ndweiss
@11tulips.bsky.social
Democrat. Jezebel. Oxford commie. Enigma wrapped in bacon.
Politics, common sense, appreciator of outliers.
Ph.D., Nordic stuff. Espoused.
The gods are indifferent.
Think for yourself.
Politics, common sense, appreciator of outliers.
Ph.D., Nordic stuff. Espoused.
The gods are indifferent.
Think for yourself.
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Dogs. The best
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Dogs. The best
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A die made from animal bones, found in Burgstein Castle, dating 11th century.
Just like today, opposite sides of a die always add up to 7.
Dice were quite popular among all social classes during the Middle Ages. In the early 10th century, for instance, the scholar Ekkhardt IV of....🧵 1/2
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Just like today, opposite sides of a die always add up to 7.
Dice were quite popular among all social classes during the Middle Ages. In the early 10th century, for instance, the scholar Ekkhardt IV of....🧵 1/2
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November 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
A die made from animal bones, found in Burgstein Castle, dating 11th century.
Just like today, opposite sides of a die always add up to 7.
Dice were quite popular among all social classes during the Middle Ages. In the early 10th century, for instance, the scholar Ekkhardt IV of....🧵 1/2
📷 me
🏺
Just like today, opposite sides of a die always add up to 7.
Dice were quite popular among all social classes during the Middle Ages. In the early 10th century, for instance, the scholar Ekkhardt IV of....🧵 1/2
📷 me
🏺
Road trip!
November 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Road trip!
Concept: A god that demands worship and praise.
Puzzling, innit.
Puzzling, innit.
November 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Concept: A god that demands worship and praise.
Puzzling, innit.
Puzzling, innit.
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We wake to mornings of cold magic. Exhale dragon-breath, crunch frost-frozen leaves as we walk. The year is dying. We feel it as rush of ghosts, a shivering that foretells the blade of ice upon its neck. No wonder this is the season where folklore burns bright. – #DAKilroy, 1982 #Folklore
November 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
“The shades of a place may walk beside us at any time.”
November 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
“The shades of a place may walk beside us at any time.”
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He is comically, objectively, and dangerously unfit to be president. By any conceivable metric.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
He is comically, objectively, and dangerously unfit to be president. By any conceivable metric.
open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...
open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...
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November 18, 2025
November 18, 2025
For three hot days, from July 1 to July 3, 1863, more than 150,000 soldiers from the armies of the United States of America and the Confederate States of America slashed at each other in the hills and...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:34 AM
November 18, 2025
“A turducken of monsters“ 🏆
Jesus, it’s like a turducken of monsters with a side order of Jared.
Jared Kushner Invited Jeffrey Epstein to Party With Trump and Harvey Weinstein in 2013
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“A turducken of monsters“ 🏆
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I think he’s right. At some point, we knew they weren’t merely misinformed. We knew they liked the cruelty, the bullying, the bigotry.
It’s time for people of faith, morality, and conscience to hold the people in our lives accountable for their willing partnership with this filth.
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It's Time to Cut Ties With Trump Supporters
I really hate this.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I think he’s right. At some point, we knew they weren’t merely misinformed. We knew they liked the cruelty, the bullying, the bigotry.
Hard agree. How else to explain the sudden turnabout?
Very doubtful the Epstein files will see the light of day. There must be a dozen or more delaying tactics lined up for Trump’s to use.
November 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Hard agree. How else to explain the sudden turnabout?
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So many questions…
Why would Jeffrey Epstein kill himself in jail if he had this much leverage of the one person who could give him a full pardon?
November 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
So many questions…
Concept: Market these fantastic images as “studies of character.” Should anyone protest…
November 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Concept: Market these fantastic images as “studies of character.” Should anyone protest…
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I wonder why, after myriad victim testimonies, our society won’t acknowledge that a horrible crime is true until the men in power confirm it, even when some men in power were perpetrators. Honestly, I don’t really wonder; I know it has everything to do with power and nothing to do with justice.
REP. @rokhanna.bsky.social : “This is one of the most horrific & disgusting corruption scandals in our country's history... Because survivors spoke up, the truth is finally going to come out and this country is really going to have a moral reckoning. How did we allow this to happen?”
November 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I wonder why, after myriad victim testimonies, our society won’t acknowledge that a horrible crime is true until the men in power confirm it, even when some men in power were perpetrators. Honestly, I don’t really wonder; I know it has everything to do with power and nothing to do with justice.
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Yes. We should note Graham Greene’s The Quiet American. US replacement of French colonialism was a hard sell. As noted by our local pastor Elbert “Pearly” Gates, a former indochina missionary who knew Ho Chi Minh, believed his “anti colonialist” “nationalist” movement likely to succeed.
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1/Unwillingness to die in Vietnam was a real change in culture after WW2. But even Korea was unpopular. My WW2 combat officer Father didn't answer a call up for Korea. He had seen enough. We watched the news reports from Vietnam over dinner and I think he was glad I was too young for the draft.
1/Unwillingness to die in Vietnam was a real change in culture after WW2. But even Korea was unpopular. My WW2 combat officer Father didn't answer a call up for Korea. He had seen enough. We watched the news reports from Vietnam over dinner and I think he was glad I was too young for the draft.
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Yes. We should note Graham Greene’s The Quiet American. US replacement of French colonialism was a hard sell. As noted by our local pastor Elbert “Pearly” Gates, a former indochina missionary who knew Ho Chi Minh, believed his “anti colonialist” “nationalist” movement likely to succeed.
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Machu Picchu — hidden highland sanctuary where earth and sky meet. At its center stand giant megalithic blocks, carved with a precision beyond the empire that later built around them. Here the Inca story rose and fell in tragedy, yet the stones endure, holding secrets older than recorded history.
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Machu Picchu — hidden highland sanctuary where earth and sky meet. At its center stand giant megalithic blocks, carved with a precision beyond the empire that later built around them. Here the Inca story rose and fell in tragedy, yet the stones endure, holding secrets older than recorded history.
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OTD, 1863: Lincoln Calls to Us. It's Our Time. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
Lincoln Calls to Us. It's Our Time.
The greatest Memorial Day speech is only 271 words long. And it wasn't delivered on Memorial Day.
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
OTD, 1863: Lincoln Calls to Us. It's Our Time. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
Look, say what you will, things happen.
A man shows up, somebody’s nose gets outta joint, and—boom—bonesaws appear, yadda yadda, someone’s in chunks.
A man shows up, somebody’s nose gets outta joint, and—boom—bonesaws appear, yadda yadda, someone’s in chunks.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Look, say what you will, things happen.
A man shows up, somebody’s nose gets outta joint, and—boom—bonesaws appear, yadda yadda, someone’s in chunks.
A man shows up, somebody’s nose gets outta joint, and—boom—bonesaws appear, yadda yadda, someone’s in chunks.
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When a better moment for Damnatio memoriae?
May we erase his name from history.
‘A formal, historical practice, often enacted by a government, to erase someone (usually a ruler or public enemy) from the historical record.‘
May we erase his name from history.
‘A formal, historical practice, often enacted by a government, to erase someone (usually a ruler or public enemy) from the historical record.‘
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
When a better moment for Damnatio memoriae?
May we erase his name from history.
‘A formal, historical practice, often enacted by a government, to erase someone (usually a ruler or public enemy) from the historical record.‘
May we erase his name from history.
‘A formal, historical practice, often enacted by a government, to erase someone (usually a ruler or public enemy) from the historical record.‘
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They can knock down the White House, they can destroy the government, they can act like authoritarian fools, but they can never take Lincoln away from us. Lincoln is ours. He fought their authoritarianism. They murdered him, but they can never murder an idea. Lincoln calls to us, it's our time.
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
They can knock down the White House, they can destroy the government, they can act like authoritarian fools, but they can never take Lincoln away from us. Lincoln is ours. He fought their authoritarianism. They murdered him, but they can never murder an idea. Lincoln calls to us, it's our time.
The ideals persist: “It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work…
that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain”
that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain”
OTD, 1863: Lincoln Calls to Us. It's Our Time. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
Lincoln Calls to Us. It's Our Time.
The greatest Memorial Day speech is only 271 words long. And it wasn't delivered on Memorial Day.
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The ideals persist: “It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work…
that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain”
that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain”
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Republicans know this. That’s exactly why so much of their focus, and sadly their success, is based on creating conflict, distrust, and even hated, between different groups of us.
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Republicans know this. That’s exactly why so much of their focus, and sadly their success, is based on creating conflict, distrust, and even hated, between different groups of us.
Sounds exactly right.
A bit too idealistic. Some of the best read, and most traveled, peoples are also aligned with these prejudices. I think that level of hatred may be an internal issue within a man, not an external one sometimes.
November 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Sounds exactly right.
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Stunning 2,000 year-old #Roman purple glass bottle, probably used for perfume.
📷 Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins
#Archaeology
📷 Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins
#Archaeology
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Stunning 2,000 year-old #Roman purple glass bottle, probably used for perfume.
📷 Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins
#Archaeology
📷 Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins
#Archaeology