Cooper Flagg seemingly held his private area, while flexing... his monster dunk. Mavs lead Detroit 81-66show more

“It’s really the only arena I went to as... a little kid.” Maine native Cooper Flagg plays his first NBA game in New England tonight! MAVS/CELTICS, 7pm/et, ESPN 🦞show more

Mavericks fans, here’s our home away from home at... the beautiful Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook, the official hotel of the DLLS Mavs Show! We’re bringing you wall-to-wall coverage of NBA Summer League as Cooper Flagg makes his Mavs debut! #MFFLshow more

The Mavs just finished practice at Butler University. Today... was a “get what you need day,” so most of the players had individual workouts, including Cooper Flagg, who signed autographs for a few fans waiting here at Hinkle Fieldhouse. Jason Kidd: “Coop did his stuff. Did his workout. He looks good. We’ll see how he feels tomorrow.”show more

This photographer had his testicles amputated after being hit... in the private area with a baton while on the ground following a police charge in France ⚠️⚠️⚠️ 🔊sound ...😢 Credit: AB7 Médiashow more

Men are sexually assaulted by females everyday. It’s never... “breaking news”. #Michaelraineyjr was sexually assaulted on live. He was extremely uncomfortable. She started groping him. He didn’t embarrass her, or push her off. He moved her hands off of him, and protected his private area. This happens to men a lot, it is always swept under the rug. Men start reporting them! Accountability needs to be held! This wasn’t her first time doing this. Women said “he smiled” that means he wanted it. WRONG! Some men do that because they’re embarrassed, and uncomfortable. It’s a nervous tick. Keep your hands to yourself! Men start choosing the “bear” too.show more

UPDATE: We have full names of the attackers Today,... while Sheikh Saeed lies in the hospital with his leg amputated after being shot on Thursday by a settler, a hearing was held on the matter at the military court of the apartheid regime. However, the suspects are not the settlers who attacked Saeed and his son, but the victims themselves. Saeed’s 15-year-old son, who was attacked alongside him, was abducted from the scene after his father was shot and has since been held at the Israeli Ofer detention camp. Saeed himself was detained as a prisoner at Soroka Hospital and was not allowed to receive visitors or see his relatives or family members. Today, the court decided to release both of them from detention, demanding 10,000 shekels for their release. Due to technical reasons, the release will be delayed and will only take place tomorrow. Binyamin Bodenheimer—the settler who shot Saeed—is the security coordinator of the settlement of Avigail. As the person responsible for the settlement’s security, he is deeply committed to acting in the settlement’s interests, which means to the harm of his Palestinian neighbors. His activities include, among other things, expelling shepherds from their lands, harassing residents who are under threat of expulsion, and invading villages with youths from the settlement. Many complaints have been filed against Bodenheimer with the police, along with documentation proving the allegations, but the police, of course, are unfazed. Those belonging to the “superior race” are exempt from the law. Even when Bodenheimer shot Saeed, he was not required to appear for questioning (as far as is known). As for his arrest—there is no question of that, while Saeed, who was shot by him, is held as a detainee in the hospital. Today, Bodenheimer returned again to the area where the incident occurred, near Saeed’s home. Apparently, it was not enough for him, and he wants to continue making Saeed’s family’s life miserable as they are still processing the fresh trauma and new reality forced upon them. Apparently, the attacker also wanted to remind them that he is there at any given moment, that he is free and can continue to harm them as much as he wants, with the assistance and protection of the apartheid regime. Shooter's name: Binyamin Bodenheimer His accomplice: Amihai Shilo The Hind Rajab Foundation Int'l Criminal Court ICJ (text by מחוץ לעדר/ kivsa shchora)show more

🚨 JUST IN - Here are the extraordinary details... of the Hostage rescue operation by the brave IDF: At 11am Israel time, the order was given to raid two multi-story buildings in central Gaza's Nuseirat where 4 hostages were being held. The buildings were about 200 meters apart and the decision to raid both simultaneously was out of concern that terrorists may murder the hostages once they realized a rescue operation was underway. Noa Argamani was held by Hamas guards alone in the home of a Palestinian family, while the other three hostages were held at a separate home. According to the IDF, Hamas pays Gazan families to hold the hostages in their homes. At the apartment where the three male hostages were held, a gun battle erupted, during which brave IDF soldier Arnon Zamora, commander of the rescue team at the second building, was critically wounded and later died of his injuries As the three hostages and Zamora were being extracted, their vehicle came under fire. Other forces quickly reached the scene to rescue them under heavy fire. Ground troops and the Air Force carried out major strikes in the area to protect themselves and the rescued hostages. Below see aerial footage of the Extraction and Evacuation 👇🏼 Source: Aviva Klompasshow more

🧵Another personal thread dedicated to an Israeli reservist who... served during the first months of the genocide. This time it's Ariel Mualem, a D9 operator who served in Gaza. In mid-December his unit raided Kamal Adwan hospital and abducted the hospital director, Ahmad Kahlout. Kahlout was then tortured by the Shin Bet and forced to give a "confession", on camera, for supposedly being a Hamas militant and for using the hospital as a "military base" of Hamas. Mualem shared a video of the forced confession on his Instagram story, and wrote: "Take a good luck at this d*ck". In the following story we can see the hospital director being abducted, while cuffed. Mualem captioned the video "Human garbage🤮" and "Here he is, not such a hero after we got to him" A year later, Ahmad Kahlout is still held captive in one of Israel's concentration camps. Kamal Adwan Hospital is still under constant attacks, in an area where Israel is currently implementing its "final solution", named The Generals' Plan.show more

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲: 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫... 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 Prince Harry, once the shining light of the royal family, has now become a figure of contempt in Britain, a man who has not only turned his back on his family but, more egregiously, sold out his country. His actions over the past few years have burned every last bridge, leaving the British public with nothing but scorn for the man who once stood shoulder to shoulder with the people. The Oprah interview was the tipping point. It was here that Harry, complicit in silence, allowed Meghan Markle to imply that a member of the royal family had concerns about the skin colour of their son, Archie. The accusation was seismic, sending shockwaves through the UK. But what made this worse—what made it utterly unforgivable—was Harry’s inaction. His failure to stand up for his family while his ailing grandfather, Prince Philip, was in his final days showed a callous disregard for the pain it would cause. No matter the issues he may have had behind closed doors, to go on international television and sully the name of the institution that raised him was seen by many as nothing short of treachery. And as if the Oprah debacle wasn’t bad enough, we were later subjected to 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 & 𝘔𝘦𝘨𝘩𝘢𝘯, the Netflix mockumentary thinly veiled as a love letter to themselves but in truth, a very public airing of grievances. It was here that Meghan’s mocking of the royal tradition of curtsying to Queen Elizabeth shocked us Brits. With a poorly executed theatrical bow and a laughable comparison to medieval times, she belittled a gesture that symbolises respect and duty—values the British monarchy stands for. And Harry? He smirked. His silence, again, was deafening. How could any grandson, raised in the folds of such tradition, allow his wife to mock the woman who represented so much to so many? The British people watched, aghast. That smirk—that quiet complicity—was a betrayal not just of his family, but of us, the British public who had once held him in such high regard. Queen Elizabeth, beloved and respected, was the embodiment of duty and grace, and for Harry to stand idly by as she was mocked before her passing will never be forgiven. The wound is deep, and it’s raw. Then came the memoir 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦. If the Netflix series was a veiled attack, 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦 was an all-out assault. Page after page of grievances, personal attacks on his father and brother, intimate family moments laid bare for the world to see. The British public has always respected the monarchy’s ability to keep private matters within the palace walls. Harry tore that tradition apart. And for what? A quick buck, a bit of global attention. The title of ‘spare’ may have haunted him his whole life, but now it’s clear: the role he once resented is one he’s embraced—no longer a prince, but a spare to the very values that once defined him. For us Brits, it isn’t just the content of his attacks that hurts—it’s the fact that he’s chosen to air them so publicly, so vindictively. The monarchy is not just his family; it is the backbone of British history, culture, and identity. To see it so easily discarded and vilified by one of its own is a wound that may never heal. No, Britain will not forgive Harry. The man who was once the cheeky prince with a ready smile and a heart for service has become a symbol of betrayal. He has betrayed his family, his country, and his role in history. And for that, there is no going back.show more

Everytime you see the "Where is Kate Middleton?" and... the conspiracies, smile my dears, because there is a greater implication here. After 5 months of public Bullying, Press pressures, Public Pressures and Palace pressures, NO ONE can tell you anything tangible about the princess; not the press, not the courtiers, no one. Prince William has indeed remained Catherine's Relentless protector and defender🔥 He has kept his promise to Catherine that •she would have surgery in complete privacy; •be in and out of the hospital in complete privacy; • Be back home to recover in complete privacy; • That he would take care of their children and handle everything while she focus on her recovery on complete privacy🤩 We are 5 months into 2024, and Catherine, as the Most High Profile future Queen in the World, has enjoyed a privacy that was not given to any other royal women or wife of an Heir apparent EVER in History. This is not thanks to the press; this is not even thanks to the Palace. It is because her Husband has refused to serve her on a platter and has not let himself be cowered by outside nor inside pressures on him to relent. As his mentor and Frmr Private secretary Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton already said of Him: "William was always someone of deeply impressive maturity[...] There are many examples of when I worked for William where it would have been very easy to take one route, but it wouldn’t have been the honorable or the right thing to do; so he took the more difficult route."❤️ Prince William proved his private secretary right indeed. He chose the most difficult path when it came to protecting Catherine because it was the right thing to do. The Easiest path would have been to give the press what they want: access to Catherine to take her pictures so they can make money of her and dissect her ad nauseam while she recovers. Instead, he chose to do the one thing that would anger them and bring their wrath on him: He gave them No access and No explanations🔥 William EVEN dared to take a mother's day picture of his OWN wife and children HIMSELF; How dare he..😏🤡 The Fact is, Catherine has Privacy ONLY because Prince William held strong for his family to remain at peace during this time of turmoil. In 2012 during their Pacific Royal tour, Catherine was once again victim of the Press attacks and violation of her privacy when the french magazine, The Closer, published topless pictures of her while on vacation with William. The DM editor, Rebecca English, quizzed him about the situation and it was then that Prince William revealed that Prior to marrying her, he had given his word to her parents that he would protect her at all costs and take care of her; a promise he continues to stand by❤️ Just this month, a friend of the RF revealed pretty much nothing to People Mag when he said that "Prince William is keeping his inner circle tight during a challenging chapter." The Source added: "He is not leaning on too many others"😏 Another source closer to the Wales said: "The Prince of Wales is relying heavily on the "nuclear family unit" of his immediate family of five and Kate’s supportive family: her parents Carole and Michael Middleton and her siblings Pippa and James"🔥 Who could blame him? He has to keep quiet since he knows everyone wants to know what he knows. So he is right to rely on the people who will never betray him nor Catherine: The Middletons. A daft post was asking "why are the Middletons not asking where their daughter is?" Why would they, Dimmy?🤡 They know exactly where she is and probably what she ate today. The Middletons have do not talk because they KNOW what is going on and are protecting their OWN Daughter, alongside William😏 So when you see people asking where she is, remember that the Future King kept his promise to his Wife; and a Man who will keep his promises to his wife and children, will keep his promises to his country and to the Monarchy☕️ 📹Tokkianamishow more

The IDF officially confirms that the commander of Hamas's... East Rafah Battalion, his deputy, and two other terror operatives were killed while trying to flee a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday. The four were spotted emerging from the tunnels in eastern Rafah, an IDF-held area where dozens of Hamas fighters were believed to be trapped underground. According to the military, the four operatives were killed by troops and the Israeli Air Force. The IDF says that following a review of intelligence, it can officially confirm that Mohammad Bawab, the East Rafah Battalion commander, Ismail Abu Labda, the deputy battalion commander, Tawfiq Salem, a company commander, and Abdullah Hamad, the son of a senior Hamas official, were the four operatives killed. Bawab and Abu Labda were responsible for planning the battalion's invasion of southern Israel during the October 7 onslaught, the military says. Hamad, the son of senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad, served as a security officer in Bawab's team, according to the army.show more

In the spring of 2023, Kansas farmer Dale Henderson... was repairing fence posts along the eastern edge of his property near Russell County when his German Shepherd, Max, came trotting out of the tree line carrying something in his mouth. Another rock. Max had been doing this for weeks. He'd vanish into the woodland sometimes for hours, and return with dark, heavy stones clutched in his jaws. He'd drop them at Dale's feet like offerings, tail wagging, waiting for praise. These rocks were different. They were heavier than they should be. Covered in a smooth black crust that didn't match anything Dale had seen in forty years of working this land. When he held them close, they smelled like iron-metal left out in the rain. By early April, Dale had a collection of nineteen stones piled on his porch. His wife, Ellen, wanted him to throw them out. Dale couldn't explain why, but something told him to keep them. On April 14th, he loaded twelve of the specimens into his truck and drove ninety miles to the geology department at Kansas State University in Manhattan. Professor James Chen picked up the first stone, turned it over in his hands, and his expression changed. "Where exactly did you find these?" "I didn't," Dale said. "My dog did." Professor Chen ran the first round of tests that afternoon. Density measurements. Magnetic response. X-ray fluorescence. Dale paced for two hours. His neighbor, Roy Perkins, called during the wait. Roy owned the adjacent 160 acres. He'd found similar stones scattered across his fields after spring plowing. Dale told him to bring them to the university. Professor Chen emerged holding a printout of analysis results. "Mr. Henderson, these aren't rocks. They're meteorites. And based on the composition, they're from the same fall event. Probably thousands of years old." "I need to see where your dog has been finding them." The geology team arrived at Dale's farm three days later with ground-penetrating radar, metal detectors, and magnetometers. They started in the woodland where Max had been hunting. Within hours, they'd identified over sixty additional specimens buried in the soil. Beneath Dale Henderson's 200-acre farm lay the remnants of an ancient meteorite shower— thousands of fragments from a single asteroid that broke apart in the atmosphere and scattered across what is now central Kansas, likely between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago. Subsequent surveys revealed the strewn field extended across Dale's entire property and onto Roy Perkins's land as well. It was one of the largest and richest meteorite fields ever discovered in North America. The meteorites were pallasites—an extremely rare type containing crystalline olivine embedded in an iron-nickel matrix. They also showed unusually high concentrations of platinum-group metals: iridium, palladium, and rhodium. The scientific value was immense. The commercial value was almost incomprehensible. Museums began calling within a week of the announcement. The Smithsonian. The American Museum of Natural History. Private collectors from Europe and Asia. A single 4.2-kilogram specimen from Dale's north field sold at auction in September 2023 for $892,000. Dale Henderson's farm, became the site of one of the most significant meteorite recoveries in American history. The total estimated value of recoverable specimens across both properties exceeded $47 million. Dale and Roy formed a partnership. They hired a professional excavation team to conduct systematic recovery while preserving the scientific integrity of the site. The University of Kansas was granted research access in exchange for authentication and documentation services. Dale kept farming. He said he wasn't going to let space rocks change who he was. But he did build a new barn. And a new house. And set up college funds for all seven of his grandchildren. Max, the German Shepherd who started it all, became a minor celebrity. A geology magazine ran a feature calling him "the most valuable dog in Americashow more

Alright. I’m honestly relieved that this is finally coming... out, so we can finally put an end to the fairytale conspiracies about March 4, courtesy of Joe Flipperhead and the ratchet harem. Since Aidan and his Dollar-Tree-sidekick Chelsea want to drag March 4th into the public arena, let’s do it properly– with facts, not the fairy tale he’s been feeding everyone. The rumors flying around are completely untrue, and I’ve wanted to defend myself for weeks, but Aidan has spent the last month threatening me, telling people that if the truth ever came out he’d “turn me into the next Lindsey,” that everyone would believe him because he has a platform, and even declaring he’d tell his followers to contact my work. Well, here we are. Since he chose to drag this into the public and sic his ratchet brigade on me, I’m finally telling the actual story. That night wasn’t some dramatic “Meredith tried to send me to jail” moment. It was a drunk, disgusting fight between two adults—the kind Aidan has on rotation with every woman he dates. Both of us were very intoxicated, but he was blackout drunk, verbally abusive, and filming me against my will. I told him to stop. He didn’t. I’d found out about him sexting another girl and had bottled up emotions for months, which is what started the argument. I asked him to leave after he said horrible things to me, including calling me fat and useless, that people only like me because I’m “Turtleboy’s girlfriend”. I asked him to leave and he began recording me, pointing a phone in my face while I repeatedly told him to stop. He lost his own key, and because he couldn’t remember anything, he made up a story that I “stole it.” Imagine spreading this fantasy when I have him on video of me asking him to return MY KEYS? I was uncomfortable, overwhelmed, and didn’t want a drunken fight being filmed. He took our feud out into the common area of my building, disturbing other tenants. So yes, I said “you hit me,” specifically because I believed he wouldn’t share the video if I said that. I said it so he would STOP RECORDING ME, and he has a full video that I clearly say, “I’m only saying that so you’ll stop recording me.” I never reported anything to the police, never intended to, never would. He knows this. We discussed this fact many times the next day and several occasions in the last few months. That context has been deliberately cut out to push a fake narrative, but don’t worry, I’ll be posting the full videos that I took of that night. When he’s threatened me with releasing this very video, he admitted it would be edited out and no one would believe me over him. Meanwhile, the victim cosplay he’s doing now? Pathetic. He claims he was “stuck” in my house. Reality: I asked him to leave over and over. This narrative that he was somehow stuck there held hostage is simply not true. Reality: I have video of him refusing to get out of my bed, not “sleeping on the couch.” Reality: I have video of him screaming at me like a lunatic. Reality: He lost his key because he was hammered, then somehow turned that into me “stealing it.” Reality: He was causing a huge scene in my apartment throwing a literal temper tantrum on the floor. With other tenants in the building, I was genuinely concerned someone would call the police. He also lies that I tried to keep him from court the next day. Reality? I gave him my car so he could get to court. I sat in the passenger seat half-dead from a hangover while chauffeuring Captain Accountability to his court date. I sat next to him during court, then eventually throwing up in a bag on the way home. Then he used that same car to drive to his house for his spare key, and back again. I supported him through the entire aftermath, like I did every time. But now he’s trying to pretend he was some endangered baby deer and I was plotting to Lindsay him? Get real. This narrative that I was somehow trying to get him arrested? An absolutely disgusting lie considering the trauma that situation caused him. Not to mention the countless hours I spent during our 1.5 year relationship assisting with his legal defense to keep him OUT of jail. He knows it’s not true. He knows exactly what happened. Do you really think if his narrative were true, he’d stay with me for months to come and not file his own police report? But he also knows he thrives off playing victim, and he knows he has people willing to believe anything he says without question. Over the last month, behind the scenes with recording gate, he’s been telling me and others that if I ever spoke up, he’d ruin me. That he’d twist the story because he has the bigger platform. That he’d make sure people contacted my job. He has leaked private texts, sent people after me, and used Chelsea, a woman he cheated on me with, to push his manufactured victim narrative. But here’s the truth: Aidan is not the victim of March 5th. He was drunk, verbally abusive, refusing to leave, and escalating a situation he then turned around and weaponized. And like every situation he touches, every feud, every fallout, every “enemy,” every messy disaster, he plays the same role: the powerless victim of consequences he created. At some point, people need to recognize the common denominator. I stayed silent because I didn’t want this ugliness public. I didn’t want to embarrass him. I didn’t want to rehash something painful, private, and humiliating for both of us. But since he chose to send CamelToe Joe and his ratchet harem to post private fights, twist reality, and smear me, I’m done being quiet. Aidan is incapable of having a private relationship and ending. And Chelsea…hun. I know your brain cells are limited, but your "insurance" explanation makes no sense. When did he send you this video? Months after it happened? Why would you need insurance at that point? You’re being used like a scratch-off ticket from Cumberland Farms. He feeds you a cropped video and suddenly you’re Nancy Drew with a nicotine patch? Please. You weren’t even in the picture until after he was done cheating with you. These videos paint a wildly different picture of the fake victim narrative CamelToe Joe has been pushing, huh? I’ll be posting more soon, about the recording, about every single lie he has chosen to spread through his minions the last two months. I guess I was crazy to think Aidan would ever be okay with someone walking away and moving on peacefully. Since Aidan wanted the truth out, he's about to get it. PS- Speaking of men being fake scared of women– Funny how some people with very chaotic personal histories suddenly decide they’re the moral authority on my life, enough so to peddle lies on their large platforms. If I had these kinds of pasts, I'd probably sit this one out, and maybe stop throwing stones from your glass basements and (mom’s) houses.show more

Archaeologists in Livorno, Italy, are putting together the pieces... of a great mystery that began with a stunning find. While hiking in a cleared area of a Tuscan forest northeast of Livorno, a member of the Livorno Paleontological Archaeological Group spotted a few glimmering coins in the dirt in November 2021. Upon closer inspection and excavation, researchers determined that the find included 175 silver Roman denarii coins. Nearly all were in good condition, making this one of the few hoards of ancient coins found intact, according to the group. But the discovery prompted a number of questions: Whose treasure was it? Who were they hiding it from? And why didn’t they come back for it? The archaeological group, along with the archaeologist official for the provinces of Pisa and Livorno, Dr. Lorella Alderighi, has spent more than a year measuring, weighing and documenting the coins, according to a news release posted on its Facebook page. Now, the researchers think they have some answers. “This treasure is about a person’s life, the savings of a soldier’s life and his hopes for building his farm,” Alderighi said via email. “However, it also tells a sad story: (T)he owner of the coins died before he could make his dreams come true using his savings. The coins tell his story.” The hoard now displayed at the Museum of Natural History of the Mediterranean in Livorno. It’s impossible to know exactly who buried the coins, Alderighi said, but the coins would most likely have been the treasure of a former soldier who served during Rome’s Social War from 91-88 BC and during civil war between Sulla and Marians from 83-82 BC. The owner of the hoard buried it in a terra-cotta pot, which served as a sort of piggy bank. The earliest coins in the stash dated to 157 or 156 BC, and the latest up to 83 or 82 BC, according to archaeological group’s release. During that time, 175 denarii would have been a soldier’s salary for about a year and a half, Alderighi said. Now, the treasure has a value of around 20,000 to 25,000 euros, she added. The coins were preserved well in their buried state. Only two are fractured, but they can be reassembled, the release noted. Studying them could provide scholars with more background on the history of coins and how people used them and could even lead to changes with fundamental typology, created in 1974 and still used today to identify and date Roman coins, she added. “It is one of the very few hoards of ancient coins found intact and provides a lot of numismatic, historical and social information,” Alderighi said. 🎥© rometravelers (IG) © CNN #archaeohistoriesshow more

Here's a teaser of Lv Bu (吕布) from Light... Chaser Animation-the most powerful warrior of the Three Kingdoms, and perhaps the most dangerous man to trust. Lv Bu (吕布) was renowned as the era's most preeminent warrior. Born in Inner Mongolian, he's known as the "Flying General (飞将)" for his extraordinary martial skills. His legendary steed, Red Hare (赤兔), remains one of the ultimate symbols of a warhorse in Chinese culture to this day. It is widely believed to have been a "heavenly horse" from Central Asia. Lv's greatest weakness was never on the battlefield, but in his character. Suspicious, fickle, and lacking both political judgment and stable loyalty, he repeatedly switched allegiances in the chaos of the era, ultimately failing to secure a lasting position. He initially served under Ding Yuan (丁原), the Inspector of Bing Province (并州). In the late Eastern Han dynasty, imperial authority had weakened, eunuchs dominated the court, and political order had collapsed. In 189 AD, Ding Yuan led his troops to the capital Luoyang (洛阳) and conspired with the General-in-Chief He Jin (何进) to eliminate the eunuchs and restore order, or, make the throne great again. However, the plan was poorly executed. He Jin was killed by the eunuchs instead, who subsequently were slaughtered by He's allies. A huge vacuum of power emerged, and the situation quickly spiraled out of control. At this critical moment, the warlord Dong Zhuo (董卓), summoned to the capital, seized the opportunity. He swiftly took control of Luoyang, held the emperor hostage, and dominated the imperial court. Recognizing Lv's martial prowess and position, Dong Zhuo sowed discord between him and Ding Yuan, eventually persuading Lv Bu to kill his lord and defect to his side. For a time, the two referred to each other as father and son. However, Dong Zhuo's brutal and paranoid nature eventually wore on Lv Bu. Over time, as Lv grew more dissatisfied, his unease grew further when he began an affair with Dong Zhuo's maid. Ultimately, with the scheme of Wang Yun (王允), Lv Bu personally assassinated Dong Zhuo, the second time he killed his own lord. The maid, whose name was never recorded in historical texts, was later immortalized in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms as "Diaochan (貂蝉)." While the details of the maid's life are unknown, the story of Diaochan has become rich and romanticized, forever entwined with the legends of that era, making her one of China's Four Great Beauties. However, the assassination of Dong Zhuo did not grant Lv a stable position he sought. For the next ten years, he wandered between various factions, aligning with them, betraying them, and repeating this cycle. He remained the undefeated warrior, but over time, he came to be seen by all the warlords as: The strongest, yet the most untrustworthy man. Historical records show that when Cao Cao (曹操) tried to win over Lv Bu, he sent him a military seal and a sash. Cao Cao wrote in a personal letter to Lv Bu, "The royal family has no good gold, so I have recast a seal for you with my own family's gold; the royal family has no purple sash, so I have given you my own purple sash to show my sincerity." However, Lv's repeated betrayals finally led Cao to make the decision to eliminate him. In 199 AD, Cao Cao captured him. What followed was a fascinating conversation recorded in history. When Lv Bu met Cao Cao, he said: "From now on, the world can be at peace." Cao Cao asked, "Why do you say that?" Lv Bu replied: "Your Excellency's only concern is me. Now that I have surrendered, the trouble of the world is nearly over. If you command me to lead the cavalry and you lead the infantry, all under heaven will surely be unified." Lv then turned to Liu Bei (刘备), who was nearby and would move on to oppose Cao Cao in the southwest of China 20 years later, and pleaded: "Could you not speak a word on my behalf to loosen bonds?" Cao Cao, upon hearing this, smiled and said: "Binding a tiger must be done tightly." At that moment, Liu Bei intervened: "Have you forgotten the stories of Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo?" These words completely changed the situation. Cao Cao immediately decided to execute Lv to avoid his own tragic end. Before his execution, Lv glared at Liu Bei in anger and shouted: "Big-eared man (大耳儿), you are the most untrustworthy!" This final insult not only marked the last words of his life but also made Liu Bei's nickname endure in history for 1,800 years. For over 1,800 years, Lv Bu has never disappeared. In history, in novels, in films, and in games, he is always the ultimate warrior. Max stats. Zero loyalty. And like many people of my generation playing 3K-themed games, he was the one character I wanted most, even knowing he would probably betray me. In history, he failed. In legend, he became immortal. So how do you see Lv Bu, legend, traitor, or tragedy?show more

Bro started a high-speed chase over a single cookie... crumb 🍪💀 Created using Seedance 2.0 in Hailuo AI (MiniMax) Prompt: Create a 15-second cinematic comedy chase inside a giant baby bedroom/playroom. ONE continuous shot, NO cuts. A tiny real adult man on a miniature skateboard has just "stolen" a giant chocolate cookie crumb from the baby's snack area and is racing away. He is a real miniature human, not a toy, doll, cartoon, or child. The room is enormous from his perspective. Camera stays ultra-low at skateboard height, tightly following behind him in one uninterrupted take. The camera accelerates, sways, tilts, and reacts naturally to every near miss while remaining on the same continuous floor path. The giant baby notices the missing cookie and becomes excited, laughing and crawling after him—not angry, just playfully curious. The chase unfolds as one connected chain reaction: Tiny skateboarder races between giant alphabet blocks while carrying the oversized cookie crumb. The baby accidentally bumps a stack of soft foam blocks, sending one tumbling into the path. He performs a dramatic skateboard powerslide underneath it. The same baby pushes a giant toy dump truck across the floor. The truck carries colorful plastic balls that spill everywhere. He zigzags between bouncing balls. One rolling ball hits a teddy bear, causing the teddy to slowly tip over across the path like a giant furry tree. He ducks and skates beneath the falling teddy's arm by inches. The baby giggles and reaches forward trying to grab the cookie, not the rider. A huge hand lands ahead. The skateboarder quickly tosses the cookie crumb into the air. The baby becomes distracted and watches the flying cookie instead. While the baby's eyes follow the cookie, the skateboarder slips through a tiny gap between giant fingers and scattered crayons. Camera follows him into a tunnel-like opening beneath the bed. Funny Ending: Just before escaping, the skateboarder looks back proudly—then a tiny cookie crumb lands directly on his head. He shrugs, grabs it, and continues skating into the darkness as the baby laughs in the background. Audio: Playful cinematic adventure music, fast comedic rhythm, light orchestral stings, toy percussion, humorous near-miss accents. Sounds of skateboard wheels on wood, rolling balls, toy crashes, baby giggles, teddy bear flops, cookie crunches, giant hand slaps, and exaggerated cartoon-style whoosh effects while keeping visuals fully realistic. Style: Photorealistic 8K realism, cinematic lighting, warm cozy bedroom atmosphere, shallow depth of field, natural motion blur, detailed textures, family-friendly comedy, realistic scale relationships, Pixar-level humor with live-action realism. Negative Prompt: cartoon character, toy person, doll, plastic skin, female protagonist, child protagonist, changed face, duplicate baby, second baby, extra child, extra hands, extra limbs, horror, violence, angry baby, monster baby, teleporting objects, cuts, montage, camera reset, inconsistent scale, floating skateboard, broken physics, blurry face, deformed anatomy, dark horror mood.show more

A Roman emperor ate his meals in a sea... cave, a few feet from a massive marble sculpture of the moment Odysseus blinds the Cyclops. Eventually it lay shattered in thousands of pieces on the floor of that cave, and stayed there until 1957... The emperor was Tiberius, who ruled Rome after Augustus, and the cave is at Sperlonga, on the coast between Rome and Naples. It was a natural grotto opening onto the sea, and he turned it into a private dining hall, with pools of water reaching into the mouth of the cave and a platform where he and his guests reclined to eat, the waves echoing off the rock around them... Definitely not a bad place to host dinner. The sculpture stood at the deepest point of the cave and it showed the most terrifying scene in Homer's poem, when Odysseus and his men are trapped inside the cave of Polyphemus, a one-eyed man-eating giant who has sealed them in with a boulder too heavy to move and is eating the crew alive, one by one. Odysseus cannot simply kill him in his sleep, or they will be entombed with the corpse forever. So he gets the giant drunk, waits for him to pass out, hardens the tip of an olive-wood stake in the fire, and drives it into the Cyclops's single eye. The sculptors depicted the instant just before the stake goes in... The colossal figure of Polyphemus sprawls backward, drunk and unaware. Odysseus, the one closest to the Cyclops, and three of his men strain upward with the spike. It was carved larger than life and set in shadow at the back of the grotto, so that as the lamplight shifted, the whole scene seemed to move over the emperor's dinner. The Roman historians Tacitus and Suetonius both record that in the year 26 AD, while Tiberius was dining there, rocks fell from the roof of the grotto, crushing several of his attendants and nearly killing the emperor, who was shielded and dragged out. In that collapse, or in a later one, the great marble scenes were smashed into thousands of fragments. There they lay, at the bottom of the cave, until 1957, when workers building a coastal road cut into the ground and found them. Among the rubble they pulled out the colossal head of the giant himself, and slowly, piece by piece, the scene was put back together. The cave gave up two more secrets: the first was an inscription, ten lines of Latin verse, praising the grotto and saying that only a new Virgil could do justice to its statues of Scylla and the blinding of the monster by the man from Ithaca. It told the archaeologists exactly what they had found. The second was carved into the base of the neighbouring ship: three names, Athenodoros, Agesander, and Polydorus, the same sculptors the Roman writer Pliny had named as the creators of the Laocoön, the statue I wrote about yesterday. Homer's Odyssey is one of the oldest stories in the world, and it has outlived the emperor, the civilization that first told it, and every person who has ever loved it. Nearly three thousand years later, we are still telling the story of a man lost far from home, because some part of us always is... I started my newsletter because the past is full of stories like this one, and so few people ever stop to tell us why they matter. Every week I try to. If that is something you'd like to be part of, you can join through the link in my bio, and if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible. Thanks for reading.show more

Everytime, Prince William is due to have the spotlight,... EVERY SINGLE TIME, the same "Noisy Distractions" from the same "Players" appear 48 hours before😏 The Royal visit to Australia went as planned supported by the media. The Royal visit by the Duchess of Edinburgh went without a hic and so did the visit by the Princess Royal. As soon as Prince William is due for the international spotlight, channel 4 has a documentary out to hit at the Monarchy and concurrently, the Mirror has a hit piece on him🤡 The same target, the same tactics... That is why the argument that "William works with the press", has no brain nor legs. The same press that attempts to sabotage his work at every turn?🤡 The same press that bullied Catherine and Him this year for protecting their privacy?🤡 Better yet, when critics claim BP protects him, it is all the more witless. the same BP whose courtiers leak stories about him to the DM and then go radio silence everytime Catherine or William face orchestrated campaign all the While reacting swiftly to extinguish the Lindia thorpe story?🤡 No, what is abundantly clear here, is that all Royals are allowed to shine in their own rights except Prince William; because the worst thing for William's enemies to stomach, is for him to get recognition in his own rights🔥 More to the point, what is interesting about the story of Mold in the Mirror, is that all these complaints dated to Prior Prince William becoming Duke of Cornwall🔥 Yet suddenly NOW that William is Duke of Cornwall, the stories come out; Suddenly NOW before his Earthshot and while he is building housing for Homeless people, this is coming out...😏 By now, William should be used to sabotages. They didnt just start with the carribean tour of 2022; nor the South pacific tour of 2008 when topless pictures of Catherine surfaced right in the middle of their tour; The Biggest sabotage happened as early as 2006, when Prince William was due to deploy to Iraq way before Harry's deployment of 2007🔥 Frmr Private secretary for the brothers Miguel Head later revealed: "In the year 2006, Prince William was a troop commander in the Household Cavalry and His troop came up for their turn in Southern Iraq. The MOD decided that the best way to get him out to Southern Iraq was to keep the knowledge in the hands of a handful of people."🔥 Thus, William secretly trained with his unit in preparation. However, just a few weeks from his big day, Miguel wrote: "Unfortunately, it was leaked and the Prime Minister and the secretary of State for Defence made the decision that Prince William could no longer go. William was gutted about it. He understood intellectually why that decision was taken, but he was personally gutted."💔 The Next year in 2007, When it was Harry's turn, a contract with the press was done by the palace to deploy in silence. No one leaked🤔 In 2006, Prince William would have made history as the first Heir and future Monarch since George II in 1743 to lead troops in battle. Could you imagine how massive cit would have been if He had deployed? But then, What would Harry have had over William? Thus, a sabotage happened🤷🏽‍♀️ When you put into perspective that Harry's sole claim of success is that "he deployed to Afghanistan", then you can better appreciate how sabotaging Prince William's deployment to Iraq was crucial for Harry's military success🔥 So these "timed distractions" are a recurring pattern in Royal watching, a sadistic sport of sort. The Monarchy exist BY THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. Thus at any time, It can be abolished By the Will of the British public. The conundrum arises: What will be the alternative? A Republic under -39 approval rating Kier?🤡 You cannot even convince chickens to vote for that🤭 So as I was saying my dears, the anticipated Visit by the Prince Of Wales to South Africa, a commonwealth country, will start next Week...😎🇿🇦 #EarthshotCapeTown 📹Tokkianamishow more