Aesculus

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

[Aesculus @Florint04]

@Khaledhzakariah As an immigrant to America, I cannot relate to what you're saying. Everyone who came here and follows the laws is an American. Sure, we have our ancestral ethnicity, and we express it through food, music, festivals, but we are all Americans together. Why cause ethnic division?

[LiorLefineder @lefineder]

A collection of graffiti from Pompeii:

Gaius Pumidius Dipilus was here on October 3.

Publius Comicius Restitutus stood here with his brother.

Aemilius Celer lives here.

A benevolent god dwells here in this house.

Burglar, watch out!

This is no place for idlers. On your way, loafer.

Ampliatus Pedania is a thief.

Albanus is a bugger.

Atimetus got me pregnant.

Stronnius is a know-nothing.

I don't want to sell my husband.

Gaius Julius Primigenius was here.

Why are you late?

Let anyone who invites me to dinner prosper.

I have a head cold.

On April 19 I baked bread.

We were here, two dear friends, comrades forever. lf you want to know our names, they are Gaius and Aulus.

Epaphra is not a ball-player.

Learn this well: While I am alive, you are my enemy, Death.

When you are dead, you are nothing.

Nothing lasts forever. After the sun shines brightly, it sinks into the ocean. The moon which was recently full, wanes. A strong wind often becomes a gentle breeze.

Marcus loves Spendusa.

Serena hates Isidore.

Thyas, don't love Fortunatus.

Sarra, you're not acting very nicely, leaving me all alone.

Restitutus has deceived many girls many times.

I have screwed many girls here.

When I came here, I screwed. Then I returned home.

Let him who loves, prosper. Let him who loves not, perish. And let him who forbids others to love, perish twice over.

Let him who chastises lovers try to fetter the winds and block the endless flow of water from a spring.

Lovers, like bees, lead a honey-sweet life.

If you are able, but not willing, why do you promise pleasures and kindle hope and always tell me to come back tomorrow? Go ahead, force me to die, since you force me to live without you. It will certainly be a kindness to end my torment.

I am amazed, o wall, that you have not collapsed and fallen, since you must bear the tedious stupidities of so many scrawlers.

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

Trump wanted to start his week in front of the cameras, flying to New York for the United Nations General Assembly. Instead, the five major television networks, Fox News included, have refused to serve as his press pool in solidarity with the outlets he banned, which means no television pool will be following him today. CNN, MS NOW and Politico are suing to get back into the White House, and Trump answered by posting that he cherishes the free press while calling the news media a cancer. The House majority leader went on national television to defend the ban and got fact-checked twice, once on air and once by Elon Musk’s own chatbot. And New York Attorney General Letitia James is refusing to let Trump’s billionaire friend take control of CNN without guarantees that it stays independent. Read it all in the Really American Substack: https://t.co/lfD6nLKfpB

[World's Amazing Things @Hana_b30]

1,400-YEAR-OLD ANGEL OAK TREE.
A legendary Southern live oak in Charleston with a canopy stretching 160 feet wide. A true survivor of centuries of storms and time.

[Los Árboles Mágicos ®️, (by Oscar Gaitan) @arboles_magicos]

Esto no es una cueva. Es un árbol. Las ramas del haya llorona de Bayeux han descendido hasta el suelo y levantado una catedral viva de más de 40 metros de diámetro. Lleva 160 años creciendo en Normandía y, cuando cruzas su copa, no visitas un árbol, entras en él.

📸Maksim Shutov

[Humans of Judaism @HumansOfJudaism]

This year, Leonard Cohen’s birthday falls on Yom Kippur. Cohen was born in Montreal on September 21, 1934. By 1973, Cohen was a poet, songwriter and international star. 🧵

[Aesculus @Florint04]

@HistorylandHQ While the rest of the Russian population starved, were 75% illiterate, he encouraged pogroms against Jews, shot cats for fun, played tennis with his British royal cousins, and had not a care in the world.

[Aesculus @Florint04]

❤️🫡

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

American military police tried to impose a colour bar on an English village in 1943.

The village's three pubs responded by putting up signs reading: BLACK TROOPS ONLY. Bamber Bridge, Lancashire.

Black American soldiers were stationed there and the locals liked them. When the US Army asked the village to segregate its pubs, the publicans complied in the most English way available — by barring the white Americans instead.

On the night of 24 June 1943, white American MPs came to arrest a Black soldier at Ye Olde Hob Inn for a uniform infraction. British civilians and British soldiers in the pub intervened and told them to leave him alone.

It escalated into a night of shooting between Black GIs and American MPs. One Black soldier, William Crossland, was killed.

Dozens were court-martialed. British witnesses testified about the MPs' conduct, and sentences were reduced. The US Army quietly reorganised how MPs were deployed in the area.

An English village looked at American segregation, understood it immediately, and refused to host it.
The pub is still there. The sign is part of local legend.

[Aesculus @Florint04]

@TipOfTheBanana How is this poison even legal? 🫥

[Aesculus @Florint04]

@creepydotorg Not evil, but extremely crazy. Should stay in a mental hospital forever, like Andrea Yates.

[Aesculus @Florint04]

😂😂😂

[That Guy With The French Accent @BenoistPoire]

Dude… 😆

[Aesculus @Florint04]

@maxjazzz 😢😢😢

[Макс "такс такс" Джаз @maxjazzz]

Жили-были, варили кашу, закрывали на зиму банки.
Как и все, становились старше. На балконе хранили санки,
под кроватью коробки с пылью и звездой с новогодней ёлки.
В общем, в принципе - не тужили. С расстановочкой жили, с толком.

Берегли на особый случай платье бархатное с разрезом,
два флакона духов от гуччи, фетра красного пол-отреза,
шесть красивых хрустальных рюмок и бутылку китайской водки.
А в одной из спортивных сумок надувную хранили лодку.

Время шло, выцветало платье, потихоньку желтели рюмки,
и в коробочке под кроватью угасала звезда от скуки.
Фетр моль потихоньку ела,
лодка сохла и рассыпалась.
И змея, заскучав без дела,
в водке медленно растворялась.
Санки ржавились и рыжели. Испарялся закрытый гуччи.
Жили, были, и постарели, и всё ждали особый случай.

Он пришёл, как всегда, внезапно.
Мыла окна, и поскользнулась.
В тот же день, он упал с инфарктом.
В этот дом они не вернулись.

Две хрустальные рюмки с водкой,
сверху хлеб, по квартире ветер.
Полным ходом идёт уборка,
убираются в доме дети.

На помойку уходят санки,
сумка с лодкой, дырявый фетр.
Платьем, вывернув наизнанку,
протирают за метром метр

подкроватные толщи пыли.
В куче с хламом - духи от гуччи.
Вот для этого жили-были.
Вот такой вот "особый случай".

[Aesculus @Florint04]

Wake up, America! All the checks and balances are crumbling before our eyes. 😢

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump claimed he's "banning the free press" and added "we're repressive also" when asked about China's lack of press freedoms during bonkers Oval Office event where he struggled to stay awake, demanded kids get five vaccine shots instead of one, and rambled incoherently in response to basic questions

Here's a supercut:

[Lucythegreat @lucythegreat123]

It is ironic that as we move into our holiest day of Yom Kippur I am ruminating on the Christian prayer of St. Francis, but it has always spoken to me that it is better to understand than to be understood.

Bless those of you who see us, see our pain, see our love and devotion and love us through it. In the almost 3 years since October 7th it has become abundantly clear that this is only possible for the absolute best of humanity, which, if you are reading this with an open heart, you undoubtedly are.

For my own sanity, I need to pray to accept we will never be understood by most. The only thing that truly matters now is that the land of Israel is safe and secure, the Jewish people live on, and that not a single hostage living or dead remains in Gaza. That tangible reality is far more important than the spiritual support or love of the rest of the world. It has to be.

G'mar Chatimah Tovah, may you all be sealed in the Book of Life.

[Aesculus @Florint04]

@Podslyshano 😍👍 ❤️ It sounds perfect!

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

Your friends on Sesame Street wish you a meaningful Yom Kippur 💛

[The Insider @the_ins_ru]

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