Franca

The greatest trick the politicians ever pulled was to convince the world democracy exists.

[Wim den Oudsten @WimdenOudsten]

Een bos dat 25 jaar geleden met Europees geld werd geplant om de natuur te herstellen, wordt nu gerooid... voor zonnepanelen.
In Jalance (Valencia) ligt meer dan 30 hectare beschermd steeneikenbos inmiddels tegen de vlakte, ondanks waarschuwingen van de eigen regionale natuurdienst.
Hoe kan dit gebeuren in een Natura 2000-gebied? Lees meer op https://t.co/SLNocTdLDM

[Lydia aka Insufferable TERF @lyd20211]

Jongeman spreekt zich uit tegen de Marokkaanse relschoppers.

Dezelfde Marokkanen die claimen dat hun wangedrag voortkomt uit racisme, bejegenen deze man racistisch.

JE VERZINT HET NIET! 🤡

[Franca @BarbFranc]

@vivscontent Wat geweldig, gefeliciteerd Viv en S. en natuurlijk D. 🎓🍾

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Archaeologists digging through Viking-age settlements in northern Germany kept finding cats. Not local cats.

The bones dated to somewhere between 700 and 1000 AD. But the DNA told a stranger story than anyone expected.

In 2017, a team led by Claudio Ottoni published a large genetic study of ancient cat remains from sites across Europe. When they analyzed the Viking-era specimens from northern Germany, the mitochondrial DNA pointed clearly to the Near East and Egypt, lineages that had no business being that far north at that point in history.

The most likely explanation: the cats had sailed there.

Norse seafarers kept cats aboard their vessels for the same reason every maritime culture did. A ship carrying grain is also carrying rats. A ship carrying rats loses its provisions. A ship with a good cat keeps both the grain and the crew fed.

What made these particular cats remarkable was the distance they had traveled. Egyptian and Near Eastern cats, aboard Viking longships, moving north through trade routes and raiding routes across several centuries.

And when they reached shore, they were not treated as working tools.

A number of these animals were buried with care. The skeletal record suggests they were valued, not just useful. In several sites, cat bones appear alongside human graves, which researchers read as deliberate placement, not coincidence.

Over generations, something else happened: the cats grew larger. The remains show a gradual increase in body size across the Viking age, which researchers connect to better feeding and, possibly, selective pressure aboard ship.

Some researchers have noted that these ancient imported cats may sit near the base of what eventually became the Norwegian Forest Cat: the large, thick-coated breed that Scandinavians would later call the skogkatt, the forest cat.

If that lineage holds, one of the most beloved cat breeds in the world traces part of its ancestry to Egyptian mousers who crossed the North Sea on longships more than a thousand years ago.

The Norse sagas mention wolves. They mention ravens. They mention bears.

Nobody wrote down the cats.

Would you have brought one aboard?

One thing the Ottoni study left open: whether these Egyptian and Near Eastern cats arrived in a single wave or spread gradually across multiple journeys over centuries. The genetic data points to a slow maritime dispersal, ship by ship, port by port, across the Viking world.

#drthehistories

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A single bird has just accomplished one of the most extraordinary feats in the animal kingdom — flying nearly one-third of the way around the Earth without stopping to eat, drink, or rest.

The record-breaker is a five-month-old Bar-tailed Godwit that flew nonstop from Alaska to Tasmania, Australia. Covering 8,425 miles in just over 11 days, it set a new record for the longest nonstop flight ever documented in any bird.

What makes this journey even more astonishing is that it was the young godwit’s very first migration. The entire route took place over the open Pacific Ocean, with no chance to land. Despite that, the bird navigated thousands of miles of featureless water with pinpoint accuracy.

This incredible endurance is made possible by remarkable physiological adaptations. Before takeoff, the godwit packs on enormous fat reserves — nearly half its body weight — to fuel the flight. At the same time, many of its internal organs, including parts of the digestive system, temporarily shrink to lighten the load and maximize energy efficiency.

Unlike many seabirds that depend heavily on gliding, this godwit flapped continuously for the entire journey, battling shifting winds and weather systems the whole way.

Researchers at the Pūkōroro Auckland Shorebird Centre say discoveries like this are transforming our understanding of migratory birds. Their astonishing endurance, navigation skills, and energy management demonstrate biological capabilities that can match — and in some ways surpass — even the most advanced human engineering.

[Maarten Bakker @maartenbakkerch]

Werkelijk onbestaanbaar en verschrikkelijk verhaal. Dit kan echt niet in ons land. Dit gewelddadige gedrag op straat is volstrekt onacceptabel.

[Wierd Duk ܦܝܪܬ ܕܘܟ @wierdduk]

Ik hoor Rob Jetten zeggen dat het 'veel te lang duurt voordat statushouders een woning krijgen'. Ik schreef net dit verhaal: https://t.co/YNECvxieuA

[J. van Vliet 🇳🇱 @johanvan_vliet]

Pas op voor de mediabrede bagatellisering van het nieuwe WODC-rapport. Ze zullen zeggen dat “de meeste asielzoekers niet verdacht zijn van een misdrijf” of dat de stijging van incidenten “in lijn is met de groei van het aantal asielzoekers”.

Hier de feiten die wél impact hebben op u en uw geliefden.

Het aantal seksuele misdrijven door asielzoekers is in 6 jaar tijd bijna verdubbeld. Elke 3 dagen wordt in Nederland een vrouw slachtoffer van seksueel geweld door een asielzoeker.

Ruim 2 keer per dag wordt iemand mishandeld door een asielzoeker. Dat is meer dan het dubbele vergeleken met enkele jaren geleden.

In 2025 zijn minimaal 7 mensen vermoord door een asielzoeker, en bijna 100 anderen hebben een poging tot moord overleefd.

Let op: deze cijfers zijn een forse onderschatting. Ze zijn nog niet gecorrigeerd voor de lage pakkans (bij verreweg de meeste misdrijven wordt niemand gepakt) en de lage meldingsbereidheid (niet iedereen doet aangifte).

Wellicht nog belangrijker: deze cijfers gaan alleen over asielzoekers die nog in COA-opvang verblijven. Ze staan volledig los van alle misdrijven die gepleegd worden door asielmigranten die al een status hebben en in een eigen woning wonen. Het werkelijke probleem is dus nóg véél groter.

[Vivscontent @vivscontent]

Sloopmelk?

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Coincidence? I don't think so.

For nearly 500 years, hundreds of millions of people looked at the most famous painting of God ever made, and none of them noticed what was hiding in plain sight.

Then, in 1990, a doctor looked up at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and realized that God is wrapped inside a human brain...

The painting is Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, finished around 1512. You know the image even if you don't know its name: God reaching out from the heavens, His finger almost touching Adam's, the spark of life about to leap across the gap.

But look at the shape around God, the swirling red cloak that holds Him and the angels aloft. For five centuries it was seen as just a billowing robe... but in 1990, a physician named Frank Lynn Meshberger published a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association arguing that the red shroud is something else entirely: an anatomically precise cross-section of the human brain.

Once you see it, you cannot unsee it.

The outline of the cloak traces the outer curve of the brain. A fold in the fabric forms the Sylvian fissure, the deep groove that separates the brain's major lobes. The angel curled beneath God is positioned exactly where the brainstem would be, and the green scarf trailing down becomes the vertebral artery. Even the pituitary gland and the optic chiasm, where the nerves from the eyes cross, fall precisely into place.

This was not a man likely to invent such a thing by accident. Michelangelo had spent his youth secretly dissecting human corpses in a monastery in Florence, studying the body from the inside with an obsessiveness that, by one early account, exceeded that of professional anatomists...

So what did he mean by it?

Meshberger argued that the painting has been misnamed. He suggested it should be called not the Creation of Adam, but the Endowment of Adam. In the Bible, God gives Adam life. But in Michelangelo's fresco, Adam is already alive, his eyes open, his body lifted. What God is reaching across that famous gap to give him is not life. It is intellect. The divine spark of human thought itself, delivered, fittingly, from inside the very organ that produces it.

One of the most looked-at images in the history of the world may contain a message that took half a millennium to be read, hidden by a man who understood both the human body and the human soul better than almost anyone who has ever lived, and who seems to have decided to bury his deepest idea about us where only the most careful eye would ever find it...

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

Prince was such a massive fan of THE MUPPETS, he asked if he could host the Muppets Tonight show in 1997, leading to one of the rare instances we saw a more comedic version of himself instead of the quiet and reserved persona fans were used to 😂👏

[Robbert Leusink 🇳🇱 @robbertleusink]

Miffy was designed using the formal vocabulary of Mondrian and De Stijl

Dick Bruna created her in Utrecht in 1955 for his own son

The grid of pure colours and geometric forms is a direct application of Dutch modernist design principles

She appears in 95 countries

The most widely distributed Dutch cultural export of the twentieth century is a work of high modernist art

Nobody reads it that way

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

How old would you say this little boy is? Two? Maybe three at most?

Watch as a Muslim man, possibly his father, gives him a knife and shows him how to stab someone.

The dialect sounds Levantine, very likely Gaza or Samaria.

It’s just so tragic how they indoctrinate their children from almost birth.

How can one ever live in peace with these people?

[Franca @BarbFranc]

@PsyGuy007 😥

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Eileen Blair, from South Shields, UK, was believed to have had a large influence on her husband George Orwell's writing. 'Nineteen Eighty-Four's title and idea is thought to be based on one of her poems - 'End of the Century, 1984' #womensart

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

John Lennon wrote a beautiful song about socialism.

“Imagine no possessions” he told us.

He also:
– helped write his band’s anti-tax anthem, Taxman
– incorporated his IP holdings
– moved to a lower-tax country
– fiercely protected his royalties
- drove two Rolls Royce’s and had multiple luxury homes.
– made sure even the royalty cheques for Imagine were kept safe for his estate so his family would remain wealthy in perpetuity.

If he believed it, he’d have lived it. The trouble with socialism is that even the people who love the idea won’t run the experiment on themselves.

John Lennon writing Imagine while owning two Rolls Royce Phantoms and later having a law suit to protect his royalties tells you all you need to know about socialism in practice.

It doesn’t work outside of the imagination.

[Sander Sassen @SanderSassen]

Mag ik u even mee terug nemen naar 1975, de lange hete zomer? Kijkt u met mij mee hoe onbezorgd en totaal anders Nederland er toen uitzag terwijl de Nederlander overal verkoeling zocht voor de zinderende zomerhitte.

#zomer #onweer #hitte #warm #klimaat

[Stonehenge U.K @ST0NEHENGE]

Stonehenge summer Solstice Celebration 2026 🙏❤️

[Max von Kreyfelt @MaxVonKreyfelt]

Waarom moest en zou er geprikt worden?

Even de balans opmaken.

Eerst kwamen de profeten. Schwab met zijn penetratie van regeringen. Gates met zijn rekensommetjes over vaccinatie en bevolkingsgroei. Daarna kwam de oefening. Daarna het virus. Daarna de angst. En daarna de machine.

Vliegtuigen bleven vliegen, maar oma mocht niet naar de begrafenis. Griep verdween als sneeuw voor de zon, maar de avondklok verscheen alsof Nederland ineens een openluchtgevangenis was. Mondkapjes, QR-codes, afstand houden, terrassen als controleposten, demonstranten als staatsgevaarlijken.

Wie vragen stelde, werd verdacht. Wie behandelde, werd bedreigd. Wie demonstreerde, kreeg de wapenstok. Wie documenten opvroeg, kreeg zwarte lak. Wie schade meldde, kreeg stilte.

Miljarden verdwenen bij VWS. De NCTV bleek meer macht te hebben dan men ooit democratisch had besproken. Influencers werden ingezet. Oppositie werd gemanaged. Artsen werden kaltgestellt. Burgers werden bestraft voor meningen.

En nu, jaren later, komt de parlementaire enquête met voorgekookte vragen, beperkte inzage en een net pak om de doofpot. Alsof het land niet is getraumatiseerd, maar slechts “lessen” moet trekken.

Dan zegt Gommers ineens dat het virus voor mensen onder de 75 helemaal niet zo gevaarlijk was. Pardon? Datzelfde virus werd wel tot A-ziekte verheven. Op basis daarvan werd een hele samenleving opengebroken.

Dokter Elens wordt aangepakt. Lareb houdt data achter. Hartproblemen nemen toe. Jongeren vallen om. Oversterfte blijft hangen als een donkere wolk boven het land. En nog steeds mag de kernvraag niet gesteld worden:

waarom moest en zou er koste wat kost geprikt worden?

Niet: waarom werd er geadviseerd?
Niet: waarom werd er aangeboden?
Maar: waarom werd er geduwd, gedreigd, uitgesloten, geïntimideerd en gechanteerd?

De conclusie wordt onontkoombaar: dit was geen gezondheidsbeleid meer. Dit was een militaire machtsoperatie met medische verpakking.

En als blijkt dat bestuurders, artsen, ambtenaren, mediafiguranten en farmaceutische belangen bewust hebben meegeduwd aan een campagne die schade heeft veroorzaakt, dan hoort daar geen talkshowtafel bij.

Dan hoort daar zwaar professioneel verhoor bij.

Onder ede.

Met originele stukken.

En zonder zwarte lak.

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[Franca @BarbFranc]

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