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Mostly history and science.

[Einherjar_manga @didrikmagnusand]

The people of the Central Kingdom, or Šar (“the Kingdom”), as they simply call it, dwell far from their elven overlords near the court at Hurriaä. This distance grants them greater freedom, but little concern from their masters, whose demands for taxes are unending.

[_taklamakan @genbudang]

@WilliamJosephh @POLREWK0M *I am a cancerous cell waiting for my moment, kurwa

[barry with the NED @bonzerbarry]

Fast forward to israel becoming the world's second largest exporter of cyber products, Pegasus developer NSO Group has established relationships with hundreds of foreign governments to distribute its zero-click spyware that has overwhelmingly been used to target human rights lawyers, activists, journalists and political opposition for repression, and often times murder.

A former Haaretz tech reporter claimed "The power of NSO is not in the money that it makes but in diplomacy: When Israel is selling cybersurveillance to some African country, they can assure their vote at the United Nations. Since there's an occupation, we need the votes".

[Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani]

Worth noting that Huntington considered the likelihood of violence over Crimea to be 'low', + explicitly suggested Russia vs Ukraine as a test for his theory. If theory has any predictive value at all, then Russia and Ukraine will probably not be fighting each other, said he

[WARE_bluefield @WARE_bluefield]

By the way, the stereotypes that Japanese people work themselves to death ('Karoshi') and live in 'rabbit hutches' (tiny houses) are completely outdated images of modern Japan.

[л @yetoshi24]

An account of a Shia cult in southern Italy made up of Italians who converted to Shi'ism after reading the works of Julius Evola regarding both Evola and Khomeini as the last true "mujahids."

[Zoso 🇺🇳(🇮🇶) @MesoAnglic]

A lot of people view (geo-)politics as a way to play around with dolls. This especially applies to anything involving China (as I have said multiple times) but you can expand it to most things, really.

[Mir Wokewala @mirchond]

@LeGrisian I’m liking Carter Vaughn Findley’s book so far. He writes good prose and strikes a good balance between narrating political history and describing other trends and themes of Ottoman history. I also liked his book about modern Turkish history.

[Mir Wokewala @mirchond]

There are a good number of English-language general histories of the Ottoman Empire nowadays.

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

"Zemlyane" band, USSR TV, 1983.

[_taklamakan @genbudang]

@loongshih He better give the generalissimo the historically correct amount of aura.

[_taklamakan @genbudang]

Read this for the ‘mid 20th century Egyptian sensitive young man’ experience

[lena dunham’s third plastic surgeon @intentionalisms]

Being in the midcentury Middle East must’ve given everyone a 1500s german messianic peasant revolt level high. Every country seemed to be on a linear road to modernization; both the conservative Arab monarchies and Nasserists were dedicated to aurafarming. The Suez just proved you could administer the most important global trade chokepoint of the period to great success. Archaic religious practices were consistently disappearing. It was just W after W on every aspect except Israel. Oh to be an upper middle class Egyptian sensitive young man, smoking cigarettes and conspiring for political advancement in a the unbearable heat of a Cairo salon

[_taklamakan @genbudang]

@intentionalisms Have you read Naguib Mahfouz?

[Animation Obsessive @ani_obsessive]

From: Wolf and Calf (1984), dir. Mikhail Kamenetskiy, Soyuzmultfilm

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

"Fourth-grade mechanic A. Liberzon reading the Soviet Yiddish newspaper "Birobidzhaner Shtern". Photo by Viktor Akhlomov, Jewish Autonomous Region, USSR, 1991.

[_taklamakan @genbudang]

@PhattGreg @TGTM_Official “Kiwifruit is native to central and eastern China”

[_taklamakan @genbudang]

@Gompers_Stomper The DDR was Wakanda for white people.

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

While modern amphibians start life in a larval stage, a new fossil study in Science suggests these tadpole-like stages were not present in earlier times.

Learn more: https://t.co/yYkwa1Jl4F

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

Electronic musical instrument orchestra, USSR TV, 1964