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AlexanderCJP
@AlexanderCJP
A Master's graduate seeking the offbeat in the international. Slowly writing that first novel in me. See my blog at https://t.co/Sc7TR3T0BF
Katılım Şubat 2014
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@iglopez97 @AlexanderCJP @AndNapoleon You've made an important point . He displayed genius when he had smaller armies and he was outnumbered.
When he had huge armies - not so much .
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@RevRichardColes Well, what could be better? Søren Kierkegaard studied in Newcastle University’s philosophy department, with modules like Existentialism and the Self. Additionally, Newcastle University's student journal, ‘Kierkegaard in Process’, is dedicated to his work.
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Hope you are having a fantastic 94th birthday @RogerPenrose5 - many happy returns!
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@RupertMyers The pepperami is mightier than the sword (of justice).
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Top moment in court this afternoon when I slid my hand into my pocket to get a pen and retrieved a pepperami.
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@Civis_Major @simon_schama Cis-Jordan (this side of the River Jordan), just as modern Jordan was known under the Mandate as Trans-Jordan (across the River Jordan).
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@simon_schama By what Name might a Single State for Israelis and for Palestinians be known?
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@Road_2_Ft_Worth Tariffs are a regressive tax, hurting ordinary Americans - a dagger to the finances of the working-classes and middle-class but merely a pinprick for the rich.
Then again, Congress could always take back the power of tariffs from the White House. Oh wait, it’s full of rich folks.
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Trump is a proponent of tariffs, insisting that they are paid for by foreign countries. In fact, it is importers — American companies — that pay tariffs, and the money goes to the U.S. Treasury. Those companies typically pass their higher costs on to their customers in the form of higher prices. That’s why economists say consumers usually end up footing the bill for tariffs. Via Fortune
American Veteran@amvetsupport
Ok to be clear. Especially for brainless MAGAs. We have not made money off of tariffs. He continues the lie that other countries are paying. If that is true why do we need to give consumers rebates. TARIFFS ARE A CONSUMER TAX. It is a tax paid by you. He has lied about this since day one
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@afneil The policy of Ceaușescu is responsible for the proliferation of ownerless dogs in Bucharest. People forced out of their homes to accommodate his megalomaniacal building spree couldn’t support a pet as well so the dogs went free. I’ve seen whole packs loitering on street corners.
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We have no idea. She was rescued from the streets of Bucharest.
ELB@emmablack77
@afneil Is she part westie ?
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@Road_2_Ft_Worth x.com/jonathanstea/s…
(PS: X functionality effectively banned me for weeks saying ‘oops, something went wrong’ and then logged me out by itself)
Dr. Jonathan N. Stea@jonathanstea
It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here. - @DocBastard
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Wow :((
Medical science has advanced so rapidly in the last several years especially in the fields of immunotherapy and radiology, and now some of that research that benefits all mankind comes to a screeching halt.
"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." Kurt Vonnegut
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When the current administration finds out about this fish, it will label it transgender and have it eliminated.
Spine-cheeked anemonefish in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
That bright fish hiding in the anemone? That's the spine-cheeked anemonefish, or the maroon clownfish, and it is not just a cute creature. Native to the Indo-Pacific, from western Indonesia to Taiwan and the Great Barrier Reef, this species lives on the edges of coral reefs. It is easily distinguished by the spine extending from each cheek—hence the name. Groups of spine-cheeked anemonefish form around a single dominant female, and if she disappears, the top male steps up—literally changing sex to take her place.
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@Road_2_Ft_Worth Funny you mention Oberon now as that’s the name of the meteorite alien life-form in the apocalyptic computer game Atomfall, in an alternate universe where British nuclear powerplant Windscale was built over it as a cover for experimentation. Last few days I’ve got into this game.
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Valentine Walter Bromley’s Oberon and Titania is a visual interpretation of a pivotal moment from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, where Oberon enchants Titania with a love potion, setting the stage for her infatuation with Bottom—transformed into a donkey-headed figure. The painting captures the tension between power and vulnerability, illusion and desire, and the ethereal beauty of the fairy realm. via copilot
Alexandra Sorolla@AlexandraSoro
"Oberon and Titania – Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II, Scene III" By Valentine Walter Bromley. (1848-1877)🖌️🌹 British Painter and Illustrator.
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@mikepompeo Why don’t you go on Fox and Friends and say that? Surely you’ve got contacts at Fox that could get you a booking?
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Ukraine has never asked America to send in the 82nd airborne; they’ve asked for the weapons to defend their homeland and people from Russia attacks.
Letting Russia win this war would be a unmitigated disaster for the American people and our security around the world.
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@mwgbanks1 @mikepompeo No-one in America complained about the big bucks funnelled to the Afghan resistance to the Soviet invasion during the 1980s. Because it was in the USA’s wider interests to weaken a competitor. Only an isolationist ostrich fails to see that Ukraine is in the USA’s wider interests.
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@mikepompeo What happens in Ukraine is irrelevant to most most ordinary Americans; apart from the fact that Ukraine is costing them big $.
"Unmitigated disaster for the American people"? No. It's likely just am embarrassment for those leaders who advocated taking on the Russian Federation.
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@AmbBridgetBrink As with the shuttering of USAID and their approach to gun violence, one more piece of proof that Republicans hate all life that is outside the womb.
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U.S. made air defense systems protected me and my team from Russia’s nightly missile and drone attacks. The Trump Administration's halting shipments of critical defense missiles won’t end Russia’s war, it will result in more civilians and children killed.
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@RupertMyers Though the recruiter sounds like a bit of a dick.
Had a friend who moved to Dubai but after seven years he came back to the UK because though well-paid, there were very few eligible women there. Nick’s going to find that out too. My friend has a family now, settled in the UK.
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This thread encapsulates a real problem: we won’t just be an island of strangers if many ambitious young people leave, we will be an island of spongers.
We should be an island of strivers.
James Price@jamespriceglos
LinkedIn. A new message notification. Nick, 30 ans, clicks it open. "Nick hi! It's Mick, 30 ans, calling from a recruitment agency here in Dubai! "Thanks for accepting my connection request. Have you got a moment to talk?" 1/7
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@davidfrum You’re taking great pains to paint Mamdani as Jeremy Corbyn but he’s more like Ken Livingstone, who as ‘Red Ken’ ran the Greater London Council in the 1980s and returned to run London as mayor for eight years from the year 2000. Compare apples with apples and cities with cities.
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I dont bet on anything, least of all things I write about. But I will be surprised if - when all is done - a candidate who says "fund the police" and "killing Jews is bad" cannot beat one who says "defund the police" and "killing Jews is morally complex." END
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Mamdani won his success in NY by registering previously unregistered voters, especially young voters who seldom (if ever) voted in NY elections in the past. This combination is interpreted as a huge populist success. Alternatively though ... nytimes.com/2025/06/29/nyr…
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@Road_2_Ft_Worth I’m like this, except I take it a step further - it’s wrinkled on the bed but I don’t care as I’m sleeping, unconscious to it’s alleged slovenliness, not wearing it out on the town (can you imagine the looks if I did and not because it was wrinkled).
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Someone showed me how to fold a fitted sheet. When I made my bed, it was more wrinkled than the others that I just roll up. Who cares what it looks like in the closet!
So we roll through life in a compassionate manner, and the wrinkles begin to smooth out.
Deb@DontCallMeDebby
Yep
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@RupertMyers Reminds me of a GLC-era Ken Livingstone, notably the Fares Fair policy and tacitly endorsing unsavoury characters and their movements.
London survived.
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If this guy Zohran wins in NYC the city will be in for an absolutely wild ride down the plughole
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@DrewPavlou
Zohran in 2020 defended the burning of buildings in Minneapolis: “It has to happen.”
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@tokyo_swift @RupertMyers Her finger isn’t even on the trigger.
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@RupertMyers Thankfully not loaded but you think someone would have told her how to handle a rifle 😹
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@Road_2_Ft_Worth I had forgotten my password to the old account (and wasn’t sure it still existed - you know how it is with X) but whenever I remembered to reset it, I wasn’t near my computer.
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@Road_2_Ft_Worth I’m back in the game! X for some reason not disclosed logged me out without permission and started me with a fresh account, without prior choices. I looked for Road 2 Fort Worth but couldn’t find you.
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Jun 16, 2025
"The painting La casta Susana is a work by Francisco Maura y Montaner, a Spanish painter, created in 1885. This piece is rendered in the academic classical style and is inspired by the narrative from the Book of Daniel (Chapter 13) in the Old Testament. The story depicted revolves around Susanna, the wife of Joakim, who, while bathing in a garden in Babylon, was harassed and pursued by two corrupt elderly judges. These judges propositioned her immorally, but Susanna refused. In retaliation, they accused her of adultery and gave false testimony against her in a public trial. Daniel, a wise young man, intervened with cunning, questioning the judges separately about the location of the alleged crime (one cited an acacia tree and the other an oak), exposing their lies. As a result, Susanna was declared innocent, and the judges were condemned. The painting, adhering to academic conventions, highlights Susanna’s beauty and virtue in contrast to corruption."
via letoviah on YouTube.
Alexandra Sorolla@AlexandraSoro
"La casta Susana" (1885) By Francisco Maura y Montaner. 🖌️🌹 Spanish Painter, (1857-1931)
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