Born Into Slavery, This Centenarian Learned to Read at 116, Becoming the Nation's Oldest Student blackenterprise.com/meet-former-sl…

Seriously will people stop retweeting what Sajid Javid really thinks on the U.K. pulling out of the Single Market. It’s not fair. Doing so now makes it look like he sold his principles for a government job and is knowingly damaging the U.K. economy.

Umm... this is fucking amazing

Der Markt regelt auch dieses Thema ganz wunderbar über den Preis.

Interessante Beobachtung aus Minneapolis; Tweet 3+4 haben mich irgendwie an Hamburg erinnert.

Statues are back in the news; I suppose I ought say something about statues, because I'm a historian and people keep saying that statues are about 'remembering history.' Folks, statues are not about remembrance, they are about commemoration; not teaching, but moralizing. 1/22

Nazi documents stashed in armchair take author on trail of ‘ordinary’ SS officer timesofisrael.com/nazi-documents…

@Stonekettle Robin Williams had a story he would tell about being interviewed once by a German talk show host. Host: "Mr. Williams, why do you think Germany doesn't have comedy the way America does?" Williams: "Do you think maybe it's because you killed all the funny people?" Host: "No"

This is fun - Draw an iceberg and see how it will float. joshdata.me/iceberger.html

Weil sieben Familien sich weigern Miete zu zahlen, werden sie zwangsgeräumt. Da es sich aber um Israel handelt, beschäftigt sich die ganze Welt damit und bekloppte Arschlöcher wie Roger Waters sprechen von Genozid. Aber das hat alles nichts mit Antisemitismus zu tun.

Wenn du unbedingt auf dein Volk stolz sein willst, werde doch Imker.

Lieblingsfußnote: "Der Autor musste das größenwahnsinnige Vorhaben aufgeben, sämtliche deutsch-sprachige Diskussionsveranstaltungen der letzten Jahre zu zählen, die »Chancen und Risiken der Digitalisierung« im Titel tragen. Sie bleiben wohl auf immer unzählbar." 😆 Chris Piallat

Why Russia will lose this war? Much of the "realist" discourse is about accepting Putin's victory, cuz it's *guaranteed*. But how do we know it is? I'll argue that analysts 1) overrate Russian army 2) underrate Ukrainian one 3) misunderstand Russian strategy & political goals🧵

Finally! I found a way to turn lead into gold. I'll tell you how I did it, in 4 weeks, here on twitter.

When you move from Twitter to Mastodon it is very easy to find all those people that you follow here on Twitter. Just run movetodon.org click 'follow all' and you are done.

Remember when Hamas lied about 500 people dying at the Al-Ahli hospital explosion and that Israel deliberately targeted it? Well, it has now been confirmed it was a failed Islamic Jihad missile that fell on the parking lot, and it’s estimated no more than 10 people died. So