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‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins | Gaza | @…
#Gaza

What's your oldest thing on the Internet you still use with an account (use at least occasionally?).
I think for me it's my 22-year old MacRumors account.

The Constitution was an attempt to solve the oldest political problem:
how to make liberty durable by making power difficult.
A system of government both sufficient to keep order,
but not so overbearing it snuffs out the rights of the people.
The principles behind its design
—divided authority, overlapping ambitions
—was drawn from centuries of failed experiments.
It was also intended to adapt,
to learn, to be amended as needed.
Repairi…

This No Kings Day, The UnPopulist Launches ‘The Reconstruction Agenda’
Liberals need to start planning for a post-authoritarian future and rebuilding stronger institutions that a rogue president can’t so easily take over and weaponize again

For #GrindayFriday, Czech Republic's oldschool-style grinders SIEGE CONTROL and their new self titled EP. This is nine brutal songs, very inspired by early 80s grind, but they still kinda maintain that modern feel, too. This was all recorded direct from a rehearsal room, and it sounds impressive as FUCK, especially for that.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
Yukimi:
🎵 Get It Over
#Yukimi
https://yukimi.bandcamp.com/track/get-it-over
https://open.spotify.com/track/5sJUrTiOlAdoKO8V81spAv

𒁃 How to Write in Cuneiform, the Oldest Writing System in the World: A Short Introduction
https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/how-to-write-in-cuneiform-the-oldest-writing-system.html

How to Write in Cuneiform, the Oldest Writing System in the World: A Short Introduction
Teaching child visitors how to write their names using an unfamiliar or antique alphabet is a favorite activity of museum educators, but Dr. Irving Finkel, a cuneiform expert who specializes in ancient Mesopotamian medicine and magic, has grander designs.

Bondi beach shows IS is taking advantage of a new kind of terrorist
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/12/the-islamic-state-is-taking-advantage-of-a-new-kind-of-terrorist

Northwest researchers find 6-million-year-old ice
— the oldest on Earth
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/12/16/all-science-no-fiction-northwest-researchers-6-million-year-old-ice/

Northwest researchers find 6-million-year-old ice — the oldest on Earth
To find the oldest ice on the planet researchers had to go somewhere that’s been cold for a long time — where the ice builds up in layers instead of melting away.

“My oldest daughter had a lot of trauma as a child,” Andreatta said.
“Something really terrible happened to her when she was very young that I would hope never would happen to any other child.
And as a result of it, she's a lesbian.
She's gay, and she's married to a woman.
And sometimes that's a little bit of [an] internal struggle for me
because I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.”
After the speech, Andreatta opened the …

California Turning Point USA club in jeopardy after city councilwoman's controversial comments
Comments by Lincoln City Councilmember Holly Andreatta at a Club America meeting at Twelve Bridges High School have drawn attention to the emergence of Turni...

The abandoned English clay pit
at Barnham is
the oldest evidence in the world
that people (Neanderthal people, in this case)
had learned to not only use fire,
but also create it and control it.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/1

This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires
We didn’t start the fire. (Neanderthals did, at least 400,000 years ago.)…