiding, but permission was delayed until Whalley and Goffe had had time to flee. They managed to hide in the area of Guilford for some time, but then, in the autumn of 1664, a group of commissioners was sent from London with express orders to seize the two fugitives. Again they were spirited away by friends and after a night journey reached the tiny village of Hadley just north of Holyoke where they were taken in by a sympathetic clergyman Reverend John Russell. There the two men dropped from sight.Where the two men hid, how or where they died, where they are buried all is long forgotten. But one of the generals, according to leg-end, made a dramatic reappearance.September, 1675, a decade after Goffe and Whalley took refuge in Hadley, King Philip's War was raging. As was the custom in times of peril, the citizens of the town had gathered in the church to "seek the face of God by fasting and prayer." At the very time they were praying for help against the Indians, the savages attacked the village. Many of the men had brought weapons to church, but when they rushed out to fight the enemy, they were met with a barrage of arrows. The colonists were thrown into confusion, and the Indians charged into the settlement. All seemed lost. Then there appeared an old gray-bearded man, dressed in clothes of military cut, brandishing a broadsword and shouting battlewise orders like one used to command.The colonists obeyed him and fought off the Indians. The village was saved. But when the panting and relieved settlers looked about to thank the man who had led them to victory, he was not to be found. He had seemingly vanished in a second from the heart of the tiny village. This led the religious townspeople to conclude that providence had sent them an angel in answer to their prayers to aid them in their hour of desperate need. For many years that briefly seen old man was known as "The Angel of Hadley."But others, knowing the story of the judges, said the graybeard in the strange clothes was no angel but General Goffe, who forsook his 10 years' concealment to turn his military skill to the service of the village that had given him refuge, and who, once the fighting was over and victory assured, slipped quickly back into his hideaway, there to stay for the rest of his life.
450 years old map...
— ArchaeoHistories (@histories_arch) May 18, 2026
This famous world map, titled Typus Orbis Terrarum, was created by Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius in 1570 AD, and is widely considered the first modern atlas map. Published during the Age of Exploration, it combined geographic knowledge gathered from… pic.twitter.com/GcQGbUX6bQ
See now Oblivion shimmering all around us, its very tranquility deadlier than tempest. How little all our keels have troubled it. Our ships were all unseaworthy from the first.
— Durrell Society (@DurrellSociety) May 17, 2026
There goes the raft that Homer made for Helen.
— Lord Dunsany#homer#seaworthy pic.twitter.com/EmUm4c4rpN
The “The Tubeless Siphon ” with polymer fluids reminds me how intuition can blind observation. Every instinct says the flow should stop once the glass is upright, yet the liquid keeps climbing the wall and draining itself. Reality doesn’t care what feels obvious. pic.twitter.com/JTK4zPmeBu
— Bluntly Put Philosopher (BPP) (@SocraticScribe) May 18, 2026
this is perfect, no notes https://t.co/BdFc7suVNr
— Dilan Esper (@dilanesper) May 15, 2026
Walking ~3,800 steps/day was linked to a 25% lower risk of dementia.
— Mario Tomic (@mariotomich) May 18, 2026
And ~9,800 steps/day with about a 50% lower risk.
If dementia runs in your family, daily walks are a no-brainer. pic.twitter.com/KAcMWvUo1t
John v. Neumann on 'the usefulness of Mathematics'
— Physics In History (@PhysInHistory) June 12, 2026
A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly know in what area it would become useful; and there were no general indications… pic.twitter.com/tHRH8Z6IUn
Medieval scribes would sometimes finish their work by writing:
— Grǣġhama (@grahamscheper) May 17, 2026
"tres digiti scribunt, totum corpusque laborat"
(three fingers write, but the entire body labors)
A testament to how immensely arduous and monotonous the scribal process must have been. pic.twitter.com/m4cu6erCso
I've used this answer many times. Credit for the analogy goes to Steve Goldberg, an NYU sociology professor. Any time you hear that "the best [name a cognitively demanding profession] often aren't the ones with the highest IQs," this is a useful response:
— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) May 18, 2026
"The relationship of IQ… https://t.co/o7OjF4HqO4
Fallingwater, the modern house prototype built by Frank Lloyd Wright over a waterfall in 1935 pic.twitter.com/FXWsPfqxxL
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 18, 2026
Nailed it. pic.twitter.com/UzI8EYrJcq
— Mary J. Ruwart Ph.D. (@MaryRuwart) May 18, 2026
Lifespan inequality in America declined massively after the Civil War. A massive and underappreciated fact that also means that lifetime incomes probably equalized differently than annual incomes. Below, you can see the inequality in lifespans measured by Gini coefficient.… pic.twitter.com/lSeuQKcQ6U
— Vincent Geloso (@VincentGeloso) May 18, 2026
The Gracchi brothers destroyed Rome's property rights in 133 BC, then wondered why their republic collapsed within a century. Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus seized private land through legislative force, redistributing it to landless citizens under the banner of "reform." They… pic.twitter.com/0SVVarNGnq
— Handre (@Handre) May 17, 2026
German autism makes them natural extremists. Whatever 'the thing' is in any given historical era - Protestant Christianity, imperialism, nationalism, national socialism, environmentalism, multiculturalism - they always conclude that if a thing is good, they must goodthingmax… https://t.co/LWDizC9RZt
— John Carter (@martianwyrdlord) May 17, 2026
London's smallest public square is Pickering Place, a hidden Georgian courtyard off St James’s Street. This tiny, gas-lit cul-de-sac is famous for its illicit history, including illegal gambling and hosting the Republic of Texas embassy in the 1840s pic.twitter.com/RAwY3VqRoY
— Knowledge of London (@Knowledgepoint) May 18, 2026
Quite the contrary. It was unequivocally a fraudulent election. It makes perfect sense if you face the facts. pic.twitter.com/zIgeZPg9cJ
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) May 17, 2026
42% of people who read a book in bed before sleep reported better sleep vs. 28% who didn't read.
— Mario Tomic (@mariotomich) May 17, 2026
Simple sleep upgrade: Replace 20 minutes of scrolling with 20 minutes of reading. pic.twitter.com/kR0xht7W13
Handel thoroughly deserved his citizenship. We should go back to naturalisation requiring a specific act of parliament for any successful candidates https://t.co/l16OZCcWMu pic.twitter.com/RGrm8E4w6F
— The Rest Is Tw*tter (@rorymeakin) May 17, 2026
Rousseau may have been the most destructive French philosopher. He is the intellectual ancestor of not just postmodernism and wokeism BUT ALSO socialism and communism.
— Ali Yahya (@alive_) May 17, 2026
If you accept his premise that man is inherently good and civilization is what corrupts him, then property… https://t.co/OulNwVDOWd
The 1st century AD Roman Aqueduct of Segovia, in Spain, constructed from 20,400 granite blocks without mortar.
— 🏛 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 🏛 (@nonregemesse) May 17, 2026
The bridge structure transported water 17 km from mountain springs to Segovia until 1973 pic.twitter.com/7V8R0tyOI1
If I’m gonna pay $5 a gallon this is what i want to get it from. https://t.co/Mquk6vSgTk
— MoundLore (@MoundLore) May 17, 2026
Political leanings of American doctors by specialty. Unsurprisingly, psychiatrists the most left-leaning. pic.twitter.com/4lHHnIuDl7
— Emil Kirkegaard (@KirkegaardEmil) May 18, 2026
Archaeologists Enter a Hidden Luxor Chamber and Find 22 Painted Coffins of Amun’s Sacred Singers With 8 Sealed Papyri Untouched for Centurieshttps://t.co/lzO02132nZ
— RC Egyptian Museum (@EgyptianMuseum) May 17, 2026
My favourite weather pic.twitter.com/XHcHFVipZf
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) May 17, 2026
Study Finds 100% Of Men Would Eat Any Fruit Given To Them By A Naked Woman https://t.co/WrsVU0hOTy pic.twitter.com/JFjikwjABb
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 17, 2026
Are you sitting down?
— C3 (@C_3C_3) May 17, 2026
The Woke Mind Virus did this…
US Youth Ages 13-17 that identify as transgender:
2015: .07%
2017: .07%
2019: 1.4%
2021: 1.8%
2023: 3.3%
It’s the battle of our lifetime.
A trend that must be reversed.
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
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