#wonder France

[randomnameless]

Mon retour de vacances :

[psychicbluebirdmiracle]

Was curious how far Ithaca was from troy today while listening to epic the musical and rereading the illiad and I found this map

I think odysseus would have been better just to walk😭

[hkthatgffan]

The image used in the background of the Gravity Falls logo HAS BEEN FOUND!!

It's located in France!!

I made a thread on Twitter explaining the full story and how I even asked Ian Worrel and Alex Hirsch about it, but lemme run down quickly how it was found and where it is!

After 3 years of searching with some friends on and off, we had no real luck. I've been working on a video about it for a while but decided to try one more time. My friend @trickengf suggested looking at international logos as they may have more of the image available and sure enough...we found logos like the Japanese and Russian GF logo had more visible detail of the image.

From that, Tricken made a remake of the image and used it to find it. He ended up finding the source at about 3AM for me, lol!

My friend Fried Oreos then confirmed the image was old enough to fit the criteria of pre GF pilot, by determining the image was on the Textures website it was sourced from since 2008!

Then, my friend Alex M managed to buy the HD image and we were able to analyze its metadata for more info!

Turns out, the image, called "LandscapeMountains0009," was taken by a Nikon D70 camera on April 18, 2007!

THE GRAVITY FALLS LOGO IMAGE IS ALMOST 18 YEARS OLD!!

From there, we began looking for the location. The meta data had no location, but other images taken around the same time showed signs of maybe the location being in Europe.

After over a day of searching, Tricken, Alex M and Oreos FOUND IT!!

The location of the image is a mountain range near the town of Sers, France...near the border with Spain.

Exact coordinates of the closest viewable angle of the image is 42°54'23.2"N 0°06'05.6"E

This is a major discovery and one I cannot believe we did. While this search was started by me in 2021 with some friends, it was TrickenGF, Alex M and Fried Oreos who deserve all the credit for this discovery! They were the geniuses who tracked all of this down and were able to connect the dots to get to this point.

You guys are amazing and I am beyond grateful for all of this.

Finding this image means that fans can now recreate the Gravity Falls logo as they want with anything they want. For example, Tricken made this for me using the image :D

Or, you can do this, lol

We now have it!

For 12 years as we looked at the Gravity Falls logo...we were in reality looking at a mountain in France...NOT Oregon!

So, I guess this is a major W for France but sorry, Pacific Northwest, Gravity Falls is actually French, lol!

I still can't believe we found this. I'm so happy :P

[jaynuu]

the lengths I'll go for a shit post

(alt. versions below)

last one is FACE fam, pls don't tag as us/uk or eng/can 😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️

[ayo-edebiri]

She’s once again right

[vestaignis]

Маяк Фур (Le Four) - это огромная башня, стоящая в открытом море, категории «ад», которая способена противостоять волнам 30-метровой высоты.

Маяк Фур расположен у полуострова Сен-Лоран во Франции, между западным побер��жьем Земли Леона и скалами Рош-д'Аржантон, находится у входа в бухту Шеналь-дю-Фур.

Маяк Фур был построен в море между 1869 и 1874 годами. Это маяк-близнец маяка Pierres Noires, построенного к югу от Молена. Его возвели на гранитном рифе диаметром 25 м и высотой 11,50 м. Строительство под руководством инженеров Бланша, Леонса Рейно и Фену началось в апреле 1869 года и было значительно затруднено волнами, разбивающимися о скалу. Через шесть месяцев строительство было приостановлено на зиму; строительная кампания 1870 года началась с устранения повреждений, нанесенных зимними штормами.

Во время строительства три человека — Эрве Жезекель, Франсуа Леборнь и бригадир Ле Бреливе — погибли, когда их судно снабжения налетело на скалу и затонуло. В ночь с 14 на 15 марта 1874 года маяк был введен в эксплуатацию.

14 февраля 1899 года в маяк ударила молния. Два других несчастных случая оставили свой след в его истории. Смотритель мояка погиб 13 февраля 1913 года, надышавшись парами газойля. 9 декабря 1978 года судно снабжения перевернулось около маяка, в результате чего утонули Мартин Перро и Жан-Ив Керноас. В 1985 году противотуманный сигнал сжатого воздуха был заменен на электромагнитную систему мощностью 1200 Вт. Маяк был автоматизирован 6 октября 1993 года. В 2017 году он был классифицирован как исторический памятник.

The Le Four Lighthouse is a huge tower standing in the open sea, a category "hell", which is able to withstand waves of 30 meters high.

Le Four Lighthouse is located off the Saint-Laurent peninsula in France, between the western coast of the Land of Leon and the rocks of Roche d'Argenton, at the entrance to the bay of Chenal du Four.

The Le Four Lighthouse was built in the sea between 1869 and 1874. It is a twin lighthouse of the Pierres Noires lighthouse, built south of Molènes. It was erected on a granite reef with a diameter of 25 m and a height of 11.50 m. Construction under the direction of engineers Blanche, Léonce Reynaud and Fenoux began in April 1869 and was significantly hampered by the waves breaking on the rock. After six months, construction was suspended for the winter; the 1870 construction campaign began to repair the damage caused by the winter storms.

During construction, three men, Hervé Jézéquel, François Leborgne and foreman Le Brélivet, died when their supply boat hit a rock and sank. The lighthouse was commissioned on the night of 14-15 March 1874.

On 14 February 1899, lightning struck the lighthouse. Two other accidents have left their mark on its history. The keeper of the moyak died on 13 February 1913, after inhaling diesel fumes. On 9 December 1978, a supply boat capsized near the lighthouse, drowning Martin Perrault and Jean-Yves Kernoas. In 1985, the compressed air fog signal was replaced by a 1,200 W electromagnetic system. The lighthouse was automated on 6 October 1993. In 2017, it was classified as a historical monument.

Источник://www.mayachnik.ru/node/936,/www.ewan-photo.fr / actualites/le-phare-du-four-une-obsession-partagee/,/imgur.com/ phare-du-four-lighthouse-off-northern-coast-of-france-WqeQcjx, //www.jean-guichard.com/en/photo/france/phares-de-france/le-four-15,/vk.com/@morskoy_velikan-samye-krasivye-mayaki-mira, /otvet.mail.ru/question/225018328,/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Four_Lighthouse.

[diatomaceous-worth]

battle of agincourt type beat

[lordadmiralfarsight]

Revolution fetishism is a horrible political view, especially in this context

Okay, rant incoming, partially related to recent events, but also to earlier thinking on my part.

There are, on the Left, a fair few people that romanticize or outright fetishize the concept of Revolution, of violent popular uprising to wrest power out of the hands of a corrupt elite and give it to the people. Very romantic, very righteous (self-righteous pretty often), very good and nice and sexy. And by the grace of revolutionary fervor and ideological purity, everything will be better after.

Except no.

See, a lot of this romanticization of Revolution comes, to my knowledge, from my own country of France. We have romanticized our Revolution a fair bit, and honestly, looking at the first part, fair. A serious go at giving women rights, a no-cause divorce, abolition of slavery, privileges thrown out, equality between people proclaimed loud, enfranchisement given to minorities ... in 1789. A LOT of good and progress, especially for the time.

But then it got fucky, VERY fucky. The Reign of Terror, under the caring leadership of Maximilien Robespierre, was a fucking nightmare on Earth, caracterized by mass executions on political basis, and by this I mean anyone that opposed Robespierre got beheaded. Political plurality? You mean anti-revolutionary sentiment ! Unacceptable, kill everyone.

A rumor of the time said the Place de Grève was covered in a layer of blood that was ankle deep. Is that an exageration ? Yes, certainly. But the fact it got to that point should tell you something about how intense the murdering was. And that was just one square in Paris, there was the rest of the country to consider too.

But surely, after Robespierre fell victim to his own system and was executed, something better emerged, right?

No. Sweet mother of fuck, NO.

What followed was roughly 70 years of political instability and violence, warfare and civil war, several dictatorships, including attempts to restore absolute monarchy, that undid most of the good brought by the first part of the Revolution. And finally, France stumbled onto political stability in 1870 when the temporary 3rd Republic, that was supposed to wait until the presumptive heir to the throne (who wanted an absolute monarchy) croacked did what temporary things do best and became the permanent system (until its fall).

This was not thanks to the Revolution. It was pure randomness.

Did the French Revolution bring good things? Yes, it did. In its first part. The second part brought chaos and misery for multiple decades. And it took a lot of work and efforts to bring back what the Revolution, the peaceful part, had brought in.

And far too many people on the Left fetishize and romanticize the whole thing, as if we couldn't have had the first part without the second, as if the progress and hope and betterment somehow needed the chaos and murder that came after.

Yes, there would have been a period of conflict, European monarchies would not have accepted quietly a realm the size of France doing away with monarchs. But did we REALLY need the political purges ? Did we REALLY need the paranoia ? Did we REALLY need the massacres ?

But you will find people that answer yes, and say the spilled blood somehow made it pure, or good. And those same people are looking at what Hamas is doing and are cheering. These people don't celebrate the first part, the progress and hope. They claim to be, but they aren't. They celebrate the Terror. They yearn for the unjust "popular tribunal" AKA mob "justice". They dream of executing political opponents or anyone they think is "bad" on light or even absent charges.

And That's why they cheer for Hamas rockets and massacres. That's why they sing when Israeli children are murdered. That's why they attack Jews that don't live in Israel. Because they hope to vicariously live this period of unchecked violence.

Know who was celebrating the RIGHT part of the Revolution ? The Israeli working with Gazan to build understanding. The Gazan protesting against Hamas. The Israeli Arabs risking their lives to save the lives of fellow Israeli and of foreigners, regardless of skin or creed. The Gazan trying to improve things in their homes against the wishes and efforts of Hamas.

Know who IS celebrating the RIGHY part of the Revolution ? The Israeli protesting the way the IDF is bombing Gaza. The people decrying the hypocrisy of blood-thirsty leftists. The people calling for Peace and working to make the political change to allow it.

But the Robespierres of the time, drunk on their own self-assurance, condemn and insult them, claiming that blood must be spilt. But it doesn't have to be. The French Revolution started relatively bloodlessly. It didn't need some great orgy of violence. Oh it wasn't clean, but it was far cleaner than the armchair Robespierres would like it to be. Because it didn't need to be.

And that's my point, really. The people fantasizing about and fetishizing the Revolution always dream of torrents of blood washing away the injustices, of seas of corpses forming a fertile ground upon which progress can grow. But that horseshit. All you get with that is, like the Place de Grève, a sinister place that stinks of rot and death, and flocks of scavengers gorging on your crimes.

All you get is a chance for a Napoleon to arrive. Or Stalin's USSR that so casually carried on with the crimes of the Tsars. Or Polpot who murdered 25% of his population.

If you look at the French Revolution, the right lesson to learn is that you need to know when to stop, and that's before you get to indiscriminate killing. Because once you get to that point ... people that thrive in those settings get in power and perpetuate them.

And to apply that to the situation in I/P ... knowing when to stop means realizing that Israeli are still humans, that Gazan are still humans, that their lives have worth and should be protected, that supporting child killings when it's done by "brown people" is not anymore alright than supporting child killings when done by the IDF. And you people should very well consider the possibility that people inside the IDF are doing all they can to reduce Bibi's ability to order war crimes.

And you should recognize that there are efforts on the part of the IDF, sometimes token efforts, sometimes more than just that, to limit the number of dead civilians. Point me to a case where Hamas did the same. Point me to a case where they tried to get Israeli civilians out of the way instead of targeting them.

Hamas is not a Revolution you want to succeed. It's not about being free. It's about killing. This isn't a "glorious revolutionary action", it's a prelude to the wholesale slaughter and ethnic massacre they dream of. It's a tiny window into their ideal, blood soaked world.

Violent revolution should be a last resort, when there is no other option available, when the system is so utterly broken and shattered that nothing can move, and it should be stopped as soon as the system is unfucked enough to negociate. The I/P situation is not at that stage. Look at how much efforts the fascists of both sides have to invest in maintaining this. Look at how much time and money and efforts they have to invest to keep each other in place. And despite this, people of both sides reach for peace, argue and protest for it, even at the risk of their very lives (especially true in Gaza).

And if you refuse to consider all this, if you insist on following Robespierre, remember this : La Veuve came for him too, in the end.

[kopifurann]

Hetalia X Alien Stage

Round 5

[koshka-sova]

now that doc r6s is isekai'd into terra he should honestly try to speak french more. heck even just his regular english-with-a-french-accent could be enough to raise some eyebrows. have him deployed in like. ursus/leithanien/victoria and let him experience the scrutiny of speaking even a hint of gaul. "WHO ARE YOU WHO SPEAKS THE DEAD GAULISH LANG. FOUL, BEGONE" shenanigans. i want him to experience that

[chimeride]

Carcolh, the 238th Known One.

[randomnameless]

"Comme vous avez pris 15 min pour retrouver votre voiture dans notre super parking qui ressemble à un foutu terrain vague, on vous charge une heure supplémentaire ! Bisous"

Je hais cette ville

[rogloptimist]

LAKE MISSOULA x JONAS VINGEGAARD

credits under cut!

lake missoula - richy mitch and the coal miners // jonas vingegaard - team presentation, tour de france 2024 // jonas vingegaard, tadej pogacar, and remco evenepoel - podium ceremony, tour de france 2024 (belga images) // tadej pogacar and jonas vingegaard - tour de france 2024 // wayward son - rainbow rowell // jonas vingegaard - stage 21, tour de france 2024 // it's down to legs - caley fretz // jonas vingegaard - stage 20, tour de france 2024 // jonas vingegaard - tour de france 2024 // jonas vingegaard - stage 11, tour de france 2024 // a poem on hope - wendell berry // jonas vingegaard and remco evenepoel - stage 19, tour de france 2024 // quora user shulamit widawsky // jonas vingegaard - stage 21, tour de france 2024 (getty images) // jonas vingegaard - stage 21, tour de france 2024 post-race interview (flobikes) // 'now the fight is over': jonas vingegaard concedes tour de france battle for yellow, but still aims for second - adam becket // jonas vingegaard - stage 19, tour de france 2024 post-race interview (flobikes) // video: jonas vingegaard and matteo jorgenson consoled after heart-breaking end to stage 19 of 2024 tour de france for team visma | lease a bike - kieran wood // jonas vingegaard - tour de france 2024 // jonas vingegaard - tour de france 2024 // 'probably the hardest moment of my career'-- jonas vingegaard on his crash and fight to be ready for the tour de france - stephen farrand // jonas vingegaard's tour de france was a venn diagram - iain treloar // rise up and salute the sun: the writings of suzy kassem - suzy kassem // jonas vingegaard - tour de france 2023 // jonas vingegaard - stage 21, tour de france 2024 // jonas vingegaard - stage 11, tour de france 2024 // vingegaard exhausted after tour de france: may cut season short - sjoerd valkering // jonas vingegaard and tadej pogacar - stage 20, tour de france 2024 (belga images) // the thing is - ellen bass // "if you had told me four months ago that i would be second, i wouldn't have believed you" - jonas vingegaard disappointed but proud of his tour de france - ondrej zhasil // jonas vingegaard and tadej pogacar - stage 11, tour de france 2024 // jonas vingegaard - stage 11, tour de france 2024 post-race interview (nbc sports) // alfred lord tennyson // jonas vingegaard and tadej pogacar - stage 11, tour de france 2024 // remco evenepoel and jonas vingegaard - stage 21, tour de france 2024 // jonas vingegaard and tadej pogacar - tour de france 2024 // matteo jorgenson and jonas vingegaard - stage 19, tour de france 2024 // matteo jorgenson and jonas vingegaard - tour de france 2024 // jonas vingegaard and tadej pogacar - podium ceremony, tour de france 2024 // jonas vingegaard and wout van aert - tour de france 2024 (team visma | lease a bike)

[nostalgia-is-liar]

[f0rgetf0rgetting]

experiencing child like wonder

[youchangedmedestiel]

Men will join team sports and win to touch, hug, stroke and kiss other men.