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[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

They're calling it the most relatable diary entry of all time

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇷🇺 Russian robot tries to attack customer after he pushed it.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Are we actually living through the most chaotic era in human history, or are we just the first generation with social media forced to watch every tragedy on earth unfold in real time, and the world has always been this dark, we were just never close enough to see it?

[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

Your depression isn't a disease, it's your soul's rebellion against a culture that has forgotten how to nourish the human spirit. Your anxiety isn't a disorder, it's your nervous system's intelligent response to a world that has become hostile to authentic connection.

The healing isn't in their offices, their pills, or their diagnoses. The healing is in remembering that you were born to love and be loved, and that your sensitivity is a gift, not a disorder.

[borderfine @borderfine1]

@Rainmaker1973 how about them transginger dogs?

[Blunt @Shinamuller]

Because Iran is throwing missiles at Jordan right now, you need to know something first. Jordan did not grow out of the ground like an old country. It was stitched together in a hotel in Cairo in March 1921 by a handful of British officials who needed a cheap solution and a quiet map.
The Ottoman Empire had just collapsed. Britain was sitting on Mesopotamia, Palestine, and a big empty stretch of desert east of the Jordan River. Keeping troops there cost a fortune. Winston Churchill, then Colonial Secretary, called a meeting at the Semiramis Hotel. They joked they were the forty thieves. Gertrude Bell was the only woman in the room who actually knew the tribes and the roads. T. E. Lawrence was there. Sir Percy Cox came from Baghdad with the files.
They needed Arab kings who would take British money and not demand a giant army. Faisal, son of the Sharif of Mecca, got Iraq. His older brother Abdullah needed a prize too, otherwise the family would sulk. So they gave him the leftover desert and called it Transjordan. Churchill later said he created the place on a Sunday afternoon with a stroke of a pen. That is not poetry. That is how the country entered the world.
Abdullah became emir, then king. The British paid him, trained his force, and used the land as a buffer. After independence the Hashemite throne stayed. Decades later American aircraft and missile batteries moved onto Jordanian air bases because the same strip of desert sits in a useful place between Iraq, Syria, Israel, and the Gulf. King Hussein Air Base. Al Azraq. Muwaffaq Salti. Names on a modern war map that sit on ground first outlined in that Cairo dining room.
So when Iranian missiles fly toward those bases, they are not hitting some ancient kingdom that chose this fight in the year 700. They are hitting a state invented to save British cash and keep two Hashemite brothers employed. The joke is old and it is not funny anymore. A hotel table made the border. The border hosted the bases. The bases drew the missiles. That is the whole chain.
Read it once more if you have to. Cairo, March 1921. Cheap kings. A Sunday map. A country that still has to catch steel that was aimed at someone else’s war.

[Federico Italiano @FedeItaliano76]

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893), perhaps the greatest painter of the night

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

🎬 A must-watch documentary
on how militarism, extractivism & technology turn entire regions into intoxicated pacified fiefdoms for exploitation. Palestine and every Indigenous people resisting, are crushed the same way.
https://t.co/N7HXRJ02jj
https://t.co/6V2StnZahx

[borderfine @borderfine1]

@Rainmaker1973 When they said: "All we are is dust in the wind", they were not lying, ey?

[Alternative News @AlternatNews]

When the USSR dissolved, Ukraine was the richest part with the world’s best fertile soil, a developed industry, army and 52 million inhabitants.

In just one generation, Ukraine threw it all away. They started to antagonize Russia and Russia stopped buying Ukrainian goods.

Even the world’s best freighter aircraft manufacturer Antonov went bankrupt.

Then Ukraine threw away the deal of free gas for transporting Russian gas to Europe.

Then they ruined the entire industry, lost 4 provinces to Russia and could no longer live on the taxes they collect. They are an eternal support case.

The 52 million inhabitants are now 25 million. Many emigrated and millions left in 2022. Half are old and will die soon. With a fertility rate under 1 per woman, Ukraine will be down to 15 million soon.

After one generation the most successful country lies in ruins.

People in Ukraine will forever ask “what possessed us?”. The answer is Europe. The EU used Ukraine to unite around a common enemy, to strengthen central command and control.

Disgusting!

[borderfine @borderfine1]

@AstronomyVibes No, it does not. But my knowledge is extremely limited.

[Bob 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 Living in occupied Scotland @asimov200]

I think Caitlin speaks for most of us.

[Astronomy Vibes @AstronomyVibes]

The Brightest Star in Our Night Sky: Sirius 🔭✨

Located in the constellation Canis Major, Sirius shines as the brightest star visible from Earth. It’s actually a binary system: Sirius A, a massive, brilliant main-sequence star, and Sirius B, a faint white dwarf orbiting it. At just 8.6 light-years away, it’s one of our closest stellar neighbors.

[borderfine @borderfine1]

@Rainmaker1973 mom

[borderfine @borderfine1]

@OlgaBazova nasty fucks

[SlavicPatriot @infantserbian]

Before social media, America got away with everything.

Serbia 1999: NATO bombed for 78 days. Hit hospitals, bridges, TV stations. Killed 500+ civilians. Called it humanitarian intervention. No international outrage. No sanctions. No protests.

Iraq 2003: Invaded on lies about WMDs. 200,000+ civilians dead. Entire cities leveled. Abu Ghraib torture photos. No consequences.

Afghanistan 2001-2021: 20 years. 46,000+ civilians killed. Left the country to collapse overnight. No one prosecuted.

Libya 2011: Turned the richest country in Africa into a failed state with open slave markets. Called it protecting civilians.

Syria: Armed rebel groups. Bombed government forces. Prolonged a civil war that killed 500,000. Still occupying oil fields.

Millions dead across all these wars. Not one NATO member faced sanctions. Not one Western leader went to The Hague. Not one protest movement changed policy.

Why? Because there was no Twitter in 1999. No TikTok in 2003. Just CNN, BBC, and newspapers all reading from the same script. By the time anyone questioned it, the bombs had already fallen and the narrative was set.

Now suddenly Ukraine is the defining moral issue of our time?

The same West that called Ukraine the most corrupt country in Europe before 2022 now treats it as sacred ground. Trump himself said it. Every Western media outlet reported it. Then Russia invaded and overnight Ukraine became a democracy worth defending.

They don't care about Ukraine. They never did.

What they care about is this: if Russia wins, the unipolar world ends. The new multipolar order begins. And suddenly every territorial dispute the West "resolved" by force becomes negotiable again.

Kosovo gets put back on the table. Crimea becomes a settled issue. Every country that got bombed into submission by NATO starts asking uncomfortable questions about who actually has legitimacy.

That's the real war. Not saving Ukraine. Saving the system where America decides which borders matter and which ones don't.

I watched them destroy my country with no pushback in 1999. I know exactly how this game works. The difference now? Everyone can see it happening in real time. And they're running out of ways to hide the pattern.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

If you find yourself asking why isn’t the world doing something to stop the genocide in Gaza and you have not spoken up, they are taking your silence as approval. Whether you’ve 2 or 2 million followers speak up FFS!
Silence is complicity.

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

An object whose brightness defies science has been discovered in space. 🤔

Scientists have discovered an object in space whose brightness defies current scientific understanding.

It shines 570 billion times brighter than the Sun. Its light is 20 times brighter than our galaxy, including all its stars and planets.

The object, ASASSN-15lh, is located 3.8 billion light-years from Earth. Astrophysicists are still unable to understand what could have produced such powerful energy—unusual even for a supernova.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Revolutionary optimism is a skill that you learn over time. Like any other skill, it takes practice to get good at it. Like any other skill, it can seem very difficult when you first start trying.

Before you’re well-practiced in the skill of revolutionary optimism, things can look pretty hopeless. The doors to revolutionary change seem to be closed and bolted shut on every front. Electoral politics delivers disappointment after disappointment. Our society is full of selfish, sedentary, propaganda-addled bootlickers who will defend the status quo even when it goes against their own material interests. The bread and circuses remain effective at keeping everyone just full enough and distracted enough to keep them turning the gears of the empire for their masters.

Nobody comes out of the box knowing how to maintain their optimism when all their efforts continue to fail. Nobody is born with the skill of keeping hope alive even as the planet dies, as everything gets shittier and shittier, and as our civilization gets more and more dystopian.

It takes practice. Like anything else, until you have practiced, you’re probably going to suck at it.

But as Jake the Dog says, sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something.

And you’re going to have to get sorta good at it, because the alternative is to lie down and let the bastards get their way.

They want us to believe resistance is futile. They want us to believe that change is impossible, that the fight is unwinnable, that the machine is unbeatable, that the AI surveillance data centers are inevitable, that the wars and genocides will continue no matter what we do. The easiest battle is one your enemy never attempts to wage.

We can’t just hand that to them. We’ve got to keep trying to find ways to win. And we’re not going to keep trying to find ways to win if we have been successfully seduced by the siren’s song of pessimism.

And its song can be seductive. Being pessimistic is pleasing to the ego because it lets you feel cool and right about everything, since things do tend to go the way of the ones currently holding the power. Being the dark, brooding know-it-all who holds all the correct opinions while scoffing at everyone’s efforts to win this thing is a lot easier than being the bright-eyed hope fiend who faces loss after loss and disappointment after disappointment. It’s egoically comfortable, like choosing to support the team you know will always win.

But all the best things in life sit on the other side of discomfort. This is true whether you’re talking about revolution, romance, healing, art, or enlightenment.

So practice optimism.

Refuse to be deflated.

Find reasons to hope.

Study history and learn about the many times revolution has succeeded and ruling power structures have been overthrown.

Study current events and learn about the many ways in which our rulers are losing their grip.

Find that spark within you that can keep pushing onward no matter what happens.

Discover that burning defiance which knows you fight fascists not because you will win but because they are fascists.

Do your inner work until you have enough spaciousness to maintain persistent effort.

Create internal stability so you can continue without collapsing when things get hard.

Set your intention to cultivate optimism, and then practice it every day.

The world depends on it.

No pressure.

[Rina Lu🇷🇺 @rinalu_]

Wars are fought twice: first on the battlefield, then in the way they are remembered.

If you believe Americans won WWII, you've already lost the second war. If Hitler is the only monster you know, you've lost again.

The real villains were behind Hitler. See them, and you still have a chance to win the war a second time.