terushka

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[terushka @terushka]

@wtul best cheez music show in ages!

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Wow.

Here’s Robert De Niro’s full statement about how Donald Trump should NEVER be president again:

“I’ve spent a lot of time studying bad men.  I’ve examined their characteristics, their mannerisms, the utter banality of their cruelty.

Yet there’s something different about Donald Trump. When I look at him, I don’t see a bad man. Truly.

I see an evil one.

Over the years, I’ve met gangsters here and there. This guy tries to be one, but he can’t quite pull it off. There’s such a thing as “honor among thieves.” Yes, even criminals usually have a sense of right and wrong. 

Whether they do the right thing or not is a different story — but — they have a moral code, however warped.

Donald Trump does not. He’s a wannabe tough guy with no morals or ethics. No sense of right or wrong. No regard for anyone but himself — not the people he was supposed to lead and protect, not the people he does business with, not the people who follow him, blindly and loyally, not even the people who consider themselves his “friends.” He has contempt for all of them.

We New Yorkers got to know him over the years that he poisoned the atmosphere and littered our city with monuments to his ego.  We knew first hand that this was someone who should never be considered for leadership.  We tried to warn the world in 2016.

The repercussions of his turbulent presidency divided America and rattled New York City beyond imagination.  Remember how we were jolted by crisis in early 2020, as a virus swept the world.

We lived with Donald Trump’s bombastic behavior every day on the national stage, and we suffered as we saw our neighbors piling up in body bags.

The man who was supposed to protect this country put it in peril, because of his recklessness and impulsiveness. It was like an abusive father ruling the family by fear and violent behavior.  That was the consequence of New York’s warning getting ignored. Next time, we know it will be worse.

Make no mistake: the twice-impeached, 4-time indicted Donald Trump is still a fool. But we can’t let our fellow Americans write him off like one. Evil thrives in the shadow of dismissive mockery, which is why we must take the danger of Donald Trump very seriously.

So today we issue another warning. From this place where Abraham Lincoln spoke — right here in the beating heart of New York — to the rest of America:
This is our last chance.

Democracy won’t survive the return of a wannabe dictator.

And it won’t overcome evil if we are divided.

So what do we do about it?  I know I’m preaching to the choir here.  What we’re doing today is valuable, but we have to take today into tomorrow – take it outside these walls.   We have to reach out to the half of our country who have ignored the hazards of Trump and, for whatever reason, support elevating him back into the White House. 

They’re not stupid, and we must not condemn them for making a stupid choice.  Our future doesn’t just depend on us. It depends on them.

Let’s reach out to Trump’s followers with respect.  Let’s not talk about “democracy.”  “Democracy” may be our holy grail, but to others it is just a word, a concept, and in their embrace of Trump, they’ve already turned their backs on it. 

Let’s talk about right and wrong.  Let’s talk about humanity. 

Let’s talk about kindness.  Security for our world. 

Safety for our families. 

Decency. 

Let’s welcome them back. 

We won’t get them all, but we can get enough to end the nightmare of Trump, and fulfill the mission of this “Stop Trump Summit.”

[HOW THINGS WORK @HowThingsWork_]

Members of the public experiencing G-Force & a 96 year old WW2 veteran experiencing G-Force🫡 Respect

[Earth @earthcurated]

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc ❄️

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Winter in Rome

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Little helper.. 😊 https://t.co/ntctFZA25v

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Slidy cats 😂😂

[Why you should have a cat @ShouldHaveCat]

“What? You can fly?”

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

The world's largest firework launched over Nagaoka, Japan.

[SWB New Orleans @SWBNewOrleans]

We are experiencing power issues. Crews are working to bring Turbine 4 back online and utilizing frequency changers & 3 EMDs. Lakeview, Carrollton, Mid City & Central City are seeing street flooding. Drainage pumping stations 1, 2, 6, 7 & 12 are affected. https://t.co/leo1izbXoH

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

This is a 3,200 year old attendance sheet from Ancient Egypt. The limestone ostracon covers 280 days of the year with a list of 40 different names and dates written in black. The notes in red are the reasons for being absent, which include the following:

1. Drinking with Khonsu
2. His daughter was bleeding
3. Libating to his father
4. Brewing beer
5. Building his house
6. Fetching stone for the scribe
7. With Khons making remedies
8. Making remedies for the scribe's wife
9. Suffering with his eye
10. Embalming Hormose
11. Strengthening the door
12. Embalming his brother
13. His wife is bleeding
14. The scorpion bit him
15. His feast
16. Offering to the god

The one that stood out to me the most was "drinking with Khonsu", which doesn't seem to be as eye-catching as some of the others ones that involve embalming, bleeding, offering, making remedies, and getting bit by a scorpion. I guess it stood out to me because it seemed so mundane in that I never thought about Ancient Egyptians having a beer with each other and just hanging out.

I know we all tend to gravitate towards the pyramids, pharaohs, mummies and the overall mysterious grandeur of Ancient Egypt, but I've been more fascinated about what regular life was like back then. People just going about their business, working, socializing, cooking dinner, etc.

Who was this Khonsu guy anyway? What was his job? Did he have a job? Was Khons short for Khonsu? Were they the same person?

This attendance sheet was probably just boring bureaucratic paperwork back then, but quite delightful to read 3,200 years later. I find comfort in the fact that humans haven't changed much and grabbing a drink with a buddy was a legit excuse to miss work back then. I do wonder if all these excuses were true or if some were made up to conceal the real reasons. I guess we'll never know…

[LBJ📺📻 @lbjnola]

RIP Jean Knight... we've all sung Mr. Big Stuff a time or two!

[Andy Marshall 📸 @fotofacade]

A blast from the past: A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. #thread

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

Wow, a 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian paint box containing its original pigments!

(Looks similar to a modern-day set!)

The preserved cake pigments are red (red ochre), blue (Egyptian blue), green (a mixture of Egyptian blue, yellow ochre, and orpiment) and two of black (carbon black, from charcoal).

An inscription on the wooden paint box tells us it belonged to Amenemope, who was Vizier during the reign of king Amenhotep II. As a member of the elite, he would have used it for painting for leisure.

📷 The Cleveland Museum of Art

Read more: https://t.co/YSIRI47exp

#Archaeology

[Learn Something @cooltechtipz]

Legendary tips on how to cut fruits.🤩

[Just saying @kangaroos991]

Gun control saves lives! #GunReformNow

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and random motion.

📽: Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, is harassed by officials as women were not allowed to participate, 1967

Kathrine Switzer made sports history as the first woman to run the Boston Marathon in 1967. At the time, women were not allowed to participate, and Katherine had registered as KV Switzer, and it was not until 2 miles into the race that officials realized that Switzer was participating, and with that, this picture was captured.

The picture shows Jock Semple, a race official, trying to grab Switzer to take her off the track( bald man to the left). The man in the dark hair was Switzer's boyfriend at the time, and he is observed here fighting Semple away. Switzer recalls Semple saying:

"Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers!".

Switzer completed the race, with journalists approaching her afterward in an aggressive manner yelling “Real women don’t run.”

Switzer, who defied the pressures and norms of society, did her own thing and proved to millions around the world that women are more than capable of taking part in strenuous and tough sports. Switzer has completed 38 marathons in her life and she has inspired millions of female athletes from around the world to take part and express themselves through sports.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Skills! Matching and replicating colors.