Smile, it’s Friday! 😃
— Alison Fisk (@AlisonFisk) September 25, 2026
Meet ‘The Oldest Smile in the World’ a tiny face that’s been smiling for some 7,400 years!
Carved from oak during the Mesolithic, this small human figure was found in 1966 in a layer of peat during dock construction at Willemstad in the Netherlands.… pic.twitter.com/wCRFgJaGGj
>Catholic, Former 22nd SAS soldier
— Trad West (@trad_west_) September 2, 2026
> Picks up a random hitchhiker who tells him in an unnatural voice, “May God bless you many times this day.”
>Hears about a terrorist attack happening at a hotel
>Grabs his gear and drives toward the scene
>Enters the building alone. Moves floor… pic.twitter.com/lEhVvNQPVy
A factory that produces absolutely nothing. No profit and no revenue. It cost a billion dollars to build and will cost $100 million dollars per year to operate. It will capture less than 0.003% of the world's CO2 output.
— varrock (@varrock) September 7, 2026
They're calling it the most European project of all time. https://t.co/CVh28UQPay
America’s 15 year old boys actually went up in math on the PISA while girls scores dropped again. The gender gap is now 24 points. Wow. pic.twitter.com/PlZpREWSuJ
— Marc Porter Magee 🎓 (@marcportermagee) September 8, 2026
E.F. Benson on the remarkable fact that, for hundreds of years, if you could win a King's Scholarship to Eton as a teenager, you could spend the rest of your life as a Bachelor Fellow of King's, Cambridge, devoted to either scholarship or "the gentle art of doing nothing at all". pic.twitter.com/ZhlhrZVvUB
— Antigone Journal (@AntigoneJournal) September 3, 2026
Bede (in A.D. ~730) and the Beowulf poet both include a story of young men racing their horses. Bede clearly considered it a vanity, but in Beowulf it’s only described in a positive light.
— Grǣġhama (@grahamscheper) September 3, 2026
If we grant that Beowulf was an early 8th century Mercian composition, Bede and the… pic.twitter.com/rIh2MH4W81
In 1989, a pelican named Katta-kun began going to a kindergarten in Japan where it played and interacted with the children as if it were one of them. pic.twitter.com/h6eqRIYQa0
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 3, 2026
Anybody remember this? Still one of the funniest clips.
— Kevin Edger (@KEdge23) September 3, 2026
“Who are you?”
Not just Jeremy Corbyn here, look who’s sat right next to him…. it’s his left hand man Andy Burnham. pic.twitter.com/DmWIWv9cjK
My friend made this graph he wanted me to share because he's afraid of posting it.
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) September 3, 2026
It depicts the population of Detroit over time.
It has utterly collapsed. pic.twitter.com/qm33x822xr
State of the Union by European Commission President @vonderleyen:
— Velina Tchakarova (@vtchakarova) September 16, 2026
„We will“ - 56 times
„We need to“ - 18 times
„We must“ - 10 times
„We should“ - 4 times
Implementing - Zero times
Doing - 4 times
Achieved - Zero times
Two summits & a new European security strategy announced.
The actual quote, which I just retrieved, is actually more brilliant than that:
— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) August 14, 2026
"Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own… https://t.co/3XHr3c7X0y
“Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.”
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) September 3, 2026
- Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog sees human civilization as thin and impermanent — a fragile barrier against a deep chaos. To him, our laws, customs, and institutions are just a veneer over the… pic.twitter.com/AI8ACuhZHL
Buford the hero dog, brings a missing 2 year old boy back home safely..🐕🐾❤️ pic.twitter.com/wjzzEo7tDS
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) September 3, 2026
A fantastic day at school! pic.twitter.com/Zow3U9Q6m3
— Rare 🇺🇸 (@RareImagery) September 2, 2026
If you use the same 43 states as Steve but use all industries, there’s positive wage growth: r = +0.42, p = 0.006.
— Smirkley (@Smirkley) September 3, 2026
Pop adjusted = +0.48.
In other words, more ICE arrests = more wage growth. https://t.co/HeNPatePJO pic.twitter.com/iyLU5cabG0
The Most Destructive Intellectual Project of the Twentieth Century.
— Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 (@Kristof_Poland) August 19, 2026
The Frankfurt School. You should know what it was, what it built, and why you are still living inside it.
1. The Institute for Social Research was founded in Frankfurt in 1923 and relocated to Columbia… https://t.co/tuqvEblLIN pic.twitter.com/hXnNKmqPrW
I’m so tired of these DSA types.
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) August 19, 2026
It’s always the same exact bio: self-important, bottomlessly entitled rich kids who hate you, want free stuff, and think they can get it doing communist cosplay. https://t.co/xvjhorDWMB
Spotted: Falcon 9 impact site
— NASA Solar System (@NASASolarSystem) August 18, 2026
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has captured images of a new crater on the Moon. The crater formed on Aug. 5, 2026, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage impacted the lunar surface. https://t.co/aqduBYwpmg pic.twitter.com/hE83yvzmIk
This is the way to combat the false lure of socialism to young women. With real stories. Great campaign from @IWV pic.twitter.com/YTCBCU6faO
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) August 19, 2026
Study from China:
— Marc Porter Magee 🎓 (@marcportermagee) August 19, 2026
Students who used AI saw a 18% increase in grades on homework while spending only 45 minutes (down from 64). But they scored 20% lower on tests.
This is what’s happening right now in US schools. pic.twitter.com/0ynGOcEPpD
The Ancestral Pueblo of the American Southwest created oases at Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde, and archaeologists found musical instruments—huge flutes, shell trumpets, rattles—at such sites. It’s one ancient style of music you can still hear today.https://t.co/LRS8cOlnfh pic.twitter.com/uZyCKCOX3P
— Archaeology Magazine (@archaeologymag) August 18, 2026
I keep thinking about how much personality these old perfume bottles had.
— HerodotusWave (@HerodotusWave) August 19, 2026
A strawberry, a crescent moon, a butterfly, a little Art Nouveau figure—each bottle gave the fragrance its own visual identity before you even opened it.
The Avon Strawberry Fair bottle is a perfect… pic.twitter.com/tVr65Vyg6I
Playing hide and seek..🐕🐾🐈😅 pic.twitter.com/pOkC65hlmr
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) August 18, 2026
You may not believe it but the U.S. economy in 2025 represented 25.7% of global GDP.
— Daniel Di Martino (@DanielDiMartino) August 17, 2026
In 1980, the U.S. economy represented 25.4%, slightly less.
And this is despite the China boom, things get relatively better from now on as China slows down and Europe stagnates. https://t.co/gQqK6UGyYh
Hard to believe that the Ancient House in Clare was once to be dismantled and shipped to the US. Saved by a local businessman in 1938. The exquisite pargeting on the Ancient House in Clare, Suffolk is a divine example of 15th-century high-relief work. pic.twitter.com/wbuuqtPxVu
— Andy Marshall 📸 (@fotofacade) August 18, 2026
“Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs.”
— Seneca the Younger (@SenecaQuote) August 18, 2026
lack of people pairing up into couples and getting married reduces social cohesion in unexpected ways. we got new neighbors. saw the guy outside, said hi. turns out his sister died the day he moved in. obviously, him and i never discussed this. but his wife told my wife - only…
— owen cyclops (@owenbroadcast) August 18, 2026
Grandma always disciplined the kids with her slippers. If they misbehaved and ran off, she’d throw one and never missed.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 18, 2026
For her birthday, she showed her aim is still on point. pic.twitter.com/L1sFfuAnzU
In 2026, the world has likely never burned so little
— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) August 17, 2026
Contrary to climate scare stories
Common but wrong claim #1:
'Decline driven by Africa'
No, all continents are seeing less fire this yearhttps://t.co/scZCc2cFi9 https://t.co/gNkw8bLUNO pic.twitter.com/Sb9KKXQutx
Oooo!! Controversial topic with true cultural value. My favorite! Let’s wade in.
— Cassie Clark (@dogwoodblooms) August 18, 2026
Carpetbagger and scallywag are old words that date back to the Civil War. You may not hear them often, but Southern folks do still use them and they are actually still relevant.
So what do they… pic.twitter.com/304M17BlHW
We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
— Durrell Society (@DurrellSociety) August 16, 2026
— Lawrence Durrell
photograph: Neil Libbert pic.twitter.com/sMpkNKTCo0
Starship Flight 13 is being recovered from sea https://t.co/cfdIhk8BLN
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 18, 2026
They put some of the Internet's most iconic memes on the same street pic.twitter.com/hpfCOoNewo
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 18, 2026
Generation Z has the lowest level of interpersonal trust that we've seen in polling.
— Ryan Burge 📊 (@ryanburge) August 18, 2026
Just 13% of the youngest adults say that "most people can be trusted." pic.twitter.com/uhq26qI6te
In 1874, two little girls were prisoners in a Cheyenne camp. A US Army lieutenant knew he was outnumbered, but had the audacity to charge in to save their lives.
— History With Jacob (@HistoryWJacob) August 17, 2026
His name was Frank Baldwin, and he already had one Medal of Honor.
He'd earned the first ten years earlier, at… pic.twitter.com/fnTEY2xoXG
This little penguin chick falls asleep as soon as it feels safe and warm in its caretaker’s hand. pic.twitter.com/qKEFncJlzN
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 18, 2026
Books helping introverts avoid conversations since 1454. pic.twitter.com/0AU1ocWT0N
— Sophia Proneikos (@Pergament_F) August 17, 2026
Non-heterosexuals tend to have worse mental health compared to heterosexuals. Is this due to minority stress–stigma and discrimination? In a new study, we should that the answer is “mostly not.” Link to the article in the next post, followed by an explanatory thread. (1/n)
— Michael Bailey (@profjmb) August 11, 2026
Poverty isn’t an invention. It’s natural. It was the natural human condition everywhere in the world for hundreds of thousands of years. The average human being for thousands of generations lived on no more than a few dollars per day.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) August 18, 2026
What is an invention? Wealth. Prosperity.… https://t.co/CtAns9tJDq pic.twitter.com/IAmCX8T66p
"There’s a common view in left-wing and right-wing populisms that solving problems is very easy intellectually and you just need to defeat and disempower the bad people. This is not a view that would survive serious learning about the history of basically any policy topic.
— Steven Pinker (@sapinker) August 17, 2026
It’s…
A man in Switzerland spent a year and thousands of dollars turning his back yard into a mini Greek village. pic.twitter.com/AzgiHzSccX
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 18, 2026
An elderly man gets hearing aids from his doctor. A few weeks later, he returns for a checkup.
— LaughBreak: Dad Jokes ‘N More (@MediocreJoker85) August 18, 2026
The doctor says, “Your hearing is perfect. Your family must be really pleased.”
“Oh, I haven’t told my family yet,” the man replies.
“You haven’t?” the doctor asks.
“No. I just sit…
Haha Berkeley students are stupid now pic.twitter.com/fD8mObev6e
— Bryan Cheong (@bryancsk) August 17, 2026
Thomas Aquinas' handwriting.
— Ryan Reeves (@RyanMReeves) August 17, 2026
I was told by my medieval Latin and paleography professor at Notre Dame that only a handful of nerds can get through it. (He didn't say nerds.)
It's heavily abbreviated (as nearly all texts were in his day), so you have to know Latin, know the many… pic.twitter.com/PweXCgiyCk
This is a fantastic piece by @EbooPatel On a personal note, Geoffrey Walford was also my doctoral co-supervisor, so I'm delighted to see this:
— Professor Alice Sullivan (@ProfAliceS) August 17, 2026
“I’m failing at this,” I told my PhD advisor, Geoffrey Walford. “I can’t seem to be present at the moments where racism occurs, or even…
Called the Nike top years ago.
— Douglass Mackey (@douglassmackey) August 18, 2026
Nike:
1. made Kaepernick the face of the 30-year anniversary campaign
2. cancelled the Betsy Ross sneaker
3. partnered with Dylan Mulvaney.
4. set goals including 35% U.S. racial and ethnic minority representation in the corporate workforce and… https://t.co/YOl8jJpLVv
What is the most "taboo" scientific question?
— The Missing Data Depot (@data_depot) August 17, 2026
A 2024 survey found "Whether European Whites are smarter than African Blacks for genetic reasons" was considered the most taboo topic, outranking the harms of incest, the harms of pedophilia & mental illness in transsexuals. pic.twitter.com/We25B7ri8X
Having tattoos is related to lower intelligence and poorer mental health. pic.twitter.com/UP21H2lDUV
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) August 16, 2026
Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration. Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc. The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
Yet Doug Lemov, the author of Teach Like a Champion and hardly a TFA hater, recently offered a stinging assessment of its trajectory:Almost no other important organization lost its way as completely as TFA in the last 8–10 years… For years TFA brought smart motivated people into schools and focused them on student achievement in areas of high need. [T]hey traded that noble work for a set of political objectives that made corps members feel virtuous at the expense of the very students they claimed to serve… It’s been a long time since they cared more about student achievement than say trying to “teach young people to interrogate systems of power.”That’s quite an indictment of an organization that was once a bipartisan darling, earning plaudits from Democrats and Republicans alike. In its heyday, TFA was a movement with remarkable reach and influence. So what happened?
[snip]At the same time, TFA’s politics moved from the background to the brand. Its public messaging began weighing in more directly on policing, structural racism, gender, and identity. As mission creep set in, its pitch morphed into something like, “Come join a broader struggle against systemic injustice.” That newer framing asked for agreement on more contested questions about why injustice existed and what kind of social change was required to remedy it.
An organization that had once beaten Goldman Sachs and McKinsey at their own recruiting game found itself competing for talent in a very different marketplace. The numbers tell the story. At its peak in 2013, TFA drew 57,000 applicants and nearly 6,000 new corps members. By 2022, the incoming corps had dwindled to roughly 1,600.
All the abandoned and out-of-service railroad lines across the United States.
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) August 18, 2026
The U.S. railroad network reached its peak in 1916 at roughly 254,037 route miles, following decades of rapid expansion that connected farms, mines, factories, and small towns to national markets.… pic.twitter.com/MLcTHgF6v9
I agree with you @Starcourse . He seemed genuinely perplexed at the criticism he attracted. It was as if he’d never experienced it before. Adult after adult had lied to him about his qualities. The Australian anthropologist Peter Sutton coined an apt phrase to describe how he was… https://t.co/TIzkx1TdSs
— nigel biggar (@NigelBiggar) August 16, 2026
This is one of the most beautiful paintings of Christ ever made, and for over a century people have walked past the one detail that holds its entire meaning...
— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) August 16, 2026
It is called The Light of the World, painted by the English Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt. Christ stands at… pic.twitter.com/LnzwbIQbnK
Books helping introverts avoid conversations since 1454. pic.twitter.com/0AU1ocWT0N
— Sophia Proneikos (@Pergament_F) August 17, 2026
How personality changes with age.
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) August 16, 2026
-Blue: Neuroticism
-Green: Extraversion
-Red: Openness to experience
-Orange: Agreeableness
-Purple: Conscientiousnesshttps://t.co/yb32wBP5ZF pic.twitter.com/rKBr5QDvNz
What fascinates me about this armour is that it was never meant to look merely functional.
— HerodotusWave (@HerodotusWave) August 17, 2026
Made by Bartolomeo Campi in 1546 for Guidobaldo II della Rovere, it deliberately borrows the visual language of ancient Rome: a sculpted muscular cuirass, lion-headed shoulders, and lavish… pic.twitter.com/f10LM3SeUl
Een hartverwarmend filmpje.
— Michael Verstraeten (@MichaelVerstrae) August 15, 2026
De meest vooraanstaande epidemioloog ter de wereld, John Ioannidis, legt uit hoe epidemiologen intellectueel uitgeschakeld werden in de coronaperiode. Wie kritiek had kreeg de staatsvirologen en de hele media over zich. De meeste epidemiologen… pic.twitter.com/t2G2c2MMS2
I just want you to remember. That we live in a world where octopuses dream, otters have a favorite shell that they carry with them all their lives, cows have best friends, and bees have different "dialects" of dance depending on the region. Cats purr at a frequency that…
— 🤠 (@heavensbvnny) August 15, 2026
Probably the most relatable diary entry ever written.
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) August 17, 2026
Tolstoy wrote these diary entries in 1858, when he was around 30 years old and still years away from writing War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
He had already served in the Crimean War and was gaining recognition as a… pic.twitter.com/W7Wdhoi1DR
Very religious tend to marry very religious people.
— Ryan Burge 📊 (@ryanburge) August 16, 2026
Non-religious people tend to marry non-religious people.
Among those who say that religion is very important to them 84% married a spouse who said it was very/somewhat important.
Among those who said religion is not at all… pic.twitter.com/EVethxtn7R
A group of Teddy boys hanging around the streets of Elephant and Castle, South London, 13th July 1955. pic.twitter.com/Nbz27Wl1bA
— Old England in Colour (@englandincolour) August 16, 2026
MIT climate scientist (and former IPCC lead author) Dr. Richard Lindzen on peer review:
— Tom Nelson (@TomANelson) August 16, 2026
"It's treated in the popular press as though it's a certification...No, it's a device to maintain groupthink.
And in the case of climate, there will be gatekeepers; people who will reject… pic.twitter.com/wknHTHHTxJ
🌄 The Grand Canyons of Mars
— Amazing Physics (@amazing_physics) August 16, 2026
This breathtaking view showcases one of the most dramatic landscapes on Mars, where immense canyons slice across the planet’s rust-colored surface beneath the glow of the rising Sun. Towering cliffs, rugged ridges, and countless impact craters reveal… pic.twitter.com/24jEP8oehW
This is how disruptive scum bags used to dress btw https://t.co/sIMZSAPdeN
— The Sales Bull (@TheSalesBull1) August 16, 2026
This is a good starting point for thinking about this issue. It's all downstream of this basic reality: https://t.co/FVvYtrx6CR pic.twitter.com/1nnY4cGpGD
— J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨💻 (@JDHaltigan) August 13, 2026
Did you know that cardiovascular deaths in the USA are down by 75% since the 1950s?
— Boyan Slat (@BoyanSlat) August 16, 2026
That CPR didn’t even exist a few decades ago?
That 5-year survival rates for childhood leukemia have increased from 15% to 85% since the 70s?
That a twice-a-year injection can now prevent HIV… https://t.co/JptLXfvnSo
Thomas Aquinas says very clearly that anger in itself is not a sin; it might even be praiseworthy. The question is whether your anger is justified and useful anger, or whether it's unreasonable and useless anger.
— The Chivalry Guild (@ChivalryGuild) August 15, 2026
Also, the failure to get angry when anger is justified is a sin,…
Men only want one thing and it’s freaking amazing.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 16, 2026
Old model galleons at wat at Sumners ponds, West Sussex, UK. pic.twitter.com/z4lDF9BVkP
One of the things that happens when you hit your mid 40s is that you realize C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton were only right about literally everything.
— Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) August 17, 2026
it is a bit crazy how overwhelmingly democratic BigLaw is. like there is not a single super prestigious firm where even a significant percent of donors are republicans. pic.twitter.com/DmGySst4Ul
— kicole nidman (@ferald_gord) August 15, 2026
If you had trusted the settled science of the day, here is how it would have gone.
— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) August 16, 2026
1890s: you dose the baby with Bayer's new cough syrup, the non-addictive alternative to morphine, marketed for children. It was heroin. They named it after the German for heroic.
1900s: you rub… pic.twitter.com/xb4UxhNp1l
“I lived so carefully, thinking someone was watching. But the stage was empty, the audience never came.”
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) September 13, 2026
- Osamu Dazai
Osamu Dazai’s haunting reflection explores the tragedy of spending life performing for an audience that may not even exist. By portraying existence as an empty… pic.twitter.com/0sT9gmvQ5S
Past a certain age, a man no longer speaks in terms of should or could, but instead is and will.
— Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) (@antoniogm) August 15, 2026
He ceases to live in the irrealis of the subjunctive and conditional, preferring the hard indicative and future tenses.
The hour grows late for hypotheticals and counterfactuals.
Incredible video of a Ukrainian commander of the 475th regiment without body armour rescuing two heavily injured Ukrainian soldiers with truck after their evacuation robot became damaged on the frontline from FPV drone attacks putting himself in grave danger.
— WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 (@WarMonitor3) August 16, 2026
Very brave. pic.twitter.com/UL8h6rPH41
This story gets crazier. The Mayor of Lawrence, left court today in a Dodge Charger and rammed into another car and left the scene. Same Mayor that can't speak English, and stole $1.5M in covid money. https://t.co/kGWRp0O6o5 pic.twitter.com/JvoCF11yJo
— Lee Kuan Yimby (@LeeKuanYimby) August 15, 2026
Stereotypes are true and accurate:
— John Rain (@johnthenoticer) August 15, 2026
Alice Eagly and Judith Hall conducted a meta-analysis on the accuracy of stereotypes regarding differences between men and women.
They confirmed that these stereotypes are highly accurate: 85% of the 673 estimates were in the correct… pic.twitter.com/R81E4YP4WR
Is anyone else amazed by how much of a global presence Jamaica has, considering the island has only about 2.8 million residents and roughly 4.4 million Jamaicans worldwide?
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) August 16, 2026
Jamaica might be the ultimate example of a country that punches far above its weight. With a population of… pic.twitter.com/xZ18oraa2S
I am an Electrician,I could spot an unqualified person a mile away, give me a building to wire and put a person pretending to be one beside me and within minutes I will suss them out,Cambridge couldn't do this for 3 years with someone impersonating a professor,this is on them!
— Make Ireland Great Again (@MIGA_FOR_EVER) August 15, 2026
When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years.
— Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) August 15, 2026
The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and… https://t.co/ko3k9Um7TK
Hey hooman, can I have some..🐕🐾😍 pic.twitter.com/9tcqVl7pbd
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) August 16, 2026
That a random guy on @x runs circles around academics in the health policy space is a sad commentary on the state of academic health policy.
— Anish Koka, MD (@anish_koka) August 15, 2026
The uninsured and underinsured are a vastly different population than the insured. As @cremieuxrecueil notes, they generally are higher… https://t.co/bbLdjd3Zrr
Pictured here is the boom town of Tombstone, Arizona in 1880. Famous prospector Shorty Harris spent time in Tombstone, Arizona in 1885, which he described as "almost as hell-roaring a place as Leadville. The boys were all decorated with six-guns and believe me, they knew how to… pic.twitter.com/iCkBHqwBFu
— Echoes of War (@EchoesofWarYT) August 16, 2026
Joe Biden won 25 states in the 2020 presidential election.
— Shiloh Marx (@Shilohmarx) August 15, 2026
30 states are being sued by DOJ over voter rolls.
All 25 states Biden won have refused to comply with DOJ request to share voter rolls and ensure compliance with federal law. pic.twitter.com/lgcK1sFNUK
Josie, the legendary lioness from Addo Elephant National Park in South Afric, who defied the typical "death sentence" of blindness for predators, surviving for roughly five years without sight.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 14, 2026
Her two daughters, Dawn and Duffy, acted as her "eyes". They guided her through the… pic.twitter.com/40dlAQW9En
“indians have been trying to scam each other with fake cow piss so cow piss experts are being called upon to personally taste every batch and ensure purity” is something not even the most racist person on this app could have come up with if you gave them carte blanche and five… https://t.co/HF2NI2QHlH
— pagliacci the hated 🌝 (@Slatzism) August 15, 2026
In 2023, 10% of young Americans didn't interact with another person.
— Alice Evans (@_alice_evans) August 15, 2026
But here lies crucial heterogeneity.
The most social Americans have continued, as before
While the least social retreated during COVID & never bounced back
Superb @jburnmurdoch pic.twitter.com/tyrpvjqpjt
Bryn Cader Faner, aka The Crown of Thorns. An extraordinary Bronze Age cairn high in the beautiful Rhinogydd mountains #StandingStoneSunday pic.twitter.com/i6QHpnMpD6
— Fiona Robertson (@stone_lands) August 16, 2026
"I want a garden, a small house, grass, birds, coffee, books, pictures, music."
— Francisco Ribeiro (@fraveris) August 15, 2026
- Katherine Mansfield, 14 October 1922, Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield pic.twitter.com/PReFEdkHqw
In Nantes, France, a butcher shop and a skateboard store sit next to each other and share the same clever sign.
— NO CONTEXT HUMANS (@HumansNoContext) August 15, 2026
From one side it looks like a steak, while from the other it looks like a skateboard, making the design work perfectly for both businesses. pic.twitter.com/l8ottWuvnO
These results are worth pausing over. An extra $12k/year to low income households for three years (40% avg increase in income) - mostly toward consumption & a bit toward leisure.
— Anna Stansbury (@annastansbury) August 15, 2026
Few big long term effects: on saving, debts, education, job quality, life satisfaction, health… https://t.co/5qjov5VZKO
"Space we can recover, time never."
— 33 Strategies of War (@33StrategiesBot) August 15, 2026
- Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821 pic.twitter.com/bPHQ7NHqN5
If you let shorter and shorter people play basketball, the average height of basketball players goes down.
— Freedomain - with Stefan Molyneux, MA (@StefanMolyneux) August 14, 2026
It’s just another form of silly cargo-cult magical thinking.
“Smart people are in college, so if we send people to college, it will make them smarter!” https://t.co/UfC6Oq9YRu
WOW. WOW. It’s happening. It’s REALLY happening. For decades US Merchant Marine service medals have laid mostly dormant collecting dust but the Trump administration has brought them back!
— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) August 14, 2026
First with @SECNAV securing the Presidential Service Unit citations to US Merchant… pic.twitter.com/siPx2jqBev
Exactly what I had in mind. pic.twitter.com/84XjKTQFky
— MedievalistMatt (@medievalistmatt) August 14, 2026
Anyone still pretending that an entire generation of young White men has not been systematically excluded from vast swaths of jobs, professions, industries, and institutions is either hopelessly uninformed or deliberately lying. pic.twitter.com/0d4bRsmdSc
— Zarathustra (@zarathustra5150) August 14, 2026
In general we look for a new law by the following process. First we guess it. Then we compute the consequences of the guess to see what would be implied if this law that we guessed is right. Then we compare the result of the computation to nature, with experiment or experience, compare it directly with observation, to see if it works. If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is – if it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. That is all there is to it.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists.
“Democracy must be founded not on the alleged inalienable rights of rootless individuals, but on citizenship, which sanctions one’s belonging to a given folk – that is, a culture, history & destiny – & to the political structure within which it has developed.”
— Mark W. (@DurhamWASP) August 15, 2026
Alain de Benoist pic.twitter.com/F0HV3Is4GD
Read it slowely. pic.twitter.com/RciVIlMctW
— 33 Strategies of War (@33StrategiesBot) August 14, 2026
The most predictable object in physics becomes completely unpredictable the moment you add a second joint.
— P.S. I Love ME (@ps_ilove_me) August 13, 2026
It's called a "double pendulum."
This is why scientists still cannot predict the double pendulum exactly.
A double pendulum with initial conditions measured to a… pic.twitter.com/Svowbd20z6
Charlie Munger: "I always liked the story of P.J. O'Rourke, who said, 'The last Communist dictator of Albania was a pure Communist.
— Kevin Carpenter (@kejca) August 14, 2026
He threw out the Russian embassy because they'd lost the pure faith. Then he kicked out the Chinese Communists because they'd lost the pure faith.… pic.twitter.com/Zxgvq2NnWl
When I talk about cultural and systemic variables that obviously often have a larger effect on group-level performance, this is a good example.
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) August 14, 2026
In Southern Nigeria, the literacy rate - which, in a post-British nation, means ~what it does here - is 80+%. In the North, it is… pic.twitter.com/TNXDWrZ8Sp
Adam Smith understood this in 1776.
— Milton Friedman Quotes (@MiltonFriedmanW) August 15, 2026
250 years later, many people still don’t. pic.twitter.com/qHxJtoAbTS
I think it was Chesterton who said “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly”.
— Aelfred The Great (@aelfred_D) August 13, 2026
This helps me a lot. https://t.co/BdLo9qDfLS
I worked with him once, I'm proud to say
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) August 13, 2026
The perfect English gentleman, who told stories as good as Peter Ustinov's ! https://t.co/3tDA7KweMK
We must return to communicating like 1800s adventurers pic.twitter.com/grsNCLjG1e
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) August 14, 2026
gen X women: built different. pic.twitter.com/KRLDc6EJuW
— el gato malo (@boriquagato) August 13, 2026
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