https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/travel/vatican-visitors-selfies-pope-francis-intl-scli/index.html

What kind of narcissistic freaks do this?

"British soldiers have successfully tracked, targeted and defeated swarms of drones in the latest trial of a new directed energy weapon developed in the UK."
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/british-soldiers-take-down-drone-swarm-in-groundbreaking-use-of-radio-wave-weapon#:~:text=British%20soldiers%20have%20successfully%20tracked%2C%20targeted%20and%20defeated%20swarms%20of%20drones%20in%20the%20latest%20trial%20of%20a%20new%20directed%20energy%20weapon%20developed%20in%20the%20UK.

Irish Teacher Enoch Burke Has Bank Accounts Frozen After Refusing Gender Pronouns

Irish teacher Enoch Burke, who refused to comply with gender pronoun policies, now finds himself with frozen bank accounts in what critics call a chilling move against free speech.

This is what "human rights" look like in 2025—where dissent can cost you everything. Many see Ireland heading toward a dystopian reality, echoing Orwell’s 1984, just like the rest of Europe.

What do planes do in emergency over oceans?

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The PCR test, Covid and the AIDS-HIV scam explained in under 4 minutes.

24 hours of flights between Europe and the US
https://redd.it/1k23cto
@r_mapporn

"Napoleonic semaphore was the world's first telegraph network, carrying messages across 19h-Century France faster than ever before. Now a group of enthusiastic amateurs are reviving the ingenious system.

"Before the web, before the computer, before the phone, even before Morse code, there was le systeme Chappe.

"Not for the first time or for the last, at the end of the 18th Century France made an important technological advance - only to see it overtaken by newer science."

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22909590

"The telegraph hack that Dumas came up with is predictable enough. The count, a man who had been unjustly imprisoned in his youth, plants a false message on the telegraph to ruin one of the men who had wronged him. He does this by bribing the operator with enough money to allow him to leave the telegraph service, avoid punishment, and start life afresh elsewhere. The obvious moral here is that people are often the weakest link in a technological system."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/what-the-count-of-monte-cristo-can-teach-us-about-cybersecurity

The End of the Middleman

The Internet has reduced the need for retailers and various rising costs have rendered their cut unviable, and increasingly, their businesses too, as Fandom Pulse chronicles the shutdown of Boardlandia: It’s been a strange space in board gaming for the past several years as companies have turned to direct crowdfunding more and more, abandoning brick-and-mortar […]

https://voxday.net/2025/04/25/the-end-of-the-middleman/

Did you know you can estimate the remaining daylight using your hands and the sun?

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the extraordinary power of media. This is what we're up against.

The TV can make lemmings radically change their opinions in two weeks just by what's on the daily news hour.

"She remembered these nights vividly: rooms filled with rich, powerful executives and barely-legal models performing sex acts as some grotesque initiation rite. One night stood out in particular: “A lot of these models were deficating on the table where T.R. was taking photos of them underneath the glass table.”

"Yes, you read that correctly. New York’s most beautiful women were taking turns shitting on glass tabletops. The men behind these scenes were so warped by power and perversion, they managed to turn a defecation kink into a normalized party activity.

"This wasn’t just about fetish. This was blackmail. They were creating leverage, disgusting, humiliating leverage, capturing the most embarrassing moments on film."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-161209378#:~:text=She%20remembered%20these,moments%20on%20film.