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@DFIRJames @DF_UniatePapist @Virgini23166650 @MrCasey62 Notice how that's in the news?

@DF_UniatePapist @Virgini23166650 @MrCasey62 Um… not the local zoo keepers but close enough lol. al.com/news/2025/04/w…

“Thou shalt not bear false witness.”

@JulianVLamy @RavenNole @ChristianHeiens Russia is not Prussia and besides, Bonaparte's wife was Austrian.

@RavenNole @ChristianHeiens lol, read a book. Nap MARRIED into the Prussian royalty to create peace. They waged war on him anyways shortly after. Then, after beating them (for the 3rd time?), Czar Alexander from Russia backed out of the long-negotiated peace Treaty of Tilst, which forced Nap to war again.

You want to murder 300,000 of your own people, start a three-way civil war, declare war on 9 different nations at the same time, and then install an Emperor?

@rinagaelriochta @Cvift2 @Jimrob_north @MactireL @gnshchsbcusba @bibeIradikaI Being thick headed reduces, rather than accumulates, sympathy.

@Cvift2 @Jimrob_north @GregoryPCA1 @MactireL @gnshchsbcusba @bibeIradikaI "Its treacherous idiots 'so-called revolutionaries' were tools for the Kaiser Later (as Soviets & Nazis secretly shared resources), they'd take 'Dumb & Dumber' to dizzying new heights" Realpolitik, huh. We accepted Britain's enemies' support to fight for independence. Weird!

"The Irish entered this war on the rather childish delusion that they were going to massacre everybody and nobody was going to massacre them."

@kroketrendang Bretagne and Flanders.

The extremity of French assimilation policies makes sense when you see how much of a headache the Catalan separatism is in Spain. Imagine an equivalent Occitan independence movement.

@grok @MAJDad82 @AmirAminiMD This doesn't take account of earlier organised governments or changes in the constitutional order (especially the primacy of the president and king) in the US or Belgium.

Under its current formation as the Islamic Republic, Iran was established April 1, 1979 (referendum after the revolution), with constitution ratified December 3, 1979. The 4 oldest by current government/constitution (excl. city-states): United States (1789), Norway (1814), Netherlands (1815), Belgium (1831). By earliest organized government/continuous civilization, yes—Iran ~3200 BCE, often ranked #1.

For the record: Iran is the oldest country in the world. The UAE was founded in 1971.

@BHRMT123 @witte_sergei Certainly better suggestions than Iran.

@witte_sergei It's probably actually the Vatican or Britain actually

Iran isn’t the “oldest country” no matter which pedantic definition you use. The answer is either Egypt, China, Japan, or San Marino.

@_Lord_Skinfant_ @RealPostFolder I guess you are a pretty bigoted Christian then.

@_Lord_Skinfant_ @RealPostFolder You're pretty bigoted then.

@stevensongs Grey squirrels are orcs, red squirrels are Maia

“Peanut? Yes…that was what they used to call me. Peanut the Grey. That was my name. I am Peanut the White. And I come back to you now, at the turn of the tide.”

@razibkhan Maronites cannot "become" Catholic.

most of them were christian, often maronites, so easily became catholic. they were also often merchants, etc. fled the persecutions of the late ottoman period, so why called 'turks' despite mostly syrians/lebanese/palestinian

@MiddleearthMixr Is that a clear reference for protestant culture?

priest. prophet. king btw

@Bitcojner @SerbiaBased Why bring your secularism into football, it should have no politics!

@SerbiaBased Why bring religion into football? Football should have no religion, no politics. It is all inclusive, no matter from where you are, your beliefs or ideologies. I applaud UEFA for doing this. No matter the figure, it should stay out of competitive sports.

🚨 This is an absolute disgrace and a scandal! #UEFA has fined Crvena Zvezda €95,500 over this choreography! The largest portion €40,000 was issued for allegedly "displaying a message deemed inappropriate for a sporting event and for supposedly undermining the reputation and integrity of both football and UEFA itself". The message was: "May our faith lead you to victory". This is unacceptable! UEFA=👹

@_Lord_Skinfant_ @RealPostFolder OH NO!

@RealPostFolder I tracked down the original post. OP is a woman, and it was the praying. Even though the woman in question did give permission, the other two people who weren't directly involved were clearly not okay with it. OP is also...very, VERY Christian. Like extraordinarily Christian.

@MactireL @gnshchsbcusba @bibeIradikaI I'm generally pro Ireland but, aggression towards the Romano British came from the West along with slave raids.

@gnshchsbcusba @bibeIradikaI Yes why did they do that to the smaller neighbouring island who hadnt invaded England?

@JoshDaws Good premise for a short story, shame you won't write it.

Anti-AI writers treat their work like a horcrux, as if typing words manually embeds a piece of their soul into the draft, and AI use would corrupt the sacred vessel. This is not theology. It’s not even good metaphysics. It’s magical thinking dressed up as artistic integrity.

@chice111 @Larryjamieson_ Electric and LNG cars do so.

@Larryjamieson_ Cars dont run on coal, uranium or natural gas

“You’re an island nation with abundant mineral deposits and nearly limitless coal, uranium, and natural gas but very little oil?” “That’s right, Dave” “And you’re about to have an energy crisis because you have three weeks of petrol reserves?” “That’s correct, Dave”

@TheGrea09119754 @ripplebrain Apoplectic.

@ripplebrain What's funny is that doctors are baffled by the increase in rectal and colon cancers of under 40s especially among women but if you bring up the increase of anal sex rates of that same under 40 group those same medical groups go apocalyptic with denial

You're laughing? The inventor of the Global Mass-Industrial Sin Harvester 5000 died of ass cancer and you're laughing?

@ItsTaz1989 youtu.be/B45VZInlJKw?is…

St George was born in Slough, his favourite song was Three Lions, he would only ever drink draught beer, he never missed a QPR game and hated the Welsh flag.

This morning @scratchyjohnson tweeted an important factoid. Squanto, the Indian who spoke English and helped the pilgrims survive, was sold by John Smith to a Spaniards and the deed exists in the city we're in for Excursion. Rather than rolling our eyes, Alan, Gavin & I went to the state archives in Málaga to see if we can find said recorded deed of 20 Indians sold by John Smith to Juan Bautista Reales. We get to the Archives (see Alan's picture below), and a small genial white lab coat wearing gentleman who speaks no English says this is impossible to find. His new boss, the head archivist, Carmen, comes in and says it certainly exists but may be difficult to find. If you only had the year. We tell her it was 1614. She pulls up a list of the books from 29 notaries whose work they have from 1614. She asks who the notary was. We have no idea. They say they can't go through 29 archives to look for it. Also it's all in old Spanish which nobody speaks and it'll be hard to locate even if they know the Notary. So Alan and Gavin get to work. Gavin finds an article in the internet archive that seems to have a partial picture of the document. Carmen and the other archivist decipher the name after 15 min. They find that name in their cross reference. Carmen goes to the vault to look while the lab coat gentleman asks for my life history, driver's licence number and a lien on my grandchildren. Totally worth it. Carmen comes back to say she found the volume. It is tremendously delicate. Opening it may break some pages. Does it have to be today because if so the answer will be no. We ask her if this is interesting to them. Both very seriously nod their heads. We tell them this is very important to the United States and many of our friends. Carmen tells us she will find it but that it takes time. White linen gloves and patience. We tell her to take her time. She says she will take a picture and email it to me. So here's why all this is important: after Squanto was sold by an Englishman to a Spaniard names Reales, said Spaniard brought Squanto and 19 other "inios" to Málaga. He recorded the deed in the state archives. Then a Franciscan priest ransomed Squanto. Squanto became Catholic. Was baptized and confirmed in Málaga. He then made his way to England where he worked and learned English. He paid his passage back across the ocean and found his Wampanoag tribesmen. Then when the Pilgrims landed they found a Catholic English-speaking native who helped them survive their first winter. It is entirely possible that but for a Franciscan priest who ransomed Squanto, the Pilgrims may not have survived their first winter in New England. That's history. American history. And the record of it is in Málaga. In a book. One of 29 books kept by notaries in Málaga in 1614. That are still searchable. This image, when it comes, belongs in the US National Archive. This is Cultural Debris. x.com/i/status/20349… cc: @alancornett @gwbled @Gonnassaurius_ @wrathofgnon

@alisa_childers Chick-Lit has changed so little.

I’m reading Grimms fairytales with my son for homeschool. Yesterday we read the story about a stuck up princess who rejects all her suitors and gives them mean nicknames. She named one suitor, “King Grizzly Beard.” Her father marries her off to a beggar who makes her work to support them and she ends up working in the palace kitchen where they let her take home scraps of meat. One day, King Grizzly Beard humiliates her when all of her meats fall out of her basket and everyone laughs at her. He reveals himself as the beggar she was married off to. And now that he’s cured her of her pride, joy fills their hearts, and they get married and live happily ever after.