Jean-Eric

The funny thing about this “wrong” or dumb emoji use is that it actually reveals something I’d already been thinking about for a while: why is the language emoji always tied to the country of origin? like, for English, wouldn’t the 🇺🇸 make way more sense in most cases? and for Portuguese, 🇧🇷 instead of 🇵🇹?

Languages I speak: 🇲🇱 French 🇰🇪 English 🇲🇰 Albanian Basic understanding: 🇸🇷 Dutch 🇱🇺 German Languages I would like to learn: 🇨🇺 Spanish 🇨🇭 Italian

@Adrian_Hilton @gideonrachman Old Money vs New Money , wtf didn’t know Charles looked like clavicular when he was young 😭😂

The Oval Office has changed a bit since 1970.

@Symphony_res Sterker nog.. de 80s zijn weer in

OMG, dit voelt als een 90’s videoclip die is vastgelopen, opnieuw is opgestart en toen dacht: ‘weet je wat, we gooien gewoon alles tegelijk in de blender en zien wel wat eruit komt.’ Je hebt hier vibes van een vergeten TMF-clip, een half afgemaakte gabberparty en een toneelstuk waar niemand het script heeft gelezen. Outfits rechtstreeks uit een kringloopwinkel tijdcapsule, energie alsof iemand per ongeluk de fast-forward knop heeft ingedrukt, en een sfeer die schommelt tussen ‘dit is kunst’ en ‘dit is een glitch in de Matrix’. Ergens verwacht je dat er ineens een VHS-band begint te kraken en iemand “Cut!” roept… maar nee hoor, dit is gewoon real life op standje: compleet ontspoord.

@Dn641608671 Just like the pyramids in Egypt could’ve been built 5000 years ago… ridiculous right 😂 the pyramids aren’t even real, they’re made of cardboard!

Archives : En 1969, les américains faisaient du buggy sur la lune. Mais malheureusement on arrive pas à recommencer car la technologie a été perdue 😂 🤡

@0hour1 China calling

All tankers are moving freely through the Strait of Hormuz. What happened lol

@OldNewYork1664 youtu.be/937C23Wb1vw?is…

I find it fascinating that our local NY accent is really Dutch accented English and spoken originally by the inhabitants of what was called Breuckelen. The syntax and phonetics are eerily familiar to me as a native speaker, let’s look at some examples given by Jonathan Kruk. “Or else de imp will give him a peg leg” “Dondah-Boig, Youse must tip yer hat ta da heer O’da Dondeh-Boig.” The first sentence contains “de” which is the common local replacement from a “th” sound. The second sentence contains even more evidence, “Boig” is an example of pronunciation that has carried over to the present day in the form of the Dutch “Berg” to the use of “Youse” to denote an individual or 3rd group. Take the use of “da” sound standing in for “the.” Just ask any New Yorker to pronounce “The Bronx” and you’ll find this alive and well. “O’da” is a common local shortened example “of the.” Finally “ta” is a common local replacement for “to.” Dewulf writes at the moment the Dutch language was dying out in New York, there would have been more than 150 years of interaction between the low variety and English. There was a strong accent mentioned in the sources, yet we have no idea what it sounded like. Our best available evidence comes from mid 19th century newspaper articles that are peppered with a clear “d” replacing a “th.” Examples like “dots all,” “if dey,” or “my mudder,” shows clear Dutch influence on the local New York dialect. Phrases are jumbled like “how does you do now-a-tays mit yourself,” creating a creole like “Englutch” throughout the Hudson Valley. So where is that unique NY dialect brewing, it’s going to be the Afro-Dutch mixing with the new waves of immigrants like the Irish or in urban areas from NYC to Albany. Segregated by ethnicity or origin, but mixing where the populations bordered each other, the dialect and accent grew, as the state’s population blossomed by the start of the 20th century.

@Oddodo @Sulkalmakh @netflix That’s what the heroes of the Iliad have looked like 🧷youtu.be/vnOhdp0AdwE?is…

@Sulkalmakh Can't wait for the @netflix version of they/them

Facial reconstruction of a 3,600-year-old Mycenaean Greek In the middle of the 20th century, archaeologists discovered in Mycenae Grave Circle B, another royal cemetery that preceded Grave Circle A. The burial complex was discovered accidentally in 1951 when workers were excavating a nearby 13th-century BCE tomb known as the Tomb of Clytemnestra. Grave Circle B consists of 26 graves, dated to 1675–1550 BC, including 14 shaft graves. The shafts, up to 12 meters deep, were marked by burial mounds or stone stelae. The cemetery was probably used for about 100 years. The remains of 35 individuals were found in the graves. The large number of undisturbed graves allowed archaeologists to gain insight into the life of the Mycenaean elite of that time. In the women’s graves, many ornaments were found: earrings, necklaces, and gold and silver pins. Alongside the male skeletons were swords, daggers, and arrowheads; men’s clothing was decorated with gold. In one of the graves, a helmet made entirely of boar’s tusks was discovered. There are more female skeletons than male ones, and overall the female burials are richer. A unique find is a posthumous mask made of electrum, which was not placed on the deceased’s face but kept in a wooden box beside him. Another interesting artifact is a duck-shaped bowl made of rock crystal. Unlike the remains from Grave Circle A, the skeletons from the burials of Grave Circle B are well preserved. The bones of the men show traces of combat injuries, suggesting that some of these individuals likely died in battle. As early as the 1950s, it was suggested that members of several (probably four) noble families were buried in Cemetery B over 3–4 generations. To test this hypothesis, in 1995 anthropologists reconstructed faces from seven skulls found in the burials. Researchers discovered a clear resemblance between two individuals — Z59 and F51 — and divided the seven buried individuals into three groups: “heart-shaped,” “elongated,” and “beak-shaped” faces. In 2008, a genetic study was conducted on 22 skeletons from Grave Circle A. Samples were taken from mandibles and clavicles. Mitochondrial DNA was successfully obtained from four individuals, showing that a man and woman from the same grave (where the posthumous mask was found) were brother and sister. Researchers believe that both men and women of the royal lineage in this ancient society inherited power by right of birth. The skull of an individual from grave Sigma (Σ131) is particularly well preserved. It is the only one in which the lower jaw was present. It is believed that he may have been the founder of the dynasty that established this cemetery, since his grave is one of the earliest in Circle B. There were no pottery or metal objects in his grave, but the burial was marked by a large heap of stones. The anthropologist Lawrence Angel reckoned that he lived to be about 55 years old, judging from the exostoses on his shoulders and feet. Although today these would not be considered precise indicators of age—and his dental age may have been slightly younger than 55—he was still the oldest of all those buried in Circle B. Angel described him as a massively built man, big enough to draw attention in a crowd, and estimated his height at 1.75 m. He suffered from osteoporosis and had a large abscess above the upper right permanent lateral incisor.

@RichardHanania There were already rumors going around that his father, Ayatollah Khamenei Sr., was secretly meeting men (for sex) . I remember an Iranian girl tweeting about this a few months ago, and in the replies people were saying that this rumor had apparently been circulating for a while.

“Trump couldn’t contain his surprise and laughed aloud when he was briefed on the intel, according to sources. Others in the room also found it ‘hilarious’ and joined the president’s reaction, while one senior intelligence official ‘has not stopped laughing about it for days,’ said one person familiar with the briefing” Seems like we have very serious people in charge.

@SanderSassen @2eKamertweets Ondertussen in Rusland.. x.com/streetfighthar…

Waarom veel ouderen 's avonds de straat niet meer op durven? Dit is één van de voornaamste redenen: niet geïntegreerd straattuig met een migratieachtergrond dat totaal geen respect heeft voor ouderen. En de @2eKamertweets? Die kijkt vooral de andere kant op.

I get more and more the feeling that this so-called “Islamization” of European countries isn’t going to happen, because some low-IQ or impatient figures are overplaying their hand too quickly by trying to impose their Islamism on a country where they’re only about a 10% minority. Since the overwhelming majority will never accept that, they’re pushing too hard and too fast. They probably could have waited another 20 years, but that would require patience and a higher IQ.

If the King does nothing to challenge this, then he has abdicated his principal responsibility as Defender of The Faith, and as supreme Governor of the Church of England, he cannot remain silent on this any longer! . Perhaps the @churchofengland might now have the guts to admit that they have been very wrong for welcoming worshippers of another religion into their places of worship! I’m waiting for the bishops to admit they were wrong…because they’d better start fighting for the Church in this land…and for the Christians they have maligned and attacked for the last 18+ months…!! If they don’t, then the TREACHEROUS COWARDS MUST BE REMOVED…and the warrior bishops must make a stand for the church again…!! @PhilHs10 @RevBrettMurphy @revwickland @DominicMuir @PrayingPete @btbsoco

Dear pro-war Iranians, Look, I don’t like the regime. My entire extended family is Baha’i. I lived in Iran as an adult and saw the rot and repression first hand. But as a journalist, I also covered Iraq and saw what Americans did to the place. I was in Lebanon when the Israelis were shelling apartment blocks. I witnessed Libya being torn apart after a violent upheaval without any plan. I saw firsthand what happened to Syria when it became a playground for regional and world powers. These countries won’t recover for 30 years. You now have a senile gameshow host and an indicted war criminal launching a war against Iran. They killed a school full of children on day one and sent a toxic cloud over Tehran on week one. They are hitting Unesco sites and apartment buildings filled with bewildered civilians and destroying the country’s economy. They have no plan, or strategy, or internatonal support. Even Americans don’t support the war. Trump and Bibi are gonna smash up a lot of stuff and leave the place a mess, with Khamenei still in charge. Then China will move in and buy up the country cheap, and maybe Russia will get a Persian Gulf base. None of this will lead to democracy. Trump and Bibi don’t even believe in democracy for their own countries. But it also won’t lead to constitutional monarchy or anything decent or normal. It will only lead to ruin, blackouts, water outages, poverty, hunger, lawlessness, and despair. (100% organic writing, no AI) Subscribe to my newsletter borzou.substack.com

@TheFigen_ Bookmark this. It may be the perfect metaphor for human society in the 2030s.

He found the artificial shell much prettier and moved without a second thought.

@JamesLucasIT youtu.be/zLmFEIksvh8?is…

What's the most profoundly beautiful piece of music you have ever listened to?

@Lambilyfantasy Lol I always heard Akkaba and thought it was this place

The opening song of Aladdin is literally called Arabian Nights. The story takes place in a desert, and the city is called Agrabah. The inspirations are clearly Baghdad in Iraq and the Taj Mahal in Agra. They literally mixed two completely different cultures.

@Pred_History @RichardBSpencer Can I find the episode on Spotify ?

Professor Jiang joined @RichardBSpencer to discuss Eschatological History. Watch the conversation on the "Alexandria" Substack: radixjournal.substack.com

@InesvanBokhoven @EenExWokeDocent Afgeleid door het woord « zakkenwasser » (lang geleden dat ik dit woord tegenkwam 🥹) … inhoudelijk betreft kan ik je wel volgen

Bekijk het account van onze minpres eens. Want dan valt er één ding al heel rap op: de man heeft het over van alles, behalve over ons en over Nederland. Dit land kan 'm niet boeien en hij dient het blijkbaar ook niet. Nou, wacht: een tweet over een buurthuis in ons land. Want dat waren weer mooie foto-ops voor het manneke. Beste mensen: deze zakkenwasser zal dit land enkel verder de grond in boren. We lijken absoluut niet voor 'm te bestaan. Nogmaals: zie de tweets die hij de deur uitdeed sinds hij minpres is. Nederland? Wat is dat? Betalen wij deze lul nou zo'n prachtig salaris om ons elke dag weer te verraden? Ja he?

@leondejong Als je persé Israëlische propaganda wilt horen, dan kijk je @israelenglishnews?si=Y8gzAJsZ3bpPpSnT" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@israelenglish… Laat Daisy Mohr lekker objectief verslag geven vanuit meerdere perspectieven

Daisy Mohr woont en werkt al bijna 25 jaar in Libanon, waar ze haar Libanese man ontmoette en een gezin stichtte. Ze spreekt vloeiend Arabisch en is open over haar liefde voor het Midden-Oosten. Dat op zich is prima. Maar bij Mohr beïnvloedt deze persoonlijke band al jaren haar verslaggeving. Ze geeft in interviews aan dat het moeilijk is om te rapporteren wanneer geweld en menselijk leed dichtbij komen en maakt zich zorgen over de veiligheid van haar kinderen tijdens conflictsituaties. Tegelijkertijd zegt ze in interviews vooral een positief beeld van de regio te willen schetsen. Menselijk zal het allemaal best begrijpelijk zijn maar als journalist is objectiviteit cruciaal. Haar langdurige emotionele betrokkenheid kleurt haar verslaggeving op zijn zachtst gezegd zeer sterk. Maar het is vooral onacceptabele misleiding. Haar berichtgeving is al jaren aantoonbaar eenzijdig. Of het nu gaat om de gebeurtenissen sinds 7 oktober 2023 of de situatie rondom Iran. Ze presenteert zich als journalist maar doet ondertussen vooral verslag als opiniemaker en inwoner van Libanon. Met alles wat daarbij komt inclusief haar gekleurde beeld over de VS, Israël en leiders in het Midden-Oosten.  Dat zie je ook terug in haar omschrijving van ayatollah Ali Khamenei die zij in dit filmpje neerzet als een soort nobele held die Iran op de kaart heeft gezet en alleen maar zijn best deed om Iran te beschermen. Eerder omschreef ze hem al liefkozend als een soort vaderfiguur waar na zijn dood in Iran veel verdriet om is. Terwijl het gaat om een van de gewelddadigste en bloeddorstigste dictators die het Midden-Oosten ooit heeft gekend. Dit schaadt de berichtgeving en ondermijnt het al zo zwakke vertrouwen van het Nederlandse publiek in de journalistiek bij met name bij de publieke omroep. Nog zorgwekkender is dat miljoenen Nederlanders, van kinderen die het Jeugdjournaal kijken tot volwassenen die NOS Journaal en Nieuwsuur als bron van informatie gebruiken hierdoor een zeer beperkt, eenzijdig en gekleurd beeld van het Midden-Oosten en conflictsituaties aldaar voorgeschoteld krijgen. Terwijl objectieve berichtgeving zo essentieel is.  Als de NOS zichzelf niet langer als de Hilversumse Al Jazeera wil presenteren zou het verstandig zijn dit soort journalisten voortaan eerlijk en transparant als emotioneel aan de regio verbonden opiniemakers te positioneren. Waarbij duidelijk is dat de berichtgeving vanuit eenzijdig emotioneel perspectief komt en slechts één kant van de medaille belicht. Of beter nog: voortaan gewoon thuis te laten. Maar dat gaan ze niet doen en daarmee laten ze zien dat ze een steeds onbetrouwbaardere bron van informatie zijn met een agenda.

@dailysneako Lol, nah, it’s the other way around. Iran’s regime is the one with the end-times ideology (Google “return of the Mahdi”), not secular Israel.

Professor Jiang tells SNEAKO why Israel is currently going to WAR with Iran 🇮🇷🇮🇱 “The Jewish interpretation of the end times is that the Messiah will come and Israel will become the empire. Once you destroy Iran, Israel becomes the most powerful nation in the Middle East.”

The world map as a song

@cam_barnette @CryptoStorm__ Astrology was pretty normal in biblical times. Jewish priests used it back then kind of like how priests today use mathematics

@CryptoStorm__ Astrology has its merits/truth, but the Bible tells us not to utilize astrology (nor necromancy or any other occult method of discerning things God doesn’t reveal to us plainly). We all need to get close to Jesus. The time of his return and reign draws nigh

if astrology isn’t real, why did Israel just start bombing Iran exactly as mars (war) squares (tension) uranus (disruption) alongside algol (violence), during eclipse season (catalyst), in the middle of mercury retrograde in pisces (delusion), and just before a full blood moon (exposure) lunar eclipse in virgo (critical point) ?