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The Dream - Bas Nijenhuis , 2020

Dutch , b. 1976 -

Oil on linen , 60 x 90 cm.

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No i havent outgrown it because i had great taste at 7 years old

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Kevin Yaun.

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I love it when dogs try to help but the task at hand requires zero dogs so they just kinda stand in front of you and look serious.

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Basilica Cistern in Istanbul, Türkiye

Taken March 2025

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Listen to the story of Abdul Rahman's family

Here lives fell... and homes were destroyed, but hope still awaits your donation.

He stands on the rubble of what was, just hours before, a warm shelter for an entire family. . . A massacre occured here, with more than 20 martyrs were killed in a single moment.

This was his uncle’s house, but now it's no longer there. . . God miraculously granted them their survival. They were pulled from the rubble with serious injuries, while everyone on the upper floor was martyred. Will you wait for the same to happen to the rest of them?

Will they have to be buried beneath the rubble before anyone acts? Help them survive. . . Help them escape Gaza before it's too late. 💔 Every donation from you is a chance for a new life for Abdul. The screams of children, the groans of the wounded, and the smell of dust and blood still linger. . . How long? How long must they wait for death? How long will their blood be allowed to bleed unseen and unheard? 💔

They have lost everything. Now they plead for the chance to live. Your donation today could save a life, and give a child a chance to survive.

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this is so mean but sometimes i see published writing and suddenly no longer feel insecure about my own writing ability. like well okay that got published so im guessing i dont have much to worry about

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sorry if i’m being a party pooper but because rabies is apparently the new joke on here ??? please remember that rabies has an almost 100% fatality rate after symptoms develop so if you’re bitten or scratched by an animal that you aren’t 100% sure is vaccinated then GO TO A DOCTOR. it’s not a joke. really. 

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"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

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Tons chauds et neutres

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"When you're trying to have a hot girl summer, but the governments decide to start WWIII😭😭"

Location: Bumfuck, Oklahoma

"Dying in WWIII wasn't on my 2025 bucketlist 💀🫣"

Location: Sydney, Australia

"Look at the strawberry varenyky I made"

Location: Kyiv, Ukraine

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LADY GAGA GRAMMY'S 2025

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Toomaj Salehi -iranian rapper and political activist- in response to us president and israel commanders order to evacuate tehran:

[Tweet by @OfficialToomaj: “Evacuate Tehran” is nothing more than a populist slogan meant to later claim: “We didn’t intend to kill Iranian civilians; they just refused to leave the war zone.” But how are over 9 million people — without fuel, often without enough savings to relocate, and with no second home in another city — supposed to evacuate Tehran? If your intention is to kill the people of Iran, at least have the honesty not to hide the burden of that responsibility. Your war is not with the people of Iran. If you attack them, you are, in truth, killing hostages. And you know very well that such a crime will plant seeds of hatred that could deprive generations — both ours and yours — of the peace and calm we all long for. No child should become a victim of decisions made by politicians hiding behind the iron walls of their palaces./ end of tweet]

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From A tehrani resident who barely got out let me inform you of some of the things currently going on here:

Israel bombed two of the highways leading out of tehran, both are blocked now. The remaining highways had heavy traffic until few hours ago. After israel bombed every oil tanks and refineries around tehran, a shortage of petrol happened. Now most petrol stations are out of work and if you're lucky enough to find one that's still operating, you have to stay in hours long lines in hopes of getting max 15 liters of petrol. So even with a car, it's not guaranteed you can get very far from the city.

There's also the matter of where to go and stay. The bank system is half working, no cash available at the time. And you can't exactly sleep in the deserts around the city. Most people still stuck in tehran don't have anywhere to go and they don't have the money to afford relocating themselves (it's always the lower class that gets the worst hits)

All of these are beside the fact that most people can't leave the city under any circumstance. They have chronic illnesses, they have sick family members who needs care, they work as emergency workers and can't leave their lines of duty.

But these mfs don't care about human life getting destroyed. It's just numbers to them, expendables. Our own government has abandoned people to die horrible deaths, they never cared and they don't care now. People of iran are worth nothing to nobody. It's Gaza all over again.

I have family and friends still in tehran who can't leave. I'm bracing myself for the worst case scenario. I hope all those who start war, add fuel to the flames of war, encourage it and cheer for it, burn and rot in hell. I don't really believe in hell and afterlife, but I hope it's all real just to see these people get what they deserve

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On 8 October 1912, during the First Balkan War, Lemnos became part of Greece. Under Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, the Greek navy captured it after a brief action without any casualties from the Ottoman garrison, who were returned to Anatolia. Peter Charanis, born on the island in 1908, and later a professor of Byzantine history at Rutgers University, recounts when the island was liberated and Greek soldiers were sent to the villages and stationed themselves in the public squares. Some of the children ran to see what Greek soldiers looked like; „What are you looking at?“, one of them asked; „At Hellenes“, the children replied; „Are you not Hellenes yourselves?“, a soldier retorted; „No, we are Romans“.

The word "Romans" here is "Romioi" (singular: Romios/-a), the Hellenized folk way of saying "Romans". The Ottomans called all Greek Orthodox citizens of their empire "Rum" (Meaning "Roman"), regardless of what language they spoke. Anatolia, the area where the last Byzantine kingdoms flourished, was called "Diyar-I Rum" (Meaning "Roman Country" in Arabic). Even the conquered lands in the Balkans (today's Greece) were called Rumeli ("Roman land" but in Turkish).

After the modern Greek state was created, the Turks started using the term "Yunan", a loan word from Persian and Arabic, which means Ionian (from the Ionian Greeks), to differentiate between the Greeks living in Greece and the Greeks living in the Ottoman Empire. Greeks living in Western Anatolia before the Greek Genocide, called themselves Romans up until the 1920s.

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Steeple Mountain, a 5-7 kilometers (3 to 4.3 miles) high formation on the surface of Jovian moon Io.