Agathokles Martinios

The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging.

They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”.

They raped them.

Sex implies consent.

The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.

A bookcase near a doorway, through which you can see another bookcase. There are maybe 150 books visible, with very few duplicates; they are shelved fairly tightly, with only one face out.

A book open to a page with text about William Caslon, a printer and font creator. The text is actually in Centaur, which was created by Bruce Rogers. This is from Rogers' book about creating Centaur, actually.

Let's talk about books and the public trust.

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Something that is easy to forget, in these days of barcode-scanning / auto-adjust pricing on third-party platforms for pennies plus shipping:

Booksellers are not merely people who sell some popular books in a competitive market.

Never forget that the only country in NATO history which triggered NATO article 5 is USA after a bunch of Arab terrorists took down some buildings in New York.

Now when Europe is in existential threat by former Soviets, the USA is throwing us bones and expecting gratitude.

EU need to step up.

Authorities Investigating Explosion on Harvard’s Medical Campus, Believed To Be Intentional | News | The Harvard Crimson A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University…

A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates.

Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The declining population will make it even harder to care for elders Declining population means caring for parents, grandparents, and other relatives could become even more challenging with fewer professionals and family members to pitch in.

Declining population means caring for parents, grandparents, and other relatives could become even more challenging with fewer professionals and family members to pitch in. n.pr/3JeLMex

Abortion Is on the Ballot Once Again Read more here.

Abortion access is pretty directly on the ballot right now in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia—and the California ballot measure, Prop 50, could have nationwide implications for reproductive freedom. Me in @democracydocket.com

A tweet from John Fugelsang reads in all caps: "NO FOOD FOR YOU UNTIL THE DEMOCRATS LET US TAKE AWAY YOUR HEALTHCARE" – US House Speaker Mike Johnson.

This perfectly encapsulates what the GOP position is on the shutdown.

Also check out Dr. Bender’s book, “The AI Con: How to fight Big Tech’s hype and create the future we want”:

Amazon: amzn.to/47ofc1K

Bookshop: bookshop.org/a/110785/978...

A tweet from Robert Reich states: “The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?”

The oligarchy wants full control of what we watch and read.

🇹🇷In Turkey, a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1. There is destruction, the number of victims is being clarified.

Residents of several regions of the country felt strong tremors.

70% off Jorell Meléndez-Badillo's Puerto Rico, a panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today. Discover thousands of books in the featured collection before the sale ends October 31st!

70% off Jorell Meléndez-Badillo's Puerto Rico, a panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today. Discover thousands of books in the featured collection before the sale ends October 31st!

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Please help me help this person. Feel free to copy paste to share.

This is Courtney, a Black diabetic single mother of an also diabetic child.

PayPal. Ceequeen@myyahoo.com
Cash app. $luxgloss1 or luxxgloss28
they’re both her accounts

#MutualAid

We just adopted our 19th sanctions package.

It targets Russian banks, crypto exchanges, entities in India and China, among others.

The EU is curbing Russian diplomats’ movements to counter the attempts of destabilisation.

It is increasingly harder for Putin to fund this war.

Editorial: Europe, it’s time to finally be brave. Start with Russian assets A few weeks ago, U.S. Special Envoy Keith Kellogg gently berated Europe for not standing on its own two feet on the global stage and in confrontation with Russia. "I don't think the Europeans know ho...

The defense of Ukraine is the defense of Europe — European leaders have said so many times. It’s time they started acting like it.

A theory why the internet is going down the toilet A new book diagnoses a sickness affecting some of America's biggest companies.

A new book diagnoses a sickness affecting some of America's biggest companies. n.pr/4724Llp

YouTube video by EU Made Simple What if the United States Were Run Like Europe?

An interesting thought experiment to help understand how the EU works.

r/CasualConversation • 2 days ago Total Thing7 Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

Hey y’all wanna feel old

Historic First: Legal Hellenic Polytheist Marriage Ceremony Held in Cyprus — A Milestone for Mediterranean Paganism - Europe, Paganism, Religion, The Wild Hunt, World Witchcraft & Pagan News - A historic first: a couple married at the Temple of Zeus in Cyprus in a Hellenic polytheist ceremony—the first of its kind legally recognized in Greece—marking a powerful ste...

A historic first: a couple married at the Temple of Zeus in Cyprus in a Hellenic polytheist ceremony—the first of its kind legally recognized in Greece—marking a powerful step toward restoring ancestral faith and identity across the Mediterranean.

wildhunt.org/2025/10/hist...

#hellenism #pagan

Hmmm. Is there maybe some major event that happened around that time that could explain this sudden antipathy? /sarcasm

I will never not repost this

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A post by Rebecca Johnson: “I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.” A tumblr respond from mightymur: “The final, brilliant word on passive voice. "She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive "Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

In the middle, there is an AI-generated picture of a duck. Below it, there is a human-illustrated Duck, looking at the other duck in shock, and saying "Wtf is this?"

AI-generated content is flooding the internet, and we're entering a new era of information overload. Watch our latest video to find out how AI slop affects the internet and why kurzgesagt videos will always remain human-made: https://kgs.link/AISlop

Today begins Banned Books Week, celebrating the freedom to read. Join the fight against censorship and explore frequently challenged classics like George Orwell’s 1984: https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/right-to-read

🇺🇦‼️ Russia simply laughs at the West, rejecting all peace initiatives and continuing terror. We will fight so that the world does not remain silent, — President Zelensky.

There is even a website tracking how far along they are in doing *all the things they said they would do*: www.project2025.observer/en

That Trump's administration has its sh*t together enough to do as much as it has is arguably the only surprise.

Which is good, though I would prefer the EU not simply replace Russia with the US. Never again must we allow any one party to so strongly hold the EU's gas supplies in a stranglehold like Russia did. A diversified supply chain must be the focus.

❗️The Czech President called for shooting down Russian aircraft that violate NATO airspace.

"I must call this [Russian MiG-31K fighter jets intrude into Estonian airspace] extremely irresponsible behavior, because violating airspace is a pretext for activating defense mechanisms and,

‼️ Russia has created units of soldiers infected with HIV, hepatitis and other diseases and sent them into battle. The occupiers of these units wear armbands that mark them as sick, — The Telegraph.

⚠️ Such Russians have been spotted on the front line near Pokrovsk in Donetsk region.