On average, from March 8 to April 5, russia exported 3.35 million barrels of oil per day - the highest export level since June 2022. Bloomberg reports this. The largest deliveries went to Asian countries, particularly India and China. In China, an average of 1.07 million
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barrels of oil per day was delivered, and to India - 1.9 million. Turkey also purchased 210 thousand barrels per day. Overall, russia earned about $2.02 billion per week from this export. Some russian tankers also do not have a specified destination. Instead, Suez or Port Sudan

is often listed as the final point. The number of such tankers is increasing, while the number of tankers officially heading to China and India is decreasing. In addition, the amount of oil loaded onto tankers at sea dropped to 105 million barrels. By mid-March, this figure was

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Three months ago, a patient died in our ER. What he did in the hours before reaching us still makes me shudder.

A 35-year-old shouldn’t die from a snake bite in 2026. He died because he followed myths instead of science.
Don’t let your "first aid" be the thing that kills you 🧵

The "Action Movie" Myth 🔪

The patient tried to cut and suck the venom out.

Don't ❌

• Cutting: Causes massive bleeding and local tissue necrosis.
• Sucking: Introduces mouth bacteria, leading to secondary infections.

You waste the "Golden Hour" playing hero.

The Tourniquet Trap 🚫

Stop using tight ligatures/tourniquets.
They often cut off arterial blood, leading to gangrene and limb loss. Worse, releasing them can cause a "venom burst" to the heart.

✅ Use a Pressure Immobilization Bandage or a simple splint instead.

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Every time your bank transfer fails in Nigeria, there’s a high chance it has nothing to do with your bank.

It failed because of one system.

One piece of infrastructure that every bank, fintech, and POS terminal depends on at the same time.

It’s called NIBSS.

And most engineers building Nigerian fintech don’t fully understand what it actually does

NIBSS = Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System.

Founded in 1993 by the CBN and commercial banks.

Simple way to think about it:

If Tunde (GTBank) sends money to Emeka (Access Bank), those banks don’t talk directly.

They both talk to NIBSS.

NIBSS is the translator, validator, and settlement engine behind every inter-bank transfer.

Without it, banks are isolated systems.

Two rails you use daily without knowing:

NIP (Instant Payment)
→ Real-time transfers (seconds)
→ Introduced in 2011

NEFT (Electronic Funds Transfer)
→ Batch processing (slower)
→ Used for payroll & bulk payments

Instant transfer? That’s NIP.
Salary credit? Likely NEFT.

Two rails. One backbone.

Tendon pain is the most common reason people come to see me.
Most of it is self-inflicted — from doing too much, too soon, or from doing too little for too long.
Let's review what most people (including many doctors) don't understand about why tendons hurt and how to fix them. 🧵

Tendinitis is a myth (mostly) When your tendon hurts, most people assume "tendinitis" — inflammation, swelling, immune cells.
That's not accurate for most adults with tendon pain.
Under the microscope, those tendons rarely show the classic signs of inflammation. What they show is something different entirely.

What's actually going on... chronic tendon pain shows: disorganized collagen, microruptures, increased ground substance, excessive vascular and nerve ingrowth, and degenerative changes.
The preferred term is tendinopathy — a broader concept that captures failed adaptation, structural change, and pain.
The tendon isn't "inflamed." It's struggling.

The Science of Being Transgender
Most people are never taught this. They are handed a culture war designed by fascist and told to pick a side. What they are rarely given is the actual biology. Here it is…
It Begins Before Birth
Every human embryo starts from the same template. For the first six weeks of development there is no sexual differentiation at all. The same structures, the same hormonal environment, the same biological potential in every direction. The embryo does not yet know what it is going to become. Neither does the body building it.
Then the process begins.
A genetic cascade triggers the release of hormones that will shape the developing body. But this process does not happen all at once. It happens in stages. And the stages matter enormously to understanding why transgender people exist.
The genitals differentiate first. Then, weeks later, the brain follows. These are two separate biological events running on different hormonal timelines. They are not locked together. They are not guaranteed to produce the same outcome. The hormonal environment present during genital development and the hormonal environment present during brain development can differ. In most people they align. In some people they do not.
This is not a malfunction. This is biological variation doing exactly what biological variation does.
Here is the part that should stop the argument cold.
Men have nipples. Every single man reading this has nipples that serve no reproductive function whatsoever. Nobody debates this. Nobody holds a parliamentary inquiry into it. It is simply accepted as a fact of human development and moved on from.
But it is the same phenomenon.
Nipples develop during that early undifferentiated window before the hormonal cascade begins. By the time testosterone arrives the nipples are already formed and they stay. The body built them during a period when it had not yet committed to a direction. They are a trace of shared developmental architecture. Every body carries the blueprint of both pathways because that is how human development works.
Gender identity works the same way. The brain develops during a separate window from the genitals. If the hormonal environment differs between those two windows, which it can and does, the result is a person whose gender identity does not align with their sex assigned at birth. The mechanism is identical to the one that gave every man on earth nipples he will never use. One outcome gets laughed off as a curiosity. The other gets turned into a political crisis.
That inconsistency is worth sitting with.
Numbers That Should Make People Stop and Think
Before getting into the detailed science, here are some figures that tend to reframe the conversation entirely.
Approximately 1.7 percent of the population is born intersex. That is people born with chromosomal, hormonal or anatomical variations that do not fit the standard definitions of male or female. 1.7 percent sounds small until you apply it to population size. In the United Kingdom alone that is over a million people. Globally it is around 130 million people. That is more than the entire population of Japan born with bodies that the binary cannot account for.
Left-handedness affects approximately 10 percent of the global population. Nobody argues that left-handed people are confused, that their condition is a trend or that they should be denied healthcare. They are simply left-handed. Intersex people are more common than many genetic conditions that receive significant medical research funding, public sympathy and zero political debate.
Red hair affects roughly 1 to 2 percent of the global population. It is considered a natural human variation. Nobody is legislating against it.
Identical twins share virtually all of their DNA. If being transgender were purely a social phenomenon or personal choice, the concordance rate for transgender identity between identical twins would be no higher than between strangers. It is not.

Studies show concordance rates of around 39 percent between identical twins where at least one is transgender, compared to significantly lower rates in fraternal twins. If this were a trend or an ideology, the DNA would not care. It does.
Approximately 0.5 percent of adults in the UK identify as transgender. That figure has remained broadly consistent across studies when methodology is controlled for. It is not rising because of social contagion. It is rising in visibility because the social conditions that previously forced people to hide have partially, though not fully, improved.
The Brain Structures
The hypothalamus is a small region at the base of the brain that regulates fundamental aspects of human experience including body temperature, hunger, sleep and aspects of identity and behaviour. Within it sits a structure called the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, referred to in research as the BSTc.
Studies beginning in the 1990s and replicated multiple times since have found consistent differences in this structure between transgender and cisgender individuals. Transgender women have a BSTc that more closely resembles that of cisgender women than cisgender men. Critically this finding holds regardless of whether the individual has received hormone treatment or not. The brain structure differences predate any medical intervention. They are not caused by hormones taken later in life. They are present before treatment begins, pointing directly at developmental origins.
This finding has been confirmed across multiple research teams in multiple countries. It is not fringe science. It is published, peer reviewed and sits in mainstream neurological literature. The fact that it is not common knowledge is a political failure, not a scientific one.
A 2018 study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry used MRI imaging to examine white matter microstructure in transgender adolescents before any hormone treatment. The results showed that the brain connectivity patterns of transgender boys resembled those of cisgender boys more closely than cisgender girls. The same was true in reverse for transgender girls. These were children. Their brains had developed this way before any medical intervention whatsoever.
Prenatal Hormone Exposure
The relationship between prenatal hormone exposure and gender identity is one of the better documented areas in this field.
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia is a condition in which a genetic female fetus is exposed to elevated levels of androgens in the womb. Research has consistently shown higher rates of gender nonconformity and transgender identity in people with this condition compared to the general population. This is a direct, measurable link between prenatal hormone environment and gender identity outcomes.
Research on individuals exposed to diethylstilboestrol, a synthetic oestrogen given to pregnant women between the 1940s and 1970s, showed similar patterns. Those exposed in utero showed higher rates of gender variance than unexposed populations.
The mechanism is understood. Hormones during the critical window of brain development influence the organisation of neural circuits associated with gender identity. If the hormonal environment during that window differs from what produced the genitals weeks earlier, the result is a person whose gender identity does not align with their sex assigned at birth.
That person is transgender. They were transgender before they were born.
Genetics
Twin studies are among the most powerful tools available for separating genetic influence from environmental influence. The research on transgender identity using twin studies is consistent.
Studies examining identical twins, who share virtually all of their DNA, show significantly higher concordance rates for transgender identity than studies of fraternal twins, who share approximately half their DNA. If being transgender were purely a matter of social influence or personal choice, identical twins would show

no higher concordance than fraternal twins. They do.
A 2013 study published in the International Journal of Transgenderism examined 23 identical twin pairs where at least one twin was transgender. In 39 percent of pairs both twins were transgender. Among fraternal twin pairs the concordance was significantly lower. This points clearly toward a genetic component.
Specific genetic research has identified variants in genes associated with hormone signalling pathways, particularly those related to androgen and oestrogen receptors, that appear at higher frequencies in transgender populations. The steroid 5-alpha reductase gene, the androgen receptor gene and the aromatase gene have all been implicated in multiple studies.
No single gene causes a person to be transgender any more than a single gene causes a person to be gay, left-handed or musically gifted. Complex human traits rarely work that way. What the research shows is a consistent genetic architecture underlying gender identity that has nothing to do with choice, trend or ideology.
The Intersex Evidence
Intersex conditions exist in roughly one in one hundred people depending on which variations are included in the definition. Using the broader definition accepted by the United Nations the figure rises to 1.7 percent. These are people born with chromosomal, hormonal or anatomical variations that do not fit the standard definitions of male or female.
Androgen insensitivity syndrome is among the clearest examples. A person with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome has XY chromosomes but develops a fully female body because their cells cannot respond to testosterone. They are raised as girls, identify as women and are women in every observable physical sense. Their chromosomes say one thing. Their body says another.
If chromosomes alone determine sex then this person, by the logic most commonly deployed against transgender people, is male. Nobody who meets her would describe her that way. Nobody who knows her would describe her that way. The chromosome argument collapses the moment it is applied honestly to real human variation.
Klinefelter syndrome produces people with XXY chromosomes. Turner syndrome produces people with a single X chromosome. There are people with XYY chromosomes, XXX chromosomes, mosaic chromosomes where different cells in the same body carry different chromosomal combinations. The binary of XX equals female and XY equals male describes the majority but does not describe everyone and never did.
This is not a modern discovery. These conditions have been documented in medical literature for over a century. The decision to ignore them in public debate about biological sex is a choice, not an oversight.
The Epigenetic Layer
Epigenetics is the study of how gene expression is regulated without changes to the underlying DNA sequence. Environmental factors including hormone levels, stress and other prenatal conditions can switch genes on or off during critical developmental windows. These epigenetic changes can influence brain development in ways that affect gender identity.
A 2008 study in the journal Molecular Psychiatry proposed an epigenetic model for sexual orientation and gender identity, suggesting that epigenetic changes during prenatal development could explain why identical twins do not show one hundred percent concordance for transgender identity despite sharing virtually identical DNA. The same genes can be expressed differently depending on conditions in the womb.
This adds another layer of biological complexity to an already complex picture. Gender identity is not determined by a single mechanism. It is shaped by genetics, by prenatal hormone exposure, by epigenetic regulation of gene expression and by neurological development during specific critical windows. All of these operate before birth. None of them are choices.
This Is Not New and It Is Not Western
This is the part of the conversation that tends to silence the social contagion argument

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How many carbs per hour during cycling races?
In recent years, intake has increased massively:
30 → 60 → 90 → 120 g/h… and even more.

But should everyone aim for the same number?
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2/7
Peak exogenous glucose oxidation varies A LOT between individuals.
👉 ~30 to ~70 g/h
👉Some athletes even reach ~90 g/h
So what explains these differences?

3/7
Scientific data showed 3 factors influence how many carbs you can oxidize:
1️⃣ Body mass→ heavier = more carbs
2️⃣ Height → taller = more carbs
3️⃣ Power output → more watts = more carbs

Schizophrenia is often conceptualised across 3 domains:

- Reality distortion: delusions and hallucinations

- Disorganisation: formal thought disorder, disorganised behaviour, inappropriate affect 

- Negative symptoms: alogia, avolition, anhedonia, asociality

But this framework doesn’t fully capture clinical complexity.

Here are 3 additional features that remain clinically relevant in schizophrenia, even if they are not specific to it alone:🧵👇

(Click through to see all 3 additional clinically relevant features)

1/ Catatonia

Catatonia is a psychomotor syndrome that can occur in schizophrenia.

Catatonic stupor may be a recognisable presentation, but immobility, mutism, staring, and rigidity are also described clinical signs.

Although DSM frameworks have reclassified catatonia from a core feature of schizophrenia to a specifier across several disorders, it remains clinically relevant and still manifests in around 9% of schizophrenia cases. (Solmt et. al., 2018)

2/ First Rank Symptoms

This includes third-person auditory hallucinations, disturbances in the ownership of thought, and passivity.

A 2015 Cochrane review verified that first-rank symptoms identified those with schizophrenia in 75-95% of cases. (Soares-Weiser et al., 2015)

Despite this evidence, first rank symptoms have now been removed from the DSM as core features, but as Heinz et al. (2016) stress, this may be a premature move.

1/ This continues Russian drone developer Alexey Chadayev's analysis of the state of Russia's drone warfare; see the links below for parts 1 and 2. In this part, he assesses the crucial role of communications systems in drone control. ⬇️

2/ Part 1:

https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2042174237360722212

3/ Part 2:

https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2042176818719969785