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[Tosu @LostInSamukh]

digital abyss

[jāna ᠶᠠᠨᠠ @yiihya]

Barguzin Valley, Buryatia

[Eastern Bloc Visuals @eastblocvisuals]

Karakum Desert, Turkmen SSR, 1987.

[Tosu @LostInSamukh]

gitaranin ichindeki mistik heyati hiss elemek

[Classic Spy Chic @ClassicSpyChic]

Imagine being chased by the KGB down this street.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The people in this photo aren't friendlier than you. Their apartments are just smaller. So small that Parisians basically gave up on living indoors and moved their living rooms onto the sidewalk. And that was the whole plan.

In the 1850s, a city planner named Baron Haussmann tore apart medieval Paris and rebuilt it. He widened streets into boulevards, capped every building at five stories, and added one rule that explains this entire photo: the ground floor of every building had to be a café, a bakery, or a shop. The apartments above were intentionally tiny. Some were single rooms carved out of old mansions. No garden. Barely any sunlight. A private balcony was something most Parisians would never have.

So the café became home. You ate breakfast there. Held meetings there. Received your mail there. By the late 1700s, Paris already had close to 2,000 of them. In 2002, there were still 1,907. Even now, after years of closures brought that number to about 1,410, the coverage is absurd: a 2020 city study found 94% of Parisians live within a five-minute walk of a bakery. When COVID shut indoor dining in 2020, Paris ripped out parking spaces, turned them into outdoor terraces, and let 9,800 cafés and restaurants keep them permanently.

An American sociologist named Ray Oldenburg wrote a book in 1989 called The Great Good Place. He had a name for spots like the Parisian café: "third places." Not your home, not your office, but the casual in-between spots where you actually get to know people. Cafés, pubs, barbershops, the corner store where the owner knows your name. His whole argument was that American suburbs were built with only two zones, your house and your job, connected by a car. No sidewalk café, no place to bump into a neighbor by accident.

The U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a national health epidemic in 2023. Being alone all the time is as bad for your body as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Half of American adults say they feel lonely. Weekly socializing dropped from 5.5 hours in 2003 to just 4 hours in 2023, and it never bounced back after COVID. Americans between 15 and 29 now spend 45% more time alone than they did in 2010.

The scene in this tweet looks like a personality trait. It is a 170-year-old engineering project that works exactly as designed.

[Apolitical @Apolitical3678]

This war is more likely to end up doing regime change in America than in Iran

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Libya negotiated.

Let's be precise about what happened to Libya.

In 2003, Muammar Gaddafi made a strategic decision to abandon his weapons programs, open his country to international inspectors, and normalize relations with the West.

He paid reparations for Lockerbie.

He dismantled his nuclear program.

He cooperated with Western intelligence against Al-Qaeda.

He did everything that was asked of him.

He negotiated. He complied. He normalized.

In 2011, NATO bombed Libya for seven months.

His own military turned against him with Western backing.

He was captured in a drainage pipe.

A mob sodomized him with a bayonet while Western officials watched via satellite feed.

Hillary Clinton laughed about it on camera.

"We came, we saw, he died."

The man who gave up his deterrent in exchange for promises of security and normalization died in a drainage pipe while the people who made him those promises laughed at the footage of him being sodomized with a bayonet.

And Libya, which had the highest GDP per capita in Africa, free healthcare, free education, housing subsidies, and a functioning welfare state, became a failed state with open slave markets within three years.

This is what negotiated security guarantees look like.

This is the documented outcome.

Not a fringe case. Not a misunderstanding.

The most complete, unambiguous illustration possible of what your weapons are worth the moment you give them up.

The lesson is not complicated.

The only deterrent is a deterrent you still possess.

The moment you negotiate it away, you have nothing left to negotiate with.

[Cyrus Janssen @thecyrusjanssen]

This is propaganda. Rome, Berlin, and Paris have a 0% chance of being struck by Iran. Why? Because Italy, Germany, and France did not start an unprovoked war against Iran. It's honestly as simple as that

[Tosu @LostInSamukh]

@youngzalov bashin buraxmisham illerdir aze segmentin

[Omar @omar_dddg]

The most iconic and beautiful buildings in the two countries that hate Muslims the most were built by Muslims.

Something they have to cope with forever.

[nahnotme @Brisket959]

"in memory of the victims of Epstein Island"

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

This is what USA does to other countries

[Tosu @LostInSamukh]

@jonbrooks @grok why? reasons?

[Tigin @tiginoloji]

Norveçli kız: Penguenler küresel ısınmadan dolayı ölüyor, çok üzülüyorum.

Bizim yanıbaşımızda dönen olaylar silsilesi:

[Tosu @LostInSamukh]

1500 il evvel sehranin ortasinda iki qebileye de eyni anda silah satan bir toplum uchun bu adi haldir.

[Alex Jones @RealAlexJones]

RED ALERT: Tucker Carlson is reporting that Israel just got caught in a massive attempted false flag…

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

12 years to the day since the publication of Afghan War Diaries, here is Julian Assange speaking in 2011: "The goal is an endless war, not a successful war" #FreeAssangeNOW

[ADAM @AdameMedia]

They kidnapped Maduro and assassinated Khamenei before they arrested a single Epstein pedophile….