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The website for the 2026 Bridges Conference Exhibition of Mathematical Art, Craft, and Design is now live, featuring the work of more than 150 artists. gallery.bridgesmathart.org/e…
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Here are the receipts for Platner's assertion about establishment Democrats
U.S Senate Candidate Graham Platner (D-ME): "I will never forgive Susan Collins for her vote for Brett Kavanaugh which resulted in the overturning of Wade...I also will never forgive establishment Democrats..."
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[Thread] Obama years, in no particular order ....
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The Station Nightclub fire happened in 2003. No smartphones. No Instagram. 100 people still died because they stood watching the flames, thinking it was part of the show. I've retrofitted fire safety for some of the largest property portfolios in the UK post-grenfell. You are confusing stupidity with biology, physics, and catastrophic design failures. Here is the actual science of what you are watching: 1. When the music keeps playing and staff don't panic, the human brain overrides flight instincts to fit the threat into a normal context. This is called normalcy bias. These kids froze to process conflicting social cues, not to post for likes. They were likely already filming. They were also likely drunk. 2. We explicitly design buildings to account for this hesitation (pre-movement time). Fire safety codes assume people will wait before running. In a compliant building, you can assume up to a minute or two before egress commences. Sprinklers and detection systems are designed specifically to buy that time. 3. The reason the time buffer didn't exist here is the material. That ceiling is polyurethane foam. It doesn't burn linearly; it hits flashover (1,100°F) in under 90 seconds. It's essentially solid gasoline. The room would have exploded for all intents and purposes. Way before anyone could reasonably evacuate. 4. We calculate exit widths based on how many people can physically pass through a door per minute (flow rate) versus how fast a fire spreads. With foam fires, the available safe egress time drops to almost zero. Even if they had reacted instantly, the crowd density would have choked the exits before the room cleared. 5. In any normal building fire, especially one that starts off small, you expect a responsible adult to put it out, or sprinklers to do the same. When there's a pan fire in a restaurant, you don't run out in case the entire building suddenly explodes. No reasonable person should have expected this unless they were the owner and knew how the building was designed. Those poor teenagers likely passed out from smoke inhalation soon after this video. If they didn't, they would have been caught in a catastrophic explosion as they crammed into the single tiny exit. They didn't die because of Instagram. They died because the physics of the fire moved faster than human bodies can physically squeeze through a door, and a catastrophic disregard of safe design principles meant they never stood a chance.
This clip truly epitomizes the age of Instagram stupidity, where the urge to record stuff is now powerful enough to override instincts programmed into humans since the dawn of time. nitter.gq/userilsyzhzhej/status/…
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Three weeks after the International Criminal Court charged Yoav Gallant with starving children to death:
Witnessing the catastrophic hunger and suffering of civilians, especially children, women, the sick and elderly, in Gaza has been heartbreaking. The crisis in Gaza must be met with an immediate and drastic surge in life-saving resources, such as desperately needed food, water, and medicine–including therapeutic foods for those suffering from severe malnutrition. It is our collective moral duty to ensure that humanitarian relief reaches those who need it most urgently. The strategy of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has not worked. Proven methods to get humanitarian aid to those in need while preventing diversion to Hamas must be used to flood the zone now. Every moment of delay will cost lives and cause irreparable harm to the health of children, pregnant women, and other civilians. We must do all we can to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as part of the strategy to save lives, decrease Hamas’s influence and capabilities, release all remaining hostages, strengthen Israel’s security, and ultimately end this war. These goals are not mutually exclusive, rather they go hand-in-hand.
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Everyone is finding out who are real America First/MAGA and who were fake and just said it bc it was popular. Unfortunately the list of fakes are becoming quite long and exposed themselves quickly. Anyone slobbering for the U.S. to become fully involved in the Israel/Iran war is not America First/MAGA. Wishing for murder of innocent people is disgusting. We are sick and tired of foreign wars. All of them. And this one will quickly engulf the Middle East, BRICS, and NATO as countries are required to take a side. Real America First/MAGA wants world peace for all people and doesn’t want our military killed and forever injured physically and mentally. We love our U.S. military and love them helping to secure our borders and our cities for the defense of OUR PEOPLE AND OUR COUNTRY. They are our friends, spouses, cousins, nieces, nephews, sisters, brothers, sons, and daughters. We have spent TRILLIONS in the Middle East and we have dealt with the aftermath of death, blown apart bodies, never ending suicides, and disabling PTSD. All because they told us propaganda as to why we must sacrifice our own to defend some other country’s borders and some other country’s borders. I don’t want to see Israel bombed or Iran bombed or Gaza bombed. I don’t want to see Ukraine bombed or Russia bombed. And we do NOT want to be involved or required to pay for ANY OF IT!!! We are $36+ TRILLION in debt and have mountains of our own problems. We have giant planks sticking out of our own eyes while we complain about splinters in other’s eyes. Every country involved and all over the world can be happy, successful, and rich if we all work together and seek peace and prosperity. Taking this position is NOT antisemitic. It’s rational, sane, and loving toward all people. Taking this position of peace and prosperity for all is not isolationism, it leads to GREAT trade deals and GREAT economies that help ALL PEOPLE. It’s what many Americans voted for in 2024. America First! America First!! America First!!! That is how we Make America Great Again!!!!!
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Only aviation buffs will get this one.
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The beauty of old maps 🧵 1. Panama Canal: The Kiss of the Oceans (1923 postcard)
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Art memes - a thread 🧵 1. The introvert life
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as if today isn’t bad enough it’s also Esther Williams day on TCM
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A little girl patiently waits for water to be taken from her during marathon run.
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His reaction when a coworker dressed up as him on Halloween nitter.gq/visualfeastwang/status…
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If you’re confused about which way the clocks go in which season, here’s an easy way to remember: SPRING your phone will do it for you FALL your phone will do it for you
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Stand-up comedy.
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Replying to @silentmoviegifs
This is, from the same year, Harold Lloyd in one of my all time favorite crane shots.
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Nobody has ever had as much fun at a party as these two are having at this party
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This post is a good example of why the Zionist narrative is so dependent on people remaining ignorant about the history of the conflict. This person wants you to believe that one day in 1945 families of raggedy Jewish refugees started arriving in Palestine and were immediately set upon by their Arab neighbors for no reason at all. It doesn’t even qualify as a lie, just abject ignorance confidently stated with moral certainty. The reality is that early Zionists were revolutionaries drawn from the same pool of young Jewish recruits that fed the Bokshevik movement. This is what Churchill wrote about in 1920, and there are countless letters between early Zionist leaders that focus on the competition with communism for recruits. In the first decade of the 1900s, there are letters from religious Zionists concerned that they were already seeing disrespect and abuse of the local population that was going to lead to conflict. In 1919-20, when Jewish migration to Palestine has hardly begun, we already find armed Zionist militias drilling in plain sight, and parading through the streets of Palestinian cities chanting and holding banners announcing that all of Palestine would be theirs. By the end of WW2, the conflict had been going on for 30+ years, with British military power providing cover for Zionist violence while coming down with extreme measures against the Arabs. In 1945, the British have already decimated the Palestinian population - literally: they killed or wounded 1 in 10 fighting aged males during the Arab Revolt from ‘36-39 - which is scattered, exiled, and without any organized leadership. It was only then, when the Arabs were defenseless, that the Zionists began to drive their British mercenaries out using a campaign of terrorism and assassination - including the King David Hotel bombing (91 dead), mail bombing campaigns against the British government in London (and eventually even sending bombs to Harry Truman’s White House), and murder of people sent to arbitrate, such as Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish UN official who had run operations to rescue Jews from Europe during the war. Once the British threw their hands up and turned the issue over to the UN, the US used the leverage of individual bribes and postwar reconstruction funds on far away unconnected countries in Asia and Latin America to get enough of the General Assembly votes to propose a partition - it was the first act of the new United Nations, and not a single country within a thousand miles of Palestine voted for it. Anyway the General Assembly has no power to draw national borders - if it did Israel would have had to obey the half-dozen GA resolutions calling on them to withdraw the West Bank settlers and return to the 1967 borders. The proposal granted Jews, virtually all of whom had arrived in the last 10-20 years, and who were still a minority of the population, a majority of the country, and the Zionists immediately began ethnically cleansing the areas proposed for them of the remaining Arab populations, using a combination terrorist attacks, murders of Arab families, and massacres, the news of which was actually exaggerated and broadcast by the Zionists themselves to terrify the people into leaving. 750,000 people would eventually be driven into camps by these violent Eastern European revolutionaries who’d only come to Palestine in the last decade, and were funded and armed by the Rothschilds and some of the other wealthiest and most powerful interests in the world. THEN the surrounding Arab countries attacked. All of this is extensively documented, incl by Israeli historians, and is literally Wiki-level info anyone can find.
People always say the history of Israel in the Middle East is complicated. It’s not, morally. This is the Jews’ land historically. After the Holocaust, they wanted to move back there so they bought a bunch of land legally. And then in 1948 five Arab countries tried to slaughter them and lost. The world recognized Israel as a country. It really is that morally simple. There was a war and Arabs lost. And there’s been a political project to destroy Israel ever since with six different wars started by those same countries. Britain lost a war with America in 1781 and you don’t see Kier Starmer launching sneak attacks on New York trying to take it back. Instead of trying to destroy Israel, why not build a paradise with the land you have now, a luxury Jews did not have for millennia? Give up this dark dream with such an insane body count.
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a reporter asks an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi how he feels about the images of genocide coming out of Gaza. Here is his response: "What you see today in Gaza, you never see that. The last 80 years you didn't see pictures like that. These pictures you saw in Poland and Germany 80 years ago. I cannot sleep in the night, I get crazy. It is so shameful it is done in my name, and I feel selfish to say that. The children don't know why they're dying! They don't know they are Palestinians even, why do they have to die?!"
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