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Scientist, university lecturer, Alberta-Michigan-Bangkok dweller

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

WHY WOULD YOU SUE TO BLOCK THIS???

[Soma - Patron Saint of Christmas @SombraMapache]

Call me woke or whatever, but I don't think it's even vaguely reasonable to expect the literal mayor of NYC to be prohibited from attending a 9/11 memorial just because a handful of folks affected by it grew up to be malignant racists.

[Melchor Santiago @MelchorSan26]

¡Reúnanse los que tienen cuello de tortuga!

Pedí este ejercicio sin grandes expectativas y lo hice solo 3 semanas,

y no solo me creció músculo en la espalda donde no lo tenía, sino que la línea del cuello cambió por completo.

[tomosaki @photono_gen]

雲を撮るのが好き。

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“Your death will come on an ordinary day, in the middle of unfinished plans, and the world will continue without you.”

[(˼●̙̂ ̟ ̟̎ ̟ ̘●̂˻) ⁉️ @punkcorpz]

He assaults a woman and all the men just stood by until she beat his ass back nobody can convince me men are our “protectors”

[Today I Learned @TodayiLearrned]

Bookmark it and practice 🙌🏼

[Matt Bevan @MatthewBevan]

Marine mammals are the most insane group of animals. Like what do you mean you sleep in a place where have to wake up every few minutes to go find some air to breathe.

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

If they're turning engineers into activists they have been doing unfathomable evil behind the scenes

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A photographer captured a family of owls and accidentally ended up with the perfect cover for a music album.

[aether @bluewdrift]

according to philosophy, the highest form of peace is to have zero desire to be understood, admired, pitied or even known.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Republicans will look you dead in the eye and say we shouldn’t feed children.

[Etan Nechin @Etanetan23]

Whoever took this photo of Netanyahu coming through the White House side entrance should get a Pulitzer

[You Know Who @MuskTillDawn]

Well you fucking suck at it

[Censored Humans @CensoredHumans]

🚨🇮🇱🇯🇵Imagine being an Israeli tourist in Japan and losing your mind because a local man quietly holds photos of Gaza's children.

Was Japan promised to them 3,000 years ago too?

[Elai @elaifresh]

This is such cool technique

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

A history teacher told the story of Agamemnon to a theater after a power cut interrupted a screening of The Odyssey

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

The greatest warrior who ever lived was told, after his death, that he should be happy.

His answer is one of the most devastating things ever written...

Achilles had been given a choice while alive: a long, quiet, forgotten life at home, or a short one at Troy that would make his name immortal. He chose glory. He chose to die young and be remembered forever.

In the Odyssey, Odysseus goes down into the land of the dead, and Achilles comes to meet him. Odysseus tries to comfort him. He tells him he has nothing to mourn:

"For of old, when thou wast alive, we Argives honored thee even as the gods, and now that thou art here, thou rulest mightily among the dead. Wherefore grieve not at all that thou art dead, Achilles."

You are the most blessed man who ever lived, he says. You were worshipped in life, and now you are a king among the dead. What is there to grieve?

Achilles answers immediately:

"Nay, seek not to speak soothingly to me of death, glorious Odysseus. I should choose, so I might live on earth, to serve as the hireling of another, of some portionless man whose livelihood was but small, rather than to be lord over all the dead that have perished."

He would rather be a day labourer, working someone else's field, for a master so poor he can barely feed him. He would take that life over ruling every soul that ever died...

Achilles chose to die young so that his name would live forever. And then, in the Odyssey, Homer let him speak from the other side of that choice. And this is his answer, to Odysseus and to us: being remembered is not the same as being alive. And the ordinary day you are living right now is the thing the greatest hero in the world would trade eternity to have back.