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Esse quam vidērī 🪶 🍋

[ilkhanate @Aboldd]

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[ilkhanate @Aboldd]

@SteppeShaman In Soyombo everything else than fire, sun, moon is imported. Taoism, chinese symbolism, buddhism, Sanskrit traditions etc. It just confuses the people more.
A simple blue flag with the moon, sun, and fire would capture the essentials more clearly.

[ilkhanate @Aboldd]

@SteppeShaman People living on the land of modern Mongolia followed the traditions associated with Tengrism for several thousand years, estimated around 5000–7000 years. In comparison, Tibetan Buddhism became widely adopted only about 400–600 years ago.

[ilkhanate @Aboldd]

Finally we met.

[Fortissax @FortySacks]

Dubai has always disgusted me. The equivalent of blowing your tax return on garbage. The Emirati conception of wealth, and broadly that of the Middle East, is their own gaudy oriental attributes smashed together with hyper globalized capitalism. What you get is this tasteless, ghetto, poor man’s idea of a rich city, a parody of prosperity.

When westerners think of wealth, they don’t picture mirrored gold plated supercars idling outside luxury malls. They think of Tuscan hill towns with terracotta roofs and cypress lined roads. They think of private islands in the Mediterranean, old money estates in the English countryside, the French Riviera, the Pyrenees, the Swiss Alps, Lake Como, the evergreen forests of British Columbia. They think of inherited castles, stone villas, vineyards older than entire countries, libraries with first editions, oil paintings accumulated over centuries, discreet marinas with teak deck sailboats, not LED lit yachts rented for Instagram.

They think of silvers and patinated leather. Handmade Oxford shoes. Tailored linen and wool suits cut in Naples or Savile Row. Heirloom watches. Baroque and classical architecture in Vienna and Paris. Romanesque cathedrals. Renaissance frescoes. Marble busts in quiet courtyards. Wealth as continuity, not spectacle.

They think of French and Italian cuisine. Four course meals with seasonal ingredients, Bordeaux and Barolo chosen for the vintage, white tablecloths, polished cutlery, deliberate pacing. Long lunches. Private members clubs with dark wood panelling. Galleries, opera houses, patronage of the arts. Discretion.

They don’t think of roided out Iraqi dudes with tapered fades reeking of cologne driving a Tesla or a Lambo, hauling around a harem of dead broke Slavic or South American models whose chests they poop on for 10k a piece on some rented yacht in the Gulf. They do not think of Indian slaves to wipe their ass while pretending it is entrepreneurship. They do not think of influencer culture masquerading as aristocracy.

Everything about Dubai feels like excess without depth. Record breaking towers built for headlines rather than permanence. Designer logos as personality. Gold leaf as a substitute for taste. A desert theme park for people who confuse spending with stature.

It is wealth as performance. Loud, transactional, and historically empty. A city trying to cosplay old money without the culture, restraint, or civilizational weight that made Western wealth signify anything beyond raw cash.

[Manchester Lemon @ManchesterLemon]

Happy birthday to the legend John Squire 🍋

[ilkhanate @Aboldd]

👏🏼

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: Polish citizens defending the Polish border ERUPT:

"We are defending the Polish borders. Anyone who enters will get their ass kicked! So to all you pseudo-engineers, enter at your own risk!"

[ilkhanate @Aboldd]

😢
Thought I would finally witness the prince of darkness alive back in 2020 after getting the tickets. Postponed twice due to health, in the end got cancelled after 3 years.
Forever in debt…
Sabbath Forever

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

Black Sabbath performs "Paranoid" one last time to end their final show

[ilkhanate @Aboldd]

All these fights seem so orchestrated 🤔…

[ilkhanate @Aboldd]

@yiihya Exactly

[ilkhanate @Aboldd]

@batengineer Pahaha genius

[ilkhanate @Aboldd]

@thrashersays It really ain’t

[ilkhanate @Aboldd]

@nomadaesthetic Mongols call him Tumur the Limping

[ilkhanate @Aboldd]

First day of the new world and truth shall prevail 🔴⚪️

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."

~ W. H. Auden

[ilkhanate @Aboldd]

@nomadaesthetic Why share?

[ilkhanate @Aboldd]

@BBayasgalan Урлагийн нөлөөлөлийг хэн шууд тусах ёстой гэж сургаад байдаг юм бол? Хүргэхдээ хар, цагаан ямар өнгөтэй байх нь хамаагүй, далдуур явагдах нөлөө, процесс гэж бий.
Урлагийн гэх сургуулиууд юуны түрүүнд урлаг гэж юу вэ гэх тодорхойлолтоо зөв гаргахаас эхлэх хэрэгтэй мэт.