Tanja

Secret Nymph of Saint-Cloud ⛲
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[Tanja @Tanja_2012]

Taking some time today to appreciate @JulesMancini
Joyeux anniversaire, Monsieur Le Duc, and merci beaucoup for all the beautiful moments you gifted us! They still remain deeply cherished memories. #ForeverTheDucOfOurHearts

[Noemon Acragas @noemonas]

Homer's Odyssey and Iliad was indeed a diverse melting pot that explicitly mentions "Memnon the Son of the Dawn from Ethiopia" as "the most handsome man on earth" and this being told by Odysseus himself:

"ὃς περὶ πάντων ἦν ἀνδρῶν
κάλλιστος ἰδέσθαι τῶν ἄλλων μετὰ Μέμνονα δῖον"

"he [Eurupulos son of Tilefidis] is the handsomest out of all men I ever saw, all except for Memnon"

2) We do not know the skin colour of Helen. Ancient Greeks used the words "white" to refer to "domesticated good women" and the word "black" to refer to "brave men".

3) This is not just in word but also in pottery and art, men are painted totally black and women totally white, in later periods these absolutely B&W hues lighten up in which men are very brown and women white but not like chalk. But the motif remains with more natural colours.

This never meant that all men were Black-African and all women White-Polish-Lithuanian. It was a style that represented their culture in poetry, art, pottery, etc. White colour for feminine domestication, obedience, black colour for male bravery.

4) Homer's Epics is art more than it is history, it can be interpreted as it has been by several people who look and looked nothing like the Greeks.

5) It is a movie for a global audience retelling a piece of art, not a documentary. It is absolutely fine to be told in a global language for a global audience.

6) The inclusion of more people than just Europeans piques more interest for Homer globally which can only be a good thing.

7) When you are racist against others, it don't matter how you justify it, it still shows.

[zus•je @AlexandraW45667]

Wenn ich an Demenz erkranke, möchte ich, dass meine Familie diese Wunschliste dort an die Wand hängt, wo ich wohne. Ich möchte, dass sie sich an diese Dinge erinnern.

Jedes Mal, wenn du den Raum betrittst, kündige dich an. „Hallo… – hier ist ........ ...“

Frage NIEMALS:
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[old toons @oldtoons_]

Still the greatest duel in cinematic history.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

Humans are the only creatures that need to be told not to destroy their own home.

May every day be Earth Day.

[RC deWinter @RCdeWinter]

When Trump was in Berlin for his first state visit with Angela Merkel he asked the secret of her great success.

Merkel told him you have to have intelligent people around you.

"How do you know if someone is intelligent?" asked Trump.

"Let me demonstrate." She picked up the phone, called Wolfgang Schäuble and asked him a question, "Mr. Schäuble, he’s your father's son but not your brother. Who is it?"

Without hesitation Schäuble answered, “Quite simply, it's me!"

"You see," Merkel told Trump, "this is how I test a person’s intelligence."

Thrilled, when Trump flew home he called Mike Pence and asked him the same question. ”He’s your father's son, but is not your brother. Who is it?"

After much back and forth, Pence said,
“I have no idea, but I’ll try to find out the answer by tomorrow!"

Of course Pence couldn’t figure it out and decided to seek advice from former President Obama, so he called him and said, “Mr. Obama, it's your father's son, but is not your brother. Who is it?"

Obama answered, “Easy, it's me!"

Happy to have found the answer, Pence called Trump and said triumphantly, "I have the answer, it's Barack Obama!"

Trump raged and shouted, "No, you jackass, it's Wolfgang Schäuble!"

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE

[NASA @NASA]

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶

The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

[Pinsent Tailoring 🌈 @zackpinsent]

Who else cried?

[purr.in.ink @purrinink]

Happy year of the horse 🐴🐾🤍

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🇺🇸 CURLING TEAM MEMBER RICH RUOHONEN: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. We have a constitution. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

[USA TODAY @USATODAY]

Mikaela Shiffrin was asked how she feels representing the United States at the Olympics despite the political tensions in the country. The two-time gold medalist quoted Nelson Mandela as part of her answer.

[K8 @CoastalK8]

I love to see this as it’s confirmation that when the stakes are high (in this case gold medals) the sci matters & risk assessors know FFP2/3 work to protect & prevent.
Sad that when it’s my personal stakes (my children’s health) I get labelled as anxious or a nut job!

[Mario @PawlowskiMario]

This is real courage and realism about America from an American Olympic athlete 🇺🇸🫡

It takes an unbelievable amount of courage to admit that your own country, the most powerful country on earth, is in a deeply broken and shameful state right now.

He didn’t use extreme words. He did something harder. He admitted awareness. He admitted shame.

That honesty matters more than slogans and MAGA will never understand this. They won’t understand that because they can’t think in 3D. They only think in 2 dimensional, black & white binary terms, no layers.

Big respect ✊

[Tanja @Tanja_2012]

Petition gegen die geplante Kürzung von Unterrichtsstunden in Latein und der zweiten Fremdsprache in Österreich:
https://t.co/Cco6Wy9LFD

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

The owner of this website is inciting murder, according to the owner of this website

[Coffeezilla @coffeebreak_YT]

Crazy that in the rest of the world the Epstein files are actually having consequences but in America nobody seems to be affected.

[Philipp S. Holstein @PSHolstein]

Der "Widerstand" schafft immer noch den intellektuellen Spagat des Todes:
Wir haben gleichzeitig massive Übersterblichkeit wegen der Impfung und überhaupt keine weil Covid ja nur ein Schnupfen war.
Masken sind so löchrig, dass das Virus einfach durchspaziert, aber gleichzeitig so dicht, dass alle jämmerlich ersticken, CO2 niemals raus und O2 niemals rein kommt.
Geimpfte verfälschen die Statistik, weil wir so kluge, gesunde Entscheidungen treffen ("Healthy Vaccinee Bias"), sind aber gleichzeitig zu dumm zu merken, dass alle Studien gefälscht sind.
Schrödingers Wutbürger ist immer Opfer, immer Held, niemals logisch.

[MariKan @MariKanWien]

Stellt euch einen Film vor, in dem die gierigsten und skrupelosesten Menschen die Weltherrschaft erlangen. Kinder werden vergewaltigt, Menschen gejagt und erschossen. Den Leuten wird erzählt, dass nichts stimmt, was sie mit eigenen Augen gesehen haben.
Genau da sind wir jetzt