Margaret Manzi🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛

Freelance designer. Art, science, nature, gardening, occasional political gripe.

[Unearthed 🏺 @UnearthedHQ]

🍽️ A 1,096-Year-Old Feast Hidden in Stone Has Just Revealed a Forgotten World

For more than a thousand years, this stone inscription kept its secrets buried beneath the earth.

Discovered in Indonesia and dating back around 1,096 years, the inscription records a decision by King Mpu Sindok to declare a tarukan rice field tax-free land. At first glance, it appears to be a simple legal document. But hidden within its ancient words is something far more remarkable.

The inscription describes a banquet held after the royal decree was announced. Guests were served alcohol, salted fish, eggs, beef jerky, boiled vegetables, coconut, and other foods. In just a few lines, it preserves a rare snapshot of everyday life in an ancient Javanese kingdom.

This is what makes the discovery so fascinating.

Most ancient inscriptions focus on kings, battles, or religious ceremonies. This one goes beyond politics and power. It reveals how people celebrated, what they ate, what they drank, and how an important event was marked more than a millennium ago.

The feast ended over 1,000 years ago. The people who attended it are long gone. Yet their gathering, their meal, and their celebration survived because someone chose to carve the moment into stone.

Today, that inscription still speaks. Not only about taxes and royal authority, but about community, tradition, and the ordinary people whose lives are rarely preserved in the historical record.

A thousand years later, an ancient banquet continues to tell its story.

[Thomas Kellogg 🇺🇸 @ThomasKelloggNY]

🚨 Big thanks to @DiPietroForYou for amplifying this fight!

Assemblyman DiPietro knows these Albany insiders firsthand — and he's right: flood their phones and inboxes . We've stopped bad bills before with sustained pressure.

A6577A is a blank check for floating solar industrial eyesores on our lakes, reservoirs, and canals. No real size limits. Taxpayer-funded grants. Risk of toxic panel waste in our water.

CALL & EMAIL NOW:
- Speaker Carl Heastie: [phone] | [email protected]
- Sponsor Didi Barrett: [phone] | [email protected]

Tell them: KILL A6577A Protect NY waters over green grift.

RT & tag your reps — let's keep the momentum! 🇺🇸

[Jum @JesterJum]

Saline, Michigan (population under 3,000 and mostly agricultural) became the proposed site for an OpenAI and Oracle data center nicknamed "Stargate".

In September, the township board voted 4-1 to deny the project. The planning commission had already recommended against allowing the data center.

Roughly 24 hours after that vote, the developer sued the tow ship under an "exclusionary zoning" theory.

Saline Township has an annual budget of around d $1 million, so it could not realistically afford a long court battle against a multi-billion dollar developer.

So, they settled and were forced to allow a large data center to move forward on part of their agricultural land.

Thoughts on this? Yay or nay towards datacenters?

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this night in 1781, one man on a horse saved the American Revolution from losing Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and half of Virginia's government in a single morning.

You were never taught his name.

June 3, 1781. The British had chased Virginia's entire government out of Richmond. Jefferson, in his final days as governor, and the legislature had fled to Charlottesville, thinking they were safe in the foothills.

They were wrong.

That evening, 26 year old militia captain Jack Jouett was at a tavern in Louisa County when roughly 250 of the most feared cavalry in the British army came pounding down the road. Their commander: Banastre Tarleton, nicknamed "The Butcher," the man whose dragoons had cut down surrendering Americans at Waxhaws.

There was only one place they could be going. Charlottesville. 40 miles away. And the capture of Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, would be the prize of the war.

Jouett couldn't outrun them on the main road. So he didn't use it.

He swung onto overgrown backwoods trails and the abandoned Old Mountain Road, riding 40 miles through the dark with only the full moon for light. Legend says low hanging branches whipped and scarred his face for life.

Tarleton stopped his men for a 3 hour rest. Jouett never stopped.

Before sunrise on June 4, he came up the mountain to Monticello and woke Jefferson. Then he rode down into Charlottesville and warned the legislature.

Jefferson got out with minutes to spare. British dragoons were coming up his mountain as he left. The legislature escaped over the Blue Ridge to Staunton. Tarleton caught only seven stragglers, one of them a frontiersman serving in the legislature named Daniel Boone.

Paul Revere rode about 12 miles in 1775 and got captured before reaching Concord. Longfellow wrote him a poem and made him immortal.

Jack Jouett rode 40 miles, lost nothing, saved everything, and got a thank you gift of two pistols and a sword from the Virginia Assembly.

No poem. No fame. Almost no memory.

[Rick Scott @SenRickScott]

Did you know that federal employees can add anyone to their health insurance plan with NO accountability?

I requested a report on this and found out around ONE BILLION DOLLARS per YEAR went towards fraudulent coverage. Government employees NEVER had to verify if the person they were adding was family. I introduced the FEHB Protection Act, which became law, to fix this problem and stop the fraud.

Americans deserve a system with accountability, not a free-for-all funded by federal tax dollars.

[Uniting NYS @UnitingNYS]

First the farmland.
Then the forests.
Now the lakes.

New York's Climate Act is becoming a blueprint for industrializing every natural resource we have.

Floating solar-what happens when storms, hail, and ice tear through these installations?

#CommonSense #TakeBackNY

[helen warlow @HWarlow]

Finally today
‘Living Alone’
Paco Yao
His talent as a Watercolour artist already known in China
Then he started to create Illustrations like this. Recording the changing seasons on which he bases his work. Sitting in Cafes observing.
Thanks myXTwitterarty
Helen🙂🌷Max🐶❤️

[daz @MetamateDaz]

Albanians just showed the world how it's done.

The government was selling off prime coastal land and protected islands to Jared Kushner and linked investors for a massive luxury resort turning public beaches and nature reserves into private playgrounds for the ultra-rich. The people said: HELL NO. Thousands poured into the streets under “Albania Is Not For Sale.” Protests turned fiery. They stormed government buildings and burnt down the Prime Minister’s house. This isn’t just about a deal. It’s about sovereignty. It’s about refusing to let your country be auctioned off to foreign billionaires while locals lose access to their own coastline. When elites sell the nation’s future for kickbacks and luxury resorts, the people have every right to push back hard. Respect to the Albanians for refusing to be colonized by cash. Other countries should be taking notes.

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

Around 1,950 years ago in Pompeii, a weaver named Successus fell in love with a barmaid named Iris.

She did not love him back.

We know this because his rival, a man named Severus, decided to humiliate him publicly. He grabbed something sharp and carved this into a wall for the whole city to read:

"Successus the weaver loves the innkeeper's slave girl named Iris. She does not care about him at all. But he begs her to have pity on him. His rival wrote this. Goodbye."

Imagine walking to work and seeing that with your name on it.

Successus found it. And instead of letting it go, he carved his reply directly underneath:

"Envious one, why do you get in the way? Yield to a man who is better looking and being treated very unfairly."

Severus came back one more time to end it:

"I have spoken. I have written. You love Iris, but she does not love you."

Then, in 79 AD, Vesuvius erupted and buried the wall, the tavern, and the entire argument under 20 feet of ash. The thread was frozen mid-beef for almost two millennia until archaeologists dug it up and translated it.

We will never know who got the girl. We do not even know if any of the three survived.

Pompeii has over 11,000 of these inscriptions. Bar reviews. Bragging. Bad poetry. A bakery wall that says "Welcome, hungry people." Two guys fighting over a girl in the comments.

The technology changes. We do not.

[Thomas Kellogg 🇺🇸 @ThomasKelloggNY]

Why isn’t there more public discussion about the backgrounds of these recent election winners?

NYC’s new mayor Zohran Mamdani was born in Uganda and has taken strongly debated positions on foreign conflicts.

In New Jersey, Egyptian-born Adam Hamawy just won the 12th district Democratic primary with past connections to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing case.

We’ve seen similar questions raised about Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar as well.

Shouldn’t basic vetting and full transparency be standard for anyone seeking or holding public office?

[Cheryl Anne @TruthNetwork24]

Good Afternoon @Cigna

Don't try to contract other companies to employ H1B Visa holders and think we will not know. We know and we are mad you are not hiring a US citizen for this role!

Thanks to @VBierschwale and his data at https://t.co/2GsiE4Yx2U , we now know you are hiring people who are foreign workers when there are US citizens with the skills to do these jobs.

#EndH1B

@WHFraudTF

[Margaret Manzi🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛 @mostquiet]

Destruction and civilizational ruin seem to be the objective

[James Wright @JPBWFarm]

Natural England wants to remove 90% of Dartmoor’s ponies.

Our Exmoor ponies are next. These animals have been here for thousands of years.

A government quango, destroying the countryside and its heritage.

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

The name "Italy" has its roots in ancient Greek legend, and its origins reflect both mythology and the geographic features of the region. According to Greek tradition, the name comes from Italos, a legendary king of the Oenotrians, an ancient people who inhabited southern Italy, from Paestum in Campania to Calabria.

The Oenotrians, believed to have Greek origins themselves, were among the earliest inhabitants of the Italian peninsula. Italos, often said to be the son of Penelope and Telegonus (the son of Odysseus), became the figure after whom the land was named. The Greek historians Aristotle and Thucydides were among the first to record this myth, associating the name Italia with the descendants of Italos.

Over time, the Greeks expanded the term "Italia" to encompass a larger region of southern Italy. During the 1st century BCE, under Augustus, the name was extended to cover the entire Italian peninsula, including the Alps. The Romans further adopted the name, and under Emperor Diocletian, the Roman province of Italia was expanded to include the islands of Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. The etymology of "Italy" might also be linked to the Greek word Aethalia, meaning "land of fog and smoke," in reference to the many active volcanoes in the region, such as Mount Etna. This volcanic connection further solidified the association of the name Italia with the unique and powerful landscape of the Italian peninsula.

© History Lore

#archaeohistories

[Perseus @PerseusLeGrand]

On ne se rend jamais assez compte de l’impact positif que de belles choses peuvent avoir sur notre esprit.

La beauté inspire, apaise, envoûte.

Il est important de le rappeler quotidiennement et d’agir pour que le Beau reprenne une place centrale dans notre société.

Tout le monde a le droit au Beau.

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

This is Todd “Let’s Roll” Beamer, who died heroically while trying to retake United Flight 93 from Al Qaeda terrorists on 9/11. His final resting place, is in Cranbury, NJ — where he was living with his wife and children before his murder. Cranbury is located in NJ-12, where the new Democratic nominee for Congress is Adam Hamawy.

Hamawy was a close associate and translator to Omar Abdel-Rahman, aka the ‘Blind Sheikh,’ an arch terrorist convicted of masterminding multiple plots against targets in NYC — including the World Trade Center. Hamawy testified at Adbel-Rahman’s trial, as a defense witness.

It has also been reported that Hamawy traveled to Bosnia to volunteer at an organization that was later unmasked as an Al Qaeda front group.

One of Hamawy’s loudest and most high-profile supporters and endorsers has openly declared that America deserved the 9/11 attacks.

Hamawy is now the prohibitive frontrunner to represent Todd Beamer’s district in the United States Congress.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

The people losing their minds over this postal rule are doing more to make the case for it than the rule itself ever could.

You’ve got Chuck Schumer calling basic envelope tracking “voter suppression, plain and simple.” You’ve got Senator Padilla claiming tens of millions of legal voters will suddenly be blocked. And you’ve got Marc Elias ... the guy who’s spent his entire career in court trying to stop every verification rule anyone ever proposed ... treating barcodes on ballot envelopes like an existential threat.

That level of alarm over something this straightforward is the tell.

The rule doesn’t decide who gets to vote. It doesn’t touch state voter rolls. It just says that if a state wants to use the federal mail system to deliver and collect federal ballots, the envelopes need to carry the same kind of tracking information the Postal Service already uses for everything else. The technology isn’t new ... plenty of blue states and progressive election officials have been using intelligent mail barcodes for years. The Brennan Center even acknowledged it’s already common practice in many places.

So why the sudden panic when it becomes a uniform, enforceable standard?

Because once you can actually reconcile how many ballots went out against how many came back, you remove the ability to pretend the system is airtight when it isn’t. The people most furious about adding a basic paper trail are the ones who benefited most from not having one. Their reaction isn’t about protecting voters. It’s about protecting the current lack of accountability.

When the same voices that spent years expanding mail voting now treat simple tracking like an attack on democracy, they’re not hiding their concerns. They’re advertising them.
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[Margaret Manzi🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛 @mostquiet]

This looks like a delicious option

[NyanChuu🔮🇯🇵🍭 @tanpukunokami]

You may not believe this, but Domino’s Pizza in Japan has a pizza called “Korean Kalbi.”

It has sweet and savory grilled beef on top, kind of like yakiniku, and it’s actually pretty popular here.

I feel like this is a very Japan-specific pizza.

But that made me wonder.

What kind of popular pizza does your country have that makes people say,

“Wait… you put THAT on pizza?”

[Lattina Brown, MPA 🇯🇲🇺🇸 @LattinaBrown]

🚨 BREAKING: Today, NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin questioned NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch about Mayor Mamdani’s newly created Office of Community Safety (OCS).

According to testimony, serious concerns were raised that City Hall allegedly failed to properly coordinate or communicate with the NYPD regarding the creation of this office, while also shifting certain community outreach functions away from the department.

Taxpayers deserve transparency. Why create a new bureaucracy if similar services already existed? How much will this cost New Yorkers, and what oversight is in place to prevent waste, duplication, and political patronage?

I am calling for a full independent audit of the Mayor’s administration and the Office of Community Safety. New Yorkers deserve answers, accountability, and responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars.

[Margaret Manzi🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛 @mostquiet]

If there isn't already an app that plays the call to prayer solely for those who actually want to hear it, it should be possible to develop one.

[Ryan Dally @Ryandally08]

#BREAKING The Lakemba Mosque is pushing again to install 4 massive loudspeakers on its 20m minaret to broadcast the call to prayer over residential suburbs.

A previous application was already rejected after 328 out of 329 community submissions rightfully objected to the disruption.

Now, they are trying to bypass that decision.

A public broadcast like this is completely inappropriate for a secular, Western nation.

In the modern era, anyone who wants to hear a call to prayer can simply use a smartphone app.

Forcing an entire suburb, including local schools, parks, and residents of all backgrounds, to listen to a weekly religious broadcast over external speakers destroys community cohesion and local peace.

Our public spaces should remain neutral.

Residents shouldn't have to tolerate intrusive religious broadcasts blaring over their homes at all hours over the day.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🧵🚨 THREAD: How the Charlottesville rally and SPLC birthed an entire billion-dollar-plus "democracy" ecosystem 🚨

11 federal counts. Wire fraud. Money laundering conspiracy. But here's what the SPLC headlines are missing:

• The indictment describes a paid informant in the leadership chat that PLANNED Unite the Right
• That informant "helped coordinate transportation" to the rally... at SPLC's direction
• There is ONE publicly identified organizer whose documented role was transportation coordinator
• His Discord posts about running over protesters were made 26 DAYS before Heather Heyer was killed by a car
• The indictment says postings were made "under the supervision of the SPLC"
• Charlottesville then became the founding event for a billion-dollar political machine
• SPLC installed itself as that machine's definitional gatekeeper

I report. You draw your own conclusions.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇