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On Thursday February 12, Bangladesh will head to the polls to elect its next gov’t, 18 months after PM Sheikh Hasina was ousted from office by a student-led movement.
We break down everything you need to know about the country’s election ⤵️
On Thursday February 12, Bangladesh will head to the polls to elect its next gov’t, 18 months after PM Sheikh Hasina was ousted from office by a student-led movement.
We break down everything you need to know about the country’s election ⤵️
The 2026 elections are among the most consequential in the country’s 55-year history.
With more than 173 million citizens, Bangladesh is the eighth most populous country globally, and its economy has been one of the fastest-growing in the world.
With more than 173 million citizens, Bangladesh is the eighth most populous country globally, and its economy has been one of the fastest-growing in the world.
Bangladesh also has one of the world’s youngest populations, with a significant portion under the age of 30.
Nearly 5 million people are first-time voters.
Nearly 5 million people are first-time voters.
SitRep - 10/02/26 - AFU advances and Telegram partially blocked in Russia
An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. While the AFU denies large scale operations, the AFU did advance near Sosnivka, Prymorske and Lukianivske.
REPOST=appreciated
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An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. While the AFU denies large scale operations, the AFU did advance near Sosnivka, Prymorske and Lukianivske.
REPOST=appreciated
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Missed the latest SitRep?
As usual we start with Russian losses
@grok @BrianNorgard @grok tell me more about AI ethics as an option. What does it involves and how to pivot.
@grok @BrianNorgard @grok tell me how to transition from public policy degree and expertise to AI ethics
@grok @BrianNorgard @threadreaderapp unroll
The Rahul Formula: Lie on Security 🗣️
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1)
On the issue of national security, @RahulGandhi is miles ahead - even of our adversaries - when it comes to spreading falsehoods.
Here are a few instances where he appears to have crossed the Lakshman Rekha.”
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1)
On the issue of national security, @RahulGandhi is miles ahead - even of our adversaries - when it comes to spreading falsehoods.
Here are a few instances where he appears to have crossed the Lakshman Rekha.”
2)
Regularly attacking Bharat on foreign shores. Wonder his frustration levels..
Regularly attacking Bharat on foreign shores. Wonder his frustration levels..
3)
Rahul Gandhi stoked another controversy with his remarks on the Indian Army...
Rahul Gandhi stoked another controversy with his remarks on the Indian Army...
Today has been a hard day. Reading all the tributes and memories of Jim Robson has been both heartwarming and heart wrenching.
Let me add my voice to the many. A thread:
I lost a good friend today. Who just happened to also be a hero of mine.
Let me add my voice to the many. A thread:
I lost a good friend today. Who just happened to also be a hero of mine.
Like many young sports fans in BC, my earliest sports memory involves the great Jim Robson and a radio.
One Christmas my uncle gave me a small single-speaker radio. I remember staying up late playing with the plastic dial under the covers when I was supposed to be asleep.
One Christmas my uncle gave me a small single-speaker radio. I remember staying up late playing with the plastic dial under the covers when I was supposed to be asleep.
The station that came in clearest and loudest was CKNW 98.
Out of the speaker came this commanding, clear voice painting a vivid picture of what was happening on the Pacific Coliseum ice. Jim Robson was describing a brutal 9-0 loss to the Montreal Canadiens. And I was hooked.
Out of the speaker came this commanding, clear voice painting a vivid picture of what was happening on the Pacific Coliseum ice. Jim Robson was describing a brutal 9-0 loss to the Montreal Canadiens. And I was hooked.
The Moche were a mysterious civilization who ruled the northern coast of Peru beginning 2,000 years ago. The Moche lacked written language, but were incredibly skilled in pottery and ceramics which they used to communicate ideas and express their lives by depicting detailed scenes of hunting, fighting, sacrifice, ceremonies, and sexual encounters in startlingly explicit detail. Little was known about the Moche civilization until 1980s when archaeologists began uncovering monuments and tombs containing detailed murals, and incredible ceramics that depicted detailed scenes of hunting, fighting, sacrifice, ceremonies, and explicit sexual encounters. The erotic pottery left behind by the Moche represent one of the most detailed accounts of sexual customs ever left by ancient people. This last item, the so called “Sex Pots”, have been the subject of much research and study of sexual values in pre-Columbian Peru.
Of the thousands of ceramic vessels that have been recovered from Moche tombs, at least 500 of them display sexually explicit imagery, typically rendered as free-standing three-dimensional figures on top, or as part of, a vessel. Moche Sex Pots are actually functional clay post, with hollow chambers for holding liquid and stirrup-shaped spouts for pouring, often in the form of a phallus. They depict men, women and animals engaging in a variety of sexual acts, the most common of which is anal sex. Many of pottery bottles thus symbolized the emission of sexual fluids and would probably have been used in ceremonies and rituals. When Spanish invaders discovered them, the unabashed depiction of sodomy and masturbation so affronted their Christian belief that they had the posts smashed.
The anal sex in particular is reproduced over and over, in a variety of styles, indicating that it was produced by different artists over a long period of time. To remove any doubt that may arise in minds of the viewer regarding the gender of the penetrated figure, the artist often carved the genitalia carefully, despite their small scale, so as to demonstrate that it is the anus, not the vagina that is being penetrated. Scenes of vaginal penetration are itself extremely rare. Sometimes, accompanying the couples, one can see an infant suckling onto the breast of the female while she is having sex. There are also figures depicting women administering fellatio or masturbating. Some depict male skeletons masturbating, or being masturbated by living women.
“These pots clearly reflect very different notions of sex and reproduction from ones that prevail in the West, and, because of this, a lot of researchers have had trouble making sense of them,” writes UNEARTHING.
The Larco Museum (Museo Larco) in Lima, Peru, displays the largest collection of pre-Columbian erotic pottery. According to Museum, it presents “a conception of sexuality and eroticism inextricably linked to an integrated understanding of the world and its animating vital forces. In the Andean worldview, life is made possible through a generative encounter (tinkuy) between opposite complementary forces (yanantin). Female and male bodies are an expression of this duality.” The images below all come from their collection.
📷 : Stirrup vessel with fellatio scene; Peru, Moche civilization, 300-600 AD. (Larco Museum, Lima 🇵🇪)
#archaeohistories
Of the thousands of ceramic vessels that have been recovered from Moche tombs, at least 500 of them display sexually explicit imagery, typically rendered as free-standing three-dimensional figures on top, or as part of, a vessel. Moche Sex Pots are actually functional clay post, with hollow chambers for holding liquid and stirrup-shaped spouts for pouring, often in the form of a phallus. They depict men, women and animals engaging in a variety of sexual acts, the most common of which is anal sex. Many of pottery bottles thus symbolized the emission of sexual fluids and would probably have been used in ceremonies and rituals. When Spanish invaders discovered them, the unabashed depiction of sodomy and masturbation so affronted their Christian belief that they had the posts smashed.
The anal sex in particular is reproduced over and over, in a variety of styles, indicating that it was produced by different artists over a long period of time. To remove any doubt that may arise in minds of the viewer regarding the gender of the penetrated figure, the artist often carved the genitalia carefully, despite their small scale, so as to demonstrate that it is the anus, not the vagina that is being penetrated. Scenes of vaginal penetration are itself extremely rare. Sometimes, accompanying the couples, one can see an infant suckling onto the breast of the female while she is having sex. There are also figures depicting women administering fellatio or masturbating. Some depict male skeletons masturbating, or being masturbated by living women.
“These pots clearly reflect very different notions of sex and reproduction from ones that prevail in the West, and, because of this, a lot of researchers have had trouble making sense of them,” writes UNEARTHING.
The Larco Museum (Museo Larco) in Lima, Peru, displays the largest collection of pre-Columbian erotic pottery. According to Museum, it presents “a conception of sexuality and eroticism inextricably linked to an integrated understanding of the world and its animating vital forces. In the Andean worldview, life is made possible through a generative encounter (tinkuy) between opposite complementary forces (yanantin). Female and male bodies are an expression of this duality.” The images below all come from their collection.
📷 : Stirrup vessel with fellatio scene; Peru, Moche civilization, 300-600 AD. (Larco Museum, Lima 🇵🇪)
#archaeohistories
The scenes of intercourse, oral sex, and masturbation on the pots could be ripped from the pages of an erotica novel written today, but, instead, they’re depicted on traditional ceramics sculpted over 1,500 years ago in Peru, now one of the most conservative Catholic places on the planet. Moche, who lived from 100-800 AD, pre-dating more celebrated Inca sculpted tens of thousands of ceramics, an estimated 100,000 of which remain. Of those, at least 500 are pots depicting sexual acts.
To Spanish colonizers who uncovered Moche sex pots in indigenous spiritual temples and royal tombs scattered up and down Peru’s North Coast, the pieces were manifestations of something sinful. The Spanish were scandalized by the ceramics’ graphic detailing of sex between humans, skeletons, and animals—with infants also sometimes present as non-participants. Shaken to their Catholic core, they smashed the pottery to pieces and criminalized the premarital and non-reproductive sex acts depicted on their surfaces.
In years, decades, and centuries following the arrival of the Spanish, hundreds more sex pots were dug up by looters and archaeologists, dispersing to private and public collections around the world. But the pots in Lima, housed at the bottom of the Museum of Archaeology, were kept under lock and key, reserved for only the most educated of eyes: those of social scientists and scholars. For the rest of the population, the erotic pottery was deemed far too provocative.
The absence of vaginal penetration, for instance, has been interpreted by some as to illustrate birth control methods, while some suggest it emphasizes male dominance and male pleasure. While modern viewers may find the presence of the child during a sexual act distasteful, according to Mary Weismantel, it suggests that the Moche believed that the seminal fluid that transfers from men to woman is the same vital substance that transfers from the mother to the child. Weismantel argues that like many cultures, Moche saw sexual reproduction not as a single event or act but as a series of practices that occur over long periods of time, involving various transfer of bodily fluids into various orifices. Similarly, pots depicting women masturbating skeletons may show the transfer for vital bodily fluids that came from their long-dead ancestors.
Many ceramics also feature giant erect penises, sometimes sculpted into, fittingly enough, fully functional spouts for pouring liquid. Others show figures bearing rather goofy-looking grins. The sex appears pleasurable and unabashed. From Museo Larco’s sex pot gallery, it’s common to hear reactions escape in outbursts of gasps and giggles. For Peruvians, though, these sex pots represent something more serious: a reality that cannot be reduced to mere iconography. To them, the story of the pottery might be symbolic of their own—a culture that has been devalued while at the same time appropriated for profit and for power.
As Caril Phang, a researcher of indigenous cultures of the Western Hemisphere, puts it:
That Moche pottery presented the physical act of sex was an affront to the Catholic faith. However, the art also proved advantageous to the colonizing ideal. It suited the Spanish need to define indigenous peoples as ‘carnal,’ ‘lustful,’ ‘pagan’ tribes on whom ‘just war’ would be declared, to expand Spanish territory and the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church.
What the Spanish viewed as barbarian art, however, actually spoke of a highly organized civilization that in some ways might have been more socially and politically progressive than the one that centuries later came after it.
In some experts’ opinions, the sex ceramics could emphasize a sort of equality between men and women that is feminist in interpretation. Weismantel sees this in the representation of “their bodies, faces, tattoos, or body paint and adornments” which “are often shown as similar or even identical, so that they can be distinguished only by their genitalia.”
To Spanish colonizers who uncovered Moche sex pots in indigenous spiritual temples and royal tombs scattered up and down Peru’s North Coast, the pieces were manifestations of something sinful. The Spanish were scandalized by the ceramics’ graphic detailing of sex between humans, skeletons, and animals—with infants also sometimes present as non-participants. Shaken to their Catholic core, they smashed the pottery to pieces and criminalized the premarital and non-reproductive sex acts depicted on their surfaces.
In years, decades, and centuries following the arrival of the Spanish, hundreds more sex pots were dug up by looters and archaeologists, dispersing to private and public collections around the world. But the pots in Lima, housed at the bottom of the Museum of Archaeology, were kept under lock and key, reserved for only the most educated of eyes: those of social scientists and scholars. For the rest of the population, the erotic pottery was deemed far too provocative.
The absence of vaginal penetration, for instance, has been interpreted by some as to illustrate birth control methods, while some suggest it emphasizes male dominance and male pleasure. While modern viewers may find the presence of the child during a sexual act distasteful, according to Mary Weismantel, it suggests that the Moche believed that the seminal fluid that transfers from men to woman is the same vital substance that transfers from the mother to the child. Weismantel argues that like many cultures, Moche saw sexual reproduction not as a single event or act but as a series of practices that occur over long periods of time, involving various transfer of bodily fluids into various orifices. Similarly, pots depicting women masturbating skeletons may show the transfer for vital bodily fluids that came from their long-dead ancestors.
Many ceramics also feature giant erect penises, sometimes sculpted into, fittingly enough, fully functional spouts for pouring liquid. Others show figures bearing rather goofy-looking grins. The sex appears pleasurable and unabashed. From Museo Larco’s sex pot gallery, it’s common to hear reactions escape in outbursts of gasps and giggles. For Peruvians, though, these sex pots represent something more serious: a reality that cannot be reduced to mere iconography. To them, the story of the pottery might be symbolic of their own—a culture that has been devalued while at the same time appropriated for profit and for power.
As Caril Phang, a researcher of indigenous cultures of the Western Hemisphere, puts it:
That Moche pottery presented the physical act of sex was an affront to the Catholic faith. However, the art also proved advantageous to the colonizing ideal. It suited the Spanish need to define indigenous peoples as ‘carnal,’ ‘lustful,’ ‘pagan’ tribes on whom ‘just war’ would be declared, to expand Spanish territory and the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church.
What the Spanish viewed as barbarian art, however, actually spoke of a highly organized civilization that in some ways might have been more socially and politically progressive than the one that centuries later came after it.
In some experts’ opinions, the sex ceramics could emphasize a sort of equality between men and women that is feminist in interpretation. Weismantel sees this in the representation of “their bodies, faces, tattoos, or body paint and adornments” which “are often shown as similar or even identical, so that they can be distinguished only by their genitalia.”
Other scholars believe the absence of vaginal sex in the pottery could also be indicative of another form of gender equality that gives women the same right to physical pleasure as men. By portraying women as in control of their own bodies, with their own sexual agency, the erotic ceramics might cast them as more than just future child-bearers whose value relies on their virginity.
The debate is heated, though, and other researchers disagree that there is anything about the pornographic pottery that would indicate Moche women were at all empowered. Scenes of female-administered fellatio, in particular, could represent the repressive society they faced.
Regardless, there is something markedly nonconformist about the Moche sex pots. “To my mind, the best things about these ceramics is that the more you look at them, the less they can be used to unambiguously reinforce any modern attitudes towards gender and sexuality,” says Weismantel. “They are just too different, and show us a picture of sexuality that does not conform to our expectations.”
The Moche sculpted hundreds of thousands of pots, of which some one-hundred thousand survive till date. About five hundred or so deal with the subject of sex. These pots are distributed all over the world in museums and in the hands of private collectors, the largest of which is found in the museum of Rafael Larco Hoyle in Lima. Rafael Larco was one of the first who made a detailed modern study of Moche pottery. His chronological categorization of ancient Peruvian cultures is still used today.
The debate is heated, though, and other researchers disagree that there is anything about the pornographic pottery that would indicate Moche women were at all empowered. Scenes of female-administered fellatio, in particular, could represent the repressive society they faced.
Regardless, there is something markedly nonconformist about the Moche sex pots. “To my mind, the best things about these ceramics is that the more you look at them, the less they can be used to unambiguously reinforce any modern attitudes towards gender and sexuality,” says Weismantel. “They are just too different, and show us a picture of sexuality that does not conform to our expectations.”
The Moche sculpted hundreds of thousands of pots, of which some one-hundred thousand survive till date. About five hundred or so deal with the subject of sex. These pots are distributed all over the world in museums and in the hands of private collectors, the largest of which is found in the museum of Rafael Larco Hoyle in Lima. Rafael Larco was one of the first who made a detailed modern study of Moche pottery. His chronological categorization of ancient Peruvian cultures is still used today.
RE: @RealCandaceO's episode tonight: 🚨
Welcome to my Midnight Ted Talk.👇
A quick reminder about discernment:
Certainty language is not evidence.
Suspicion is not proof.
A story is not a case.
(Short thread)
Welcome to my Midnight Ted Talk.👇
A quick reminder about discernment:
Certainty language is not evidence.
Suspicion is not proof.
A story is not a case.
(Short thread)
What we’re watching is a common escalation pattern:
questions → insinuation → moral certainty → calls for coercion
That shift matters, because it raises the risk of public harm.
questions → insinuation → moral certainty → calls for coercion
That shift matters, because it raises the risk of public harm.
When commentary becomes:
“only frauds disagree”
“it’s obvious”
“drag them in for questioning”
…it stops being analysis and becomes audience mobilization.
“only frauds disagree”
“it’s obvious”
“drag them in for questioning”
…it stops being analysis and becomes audience mobilization.
🚨Cheque Bounce Rules
Learn This Rules Before You Got Jailed
Deatiled Thread 🧵👇👇👇
Learn This Rules Before You Got Jailed
Deatiled Thread 🧵👇👇👇
Cheque dishonour is not just a payment issue — it is a criminal offence under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881.
Let’s break it down 👇
Let’s break it down 👇
1. When does Section 138 apply?
A cheque bounce becomes a criminal case only if:
• Cheque was issued for a legally enforceable debt or liability
• Cheque is returned due to:
➡️Insufficient funds
➡️Exceeds arrangement
➡️Account closed
➡️Payment stopped (in certain cases)
A cheque bounce becomes a criminal case only if:
• Cheque was issued for a legally enforceable debt or liability
• Cheque is returned due to:
➡️Insufficient funds
➡️Exceeds arrangement
➡️Account closed
➡️Payment stopped (in certain cases)
Odd national security pop-up TFR in El Paso, Texas
The control power just informed a southwest flight. They just got noticed that a TFR ha gone into effect for 10 days for national security reasons. The airport has been shut down for 10 days. 👀🤔
Via @theATCapp
The control power just informed a southwest flight. They just got noticed that a TFR ha gone into effect for 10 days for national security reasons. The airport has been shut down for 10 days. 👀🤔
Via @theATCapp
This is interesting, the last plane to depart El Paso before they shut down for 10 days is a Mexican registered Learjet 45 and now they appear to be turning back for the airport maybe because of an emergency?
The El Paso airport is now closed and this is the first aircraft, which is a cargo Metroliner to divert. I think people are gonna be pissed in the morning when they realize their Amazon packages are delayed.
1/6
According to Greg Ip, in the US economy today, "rewards are going disproportionately toward capital instead of labor. Profits have soared since the pandemic. The result: Capital is triumphant, while the average worker ekes out marginal gains."
wsj.com/economy/jobs/c…
According to Greg Ip, in the US economy today, "rewards are going disproportionately toward capital instead of labor. Profits have soared since the pandemic. The result: Capital is triumphant, while the average worker ekes out marginal gains."
wsj.com/economy/jobs/c…
2/6
And as Marriner Eccles, FDR's Fed chairman, explained in the 1930s, this creates a dangerous illusion. The extent of business profits depends almost wholly on the purchasing power of ordinary people, which in turn depends on wages.
And as Marriner Eccles, FDR's Fed chairman, explained in the 1930s, this creates a dangerous illusion. The extent of business profits depends almost wholly on the purchasing power of ordinary people, which in turn depends on wages.
3/6
In a rapidly-growing developing economy, with huge unmet investment needs, it may be possible (even necessary) for profits to rise faster than wages because the resulting rise in saving can be deployed to productive investment.
In a rapidly-growing developing economy, with huge unmet investment needs, it may be possible (even necessary) for profits to rise faster than wages because the resulting rise in saving can be deployed to productive investment.
🚨LETS GO DOWN THE GUTHRIE RABBIT HOLE SHALL WE 🚨
CEMEX….ROTHCHILDS…PEDOS
👇 🧵 Thread 🧵👇
Who were the owners of the property where this alleged sex trafficking/pedo ring was taking place in Tucson,
PIMA COUNTY, Arizona??
CEMEX!!!!
Via TG 👉Deep DIVES
CEMEX….ROTHCHILDS…PEDOS
👇 🧵 Thread 🧵👇
Who were the owners of the property where this alleged sex trafficking/pedo ring was taking place in Tucson,
PIMA COUNTY, Arizona??
CEMEX!!!!
Via TG 👉Deep DIVES
In a previous dive we shared a long list of Clinton Foundation donors?
According to this list, Cemex gave between $25,000 and $50,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
In turn The Clinton Foundation gave Cemex a $7 million contract from the Clinton Global Initiative to build houses in Haiti during the time that Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State (2012).
According to this list, Cemex gave between $25,000 and $50,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
In turn The Clinton Foundation gave Cemex a $7 million contract from the Clinton Global Initiative to build houses in Haiti during the time that Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State (2012).
If Cemex is in the cement business, why do they have a patent (US4203674A) that allows blood to be used in their cement and mortar? BLOOD?
Here are 8 platforms offering remote jobs from $300 to over $2,000/month: 👇
If you're ready to secure your financial future, earning $1,000/month or more is absolutely within reach.
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