The Rest is a Rebellion

Cederberg, South Africa
Joined January 2007
People 30,000 years ago probably had words for "day," "month," and "year," but not "week"—because unlike the others, weeks are arbitrary inventions with no connection to the natural world.
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Lithops are Namibian and South African plants that have evolved to look like stones [read more: bit.ly/2gLSyHy]
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Humans are 99.9﹪ genetically identical to every other person. You're only 0.1﹪ unique.
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Email translations: “I was under the impression” Translation: I’m furious “As per my email” Translation: I’m furious “With respect” Translation: I’m furious “Whilst I appreciate” Translation: I’m furious “As I’m sure you’re aware” Translation: I’m furious
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If you torture data long enough it will confess to anything.
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Daria retweeted
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
@pmarca21 Apr 2022
By default, each layer of management lies to the one above it, so by the time the CEO gets a report, it can be 6-12 layers of compounded lies. The same thing happens in nonprofits and government.
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"God is dead." - Friedrich Nietzsche ⓘ 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁.
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Long-term practitioners of lovingkindness meditation develop similar neurological reactions to seeing the faces of strangers and their own faces, with a growing sense of 'you’re like me'.
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We are witnessing, literally watching live, Putin commit genocide on an industrial scale in Ukraine while the most powerful military alliance in history stands aside. It's impossible not to be emotional, but let us also be rational and focus our rage on the facts. 1/13
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Yes, obviously Russia cannot allow NATO along its border! The solution is clearly to take over Ukraine, which would only put them directly on the border of four more NATO countries.
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LIVE | Ukraine's ambassador to Pretoria: 'SA is still too close to Moscow for our message to get through' | #UkraineInvasion ow.ly/3hiG50I6Qx8
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📢 Statement of #ICC Prosecutor #KarimAAKhanQC on the Situation in #Ukraine: “I have decided to proceed with opening an investigation.” Read more ⤵️ icc-cpi.int/Pages/item.aspx?…
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Daria retweeted
The Kyiv Independent
@KyivIndependent1 Mar 2022
⚡️Zelensky: Launching a rocket at the central square of Kharkiv is an outright, undisguised terror. After that, Russia became a terrorist state. No one will forgive. Nobody will forget.
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Ukrainians some damn thugs 😂😂😂
If true, it’s probably the first tank ever stolen by a farmer… )) Ukrainians are tough cookies indeed. #StandWithUkraine #russiagohome
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Daria retweeted
NEXTA
@nexta_tv27 Feb 2022
🇺🇦 Anonymous hackers put the #Ukrainian anthem on air for the #Russian occupiers
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⚡️Ukraine’s Zelensky posts a new video of himself and his team outside the presidential administration in Kyiv’s government quarter after rumors in Russian media that he’d fled. “We are here. We are in Kyiv. We are defending Ukraine.”
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Protests are erupting in several Russian cities tonight against Putin's large-scale invasion of Ukraine, along with attempts from police to forcibly suppress them. Here's his hometown of St. Petersburg. I'll be threading videos below as I find them.
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