1. Confessions of a Monkey buried alive on Twitter
....for 15 months
I juggle a lot of information lately, sometimes 3000 tabs open in 30 windows, with frequent memory crashes as C drive fills up with data.
2. Please don't suggest "One Tab", I used that once and it completely trashed my tabs, that is for light weights.
3. I don't think anyone actually realises the time I dedicate to this investigation, 17 hours a day non-stop for 15 months with no breaks, OK, maybe 2 hours for a walk and swim.
4. so, Twitter messages, twitter timeline, research papers, researchgate, three different emails, slack space, coordinating 10 different working groups, PR work, contacting journalists, logging media mentions
I could go on....
5. My brain is working at 99% capacity fuelled by nicotine and caffeine, unfortunately I can't be using amphetamines like Jack Kerouac these days ;)
6. eventually by sunrise I am nearly unconscious so when my head hits the keyboard, time for some sleep.
I am usually pretty accurate with everything but sometimes I slip up, very rarely.
7. Then it's Dream Time - Vampire Sunrise Lockdown
Short 🧵on Primer & PCR Test issues (Pangolin Covs)
1. The key issue with pangolins and Pcovs is that:
It was discovered that the standard PCR tests used in 2020, and often still used, failed to actually detect many of the betacoronaviruses generously hosted by the pangolins.
2. Unless
The samples are retested with bespoke primers & more accurate PCR tests available now,
We will not know exactly whIch Pangolin (or bat) coronaviruses were hosted by Pangolins at WIV & elsewhere pre-pandemic.
However, "they" (I will name who they are later) should, and perhaps in the future, may retest the stored samples at WIV, IPB, SCAU AND GIABR, to clarify the question of which coronaviruses were present in their pangolin samples.
2. May have been for research and commercial purposes, but they were caught bang to rights.
"LIU initially stated that he did not know what the materials were and that someone must have put them into his bag"
3. When asked why someone would put them into his bag, LIU stated that he did not know, and that maybe he had accidentally put the materials there. After further questioning, LIU acknowledged that the materials were different strains of the pathogen Fusarium graminearum
1. Remote truck drone swarm bombings are here to stay!
The techniques will be improved and nowhere will be safe unless underground.
Questions to consider:
How many panel vans, transit vans and small trucks are there in a big city at any one time?
2. This is a revolution in sabotage tactics
Welcome to the future of air bases!
Without concrete and earth roofed revetments, aircraft are sitting ducks.kyivpost.com/post/53749
3. The "good old days"
"clandestine antiaircraft devices using gallium metal pencils which when applied to aircraft results In destruction due to stress failure at the point of application"
GREAT REVOLT SCHEME. SECRET PLANS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL. BOLSHEVISING BULGARIA. A BALKAN FRONT. SPENDTHRIFT MURDERER. SPENDS AMILLION FRANCS IN FOURTEEN DAYS. MENUS OF LONDON'S ZOO. MR. CHURCHILL'S BUDGET. HAKKAS AND HOKLOS. PITCHED BATTLE AT PING CHAU.
More stories!
CANTON SITUATION. SPORT IN THE FAR EAST. GERMAN DISARMAMENT. BRITISH SILK DUTIES. COTTON SPINNERS. WORKING WEEK DISPUTE NOT YET SETTLED. FATE OF AMUNDSEN. MR. HAMMER IS MAKING PLANS FOR RESCUE. THE SOFIA OUTRAGE. POSITIONS FOR TROTZKY. THE EPSOM DERBY.
In this enlightened year of our Lord 2025 I, a humble observer of mankind’s ceaseless quest for health, find myself much struck by the ingenious practices of the Orient..
🧵2. A Scaly Panacea
...where the pangolin, that scaly denizen of subtropical climes, hath been elevated to a panacea most wondrous.
The Baicao Chinese Medicine compendium, a veritable gospel of herbal wisdom, doth proclaim the virtues of this creature’s scales...
🧵3. Humanity's Salvation?
...harvested with a diligence that would shame the most ardent of alchemists.
I propose, therefore, a modest scheme to amplify this noble tradition, ensuring that the pangolin’s sacrifice might serve the greater good of humanity.