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Jul 20, 2022
Image SEO Be A POWERFUL Technique 📸

BUT, most of the SEO community gets it wrong and is using out-of-date, over-optimizing tactics that harm the quality of their pages.

So, here's a 🧵
When I talk about image SEO I am talking about utilizing the images on your pages to increase the likelihood it'll rank on Google.

I am NOT talking about creating imagery or optimizing the image's load time.
There are several parts Google will look at when evaluating your images:
- File Name
- Image Title
- Alt Tag
- Caption (If It Has One)
- EXIF Data (Maybe A Signal)

And of course, the contents of the image - Google can transcribe text from images, describe objects in images etc
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Sep 10, 2023
Google stuff.

Find websites that are doing well, despite not being very good.

Do a better job.

How to do it better… 👇
1. Have more passion for the niche than they do.
2. Write about your real experiences when they don’t.
3. Use real photos where they use stock.
4. Make your site look nicer with better heading and paragraphs.
5. Do better keyword research to be more efficient…
6. Choose a plain font in size 20 with 1.5 line spacing so it’s easy to read.
7. Choose a fast theme then people don’t have to wait for it to load.
8. Join better affiliate programs and negotiate the commission.
9. Learn to write in a way that readers find the most helpful…
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Jan 8, 2024
Last year I ran a small digital PR campaign for "Dry January" using Google Trends data.

It got featured in The Daily Mail, Entreprenuer•com, Canada•com, and around 20+ more high authority publications.

Here's my exact pitch (in full), data, and process... 🧵
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The angle was simple - see if searches for Dry Jan were higher than the previous year.

If so, make the data look nice and pitch it to the media with the angle "interest in dry jan is increasing by X%"

Searches for dry jan were massively up on previous years. Image
You can see the full post by searching for 'pantry and larder dry jan'.

It's fairly simple. A few charts and key talking points that the media can use.

I focused on doing a regional angle too. Every US state is an opportunity for more links - if you can make the data relevant.
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Sep 2, 2024
@Headteacherchat Yes. Please invite myself & my colleagues at Long Covid Expert Advisory team as well as Hazards campaign to come & speak to Educational Leaders about the scientific truths & myths of COVID damage in kids, role of school in transmission & IPC in schools 🙏
@Headteacherchat Especially since the statistics clearly show the high absenteeism is due to pupil sickness 2/3 Image
@Headteacherchat 3/ I’d also strongly recommend this CDP course for Headteachers teaching them how to keep children safe from harmful airborne pathogen spread within schools. Written by Australian Covid scientists with input from U.K. specialists incl me. Lots of info.

covidsafetyforschools.org
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Apr 8
Kim Jae-kyu, head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, reenacts the moment he murdered President Park Chung-hee in October 1979.

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Park seized power in a coup in 1961 and ruled South Korea as a dictator. After the death of his wife during an assassination attempt in 1974, Park became more isolated than ever before.

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On the night of President Park’s death, he was dining in the Blue House with his security chief, Cha Ji-chul, the Blue House Secretary, two female entertainers, and his longtime friend Kim Jae-kyu.

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Jun 13
Google has a recording of every search you've ever made.

Every place you've ever been. Every YouTube video you've ever watched.

Go to right now.

You'll find searches from 2015. Voice recordings. GPS coordinates.

All stored. All linked to your name.

Here's how to see it and delete it:myactivity.google.com
This isn't a conspiracy theory.

A peer-reviewed study from Trinity College Dublin found that your Android phone contacts Google's servers every 4.5 minutes.

Even when you're not touching it. Even when the screen is off.

It sends your device ID, your phone number, your SIM serial number, and your location.

Even if you never signed into a Google account.

Source: Professor Douglas Leith, Trinity College Dublin, 2021.
How much data does Google have on you?

People who downloaded their full Google data reported files of 30, 60, even 150+ gigabytes.

That's the equivalent of tens of thousands of books. All about one person. You.

Go to . Download yours. See for yourself.

Warning: it can take hours to process. That should tell you something.takeout.google.com
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Jun 13
William Zinsser taught writing at Yale, then wrote the book that has fixed more bad writing than every English class combined.

Here are 10 cuts from "On Writing Well" that instantly make your writing twice as strong.

1) Delete every word doing no work Image
Zinsser's first rule is the one that exposes every writer immediately.

Read your last sentence. Find every word that would leave the meaning unchanged if you removed it.

Those words are not neutral. They are actively making your writing worse. They force the reader to work harder for the same information. They dilute the words doing the actual work.

His test was brutal and simple. If a word is not earning its place, it does not get one.

Most first drafts cut by half. Most writers discover their ideas are cleaner than their sentences suggested.
2) Kill the qualifier

Zinsser had no patience for qualifiers.

"Rather." "Very." "Somewhat." "In a sense." "A bit." "Quite." "Fairly."

These words feel like precision. They are the opposite. They signal that the writer does not fully believe what they are saying and is hedging against being wrong.

If something is good, say it is good. If it is bad, say it is bad. If you are not sure, decide before you write the sentence.

The reader cannot trust a writer who does not trust their own sentences.
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Jun 13
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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: Ordinary Brits Flood the Streets of Liverpool While the Political Class Hides Behind “Diversity” Slogans and Dispersal Zones

#EnoughIsEnough #CountyRoad #BritsHaveSpoken #NoMoreIllegals #MassDeportationNow #HopeNotHypocrisy #WorkingClassVoices #TheTideIsTurning #OrdinaryPeopleUnite #DispersalZoneDemocracy #FlagAndCountry #TheyCantArrestUsAll #LiverpoolRising #UnitedKingdomFirst #SayItLoud
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They called them extremists.

They called them far-right thugs.

They called them a “threat to democracy.”

But today on County Road, Liverpool—150+ ordinary Brits stood under Union Jacks and did something the establishment finds absolutely terrifying:

They showed up.

Not politicians. Not NGO-funded activists with pre-printed signs. Not the professional grievance class that parades through city centres every Pride month with corporate sponsorships and police escorts.

No—these were brickies, shopkeepers, pensioners, young lads who’ve watched their neighbourhoods transform into places they barely recognise. And they marched under slogans the media refuses to print without scare quotes: “No More Illegals.” “Mass Deportations.”

And the response from the powers that be?

A dispersal zone. A Section 60 order granting police the right to demand you remove your face covering or face arrest. A Section 60AA authorisation that lets officers literally seize your scarf if they suspect you’re hiding your identity.

Read that again.

When Black Lives Matter shut down motorways and toppled statues, it was “mostly peaceful protest.” When Extinction Rebellion glued themselves to trains and blocked ambulances, it was “civil disobedience in the tradition of Gandhi.”

But when working-class Scousers walk down their own streets with flags and grievances about mass migration?

Dispersal zone. 9am to midnight. Arrest powers activated.
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🎭 The Theatre of “Hope Not Hate.”

Liverpool Council leader Liam Robinson—a Labour man, naturally—rushed out an open letter declaring Liverpool “a city of hope, not hate.” He invoked the docks. He invoked “generations of people from across the world.” He name-dropped the upcoming Pride celebrations, because apparently the correct response to citizens protesting immigration policy is to remind them that rainbow flags are coming next month.

This is the script now. Every single time.

1. Ordinary people organise a protest about a material reality—housing shortages, wage suppression, cultural displacement, crime.

2. The political class ignores the substance entirely.

3. Instead, they issue a statement about diversity being our strength and standing together against hate.

4. Police are given extraordinary powers.

5. The local paper runs a headline about fear and anxiety among the community—meaning the people who oppose the protesters, never the protesters themselves, whose fears are what triggered the march in the first place.

It’s a magic trick. You take a policy grievance, and you alchemise it into a morality play where anyone questioning immigration is the villain, and the council leader who’s never lived on County Road is the hero.
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Jun 13
🚨 BREAKING: Claude can now perform stock market research like a top-tier consulting firm — for free.

Here are 10 Claude prompts that replace $100K/year stock analysts.

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1. Full Stock Research Report

Act like a senior equity research analyst. Create a beginner-friendly research report on [COMPANY / TICKER]. Cover: business model, revenue streams, industry trends, competitors, financial performance, valuation, growth drivers, risks, bull/base/bear cases, and final research summary. Use recent public sources, cite dates, separate facts from assumptions, and do not give a buy/sell recommendation.
2. Earnings Call Breakdown

Analyze the latest earnings call for [COMPANY / TICKER]. Summarize the 5 biggest takeaways, revenue changes, margins, guidance, management tone, analyst concerns, positive surprises, negative surprises, and what investors should watch next. Create a simple table of key metrics with latest result, prior result, change, and why it matters.
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Jun 13
Sen. Mark Kelly: Odessa’s port is critical, around 40–50% of Ukraine’s economy goes out through it.

Russia is aggressively attacking Odessa because that port is a huge source of revenue, and Crimea gives Moscow easy access to strike it. 1/
Kelly: The night I spent in Odessa, five Shahed drones came in and all were intercepted.

We toured a bunker at the port; 48 hours later Russia hit it with a drone or cruise missile. Being there shows what Ukrainians live through every day. 2/
Kelly: Russia’s attacks on Moldova and Romania look intentional.

They are trying to tell neighboring countries: you are not safe, and we can hurt you if we want. These strikes are threats, not accidents. 3/
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Jun 13
Your Gmail says 15GB out of 15.

Google is betting you'll just pay $1.99 a month.
That 15GB is shared across Gmail, Drive, and Photos.
It's stuffed with junk you never cleared.
Google built a free tool that fixes it in minutes but never told you about it.
Do not pay.

Do these 8 steps first:
1/ Turn Off Photo Sync FIRST

Do this before you delete anything or you will lose photos from your phone.
Open Google Photos → tap your profile picture → Photos Settings → Backup → turn off Backup.
When sync is on and you delete a photo from Google Photos, it deletes from your phone too. Turn backup off first. Now you can safely delete photos from Google Photos to free storage without losing a single photo from your device.
2/ See What's Eating Your Storage

You can't clean what you can't see.
Go to …. It shows your 15GB broken down across Gmail, Drive, and Photos. You'll see exactly which one is hogging the space. For most people it's Photos or years of Gmail attachments sitting there untouched.one.google.com/stora
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Jun 13
A guy was ready to drop $1,500 on a new OLED TV because his 3-year-old Smart TV was freezing up and took 5 seconds just to respond to the remote.

He unplugged it. Deleted old apps. Cleared the cache. The lag kept coming back.

He went to Best Buy to get a replacement.

The home theater installer in the blue shirt stopped him: "Before you spend a grand, let me show you something."

He grabbed a remote and shook his head.

"There are 8 hidden tracking settings throttling your TV's processor right now. Manufacturers turn them all on by default. Nobody tells you they exist. Let's fix this."

Here's what he showed him in the next 8 minutes. 🧵
1. ACR (Automatic Content Recognition)

What it does:
Your smart TV is essentially taking a digital screenshot of your display every two seconds. It takes those snapshots, creates a digital fingerprint, and cross-references it with a massive database to figure out exactly what you are watching. It then sends that data back to the manufacturer so they can build a highly lucrative advertising profile of your habits. This massive data collection operation runs constantly in the background.

Why it kills performance:
Taking screenshots, processing the image data, creating a hash file, logging the timestamps, and firing it all through your Wi-Fi requires a ton of background computing power. Your TV's tiny internal processor is basically working overtime just to spy on you, leaving almost no memory left for you to actually navigate the menus.

How to kill it:
Samsung: Settings → Support → Terms & Policies → Viewing Information Services → Off
LG: Settings → All Settings → General → Live Plus → Off
Vizio: System → Reset & Admin → Viewing Data → Off
Sony: Settings → Privacy → Usage & Diagnostics → Off

The installer looked up and said, "Flipping this single switch just freed up 20% of your processor's capacity."
2. Motion Smoothing (The Soap Opera Effect)

What it does:
Hollywood movies are shot at 24 frames per second. Your TV tries to make them look smoother by using its graphics processor to invent totally fake, artificial frames and shoving them between the real ones to force the video up to 60 frames per second.

Why it kills performance:
Frame interpolation is an incredibly heavy math problem. Your TV is attempting to predict the trajectory of moving objects and render millions of new pixels in a fraction of a millisecond. If you hit the home button while a movie is playing, the menu will lag terribly because the TV chip is absolutely maxed out trying to draw fake frames in the background.

How to kill it:
Samsung: Picture → Expert Settings → Auto Motion Plus → Off
LG: Picture → Picture Mode Settings → TruMotion → Off
Sony: Picture → Motion → Motionflow → Off
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Jun 13
12 ways to be a MORE ATTRACTIVE MAN

1. Don't be Nice Image
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Being “nice” is code for spineless.

STOP trying to please everyone.

Be kind, but with standards.

Respect yourself first, or no one else will.

Weakness isn’t attractive, strength with kindness is.
2. Move more slowly.

Nervous men rush.

Attractive men move with calm and control... whether entering a room, shaking a hand, or serving a drink.

Slow movements convey confidence and dominance.

Don't fidget, don't rush. Set the pace.
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Jun 14
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An open letter to @TheLancet from an Iranian-Jewish cardiologist.
Today, one of the world's most prestigious medical journals published a campaign to suspend the Israeli Medical Association from the World Medical Association — the body founded after WWII to ensure physicians would never again be weaponized by political ideology.
I'm a cardiologist. I'm an Iranian Jew who grew up under a regime where medicine was subjugated to the state.
What The Lancet just did is a disgrace to my profession.
Here's what they published — and what they deliberately left out.
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What The Lancet didn't mention:
The World Medical Association itself opposes this suspension. The WMA stated explicitly that suspending members because of their governments' actions would undermine its ability to promote medical ethics globally.
The Israeli Medical Association has advocated for humanitarian aid into Gaza, demanded protections for hospitals, and called these accusations "false or contested claims presented as facts." The IMA is a professional medical body — not a branch of the Israeli government.
Hamas systematically used hospitals as military infrastructure — tunnel entrances, command centers, weapons storage. Extensively documented. One of the gravest violations of medical neutrality that exists.
The Lancet's campaign says nothing about it.
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What the boycott would actually destroy:
PillCam — revolutionized GI diagnosis. Developed in Israel.
ReWalk — robotic exoskeletons for paralyzed patients. Developed in Israel.
Breakthrough AI diagnostics for cardiac imaging and cancer detection used in hospitals on every continent.
Israel has among the highest per-capita rates of medical innovation on earth. These technologies save lives in London, Johannesburg, São Paulo, and New York.
Suspending the IMA doesn't punish a government. It severs research collaborations and training partnerships. The patients who lose aren't Israeli. They're everyone.
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Jun 14
🧵 Here is the TRUTH: Dangerous gain-of-function research was funded by the U.S. government around the world, directed and approved by people like Dr Fauci. @DNIGabbard exposed that yesterday.

Using U.S. government data, put together and uncovered by career subject matter experts in the Intelligence Community and other government agencies, yesterday’s release highlighted one example of the many overseas biolabs funded by the U.S., the research conducted there, and the significant risks they pose to the world, especially when located in a country at war.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
🔗 dni.gov/files/BIOLAB_S…
Slide 1: A draft President’s Daily Brief, written after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, details threats to Ukraine labs due to dangerous pathogen storage. Biden officials confirmed this on the record.

The biolabs in Ukraine and other countries held and may continue to hold hazardous pathogens, they were built/funded by the U.S., and received substantial funding that powerful people and interests want to keep flowing.Image
Slide 2: A map created by ODNI using U.S. government data to show lab locations, biosafety levels at each location, the type of research being conducted, and if biological weapons were being stored. Image
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Jun 14
SitRep - 13/06/26 - More deep-strikes in Russia

An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasio of Ukraine. The oil terminal in Taman, several oil pumping stations and military facilities were attacked by Ukrainian drones.

REPOST=appreciated

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As usual we start with Russian losses
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