After calling bullsh*t on Luna, Celsius, and FTX well before any of them collapsed, I have a bit of credibility with the mainstream media. I want to use that credibility to call attention to the worst and largest of all the scam perpetrators in the "crypto" space, @a16z 🧵👇
Unfortunately, the formerly venerated firm sold its soul for quick profits and massive management fees. In this thread I'll compile some of the many, many tweets in which I've called out @a16z and their loudest partner pushing their fraudulent "crypto" efforts, @cdixon.
Here's the one where @a16z shilled Braintrust, a fake-decentralized staffing agency:
In 2009, a trove of leaked emails exposed how some of the world's leading climate scientists had been "deliberately" tampering with empirical data in order to prop up the man-made global warming narrative. The scandal became known as 'Climategate'.
Here is one such email.
A comprehensive dissection of the Climategate emails:
"Climategate began on 19 November 2009, when a whistle-blower leaked thousands of emails and documents central to a Freedom of Information request placed with the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. T his institution has played a central role in the “climate change” debate. Its scientists, together with their international colleagues, quite literally put the “warming” into Global Warming: they were responsible for analysing and collating the various measurements of temperature from around the globe and that, going back for many years, collectively underpinned the central scientific argument that mankind’s liberation of “greenhouse” gases—particularly carbon dioxide—was leading to a relentless, unprecedented and ultimately catastrophic warming of the entire planet."
Coughing is your body’s natural way of keeping your airways clean and healthy
Not all coughs are the same, some can be harmless, while others signal deeper issues
Below are the types of coughs, and how they are addressed and natural ways to soothe them.
This is an informative post, and not a medical advice 😏
A thread
🔑 DRY COUGH
A dry cough feels like a tickle in your throat and doesn’t bring up mucus. It is often caused by irritants (like smoke), allergies, asthma, GERD (acid reflux), or viral infections like the common cold.
- How it’s handled
Doctors review, possible, suppressants or antacids for acid reflux
- Natural suggestions
Sip warm water with honey, inhale steam, or drink herbal teas like ginger or chamomile. Avoid irritants like smoke or dust.
Honey and ginger teas may not be suitable if you have unmanaged diabetes and acid reflux problems, respectively
🔑 WET COUGH
This cough produces mucus (phlegm) and is usually linked to infections like colds, bronchitis, or even pneumonia. It helps clear mucus from your lungs.
- How it’s handled
Expectorants (to thin mucus) and medications on prescription if caused by bacteria.
- Natural suggestions
Stay hydrated, drink warm fluids, or try pineapple juice (bromelain in pineapple can help clear mucus). Steam inhalation also works wonders.
A deep dive into how oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller discredited preventative natural medicine and replaced it with what became Big Pharma: a profit-driven system that indefinitely treats symptoms instead of addressing the root causes of disease.
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American healthcare in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was a diverse mix of remedies and practices, unlike the standardized pharmaceutical system we have today. In the event of illness, you could find “patent medicine” at a general store.
Patent medicine was an umbrella term for the unregulated concoctions that were made from plant-based substances, plus alcohol, morphine, opium, or cocaine.
Traveling salesmen, hauling suitcases or driving medicine wagons of tonics, peddled these concoctions from town to town and advertised them in magazines, newspapers, almanacs, calendars, and memo books.
Heroin cough drops, cocaine-laced toothache remedies, and alcohol-chloroform painkillers were sold without prescriptions or warnings, while Dr. Comfort’s Candy-Covered Cathartic Compound and similar products contained poisonous ingredients.
NEW: UC San Diego has released a new report documenting a “steep decline in the academic preparedness” of its freshmen.
The number of entering students needing remedial math has exploded from 1/100 to 1/8.
They’ve had to create a second remedial class covering elementary and middle school math skills in addition to the one covering gaps from high school.
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The report also shows that nearly 1/5 students fail to meeting entry level writing requirements.
“This deterioration coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on education, the elimination of standardized testing, grade inflation, and the expansion of admissions from under-resourced high schools.”
Elsewhere it is used as a direct justification for mass migration and the disenfranchisement of Western workers who expect tolerable working conditions.
As an ex-public servant, to see the news this week about the enrichment and corruption which was uncovered within the government I served has been a deeply shocking experience which left me very sad and ashamed.
I don't want my country, my people, and my future children to be trapped in a system which allows these things to happen. It has reminded me of how the Revolution of Dignity at Maidan was against that system of enrichment and corruption, and how we must still defeat it even as we also battle for our very lives against the Russians who would murder and enslave us. 1/
My grandmother in Kyiv is without electricity for 12-16 hours a day. And it turns out it's not just because the Russians are fucking bastards!
It's ALSO because the president's close friend and business partner, the Minister of Energy, and a fuck-ton of other people in government (and elsewhere) were stealing money meant for protective structures. STRUCTURES THEY DIDN'T EVEN BUILD!!!! 2/
And I'm left to ask, is it really possible that the president and his Head of Office knew nothing?? And by the way, what is the previous Minister of Energy who is now the Minister of Justice saying? Did he submit his resignation? Was he suspended? Fired? And is the current Minister of Emergy also fired*? *Edit: they both were fired today, but:
Is the PM's and President’s office trying to seem like they are in control by asking for firings when they're really just reacting in a panic while trying to cover themselves and avoid blame? I can't keep up with all the news because things are still happening quickly. 3/
The emails released today shed new light on Epstein's vast influence network — foreign leaders, political bosses, billionaire executives, journalists, government officials — and how he used them to track and affect Trump's first term.
Some of the exchanges are extraordinary...
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
@nahaltoosi In other emails, Epstein described his relationships with foreign leaders, advised Steve Bannon on how to increase his influence in Europe and offered his (mostly, but not entirely, dim) assesment of Trump to those who asked. politico.com/news/2025/11/1…
Good morning and welcome to Killymeal House Belfast for Day 4 Session 1 of Morrison v Belfast Film Festival. Proceedings are due to begin at 11am. It is raining again.
Here are some bedraggled camera-folk, to cheer you up.
This is last night's BBC NI report on yesterday's proceedings.
‼️Mordaufruf gegen Kieler Pastor:
▶️ Wie ein Facebook-Post die AfD unter Druck setzt
Auf dem Facebook-Account des Oberbürgermeister-
Kandidaten der Kieler AfD,
▶️ Hubert Pinto de Kraus, ist offen zum Mord an dem Kieler Pastor Tilman Lautzas aufgerufen worden.
‼️Gelöscht wurde der Kommentar erst einen Tag später.
Bei der Polizei liegen bereits erste Strafanzeigen vor.
▶️ "Ein Pastor, der solche Äußerungen veröffentlicht, sollte hängen. Bitte nicht länger warten.“
Tilman Lautzas ist auch vier Tage, nachdem er den Kommentar
auf Facebook entdeckt hat, noch entsetzt. Denn der öffentliche Aufruf zum Mord gilt ihm. „Hunde, die bellen, beißen nicht. Gewalttäter werden die, die sich durch solche Aufrufe aufgefordert fühlen.“
Der EU steht ein Niedergang bevor, wie ihn Italien in der Renaissance erlebt hat.
▶️Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts war Venedig führend in der Seefahrt, Florenz in Kunst und Finanzen und Mailand in Handel und Technologie.
Doch innerhalb weniger Jahrzehnte waren von der politischen Unabhängigkeit und der wirtschaftlichen Führungsrolle keine Spuren mehr zu sehen. Heute droht Europa ein ähnliches Schicksal, stellt die amerikanische Zeitschrift Politico fest.
▶️Einst war die EU Gegenstand des Neides der ganzen Welt, doch heute hat ihre Führungsrolle nachgelassen. Europa ist nicht nur politisch gespalten, sondern hinkt auch in strategischen Branchen hinterher.
@salarr122 لهستان بسیار جای خوبی است. پلیس قرمساق لهستان زیر سپاه قدس می خوابد.
افتخار پلیس لهستان قرمساقی برای سپاه قدس است.
بیخود حرف درست نکنید.
پلیس لهستان جوری زیر سپاه می خوابد که ماده سگ آماده جفت گیری اینقدر برای سگ نر حاضر نیست.
لهستان بنیان جمهوری سپاهی رستاخیزی اسلامی در غرب است.
"Η μεγαλύτερη οικολογική καταστροφή στην ιστορία της Ισπανίας": Σαν σήμερα, 13 Νοεμβρίου 2002, βυθίζεται στις ακτές της Ισπανίας το δεξαμενόπλοιο "Prestige" (ιδιοκτησίας Ελλήνων εφοπλιστών) και προκαλείται μια απο τις μεγαλύτερες οικολογικές καταστροφές στην ιστορία. Βυθίστηκε
απελευθερώνοντας στον Ατλαντικό ωκεανό 77.000 τόνους καυσιμέλαιου. Η πετρελαιοκηλίδα έφτασε τα 220χλμ, επεκτάθηκε στις ακτές της Πορτογαλίας, της Β.Ισπανίας και της Γαλλίας και μόλυνε εκατοντάδες ακτές,σε μήκος πολλών χιλιομέτρων. Η αλιεία απαγορεύτηκε σε απόσταση 400 χιλιομέτρων
από τις ακτές. Ισχυροί άνεμοι και θαλάσσια ρεύματα παρέσυραν την πετρελαιοκηλίδα προς το νεοσύστατο Εθνικό Θαλάσσιο Πάρκο των Ατλαντ.νήσων της Γαλικίας, το σημαντικότερο Ισπανικό οικοσύστημα για θαλάσσια πουλιά/άγρια ζωή. Το Eλληνόκτητο πλοίο, ηλικίας 26χρόνων, εμφανιζόταν σαν