Patrick Barrow

@8laugran4 @theliamnissan And soaring cost of aviation fuel ⛽️ 📈

@theliamnissan Can you help me out here man my girlfriend lives on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. What the fuck are u talking about

Morgan Stanley knows exactly what's coming in the global energy markets, but everybody is just planning their summer vacations like dumbasses who can't read the writing on the fucking wall

🔥 Absolute madness. 23-year-old Paco de Lucía destroying “Malagueña” on British TV in the early ‘70s. Black & white, candlelit taberna vibes, and this kid is already a supernova — rasgueados like machine guns, thumb like a hammer, pure Andalusian fire. Flamenco was never the same after him. #Flamenco

Alastair Crooke (@AWCrooke): “Trump keeps saying he has all the cards, but listen to our cards. One is Hormuz. We control Hormuz, and we’ll continue. We are able to control Bab al-Mandab in the Red Sea, and we can control pipelines. This is why I keep saying Iran’s aim in this war is to break the whole paradigm. I don’t see a path to a solution. They’re completely incapable of seeing that others have different ways of thinking and seeing reality from a different perspective. They can’t understand that. We in the West are going to feel the consequences directly. There won’t be petrol in the petrol stations or gasoline in the gas stations. There will be difficulty getting your children to school as a consequence. There will not be the food that you want. You will not have aluminum foil in the shops any longer. Aluminum comes through Hormuz overwhelmingly. We are in this neverworld at the moment—we all have heard that it’s going to be so serious, yet it hasn’t fully impacted. People won’t be able to afford to fly. They won’t be able to easily get their cars refueled. The cost of electricity and other things is going to go shooting up. Europe is going to be in dire pain. I will just say that this is also something much bigger. This is why it’s part of a global war. The other thing that Iran is fighting in this war is the financial architecture—not just the dollar hegemony, not just the petrodollar, but the whole structure by which the Gulf states were set up in 1973 to keep the oil price high and transfer the enormous excess savings that came from this into Wall Street. This underpinned the financialized world. Because it has come at the price of depressing or suppressing the real economy in favor of an economy that is all about trading and making instant money on markets, not by actually producing things in the real world. You can quickly make a few hundred million in an afternoon by insider trading on the markets. One of the long-term consequences of this war will be the complete destruction of markets and pricing as a result of all this insider trading and the complete disparities. We pick up the paper and they say, “Oh well, oil has just gone down from $98 to $93.” Try buying a barrel of oil at that price. It’s just completely manipulated.” Summary: Iran is fighting to break the financial-military siege paradigm that has choked its economy for 47 years. Control of Hormuz is not just about oil—it’s about reordering regional sovereignty. The West’s financialized system is already showing its fragility (fake oil prices, supply chain breaks), and time favors Iran because it has physical reserves, a mobilized population, and a strategic vision that transcends nation-state logic. Trump’s personal psychology and Israel’s apocalyptic messianism are the two insurmountable roadblocks to any negotiated settlement.

"The catastrophic failure of the American-Israeli war on Iran seems certain to inaugurate another revolution in global consciousness." The true historical analogy for this war isn't Suez 1956 but Tsushima 1905. Must read. equator.org/articles/ghost…

The U.S. didn’t just bomb Iran, they hit the MAP. Ports. Tehran. Military bases. And even a Chinese-built railway inside Iran. That’s not a strike: that’s a message to Eurasia. And yet Iran isn’t isolated anymore - it’s tied to China, Russia, India. And that system is moving FAST. [unfortunately I had no time to get into details, especially India betraying Iran]. The real question goes beyond Iran. It’s how far you may push before the whole [BRICS] bloc reacts.

🇪🇬🇱🇾 Gamal Abdel Nasser, Mohammed Al-Megraif & Muammar Gaddafi

@Channel4News Do the boys speak Urdu?

Pakistan is "whitewashing" its image on the world stage in its role as an intermediary in ceasefire negotiations between Iran and the United States, says son of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, Sulaiman. Khan’s sons are seeking permission to visit their dad in Pakistan, following a Supreme Court disclosure that he has suffered significant vision loss in his right eye while in custody.

@Acyn 🤡

Kudlow: The US will control The Persian Gulf, which probably should be The Arabian Gulf or The Trump Gulf.

Pont du Gard in France is a Roman aqueduct built in c. 19 BC. It is a World Heritage Site.

#PortraitThursday - The bronze head of Hadrian, discovered in the River Thames, is one of the most striking surviving Roman sculptures in Britain. Discovered in 1834 near London Bridge, this head is believed to have originally belonged to an over-life-size statue of the emperor that stood in Roman Londinium (modern London). The style suggests it was made locally. The head is cast in bronze, a material far more valuable and less commonly preserved than marble because it was often melted down and reused. Its survival is therefore unusual. Only three bronze portraits of Hadrian have survived from antiquity, and the head found in the Thames is the only one discovered in Britain.

It's a bit uncouth to say, but of the 16 members of Congress who have died in office since 2020, half of them have been members of the Congressional Black Caucus, which makes up 11% of Congress. There needs to be conversations there about handing power to the next generation.

Look closely at where the fluted cup meets the winged lion on this 2,500-year-old gold rhyton. The soldering is so precise the joints are nearly invisible to the naked eye. We are looking at a level of metallurgical mastery from Achaemenid Iran that seriously challenges our understanding of ancient manufacturing.

Sicilyalılar domatesin içine azıcık kaya tuzu koyup tülbentle örterek kurutuyor. Sonra arasına fesleğen koyup domatesi kapatıyor ve zeytinyağı dolu kavanoza basıyorlar. Lezzeti anlatmak zor: tuz ekşitiyor, fesleğen dengeliyor, yağ yumuşatıyor.

One of the greatest and oldest special effects in history can be witnessed in Rome today And it has been playing out, on cue, for nearly 2000 years... Each year on April 21, the traditional birthday of Rome — the legendary date Romulus founded the city in 753 BC — the midday sun pierces the oculus at the crown of the Pantheon's dome and casts a perfect disk of light that settles squarely on the temple's entrance. For roughly two minutes and fifty seconds, the bronze doors blaze gold... At that exact moment, the Emperor would step across the threshold, his body swallowed in sunlight, as though the heavens themselves were handing him the city. Hadrian's engineers designed the entire building as a cosmos in miniature: the interior is exactly 43.3 metres wide and 43.3 metres tall, meaning a perfect sphere fits inside it. The Roman senator Cassius Dio wrote that the vaulted roof was meant to resemble the heavens themselves...

@nathanTbernard @ryangrim @wideofthepost Is that @branflakezz #branflakezz hmm 🤔

@wideofthepost Also featured on an AIPAC panel, and an AIPAC carpool karaoke session

she featured in a mills ad

体育の先生が生徒に指導してた体幹ツイストストレッチ。 これデスクワークで縮こまった背筋が容赦なく伸びて超気持ち良い…運動不足で筋肉ガチガチの社会人も習慣にすると体が軽くなる↓

@Argenpoirot Where is Evita? duh

Cual es la figura histórica que mas representa a la Argentina?

@bluewmist Diet Coke

Sober people (no alcohol, nicotine, drugs, etc ever), what is your end of day or weekend "wind-down"?

You've probably heard the story of the Three Wise Men who traveled to Bethlehem to honor the newborn Jesus (PBUH), but did you know that they established a church in Iran upon their return? This is it: St. Mary Church in Urmia, Iran, built in the 1st century AD.

HEGSETH: “Threatening commercial ships transiting international waters is piracy.” ALSO HEGSETH: “Two oil tankers were seized overnight. We’re going to take their 50 million barrels of oil and sell it. The hypocrisy is unbelievable. These are not serious people.