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… eher an der Ungenauigkeit des julianischen Kalenders, in dem der dies natalis invecti zwar korrekt festgelegt wurde, sich dann aber im Lauf der Jahrhunderte um ein paar Tage verschob.
December 25, 2023 at 11:53 AM
allanmoore.bsky.social
>> and the rituals performed to celebrate them?

Saturnalia - exchanging of gifts.
Bachannali - feasting, drunkeness, immortality.
Natalis Invecti (AKA feast of the unconquered son) - the burning of a log the night before, and decorating a tree the following morning.

The last is the worst of all,>>
December 17, 2024 at 11:28 AM
krystinanellis.com
Mel Brooks talking about why he made 'The Producers'
A quote from Mel Brooks, screengrabbed from the Wikipedia page for 'The Producers': "More than anything the great Holocaust by the Nazis is probably the great outrage of the 20th century. There is nothing to compare with it. And ... so what can I do about it? If I get on the soapbox and wax eloquently, it'll be blown away in the wind, but if I do Springtime for Hitler it'll never be forgotten. I think you can bring down totalitarian governments faster by using ridicule than you can with invective." "I was never crazy about Hitler ... If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win ... That's what they do so well: they seduce people. But if you ridicule them, bring them down with laughter, they can't win. You show how crazy they are." — Mel Brooks, in an August 2001 interview
March 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
seneplus.bsky.social
Sous le régime précédent, la manière dont certains emplois étaient créés est à proscrire. Le problème de l’emploi ne doit pas être du domaine de la politique politicienne
CRÉATION D’EMPLOIS, PROMESSES, INVECTIVES ET RÉALITÉ
Toute fille de joie en séchant devient prude. Victor Hugo faisait tenir ce propos à un personnage de sa pièce de théâtre ‘’Ruy Blas’’. Un propos qui sied bien à la nouvelle opposition avec ses invecti...
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February 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
asrust.bsky.social
Augustine analyzing Cicero (who lived over 600 years after the events recounted) as if he is a contemporary or near-contmeorary source for the events recounted really revealing the chasm between classical historiography and our own.
"Again, speaking of Tullus Hostilius, who was the third king of Rome and who was himself destroyed by lightning, Cicero says in the same book that he was not believed to have been received among the gods even though he died as he did. 38 Perhaps, Cicero suggests, this was because the Romans did not wish to have what they agreed or believed in the case of Romulus to be made vulgar or commonplace, as it would have been if it had been readily attributed to another also. Again, in one of his invectives Cicero says clearly, 'Romulus, who founded this city, we have raised up to the immortal gods by our goodwill and renown.' This suggests that Romulus's elevation did not truly occur, but was a polite fiction devised and published in recognition of his virtues. In the dialogue Hortensius, moreover, while speaking of regular eclipses of the sun, Cicero says that they 'produce the same darkness that was produced at the time of Romulus's death, which occurred when the sun was hidden'. Here, certainly, he does not in the least shrink from speaking of the man's 'death', for he is engaged in discussion rather than praise."
January 30, 2026 at 4:28 PM
yvesrroy.bsky.social
Ce gars là dit n'importe quoi!

Trump qualifie Zelensky de « dictateur sans élections » : lp.ca/e8lpiG?shari...
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Donald Trump a lancé mercredi une seconde salve d’attaques contre son homologue ukrainien, Volodymyr Zelensky, qui l’accuse de son côté de vivre dans « un espace de désinformation » russe, des invecti...
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February 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
shawnahunter.bsky.social
And, yes, #Invecti by #RubyRoe is preordered.

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June 9, 2026 at 6:53 PM
allanmoore.bsky.social
>> behaviour of all sorts.

3: Worship the Great King Nimrod, by, in some lands, Burning a log on the fire the night before, then next morning celebrate Natalis Invecti by decorating a tree in honour of Nimrod to celebrate his death and ascention to heaven as a God, as Semiramis, his mother >>
December 19, 2024 at 10:49 AM