History

Schopenhauer wrote this paragraph more than 150 years ago, and it’s still true pic.twitter.com/lQdfTXQIZO

— Arthur Schopenhauer (@SchopenhauerNow) June 15, 2026

 

An Insight

Whatever is going on in the world, Thomas Sowell always got there first and summed it up perfectly. pic.twitter.com/bAk2L3ZIF7

— Konstantin Kisin (@KonstantinKisin) June 14, 2026

 

An Insight

Verifiably false things almost every progressive believes.

1. Thousands of unarmed black men are killed by the police every year.

2. There is a transgender genocide happening right now in the United States.

3. Most black people don’t know how to get an ID.

4. Real Socialism…

— Midwestern Patriot 🇺🇸 (@MWpatriot01) July 13, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

In 1862, a photograph was taken that captured more than just the face of an old man. It captured one of the last living links to the American Revolutionary War.

The man in the image was Nicholas G. Veeder, a veteran who had lived through one of the most important chapters in… pic.twitter.com/aVHSbTfVEW

— Dr. M.F. Khan (@Dr_TheHistories) June 15, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

They really crushed this scene

😂 pic.twitter.com/aoeU4Ap0gG

— Declaration of Memes (@LibertyCappy) June 15, 2026

 

Data Talks

Does money buy happiness? A Princeton Nobel laureate said no above $75,000. A Penn researcher with 1.7 million data points said yes. The day they sat down together to settle the fight, the answer they reached should change how you think about your own life.

The Nobel laureate is… pic.twitter.com/q6k8WqcQfK

— Ihtesham Ali (@ihtesham2005) June 15, 2026

 

Never heard this one before

If your outgo exceeds your inflow, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Mission San Juan Capistrano, 1928 by Gustave Baumann

Mission San Juan Capistrano, 1928 by Gustave Baumann (Germany, 1881-1971)

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History

When india achieved independence they deported all of the british that were living there at the time. Some of them had 300 years of history in the country, had been born in india, had never seen the shores of england.
Didnt matter. They still had to go home.
Theres a lesson here. https://t.co/lLqXr5CA1S

— gandalf the racist (@racistbilbo) June 15, 2026

 

An Insight

Elon Musk got rejected by Netscape. He walked into the lobby, was too shy to talk to anyone, and walked out. Never got the job.

At his first company Zip2, the board demoted him. Twice. They refused to let him be CEO.

He got fired from PayPal as CEO while flying to his own…

— Race (@multiplanet1) June 14, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

W Puszczy Białowieskiej foto pułapka nagrała unikatowy film, pokazujący starcie watahy 7 wilków ze stadem żubrów.
Wilki bardzo rzadko atakują stada żubrów. Wilki zaatakowały nowo narodzone cielę.
Stado stanęło jednak w jego obronie, skutecznie odpierając napastników.
Polecam… pic.twitter.com/jBGpzvfAIs

— piotr von pritzwald (@VonPritzwald) June 15, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

If I had Elon's money I would solve world hunger instantly.😡

Sent from a device purchased with with a sum of money that could have been used to feed an Ethiopian family for a year, but wasn't, because my generosity is purely hypothetical.

— wokeandwoofing (@wokeandwoofing) June 14, 2026

 

Data Talks

🚨Married dads engagement on the home front has *tripled*. "Married dads of young children in 1965 did, on average, less than 10 hours a week of any kind of child care or help around the house. Dads in 2024 contributed nearly 30 hours a week." @lymanstoneky https://t.co/seJiV0pjOq pic.twitter.com/BQseKUIwps

— Brad Wilcox (@BradWilcoxIFS) June 15, 2026

 

From Cap d'Antibes, 1926 by Herbert James Gunn

From Cap d'Antibes, 1926 by Herbert James Gunn (Scotland, 1893 - 1964)

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History

En el año 1200, en algún taller de Irán, un artesano construyó una caja que nadie podría abrir sin la combinación exacta. Y diseñó esa combinación con tantas variables que probarlas todas habría llevado más tiempo del que cualquier ladrón podría dedicarle.

La caja selyúcida del… pic.twitter.com/nOlkbI6kXA

— Ankor Inclán (@ankorinclan) June 15, 2026

 

An Insight

“Leftwing people find it very hard to get on with rightwing people, because they believe that they are evil. Whereas I have no problem getting on with leftwing people, because I simply believe that they are mistaken.”

Sir Roger Scruton pic.twitter.com/8ALGJHFMIp

— Mark W. (@DurhamWASP) June 14, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

Packing thousands of straws together basically creates a low-tech pixel screen.

Each straw acts as an independent light pathway, perfectly mimicking how data channels work. pic.twitter.com/7iRGePbWYO

— Interesting things (@awkwardgoogle) June 15, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

Every anti-Trump counter-programming effort always looks like a talent show at a senior center - but with a little bit less energy. https://t.co/bzNmCWhxi0

— Matt Whitlock (@MattWhitlock) June 15, 2026

 

Data Talks

Capital is voting with its feet.

France, Germany & Spain are now net exporters of wealth. Britain alone lost 16,500 millionaires last year.

Meanwhile, the U.S. gained 7,500 millionaires and now hosts over 1/3 of the world’s $30M+ individuals! pic.twitter.com/FwwlgnYHTD

— Stephen Moore (@StephenMoore) June 15, 2026

 

San Dimas Train Station, 1933 by Millard Sheets

San Dimas Train Station, 1933 by Millard Sheets (America, 1907-1989)

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History

After the Babylonian exile of the Jews, you would sometimes find cuneiform seals with Jewish names on them in the Babylonian empire.

Although it was common at the time to depict scenes of worship of various deities on seals, almost no such scene was ever found on seals with… pic.twitter.com/QyUXSAiUBM

— LiorLefineder (@lefineder) June 15, 2026

 

An Insight

Aristotle correctly pointed out that democracy is only possible within ethnic groups, and that tyrants import foreigners because divided societies are easier to rule over and control. pic.twitter.com/0k6s8eiKfZ

— Aristotle 🏛️ (@Aristotle7777) June 15, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

All blue-eyed people on Earth descend from a single common ancestor.

One person had a mutation 6,000–10,000 years ago that switched off melanin production in the iris, creating blue eyes for the first time. That trait spread because it was considered attractive.

Green eyes are… pic.twitter.com/ae56myUvoO

— Camus (@newstart_2024) June 15, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

Alex Soros is interesting because he’s a billionaire heir who dedicates his life to making cities less safe. He’s like a Reverse Batman.

— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) June 14, 2026

 

Data Talks

Everyone always talking about “talent density” in Silicon Valley when we really should be talking about how 80% of pretzels in America come from a small region of Pennsylvania pic.twitter.com/WCEI3OUdpn

— BuccoCapital Bloke (@buccocapital) June 11, 2026

 

Blackberries in Green Grapponia, 2021 by Cajsa Stina Åkerström

Blackberries in Green Grapponia, 2021 by Cajsa Stina Åkerström (Sweden, 1967 - )

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History

The ancients... they were telling the truth... about how round wild horses were... pic.twitter.com/I3zG1kQ5ZW

— Wylfċen (@wylfcen) June 15, 2026

 

An Insight

So much discourse on so many topics would improve if more people understood the difference between stocks and flows. https://t.co/zaxajYBBEI

— Brad Shapiro (@btshapir) June 12, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

AT&T Stadium: Another Architectural Engineering Marvel by the Americans

​America keeps proving why they are the absolute best in the world when it comes to sports entertainment. It’s genuinely hilarious how they rebranded and reconstructed a massive American football dome in… https://t.co/CsxELbKvHa pic.twitter.com/wMZKwm2eQz

— ARINZE (@arinzechukwum_) June 14, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

Vice President JD Vance hanging out with Pope Leo’s brother, the Holy Uncle, at the UFC Freedom 250 Fight Night at the White House.

This is the greatest timeline in human history. pic.twitter.com/W3xZPkNhtU

— Thomas Hern (@ThomasMHern) June 15, 2026

 

Data Talks

It’s really simple: countries in orange will struggle with pensions and healthcare systems, many properties will become worthless, and they will face a debt crisis.

Countries in green will be in good shape.

Why isn’t demographics the most important issue for politicians? pic.twitter.com/Pg8tFo9J3o

— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) June 15, 2026

 

Moonlight in Empty Rooms by Alexander Volkov

Moonlight in Empty Rooms by Alexander Volkov (Russia/America, 1960 - )

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History

Origin of Roman soldiers stationed in Britain based on tombstones inscriptions. pic.twitter.com/eExw9J1qEX

— LiorLefineder (@lefineder) June 15, 2026

 

An Insight

Everyone saying Elon Musk is the world’s first trillionaire is conveniently ignoring the entire country of Zimbabwe

— litquidity (@litcapital) June 12, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

16th-century Italian handmade wooden cabinet. by alainmichelantiquite pic.twitter.com/3kv2Z5izim

— DaVinci (@BiancoDavinci) June 13, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

You can drive for 12 hours in London and still be in London it’s that fucking conjested

— Rich (@RichEvans0601) June 14, 2026

 

Data Talks

An obscure academic wrote a book in 2004 about how dual income households are a scam & the vast majority of women simply aren't economically productive enough to justify outsourcing childcare, even in dystopian government warehouses https://t.co/RZYbYrsppc pic.twitter.com/alWGM7rvsQ

— Bennett's Phylactery (@extradeadjcb) June 15, 2026

 

Maple Street, London, 1915–23 by Walter Sickert

Maple Street, London, 1915–23 by Walter Sickert (England, 1860-1942)

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History

🇺🇸 The 50 star American flag flying today was designed in 1958 by 17 year old Robert G. Heft as a high school class project.

He got a B-minus on it.

The teacher claimed the design "lacked originality" and jokingly remarked that if Heft didn't like the grade, he should get the… https://t.co/9KdciQeyeE pic.twitter.com/lNWDcE4i0B

— Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 (@CorpBarnaby) June 15, 2026

 

An Insight

Elite university students are now incapable of reading a book.

Instead of fixing this, universities are simply reducing reading requirements to shorter and shorter excerpts.

This is no mere literacy crisis. It is a civilizational one.

To fight back, we started an online book… pic.twitter.com/qDV0fTCnDA

— Athenaeum Book Club (@athenaeumbc) June 14, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

The craftsmanship inside of the 1100 years old Sahastrabahu Temple in Rajasthan, India pic.twitter.com/HCdCdasjlC

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 14, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

If there’s anything I hate more than hippies it’s fucking space hippies https://t.co/aDzAV6UE3v

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 12, 2026

 

Data Talks

In 1965, the Catholic Church had 179,000 sisters in America.

Today: 33,000.

That's an 82% collapse in 60 years.

Priests have declined as well, but not as severely.

59K down to 35K.

Used to 3 Sisters for every priest. Now it's 1:1. pic.twitter.com/NT4GzbcrZz

— Ryan Burge 📊 (@ryanburge) March 3, 2026

 

Sturenkatu, Finland by Timo Tolonen

Sturenkatu, Finland by Timo Tolonen (Finland, 1977 - )

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History

These artifacts are Bull-Headed Lyres discovered in the Royal Cemetery of Ur in modern-day Iraq. pic.twitter.com/1c7QW7ZJk5

— HerodotusWave (@HerodotusWave) June 14, 2026

 

An Insight

I don't know who made this meme but it's correct. Anarcho tyranny generally aligns with the middle-to-late phases of societal collapse, tied to a breakdown of moral consensus, bureaucratic bloat, and the failure of basic public duties (like public safety). pic.twitter.com/NqfpBSVnF9

— Paula Wright 🦚 (@PaulaWright) June 14, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

The craftsmanship inside of the 1100 years old Sahastrabahu Temple in Rajasthan, India pic.twitter.com/HCdCdasjlC

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 14, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

The formula was never a secret comrade ☭ https://t.co/XbJHyqGet8 pic.twitter.com/PqtjdmaRlL

— Burnie Senders (@BurnieSendersX) June 13, 2026

 

Data Talks

The stereotype is that educated families raise secular kids.

The GSS disagrees.

Never-attenders and weekly churchgoers are now equally likely to have a college-educated parent — a gap that was real and measurable as recently as 1980. pic.twitter.com/ZuZ20uRGJR

— Ryan Burge 📊 (@ryanburge) June 14, 2026

 

The Invitation, 2026 by David Arsenault

The Invitation, 2026 by David Arsenault (America, 1958 - ) 

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History

Sound advice from Martha Washington. pic.twitter.com/VVlZwKNzOH

— TheHistoryOfTheAmericans (@TheHistoryOfTh2) June 14, 2026

 

 

An Insight

"Degrowth is the ultimate luxury belief...These are people who already have high incomes, comfortable apartments, generous healthcare and pensions and whose ideas would pull up the ladder on billions of poor people." https://t.co/On3hFp90Vn

— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) June 12, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

600-year-old brick spiral staircase inside Moot Hall in Maldon, England (c.1420), once part of a medieval mansion and later used as a prison, court, and council chamber.

📸 architecturehub_ pic.twitter.com/CrE5VhpVbn

— Science girl (@sciencegirl) June 14, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

I’d ask them if engagement farming is big on their world too. https://t.co/vvYKHGFOZ0 pic.twitter.com/Mx76SM5iZK

— Noam Blum (@neontaster) June 13, 2026

 

Data Talks

Essentially true of employees, and this is why automation is preferable: There is no principle agent problem there. https://t.co/VZPikYnpNz

— Samo Burja (@SamoBurja) June 14, 2026

 

Traffic Jam, 1956 by Earl Mayan

Traffic Jam, 1956 by Earl Mayan (America, 1916-2009)

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History

The "Mole Man of Hackney" was the nickname given to William Lyttle, an eccentric Irish civil engineer who spent roughly 40 years illegally digging a massive network of tunnels beneath his 20-room Victorian property in De Beauvoir Town, Hackney, London.

The Digging Obsession… pic.twitter.com/uoCqe09S98

— Knowledge of London (@Knowledgepoint) June 14, 2026

 

An Insight

pic.twitter.com/PfKKtOnosE

— Niccolò Machiavelli | The Prince ⚔️ (@NiccoloDaily) June 14, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

Really interesting! Indeed a similarity there, adding photo I made in Nuremberg (the house of the artist Albrecht Dürer). pic.twitter.com/Cl8IyOIUb3

— Susan (@susanworld) June 14, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

En turquia, estaban haciendo la obra de romeo y julieta
cayo el gato del actor al escenario y el bicho no entendia porque el tipo estaba en el piso
Lo trataba de despertar kjjj pic.twitter.com/2CLyQJpFUx

— ElBuni (@therealbuni) June 13, 2026

 

Data Talks

So fascinating that Africans reached Australia and Japan before they got to most of Europe. https://t.co/h5QY1ylzns

— Matt Ridley (@mattwridley) June 14, 2026

 

Dos en Luz Dorada (Two in Golden Light), 2023 by Tomás Sánchez

Dos en Luz Dorada (Two in Golden Light), 2023 by Tomás Sánchez (Cuba, 1948 - )

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History

In 1750 BC, a man named Nanni bought copper from a Babylonian dealer named Ea-Nasir.

The copper was garbage. So Nanni carved his rage into a clay tablet and had it delivered.

It survived 3,770 years. It is the oldest written complaint on Earth, and it tells you exactly how… pic.twitter.com/w8HbicIGcl

— Ancient History Hub (@AncientHistorry) June 13, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

Legends of the skies. pic.twitter.com/V7IM3UamiN

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 14, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

Scotland fans in lifts in America for the World Cup😂 pic.twitter.com/5U9gSDfaf4

— Ross McCulloch (@Rossmac212) June 13, 2026

 

Data Talks

Maybe we don't have a public school funding problem ...

Maybe we have too many administrative staff?

Clearly adding more admin staff hasn't improved the numbers, so maybe go back to the 1960s ratio. pic.twitter.com/v3iZdP7Dzc

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) June 14, 2026

 

Heroes and Ghosts #3, 2020 by Francis DiFronzo

Heroes and Ghosts #3, 2020 by Francis DiFronzo (America, 1969 - ) 

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Kling's Three Languages of Politics

From Claude does TLP by Arnold Kling.  The subheading is It performs amazingly well

Claude, describing Kling's three languages of politics.

Progressives communicate along the oppressor–oppressed axis. The fundamental question: who is being victimized, and by whom? Conservatives communicate along the civilization–barbarism axis: what threatens the institutions and norms that make civilized life possible? Libertarians communicate along the liberty–coercion axis: where is the state expanding its power over individuals?

Two disclaimers, both easy to miss, both important. The model is not a theory of ideology — it does not explain why anyone becomes progressive, conservative, or libertarian, and each of those traditions is deeper than its slogan. And it is not a map of moral reasoning. The axes are not how people arrive at their conclusions. They are the language people reach for when talking about conclusions already reached.

That gap — between reasoning and language — is where the interesting psychology lives.

Here is the observation that unlocks it: everyone opposes the bad thing. No one is for oppression. No one is for barbarism. No one is for coercion. These are not competing values; they are universally shared negative values. What differs is which threat each tribe organizes its identity around — and which one it accuses the other tribes of enabling. Conservatives accuse the others of being soft on barbarism. Progressives accuse the others of defending oppression. Libertarians accuse both of expanding coercion. The three languages are less three sets of values than three axes of demonization.

The model describes a pattern. It does not explain it. For that, you have to go back a long way before the Voting Rights Act.

Politics precedes language. Frans de Waal’s chimpanzees build alliances, trade favors, betray partners, and reconcile — without a word. Alpha status in a chimp colony is won by coalition management, not raw strength; a strong chimp with poor alliances loses to a weaker chimp with better ones. Political instincts are products of evolution, not culture.

And our minds bear the marks. Leda Cosmides and John Tooby showed that people fail an abstract logic puzzle that they solve instantly when the identical puzzle is framed as catching a cheater. The mind is not a general-purpose reasoner. It runs specialized modules — cheater detection, us-versus-them, loyalty tracking — built for life in coalitions.

Jonathan Haidt supplies the next piece: intuition first, reasoning second. His metaphor is a rider on an elephant. The elephant — our automatic moral intuition — moves first. The rider — conscious reasoning — mostly writes the elephant’s press releases. We experience ourselves as reasoning toward moral conclusions; mostly we are rationalizing conclusions already reached.

Kurt Gray and Daniel Wegner add the template those intuitions run on. Every moral story casts two roles: a suffering victim and an intentional villain.

Each political language is a standing casting decision. Progressives cast the marginalized as victim and the powerful as villain. Conservatives cast civilization as victim and disorder as villain. Libertarians cast the individual as victim and the state as villain. Look at how progressives and conservatives frame Gaza: near mirror images, the same events with the victim and villain roles swapped.

Dan Williams completes the picture with an economic insight. You cannot believe just anything — beliefs need justifications you find genuine. But the belief usually comes first, from tribe, intuition, or emotion; the justification is hired afterward. And when millions of people need the same justifications, that demand creates a market. Political media does not sell information. It sells justification. This is why counterargument bounces off: you are not engaging a reasoned conclusion, you are engaging the rationalization of a tribal commitment. Refute one rationalization and you merely trigger a search for a better one.

The darkest product in that market is what David McRaney calls the illusion of asymmetric insight: the conviction that you understand your opponents better than they understand themselves. The progressive knows that colorblindness is really cover for preserving hierarchy. The conservative knows that climate policy is really cover for controlling people. The libertarian knows that everyone else’s compassion is really a lust for power. Asymmetric insight ends dialogue before it starts, because it declares the other side’s stated reasons not worth engaging.

Put it together and the conclusion is uncomfortable. The three languages are not reasoning. They are signaling. Speaking your tribe’s axis is good for three things: reassuring others of your loyalty, raising your status among those who agree, and whipping up hostility against the other tribes. What it is not good for is persuading anyone outside the tribe. Most political commentary does not open minds on the other side. It closes minds on its own side.

History

I often think about this pic.twitter.com/kL2gmFycEF

— Dividend Growth Investor (@DividendGrowth) June 13, 2026

 

An Insight

Lmao it’s funny how it was actually the leftists who pushed their whole “diversity” alliance to get the Muslims in charge in Hamtramck.

Then these guys take over the entire council and one of the first things they do is ban the LGBT flag from city property (haram).

Anyone… https://t.co/CVt8pamZxe pic.twitter.com/R46XF2sDMs

— Rothmus 🏴 (@Rothmus) June 12, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

There is a tree in the Amazon, the Sumaúma (Ceiba pentandra), that can reach about 70 metres tall, rising above the forest canopy. It has massive buttress roots that spread like wings to stabilise it in shallow soil,

sometimes large enough to stand between.

📸 amyris /Amyris… pic.twitter.com/7pSLjPON2C

— Science girl (@sciencegirl) June 14, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

-Squatters took over his mom's house
-Didn't know how to get them out and discovered how difficult the legal process can be for homeowners
-Found a legal workaround where he could move into the house himself and essentially become the squatter's new roommate
-Realized this was a… pic.twitter.com/qedI3yqMJ3

— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) June 13, 2026

 

Data Talks

Worth reading this revealing account of what the university is facing: https://t.co/FT3uIEKt0A

— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) June 12, 2026

 

Two Girls with an Oleander, 1890 by Gustav Klimt

Two Girls with an Oleander, 1890 by Gustav Klimt (Austria, 1862-1918)

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History

Notice the famous Templar symbol of two Templars riding one horse.

According to some interpretations the symbol is meant to reflect the humble origins of the Order. Legend has it that Templar Knights were initially so poor that they could only afford one horse for every two men. https://t.co/pz7cwwp9S8 pic.twitter.com/al1mj3p9Jr

— Aristocratic Fury (@LandsknechtPike) June 14, 2026

 

An Insight

“Free speech is outdated” usually means “I trust today’s censors more than yesterday’s.”

But the old problem remains: If you give someone the power to decide which ideas are too dangerous to hear, don’t be shocked when that power gets used against you. pic.twitter.com/w3GSCLrjzR

— Greg Lukianoff (@glukianoff) June 12, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

Le carnet de croquis de Turner pic.twitter.com/Yi63rP9Ga0

— Alexandre Blaineau (@AlBlaineau) June 13, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

Is she actually lecturing us about rich people from the back of a limousine 🤣 https://t.co/RiZ12pYLxc

— Jessica (@JessicaTetreau) June 12, 2026

 

Data Talks

This is embarassing for @NYMag -- these "gifted" children were about 30X more likely to acheive eminence than their peers. By any standard that is not a "mirage", but the embodiment of whatever metric identified them as gifted.

It's one thing if their writers don't understand… https://t.co/4GV0CLBpP1

— Jay Van Bavel, PhD (@jayvanbavel) June 12, 2026

 

In the Kitchen by Harold Harvey

In the Kitchen by Harold Harvey (England, 1874-1941)

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History

🇬🇧 When you say the word tarmac... You have just said a Scotsman's name.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Tar, laid over macadam. The macadam is the man.

John Loudon McAdam was born in Ayr in 1756. The Britain he grew up in moved at the speed of mud.

He was not an engineer and never trained as one. He was… pic.twitter.com/pa1Ki0GBht

— Proudofus.uk (@ProudofusUK) June 13, 2026

 

An Insight

“Elon Musk is a trillionaire.”

As a securities law attorney, please allow me to explain how anyone who says this is basically lying to you:

1. The Securities and Exchange Commission has a myriad of laws that prevent founders and other large stockholders of publicly traded…

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) June 13, 2026

 

 

I see wonderful things

A welder took a $28 an hour job in 2015 at a company he had never heard of.

On Friday, Juan Hernandez became a millionaire.

He spent ten years building the structures that lifted rockets onto the launch pad. SpaceX paid him partly in stock, the way it paid its cooks,… pic.twitter.com/BgdYV5rqzR

— Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ (@shanaka86) June 12, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

😎 pic.twitter.com/hBUN2PFhFz

— Judianna (@Judianna) June 13, 2026

 

Data Talks

The poorest economies in the world are not achieving economic growth.

The consequence is that progress against the very worst poverty is coming to a halt.

This is one of the worst problems in the world today, but hardly gets any attention. pic.twitter.com/yXVgf3otHu

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 12, 2026

 

Schubert at the Piano I (circa 1896) by Gustav Klimt

Schubert at the Piano I (circa 1896) by Gustav Klimt (Austria, 1862-1918)

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History

After the last republic of Florence fell to the Medici in 1530, Michelangelo went into hiding for 3 months.

Nobody knew where he had dissapeared to until a 6.5 feet / 2 meter wide hiding hole was discovered unde the Medici mausoleum in 1975.

The walls were full of sketches… pic.twitter.com/HsndNKnkTv

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 13, 2026

 

An Insight

The most envious, Marxist, redistributive person in the world isn't the guy busting his hump to frame a house, or the guy grinding out DoorDash...it's the smug guy worth 7 or 8 figures staring at a trillionaire he considers socially beneath him. https://t.co/4NA4w0XCbS

— Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) (@antoniogm) June 12, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

In 1963, New York City committed what one critic called an act of vandalism against its own soul. It tore down the most beautiful building it had ever built, and it has regretted it every day since.

The building was Pennsylvania Station, and for half a century it was one of the… pic.twitter.com/7x0odJHyu6

— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) June 12, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

A Tour of Paris – US Edition pic.twitter.com/bfddLMecbK

— Vintage Maps (@vintagemapstore) June 13, 2026

 

Data Talks

We can enjoy blaming computers for some of this. But we mustn't forget the democratization of college necessarily lowers abilities of the average student.

If only, say, the top 5% of kids go to college, the average student is bright. If all kids go, the average student is merely… https://t.co/vvZc0fHNeo

— William M Briggs - Statistician to the Stars! (@FamedCelebrity) June 12, 2026

 

A Gap in the Hedgerow, 2004 by David Hockney

A Gap in the Hedgerow, 2004 by David Hockney (England, 1937-2026)

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Bad news and worse news.

The doctor called his patient and said "I’ve got bad news and I’ve got worse news." The patient says "Give me the bad news first." So the doctor said "I’m sorry, but you have terminal cancer and only have 24 hours to live". The patient said "What the heck could be worse than that?" The doctor said "Unfortunately I wasn’t able to reach you yesterday."

History

12 June 1788: “...I dread the depravity of human nature. I wish to guard against it by proper checks.... I will never depend on so slender a protection as the possibility of being represented by virtuous men.” #PatrickHenry, speech in Virginia Ratifying Convention.#HumanNature pic.twitter.com/06nXPhyM8l

— Daniel Dreisbach (@d3bach) June 12, 2026

 

An Insight

“Religions are true for ordinary people, false for intellectuals, and useful for those in power.”

— Seneca pic.twitter.com/yMhGbYyaIt

— 𐙚⋆ (@voidwithverses) June 10, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

🔥🚨LATEST: The nation of Georgia is going viral after James Fenwick went to Tbilisi to work alongside Georgian dance ensemble mixing ancient tradition with modern times. pic.twitter.com/3Wbe6aYxPh

— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) June 11, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

The smartest human persuaders to ever live, Cicero and Demosthenes, were both killed by their enemies after they lost a war they talked their side into fighting. https://t.co/uU1nkoQ2Sp

— Roman Helmet Guy (@romanhelmetguy) June 12, 2026

 

Data Talks

The title of the article ought to have been "How the College Board Corrupted a Perfectly Good Test of Academic Aptitude." For the sad thing is that the SAT was still an excellent test through the 1980s. There had been drift over time--ETS's internal studies found that from 1963… https://t.co/RasYOs15if

— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) June 12, 2026

 

Death and Life, 1908-1915 by Gustav Klimt

Death and Life, 1908-1915 by Gustav Klimt (Austria, 1862-1918)

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History

London once had a series of grand gateways marking entry into the City.

Most of them disappeared by the end of the 18th century, including Aldgate, Aldersgate, Bishopsgate, Cripplegate, Ludgate, Moorgate and Newgate.

Temple Bar is the surviving exception. Completed in 1672 and… pic.twitter.com/KzPaOxxjBS

— Architecture Hub (@archpng) June 11, 2026

 

An Insight

We’re at the stage now where beheadings are regrettable, but tweets are unforgivable.

— Dr Philip Kiszely (@KiszelyPhilip) June 11, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

Crows (especially American crows) are highly intelligent and have remarkable abilities to recognize individual human faces, remember negative experiences with specific people for years (up to 17 in some studies), and socially transmit that information to their offspring and other… pic.twitter.com/epBBjtyXUj

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 12, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

Kids today have no idea how good The Onion was, like when Autistic Reporter Michael Falk delivered this news package, “Train Thankfully Unharmed In Crash That Killed One Man” https://t.co/QDIiJHghuV pic.twitter.com/GAq6JXQ0eu

— Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) June 11, 2026

 

Data Talks

US whites commit fewer homicides than Europeans.

Suggesting the problem isn't guns. It's the culture of particular... communities. https://t.co/FXErDsorYm

— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) June 11, 2026

 

May, Central Park by Joseph Keiffer

May, Central Park by Joseph Keiffer (America, 1952 - ) 

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https://t.co/MybDstcxvS pic.twitter.com/dNtWOjcmn2

— Eight Eyed Eel (@8EyedEel) June 10, 2026

 

An Insight

this won't work. the animosities come from the faith, tradition, language, stories.

getting beyond wars of religion is today viewed in the west as this easy thing that just kind of happened but was actually the (very bloody) work of centuries of european history https://t.co/qvAAaLbcV7 pic.twitter.com/q3kcyfYsHK

— blighter (@blightersort) June 10, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

The largest whale cemetery on Earth was discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean

Scientists have found an enormous underwater “whale graveyard” stretching nearly 1,200 kilometers at a depth of 7,000 meters in the Diamantina Fracture Zone.

Some of the whale skeletons are… pic.twitter.com/wp3dK8jTxN

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 12, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

“You can’t shout fire in a crowded theater” may be America’s favorite bad free speech argument, and @WillAtFIRE agrees.

In my book The War on Words, Nadine Strossen and I explain why it’s misquoted, obsolete, and historically embarrassing. pic.twitter.com/FZyoMrfcwn

— Greg Lukianoff (@glukianoff) June 10, 2026

 

Data Talks

Sepsis kills more people in American hospitals than heart attacks. 350,000 deaths a year, and the reason is brutally simple: the early warning signs are almost invisible.

A slightly elevated heart rate. A small temperature shift. A lab value drifting in the wrong direction. Each… https://t.co/YoBanGw90H

— Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) June 11, 2026

 

Knox Road, 2013 by Ann Goldberg

Knox Road, 2013 by Ann Goldberg (Canadia, 1970 - ) 

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History

The Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment – the real antidote to Rousseau and Voltaire

The French Enlightenment and the Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment happened simultaneously, in the same century, reading the same books, arguing about the same questions. They reached completely opposite… https://t.co/RUPK08vPlD pic.twitter.com/kmUCgSQ7rz

— Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 (@Kristof_Poland) July 11, 2026

 

History

Raphael's 1504 painting 'The Dream of a Knight" was inspired by Scipio's dream. In this vision, a young knight must choose b/t two female symbols: Life of Virtue [book/sword] or Life of the Senses [myrtle] yet the perfect knight should live in harmony with Mind, Courage & Desire. pic.twitter.com/2CtDe4enXl

— Michel Lara (@VeraCausa9) June 10, 2026

 

An Insight

“Anyone can err, but only the fool persists in his fault.”

— M. Tullius Cicero pic.twitter.com/wfMhPKh6og

— Learn Latin (@latinedisce) June 10, 2026

 

I see beautiful things

Brasstown Bald, highest peak of Georgia⛰️

Looks a bit like the rainforest here. pic.twitter.com/uZjeW00p4j

— Freddy🇩🇪 (@FreddyLA7) June 8, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

Decapitations have always been a part of British culture. John Betjeman famously wrote this lovely verse about them -

In the shires where the elms stand tall and true,
And buttercups gild the meadows bright,
The British soul, with its cheerful brew,
Faces the world in the West… pic.twitter.com/MegxpY1wyf

— Gareth Roberts (@OldRoberts953) June 10, 2026

 

Data Talks

Scandinavians in the US are wealthier than Scandinavians in Scandinavia (data from 2013). pic.twitter.com/mnYFVh15CU

— paleoneoliberal (@armsq17) June 10, 2026

 

In a Blue Chair, 2024 by Marcin Jaszczak

In a Blue Chair, 2024 by Marcin Jaszczak (Poland, 1975 - ) 

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History

Tolkien once revealed that the Shire wasn’t pure fantasy.

In a letter from 1955 he described it as:

“more or less a Warwickshire village of about the period of the Diamond Jubilee.”

The most beloved world in fantasy was built from ordinary English countryside memories. pic.twitter.com/GEevFWfIQU

— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) June 10, 2026

 

An Insight

Thomas Sowell: "There is a four-stage pattern that the anointed class use to establish an artificial crisis:

1: Declare a crisis!
2: Come up with a solution!
3: Unintended consequences follow.
4: Blame the unintended consequences on something else.

Examples range from… pic.twitter.com/rrBWeoaMmy

— Sowell Economics (@sowelleconomics) June 9, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life, because it is there that a civilization stores its memory and teaches the next generation how to think.”

— Henry Ward Beecher pic.twitter.com/7qqtvVxQWO

— Athenaeum Book Club (@athenaeumbc) June 11, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

Absolute banger pic.twitter.com/fTmIfwsdDE

— Classical Studies Memes (@CSMFHT) June 9, 2026

 

Data Talks

New NAEP results are out and it’s clear the bottom has fallen out for our lowest performing math students:

The bottom 10% of students performed worse than any cohort of students on the history of the test going all the way back to the 1970s pic.twitter.com/QzSPh1O4RR

— Marc Porter Magee 🎓 (@marcportermagee) June 10, 2026

 

Through a Cottage window, Shipley, Sussex, ca.1930-1940 by Charles Ginner

Through a Cottage window, Shipley, Sussex, ca.1930-1940 by Charles Ginner (Britain, 1878-1952) 

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History

"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards & its fighting done by fools."

—Thucydides,
Ancient Greek historian pic.twitter.com/rdWzRX6x5c

— The Conservative Alternative (@OldeWorldOrder) June 10, 2026

 

An Insight

The late, great @ScottAdamsSays once told us (paraphrasing):

If the odds of getting caught cheating are very low, and the consequences of getting caught are minimal, then the odds of cheating happening *somewhere* approach 100%.

Food for thought. https://t.co/Hzs2tAgaqo

— Tom Sauer (@thomasbsauer) June 8, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

I fell asleep on a train outside Kyoto. I mean really fell asleep, I was exhausted from walking all day.

Woke up at the end of the line. Like, the actual end. The train was empty and stopped.

I panicked, grabbed my stuff, but then realized my phone wasn't in my pocket. It had…

— 6ɪx✦ (@ok6ixx) June 10, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

The US has been hit by a lot of hurricanes since 1850, but the last few were caused by your SUV and cow farts pic.twitter.com/rGeO6WpNam

— Tony Heller 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 (@TonyClimate) June 9, 2026

 

Data Talks

Many people still think of Florida as the nation's #1 orange producer (it no longer is) & don't realize how completely devastated the harvest there has been by citrus greening disease, an insect-borne bacterial infection

Annual yields are only ~5% what they were 30 years ago pic.twitter.com/ZS6jX29vhl

— Adam Taggart (@adamtaggart) June 9, 2026

 

The Circle Theatre, 1936 by Edward Hopper

The Circle Theatre, 1936 by Edward Hopper (America, 1862-1967) 

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History

Tuesday 9 June 1663

Up and after ordering some things towards my wife’s going into the country, to the office, where I spent the morning upon my measuring rules very pleasantly till noon, and then comes Creed and he and I talked about mathematiques, and he tells me of a way… pic.twitter.com/lSwFh57OmJ

— Diary of Samuel Pepys (@DiaryOfPepys) June 9, 2026

 

An Insight

I think about this Seinfeld interview all the time. pic.twitter.com/o1HZV5EbnK

— Ben Springwater (@benspringwater) June 8, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

The Erawan Museum in Samut Prakan, Thailand. pic.twitter.com/jPIAx69YF4

— HerodotusWave (@HerodotusWave) June 10, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

I have never once in my life encountered someone expressing this sentiment. Either I live in quite a bubble, or Ezra Klein does. pic.twitter.com/Wojwr3mMaa

— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) June 9, 2026

 

Data Talks

As someone who covered the region for a dozen years for the WSJ, and reported in astonishment how even under conservative Pres Ronald Reagan USAID was funding socialist projects in Latin America, I can assure you that this is 💯 accurate. https://t.co/eEngnkPJim

— David Asman (@DavidAsmanfox) June 8, 2026

 

Siesta, 1962 by John Koch

Siesta, 1962 by John Koch (America, 1909-1978)

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History

I feel a little like Forrest Gump... but I was also on the flight in Bosnia when Hillary Clinton claimed we "landed under sniper fire."
We didn't.
She didn't.
The reporting I did on this for CBS Evening News led the broadcast two nights in a row. https://t.co/kTz7mKGhfJ pic.twitter.com/y6v8X9aq16

— Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️‍♂️💼🥋 (@SharylAttkisson) June 9, 2026

 

An Insight

Kids don't get confident from being told they're great. They get confident from doing hard things and finding out they can.

— Deepak Patel (@x_deepakpatel) June 7, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

Somewhat amusing to think that the Greco-Romans had flamethrowers, both mounted and hand-held, mobile field artillery, and hand grenades. pic.twitter.com/Ym4Wr6g9jG

— LiorLefineder (@lefineder) July 14, 2025