Retro Empire Demo #Windows #Linux <DVNsoftware> が、配信開始されました。
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TIL the Austrian Empire tried to colonize islands near India in 1778 with basically 5-6 people. Things didn't go particularly well. The colonists struggled with food and water shortages, their leader Gottfried Stahl died in 1783, and the survivors eventually abandoned the settlement.
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1x5m2qo/til_the_austrian_empire_tried_to_colonize_islands/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_colonization_of_the_Nicobar_Islands
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April 30 1916: #AustriaHungary and the German Empire were the first countries in the world to introduce #DaylightSavingTime to increase the number of hours of usable daylight.Unfortunately, the agenda item was destroyed by fire—but it is recorded, and resourceful individuals might be able to find a Ministervortrag on the subject in the Kabinettskanzlei...https://mrp.oeaw.ac.at/pages/show.html?document=MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095.xml&searchexpr=sommerzeit#top_MRP-3-0-08-1-19160405-P-0095_1#histodon #histodons #histodonsDE#history #HabsburgMonarchy #CouncilofMinisters#EconomicHistory #WorldWarI #WWI
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#CNN #News Is Afghanistan the graveyard of empires? https://w.st/nTBSX
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Filipina entrepreneur helps expand Japan karaoke empire
TOKYO, JAPAN — Filipina entrepreneur Abby Watabe, who helps manage Japan’s Karaoke Kan business alongside her Japanese husband,…
#EuropeSays #Japan #JP #Business #BusinessofJapan #Japan'sbusiness #Japanesebusiness
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🧛♂️ A Gentleman's Tour of the Empire 🦇
#wipsnips #writesky #writingcommunity #vampire
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Are We Witnessing the Fall of the American Empire?:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/fall-of-rome-united-states-america-decline-mike-duncan-1235430424/#americanempire
#usempire
#dyingempire
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END OF ABYSS (Finlàndia) presenta nou àlbum: "Escape to a New Empire" #EndOfAbyss #ProgressiveMetal #Octubre2026 #Finlàndia #NouÀlbum #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic
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THE BLOOD MOUNTAIN BLACK METAL CHOIR (Estats Units) presenta nou àlbum: "Songs from a Dying Empire" #TheBloodMountainBlackMetalChoir #AtmosphericBlackMetal #Octubre2026 #EstatsUnits #NouÀlbum #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic
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https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/67093/ ‘Well-known evil empire’: Barack Obama mocks President Trump’s trade war with Canada #SupplyChains #Trade #Trade&SupplyChains
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I realized that this October I somehow hadn't done a single Charles Band-produced film despite my love of Full Moon and Empire. So I'm making up for it by finally watching one of the few films I've never seen by one of my favorite directors: Stuart Gordon's Dolls.
Idk why I've never seene this oone, sometimes things just slip through the cracks.
#horror #horrormovies #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfilms #movie #movies #films
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#Putin
after the fall of the #USSR
had 2 main goals in mind
1) Recreate the USSR #Communist Empire
2) the destruction of the #UnitedStatesofAmericaPutin WILL NOT be able to recreate the USSR
but
Putin managed to destroy the #USA
It is undeniable that this is a HUGE success
a long-term game
when everyone thought that the 'cold war' was over, Putin NEVER stopped
having brought Trump to the presidency was Putin masterstroke.
'Give to Caesar what is Caesar's'Putin has won his war with the US.
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#news #arts #left #commentary #radio #publicradio #community #progressive #green #kyndmix #vsn #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft
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Gulf royals bought bespoke American foreign policy through Azerbaijani wire transfers and charity front accounts, proving empire maintenance is just retail bribery running on an exploited iPhone. https://archive.is/OzqtE
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DATE: October 25, 2026 at 07:18AM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORGTITLE: The Psychology Behind Taylor Swift's Billion-Dollar Media Empire
Source: PsyPost
The intense, one-sided connections that fans feel toward pop star Taylor Swift—known as a "parasocial relationship"—and their fear of missing out on shared cultural moments strongly predict whether they will attend her concerts and watch her films. These predictive links highlight how the psychological need for social belonging drives large-scale consumer behavior, according to a recent study published in the journal Psychology of Popular Media.
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Ancient Nubian temple faience workshop shows how Kushite rulers controlled materials, labor, and burial goods
Archaeologists digging at Sanam Temple in Napata, the old capital of the Kushite Empire in Sudan, have uncovered a faience workshop. Faience is a colored, glazed material used for beads, amulets, and small statues...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/10/ancient-faience-workshop-at-nubian-temple/
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In the airport, the person seated next to me is watching AI generated videos of corgis wearing hats posing in a pumpkin patch. Lead poisoning was probably a major factor in the decline of the Roman Empire. I think generative AI is our lead poisoning. Except people know it's destroying their brains and they choose to engage with it anyway. Our empire kind of deserves to fall at this point.
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Books finished in 2026:
44. Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov (1953)
43. Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett (1993)
42. Full Circle: A Life in Rebellion by Ben Morea (2025)
41. Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov (1952)
40. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut (1962)
39. Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World (2005) Edited by Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman with various authors
38. Foundation by Isaac Asimov (1951)
37. Clay’s Ark by Octavia E Butler (1984)
36. We Fight: Three Decades of Rebellion Against The Police 2nd Ed. by various authors (2020; 2025)
35. Rabbit, Run by John Updike (1960)
34. Mind Of My Mind by Octavia E Butler (1977)
33. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and The San Domingo Revolution by CLR James (1938)
32. Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett (1992)
31. Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm (1941)
30. Walking With The Comrades by Arundhati Roy (2011)
29. Wild Seed by Octavia E Butler (1980)
28. Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (2020)
27. The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable by Terry Pratchett (2001)
26. Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P Newton with J Herman Blake (1973)
25. The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney (1955)
24. Granny Made Me An Anarchist by Stuart Christie (2004)
23. The Day of The Triffids by John Wyndham (1951)
22. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (1970)
21. Secolo Nuovo: Or the Times of Promise, A Novel by Fulvia Ferrari (2021)
20. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels (1880)
19. Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance and Rebellion by Working Class History (2020)
18. The Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley (1922)
17. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett (1992)
16. The Red and The Black by Stendhal (1830)
15. The Book of Sand (1975) and Shakespeare’s Memory (1983) by Jorge Luis Borges
14. Anarchist Feminists In The Philippines From Etniko Bandido (~2016)
13. The Unseen by Nanni Balestrini (1989)
12. Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare: A Guide to the Armed Phase of the African Revolution by Kwame Nkrumah (1968)
11. Rights of Man by Thomas Paine (1792)
10. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (2011)
9. Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker (1911)
8. Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (1996)
7. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett (1991)
6. The Nation On No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition by William C Anderson (2023)
5. baedan - journal of queer nihilism - issue one (2012)
4. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1992)
3. They Will Beat The Memory Out Of Us: Forcing Nonviolence on Forgetful Movements by Peter Gelderloos (2024)
2. It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis (1935)
1. Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge (2006)Finished the original trilogy of the Foundation series. To continue or not to continue? This one wrapped up the story of The Mule and showed us the conclusion of the first four centuries after setting up the Foundation in preparation for a thousand years between the fall of the Galactic Empire and the rise of a Second Empire, if all goes according to the Seldon Plan. It explained who and what the Second Foundation was and how they operate.
#scifi #fiction #books #bookstodon #asimov #foundation #reading #book #nowreading
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Real documents. Real interviews. No easy answers about a complex chapter of history.
#books #bookreview #Nonfiction #Politics
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OTD in 1912 during the First Balkan War, the Battle of Kirk Kilisse concluded with a Bulgarian victory against the Ottoman Empire https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/bulgaria/veliko-tarnovo/?s=mb #travel #Bulgaria #history
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RE: https://mastox.eu/@RimaHas/117497412828883890
Le fric est grand et Macron est son prophète.
Dans l'empire totalitaire de Frankreich le fric des milliardaires nazis fait tout.
La république ? C'était avant, circulez !
Frankreich uber alles !
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DATE: October 24, 2026 at 10:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: The psychology behind Taylor Swift’s billion-dollar media empire
URL: https://www.psypost.org/the-psychology-behind-taylor-swift-s-billion-dollar-media-empire/
The intense, one-sided connections fans feel toward pop star Taylor Swift and their fear of missing out on shared cultural moments strongly predict whether they will attend her concerts and watch her films. These predictive links highlight how the psychological need for social belonging drives large-scale consumer behavior, according to a recent study published in Psychology of Popular Media.
A parasocial relationship occurs when an audience member develops a one-sided bond with a media figure, such as a musician, actor, or internet personality. While the celebrity is unaware of the individual fan, the fan experiences genuine emotions and reactions that mimic real-life friendships.
Taylor Swift has cultivated an exceptionally robust parasocial dynamic with her audience over her career. By interacting with followers online and weaving personal details into her music, she has built an environment where fans feel they truly know her. When her Eras Tour launched, it shattered records, selling over two million tickets in a single day. The researchers noted that Swift used the resulting ticketing challenges to align herself with her fans, strengthening their perceived bond.
Such pervasive cultural conversation often triggers a phenomenon known as the fear of missing out, commonly referred to as FoMO. Researchers divide this concept into two distinct categories. Trait fear of missing out is a long-standing personality characteristic where a person generally worries that others are having rewarding experiences without them. State fear of missing out is a temporary, situation-specific anxiety in response to a particular event.
The researchers anchored their investigation in Self-Determination Theory. This psychological framework suggests that human beings are motivated by a fundamental need for relatedness, or the desire to feel connected to others. In the context of entertainment, people might consume specific media to satisfy this need, either by bonding with a celebrity or by joining a community of fellow fans.
Lindsey Conlin Maxwell and Caroline Neese of the University of Southern Mississippi, along with Alec C. Tefertiller of Baylor University, designed the study to see how these psychological elements influenced audience behavior. They used Swift and her wildly popular Eras Tour as an ideal testing ground. The team aimed to determine if long-term personality traits could predict parasocial bonds and if those bonds predicted purchasing tickets for concerts and movies.
To capture these emotions at their peak, the researchers conducted a national survey during the opening weekend of the concert film, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” in October 2023. They recruited 303 adults in the United States using an online task platform. The respondents answered questions designed to measure their baseline personality traits, their current feelings about the movie release, and their perceived relationship with the pop star.
The survey asked participants to rate their agreement with statements about missing out on rewarding experiences in general, capturing their trait-level anxieties. It also asked specific questions about whether they feared others would enjoy watching the concert film more than them, measuring their temporary state of anxiety. Additionally, the questionnaire evaluated the depth of their parasocial relationship with Swift and recorded their actual behaviors regarding concert and movie attendance.
The data revealed that an individual’s general fear of missing out was a strong predictor of their parasocial relationship with Swift. The researchers noted that this long-standing personality trait explained roughly one-third of the variations in how strongly people felt connected to the singer. People who routinely worry about being left out of social experiences appear highly motivated to build imaginary bonds with media figures to alleviate that apprehension.
Both the personality trait and the parasocial relationship predicted concert-related behaviors. As scores on the parasocial relationship scale increased, respondents were nearly twice as likely to have attempted to buy Eras Tour tickets. They were also substantially more likely to have actually attended one of the live stadium shows.
Similar patterns emerged for the concert film. High levels of baseline anxiety about missing out, as well as a strong perceived relationship with Swift, predicted whether someone had already seen the movie during its opening weekend. These factors also predicted whether a person intended to see the film in theaters later or watch it once it became available on streaming platforms.
One of the most notable results involved temporary, event-specific anxiety. The researchers tested whether attending the live concert satisfied fans to the point of reducing their anxiety about the movie release. The data showed the exact opposite pattern.
People who had already attended the live Eras Tour experienced higher levels of temporary anxiety about missing out on the movie than those who had not attended the concert. Attending the concert did not quench the desire to engage with the media event. Going to the live show actually increased the likelihood that someone wanted to see the theatrical release.
The researchers suggest that a parasocial relationship can become so potent that individuals seek repeated positive experiences with the celebrity to maintain the bond. Because fans experience a strong sense of relatedness when participating in these events, the desire to rejoin the community and relive the excitement remains high. The shared euphoria among thousands of fans, known as collective effervescence, likely fuels this ongoing demand.
The attempt to replicate the concert experience inside movie theaters capitalized on this collective effervescence. By trading friendship bracelets and singing together in theaters, fans who could not attend the live shows found a way to participate in the cultural phenomenon. This shared environment allowed audiences to maintain their parasocial relationship with the singer while simultaneously relieving their anxieties about missing out.
While the study provides a detailed look at consumer motivations, it carries a few limitations. The participants were drawn from a convenience sample, and they were allowed to self-select into a survey they knew was about Taylor Swift. As a result, roughly two-thirds of the respondents identified as fans, and the demographic makeup was predominantly female and white, which could affect how well the results apply to the broader population.
The research relied on self-reported survey data, which is useful for identifying predictive links but cannot definitively prove cause and effect. It remains possible that other unmeasured variables influence both the psychological traits and the purchasing habits of the respondents.
Future investigations could explore how fans develop interpersonal relationships with one another based on their mutual parasocial connections to a single celebrity. The researchers also recommend looking closer at how social media amplifies the fear of missing out during major entertainment events. Measuring the direct impact of shared euphoric experiences could further explain why people are so driven to participate in massive cultural moments.
The study, ““It’s You and Me, There’s Nothing Like This”: Parasocial Relationships, Fear of Missing Out, and How Fans Consume the Products in Taylor Swift’s Media Empire,” was authored by Lindsey Conlin Maxwell, Alec C. Tefertiller, and Caroline Neese.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/the-psychology-behind-taylor-swift-s-billion-dollar-media-empire/
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Greater Feast of Tycho Brahe, died October 24, 1601 at Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire https://hermetic.com/hermeneuticon/tycho-brahe #calendar #historic #OTD #OnThisDay
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"Another brazen assault in an evil war of aggression that makes life harder for people all around the world. The US empire must END." 🇵🇸
As must "Israel."
#israel #usa #zionazis #racism #zionism #terrorism #torture #rape #crimesagainsthumanity #genocide #boycottdivestsanction #freepalestine #fromtherivertothesea https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-trumpanyahu-administration-is-179 -
Truly incredible how much Pete Hegseth has destroyed the US Military's morale and is pushing them to the point of mutiny.
Abandoned families, traumatised children, it's reminds me of when the European empires were collapsing and the Colonials felt betrayed.
A lot of Forces families wondering whether the whole show is worth it.
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Too many pundits today? Put the phone on a quieter channel: build a flag stand into a Multiverse empire while a cartoon Cabinet does the yelling for you. #Midterms2026 #PoliticalHumor #idlegame
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Yazaman al-Khadim, who died OTD in 891, was chief military leader in the Muslim borderlands with the Byzantine Empire in Cilicia https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/turkey/hans/?s=mb #travel #Turkey #history
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Art Display in the Kitchen Corner. Watercolor. #art #arting #artist #artists #makingart #watercolor #watercolors #watercolorpainting #painting #painter #painters #blue #colorful #bobsburgers #bobsburgersart #lavalight #lavalights #metalsculpture #sculpture #sculptures #vase #vases #catsass #empirekosher #empirekosherchickenplant #irvingqpullet #trademark #oldfashioned #victorianhome #victorianhomes #colonialhome #colonialhomes