Janet Hdez

I mostly retweet funny/cute stuff and newsworthy material.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Crows are incredibly smart that this one figured out how to turn a tap on to get water and even remembered to turn it off afterwards.

[Desiree @DesireeAmerica4]

Shaquille O'Neal looked his six kids dead in the eye and told them they were not touching a single cent of his $400 million empire unless they earned two college degrees first. He made it clear: "We ain't rich. I'm rich."
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​The best part is that he actually enforces it.

​When his son Myles wanted to be a DJ, Shaq made him present a full business model before funding a single piece of equipment. Today, Myles holds a Las Vegas residency.

His son Shareef is working a real job for his dad at Reebok.

His oldest daughter Taahirah graduated Magna Cum Laude and went straight into corporate communications.

And just this past May, his son Shaqir graduated from college and immediately announced he was going back for his second degree just to meet his father's baseline standard.

​We live in a culture where parents bend over backward to give their kids everything they never had, but in the process, they strip away all their drive and character. Shaq realized that handing his children everything would ultimately teach them absolutely nothing about the value of hard work.

​Fame and wealth didn't stop him from being a traditional father who demands accountability. How many other parents actually have the backbone to raise their kids with this kind of standard today?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

China is replacing plastic with fast-growing bamboo, creating eco-friendly bags and tableware that can biodegrade in just 4–6 months

[Stanford Medicine @StanfordMed]

https://t.co/FOcBILteA4

[🎃👻Jeanne Loves Horror👻🎃 @1carolinagirl]

Happy Fall🎃🍂

[Roi Lopez Rivas @RoiLopezRivas]

Este diputado de Milei se droga en plena sesión del congreso de Argentina.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This waterfall is located outside the Peruvian city of Cajamarca and resembles the shape of a woman wearing a bridal dress: it's called La Cascada de la Novia.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 BREAKING: Leaks reveal Trump’s FCC chair Brendan Carr spent 9 years in a secret sex cult that abused teenage girls.

[Bek Lover @BekLoverNYC]

I have never been more proud of my heritage. Albania tells the New World Order to fuck off.

We the people will own everything and be happy!

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

Diddy's mentor and music mogul Clive Davis has been announced dead at the age of 94.

Clive Davis trained Diddy, which in turn allowed him to groom artists like Usher and Justin Bieber for power and control.

Some people have suggested that it was Clive Davis who used his connections to seize blackmail tapes that Diddy had on very powerful people.

Just like the real Epstein files, the Diddy tapes have all but disappeared.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This would have been hard to believe if it hadn’t been recorded

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A male lion standing with his cub on an elevated rock at Simba Kopjes in the Serengeti.

Simba is the Swahili word for lion. Simba Kopjes means "Lion hill".

These rock hills were an inspiration for scenes in The Lion King.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Thank guys for taking the time and having a heart to save the Sea Lions..thank you SO MUCH!!

Why do people throw trash out in waters where nature will be hurt.

WAKE UP!!!!

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇬🇧 UK lawyer Paul Powlesland cleaned 200 bags of waste from a polluted river.

Fish and dragonflies have returned.

Now he faces up to 2 years in prison for doing it without a permit.

This is modern Britain: punishing people who actually clean up the environment while the bureaucracy strangles common sense.

Absolutely insane.

Source: @Coinvo / Writer: Oliver

[Saffron Sniper @Saffron_Sniper1]

A homeless dog walked into a veterinary clinic and showed its wounded paw, hoping someone would help, and they did 🐾❤️

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

At an aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

In China’s Gansu province, the village of Liqian has long puzzled historians. Locals with green eyes and fair hair are believed to be descendants of lost Roman soldiers from 2,000 years ago. DNA shows traces of European ancestry, keeping this East-meets-West mystery alive.

For decades, Liqian has occupied a strange crossroads between legend and scholarship. The theory traces back to the first century BCE, when Roman forces under Crassus were defeated by the Parthians at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BCE. Ancient accounts suggest some captured Roman soldiers were relocated eastward as mercenaries or border guards. From there, a long and indirect journey toward Central Asia and eventually the fringes of Han China is not as impossible as it sounds.

The Han dynasty maintained extensive contact across the Silk Road, exchanging goods, envoys, and sometimes soldiers with western regions. Chinese historical texts describe encounters with foreign fighters who used unfamiliar shield formations resembling Roman testudo tactics. This detail, while debated, helped fuel the idea that a small group of Roman prisoners or descendants may have been absorbed into frontier settlements like Liqian.

Genetic studies conducted in the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries revealed traces of western Eurasian ancestry among some villagers, though not enough to conclusively prove Roman lineage. Still, Liqian stands as a reminder that the ancient world was far more interconnected than we often imagine. Empires did not exist in isolation. People moved, adapted, and blended across thousands of miles, sometimes leaving behind mysteries that history never fully resolves.

Liqian later embraced the legend so strongly that the town built Roman style statues and tourist sites, turning an unresolved historical hypothesis into a living piece of cultural identity.

© Witty Historian

#archaeohistories

[CNN @CNN]

Scientists have announced the discovery of a previously unidentified species of octopus found in the Galápagos Islands — and it’s sure to turn heads. https://t.co/KN89Oxtvns

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Congressman Tim Burchett confirms on Joe Rogan that Bill Gates is behind the massive increase in ticks

Now we have a whistleblower who says pilots are being paid to drop ticks by aircraft

This matches accounts in America of tick boxes being found

“We are paid to spread ticks by air. It happens twice a year, early spring and early fall. This year we've been hired to do it earlier. The company receives the ticks in boxes. Each box contains millions of ticks. The aircraft used are generally single or dual prop aircraft, single pilot, and There's one other passenger that handles the dispersal. It pays a lot, and I mean a lot.”

“Here we have a whistleblower saying that they are paid to disperse ticks across Canada. Now, this sounds eerily familiar to what we're hearing about these boxes of ticks that are being found” in America

The Gates Foundation funded a biotech firm called Oxitec for research on genetically modifying cattle ticks

Farmers claim to be funding “boxes of ticks”on their properties

Lyme disease cases are skyrocketed right at the time when a Lyme disease vaccine is actively in the works

So without the ticks, they can’t sell their vaccines

You’ll never guess who’s making it, Pfizer and Valneva

[Acyn @Acyn]

Massie: I would have come out sooner but I had to call my opponent to concede and it took a while to find him in Tel Aviv