Fireflies by the Kinu River, 1930 by Kobayashi Kiyochika

Fireflies by the Kinu River, 1930 by Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japan 1847-1915) 

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History

He lost his squadron in the confusion of a dogfight, climbed back up, and found a formation of American bombers being torn apart by more than thirty German fighters.

There was no other Allied aircraft anywhere near them.

He could have waited for help. He attacked instead.

This… pic.twitter.com/4cxg8rO3HJ

— Untold War Stories (@UntoldWarFacts) August 8, 2026

 

Measurement by A.M. Sullivan

Measurement 

by A.M. Sullivan

Stars and atoms have no size,

They only vary in men's eyes.

Men and instruments will blunder

Calculating things of wonder.

A seed is just as huge a world

As any ball the sun has hurled.

Stars are quite picayune

As any splinter of the moon.

Time is but a vague device;

Space can never be precise;

Stars and atoms have a girth,

Small as zero, ten times Earth.

There is, by God's swift reckoning

A universe in everything.

I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

From Moby Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville.

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off — then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings toward the ocean with me. 

 

An Insight

Stephen Kotkin explains the real reason Marxism keeps attracting intellectuals and young people, even after the body count.

It is not because the theory works. It is because it offers something far more seductive: total, rapid transformation and a special role for the… pic.twitter.com/H03ROpqH9c

— Commentary - Sowell Economics (@sowelleconomics) August 8, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

>A Catholic Bishop gets put on prime-time national television in the 1950s
>No script, no teleprompter, no celebrity guests, just him, a chalkboard, and the Gospel
>Hollywood completely writes him off as boring religious programming
>Proceeds to absolutely dominate the TV… pic.twitter.com/I7AFXHv7ha

— Trad West (@trad_west_) August 9, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

I ran into a “Republicans for Talarico” type lady here once, came into my replies talking about how she was a lifelong conservative Republican voter who’d been forced to support Democrats because of how radical the Republican Party had become, so I searched her history and found… https://t.co/9k6DEAjPBY

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) August 10, 2026

 

Data Talks

It is one of the most embarrassing replicated findings in the social sciences. Think of the most unpleasant stereotypes about either sex or any ethnic group, and if it has been studied rigorously, it almost certainly has some validity. That still means modest R-squares. But… https://t.co/lN9A4oEqKR

— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) August 9, 2026

Summer Breeze, 1995 by Alice Dalton Brown

Summer Breeze, 1995 by Alice Dalton Brown (USA, 1939 - )  

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History

That was 10 years ago

Imagine 10 years from now pic.twitter.com/lVZSdBkLOS

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 9, 2026