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Human life has no meaning independent of itself... The meaning of life is what we choose to give it - Paul Kurtz .....

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Ida is one of the most complete primate fossils ever discovered. She is 95% complete and so well preserved her tissue, hair and stomach contents are still visible . She is 47 million years old.

Don’t waste your time on man made religions, stand in awe at our history. 👌👍

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@F0ODHub Homemade ….. needs a tweak with presentation

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@___TheGOOdWitch What the fuck was she thinking

[Vincent Lanon @vlanon]

Fauteuil en osier, plaid, tasse de thé, des mètres de livres et le silence. Pas de wifi, juste du papier. L’endroit parfait pour disparaître quelques heures.

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@Dostoevskyquot Monumental

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@bosveryaaaaaaaa 3 … a log fire, books and wine 👌

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@goodreads A Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson 👌

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@simoncholland Yup…. But it’s a good excuse 😬

[Rogelio Galván ll 🇩🇪🇲🇽 @GalvanPero55796]

"Proof that happiness can be measured in bookshelves."

[Sophia Proneikos @Pergament_F]

"Books make the home feel human." E.M. Forster

[Stonehenge U.K @ST0NEHENGE]

Sunrise at Stonehenge today (17th June) was at 4.50am, sunset is at 9.25pm 🌤️

[North Yorkshire @visitnorthyork]

Unpopular opinion but British food is the best in the world 😋

[Sec @SecularScarlet]

@BladeoftheS You need to read his biography about his early life before u make judgements.

[Henrique, ex-minister van Twit. 🇵🇹🇳🇱 @HenryJP55]

Oh zo moet dat!

Zó belangrijk is opvoeding …

[North Yorkshire @visitnorthyork]

Helmsley Sunrise 🌞

[Alexandre Blaineau @AlBlaineau]

Le carnet de croquis de Turner

[Palestina En Español 🎒 @PalestinaVence]

Noruega le da una paliza histórica a Israel y dona TODAS las ganancias del partido a Palestina.

Noruega aplastó 5-0 a Israel y celebró con una alegría que se sintió en todo el mundo.

Pero lo más poderoso no fue solo el resultado: el equipo y la federación noruega decidieron donar el 100% de los ingresos del partido a Palestina.Esto no es solo fútbol.

Es una declaración política clara y valiente en medio del Mundial 2026. Mientras Israel sigue con su campaña de destrucción en Gaza y Líbano, y amenaza a Irán, Noruega elige ponerse del lado correcto de la historia.Un país que entiende el valor de la solidaridad y la justicia.

Un equipo que transforma una victoria deportiva en ayuda concreta para un pueblo que sufre ocupación y masacres.

Este gesto contrasta fuertemente con la hipocresía de la FIFA y de varios gobiernos occidentales que protegen a Israel pese a todo.

Gracias, Noruega.

El mundo necesita más acciones concretas como esta.

¿Qué opinas tú?

¿Crees que más selecciones deberían seguir el ejemplo de Noruega?

Comenta, comparte y celebra esta victoria con significado.

[SubRosa )✿( Magick @subrosamagick.bsky.social @SubRosaMagick]

She was 57 years old.
White hair. No carefully managed image. No media training designed to make her more palatable. Just thirty years of accumulated knowledge and the calm, unhurried authority of a woman who had spent her life mastering her subject.
She sat on a BBC panel, answered questions about immigration and politics, cited evidence, made arguments — and then went home.
The next morning, her inbox looked like a crime scene.
Her name is Mary Beard — Cambridge professor, classicist, one of the most respected scholars of ancient Rome and Western civilisation alive. And the internet had decided that a woman speaking with quiet authority on television needed to be punished for it.
The messages were not criticism. They were not debate. They were rape threats. Death threats. Coordinated campaigns of personal destruction targeting her appearance, her age, her voice — anything that could be used to remind her that spaces like the one she had just occupied were not meant for her.
Most people would have gone quiet.
Mary Beard went further in.
She did what scholars do when they find a pattern that disturbs them: she followed it backward. Through decades. Through centuries. Through millennia. All the way back to some of the oldest texts in Western civilisation.
And she found it had always been there.
In Homer's Odyssey — one of the foundational works of Western literature, nearly three thousand years old — there is a scene that most readers pass over without registering its quiet violence. Penelope comes downstairs and asks the poet to sing a different song. Her own son, Telemachus, cuts her off. He orders her back to her room and tells her plainly: speech is the business of men.
She goes.
Mary Beard read that scene and recognized it immediately.
Not as ancient history. As a pattern.
In ancient Rome, women who dared to speak in public were not described as orators or thinkers. They were described as noise — disorderly sound, something that did not deserve to be called language or argument. Their voices were not speech. Their thoughts were not thoughts.
In the medieval world, women who claimed public authority were labeled as witches.
Elizabeth I — Queen of England, ruler of a nation — had to rhetorically reshape herself into something masculine just to be taken seriously as the leader of her own country.
The silencing of women who speak with authority was not invented by social media. It was not a modern pathology or a cultural accident. It was built deliberately, over centuries, into the very foundations of how Western civilisation defined who gets to speak, what authority sounds like, and who is allowed to take up space in public life.
Mary Beard had found something important.
In 2017, she published Women & Power: A Manifesto — short enough to read in an afternoon, substantial enough to reframe everything you thought you understood about why this keeps happening.
Her argument was precise and devastating.
The problem is not that women lack the ability to lead. The problem is that the model of leadership itself — the template for what public authority looks, sounds, and feels like — was built by men over centuries and has never been redesigned. When a woman enters public life and doesn't fit that template, she is not failing. The template was never built for her. It was built specifically to exclude her, and it has been doing exactly that, efficiently and continuously, for three thousand years.
The solution, Beard argued, is not to teach women to perform power the way men have always performed it. The solution is to dismantle and rebuild the very concept of what power is allowed to look like.
She kept teaching. She kept writing. She kept appearing on television — white-haired, unhurried, carrying her decades of authority without performing it, without packaging it for comfort, without apologizing for it.
The threats continued.
But other messages began arriving too. Letters from women and girls who had spent their entire lives feeling that every door was slightly too narrow, every table slightly too high, every room slightly reluctant to make space for them. Women who had spent years wondering what was wrong with them — why they couldn't quite fit, couldn't quite belong, couldn't quite be taken seriously no matter how much they knew or how hard they worked.
They read the book and understood, perhaps for the first time, that nothing had ever been wrong with them.
The room had been designed without them in mind.
That is not a personal failing.
That is a three-thousand-year-old architectural decision.
And one Cambridge professor with white hair and a calm voice — who refused to go quiet when the internet told her to — spent her career documenting it, naming it, and handing that knowledge to everyone who needed to hear it.
Telemachus told Penelope that speech was the business of men.
He was wrong then.
He is still wrong now.
And Mary Beard has three thousand years of evidence to prove it.
via The Inspireist

#FeministFriday #HERstory

[The Scientific Lens @LensScientific]

In the early 1900s, a brilliant mathematician was invited to help with Einstein’s new theory of relativity. Yet the faculty blocked her from teaching because she was a woman.

She worked unpaid for years. Her lectures were often listed under a male colleague’s name. She faced constant institutional barriers.

Albert Einstein later called her “the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.”

Her name was Emmy Noether.

She discovered a profound link between symmetry and conservation. If the laws of physics remain unchanged under rotation, angular momentum is conserved. If they are identical everywhere in space, momentum is conserved. If they do not change with time, energy is conserved.

This insight became one of the foundations of modern physics.

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

- Dr. Carl Sagan