If the COVID pandemic was a Tinder date:

Velcro was invented by the Swiss Georges de Mestral in 1941. 🤓

Did you know? 🎓

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Residents of the US state of Montana spotted a supposedly new Chinese hot air balloon at an altitude of 17 km.

The Pentagon has yet to intervene.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s Peace and Diplomacy Speech

"Let’s replace the vicious cycle of escalation with a virtuous cycle of peacebuilding. Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal just issued a resolution threatening Russia with dire consequences in response to its stationing of nuclear weapons in Belarus. I agree that Russia should remove those weapons. And as a first step, the U.S. can start removing its nukes from Germany, Italy, Belgium, Turkey, and the Netherlands, along with its new missile bases in Romania and Poland."

https://www.kennedy24.com/major_address_peace_diplomacy?locale=en

Beware UBI: Universal Basic Income is an original construct of the Technocracy movement in the 1930s.
https://www.technocracy.news/universal-basic-income-and-the-anti-human-agenda/

The institutions are not run by serious people. They are woke. And wokeness kills.

I have known @realDonaldTrump for 40 years.

Here is the REAL story of his 2016 campaign that shocked the world (All copies sold here are signed): https://stonezone.com/product/the-myth-of-russian-collusion-the-inside-story-of-how-donald-trump-really-won/

Sea otters eat 25 percent of their body weight in food every day. 🦦🥹

National Geographic

There are approximately 1.4 million kilometers of active submarine cables in the world today. 🛜😲

Did you know? 🎓

The Cossack family

Cossack families were patriarchal — the oldest living male of the family held the highest honour at all times. Yet, as Tolstoy wrote of women, "...hard work and care as she tended to provide, gave a particularly independent, courageous character to the Cossack woman and a strikingly well developed in physical strength, common sense, determination and fortitude of character." Women's roles were critical because the men spent long periods on military duty. The creation of a new family presupposed, first of all, the birth of children. Formally, Cossack families had many children, which the Cossacks were very proud of. Among the Cossacks, the birth of a boy was more joyful than a girl, since the latter was not ennoscriptd to an allotment of land. The Cossacks tried to take a modest, hard-working, pleasant-looking bride. The bride's parents, when making a match, made sure that the groom was "of a good family", "not a drunkard".

An alarm clock that explodes. Literally.

This is a 17th century clock with a flintlock. At the preset time, the flint sparks a spark, the sleeper hears the clap of gunpowder and is immediately awakened. You don't sleep through it.

https://www.skinnerinc.com/news/blog/flintlock-alarm-candle-clock/

Dear Climate Gremlin: We are still here

Yesterday five years ago, Greta Thunberg predicted climate change would “wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.”

We didn’t stop using fossil fuels and we have not been “wiped out.” So, users took to Twitter to celebrate, or otherwise, Greta Thunberg Day.

https://expose-news.com/2023/06/22/dear-climate-gremlin-we-are-still-here/

‼️🇷🇺 This evening, Putin will make a number of important statements, media reports citing Peskov.

George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Mercenaries and PMCs are an important part of how war is waged today, but we're seeing the dangers of them in real time in Ukraine today. Their loyalty is fundamentally to a man rather than to a nation-as-idea. This is a more honest arrangement but Russia's nationhood is now bound up to some extent with Putin himself so he may carry this off. In any case, these forces and other client groups are extremely useful until they're not, which can change very quickly.

I say, therefore, that the arms with which a prince defends his state are either his own, or they are mercenaries, auxiliaries, or mixed. Mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous; and if one holds his state based on these arms, he will stand neither firm nor safe; for they are disunited, ambitious, and without discipline, unfaithful, valiant before friends, cowardly before enemies; they have neither the fear of God nor fidelity to men, and destruction is deferred only so long as the attack is; for in peace one is robbed by them, and in war by the enemy. [...]

The mercenary captains are either capable men or they are not; if they are, you cannot trust them, because they always aspire to their own greatness, either by oppressing you, who are their master, or others contrary to your intentions; but if the captain is not skilful, you are ruined in the usual way.

— Machiavelli, The Prince, xii

EDIT: lol just saw that Morgoth beat me to the punch by like 5 hours. Gotta get up pretty early.

The Russian coup has made it clear that Telegram is pretty much the main source of objective analysis right after a breaking news event. You will not see this variety of perspectives in long format anywhere else—everything is performative narrative sculpting.

McEwan Hall, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom