Ceman-汤凯旋-🇭🇰🇹🇼🇺🇲🇦🇪

pistachios are amazing.

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

This is Shotaro Odate, the famous chief engineer of Honda.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is a statue of the only man in Troy who saw the trap. He tried to warn everyone, and this is what the gods did to him because of it...

His name was Laocoön, a Trojan priest. When the Greek army vanished and left a giant wooden horse outside the city gates, all of Troy celebrated. Only Laocoön refused to believe it. He warned his people the horse was a trick and, to prove it was hollow, hurled his spear into its side.

In Virgil's telling, he spoke a line that has outlasted almost everything else about Troy: "I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts."

He was right. The horse was packed with soldiers, and Troy was hours from destruction.

This sculpture shows what he got for it. Two enormous sea serpents rise out of the sea and coil around him and his young sons, dragging all three down together. The father's whole body is knotted in the struggle, every muscle straining, his face locked in a scream. The gods wanted Troy to fall, and Laocoön was in the way.

The Trojans watched him die in agony and drew exactly the wrong conclusion: they decided the gods were punishing him for attacking a holy gift. So they pulled the horse inside their own walls, and that night, Troy burned...

The statue is called Laocoön and His Sons. It is the work of three Greek sculptors from the island of Rhodes, Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus, and dates to the Hellenistic period, making it well over two thousand years old.

Buried for more than a thousand years, it was dug out of a Roman vineyard in 1506, and Michelangelo rushed across Rome to see it the day it was found.

It has been called the single greatest depiction of human suffering in the history of art, but it endures because of what it is really about: the man who sees the truth, says it out loud, and is destroyed for being right while the crowd watches...

It is one of the oldest patterns there is, and it has never stopped repeating.

There is nothing new under the sun.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Islamic State terrorists killed Yazidi children in front of their mothers.

They would rape and starve the mothers for days, then kill the children, cook their bodies, and serve the flesh mixed with rice so the mothers would unknowingly eat their own babies.

Most of the women committed suicide once they found out.

Everyone in the Muslim world knew this was happening, but not a single Muslim or Palestinian activist protested for the Yazidis!

[Ceman-汤凯旋-🇭🇰🇹🇼🇺🇲🇦🇪 @inocuae]

@the_christnats They need to just start bashing these monkeys heads against the concrete dude.

[Ceman-汤凯旋-🇭🇰🇹🇼🇺🇲🇦🇪 @inocuae]

@RMXnews That made my blood boil. I hate them

[Caine @CircusSSCaine]

now feels like a good time to recirculate this.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

People in Seattle thought they had spotted a chupacabra, only to discover it was a raccoon suffering from a rare congenital condition. His name is Jimothy

[Carolyn Rockey @CarolynWRockey]

Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.

-Wilderness Whisper

[Ice Universe @UniverseIce]

These two guys are definitely having nightmares tonight.

Basically, this Russian training accident happened because someone took a rotary machine gun from a helicopter and treated it like a normal ground gun.

The YakB-12.7 was originally made for the Mi-24 attack helicopter. It has brutal recoil, and the forces it produces are nothing like a regular machine gun. On a helicopter, the airframe and mount can absorb that madness.

But once you slap it onto a simple ground setup, it suddenly develops a personality.

You think you’re controlling the gun, then it starts controlling you.

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

For over a thousand years, historians thought the Viking "sunstone" was nothing more than a myth, until the ocean gave up its secret...

The Norse sagas repeatedly referenced a mysterious object called a "sólarsteinn" or sunstone, a navigational tool so powerful that Viking sailors could locate the exact position of the sun even on the most overcast and cloudy days. For centuries, scholars debated whether this was real technology or simply folklore embellished over generations of retelling. Most assumed it was legend. They were wrong.

In 2013, marine archaeologists excavating a British warship that sank near the Channel Islands in 1592 made a stunning discovery buried among the wreckage. Alongside navigational instruments including a pair of dividers and a slate, they found a rectangular chunk of translucent crystal. Testing confirmed it was Iceland spar, a remarkably pure form of calcite with extraordinary optical properties. The fact that it was found stored alongside other precision navigation tools was not a coincidence.

Iceland spar possesses a property called birefringence, meaning it splits a single beam of light entering the crystal into two separate beams. When you hold the crystal up toward the sky and slowly rotate it, the two beams will vary in brightness independently until, at one specific angle of rotation, they become perfectly equal in intensity. That precise angle points directly toward the sun, regardless of whether the sun is visible to the naked eye. Cloud cover, fog, and even twilight conditions cannot defeat it.

Researchers from the University of Rennes in France conducted extensive testing and published their findings in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A. Their experiments demonstrated that Iceland spar could locate the sun's position with an accuracy of within one degree, even under completely overcast skies. For Viking navigators crossing the North Atlantic toward Iceland, Greenland, and eventually North America, this accuracy would have meant the difference between a successful voyage and sailing hopelessly off course into open ocean.

The Viking Age spanned roughly 793 to 1066 AD, and during this period Norse sailors were completing oceanic crossings that would not be replicated by other European cultures for another 400 years. Historians had long puzzled over how they achieved such consistent navigational precision without magnetic compasses, which did not reach Europe until the 12th century. The sunstone appears to be a significant part of that answer.

What makes the Channel Islands find especially compelling is that the 1592 shipwreck is far outside the traditional Viking era, suggesting that knowledge of this navigational technique survived and was still being used by European sailors centuries after the Viking Age officially ended. The crystal was not a relic or a curiosity on that ship. It was working equipment.

The sagas specifically describe King Olaf consulting a sunstone on a cloudy day to verify the position of the sun, with a separate observation then confirming the stone's accuracy. For generations this was dismissed as poetic invention. Science has now confirmed that every element of that description is physically possible and practically achievable with a simple piece of Icelandic calcite.

The Vikings were not lucky explorers stumbling across new lands by accident. They were sophisticated navigators armed with technology so elegant and effective that it required no moving parts, no maintenance, and no power source beyond the sky itself.

📷 : the original calcite crystal alongside Elizabethan navigation dividers next to a cannon

Alderney Museum

#archaeohistories

[CAMELCAST OFFICIAL @CAMELCASTOff]

Just imagine if Mel Gibson did The Odyssey

[Quattro (Weiss's Husband) @QuattroMKII]

A statement that can only be made by the historically ignorant.

Before Christians took over the Roman Empire, it was normal for Roman parents to dispose of unwanted babies (of which were mostly daughters) by simply dumping them on trash heaps. This was a practice known as 'exposure'. If babies didn't outright die, they'd be picked up by brothel owners or slavers to be turned into products for profit.

Many Christians adopted these unwanted children as their own. Because many of these children were girls, and because the conditions they grew up in weren't very fortunate, early Christianity developed a reputation for being a religion for women and poor people.

It wouldn't be until Christian Emperors like Constantine that the practice of exposure was finally equated to murder.

So yes, Christians did invent most of what we know as "Basic Human Morality" as we know it today. You stand on the shoulders of giants but are too arrogant to look down and see where your feet are planted.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

The fire alarm accidentally went off while this football team was training in the gym. Firefighters showed up, made sure everything was good, and then one of them decided to hop on the bench and start repping 225. The entire gym went insane.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Anti-ICE free palestine activist who moved to Ireland to be with her muslim migrant boyfriend, found beaten to death, allegedly by him, in her home.

[Ceman-汤凯旋-🇭🇰🇹🇼🇺🇲🇦🇪 @inocuae]

@MoshiMoshiMoan The censorbot trainer? I wonder whatever came of that if anything. I remember it being a hot button issue around the kumite days.

[Ceman-汤凯旋-🇭🇰🇹🇼🇺🇲🇦🇪 @inocuae]

@MoshiMoshiMoan Wasn't it candid? The thing she was involved in years ago ? I think meth Holiday shilled it too amongst others from the old crowd.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

The Dutch Public Prosecutors Office will seek 8 weeks of prison for the Iraqi asylum seeker Jamal T.

He ran over the 14-year-old Dutch girl Tamar in the summer of 2020 and fled the scene. She died in a nearby ditch.

Initially, the Dutch authorities that it was enough to only serve him a fine of €1500, but the fine remained unpaid as Jamal T. had returned to Germany without leaving an address.

The girl’s mother Trijntje Boes fought for 6 years to get a trial, and hopefully prison time, for the asylum seeker.

She was supported by independent experts and forensic investigators who showed that Tamar's body was moved after the collision.

The police and the Public Prosecutor's Office conducted insufficient investigation.

Trijntje’s niece Melissa, a graduated forensic IT specialist, tracked down the gray Mazda in her own investigation in less than 3 hours. It was a golden tip that the police initially did nothing with.

After nearly 6 years of fighting through her lawyers, the mother finally got the suspect to appear in court. It now remains the be seen whether he will have to serve the full 8 weeks in prison.

The prosecutor has demanded 2 weeks for not paying attention while driving by scrolling on his phone and an additional 6 weeks for fleeing the scene without calling for help.

The case became infamous in the Netherlands after it was revealed that the police had initially told Tamar’s mother that the driver “was from Germany” instead of revealing that it was an Iraqi asylum seeker and that they had later explained their decision by saying that they “didn’t want to create a Geert Wilders moment.”

4 Iraqi asylum seekers were in the car when it hit the young Dutch girl.

[Ceman-汤凯旋-🇭🇰🇹🇼🇺🇲🇦🇪 @inocuae]

@jpsin1 @zerodegreesea He should be removed. He should be removed in whatever way necessary.

[海外の万国反応記 @all_nations2]

定期的に見たくなる日本代表vs小学生100人

[Overton @overton_news]

JUST IN: Director Uwe Boll announces that he is making his film “Citizen Vigilante” free to watch on X for the next 48 hours.

The movie was banned from theaters in Germany due to “anti-migrant content” but currently holds a 96% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Streisand effect.