Neolithic axe-heads from the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney #FlintFriday
— 🅰ntiquity Journal (@AntiquityJ) February 6, 2026
One of the most iconic tools of Europe's first farmers, wear analysis reveals they were treated in diverse ways, used for cutting wood, chiselling stone, scraping hides and more.
🆓 https://t.co/nCBDFbmb7Z pic.twitter.com/r4rQ4cBYnN
Fukuyama didn't say it was the end of history. In "The End of History and the Last Man" the part no one reads is about "The Last Man". Go read the last chapter of the book, here is the important part summarised: https://t.co/d0cnlKL67k pic.twitter.com/DbmWKIhiEK
— Kraut (@The_Davos_Man) February 8, 2026
A kingfisher's remarkable head stabilization while hunting.pic.twitter.com/qC3Z0JdV1p
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) February 9, 2026
If you told me that there would be a Second Coming of Margaret Thatcher with even more conservative stances on immigration and defense, and that SHE would be LOVED and not despised by the youth in the 2026th Year of Our Lord, I simply would't believe you.
— Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) February 9, 2026
But yet, here we are.… pic.twitter.com/wk2u5mQQAD
What an odd way to say "60 percent of ICE arrests are of criminals wanted for more than their immigration crimes — which are, in fact, still crimes." https://t.co/b3VsrOBAws pic.twitter.com/5SLbVmWUFr
— Luther R. Abel (@lutherabel1) February 9, 2026
One of the many territories Russia occupies and can not possibly defend is Sakhalin.
— Astraia Intel (@astraiaintel) February 9, 2026
This island, which is rightfully Japanese, has been under Russian occupation for seven decades.
Its seizure would grant the Japanese economy a major boost, as its oil can be funneled into… pic.twitter.com/K8u78jfjXl
German Chancellor Merz admits:
— Clash Report (@clashreport) January 22, 2026
Both Germany and Europe have wasted incredible potential for growth in recent years by dragging their feet on reforms and by unnecessarily and excessively curtailing entrepreneurial freedom and personal responsibility.
We must substantially… pic.twitter.com/BSQib4BWqZ
The Beryozka Ballet’s iconic ‘ghost dance’
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) February 9, 2026
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How to tell if someone is a Republican, a Democrat, or just a Southerner.
— TexasTamie (@TexasTamieK) February 8, 2026
Are you a Republican, a Democrat, or a Southerner? This little test will help you decide:
You’re walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children.
Suddenly, a Terrorist with a huge knife…
It's astonishing to witness the improvement in public education--reading, math, attendance, grad rates--in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. But we're busy fighting culture wars rather than scaling up what these three states have done. Please do read: https://t.co/h20UCdCP2w pic.twitter.com/5I0ZJdXNJa
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) February 9, 2026
An important conversation in The Count of Monte Cristo. Dantès asks another prisoner (who accomplishes a lot in his confinement) what he might have become if he was was free.
— roobz 🌙 🌸 (@tishray) February 8, 2026
His answer is probably nothing, and for a good reason. pic.twitter.com/YSiYKVwmEP
Isn’t it interesting that your newspaper is reporting this now, decades after the fact? Are you guys so incompetent you couldn’t trace this connection earlier? Or were you covering up for the Clintons all that time? https://t.co/kNt9Un7NT9
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) February 9, 2026
The Frieze of the Small Horses, painted at Lascaux about 20,000 years ago. pic.twitter.com/nCRprhYkBE
— Chris Stringer (@ChrisStringer65) October 23, 2025
This is so mean I wish I typed it. https://t.co/m1myaRQiAG
— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) February 9, 2026
Studies confirm that having a baby is contagious!
— More Births (@MoreBirths) February 8, 2026
If a friend or family member has a baby, a woman is much more likely to have a baby herself in subsequent years. At least seven different studies have found this effect! 🧵! https://t.co/NjIzweEieh pic.twitter.com/6NodPYpSUT
The dominant force in creating a common culture between peoples each of which has its distinct culture, is religion. Please do not, at this point, make a mistake in anticipating my meaning. This is not a religious talk, and I am not setting out to convert anybody. I am simply stating a fact. I am not so much concerned with the communion of Christian believers today; I am talking about the common tradition of Christianity which has made Europe what it is, and about the common cultural elements which this common Christianity has brought with it. If Asia were converted to Christianity tomorrow, it would not thereby become a part of Europe. It is in Christianity that our arts have developed; it is in Christianity that the laws of Europe have —until recently—been rooted. It is against a background of Christianity that all our thought has significance. An individual European may not believe that the Christian Faith is true, and yet what he says, and makes, and does, will all spring out of his heritage of Christian culture and depend upon that culture for its meaning. Only a Christian culture could have produced a Voltaire or a Nietzsche. I do not believe that the culture of Europe could survive the complete disappearance of the Christian Faith. And I am convinced of that, not merely because I am a Christian myself, but as a student of social biology. If Christianity goes, the whole of our culture goes. Then you must start painfully again, and you cannot put on a new culture ready made. You must wait for the grass to grow to feed the sheep to give the wool out of which your new coat will be made. You must pass through many centuries of barbarism. We should not live to see the new culture, nor would our great-great-great-grandchildren: and if we did, not one of us would be happy in it.To our Christian heritage we owe many things besides religious faith. Through it we trace the evolution of our arts, through it we have our conception of Roman Law which has done so much to shape the Western World, through it we have our conceptions of private and public morality. And through it we have our common standards of literature, in the literatures of Greece and Rome. The Western World has its unity in this heritage, in Christianity and in the ancient civilisations of Greece, Rome and Israel, from which, owing to two thousand years of Christianity, we trace our descent. I shall not elaborate this point. What I wish to say is, that this unity in the common elements of culture, throughout many centuries, is the true bond between us. No political and economic organisation, however much goodwill it commands, can supply what this culture unity gives. If we dissipate or throw away our common patrimony of culture, then all the organisation and planning of the most ingenious minds will not help us, or bring us closer together.
In late 18th Century, a curious gold ring was dug up on farmland near Silchester in England. The ring bore the name “Senicianus” and a small engraved image. For decades it was simply an odd relic from the Roman past, its story unknown. Then, more than a century later,… pic.twitter.com/U5d65kcmUl
— Dr. M.F. Khan (@Dr_TheHistories) February 9, 2026
Western Civilization in a Nutshell:
— Andrew Côté (@Andercot) January 30, 2026
- Greek Philosophy and Mathematics
- Roman Legal and Administrative systems
- Carolingian education and universities
- Christian morality and spirituality
- Reformationist freedom of worship
- French Physiocratic free market capitalism
-… https://t.co/Lw1wqyGBFb
Decades-old palms in Rio de Janeiro are flowering for the first and only time.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) February 9, 2026
These India and Sri Lanka native trees can reach 100 feet and produce millions of blooms that may form new seedlings if pollinated.pic.twitter.com/adM4qQUiaM
The modern educated liberal is the most propagandized person in human history https://t.co/bA1s0VjnJv
— wanye (@xwanyex) February 9, 2026
Blewburton hillfort, South Oxfordshire. pic.twitter.com/3YGpbe2REe
— 𝙃𝙚𝙙𝙡𝙚𝙮 𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙚 (@thorneh) January 22, 2026
Thucydides, a 2,400 year old quote just as applicable today pic.twitter.com/UXNOi1wfFU
— Atlas Press (@realAtlasPress) January 21, 2026
🚨: 93 million miles away, the Sun erupted. Days later, this is the result in an Alaskan driveway.pic.twitter.com/nOHuzr0CPr
— Curiosity (@MAstronomers) January 22, 2026
Population barely changed, but SNAP doubled due to massive fraud https://t.co/MxEWwquS1I
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 22, 2026
True, and as @naval says, this is a blessing https://t.co/QAaEWswGgK pic.twitter.com/EPmYJx0c6j
— Anders K. (@Falliblemusings) January 6, 2026
Whaler made scrimshawed whale ivory Sea Horse pie crimper, circa 1850 pic.twitter.com/7iXR3bB3Sn
— Archaeology & Art (@archaeologyart) January 21, 2026
Big weather system coming through.
— Weapon 𝕏 (@HellRaz0r1776) January 21, 2026
Here's what we know so far. pic.twitter.com/hkb4NGhEpH
this is such facts and i've seen it firsthand
— James Shields (@scaling_shields) January 21, 2026
my mates older sister is a corporate recruiter for a fortune 500
few drinks in at christmas she started talking
"you want to know how many of those linkedin jobs are real?"
i said yeah
"maybe 30%. and thats generous"
she pulled… https://t.co/hZCY2wxGsq
On November 4, 1791, a Western Confederacy of Native American warriors led by Little Turtle and Blue Jacket decimated Arthur St. Clair's expedition near the Wabash River in present-day Ohio. The confederation's 1,000 warriors struck at dawn, killing 632 soldiers and wounding 264… pic.twitter.com/eKspU4gB6N
— Dr. M.F. Khan (@Dr_TheHistories) January 22, 2026
.@daviddeutschoxf has said that everyone, when they are most creative, is Popperian—whether they know it or not. And if that mindset could be bottled and spread, humanity would take a massive leap forward.
— Anders K. (@Falliblemusings) January 9, 2026
Don't buy it? Here is Elon Musk, the world’s highest-impact human,… pic.twitter.com/rY3yCMl9Wn
This is one of my favorite moments on the internet.
— Sovey (@SoveyX) January 21, 2026
A YouTuber is walking around SpaceX, asking questions like a normal curious person who actually understands rockets.
He points something out, Elon Musk pauses, thinks about it, and goes: “Thanks, we’re going to fix that.”… pic.twitter.com/j5BhLwu0Iv
Blaming Climate Change pic.twitter.com/scDlt9l9LH
— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) January 21, 2026
You've heard of the studies where they give the same dataset/research question to a bunch of researchers and they tend to get different answers, right?
— John B. Holbein (@JohnHolbein1) January 21, 2026
Why is that?
This new working paper shows that it has a lot to do with data cleaning.
This is consistent with Gelman's… pic.twitter.com/FClI8VtosB
You're right, Amy. I will add the footnote I always add when commenting on the film: Gene Kranz was an authentic hero on Apollo 13 and his role is accurately portrayed. What the film didn't cover was that Gene's White Team left Mission Control an hour after the accident, and… https://t.co/8YZM0IHwDr
— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) January 21, 2026
Now and then I have to conduct family business in my ancestral homeland in very rural southern Mississippi where my family has been for 216 years. In the course of such things, I have to interact with the county courthouse, tax assessor, etc in county seats in cities with…
— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) January 20, 2026
Olavinlinna, St. Olaf's Castle, Finland, is the northernmost medieval stone castle in Europe. Finished in 1499 by a Danish-Swedish noble to secure the border areas against Russia. Modernized in the 18th century. Never captured in battle. pic.twitter.com/5NLdIlmLsx
— Wrath Of Gnon (@wrathofgnon) January 22, 2026
People think I do all the cooking for myself and my husband because I have some trad belief that men don’t belong in the kitchen. The truth is that I am Italian and my husband is English, and I do not believe any English person of any gender belongs in my kitchen.
— Icona (@iconawrites) January 20, 2026
There is still widespread denial about this among Democrats, a lot of talk about how Trump's base is wealthy contractors, car dealers etc.
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) January 20, 2026
Yes, many of Trump's most ardent supporters are of that type. But where he *expanded* the GOP base, where Democrats lost support, was lower… https://t.co/gUse66P2de
Of the Sixth and Seventh Centuryby C.P. CavafyIt's very interesting and moving,the Alexandria of the sixth century, or early in the seventhbefore the coming of the mighty Arab nation.She still speaks Greek, officially;perhaps without much verve, yet, as is only fitting,she speaks our language still.Throughout the Greek world it's destined to fade away;but here it's still holding up as best it can.It's not unnatural if we have looked uponthis particular era so feelingly,we who now have once more bornethe sound of Greek speech back to her soil.
The Lycian tombs at Sidyma are among the most atmospheric funerary landscapes in ancient Lycia, in southwestern Anatolia near modern Dodurga, not far from Fethiye.
— Following Hadrian (@carolemadge) January 21, 2026
Sidyma’s tombs are scattered across steep, terraced hillsides, olive groves, and rocky outcrops rather than… pic.twitter.com/kQKi7lsGkl
I’ll publish a longer article on this tomorrow, but here is the simplest way to explain what makes Islam fundamentally different from every other major religion, and why it is uniquely destabilizing.
— Dan Burmawi (@DanBurmawy) January 20, 2026
Judaism, Sikhism, Christianity, and Islam are monotheistic religions, which…
"It's just a wood in England, it can't be that cool" 😱😍 pic.twitter.com/zBrr1jasya
— Gollumgram (@Gollumgram) January 22, 2026
A man on his deathbed calls for his lawyer...
— 𝙅𝙤𝙨𝙝™ (@SommyWritesWeb3) January 21, 2026
"I want to revise my will one last time," he whispers. "I'm leaving everything to my devoted brother, Charles."
The lawyer is shocked. "But sir, for years you've told me Charles is a liar and a thief! What about your friends?…
evergreen https://t.co/eUTfzvjAgO pic.twitter.com/TMlAxFmQhd
— Max (@minordissent) January 20, 2026
Just a reminder that Benjamin Franklin was a teenage anon sh*tposter cosplaying as a woman.
— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) January 21, 2026
Before lightning, bifocals, or founding a country, Benjamin Franklin was a 16 year old printer’s apprentice sneaking essays under a door at night. Signed by a fake middle aged widow named… pic.twitter.com/1TkGxii7bD
“In the multiculturalist’s mental world, in which the savages are forever noble, there is no criterion by which to distinguish high art from low trash.”
— Mark W. (@DurhamWASP) January 20, 2026
Theodore Dalrymple pic.twitter.com/RYrK0liwp6
The hard work is refusing two temptations: moral purity that won’t speak about outcomes, and moral convenience that speaks only about outcomes.If we want to argue about this without chest-thumping or doom, its useful to separate two sentences that people keep merging: I’m glad this happened and I endorse the method. Those are different claims.
"The Dialogue of Seska Solsa with a Weasel," a painting by the Ingush artist Khozh-Akhmed Imagozhev.
— PAN CAUCASUS (@pancaucasus) January 21, 2026
Seska Solsa is one of the central heroes of the Vainakh Nart Sagas. According to legend, he possessed the gift of understanding the language of animals, and the weasel was his… pic.twitter.com/q3HPT3p6rP
A math professor, Dave, has a problem with his sink, so he calls a plumber...
— 🇨🇭🏴InLucysHead🏴🇨🇭© (@InsideLucysHead) January 21, 2026
The plumber comes over and quickly fixes the sink. The professor is happy until he gets the bill. He tells the plumber, "How can you charge this much? This is half of my paycheck." But he pays it…
It’s not about his ego. It’s not about the Nobel Peace Prize. It’s not about the Mercator projection. It’s not about imperialism. It’s not about resources. It’s not about real estate.
— Payton Alexander (@AlexanderPayton) January 19, 2026
This is what it has always been about, and this is why it was always going to happen. pic.twitter.com/DUu36QAkAk
POLEMICS GIVE WARMTHPerhaps people throw themselves into heated polemics to give content to their lives, to warm their hearts. What Luther said of hatred is true of all quarreling. There is nothing like a feud to make life seem full and interesting. 1950
Wilson never doubted his faith. “There are people who believe only so far as they understand,” he said, “—that seems to me presumptuous.” The power of religion, he insisted, made his life “worth living.”
Christ has died.Christ is risen.Christ will come again.
Story goes that during WWII, the British Indian Army planned to drop a company of the toughest Gurkhas behind Japanese lines to help stop the oncoming invaders. A British major explained the plan to the Gurkha sergeant major, saying: “We’ll drop you from 600 feet.”
— Dr. M.F. Khan (@Dr_TheHistories) January 21, 2026
The sergeant… pic.twitter.com/Oty3VLZqo2
Francis Fukuyama is a fucking genius and a prophet. pic.twitter.com/5ux2CSMxSp
— LoLNothingMatters (@DastDn) May 6, 2024
Wow.
— John B. Holbein (@JohnHolbein1) January 21, 2026
This looks like an amazing project.
Scholars at UMichigan have recently collected a massive dataset of over 1.1M podcast transcripts that is largely comprehensive of all English language podcasts.
Using this data, they conduct an investigation into the content,… pic.twitter.com/VGkDUxqdiB
A letter from today’s @thetimes with some fine courtroom humour… pic.twitter.com/OVqWriDTB2
— Mary Aspinall-Miles (@MAMBarLife) January 20, 2026
Canada is pillaging Alberta. To the point Ottawa is bought and paid by Albertans.
— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) January 20, 2026
For comparison, Washington loses 10 billion a year on Alaska — we give much more than we take. https://t.co/GAvyo0YGsD
Many Victorian Londoners had no choice but to eat bread made in disgusting bakeries "infested with rats, beetles and cockroaches" and bulked out with alum, a derivative of aluminium.
— Phoebe Arslanagić-Little (@PMArslanagic) January 20, 2026
That changed in the 1860s when student John Dauglish invented a cheaper, more hygienic way of…
I stopped taking advice from childless people.
— Chris Boettcher (@chrisboettcher9) January 20, 2026
Fitness. Productivity. Life advice. All of it.
And here's why:
It's not that they're wrong. It's that they're playing a completely different game.
Taking life advice from someone without kids is like getting marriage tips from a…
Zhang Zongchang (Chinese: 張宗昌; pinyin: Zhāng Zōngchāng; also romanized as Chang Tsung-chang; 1881 – 3 September 1932), courtesy name Xiaokun, was a Chinese warlord who ruled Shandong from 1925 to 1928. A member of the Fengtian clique, Zhang was notorious for his brutal and ruthless behavior, eccentric personality, and extravagant lifestyle, which earned him nicknames such as the "Dogmeat General"; Time in 1927 dubbed him China's "basest warlord".Zhang's troops were defeated by the National Revolutionary Army during the Northern Expedition in 1928, and he fled to Japan before returning to Shandong in 1932, where he was assassinated by a young officer.
Zhang was born in 1881 in Ye County (掖縣, now Laizhou city) in Shandong. His family was poor. Zhang's father worked as a head shaver and trumpeter, and was an alcoholic. His mother was an exorcist and "practicing witch". His parents eventually separated. Zhang stayed with his mother who had taken a new lover. In his teens, Zhang's family moved to Manchuria (which was known as Chuang Guandong at that time), where Zhang became involved in petty crime in Harbin. He successively worked as a pickpocket, bouncer, and prospector. At some point, he worked in Siberia, learning Russian. Zhang eventually became a bandit in the Chinese countryside, though he served as auxiliary for the Imperial Russian Army during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904–1905. Following the conflict, he returned to crime and rose to lead his own bandit gang.
"Old Eighty-Six": The origin of this nickname is unclear. According to rumour it either referred to his height or to the length of his penis, which was said to measure up to a pile of 86 Mexican silver dollars when erect. Mexican silver dollars were a common currency in China at the time.
Zhang was notorious for his hobby of splitting the skulls of prisoners with his sword, and for hanging dissidents from telephone poles. Despite his negative reputation, however, Zhang was also known to be very sociable, charming and commanded the respect of his troops as well as superiors.
Zhang loved to boast about the size of his penis, which became part of his legend. He was a "well-known womanizer" and polygamist. At the height of his power, he had some 30 to 50 concubines of different nationalities, who were given numbers since he could not remember their names nor speak their language. According to Time, several of his concubines had been forcibly seized from rich families in Shandong. However, some of his concubines stayed with him throughout his career, with him marrying the earliest when he was still a coolie. His concubines included Chinese, Japanese, Russians, Koreans, Mongolians and at least one American. According to research by journalist John Gunther, his harem included concubines of 26 different nationalities. Zhang reportedly ate meat of black Chow Chow dogs every day, as it was popularly believed at the time that this meat would boost a man's virility. He was free with his gifts, lavishly squandering money and concubines on superiors and friends. As a result, his commanders were very loyal to him, contributing to his military success.
Although only semi-literate, Zhang Zongchang was also known for writing poetry, though his works (such as the "Poem about bastards", the "Daming Lake poem", "Visiting Penglai Pavilion", and "Pray for Rain") are generally considered to be quite bad. However, according to Zhang's fourth daughter Zhang Chunsui, Zhang was not in the habit of writing poems. Some sources have also disputed these poems as being fabrications made by his political opponent Han Fuju to slander him. When asked about where he got his education, Zhang liked to say that he went to the 'College of the Green Forest,' a common euphemism for banditry at the time.
Poem About Bastardsby Zhang ZongchangYou tell me to do this,He tells me to do that.You're all bastards,Go fuck your mother.
When I became the Chief Marketing Officer at Levi's, at about 2 months in, I had some mid-level know it all come into my office to tell me everyone hated me, I was steering the ship into oblivion. She told me everyone knew I was doing a terrible job. (The brand had been in… https://t.co/L3eeaJV2Ue
— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) January 21, 2026
Q: Who could make Socrates fun?
— Anders K. (@Falliblemusings) January 14, 2026
A: Scott Adams
"I wish I were dumber so I could be more certain about my opinions. It looks fun." pic.twitter.com/rE5KmTu6vk
Many people currently behind bars could be released with minimal threat to others. However, even by more generous estimates, most could not: https://t.co/bWVPMqGetc
— Musa al-Gharbi (@Musa_alGharbi) January 20, 2026
The most disadvantaged constituents would be most exposed to risk and harm if these folks were simply released. pic.twitter.com/IZ72Taqrmh
Archeologists working at Peru’s Huaca Pucllana ruins pulled a mummy from a tomb, thought to be from the ancient Wari culture that flourished before the Incas.
— ArchaeoHistories (@histories_arch) January 21, 2026
Besides the female mummy, the tomb contained the remains of two other adults and a child. It was the first intact Wari… pic.twitter.com/99QElJ4M5Y
>>>Or we could just stop being a commie clown nation & reinstate ourselves as top dog again. https://t.co/vQHEDM0VEu pic.twitter.com/IvM9UCr5l9
— Ye Olde Holborn☣️ (@Ye_Olde_Holborn) January 20, 2026
The dreamers, thinkers, tinkerers, welders, and financiers should be revered with the majesty and beauty they deserve https://t.co/qp2I59RRRJ
— Anders K. (@Falliblemusings) January 15, 2026
I’ve chosen this wallpaper for its quintessentially British motifs pic.twitter.com/X4N8oL9S5h
— Dr Helen Ingram (@drhingram) January 20, 2026
Between 2004 and 2014, nine American states implemented strict voter ID laws.
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) January 20, 2026
Voter turnout was not affected.
Voter ID *does not* seem to suppress voters. pic.twitter.com/xPp6AJElAr
In The Beginning of Infinity, @daviddeutschoxf notes that humans, despite our infinite potential, made very little progress until the Enlightenment, where progress exploded in an ever-accelerating wave that we're still riding. So what exactly was The Enlightenment?
— Anders K. (@Falliblemusings) January 16, 2026
Deutsch,… pic.twitter.com/9oRKSYpgsa
I think the most depressing fact about humanity is that during the 2000s most of the world was handed essentially free access to the entirety of knowledge and that didn't trigger a golden age.
— rabbitholebot (@rabbitholebot) January 19, 2026
There are large castings.
— ＤＡＮ_ＡＮＴＯＮＥＬＬＩ (@__el__toro__) January 20, 2026
Then there's the largest single casting ever poured.
600 tons of molten steel through multiple melts.
6 weeks to cool enough (from 1500°C to ~1000°C) to be removed from the sand mold, then cooled further, then 2 weeks in heat treat.
Pre-machined… pic.twitter.com/fBbYGNgGPD
How the world officially names the ‘Persian Gulf’. pic.twitter.com/1JlduuZkM5
— Xavi Ruiz (@xruiztru) January 20, 2026
People are sharing this data table to argue that ICE isn't targeting criminals. But what it shows is that 53% of illegal immigrants detained by ICE are either convicted criminals OR pending criminal charges.
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) January 20, 2026
Unless it's the case that 53% of all illegal immigrants are criminals… pic.twitter.com/uAzqJ7MOUT
During the German occupation of Paris in World War II, the rector of the Great Mosque of Paris, Si Kaddour Benghabrit, quietly turned a place of worship into a lifeline. While Paris lived under constant surveillance, Benghabrit used the mosque’s unique position as a religious and… pic.twitter.com/YudAG1dPf1
— Dr. M.F. Khan (@Dr_TheHistories) January 20, 2026
One of the most profound transformations of our time is unfolding quietly: a demographic revolution in the birth rates of India and China.
— Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (@JesusFerna7026) January 20, 2026
Consider 1950. The People's Republic of China had just been founded (1949), and India had recently gained independence (1947). This is the… pic.twitter.com/sOup2N1DrU
Wistman’s Wood on Dartmoor is one of Britain’s last surviving ancient temperate rainforests, with stunted oak trees that may be hundreds of years old.
— Dr. M.F. Khan (@Dr_TheHistories) January 20, 2026
High in the valley of the West Dart River, its twisted branches and granite boulder floor create an eerie, almost enchanted… pic.twitter.com/fevQ47dTOw
Goth Waifu Amelia is now the mascot of UK nationalism and has gone viral after the UK panicked and took her game down.
— Pirat_Nation 🔴 (@Pirat_Nation) January 17, 2026
Make UK great again. pic.twitter.com/ocaaC0CIEF
In the 20th century, poor whites voted to the left of rich ones.
— Eric Levitz (@EricLevitz) January 20, 2026
But that changed in 2016. And by 2024, the relationship between income and Republicanism had inverted completely: The more money a white voter made, the more likely they were to back Harris https://t.co/qPVTXPsgFF pic.twitter.com/KACG5Gkgfo
A colorized photograph of Witold Pilecki, a Polish cavalry officer and a significant figure in the Polish resistance during World War II. He is primarily remembered as the only known person to volunteer to be imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp...
— Dr. M.F. Khan (@Dr_TheHistories) January 20, 2026
He volunteered to… pic.twitter.com/EArPBAMDQD
“The great problem is how we can profit from the knowledge of all the individuals, which exists nowhere as an integrated whole, but dispersed as the separate, partial, and sometimes conflicting beliefs of all men.”
— F. A. Hayek Quotes (@FAHayekSays) January 19, 2026
— Friedrich Hayek pic.twitter.com/zqA1UT8ifG
Heavy storm surge in Furci Siculo, Sicily, Italy 🇮🇹 (20.01.2026)
— Disaster News (@Top_Disaster) January 20, 2026
Video by Francesco Albinopic.twitter.com/95JAPpWBvK
here https://t.co/1RX6b8x897 pic.twitter.com/XS225jS1ES
— Matt Margolis (@ItsMattsLaw) January 19, 2026
"The inconvenient truth is that South Africa dislocated from the trajectory of average global growth – never mind that of our emerging market peers – in 2009."https://t.co/ioNGydKVNw pic.twitter.com/yycsVE3hUO
— Chris Hattingh 🇿🇦🌐🚢🏭📈 (@ChrisHatt11) January 19, 2026
For the first time anyone can remember, in a contest for a Westminster seat in an English city, the two parties vying for power won’t be Labour or the Conservatives, but instead be two insurgent outsiders. This is a twin-pronged revolt against the political mainstream – against a clique that has become ever more detached and tin-eared since the advent of globalisation in the 1990s.The concerns articulated by both outfits, Reform UK and the Green Party, mirror those seen in all developed countries around the globe. In Reform, we have a party that appeals to small-c conservatives and a disaffected working class who inhabit deindustrialised areas, who feel their homeland has been degraded by an aloof, footloose liberal-left who cares little for them or their country. In the Greens, we have a party that has enjoyed a surge in popularity by taking a sharp turn to the left, appealing to a graduate class for whom the ‘elites’ are instead neoliberal capitalists, who must be humbled through punitive tax hikes. The Greens have remained steadfast passengers on the woke bandwagon, still proud to fly the Progress Pride flag, while simultaneously making gainful overtures to Muslim voters. Time will tell how well that interesting marriage works out.
leptis magna, libya pic.twitter.com/SZkNgdOU1g
— MozartCultures (@MozartCultures) January 20, 2026
The history of the United States of Americapic.twitter.com/1VMU5TLsFX
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) January 23, 2026
He was adored at Harvard as the grand guru of progressive political thought. I attended a conference organized by the Gov dept a few years back but still A.C. in the modern dating (After Covid) - he still reigned supreme, not a word of criticism was heard. https://t.co/aQTVFHZ1u4
— eburke (@JamesWHankins1) January 20, 2026
This madman really ran across a bunch of frozen ice blocks with a torch 😂 pic.twitter.com/HDbFt1Ixud
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) January 20, 2026
"What if the ship of Theseus was sentient" is not a question I was prepared to grapple with today. pic.twitter.com/oQQsU57WvW
— Klara (@klara_sjo) January 19, 2026
An interesting consequence of the limits for desalination being thermodynamic is that water prices are tied to energy prices (hence oil prices), at least in regions where desalination is common, middle east. https://t.co/5YSXjeAmD9
— LiorLefineder (@lefineder) January 20, 2026
Ottoman Empire in the year 1593, with subdivisions shown. pic.twitter.com/TeUCfpmao6
— PAN CAUCASUS (@pancaucasus) January 20, 2026
To my billionaire friends: keep your receipts. (jk I don’t have billionaire friends.)
— hari raghavan (@haridigresses) January 19, 2026
But seriously: 4 years later CA is hunting down those who left.
“Narrative of the circumstances surrounding you becoming non-residents”… what a joke.
This is what a failing state looks like. pic.twitter.com/VWGIxgd5kw
Benvenuto Cellini - Perseus with the Head of Medusa pic.twitter.com/tPsJjjBPKC
— Art Gallery (@X_ArtGallery) January 20, 2026
Pentecostal Church Doesn't Notice Riot Is Occurring https://t.co/u0NsXqHTPv pic.twitter.com/nU0TVw0Shb
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 19, 2026
Here's (one reason) why high-speed rail works in China and not the US. These population density maps are roughly the same scale. 1.3 billion people live east of the line in China. 220 million live east of the line in the US.
— John Arnold (@johnarnold) January 19, 2026
8/x pic.twitter.com/edlykciJyH
Harold Bloom said that the Macbeths have the only happy marriage in all of Shakespeare.
In his 2019 book Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind, Bloom writes:"Long ago, I remember characterizing the Macbeths as the happiest marriage in Shakespeare. That can seem a grim jest, yet it is veracious. Their passion for each other is absolute in every way, as much metaphysical as erotic. The lust for power fuses with mutual desire and enhances the turbulence of their ecstasy."
You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the King of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the King of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the King of Scotland.)
But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.
Signature of Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) pic.twitter.com/d9rG4hkJFQ
— Archaeology & Art (@archaeologyart) January 20, 2026
Protesting is actually about petitioning the government for a redress of grievances. The word for traumatizing kids at church to effect political ends is "terrorism." https://t.co/7KCZ6quiJm
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) January 19, 2026
Banger from years ago— https://t.co/AZ22TehzDw
— The Chivalry Guild (@ChivalryGuild) January 20, 2026
Incredible live footage from the streets of Minnesota.@11thAirborneDiv pic.twitter.com/3mY6xFg9cX
— Courage Is A Habit (@CourageHabit) January 18, 2026
Clannish non-Westerners behave much less honestly toward strangers than universalist Westerners.
— William Meijer (@williameijer) January 19, 2026
17,000 wallets, with or without purchasing power-adjusted amounts of money (US$13.45), were purposefully “lost” at banks, cultural establishments, post offices, hotels, police… pic.twitter.com/sX56AZhfBP
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