R Techlin

Interested in the word, photography, & writing.

[Guillaume Herblot 🎖️ @Guigz75116]

Les conditions inhumaines du lycée Nelson-Mandela, à Nantes. Il fallait le voir pour le croire.

Verrière, bois clair, nef de 26 000 m², énergie positive. Internat de 166 lits, chambres avec sanitaires, salles de travail, patio.
Deux gymnases et un mur d’escalade de 24 voies.
Sections internationales, BTS, prépa.

Facture d’origine : 52 à 64 millions d’euros, il y a douze ans.

Le genre d’établissement qui ferait pâlir 95 pourcents des lycées français.

Et c’est le lycée qu’on brûle, hall et verrière, au nom du manque de moyens.

Le Site est fermé jusqu’à la Toussaint, cours à distance, remise en état chiffrée en millions.

Les conditions étaient si inhumaines qu’il a fallu y mettre le feu pour les rendre visibles.

Mais de qui se moque-t-on ?

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

The Germans who witnessed the atrocities committed by Muslims against Christians during the Ottoman period in Greece wrote: "The murder of the men and the drowning of the women was still not enough for a Muslim Turk thirsting for Christian blood; the poor innocent children were also to be sacrificed. So he had the defenseless little ones seized and mercilessly hanged from a tree. Comfortably the monster smoked his pipe beneath them, had himself served with sherbet, and rejoiced in the cries of fear and the death agonies of the guiltless little ones, for they were, after all, only — Christian children"

"Gräuelscenen aus Griechenland"
"Atrocity scenes from Greece."

From the 1820s by the Nuremberg publisher Friedrich Campe.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

This has more significance than many people may realise because the mass migration assault on America & the west has two components: illegal immigration is only one part. The second is legal migration.

Unfortunately, sophisticated criminal/terrorist organizations have figured out how to game the system. They are trafficking American girls for their citizenship. Acc to sources working to counter trafficking, they have encountered a disturbing trend where girls are sent overseas to meet a wealthy man, usually a senior figure in the cartel or terrorist organization. They are often already married but the wives are disregarded so they can seduce the girl and then marry her to get into America. Then they move here to run their operations and the girl is subjected to a life of violence & coercion which often involves drugs, rape, torture & so on.

America is truly at war. It is not as easy to recognize but is just as deadly. Should the “open borders” cult ever get back in power, the floodgates will be opened once again & based on their statements, it will happen quickly.

[Expose H1B Fraud @JobsNowPaper]

Look at this chart.
These are American residency programs.

Red = foreign resident doctors.
Grey = Americans.

Some hospitals are almost 100% foreign. A lot of these doctors came in on visas. Some have been tied to fake credentials and USMLE cheating scandals.

I pay the premiums. I wait months to be seen. Taxpayer-funded Medicare GME money(over $21 billion a year) is training these foreign doctors instead of Americans.

And I DO NOT even trust these doctors !

Why should we keep funding this?

[RedHawk @redpilledhawk]

USA is one of a handful of countries that will tax your personal income ANYWHERE in the world but refuses to tax remittances.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

The islamic regime in Iran has confessed multiple times that they are sending terrorist cells into Britain by boats.

Britain is openly accepting them.

And housing them. And feeding them. And paying for them. Literal IRGC linked terrorists.

It's SICKENING.

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

And again: when they call you Islamophobes, I want you to remember that 200 years ago, in Chios, 42,000 Greek Christians were massacred by the Muslim Turks and 52,000 were sold into slavery. Please don’t forget.

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

On March 30, 1822, when the massacre in Chios began, the Muslim Turks had clear orders. The Sultan had commanded that all Greek Christians be slaughtered, except for boys aged 3-12 and women from 12 to 40. These would be captured and destined for the slave markets.

Young girls were raped publicly in the streets, and newlyweds in front of their husbands, who were then slaughtered. Others were raped in front of their parents, after which the men's genitals were cut off. Women over 40 were set on fire and left to burn alive. Pregnant women had their bellies ripped open and their fetuses pulled out, while small children were thrown forcefully against rocks. The frenzy of the Muslims was unprecedented.

Many Turkish soldiers cut off the heads of Greek Christians and then licked their swords. With this act, they believed they would earn a place in paradise. Others were hanged from the island's trees for deterrence. Severed human limbs and corpses were scattered on the streets, while the sea had turned red from the blood. The smoke from the burning houses had covered all of Chios, while the flames made the night look like day.Several women from Chios preferred death over dishonor and slavery.

They committed suicide by jumping off cliffs. Some were killed while defending their children, siblings, and husbands. Even among those who were captured, some died on hunger strike.Destitute women and children from the island were crammed into ships and transported to the markets of Smyrna and Constantinople, where they were sold as slaves at humiliating prices.

By May 1, 1822, over 41.000 slave ownership documents, known as "teskerés", had been issued in Chios. According to the French-language newspaper of Smyrna, Spectateur Oriental, by May 10, duties had been paid at the Smyrna customs for 40,000 slaves. The priest Welsh from the English embassy in Constantinople recorded what he saw in those days at the city's slave market:

"The Turks treated the women from Chios with utmost contempt. They examined them, groped them like butchers do lambs, and bought them for 100 grosia to 3 pounds per head. About 500 women from Chios were sold in the fish market."

The tragic events of Chios shocked Europe and America. For many weeks, the European press reported daily information and descriptions about the fate of the inhabitants, the massacres, the plunder, and the sale of women and children in the slave markets.

Korais writes in a letter to Varvakis:

"Imagine that you see Christ on the Cross, drenched in His blood, and calling out to you these paternal words: My son Varvakis, many thousands of captives baptized in my name are in danger at this hour of renouncing me and embracing the abominable religion of Mohammed. Behold the time, baptized in my name, beloved son, to save your baptized brothers from the Turkish defilement."

The horrific images of the crimes of the Muslims against the Greek Christians were never erased from the collective memory of Europeans. Great European artists were so shocked by the descriptions that they created important works inspired by Chios.

The famous painting by Delacroix is exhibited to this day in a prominent position at the Louvre. Victor Hugo's poem titled "The Greek Child" is a moving record. But the most famous sculpture of 19th-century America also stands out, named: the "Greek Slave." The sculptor Hiram Powers began carving it about twenty years after the tragic events. The statue depicts a young woman, nude, bound with chains. In one hand, she holds a small cross on a chain.

Powers himself describes the subject of his work as follows:

"The Slave has been abducted by the Turks from one of the Greek Islands during the Greek Revolution, the history of which is known to all. Her father and mother, and perhaps all her relatives, have been exterminated by her enemies, and she alone was kept alive, as a treasure that could not be thrown away. Now she is among barbarian strangers, under the pressure of the full recollection of the catastrophic events that led her to this state. She stands exposed to the gaze of people she abhors, and awaits her fate with intense anxiety, which is mitigated by her trust in the goodness of God. Gather all these sufferings together, and add to them the strength and resignation of a Christian, and there is no room left for shame."

As a Greek, I will use my weapon, the knowledge of my history, to warn as many as I can about the violent and barbaric invasion of Islam and the war we are experiencing today.

You might wonder why I repost the same stories once in a while. Repetition is the mother of learning. The only reason I have X is to educate people about Greek history. My purpose is to keep barbarians away.

- Homer Pavlos

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

James would never apply this principle to statues of Sitting Bull, who led armed resistance efforts against the United States 100 years after we were an established nation and more than ten years after the Civil War.

This isn’t about principle or conviction. It’s about how they rationalize now being the guys burning books and tearing down history in service to ideological extremism.

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

I love it when people who are not from the south moved to the south then pretend that their entire history was just the KKK and slavery.

The fact of the matter is THIS statue was cast before the Civil War even ended, just a few months after Stonewall Jackson’s death.

And a great part of the reason that a group of English admirers commissioned the statue is because they respected Jackson’s military prowess in the Mexican-American war and his religious devotion that led him to teach literacy and scripture to black children, even when it was against the law in the south. Well before the start of the Civil War.

I know our arrogant, puffed up modern day Democrats want to pretend that America was full of nothing but cartoon villains until MLK rose up, but it turns out, many great leaders in American history were complex and three dimensional.

May we pray that future generations of America have more grace and mercy for our memories than we have had for those who went before us.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

I remain mystified how strangling three children could be manslaughter rather than murder in the Clancy case. It is an effort to have the sentence drive the verdict. It is akin to the demand of the Queen of Hearts for “sentence first, verdict afterwards.”

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

At an antique store over the weekend, I was startled to pick up a 1927 edition of the Hardy Boys to find it was written in higher English than one normally encounters for adults now. This was for 8-12 year olds! A century ago. https://t.co/NYYSqVx1LM

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is one of the most romantic paintings in American history, but the artist hid a second story in it, one that only reveals itself once you know who the tired old man in the corner really was...

The painting is Marriage License, made by Norman Rockwell for the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1955. It is late on a Saturday afternoon in a small-town clerk's office. A young couple leans over the desk to fill out the paperwork for their marriage license, the man's arm around her, the woman up on tiptoe in a yellow dress to sign her name. The whole room is dim and brown, and a shaft of golden light falls through the window and lands on just the two of them, as if the day itself knows what is happening here.

Rockwell built it out of contrast: the couple glow with the beginning of everything, and, slumped in the corner, the old clerk waits, ready to go home, because for him, couples in love are just the ordinary traffic of an ordinary day.

But here is what almost no one knows: the clerk was a real man, a local shopkeeper named Jason Braman, and Rockwell chose him for a reason. Braman had recently lost his wife. Rockwell knew it, and he asked him to pose, in his own words, "as a way to give him something else to think about."

So the tired old man watching two young people promise themselves to each other is not acting. He is a widower placed by Rockwell right beside the very thing he has just lost.

Once you know that, the whole painting deepens because it is no longer only about young love. It is about the full arc of it, the beginning and the end in one room, the couple who have everything ahead and the man who had it and lost it, sitting a few feet apart in the same afternoon light.

And here's the best part: the young couple were real too, engaged in life, Joan and Francis Mahoney, and Rockwell gave them the oil sketch as a wedding present. They married. And they stayed married for the rest of their lives...

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

There’s a scene from the 1960 film version of The Time Machine that has been haunting my dreams of late.

In the film, the Time Traveller (Rod Taylor) has traveled almost a million years into the future, expecting that when he arrived he would find an advanced civilisation marked by the pursuit of learning. Instead, he finds the Eloi, a race of simple creatures in togas who are bred like cattle, and eaten, by the subterranean Morlocks.

In the film’s most harrowing scene, he’s taken by one of the Eloi to a centuries-old library housing the last books in existence, which crumble to dust in his hands.

“What have you done?” the Time Traveller demands, as the dreams of centuries turn to ash. “Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating! A million years, the sensitive men dying for their dreams, for what? So you can swim, and dance, and play.”

In the last couple weeks I see a lot of men on this platform arguing with a straight face that we should let AI generate our writing for us, that it’s the future, that there’s no fighting it. And I need you all to know that THIS is the ultimate end of a world in which everyone has machines write for them. There will be no more thinking, no more creative expression, no more art or literature. It’s what C. S. Lewis called “the abolition of man.” We will be no different from cattle and our libraries will turn to dust.

When ease and entertainment become the highest good, it’s not shocking that people will find clever ways to avoid work and study. But nor should it be surprising when the ultimate fate of the Eloi becomes our own.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

At first glance, this looks like nothing more than two lovers holding each other against a garden wall. But look at what her hands are doing...

The painting is by John Everett Millais, and the scene is set in Paris, on a specific and terrible date: the 24th of August, 1572, the eve of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, when thousands of French Protestants, the Huguenots, were slaughtered in the streets by their Catholic countrymen.

On that night, there was only one way for a man to be spared: if he tied a white cloth around his arm, a sign that he was a Catholic, the killers would pass him by.

The man in this painting is a Huguenot. And the woman who loves him is desperately trying to save his life... she is winding a white band around his arm, gazing up at him, pleading with him to just wear it, to tell the small lie that will let him live and stay with her.

But gently, without anger, he is stopping her. With one hand he loosens the cloth she is tying. He will not wear it. To wear it would be to deny his faith, to save his body by betraying his soul, and he cannot do it, not even for her, not even to live.

Millais fills the scene signs of what is coming: she wears a ring, he wears none, a marriage that will never happen. And the two of them are pressed so close that you cannot tell, at a glance, whether this is an embrace or a struggle. It is both. It is a woman trying to hold a man in this world, and a man who has already made his peace with leaving it…

[devalopr @_devalopr]

It's completely unnecessary to destroy books when machines like this exist.

This book scanner by Treventus for example, can scan fragile books without destroying it.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Here are the first two minutes of our Real History special on the Russian Revolution. Once you learn the history of communism, you’ll understand that nothing we’re experiencing today is new or surprising.

[R Techlin @VDMAe]

American Sailing Sunset.

[The War on Beauty @thewaronbeauty]

The past is becoming a foreign language