Om Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha

Ancient vaulted dome and muqarnas at Sarā-ye Bakhshi in the historic bazaar of Kashan Iran showcasing Persian architectural artistry within the market complex

Applying total systemic friction to the cartels: Last weekend, @JIATFS, along with allies and partner nations, interdicted 8 vessels in a 72-hour period, seizing a combined 17.91 tons of narcotics and denying ~$290.19M in total revenue to designated terrorist organizations.

British MP Rupert Lowe, leader of Restore Britain, has released the independent Rape Gang Inquiry report. The findings are utterly vile. At least 250,000 young girls subjected to rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, forced pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma while police, social care, the NHS, schools, and courts failed to protect them. These institutions did not just fail to stop the rape gangs, they enabled them for the sake of inclusion and “political correctness”. It is SICKENING. static1.squarespace.com/stat…

Medieval Muslim-ruled Spain under the Umayyads was a slave society where Christian enslaved bodies, were central to elite power, sex, warfare, and status. Slave markets supplied elite households with female sexual slaves, some as young as eleven; harems with castrated boys made into eunuchs; armies with boys raised as slave soldiers; and courts with trained captive women whose race, age, beauty, and skills determined their market value. White slaves, especially blond captives taken in raids into Christian lands, were the most prized in Umayyad al-Andalus (Medieval Islamic Spain 756-1031). Prices were explicitly racialized and sexualized: value depended on race, sex, age, and abilities. Slave sellers also manipulated the appearance and behavior of captive women to increase demand. Darker faces were whitened, brunettes were made “golden,” women were dressed in transparent clothes, fingers were painted, and slave girls were even coached to flirt with potential slave market buyers. Sexual slavery sat near the center of court culture. Abd al-Rahman III’s court is described as having thousands of slaves, thousands of harem women, and thousands of slave warriors. In sum, Umayyad al-Andalus ran a brutal economy of sexual slavery, castration, captive labor, and military slavery.

Sitting under a big ponderosa tree, a young buck comes checking me out... (<10')...

Rockets and spaceships taking us to stars is an inspiring future

To get a sense of scale, here’s how the $85.7b SpaceX just raised compares to what they’ve historically spent on different programs. People aren’t ready for the magnitude of things to come

A technosphere node with a just-erupted fire for background currently... Reminded me of a Greatful Dead song I actually like... 🎶🔥Fire... Fire on the Mountain...⛰️🎶

threadleaf phacelia 🌸 (Phacelia linearis)

🇺🇲🗽☕️ ' merica!