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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.

@histories_arch All of this information on a piece of clay the size of a mobile phone?

In 1985, a man named Douglas Simmonds walked into the British Museum, carrying a bag of old objects. His father Leonard had served with the Royal Air Force in the Middle East during and after the Second World War, and like many veterans stationed far from home, he had picked up curiosities along the way. Clay fragments. Small carved objects. Things that looked interesting without being obviously valuable. After Leonard died, the collection passed to his son. Douglas wanted someone to tell him what he had. The man who looked at the objects was Irving Finkel — one of the very few people alive who can read cuneiform, the world's oldest writing system. Finkel looked at the tablets one by one. Then he picked up a small, damaged piece of clay — roughly the size of a mobile phone — and started reading. He went very still. The opening lines were famous to anyone in his field. They were the beginning of the Atra-Hasis Flood Story — one of the oldest narratives in recorded human history. A god warning a chosen man of a coming catastrophe. An instruction to build a great boat and save the animals. A story so ancient it had been told and retold across civilizations for thousands of years before anyone carved it into stone or pressed it into paper. But this particular tablet contained something that had never been seen before - construction instructions. Precise ones naming materials, measurements, quantities. A working blueprint for the ark itself — specific enough that a boat could actually be built from it. And the ark it described was nothing like the one in Genesis, it was round. A massive circular coracle — coiled from palm fiber rope, supported by thick wooden ribs, sealed with layers of bitumen that seeped naturally from the Iraqi earth. It was not designed not to sail anywhere, but simply to float, because it had nowhere specific to go, it just needed to survive. Finkel was — in his own words — "wobbly with desire" to keep studying it. But Simmonds took it back, he wasn't oblivious about its significance. He was simply a man who had inherited a family treasure and wasn't ready to surrender it to a museum. He was, by all accounts, a person of considerable intelligence who knew exactly what he was carrying. But he just wasn't willing to leave it behind. Finkel never forgot the tablet. For 24 years, he thought about those opening lines. Wondered what the full text said. Then, in 2009, he spotted Douglas Simmonds at a Babylonian exhibition inside the very museum where they had first met. He walked over and asked directly: please, bring the tablet back. This time, Simmonds agreed. What followed was years of painstaking work. The tablet's 60 lines of cuneiform covered both sides of the clay. Some sections were chipped or cracked, forcing Finkel to cross-reference fragments, compare symbols, and reconstruct meaning from what time had left behind. But the construction instructions were remarkable in their specificity — detailed enough that he eventually worked with ancient shipbuilding experts to actually build a replica of the round ark, at roughly one-third scale. When he launched it on a river in Kerala, India, with documentary cameras rolling, the ancient design held. 📷 : Dr. Irving Finkel, a philologist and Assyriologist, displaying a 4000 years-old clay tablet containing the story of the Ark at the British Museum © The Stories They Never Shared #archaeohistories

"Israel is the new THIRD REICH" — Polish MP Konrad Berkowicz STUNS parliament, unveils Israeli flag with SWASTIKA

@Wescott464348 If a chimpanzee had won, you'd be in a better place today

If Kamala Harris had won, do you think America would be in a better place today?

@KwesigaOscar @RestoreBritain_ Have you ever been to Benidorm?

@RestoreBritain_ Every immigrant should learn to speak the language of their host country. Should be minimum requirement. Trying to adjust the host environment to mirror back home environment is slowly killing the hosts.

Restore Britain will end all foreign language translation in the public sector, saving hundreds and hundreds of millions. If you live in our country, you speak our language.

@WhiteHouse Hey @deepseek_ai, can you please analyse the text in the image of the previous tweet and give the estimated mental age of the author based on their grasp of the English language?

"Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz." - President Donald J. Trump

@WhiteHouse The "RAMBLINGS" of a halfwit.

@elonmusk It's because you're a cunt, not because you're white.

South Africa won’t allow Starlink to be licensed, even though I was BORN THERE, simply because I am not Black! We were offered many times the opportunity to bribe our way to a license by pretending that a Black guy runs Starlink SA, but I have refused to do so on principle. Racism should not be rewarded no matter to which race it is applied. Shame on the racist politicians in South Africa. They should be shown no respect whatsoever anywhere in the world and shunned for being unashamedly RACISTS!

@Luv_Xcuses Shooting school children

Be brutally honest, what's one thing Americans are simply better at than the rest of the world??

@mustang42f @mmpadellan And you either don't care enough, or have no idea what is going on in the rest of the world (I assume because you watch Fox news)

@Adam_Butler @mmpadellan You cared enough to opine.

BEFORE THE WAR: Gas: $2.98 per gallon Iran did not control the Strait Iran still had enriched uranium Iran had an old Ayatollah AFTER THE WAR: Gas: $4.16 per gallon Iran now collects toll on the Strait Iran still has enriched uranium Iran has a young Ayatollah If you still think that buffoon trump has any clue what he's doing, you are a cultist and a fucking moron.

@mustang42f @mmpadellan If this is your only response to everything the orange gibbon is doing, on the global scale, no one really cares

@mmpadellan You must live in a Democrat state. $3.45 here.

I have not seen a single mainstream media outlet give this the attention it deserves. Israel blew up an entire Lebanese town, an ancient place. It should be headline news. There’s footage of it happening. Imagine this was your town, and you saw every building blown up by a terrorist army to prevent you from ever returning. You would at the very least expect wall to wall coverage. Instead it passes without a word. It’s not the only town Israel has blown up. And sadly it probably won’t be the last.

This war can be summed up by a single sentence from Netanyahu's 1993 book, A Place Among the Nations. "The task of Israel’s leaders is to try to convince the American government that it is in the interest of the United States to follow policies that cohere with Israeli interests, not vice versa." It's almost like they say it right to our faces!

@timpjohansson @joefrancis505 @aakashgupta @aakashgupta how embarrassing

@joefrancis505 @aakashgupta that’s it fruit juice honey.

People keep saying "just cut sugar" without understanding what 350g per day is actually doing to the tissue of your face. When you eat that much sugar, your pancreas is releasing massive amounts of insulin all day long. That insulin signals your kidneys to reabsorb sodium. And sodium holds water. So your face is carrying this layer of subcutaneous fluid that blurs your jawline, puffs your cheeks, swells the tissue around your eyes. You stop the sugar, the insulin drops, the sodium flushes, and within 3 to 5 days the water comes off your face. That alone changes how you look dramatically. But there's a second thing happening that takes longer. Sugar molecules are literally bonding to the collagen and elastin in your skin through a process called glycation. These bonded structures, called AGEs, crosslink your collagen fibers so they become stiff and can't repair. Your skin loses its ability to snap back. Four months of controlled blood sugar reduces glycated collagen by 25%. And then the Mediterranean piece. People hear "Mediterranean" and think olive oil and wine. What actually matters is the systemic inflammation drop. You go from a high-glycemic processed diet to whole foods, omega-3s from fish, walking 8,000 steps because that's just how you get around, sleeping better because your blood sugar isn't crashing at 2am. Every one of those independently lowers your inflammatory markers. TNF-alpha, IL-6, C-reactive protein. All of them come down. And your face is one of the most vascularized, inflammation-sensitive surfaces on your body. So you're looking at this photo thinking one thing changed. Three completely separate biological systems all reversed at the same time, on the same square inches of skin.

@Miia74___ @NoContextHumans Otters can be nasty. They'll literally bite your fingers off. sealsanctuary.co.uk/terry.html

@NoContextHumans What the heck, these guys were scared of an otter 😂

Legendary video🤣

🚨🇬🇧 BREAKING: British surgeon gives HORRIFYING testimony to the UK Parliament. He describes how IDF drones arrive right after airstrikes in Gaza, targeting and shooting the injured, including children, right on the spot. Repost this. Please I beg you

How is this different than gas chambers? x.com/PushDemsLeft/s…

Only two states in History declared death penalty for one particular race — 1) Nazi Germany against Jews 2) Israel against Palestinians “YOU BECOME WHAT YOU HATE”

Just so we're clear, Israel is now the first state to have an ethnicity-based death penalty since Nazi Germany.

@TerryMoran You missed "claim total victory" between each and every one

Trump at war: 1. Start war. Do not tell allies. 2. Blow stuff up. 3. Demand regime change. 4. Blow up more stuff. 5. Demand unconditional surrender. 6. Get angry when enemy fights back. 7. Make threats. 8. Back down. Repeat. 9. Demand allies finish war. 10. Walk away.