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  1. 🇷🇺 #Russia
    - unprovoked invasion
    - Nul points!
    - kicked out

    (👆Good)

    🇮🇱 #Israel
    - military operations
    - embroiled
    - societal clash
    - balance criticism
    - Of course: antisemitism

    (👆Remarkable)

    #WordsMatter #PoliticoEurope #eurovision

  2. DATE: May 10, 2026 at 11:09AM
    SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG

    TITLE: Abraham Foxman, Former Anti-Defamation League Head, Dies at 86

    URL: socialpsychology.org/client/re

    Source: Google News - Health

    Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League from 1987 until 2015, died Sunday at age 86. "Abe understood the power of words. He often said that the Holocaust did not begin with bricks and mortar and gas chambers, but rather, it began with a word," said his successor, Jonathan Greenblatt, in a statement. Foxman was a survivor of the Holocaust, entrusted to a Catholic nursemaid who baptized and raised him as a Christian to hide his...

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  3. TIL that the astrophysicist who coined the term #DarkMatter , Fritz Zwicky, also coined the term ‘spherical bastard’, meaning someone who is a bastard no matter how you look at them. 🍊 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Zw

    #WordsMatter

  4. #Eingleði: a popular Icelandic concept denoting "the joy of being single" - a portmanteau of the Icelandic words 'Einn' (one, #single, or alone) and 'Gleði' (#joy).
    Q: 'Are you going on any dates at the moment?'
    A: 'No, I'm in my Eingleði era'
    from urbandictionary.com/define.php

    #wordsMatter #assertive #selfCare #positive #uncels

  5. Writing and speaking can be used/mistreated/instumentalised/weaponised "not to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement.”

    ― Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, in "A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia" @ben

    #criticalTheory #communication #media #knowledge #publicOpinion #epistemology #agnotology #rationalism #reason #truth #wordsMatter #semiotics #Deleuze #Guattari #Capitalism #quote #quotes #FrenchTheory #subjugate