Zeke

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[Zeke @zekester116]

Been meaning to write something like this for a while.
Inspired by some folks like @jgreenhall @PageauJonathan @rossbyrd @aaron_renn @aaron_lubeck @CharlestonArchi
Link in the followup tweet

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@lexisoupertramp fairies are real though

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@bdub2nice we might be good this year im HYPE

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@Lucid_Stew @delshaffer @druski @nbcsnl He's in a kalshi ad yes. He's been in a lot of ads before that like for the Google pixel.

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@PJayLan I'm not a libertarian so I don't have this dialectic. Certainly no banks are making commercials that make high APY CCs seem both attractive but basically necessary. What's in your wallet!

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@PJayLan so we should encourage people to live outside their means why?
To keep the machine going? Asinine

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@berrysweetmum it's millenial beige syndrome

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@kalezelden Parody page don't fear.

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@JendersII @PickenChews @CommandMediaTV @3KindsOfSalt you're a woman now. Lol.

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@PickenChews @JendersII @CommandMediaTV Everyone wants to be a crusader no one wants to cook for the parish function.

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

In Memoriam,
Private D. Sutherland
killed in Action in the German Trench 16 May 1916,
and the Others who Died

By Ewart Alan Mackintosh (1893 - 1917)

So you were David's father,
And he was your only son,
And the new-cut peats are rotting
And the work is left undone,
Because of an old man weeping,
Just an old man in pain,
For David, his son David,
That will not come again.

Oh, the letters he wrote you,
And I can see them still,
Not a word of the fighting
But just the sheep on the hill
And how you should get the crops in
Ere the year got stormier,
And the Bosches have got his body,
And I was his officer.

You were only David's father,
But I had fifty sons
When we went up that evening
Under the arch of the guns,
And we came back at twilight
— O God! I heard them call
To me for help and pity
That could not help at all.

Oh, never will I forget you,
My men that trusted me,
More my sons than your fathers'
For they could only see
The little helpless babies
And the young men in their pride.
They could not see you dying
And hold you while you died.

Happy and young and gallant,
they saw their first born go,
But not the strong limbs broken
And the beautiful men brought low,
The piteous writhing bodies,
They screamed, "Don't leave me Sir,"
For they were only fathers
But I was your officer.

Note: Mackintosh served as an officer in the Seaforth Highlanders (my grandfather’s regiment) and was killed in action in 1917 at the Battle of Cambrai. I know of no more powerful poem inspired by the Great War.

[Imperial War Museums @I_W_M]

'One minute after the hour. All guns silent.'

At 11am on 11 November 1918, the guns fell silent on the Western Front. This document from IWM's collections visualises the silence, showing artillery activity for one minute before and one minute after the Armistice.

[Zeke @zekester116]

@aaron_renn @supremerumham

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May the memory of The Wreck be eternal 🫡

[Puckin Hostile @PuckinHostile]

Edmund Fitzgerald Day, year 51. For those who observe.

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@annielcrawford Oh wow that's new!!!

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@JuliaJuliagulia because you're a damn yankee that's why!!!

[Zeke @zekester116]

Unless you get into the idea of the western world which is built on Greek lit and values. Obviously St Gregory of Nyssa was not a pagan Greek but point stands.
I think there is a fair frustration that the sins of the western world are magnified and the sins of the east are basically glossed over in comparison.
how many students learn the cause of the barbary wars?

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@allie__voss Ya I see a lot of slobby people out there and smell/hygiene is a part of that.
https://t.co/s2d8APMpN1

[WellBuiltStyle @WellBuiltStyle]

Normalize dressing well on coffee runs.

[Zeke @zekester116]

@kalezelden @McGrathND Well earned, kale!