Leibgeber

@th_so2 Woher mehr Lügen kommen, belegt die Studie auch gar nicht. Ist einfach dreist gelogen. Lol.

So einen Unsinn kann wirklich nur behaupten, der all den antiisraelischen und antisemitischen Propagandamüll von links, der hier tagtäglich durch den Äther gespült wird, für wahr erachtet

@estherzelda0514 Damon is obviously way closer phenotypically to the Mycenaean look than Nyong'o

"There were no Black people in ancient Troy/Greece" is just bullshit, and it's ridiculous that so many people are justifying their extremely modern racial hang ups based on a history and place they know nothing about, where their racism would be viewed as bizarrely anachronistic. As far as we can tell, the Odyssey is a mostly mythological verbal telling of the homecoming of a person that participated in a battle that happened in Late Bronze Age Troy, which was, at the time, an Anatolian city culturally and politically tied to the Hittite Empire. Most people place it in the land that is now Turkey. In late Bronze Age Mediterranean cities, stigma against Black-skinned people could not have been based on slavery. That institution was not anything like the colonialism and merchant networks that characterized European and Arab slavery. Rather, slaves were the product of very localized warfare and piracy. Societies and caste-like systems simply were not organized by skin color or ideas like nationality or race. The very idea of separate "civilizations" is probably something the Victorians projected backwards on the region, and doesn't make much sense. Anyone, regardless of appearance, could be a slave if their city fell or their ship was captured by raiders. Black people, in particular, were not targeted for enslavement (the later Greeks called them "Ethiopians" regardless of where they came from) and were part of the Aegean world through trade networks with Egypt. Black people, if we're now speaking in the context of Homeric and Homeric-like works rather than just pure history, were definitely not unknown. Black people were traders and diplomatic allies historically, and explicitly appear in works like The Iliad as legendary elite warriors, such as King Memnon, an African hero who brings a massive army to Troy to fight as an honored ally of the Trojans. It is not ahistorical that a woman who looks like Lupita Nyong'o could have been known to late Bronze Age Mediterranean cities. What is completely ahistorical is a person of Nordic and Anglo descent, like Matt Damon, would be seen or known to late Bronze Age Mediterranean cities. What we call England and the Nordic countries today were entirely unknown to the Greeks and Trojans during the Bronze Age. At the time of the Trojan War, which some place at about 1200 BCE, Germanic and Anglo-Saxon cultures did not even exist as distinct, and the tribes of Northern Europe were completely outside the geographical knowledge of the Mediterranean world. If you're going to be racist, that's one thing, but pretending that you're doing it because history demands it? No.

Jerry Lawler breaks out of the Iron Claw in the most Jerry Lawler way possible

@tobiaschneider A climate doomer in 2026 going 4+ minutes without mentioning Gaza even once is incredibly impressive tho.

I think a good rule of thumb for whether you should consider listening to any political commentators is whether they appear personally balanced and content. Not manic either, but sufficiently comfortable in their skin that their psychosis won't bleed into everything.

@IANdrewDiceClay this move pops up on my feed every couple months which is always appreciated

What a move from DDP. Someone should bring this back.

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 1863:

@dieworkwear @HughLouisDewey I got the joke and I wasn't 😭 just doing the work

@HughLouisDewey this is extremely insider baseball. were you on styleforum?

black dress shirt with a red necktie is really not in keeping with the event's black tie dress code

Banger

I mean if we're talking iconic

@ThatchEffendi she's appealing to German cultural funding programs

She's appealing to Germans by trying to make them feel guilt. It's a sign of effective assimilation even if neither side would want to admit it.

Bob Caudle's wutface lol

Duct tape for dinner, duct tape for snacks!

@dieworkwear @dystainak i was wondering if it was gabardine, thanks!

@dystainak First suit is just a tan double-breasted suit. The material looks to be some kind of wool, perhaps wool gabardine. the second is a double breasted blazer.

Interesting to me that when you see men on the global stage, beautiful Western-style tailoring is often worn by men from non-Western countries. Pictured here is Shehbaz Sharif (Pakistan), Akinwumi Adesina (Nigeria), and Naruhito (Japan).

@estherzelda0514 "We love long walks on the beach (in a line or 3:4 formation)"

This polycule application is perhaps the best performance art, inadvertent or otherwise, I'm going to see this year.

Magnum got WHAT 🫦

@JeremiahDJohns only one per borough?! lol

So he's already announcing the failure of this policy, cool. 30 million and three years to open a single grocery store is absurdly slow and wasteful

@agraybee Louis B. Mayer was an employee. Hero of the working class.

I mean this is the Marxist definition, which is why it's pretty useless in the modern context. It means an NFL player is working class.

@dieworkwear stunning

Oh, also, the Speedmaster remains a genuinely cool watch. IMO, the best version is the vintage "Ed White" with 321 movement, partly because it comes in the smaller 39mm size. Wally Schirra’s "Ed White" with a rare "true blue" bezel pictured below. Sold at auction last year 😮‍💨

The Artemis II mission reminds me of these 1960s photos of NASA astronauts training in Iceland because they felt the terrain would be similar to what they'd encounter on the moon. The outfits are so great, even some 60 years later.

@jessesingal Of his so-called metapsychological texts I'd recommend Beyond the Pleasure Principle, The Ego and the Id and The Economic Problem of Masochism for a start.

I am very open to other "Freud most worth reading" suggestions

@Aella_Girl link pls 🤝

I think i invented the best personality test. Hear me out: 1. Take the word "gargoyle". If you HAD to class them, would gargoyles be more kinky or vanilla? What about more chad or frumpy? Are they more chiller or builder? I had people vote a series of 6 binary questions for every word I could think of, and then ended up with a huge pile of correlated words. Like: If you look at the KINKY, CHAD, CHILL category, you get a bunch of the words that got voted into that same concept. So - what about *you*? Vote *yourself* through the gates, and you'll find yourself landed in a pile of all the other words that got voted the same as you! That's how I got 'the operator'.