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12 Brutal Truths You Must Accept If You Want To Become a Man
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1. Nobody’s coming to save you.
Not your parents. Not your government.
Not your friends. It’s on YOU.
Not your parents. Not your government.
Not your friends. It’s on YOU.
2. Money won’t fix your character.
It only magnifies who you are. Broke or rich, discipline, integrity, and grit matter more.
It only magnifies who you are. Broke or rich, discipline, integrity, and grit matter more.
CO₂ sensitivity is one of the most powerful (and ignored) nervous-system interventions.
But, most people don’t know this system exists.
Here are 7 ways to calm your CO₂ alarm + lower your anxiety (in seconds).🧵
1. Stop “silent overbreathing.”
But, most people don’t know this system exists.
Here are 7 ways to calm your CO₂ alarm + lower your anxiety (in seconds).🧵
1. Stop “silent overbreathing.”
Most anxious people aren’t breathing too little.
They’re breathing TOO MUCH (fast, shallow, chest-only breathing).
That keeps your chemoreflex on a hair trigger.
Instead:
breathe quieter
breathe lower (belly/ribs)
slow your pace
They’re breathing TOO MUCH (fast, shallow, chest-only breathing).
That keeps your chemoreflex on a hair trigger.
Instead:
breathe quieter
breathe lower (belly/ribs)
slow your pace
2. Lengthen your exhale.
This instantly downshifts your nervous system's thread detector.
Slow breathing with longer exhales reduces nervous system anxiety and shift body stress within minutes.
Try:
Inhale 4 seconds → Exhale 6–8 seconds
Do 6 cycles at first.
This instantly downshifts your nervous system's thread detector.
Slow breathing with longer exhales reduces nervous system anxiety and shift body stress within minutes.
Try:
Inhale 4 seconds → Exhale 6–8 seconds
Do 6 cycles at first.
GROK + YouTube = $$$$$
Even a 9-year-old can do it
Use these prompts to make money with YouTube:
Even a 9-year-old can do it
Use these prompts to make money with YouTube:
1. Viral YouTube Video Ideas
Prompt: I want to create a YouTube channel about [insert niche]. Generate a list of 10 video ideas that could go viral, based on current trends, hot topics, and what’s working best in my niche
Prompt: I want to create a YouTube channel about [insert niche]. Generate a list of 10 video ideas that could go viral, based on current trends, hot topics, and what’s working best in my niche
2/ Viral YouTube Video Script
Prompt: Write a YouTube video script for my idea on [insert topic]. Make sure to include a strong hook to grab attention, an interesting story to keep people watching, and a persuasive call to action that boosts engagement.
Prompt: Write a YouTube video script for my idea on [insert topic]. Make sure to include a strong hook to grab attention, an interesting story to keep people watching, and a persuasive call to action that boosts engagement.
Wars are fought not just with tanks, but with stories too. Putin’s story is that Russia’s victory is inevitable, while Europe is weak. Democracies can challenge this tale. Read on in my FT essay (gift link if fast) 👉🏼
#informationwar #ukraine #russia
1/5as.ft.com/r/06908caf-bad…
#informationwar #ukraine #russia
1/5as.ft.com/r/06908caf-bad…
To counter it, democracies must act as a network: EU, Ukraine, Canada, the UK, Australia, Japan. Together they can show they are not passive and create a narrative of strength, unity, and resilience. "A narrative is a strategy in story form" @MarkLaity #security #europe
Ukraine and its allies should project power across multiple fronts: economic pressure, hybrid operations, defense production, and information campaigns. Every action reinforces the story of capability and resolve #ukraine #narrativepower #defense
Alan Watts spent 30 years studying human consciousness.
His most powerful insight?
Nearly everyone is trapped in 2 mental illusions that silently drain happiness, purpose, and energy.
Here's how to identify them (and how to permanently break free):
His most powerful insight?
Nearly everyone is trapped in 2 mental illusions that silently drain happiness, purpose, and energy.
Here's how to identify them (and how to permanently break free):
Meet Alan Watts.
A philosopher who dedicated his life to understanding why humans suffer.
For 3 decades, he studied Eastern philosophy, Western psychology, and human consciousness.
What he found challenges everything we believe about ourselves ↓
A philosopher who dedicated his life to understanding why humans suffer.
For 3 decades, he studied Eastern philosophy, Western psychology, and human consciousness.
What he found challenges everything we believe about ourselves ↓
Watts identified 2 fundamental illusions that control your life:
1) The Separate Self
2) The Pursuit of External Happiness
These illusions drive your career choices, relationships, spending habits, and chronic dissatisfaction.
1) The Separate Self
2) The Pursuit of External Happiness
These illusions drive your career choices, relationships, spending habits, and chronic dissatisfaction.
More detail of historic Israeli interventions in the Labour Party, which laid the groundwork for everything we are seeing take place today.
We start with, Robert Maxwell, infamously referred to as Israel’s ‘Superspy’. A Czech Jew who fled Nazi occupied Europe to the UK.
We start with, Robert Maxwell, infamously referred to as Israel’s ‘Superspy’. A Czech Jew who fled Nazi occupied Europe to the UK.
After his intelligence stint, in 1964 Maxwell is elected Labour MP for Buckingham. His aim is Prime Minister. In 1969 he tries to buy The News Of The World, but fails. In 1970 he loses his seat, but remains closely intertwined with Labour politics for decades to come…
In 1983 Maxwell is closely involved in Neil Kinnock’s Labour leadership bid. In 1984 Maxwell buys The Daily Mirror, and turns it into the propaganda machine of the Labour Right Wing. ‘Sycophantic’ support for Kinnock, and a hard line against the miners.
By weaponizing or carelessly weaponizing painful information, you re-open trauma in those already carrying it — and that recurring violation is one of the under-acknowledged engines keeping modern society emotionally arrested and socially dysfunctional. Pattern that is structurally useful to a society that quietly prefers to remain emotionally crippled and controllable.”
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Societal emotional dysregulation refers to a widespread, collective pattern where large segments of a population (or society as a whole) struggle to modulate intense emotions, maintain balanced responses to stressors, and return to states of calm connection after threat or activation. It's not merely millions of individuals happening to have personal emotional dysregulation at once — though that contributes — but rather a systemic, feedback-loop dynamic at the cultural, institutional, and nervous-system level that keeps the collective nervous system biased toward threat, polarization, reactivity, and shutdown.
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Societal emotional dysregulation refers to a widespread, collective pattern where large segments of a population (or society as a whole) struggle to modulate intense emotions, maintain balanced responses to stressors, and return to states of calm connection after threat or activation. It's not merely millions of individuals happening to have personal emotional dysregulation at once — though that contributes — but rather a systemic, feedback-loop dynamic at the cultural, institutional, and nervous-system level that keeps the collective nervous system biased toward threat, polarization, reactivity, and shutdown.
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This phenomenon draws from trauma studies, polyvagal theory, collective trauma frameworks, and observations of social regression. When societies experience repeated or layered stressors (pandemics, economic precarity, political polarization, climate anxiety, ongoing structural violence, information overload via outrage-optimized media, historical unresolved harms), the shared autonomic nervous system tilts toward chronic sympathetic dominance (hyper-arousal: anger, fear, blame, urgency) or dorsal vagal collapse (hypo-arousal: numbness, cynicism, withdrawal, learned helplessness). Ventral vagal safety/co-regulation — the state needed for trust, nuance, cooperation, long-term thinking — becomes harder to access or sustain at scale.
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This phenomenon draws from trauma studies, polyvagal theory, collective trauma frameworks, and observations of social regression. When societies experience repeated or layered stressors (pandemics, economic precarity, political polarization, climate anxiety, ongoing structural violence, information overload via outrage-optimized media, historical unresolved harms), the shared autonomic nervous system tilts toward chronic sympathetic dominance (hyper-arousal: anger, fear, blame, urgency) or dorsal vagal collapse (hypo-arousal: numbness, cynicism, withdrawal, learned helplessness). Ventral vagal safety/co-regulation — the state needed for trust, nuance, cooperation, long-term thinking — becomes harder to access or sustain at scale.
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@SecKennedy said that ultra-processed foods may be contributing to the mental health epidemic.
Is there any evidence for this?
Yes! And a lot more than you probably know. 🧵1/
Is there any evidence for this?
Yes! And a lot more than you probably know. 🧵1/
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Increasingly, epidemiological studies are demonstrating an association between ultra-processed food consumption and poor health, including mental health.
This umbrella review of meta-analyses reviewed the evidence, and found that the association with common mental disorders was MORE convincing than the association with obesity, heart disease, and all-cause mortality.
bmj.com/content/384/bm…
Increasingly, epidemiological studies are demonstrating an association between ultra-processed food consumption and poor health, including mental health.
This umbrella review of meta-analyses reviewed the evidence, and found that the association with common mental disorders was MORE convincing than the association with obesity, heart disease, and all-cause mortality.
bmj.com/content/384/bm…
This study of nearly 300,000 people from around the globe found that those who consume UPF several times a day are THREE TIMES more likely to have serious mental health struggles than those who never or rarely consume them.
sapienlabs.org/consumption-of…
sapienlabs.org/consumption-of…
#Nigeria. National Security, Justice, and the People’s Wellbeing: Reclaiming the Purpose of Power by Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, @elrufai 08 February 2026. #Thread.
"At this critical juncture in our national life, it is vital that we speak about something that touches every breath we take in this country: security and justice. Not as abstract phrases buried in policy documents, but as the air our children breathe, the peace of our homes...
the freedom to move, speak, and live without fear. At its heart, national security exists for only one purpose: to ensure that Nigerians may live long, live well, and live in peace with one another. @elrufai Cc: @ishakaa
@realYusufTukur @mamannajwa
@ThatIsokoLawyer @jaymilayusuf
@realYusufTukur @mamannajwa
@ThatIsokoLawyer @jaymilayusuf
ASSAM SIT PROBE:
Foreign Links. Undisclosed Travel. Financial Trails. Gaurav Gogoi & his wife Elizabeth Colburn's connection across the border raises serious national security concerns.
Thread 🧵
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Foreign Links. Undisclosed Travel. Financial Trails. Gaurav Gogoi & his wife Elizabeth Colburn's connection across the border raises serious national security concerns.
Thread 🧵
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The SIT report submitted to the Assam Govt points to interactions between Elizabeth Colburn Gogoi and Pakistani national Ali Tauqeer Sheikh (ATS).
ATS is ex chief executive of LEAD Pakistan, linked with policy and strategic influence networks operating out of Pakistan.
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ATS is ex chief executive of LEAD Pakistan, linked with policy and strategic influence networks operating out of Pakistan.
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ATS is an influential man. All these ppl who worked under the cover of climate, weather, human rights etc NGO are far deeper than appears. That's typical Soros ecosystem SOP.
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Story Time!! Gather in!!
Today I share the story of the Commander of @GimliDivision. This is a translated version of what was published in October 2024 by 117 Heavy Mechanized Brigade.
A Hero’s Story:
On the eve of the full-scale invasion, Serhii was working abroad as a long-haul truck driver. He had traveled all over Europe. His career was going very successfully. A path was open for him and his family to move to Canada, but he chose the path of a warrior. Serhii met the beginning of the full-scale war in France.
•“My wife called me — my wife lives in Chernihiv. She called around three or four in the morning. At that time, I was in France. She said the war had started. I said, ‘How can it have started?!’ She said, ‘It has — we’re being shelled.’ I made my decision.
At the beginning there were a lot of guys I knew very well, and they knew me. When I said I was going to Ukraine, about 15 or 20 men agreed to go with me. But when, on the third day, the media reported that the enemy had advanced from Sumy all the way to Kyiv, most of the drivers — already 40–50 years old — hesitated.
I told my boss I was leaving. No one went with me, even though everyone had planned to. The boss called me into his office and said, ‘Do you understand that your behavior could ruin my business right now?’ I said, ‘Do you understand that my family is there? My wife is there, my daughter is there, my parents are there, all my relatives are there.’”…/2 🧵
Today I share the story of the Commander of @GimliDivision. This is a translated version of what was published in October 2024 by 117 Heavy Mechanized Brigade.
A Hero’s Story:
On the eve of the full-scale invasion, Serhii was working abroad as a long-haul truck driver. He had traveled all over Europe. His career was going very successfully. A path was open for him and his family to move to Canada, but he chose the path of a warrior. Serhii met the beginning of the full-scale war in France.
•“My wife called me — my wife lives in Chernihiv. She called around three or four in the morning. At that time, I was in France. She said the war had started. I said, ‘How can it have started?!’ She said, ‘It has — we’re being shelled.’ I made my decision.
At the beginning there were a lot of guys I knew very well, and they knew me. When I said I was going to Ukraine, about 15 or 20 men agreed to go with me. But when, on the third day, the media reported that the enemy had advanced from Sumy all the way to Kyiv, most of the drivers — already 40–50 years old — hesitated.
I told my boss I was leaving. No one went with me, even though everyone had planned to. The boss called me into his office and said, ‘Do you understand that your behavior could ruin my business right now?’ I said, ‘Do you understand that my family is there? My wife is there, my daughter is there, my parents are there, all my relatives are there.’”…/2 🧵
“We could have taken the family to Poland, but I understood what the attitude might be like, and I knew it would be difficult. My daughter asked my wife, ‘Why isn’t Serhii coming?’ She said, ‘He is coming! You understand, it’s a long way to travel.’
The main reason I returned to Ukraine was what I felt inside. There was an inner feeling that I wouldn’t be able to keep living in Europe knowing I had left my parents, my wife, my family behind. No one supported me returning — except my wife. My parents said, ‘They’ll kill you! Stay there. You’ll be shot. They won’t let you through.’”
An offer from his employer to move his family to Poland did not change Serhii’s decision to return to Ukraine. Fellow countrymen and local Poles provided humanitarian aid. Some equipment had to be purchased in stores.
“The Poles treated this situation very well. They supported Ukraine at the beginning.”
The road home to the Chernihiv region across all of Ukraine was not easy.
“That’s where I saw the first strikes. Houses were destroyed. Armored vehicles were standing and moving around, and the guys were already there, ready — with rifles, machine guns, body armor. I made it. Everything was fine. But when I finally arrived to my family, home, to my parents — I realized what horror was happening in the city itself.” …/3
The main reason I returned to Ukraine was what I felt inside. There was an inner feeling that I wouldn’t be able to keep living in Europe knowing I had left my parents, my wife, my family behind. No one supported me returning — except my wife. My parents said, ‘They’ll kill you! Stay there. You’ll be shot. They won’t let you through.’”
An offer from his employer to move his family to Poland did not change Serhii’s decision to return to Ukraine. Fellow countrymen and local Poles provided humanitarian aid. Some equipment had to be purchased in stores.
“The Poles treated this situation very well. They supported Ukraine at the beginning.”
The road home to the Chernihiv region across all of Ukraine was not easy.
“That’s where I saw the first strikes. Houses were destroyed. Armored vehicles were standing and moving around, and the guys were already there, ready — with rifles, machine guns, body armor. I made it. Everything was fine. But when I finally arrived to my family, home, to my parents — I realized what horror was happening in the city itself.” …/3
As for what came next, a friend of Serhii’s from the police suggested he contact the administration of the city of Nizhyn. As a result, he began transporting humanitarian goods between regions at a time when other drivers refused to get behind the wheel.
During this period, “Gimli” tried to help the military in any way he could. Around then he met an old friend who was already serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. That became the beginning of a new stage in Serhii’s life.
“A friend called and asked if I was home. He asked if I had returned or if I hadn’t left yet. I said I had returned. He said, ‘Good man. We’re coming to you.’ I said, ‘To who — to me?’ He said, ‘We mobilized добровільно (as volunteers), we’re coming to your city.’
The 30th Separate Rifle Battalion was being formed. Many were from Chernihiv region, many from Sumy region. I delivered humanitarian aid to them while they were stationed outside the city, and then they moved into Sumy region.
The first time I came to them, I already understood I would probably join them. The second time I came — it was the final decision. I just didn’t know how to tell my wife. Right before leaving, I told her I had made the decision: I would go serve with Andriy — my brother-in-arms — in Sumy region.” …/4
During this period, “Gimli” tried to help the military in any way he could. Around then he met an old friend who was already serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. That became the beginning of a new stage in Serhii’s life.
“A friend called and asked if I was home. He asked if I had returned or if I hadn’t left yet. I said I had returned. He said, ‘Good man. We’re coming to you.’ I said, ‘To who — to me?’ He said, ‘We mobilized добровільно (as volunteers), we’re coming to your city.’
The 30th Separate Rifle Battalion was being formed. Many were from Chernihiv region, many from Sumy region. I delivered humanitarian aid to them while they were stationed outside the city, and then they moved into Sumy region.
The first time I came to them, I already understood I would probably join them. The second time I came — it was the final decision. I just didn’t know how to tell my wife. Right before leaving, I told her I had made the decision: I would go serve with Andriy — my brother-in-arms — in Sumy region.” …/4
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@almurray @WeHaveWaysPod it's time #FamilyHistoryFebruary and for the the second part of @jroche1001's retelling of his father Paddy's wartime naval exploits. Over to you Jim!
@almurray @WeHaveWaysPod it's time #FamilyHistoryFebruary and for the the second part of @jroche1001's retelling of his father Paddy's wartime naval exploits. Over to you Jim!
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Yesterday, we left Paddy on board HMS Prince of Wales steaming towards a rendezvous with HMS Repulse, just south of Ceylon. The ship was badly designed and the heat below decks was intense, the Surgeon Commander limited shifts to two hours.
Yesterday, we left Paddy on board HMS Prince of Wales steaming towards a rendezvous with HMS Repulse, just south of Ceylon. The ship was badly designed and the heat below decks was intense, the Surgeon Commander limited shifts to two hours.
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Paddy recalled that the stokers would work naked and emerge from the Engine Room exhausted after only two hours and collapse around the hatch to sleep. As a boy, he showed me how to keep a water bottle cold by putting it in a wet sock to cool from the evaporation.
Paddy recalled that the stokers would work naked and emerge from the Engine Room exhausted after only two hours and collapse around the hatch to sleep. As a boy, he showed me how to keep a water bottle cold by putting it in a wet sock to cool from the evaporation.
