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@seav@en.osm.town
2026-09-07 16:43:32

🧵 1/2: I recently saw this vintage #Qantas poster with a unique “flower” map projection centered on #Sydney (1st image). I like how the map almost neatly divides the four largest continents (Eurasia, North America, South America, and Africa) into the four petals.
Well, I kinda became obsessed and wonder…

Portrait aviation poster featuring a unique flower-like map projection centered in Sydney, Australia with the rest of the world split into four “petals”, which from the top-left going clockwise, roughly correspond to Eurasia, North America, South America, and Africa. Major cities like Peking, New York, Buenos Aires, Cape Town and oceans are labeled. A radial grid overlays the petals. Above the map is the following text: A New Air Map From the Australian Viewpoint Great Circle Courses to the F…
A minimal recreation of the first image’s flower-like map projection centered in Sydney, Australia with the rest of the world split into four “petals”, which from the top-left going clockwise, roughly correspond to Eurasia, North America, South America, and Africa. A radial grid overlays the petals.
@cdarwin@c.im
2026-06-25 03:14:31

On a July afternoon in 2019, I found myself in a large, sun-dappled room within one of America’s great estates.
An assemblage of distinguished jurists, Ivy League professors, nonprofit leaders, journalists, and theologians sat around me in a half circle.
I was trying to be on my best behavior, but I blurted out a word dirty enough to make them blanch.
In my defense, I thought it was what I had been summoned there to do.
An independent commission had spent the previ…

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-07-20 03:48:53

One difference between Hegseth Evangelicals & Leonard Leo Catholics.
Evangelicals shout from the rooftops.
Catholics in Leo's circle rarely say what they want outloud.
They just go about undermining democracy, quietly, in the dark. Like termites.
From 2018 - out loud.
-- Tom Carter

In Defence of Catholic Integralism
States that do not recognize both natural law and the transformation of law and public reason brought about by the raising of religion to a supernatural good will become confessors of false belief opposed to Christianity, and their great power will turn from supporting Christianity to opposing or ev