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NZ police recover Fabergé egg six days after suspect allegedly swallowed it Police officers were with the suspect around the clock until the stolen pendant was recovered.

Can’t invent this stuff.

“Police officers have been watching the suspect closely for six days and recovered the pendant after it came out the other end without medical intervention.”

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

By seeing ourselves not as static nouns, but as unfolding processes, we can soften the sharp edges of existential fear and embrace life’s constant becoming – a reminder that who we are isn’t a fixed point, it’s every choice, every feeling, and every moment of transformation.⁠

Thou Shalt Not Murder Fishermen While Pardoning Drug Lords This is evil.

Reposting this everyday until Pete Hagueseth faces justice for his crimes against humanity.

What if everything you thought you knew about the Three Wise Men was wrong?
For two millennia, we've pictured them as kings from the East, bearing gifts. But what if they weren't kings at all?
New research reveals they may have been elite Mediterranean warriors on a secret rescue mission.

In Shakespeare, Food References Are a Window to the Soul Decoding a character's anger over roast mutton.

For Elizabethans, food and drink was more than mere sustenance. Eating the right foods in the proper quantities, 16th-century Britons believed, balanced mind and soul. So in Shakespeare’s plays, roasts, ales, and pies are not props, but clues to characters’ souls, moods, and motivations.

#quotes #quote

YouTube video by Vall Klaus Nomi - The Cold Song (Good Quality)

Most gnostic song ever…

Lyrics:

What power art thou, who from below
Hast made me rise unwillingly and slow
From beds of everlasting snow?
See'st thou not how stiff and wondrous old
Far unfit to bear the bitter cold,
I can scarcely move or draw my breath?
Let me, let me freeze again to death.

YouTube video by ESOTERICA Was Lilith a Joke? How Bad Translation and Parody Created a Demon

Since the romantic rehabilitation of Lilith from child-murderer and seducer of men to symbol of feminine power and defiance, Lilith has become one of the most recognizable of modern demons. Curiously enough, Lilith may have emerged as a linguistic mistake and a text meant to parody rabbinic legends.

Heh

The rise of technofeudalism Capitalism’s dominance may have run its course. A new system of control has taken its place, one Yanis Varoufakis calls technofeudalism. For Varoufakis, former Minister of Finance for Greece and numbe...

The elite few who run Big Tech exercise the same level of influence that feudal overlords once did. Except now, they not only threaten democracy but wish to rewrite the rules of global power themselves.

Fasting for Health and Longevity: Nobel Prize Winning Research on Cell Aging Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2016 for his research on how cells recycle and renew their content, a

Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2016 for his research on how cells recycle and renew their content, a process called autophagy. Fasting activates autophagy, which helps slow down the aging process and has a positive impact on cell renewal.

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Scientists identify 168 chemicals that could be toxic for gut health UK scientists tested more than 1,000 chemicals on gut bacteria samples in a lab, and identified 168 that appear harmful.

UK scientists tested more than 1,000 chemicals on gut bacteria samples in a lab, and identified 168 that appear harmful.

Scientists identify five ages of the human brain over a lifetime Four major turning points around ages nine, 32, 66 and 83 create five broad eras of neural wiring over the average human lifespan.

Four major turning points around ages nine, 32, 66 and 83 create five broad eras of neural wiring over the average human lifespan.

Meme. Photograph of an eel underwater, in front of some grasses. You can only see the eel's head and fins, and a bit of its body. The eel is coming into view from the right side of the screen, and is headed left like a college student reading Marx for the first time. Unlike that student, though, the eel is not insufferable. You suffer it happily. The eel is grey-brown on top, and white underneath. It seems to be smiling at you. Not a joyful smile, or even the smile you save for old half-friends who you run into while shopping. It's the inward-facing smile of a fish that's seem more of the world than you, and is content with its own capacity for cannibalism. The eel's eye is looking past you, or possibly through you. It will almost certainly forget you as soon as you're gone. The eel's perspective on the world, and time, and history make you feel unimportant. And that is its gift to you. Meme text reads: "Putting the 'smug' back in 'World's most smuggled animal"

We have very few eel-related metaphors English now. But there used to be many more.

One of my favorites is from William Lisle’s 1631 play "The Faire Ætheopian" where he describes a procession of haughty maids as being “smug as Eeles."

Have you ever been that smug? Has anyone?
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Langsam aber sicher tritt er offenbar das Erbe Heinrich Lübkes an.

If this is true, every halfway decent foreign intelligence service on the planet already has the receipts ….

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