Tzemach

Spam videos are degrading the experience on X. Single most frustrating feature. A video followed by a spam video seems like a violation of trust on the platform.

@ahistoryinart Similar to Andrew Wyeth in spirit.

Laurits Andersen Ring was one of the leading artists of the Danish Golden Age; much of his work is indebted to Symbolism while frequently conveying themes of social realism as in this painting from 1908 'Whitewashing the Old House.'

@mike_boreas I wish in addition to an author and collection you write what we are looking at?

The Fairy Melusine and the Knight Raymondin, Jean Dampt. 1894.

@clashreport He needs a rocket.

Lukashenko gifted Kim Jong Un a rifle “in case enemies show up.”

@s8mb Dark or black frame windows are a modern architectural plague.

I think everyone excited about New Towns should visit Northstowe, a new New Town outside Cambridge (about 40 mins away), and the largest New Town in England since Milton Keynes. It's been a disaster so far. It's been built very poorly/cheaply made and planned. The housing stock is ugly and cheap. It doesn't have a shop, a GP, or a gym, and it's been kind of a ghost town the times I've been. A lot of the residents are furious and feel totally misled into buying there. And yet *it's probably the most prime place in England to build a New Town*! So what's the problem? Partially it's lots of costs being put on to the new housing, including a 40% affordable requirement, which means developers build cheaply and cut corners to be able to have something to sell at a price people can afford (in the same way high land costs mean new builds are worse quality). Partially it's because Homes England, the Quango delivering it (and likely any future New Towns), is useless. Labour's supposed wave of New Towns (I actually doubt any will happen of any significant size) will suffer from all of these problems. And most won't even have the benefit of being a short commute away from Cambridge!

40% affordable means these plans are just dead on arrival. New Towns were already dubious: people want to live in and around existing cities where jobs are. But it’s hard to imagine any of them getting built with 40% affordable housing requirements. Bad, unserious policy.

Turkey’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority (Turkey) has contacted X with a request to remove my post below. Guess I’m over the target. More to come…

110-year-old Turkish grandma shares her secret to a long life: "i never once used Microsoft Teams"

Finally something funny from Jon Stewart!

@RichardGrenell Evil man.

We just won Missouri v. Biden. As Missouri’s Attorney General, I sued the Biden regime for brazenly colluding with Big Tech to silence Missouri families — censoring the truth about COVID, the Hunter Biden laptop, the open border, and the 2020 election. They tried to turn Facebook, X, YouTube, and the rest into their private speech police, labeling dissent “misinformation” while they pushed their narrative on the American people. Today, after years of unrelenting litigation, we deep state into a historic 10-year, court-enforceable Consent Decree. It directly binds the Surgeon General, the CDC, and CISA: no more threats of legal, regulatory, or economic punishment. No more coercion. No more unilateral direction or veto of platform decisions to remove, suppress, deplatform, or algorithmically bury protected speech. Missouri struck first—and Missouri won big. This is the first real, operational restraint on the federal censorship machine. It locks in the First Amendment principle we fought for: modern technology doesn’t erase your rights, and government labels don’t strip speech of protection. The deep state just got checked. For every working Missouri family tired of being silenced by their own government: this victory is yours. The heartland fought back, and the heartland delivered.

Senator Abe Ribicoff visited Russia in 1978 and spoke of how moving it was to visit the cemetery “where the buried coffins of thousands of Leningraders recalled the bravery of the city’s people during the Nazi blockade.” His Soviet host drunkenly exploded: “You don’t understand anything. There was no wood for coffins during the siege of Leningrad. Every scrap of wood was burned for warmth. The dead were put into mass graves. There were no coffins. You understand nothing.”

This morning’s IRGC missile attack on Tel Aviv caused an engine (car engine?) to go airborne. 24 03 2026 #wartimeTLV #IranWar2026

@davidboxenhorn @VerminusM Why didn't you answer about the anti-Semite Taleb?

@VerminusM Don't forget journalists. It is also Gaza's journalists

Don't let the media confuse you. Hamas is not some shadowy crime organization active inside Gaza. It's not even a cartel. It is Gaza's government, administration, and military. It is Gaza's everything. Whenever Israel hits police, politicians or whatever, it's hitting Hamas.

@sentdefender Moron

No way! Israel, who clearly is not aligned with the operational objectives of the United States and instead wants a “failed state” and the total destruction of Iran, supports strikes against Iranian power plants which will ultimately result in the suffering of the Iranian people as well as mass attacks against, not Israel, but energy and desalination infrastructure in the Gulf States. What a surprise!

@annbauerwriter @X @elonmusk Elon's idea of revenue sharing was meant to incentivize journalism on X. Instead it's completely drowning all the worthwhile content under a tsunami of sensationalist slop. 😞

@raechellambert Miami is a sunny place for shady people

@bentzysu @ShabbosReads Just because you don’t know me I am far from anonymous, yingle.

@tzemach32 @ShabbosReads Another bitter immature anon account. Yay

4/2026 Finished this fascinating book. So much to think about and discuss. I think it’s mandatory reading for anyone interested in the history of Chabad, particularly post-WW2 Chabad. You don’t understand post-1950 Chabad without reading about the “Previous Rebbe”. So many things that are widely considered to be innovations and hallmarks of post-1950 Chabad, were actually pioneered or heavily emphasized by the FR. Shlichus, children’s parades, women’s advanced studies, publishing Jewish books for the masses etc etc. This book is very well written and sourced, and is full of captivating information that I believe would be new even to many who already know quite a bit about the FR’s life. Did you know the FR hired a woman to translate his maamarim into Yiddish? Did you know that the FR before coming to the USA for his second and last time was planning on “winding down” and focusing on his chsidim “like in other chassidic courts”? Did you know the FR could’ve saved yeshiva students from the Holocaust for about $30,000 each (in today’s USD), and while being in the US was only able to secure funds for about 10? Almost every page is chock-full of fascinating info, as you can tell by the amount of dog-eared pages in my copy. Not to mention, the details of unbelievable but better-known life he lived while in Russia. My biggest takeaways from this book: The FR's unwavering from his principles even by a millimeter, and even in circumstances when anyone else would and his life (and, as an only son, without any sons… the future of the movement) was on the line. His laser focus and constant adaptation to fulfill his mission. And his sensitivity and warmth. Highly recommended read.

'Fowey Harbour, Cornwall.' (1887) Frank Brangwyn was among the new generation of artists who painted radically different coastal pictures in Britain in the 1880s, their vision sharpened and modernised by the new reportage methods which came with hand-held photography.

@davidboxenhorn @wokal_distance I assumed you blocked or being blocked by the antisemite Taleb?

@wokal_distance Marxists want social relationships to be market transactions, and markets to be socialistic, exactly the opposite of what leads to human thriving

Applying Marxist labor theory to romantic relationships is one of the worst things to happen to our culture. Treating things like listening, caring, and emotional support as "emotional labor" to only be given in exchange for compensation makes every relationship a transaction.

@bentzysu @ShabbosReads The are conditioned to accept propaganda only. With you it’s genetic and coded in your namesake.

@tzemach32 @ShabbosReads More than what’s expected from a card-carrying Lubavitcher? He doesn’t hide the fact that he’s a Lubavitcher. Anything in the book that you think is not accurate, you’re welcome to share.