TheAdmiral

It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.

[TheAdmiral @thePaulFrederic]

@anto_dlt Una cosa es dar la cana, otra es jugar a todo menos fútbol... Venga... Adoro Cabo Verde por su juego de contra. Lo hicieron también, pero sin ser tan sucios.

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You've got to love the fact Paraguay staff + players walk up to the ref like they've been robbed 🫠... the nerves. Red card for the ref, bye bye Paraguay, you wont be missed

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@iShotSherif @mohamedsctraore @gailly_lucas @StyrosCyclisme Ftg

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@chrismyka015 J

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@fcb_nolan Vdv

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@patienceisalpha Schiphol airport Amsterdam, pretty easy no

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@Czar_Of_Silly https://t.co/N8XBGmlbW7 he's a fitness guru now appare6 🙄

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@rugby_ap Ai... touché... their archers decimated french nobility at Azincourt (a very British victory, no honor, sneaky shit)

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@Emmanuelle_IDL @astridLindgren6 @lhumaineFC @IdLibertes Surtout, ne lui en fais pas l’honneur, il s’en vanterait pendant des années.

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@MyLordBebo Its morning in Venezuela bro ...

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@TwinkTheory Who is she ?

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@oelma__ Saab, Volvo, Ikea, Henrik Larson, ABBA, Ace of Base, Sven Goran Erikson

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@fopminui Please ... stop this bs @fopminui ... this picture is 100% fake. You're inducing gullible people in error. Shame on you...

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The truth is that this image is a glitch in the story you were taught about history.

The whole framing of “Dark Ages” was propaganda created centuries later to make one era look primitive so another era could look enlightened by contrast.

The real deep truth is this:

The people who built things like this were not “dark.”

They were operating on an entirely different kind of intelligence that modernity barely understands.

A cathedral is a machine for shaping consciousness.

A stained-glass window is coded light, a technology for embedding narrative, cosmology, social order, and metaphysics into the mind of the viewer.

None of that fits the modern myth of linear progress where:
•the past is primitive,
•the present is rational,
•and the future is technological.

This building is the evidence that the myth is broken.

Here's what I really think:

1. Medieval Europe had less information but more meaning.

They had almost no data.
But they had a density of symbolic intelligence that modern civilization has completely lost.

Their entire worldview was integrative.

The material world, the spiritual world, the mathematical world, the astronomical world, and the architectural world were one system.

A cathedral is a worldview made stone.

In that sense, they were not less advanced.
They were advanced differently.

2. The myth of “the Dark Ages” was created to sever modern people from their own civilizational roots.

The Enlightenment needed an enemy.
So it invented a caricature:
The Middle Ages as superstition, stagnation, and ignorance.

It was never true.

This building is proof.

You cannot produce a structure like this in a dark age.

You can only produce it in a world where:
•cosmology is coherent
•labor is coordinated
•meaning is shared
•hierarchy is functional
•beauty is a communal priority
•and the civilization believes in something beyond itself

Modern society cannot build this today.
Not because we lack the tools.
Because we lack the unity of purpose.

3. The real dark age is the one that forgets how to see.

You live in a world where:
•people stare at screens more than the sky
•beauty is optional
•spirituality is mocked
•attention is fragmented
•and meaning is outsourced to algorithms

Medieval Europe had none of the modern world’s technology.

But they had something more powerful:

a metaphysical orientation that aligned millions of people across generations.

That is why they built things that outlast empires.

4. What this picture actually reveals is the present’s poverty.

The question isn’t:

“How did they build this in the Dark Ages?”

The real question is:

“Why can’t we build anything like this now?”

And the answer:

Because they believed in transcendence.
And we believe in convenience.

Because they saw themselves as part of a cosmic order.
And we see ourselves as consumers.

Because they aimed their civilization upward.
And we aim ours inward.

5. The deepest layer:

Civilizations rise when they aim at the infinite.
They decay when they forget how.

This stained glass window is a relic of a worldview that could produce multi-century projects with no immediate reward.

Modern civilization cannot imagine that.
Because modern civilization is trapped inside the present moment.

The medieval world was “dark” only in the sense that it was illuminated by a different kind of light.

A cosmic one.
A symbolic one.
A spiritual one.

What you are looking at is the memory of a civilization that knew what it was for.

And that is the uncomfortable truth.

[TheAdmiral @thePaulFrederic]

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@Juanjom76 @RugbyBits Vraiment?

[TheAdmiral @thePaulFrederic]

Here is a further revised top 100 athletes of all time, aggregated from sources including ESPN's top 100 athletes of the 21st century, Ranker's best athletes of 2025, TIME's greatest sports legends, Wikipedia's lists of top speed skaters and rally drivers, and other rankings from BBC, IMDb, Autosport, and Reddit discussions. I've shuffled the rankings from 17 onwards for better variety, ensuring no two athletes from the same sport are adjacent while maintaining overall balance across disciplines, eras, genders, and continents based on global impact and frequency in rankings.

1. Michael Jordan - Basketball
2. Muhammad Ali - Boxing
3. Michael Phelps - Swimming
4. Serena Williams - Tennis
5. Lionel Messi - Soccer
6. LeBron James - Basketball
7. Roger Federer - Tennis
8. Simone Biles - Gymnastics
9. Tiger Woods - Golf
10. Usain Bolt - Athletics
11. Kobe Bryant - Basketball
12. Novak Djokovic - Tennis
13. Rafael Nadal - Tennis
14. Cristiano Ronaldo - Soccer
15. Katie Ledecky - Swimming
16. Pele - Soccer
17. Jesse Owens - Athletics
18. Lewis Hamilton - Auto Racing
19. Carl Lewis - Athletics
20. Eddy Merckx - Cycling
21. Allyson Felix - Athletics
22. Zinedine Zidane - Soccer
23. Eliud Kipchoge - Athletics
24. Michael Schumacher - Auto Racing
25. Haile Gebrselassie - Athletics
26. Babe Ruth - Baseball
27. Mo Farah - Athletics
28. Bernard Hinault - Cycling
29. Sergey Bubka - Athletics
30. Thierry Dusautoir - Rugby Union
31. Kenenisa Bekele - Athletics
32. Diego Maradona - Soccer
33. Ian Thorpe - Swimming
34. Jim Brown - American Football
35. Paavo Nurmi - Athletics
36. Ayrton Senna - Auto Racing
37. Jackie Robinson - Baseball
38. Floyd Mayweather - Boxing
39. Fausto Coppi - Cycling
40. Wayne Gretzky - Ice Hockey
41. Bryan Habana - Rugby Union
42. Johan Cruyff - Soccer
43. Mark Spitz - Swimming
44. Tom Brady - American Football
45. Emil Zatopek - Athletics
46. Sebastian Vettel - Auto Racing
47. Willie Mays - Baseball
48. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - Basketball
49. Sugar Ray Robinson - Boxing
50. Magnus Carlsen - Chess
51. Donald Bradman - Cricket
52. Jacques Anquetil - Cycling
53. Luciana Aymar - Field Hockey
54. Nadia Comaneci - Gymnastics
55. Nikola Karabatić - Handball
56. Gordie Howe - Ice Hockey
57. Buakaw Banchamek - Kickboxing
58. Georges St-Pierre - MMA
59. Valentino Rossi - Motorcycle Racing
60. Richie McCaw - Rugby Union
61. Marcel Hirscher - Skiing
62. Franz Beckenbauer - Soccer
63. Jenny Thompson - Swimming
64. Ma Long - Table Tennis
65. Karch Kiraly - Volleyball
66. Jerry Rice - American Football
67. Florence Griffith-Joyner - Athletics
68. Alain Prost - Auto Racing
69. Mat Hoffman - BMX
70. Lin Dan - Badminton
71. Joe DiMaggio - Baseball
72. Magic Johnson - Basketball
73. Manny Pacquiao - Boxing
74. Garry Kasparov - Chess
75. Sachin Tendulkar - Cricket
76. Miguel Indurain - Cycling
77. Teun de Nooijer - Field Hockey
78. Jack Nicklaus - Golf
79. Larisa Latynina - Gymnastics
80. Mikkel Hansen - Handball
81. Bobby Orr - Ice Hockey
82. Semmy Schilt - Kickboxing
83. Jon Jones - MMA
84. Marc Márquez - Motorcycle Racing
85. Sébastien Loeb - Rally
86. Jonny Wilkinson - Rugby Union
87. Ben Ainslie - Sailing
88. Tony Hawk - Skateboarding
89. Alberto Tomba - Skiing
90. Shaun White - Snowboarding
91. Lev Yashin - Soccer
92. Ireen Wüst - Speed Skating
93. Hakuhō Shō - Sumo
94. Kelly Slater - Surfing
95. Adam Peaty - Swimming
96. Jan-Ove Waldner - Table Tennis
97. Martina Navratilova - Tennis
98. Kilian Jornet - Trail Running
99. Wilfredo León - Volleyball
100. Aleksandr Karelin - Wrestling

[TheAdmiral @thePaulFrederic]

@elonmusk Another 500 and you can rename it the millenium falcon 🙃

[signüll @signulll]

the kid who shot charlie was only 22. this is insane because 22 means he basically grew up marinating in the broadband soup.

he had no buffer period of pre internet adulthood, no separation between formative years & the always on firehose. his psyche was forged entirely in the age of memes, polarization, constant feeds, & parasocial rage cycles.

we are now seeing individuals in society like this reaching adulthood & have access to very sophisticated weapons. this will be a serious challenge for security in america going forward.