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@lefineder "We call free only those animals that won't put up with captivity but escape through death as soon as they are captured." Epictetus
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Percy Kemp
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@AnaKasparian "Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity." Aldous Huxley
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Our legacy media, which covers for this depravity while excoriating anyone who sheds light on it, is a disgrace.
Ounka@OunkaOnX
Smotrich: 'My son wants me to leave some Lebanon for him to destroy later. I told him don't worry, there will be enough for everyone.' Generational evil
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A fitting allegory of this Israeli government's adamant refusal to give up on its pursuit of a Greater Israel at all costs.
VisionaryVoid@VisionaryVoid
He Killed Himself With His Own Baton. On January 8, 1687, Jean-Baptiste Lully, the most powerful musician in France, was conducting a Te Deum to celebrate King Louis XIV's recovery from illness. He used a long iron-tipped staff, banging it against the floor to keep time, as was the custom for baroque conductors. That day, he struck his own toe. The wound became an abscess. Then gangrene. His physicians demanded amputation, first the toe, then the leg. Lully refused. The son of a Florentine miller who had danced alongside the Sun King himself in royal ballets, he would not give up his foot. The infection spread. He died seventy-three days later, on March 22, 1687, the most celebrated musician in France, killed by a single misplaced tap of his own conducting stick. As he lay dying, a priest persuaded him to burn his final unfinished opera manuscript as an act of penitence. After the priest left, a friend asked in horror why he'd destroyed his last great work. Lully reportedly whispered: "Don't worry. I have another copy." He took the joke. He didn't take the amputation.
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@Dr_TheHistories His court was filled with Muslim and Jewish scholars, administrators and financiers.
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Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II (1194–1250), also called "Stupor Mundi" and "the first modern man," was known for being intellectually curious and growing up in Sicily with a mix of people from different cultures. He spoke many languages well, including Arabic, which he used to talk with Muslim experts. Frederick's talks about Islamic philosophy and theology, especially with Ibn Sab'in, showed how knowledgeable he was. He also pushed for Arabic works to be translated into Latin, which helped people from different countries learn from each other. Instead of fighting during the Sixth Crusade, he talked with Sultan al-Kamil and got important towns for Christians, which helped keep the peace. Because he was close to Muslims, the Pope called him the "Antichrist" and accused him of heresy. His political views were pragmatic, and his personal beliefs were orthodox Christian. Despite these labels, scholars now see him as a "philosopher king," someone who was able to unite people of different cultures and religions.
#drthehistories
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🚨 Clarence Seedorf on Arne Slot’s Liverpool FC:
🗣️ “I’ve watched Liverpool closely… and honestly, I still can’t clearly say what their exact style of play is.
That’s a problem.
At the top level, you must have identity—clear patterns, clear structure, something you can recognise every game.
Right now, it feels inconsistent.
Sometimes they press, sometimes they drop, sometimes they look organised—and then suddenly they lose control.
You don’t see a strong, defined idea.
And that surprises me, especially for a coach who won the league last season.
Because success usually comes with clarity.
But here, I don’t see that same level of control or consistency.
At a club like Liverpool, you cannot rely on moments or individual quality.
You need a system that works every week.
Right now… it looks confused.
And if that doesn’t change, it will cost them.”
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@TaintlessRed Now you know why the owners are sticking to Slot: he's lucky. Before promoting an officer, Napoleon would ask if he was lucky.
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Liverpool are incredibly lucky other teams are so bad and there's 5 places for CL qualification. With 11 defeats we'd struggle to get top four in other seasons with our points tally. The most we can get is 67 ("if" we win last 3) which wouldn't make top 4 in many past seasons.
Fabrizio Romano@FabrizioRomano
⚠️ Chelsea have lost 6 games in a row in Premier League… …with only 1 goal scored, and 14 conceded.
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@OunkaOnX He seems to think he's King Philip of Macedonia and his son is Alexander the Great.
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@LFCSxsa "An army of does led by a lion is more formidable than an army of lions led by a doe." (Khabrias, Athenian strategist)
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This photo shows Nicolas II of Russian and George V of Great Britain.
Can you tell which one is which?
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I'm reluctantly posting on X again because the world needs to read this.
My daughter Zoe Rogers gave her own closing speech at the Filton trial, as did 4 other defendants, while their barristers looked on.
This is what she said 🧵 1/
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@FrenchScousers Il arrive souvent que l'élève chahute le maître.
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Certains fans de Manchester United hier :
« Diogo Jota est parti, parti, parti… »
On espère vite des agissements de la FA.
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@Mobyhaque1 "An army of does led by a lion is more formidable than an army of lions led by a doe (Khabrias, Athenian general)
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@markklfc "An army of does led by a lion is more formidable than an army of lions led by a doe (Khabrias, Athenian general)
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@YazzLFC To paraphrase Longfellow, "Into each life some slot must fall."
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Arne Slot signs Jeremie Frimpong to replace Trent, but somehow still ends up playing Jones & Szoboszlai at right-back ahead of him.
I get the tactical flexibility, but if you’re signing ( at Leverkusen ) one of the best attacking right-backs in Europe, surely the plan should be to actually use him there? NO?
Am I going mad?
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Hajj Hussein Ali Faqih “Abu Ali,” 87, wasn’t killed in a strike.
He wrote his own final chapter.
He chose to return, every day, to the ruins of his home in Srifa, South Lebanon. His daily return to the rubble, as if the house were still intact, had become a story in itself.
He slept on its stones, among the remains of a life he refused to leave behind, searching through the debris for the life he had lived there.
Abu Ali died there, sleeping on the stones that were once the walls of his life in Srifa, taking shelter in memories heavier than the loss itself.
War doesn’t always kill in a moment.
Sometimes it finishes the job slowly.
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@EpshtainItay @naftalibennett @yairlapid @netanyahu @CarrefourFrance With Carrefour, Israel is at crossroads.
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In case anyone still entertains the fiction that Naftali Bennett @naftalibennett and Yair Lapid @yairlapid offer a principled alternative to Benjamin Netanyahu @netanyahu, consider this: their newly launched campaign proposes sanctioning @CarrefourFrance for failing to expand into settlements across the occupied West Bank.
#Israeli politics continues its steady movement along a single axis, from the extreme to the more extreme, where unlawful territorial entrenchment is no longer contested, only calibrated towards political gains.
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@NTarnopolsky One can nonetheless take solace knowing that he can't have his cake and eat it.
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💥Inscribed on Ben Gvir's noose cake, "Sometimes dreams come true."
Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي@NTarnopolsky
💥Itamar Ben Gvir, failed " Minister for National Security" & hoodlum convicted 13 times for terror and hate crimes, is turning 50, and his gun-toting Philistine of a wife brought cake decorated with a hangman's noose. Filth Netanyahu will never live down.
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Happy 80th Birthday to @David_Suchet — the one and only Hercule Poirot.
For many people, he didn’t just play Poirot… he is Poirot.
Merci for the perfection, the precision, and the little grey cells. 🎩✨
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