"Pardon me for getting graphic, but Kelce — you handed your lady your balls on a silver platter. The wedding’s always about the dame, sure. But a man’s got to perform his role with dignity. If he doesn’t, the whole show sinks."

https://open.substack.com/pub/technium/p/wtf-just-happened?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

NEW: 🇪🇬Egypt UNVEILS WORLD’S LARGEST DEFENSE HQ

The Octagon bigger than the US Pentagon

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi personally inaugurates Strategic Command Center in military uniform

@Megatron_ron

This is why the Pentagon is almost impossible to attack 🔥

Did you know? 🎓

Is Four Corners really built at the four corners, or is the Google boundary incorrect?
https://redd.it/1uhidzc
@r_mapporn

Will my European friends be arrested for sharing this Russia Today post about how the EU will prosecute individuals sharing Russia Today content?

"The EU’s top court has ruled that private individuals can face criminal prosecution for posting RT videos on public websites, widening the bloc’s crackdown on Russian media.

"The Court of Justice of the European Union issued the ruling on Thursday in a case from Germany, where three people are being prosecuted for publishing RT DE videos on a freely accessible website."

https://www.rt.com/russia/642490-eu-court-rt-germany/#:~:text=The%20EU%E2%80%99s%20top,freely%20accessible%20website.

Song Dynasty—often criticized by the Chinese for its mediocre military—but single-handedly resisted the peak Mongol Empire for nearly half a century.

https://redd.it/1uk9lyd
@r_mapporn

18 Russian drones were destroyed by the Steel Border border guard unit in Sumy region.

The intercepted targets included nine Molniya UAVs, four Gerbera drones, three Italmas drones, and two Zala UAVs.

The Zero Literature Campaign

We know about Clown World’s Zero History campaign. We can see signs of it everywhere from Fructidor to the Khmer Rouge. But it was also accompanied by a Zero Literature campaign. This is not just our imagination at work. You can still see it in action. But the campaign to disappear traditional literature with historical […]

https://voxday.net/2026/07/07/the-zero-literature-campaign/

Land of the Lost was a highlight of my youthful television watching experience.

"The Explorer Hero doesn’t just need an unknown place. He needs the possibility of genuine discovery. That’s why Land of the Lost works. Rick Marshall isn’t trying to retrieve an artifact. He is discovering civilizations, physics, ecology, mapping proto-language, discovering mysteries of time and evolution.

"Rick Marshall the very last Victorian explorer.

"This show had no right to be anywhere near as ambitious as it was."

https://open.substack.com/pub/arkhaven/p/gene-roddenberrys-dirty-secrets-his?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Diversity Victory Lap

It’s not white supremacy that is going to cause massive violence across the West. It’s diversity doing victory laps: Xbox Indian CEO Asha Sharma just announced firing 3,200 Americans. She filed for 5,000 H-1B visa hires this year. Asha was appointed CEO of Xbox in February by Indian Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. How is this […]

https://voxday.net/2026/07/07/diversity-victory-lap/

"We use the effect of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries after 1535 to test the commercialization hypothesis about the roots of long-run English economic development. Before the Dissolution, monastic lands were relatively unencumbered by inefficient feudal land tenure but could not be sold. The Dissolution created a market for formerly monastic lands, which could now be more effectively commercialized relative to nonmonastic lands, where feudal tenure persisted until the twentieth century. We show that parishes affected by the Dissolution subsequently experienced a rise of the gentry and had more innovation and higher yield in agriculture, a greater share of the population working outside of agriculture, and ultimately higher levels of industrialization. Our results are consistent with explanations of the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions which emphasize the commercialization of society as a key precondition for taking advantage of technological change and new economic opportunities."
https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/136/4/2093/6352974#:~:text=We%20use%20the,new%20economic%20opportunities.