Ouranocracy

"Yr open mouth awaiting my harvest... Drink from me Love"

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Trump: so if I recite this 'shahada' and implement a bunch of social programs, I get into heaven?

Mamdani: that's right, Mr. President

Trump: and when do I get one of those cool rugs? I always thought those looked neat. like rolling out a little red carpet for yourself every few hours

“There is no Santa and we are all gonna die!”

The thing to know about people close to Trump is that they can all hear the clock ticking even louder than we can - it's deafening actually - and they can also look across the room and see that their rivals are hearing it too

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The Chinese have an ancient custom of watching their enemy's babies sleep to absorb their power and essence. It's in Lao Tzu' Art of War. Scholars have long known this.

This is incredible

the list of people who purchase this is going to be like a 100% hit rate for people who belong in woke gulags

Protest and Public Space in Fourth-Century Rome Popular discontent in Late Antiquity has traditionally been interpreted as a sign of social disfunction and urban decline – a framework that has underestimated the political agency exercised by non...

How did the built environment shape social contention in Late Antiquity?

Very pleased that this article, which has been in Early Access for just shy of a year, is now also out in print www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sans titre
Jacques de Tonnancour
1958

I don't think Italians should time travel. I think when they do it they're reinforcing colonialism.

Impertinent wastrels shall face my blade

Baseline societal message is to worship cruelty and avarice and cackle while doing so, feels bad man

listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

Mountains in Snow: Rocky Mountain Paintings VII
Lawren Harris
c. 1929

Van Helsing‘s mannerisms include sniffing and dry humping people one beer is not going to be enough for this shit

They don’t show the Demeter coming ashore, maybe the most cinematic part of the book, but they remember weird details like Dracula having hairy palms? Dr. Seward is addicted to morphine?? There’s a werewolf sex scene???

I don’t even know how far in I am, at the part where Van Helsing astral projects I guess, and have just been stun-locked with my mouth hanging open

Watching Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) for the first time and am mystified by its ability to make me feel annoyed that I am seeing many beautiful topless women. Will someone please put Lucy’s boob away? Holy shit how is this movie so bad

it's in the long tradition of big tech re-inventing the wheel. 'what if you could own a person and they couldn't tell you no'

All faiths are welcome within the sheepfold of the Khan

"we're not just starving the children, we're starving the *sick* children"

your movement has to be like 8 levels removed from reality to think that some of the starving kids in gaza also having serious medical conditions makes Israel look better. it's completely insane. they just think because it's an additional fact it's somehow exonerating.

Hagerstown mother and nail salon owner set for deportation to Vietnam Melissa Tran’s six-month legal battle has highlighted the impacts of President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign on longtime residents and their families.

Melissa Tran came here on a Green Card at age 11.

She's since raised 4 kids, started a business, & is a beloved member of the Hagerstown community.

Trump is deporting her, despite a judge saying she poses no threat.

Is she the "worst of the worst"? Do you feel safer yet?

post by @jamellebouie.net from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over" Nothing made slavery's toxicity more obvious to Union troops than its effect on the fundamental unit of society, the family. For one thing, slave sales separated families. In the Upper South, where many Union soldiers were stationed in 1861, about one in three first marriages was broken by sale, and about half of all slave children were separated from at least one parent. 129 With their own eyes, soldiers saw slavery snap bonds between parents and children. The men of the Seventh Wisconsin were awakened by gunshots one November night. The following day, soldiers "learned, and saw the cause of the alarm in the form of two negro women—a mother and a daughter." The pair had fled to Union lines to avoid the proposed sale of the "goodlooking" daughter into the so-called fancy trade, which soldiers viewed as a form of concubinage. Outraged by the plight and moved by the vulnerability of the mother and daughter, "every private in the ranks" cursed "that system which tramples on the honor of man, and makes merchandise of the virtue of women," according to one member of the regiment. 130 When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, "By G-d I'll fight till hell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on."

“I’ll fight until hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on”

An illustration of a man holding a knife against a creature of roots and trees. Caption: when you find a year old potato in the farthest corner of your pantry The man says HOLY SHIT