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
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