cansado dessa década

environmental historian and visual anthropologist.
Assistant Professor in History at @Unisinos.
Writes sometimes at @anthrodendum.

[Yevardiaղ @haravayin_hogh]

Thread on Alexander's invasion of the Persian Empire from the Iranian POV.
In particular, how its last Emperor, Darius III, responded to the crisis. Post-conquest Iranian resistance was also far more widespread than recognised.
Excerpts from E. Badian's paper "Conspiracies".🧵

[cansado dessa década @CaoGris]

@CEEE_Equatorial quando vamos ter retorno da luz ligada? UC 4720679

[Zafar Mirzo | Quotes @ZafarMirzoQuote]

"The Achilles heel of modern humanity is its spiritual weakness, which threatens to devalue the content and meaning of universal human values on the path to global solidarity - moral, cultural, and political, which ultimately can lead to a global catastrophe." - Zafar Mirzo @zafarmirzo

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

Jean Sévillia on the crisis of history, from his 2003 "Historiquement incorrect", translated into Romanian and Spanish but not yet English!

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

A 1970s article stole the argument I just came up with

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

🧵Zelensky being publicly berated by US president and VP (a mass media spectacle par excellence) has left western Europe stunned, shocked, and floundering. There was much ‘unprecedented’ about the spectacle but I want to talk about something that isn’t being discussed.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

"Do not be afraid, I am a colonel of the Soviet army and a Jew. We have come to liberate you."

80 years ago today, the Red Army liberated Auschwitz. In the passage below, two Russian soldiers describe the heartwrenching moment in which the prisoners — "living skeletons" — greeted their arrival.

Over a million people were systematically destroyed in the camp. First their humanity was torn from them; then their lives. "[O]ur language," Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi wrote, "lacks words to express this offence, the demolition of a man... [N]o human condition is more miserable than this, nor could it conceivably be so."

This year, ahead of the anniversary, the EU parliament adopted a resolution banning Soviet symbols. Russia was barred from attending the commemorations, with the Holocaust museum saying that its "presence would be cynical". Meanwhile, the authors of our generation's holocaust in Gaza were not only invited, but offered immunity from arrest by the Polish government, despite the warrants issued by the International Criminal Court.

In this way, Europe rewrites its history. It weaponises Holocaust remembrance to provide cover for the same kind of colonial logic that produced Nazism. And it erases the legacy of those who most forcefully resisted it. The implication could not be clearer: until we dismantle the material basis of fascism and colonialism, "remembrance" will remain a pernicious rhetorical device.

To remember, I turn again to Primo Levi, who saw dignity in the Soviet resistance to German aggression, and in that dignity the reason for its ultimate victory:

"And yet, under their slovenly and anarchical appearance, it was easy to see in them, in each of those rough and open faces, the good soldiers of the Red Army, the valiant men of the old and new Russia, gentle in peace and fierce in war, strong from an inner discipline born from concord, from reciprocal love and from love of their country; a stronger discipline, because it came from the spirit, than the mechanical and servile discipline of the Germans. It was easy to understand, living among them, why this former discipline, and not the latter, had finally triumphed.”

These words could very well have been written about the Palestinian resistance today.

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

This is something everybody should always keep in mind - especially when on Twitter!

[cansado dessa década @CaoGris]

@aquilars No fim, o twitter voltou e não te achei lá

[cansado dessa década @CaoGris]

Heading to @bluesky after twitter collapse on Brazil.

[TuitaWill III 🕺🏻🇧🇷🇺🇲 @TuuitaWill]

OBRIGATÓRIO RETUITAR

Adeus Twitter/ O TWITTER MORREU

Se o twitter acabar onde vamos fazer memes com o mundo todo e saber as fofocas do mundo do entretenimento em primeira mão?

[JOTA MARQUES @jotamarquesrj]

E se a gente ocupasse o LinkedIn só de sacanagem e transformasse aquela rede em um verdadeiro inferno aleatório, expulsando de vez os coachs da internet?

[Cardi B @iamcardib]

Wait a lot of my fan pages are Brazilian!!! Come back hold up!!

[exuliane @exuliane]

tuitou daquela vez como se fosse a última
olhou pra timeline como se fosse a última
e cada rt como se fosse o último
e foi pra outra rede com seu passo tímido

[Torradinhafeliz 🍞🇧🇷 (LEIAM LUA ROXA) @Lipetorrada]

The entire Brazilian community on Twitter rn:

[Lázaro Rosa 🇧🇷 @lazarorosa25]

Camila Bomfim fez uma análise perfeita sobre o teatro montado por Elon Musk: “Faz parte de toda a cena que Elon Musk vai fazer, que é não cumprir a lei para depois dizer que foi alvo de um excesso. O Brasil é importantíssimo para o X. O que se espera é que Musk faça essa cena e depois passe a cumprir a lei. O impacto econômico sempre fala mais alto do que qualquer narrativa política”.

[Vicky Verma @Unexplained2020]

This British Woman claimed that she lived and served at the court of Pharaoh Seti around 3,300 years ago. She even knew the details that had never been published.

When she first time arrived in Egypt, it was obvious to her that she had been there before. But her last visit near the Nile may have taken place thousands of years earlier.

Dorothy Louise Eady is well known to those who are fond of the history of Ancient Egypt. This 20th-century Egyptologist claimed to be the reincarnation of a priestess in the cult of Isis and seemed to have intimate knowledge to back it up.

Dorothy Eady, better known as “Omm Sety” or “Om Seti” was born to Irish parents on January 16, 1904, in England. She was an ordinary child until an accident happened to her in 1907.

One morning, three-year-old Dorothy ran upstairs and fell from the second floor. Instantly, she fell unconscious. Her parents called a doctor, but he could not help and only ascertained the death of the child.

However, miraculously, when he returned to the house an hour later and entered Dorothy’s room, he found the girl alive and well.

After that, Dorothy began to have amazing dreams about a mysterious building with snow-white columns, surrounded by a beautiful garden in the depths of which a rectangular lake with lotuses was hidden.

And the girl herself was tormented by a deep longing for her home, but she could not explain where this home was.

Sit back & enjoy the thread!