Lukas Neusser

Following Jesus. PhD in Energy Processing. Married, 2 kids, likes astronomy, aviation. Keeping a close eye on middle east.

[Lukas Neusser @LukasNeusser]

@Estadao Bah, o @LulaOficial deve estar pagando muito mal, para o chefe do gabinete dele precisar de um empréstimo. Mas peraí.... empréstimo do filho do chefe, via amiga... hummm. Tá difícil esta colar hein

[Lukas Neusser @LukasNeusser]

@Ostrov_A @bonaldoeng

[Lukas Neusser @LukasNeusser]

@gugachacra Agora eu entendi, agora tudo faz sentido! A famosa cabeleira do Guga é influência da Argentina!

[João Luiz Mauad @mauad_joao]

Faça o que eu digo, mas não faça o que faço 🤡

[Lukas Neusser @LukasNeusser]

@Estadao @colunadoestadao @roseannkennedy E aí @Valdeci13RS .....

[Osmar Terra @OsmarTerra]

"Uma sociedade que obriga uma pessoa de noventa anos a usar um smartphone para acessar seus próprios direitos não é moderna: *é uma sociedade que decidiu se livrar de seus idosos*. Em 2026 tudo virou um aplicativo, um código, um portal. Mas quem construiu este país com as próprias mãos hoje se encontra analfabeto dentro da própria casa. “
@DOCENTEMONTEIRO

[Lukas Neusser @LukasNeusser]

@LulaOficial visitou @realDonaldTrump e não vi resultado, nem entrevista coletiva posterior (na Casa Branca). @FlavioBolsonaro visita dias depois, e prontamente PCC e CV viram grupos terroristas (consequências principalmente financeiras para eles). Não é preciso dizer mais nada!

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

This matters.
An obscure London event on the history of the ancient Jewish kingdoms in Judea and Israel is cancelled because of ‘security concerns’ and it turns out this was a reaction to a campaign to fill and then undermine the event by activist disrupters.
How strange! Why would a posse of aggressive activists be interested in the arcane details of bullae and steles and ostraca and inscriptions and numismatics in some small South Levantine kingdoms in the Iron Age?
Well, it is a little more than that which is why it is both disturbing and important. And it matters because at its least it is a threat to history in Britain’s - but also the world’s - greatest temple of History @britishmuseum - and its scholarly integrity.
The BM and its leadership are decent and well-meaning and have explained that they wished to save an event from disruption by bullying vandals but I am sure the BM realizes it is essential to announce a new event fast lest it give the impression that the permission of tiny cadres of aggressive bullies are required before it hold events. But the significance is wider than an event about the Moab and Tel Dan steles in a great museum.
British cultural life is the right and exercise of civic and cultural freedom – a privilege of our liberal democracy - that does not require the permission of gangs of ideological activists nor can it cancelled or postponed nor endured at their beck and sufferance nor permitted with a bend of the knee to their permissions or veto. But that is what this appears to be.
Across the cultural world in the West, though the bewildered middleaged managers of our institutions that are confronting and often submitting to a wave of self-righteous blackmail and mob threat, there is an increasingly thin – indeed ever more fragile and sometimes nigh invisible – line between ‘security concerns’ – and institutional pusillanimity.
Then there is the history itself.
This event concerns the study of the ancient kingdoms of Judah and Israel that existed between roughly 1100BC and 586BCin the Levant. It is not a coincidence that this was chosen for disruption. The history of the Judean kingdoms and the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem that stood for most of the time between 1000BC and 70ADetc is important and fascinating history in its own right, supported by complex and growing archaeological finds.
These small kingdoms and the subsequent Temple priestly mini-state (restored by the Persian kings Cyrus and Darius 539BC) and then the larger Judean kingdoms of the Hasmoneans and Herodians – between 167BC and 135AD chronicle the long indigenous history of Jews in the region – which the protesters are keen to erase. This is a political project of ideological erasure and malicious incitement of course concerned with the complex, brutal Israel-Palestine conflict that has now gone on for a hundred years and is unlikely to be solved in a small lecture theatre in the British Museum. But it also attempts to deny or erase Jewish history itself – and by implication the heritage of British Jews who live here in Britain, a small community that is now under cultural and sometimes physical threat.
Incidentally - but it is worth saying, this history does not deny anyone else’s history, nor the many other small realms in this region through ancient times nor the many names of the region and its entities and the historical origins of those names (Canaan, or Philistia or Peleset, Phoenicia, Aram Damascus or Moab or later Nabatea and the provinces of Palaestina Prime, Seconda and Tertia and the Ghassanid kingdoms and so on etc etc). The history of one can not be used to erase the history of the other and does not need to do so. The pursuit of knowledge which is one of the delights of human life and is the mission of the BM and indeed anyone who writes, reads or enjoys history, can celebrate and recognize all of these.
Yet this protest and the many like it deployed across Britain nowadays is the opposite of that - an attack on history using the methods of intimidation and vandalism. Much of this involves distorting or dismantling actual history or often lying to replace it with a fabricated ideological structure that nourishes no one and helps no one but degrades our culture and civic life not to speak of history itself. By the way, the frequent claims that these histories or names are ‘denied’ or ‘noone knows them’ is nonsense: anyone and everyone who is interested knows this history. (Much of it appears for example in my book Jerusalem a history of the Holy Land.)
And this is relevant not just to those of us who write study or enjoy the history of the region but also to those who believe that cultural life and civic society is a right that must not be submitted to the aggressions and plots of loud well-organized much-indulged ideologues who take advantage of the freedoms of our society to undermine its principles and the very freedoms they are designed to guard.
Just as vital is a rule of history itself that concerrns the rise and fall of civilizations: the society that ceases to allow to free discussion of ideas and stops respecting and recognizing the value of scientific and historical sources and facts is a society that will fail.

[Rosangela Moro @rosangelawm]

O governo criou um órgão vinculado ao Ministério da Justiça, subordinado a ele mesmo, para fiscalizar o que se publica na internet. Em ano eleitoral.

Quem decide o que é “antidemocrático”? O próprio governo que disputa a eleição? Isso tem nome: conflito de interesses.

[Lukas Neusser @LukasNeusser]

@ricardope Perai, peraí.... não vamos ser burros. Se o público que recebe bolsa família não entra nas estatísticas de desemprego, mas 56% foram em busca de emprego, então quer dizer que o desemprego neste país é muito maior. E sempre falamos isso!!

[Lukas Neusser @LukasNeusser]

@claudio_dantas_ Entende agora, digno @Valdeci13RS porque insisto que você está no partido errado? Apoiando a pessoa errada? Você vê as pesquisas e sabe que o PT sofrerá grande derrota no próximo pleito. Nem candidato no RS tem por falta de potencial.

[michael 🦪 @mikeVEVOsd]

'how great thou art.'

[Cin_thiar @Cin_Thiar]

@astro_jaz the nasa communications lady just said "HOW GREAT THOU ART"!!!
im not cryyying oh my God

[K. Rose @berrysweetmum]

This beautiful lady is a Christian! And we got to hear her praise God while the Moon and Earth were displayed together 🥹 “how great Thou art.” How wonderful!

[Hroðgar, the Skyldings' Helm @s6_37f]

"How great Thou art" and "As Christ said" coming from NASA was not on my bingo card for this year. GWIVFA.

[lilac 🩵 @cinnalilac]

crescent moon and crescent earth, how great thou art

[Ante D. Luvian @uncle_deluge]

Beautiful how the NASA commentator said "How great thou art" as the crescent moon overtook the crescent earth

[Lukas Neusser @LukasNeusser]

RT @mark_joubert: The heavens declare the glory of God. Leah Cheshier Mustachio, NASA communications, narrating as the Orion craft sent its…

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Happy Passover to everyone....
Here’s a page from the 1430 Darmstadt Haggadah, one of my favourite editions: the illuminations are so gorgeous. The book of the Exodus story is usually read tonight around the table of the Seder dinner. Different foods represent different parts of the story. It is a festival of captivity and freedom celebrated by togetherness, storytelling and, of course since it’s a Jewish festival, eating - alot of eating - during which the youngest asks the Four Questions starting: why is this night different from all other nights?
The values of Passover are universal ones so I wish happy Passover to you all everywhere – and particularly those who are enduring persecution, fear, war. Many of these Jewish festivals – Hannukah, Purim, and Pesach -tell the stories of the many racist persecutions and annihilationist terrors aimed at the Judaic people over the millennia. For most of my life, we have been lucky enough to enjoy these festivals and their distant histories in times of safety…. But that is no longer true: today these stories strike a special chord in a darkening tide of new, surging anti Jewish racism and hatred that is appearing in new forms and shapes even in our genial tolerant Britain…. That is why this night is different from all other nights of history – and yet not so different at all…. Chag Pesach Sameach!