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[witekspicsoldpostcards]

AUSSIG - now Ústí nad Labem =>>> a city in the Czech Republic.

[jansibik]

Generál Petr Pavel, Ústí nad Labem, 17. 1. 2023 Foto Jan Šibík, www.sibik.cz. #general #generalpavel #volby #prezident #usti #sibik #cesko @general_pavel https://www.instagram.com/p/CnmMZCRqp6x/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[danielpowell]

I want to get back into audio dramas, but I've had a few bad experiences with them recently that's dissuaded me from picking up new ones.

If any mutuals have suggestions, please let me know !

[milf-louis]

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[jewishsuperfam]

ZAHRA IS VEX’S OLD FRIEND????? HOLY SHIT????????

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Roman Emperor Caligula's 2,000-Year-Old Garden Unearthed Near the Vatican

The gardens overlooking the Tiber river in Italy once belonged to an infamous Roman emperor.

Construction workers in Italy have discovered a 2,000-year-old garden that once belonged to a Roman emperor.

The travertine walls of the garden overlook the banks of the Tiber, a river that cuts through Rome and sits east of Vatican City. The ruins were unearthed as workers constructed a new overpass at Piazza Pia, according to a translated statement from the Italian Ministry of Culture.

As archaeologists removed debris, they found a lead water pipe with the following inscription: "C(ai) Cæsaris Aug(usti) Germanici." Researchers determined that the engraving referred to Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, better known as Caligula (aka "little boot," a childhood nickname given to him by his father's soldiers).

Based on the inscription, researchers think the garden likely belonged to the infamous Roman emperor. Not only was Caligula known for being a tyrannical and ruthless leader, he was also a sadist who humiliated his senate. Caligula assumed the throne in A.D. 37, and in A.D. 41 the Praetorian Guard — the officials who were supposed to protect him — assassinated the emperor.

This conclusion is supported by a passage in the ancient text "On the Embassy to Gaius," penned by Egyptian philosopher Philo of Alexandria. It describes how Caligula had met with a representative of Jews living in Alexandria, Egypt, at a large garden along the Tiber, according to the statement.

At that time, Jewish Alexandrians and the Greek-Alexandrian population were in a "crisis that had manifested itself with violence, brawls and episodes of religious intolerance." However, Caligula rejected the Jews' requests for religious autonomy, instead siding with the Greeks.

Alessio De Cristofaro, an archaeologist at the Special Superintendency for Archaeology, Fine Art and Landscape, a government agency in Rome, said the find is significant because Piazza Pia is in the same area as the "Horti Agrippinae," the garden of Agrippina the Elder, who was Caligula's mother.

The pipe is also similar to another one, found in the early 1900s, that's inscribed with the name Iulia (Julia) Augusta, the second wife of Augustus and the grandmother of Germanicus. Researchers speculate that the property was inherited by Germanicus and later passed down to his wife, Agrippina the Elder, before going to Caligula.

In addition to the pipe, archaeologists found slabs of Roman-era pottery and terra-cotta figures of mythological scenes that would have decorated rooftops.

By Jennifer Nalewicki.

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Dupondius of the Roman emperor Tiberius (r. 14-37 CE), minted in 34-35. On the obverse, the bust of Tiberius, crowned with laurel; Tiberius here styles himself DIVI AUG(USTI) F(ILIUS)="Son of the deified Augustus". On the reverse, a male portrait bust within a shield-ring, surrounded by the inscription CLEMENTIAE S(ENATUS) C(ONSULTO). This may be a reference to the shield voted to Augustus by the Senate in 27 BCE, which bore the inscribed virtues of virtus, clementia, iustitia, and pietas. Following the lead of Julius Caesar, Augustus and his successors stressed clementia as a characteristic trait of the emperor, who had it in his power to extend mercy to defeated enemies. In this case, there is a certain irony to the imagery, as Tiberius' last years were marked by many trials and condemnations for offenses against the imperial maiestas at the behest of informers.

[passingthetime]

I wanted to be tagged in this so much, thank you @parsleyroot !!!! ☀️

Rules: list your top 5 albums from your top 5 artists (can't have a repeat of the same artist) on a poll, so your followers can vote which album they think captures your vibe the best

I almost put El Silencio by Caifanes as my last one but then I realised I couldn't possibly leave Pescado Rabioso off of my top 5 so here we are.

I tag @hoppkorv, @freezerfreys, @gta-usti-nad-labem, @creaturefeature333, @balladofsallyrose, @niirumarin and @lovely-menza if you want! ☀️

[emeralddoeadeer]

Spell out your username with songs!

Thanks for the tag @basslineescapeact always up for some music tags! <3

E verlong - Foo Fighters ;p

M MMbop - Hanson

E at Your Young - Hozier

R iver - Joni Mitchell

A fraid of Heights - boygenius

L andslide - Fleetwood Mac

D rive - Incubus

D usty - Soundgarden

O ur House - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

E nter Sandman - Metallica

A in't It Fun- Paramore

D rinking in L.A - Bran Van 3000

E lderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town - Pearl Jam

E asy - Faith No More

R etrograde - Maggie Rogers

Tagging if you fancy it - @unknowableroom @theswansway @thequibblah @mipwrites @clare-with-no-i @thegobletofweasleys

[witekspicsoldpostcards]

USTI nad Orlici = Uście nad Orlicą / Czech Rep.

[jansibik]

Generál Petr Pavel, Ústí nad Labem, 17. 1. 2023 Foto Jan Šibík, www.sibik.cz. #general #generalpavel #volby #prezident #usti #sibik #cesko @general_pavel https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnh3cB1rHEJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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ARTFIGHT PART 2 (floral, buggy critters edition): Ajay for @xparkrangerx and Ustis for artk1tty21!

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Although considered a relatively minor ballot, Czechia’s upcoming regional elections will set the clock ticking for the next parliamentary elections scheduled in a year.

“Vineyards are a symbol of hard work. And that’s exactly what awaits us after the regional elections, if we win,” mused ANO vice-president Alena Schillerova as the main opposition party kicked off its campaign in the wine country of South Moravia, where she hails from.

Hard work perhaps, but from a strong position, as the latest polls put her ANO party led by the former prime minister Andrej Babis ahead of any those of the ruling coalition, just months after Babis’s movement emerged victorious from the European Parliament elections.

“All national polls show ANO as the strongest party by far, with very stable voting preferences of around one-third of the electorate,” confirms Martin Buchtik, director of the STEM polling agency.

An expected win?

Four years after the last ballot, Czechs will once more head to the polls on Friday and Saturday to elect the 675 members of the country’s 13 regional councils – except for Prague – who will then elect their governor based on post-election negotiations and alliances.

Despite receiving the most votes in 10 out of 13 regions in 2020, ANO only managed to take control of the three governorships of Usti nad Labem, Zlin and Moravia-Silesia.

This year’s ballot might not prove all that different, with Babis himself suggesting that replicating the results of four years ago would be considered a “success”, while hinting that one or two extra seats of governors would be welcome after three years in opposition to an unpopular government.

But due to the intermingling of regional issues with national politics, the importance of individual personalities – some of them well established – and of local dynamics, nation-wide electoral preferences, or lack thereof, do not automatically translate to the level of regional councils.

“In the Czech conditions, post-elections negotiations matter a lot, and in the past, it often happened that other parties agreed without ANO,” explains Lubomir Kopecek from Masaryk University in Brno, hinting at Babis’s own “personality and populism” as a red line keeping many potential partners away.

“It very much depends on how significant ANO victories will be in specific regions,” he tells BIRN. “In general, however, it is not the case that victory automatically means ANO will rule in the regions.”

More than 8,000 candidates hailing from over 80 political parties and movements are vying for regional council posts this year. And the patchwork of local alliances, ad-hoc cooperations or coalition red-lines may look very different region to region, making it sometimes “even quite difficult for voters to understand what’s going on”, according to STEM’s Buchtik.

‘Racist’ billboards

The far-right SPD party of Tomio Okamura, for instance, has confirmed its cooperation with the Trikolora movement in three regions, while both parties will also campaign alongside the PRO party of rabble-rouser Jindrich Rajchl in six other constituencies, and Svobodni in four of them.

The SPD’s widening network of alliances with extra-parliamentary parties – like PRO – it was bluntly attacking just a few months ago testifies to Okamura’s movement weakening following disappointing EU election results as well as its further radicalisation, analysts believe.

Hence the SPD’s attempt to be even “more extreme, more shocking”, according to Karel Kominek from the Institute of Political Marketing, exemplified by its provocative billboard campaign which has caused shock and outrage across Prague.

On one of the posters, a dark-skinned man with a bloodied knife and clothing is shown with the caption: “The shortcomings in the healthcare sector cannot be solved by imported surgeons”, quickly leading to accusations of racism and disinformation. A criminal complaint has been filed against Okamura’s party, which – presumably unbothered by the extra publicity – focused on the technological merits of their campaign.

“The SPD is the first Czech party that uses the most modern technologies,” Okamura proudly declared as he confirmed the visuals were created with the help of artificial intelligence.

“I think this is really a typical example of how controversial and polarised the upcoming parliamentary campaign will be, which has already technically started with the upcoming regional and Senate elections,” Pavel Havlicek, an analyst at the Association for International Affairs, told Czech Radio.

“This is a good example of how most of the limits of the past are now broken, and most things will unfortunately be possible to say in the public space,” he added.

Nonetheless, Buchtik from the STEM agency does not expect a strong rise of support for extremist parties like the SPD “that traditionally do not fare too well in regional elections” and currently hold a total of 35 seats in nine different regions. “It’s not going to be like in Germany”, he predicts in reference to the regional gains of the far-right AfD party a few weeks ago just across the border.

Polarisation ahead

True to form, the main opposition parties – including Babis’s ANO and Okamura’s SPD – have resorted to turning the upcoming ballot into a referendum on the current five-party coalition of Prime Minister Petr Fiala, which remains unpopular 12 months before the end of its term.

“The main topic of the campaign is whether you’re for or against the government,” Buchtik tells BIRN, nonetheless adding that regional considerations also come into play.

Socio-economic problems are high on the agenda in the poorer regions of Usti nad Labem or Karlovy Vary, he says, fertile ground for ANO and other opposition parties, while analysts expect regions that are better off – like Central Bohemia and South Moravia – to remain in the current centre-right government’s fold.

“Suggesting this is some kind of referendum on the government simply does not work,” Interior Minister Vit Rakusan argued. “This is a referendum on life in individual regions, whether governors have proven themselves or not. Our people are not stupid, they will not be deceived or fooled.”

While the opposition tries to capitalise on low public trust in the ruling coalition and their tainted track-record at the national level, government parties in turn put the “emphasis on regional issues and typically also take advantage of the fact that they have filled most of the positions of governors,” analyses Kopecek from Masaryk University

Coalition-backed governors, on the other hand, are aware of the need to distance themselves from national party affiliation, often choosing to personalise their election bid, like South Bohemia governor Martin Kuba who has launched his campaign without the ruling ODS or SPOLU branding.

Considering the unpopularity of the government, “it makes sense for him to build the campaign around himself”, assesses Otto Eibl from Masaryk University in Brno, while ANO, on the other hand, has proven much less shy in giving centre stage to its national leadership in order to give a boost to the campaign of sometimes lesser-known local figures.

In general, however, many Czechs express little interest in regional elections – the last turnout in 2020 stood at just 38 per cent – and a similarly low level of awareness as to who their governor is or what kind of competence regional councils have in terms of policymaking.

“People identify more with mayors, who often deal with them directly, or with national politicians who appear daily on television,” assessed Milan Skolnik, a political scientist from the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague.

At the same time as regional councils, Czechs will go to the polls to elect a third of the 81-member Senate, currently dominated by the five-party government coalition.

“No big changes are expected,” Buchtik tells BIRN, nevertheless adding that the performance of ANO, which has never fared too well in senatorial elections, is worth keeping an eye on.

“It will also be interesting to see whether Prisaha leader Robert Slachta will manage to win a seat in the Senate,” he adds, as his potential victory or defeat could be instrumental in determining the future or unravelling of the Prisaha-Motorista coalition – the surprise breakthrough of June’s European ballot – ahead of the 2025 legislative elections.

Another example showing that while neither regional nor senatorial elections are expected to bring dramatic changes to Czechia’s political landscape, both will be indicative of the 12 months that lie ahead, giving a picture of where voter preferences lie, how public debate will be shaped over the coming year, and whether political alliances – old and new – will hold in an increasingly polarised climate.

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[greatdecaygreatrenewal]

INTRO_READ BEFORE U FOLLOW!

hii my name is angel (they/them) im in my early 20s, central american

i made this blog cus i love tomura shigaraki with an great intensity that burns hotter than a thousand suns. he is my main interest atm and i made this blog to help me express that.

i welcome asks! just dont send anything weird. i also post my own mha oc shit here and art from time to time n will tag accordingly. this blog is not SPOILER FREE btw but I do tag them to make it easier to avoid.

rules

i do x reader asks but i only feel comfortable writing about the adults in mha. i don't do the aging up the minor charas for reader inserts.

u can also send asks abt other mha characters not just tomura or the villains

i don't write smut as this blog is strictly SFW and it will stay that way

feel free to send me anything! :)

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also pls dont come in here calling Tomura, Dabi, Toga, cr*usty, B*rnt, Ps*cho as its ableist

I post social issues abt Palestine, Sudan, Congo on here n if are of no interest to you and prefer to stay out of politics, than this blog is also not for you n i kindly will ask u to fuck off. i have a bigger following on this blog than my main and will use this platform for these issues to receive more attention.

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