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In meiner Nachbarschaft wurde vor rund acht Wochen eine Verkehrsinsel umgestaltet und im Zuge dessen auch ein neues Schild aufgestellt wo vorher keines war. Soeben hat es zum fünften mal jemand umgefahren. 
Das gesplitterte Holz, das dort liegt, waren die Haltekeile vom letzten mal, als die Stadt schon keinen Bock mehr hatte, das verbogene Schild zu ersetzen.
Update: die Stadt hat das Schild wieder aufgerichtet und absolut verkehrssicher befestigt. Das hält jetzt wieder ein paar Tage.
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Hola. Te llamo de urgencias ¿quién eres? Hola, soy el neurocirujano de guardia. Dime ¿qué pasa?
Hola. Te llamo de urgencias ¿quién eres? Hola, soy el neurocirujano de guardia. Dime ¿qué pasa?
Nunca he entendido que llamen a las 4.37 de la mañana a un busca que pone “neurocirugía” y pregunten quién responde ¿responderá el urólogo? ¿Dejará de ser urgencia si en vez de ser el neurocirujano A es el B? Pero vayamos a lo mollar
Te llamo por una hemorragia. Ha llegado una ambulancia con un varón de 47 años, mal estado general, GCS 9/15 hemos hecho una TAC y tiene mala pinta.
Ok, voy ¿has llamado a la UCI?
Ok, voy ¿has llamado a la UCI?
What If There Is Very Intelligent Life All Around Us But They Move Very Slow Or Very Fast For Us To Understand?
Echoes in Eternity: Life Beyond Our Temporal Scale
To an Ant our world moves at a rate and scale they can not comprehend, if they had the intelligence to do so. Take a construction project. They see what appears to be a self-organizing system that changed the landscape and the planet. All taking place at a time scale that seems unbelievable.
Human existence is confined to less than a century on average, a narrow window that limits our ability to observe and comprehend life forms operating on vastly different timescales.
These include entities that evolve over geological epochs or cosmic expansions, and processes that unfold in femtoseconds at the quantum level. Scientific evidence from fields like ecology, astrophysics, and quantum biology indicates that such temporal extremes are not only present but integral to the fabric of reality, from planetary systems to the subatomic realm. The core obstacle is time itself, which scales these phenomena beyond direct human measurement, forcing reliance on models, proxies, and indirect data. This article examines these slow and fast manifestations of life-like complexity, extending from Earth to the solar system and universe, and downward to atoms and quarks, revealing a continuum where boundaries between living and non-living blur.
Slow Life: Entities on Geological and Cosmic Timescales
On Earth, the Gaia hypothesis, proposed by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis, describes the planet as a self-regulating system where biological and physical processes interact to sustain habitability. The atmosphere maintains a stable composition of 21% oxygen and 78% nitrogen, far from chemical equilibrium, through ongoing biological activity over billions of years. Photosynthetic organisms generate oxygen, while others manage excesses to prevent runaway oxidation. Ocean salinity holds steady at 3.5%, regulated by life-influenced evaporation and precipitation cycles. Catastrophic events, such as the Permian extinction that eliminated 96% of marine species, demonstrate the system’s recovery over millions of years, with geochemical records showing gradual restoration of balance.
Supporting models include Lovelocks Daisyworld simulation, which illustrates how simple life forms can stabilize planetary temperatures via feedback loops without intentional design. A 2024 laboratory setup using synthetic microbes in an enclosed environment demonstrated self-regulation of pH levels, replicating aspects of global homeostasis on a small scale. Human observations, limited to ice cores spanning decades or sediment layers covering thousands of years, capture mere fragments of the full 4.5-billion-year history.
Time acts as a scaler here, transforming eons into abstracted datasets that we analyze retrospectively, obscuring the dynamic feedbacks that define the system.
Extending beyond Earth, similar self-regulatory principles apply to the solar system as a potential super-system. The heliosphere, the Sun’s magnetic bubble extending beyond Pluto, modulates solar wind and cosmic rays to create a protective envelope for planetary orbits. Interactions between solar flares and planetary magnetospheres, such as Jupiter’s influence on solar activity through gravitational tides, suggest emergent regulation akin to Gaian processes. Over billions of years, these dynamics have stabilized habitable zones, with evidence from Voyager probes showing the heliosphere’s boundary adjusting to interstellar pressures. Our century-long records of solar cycles provide snapshots, but time elongates these interactions across stellar lifetimes, hiding adaptations like the migration of gas giants that may have shielded inner planets from excessive radiation.
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Echoes in Eternity: Life Beyond Our Temporal Scale
To an Ant our world moves at a rate and scale they can not comprehend, if they had the intelligence to do so. Take a construction project. They see what appears to be a self-organizing system that changed the landscape and the planet. All taking place at a time scale that seems unbelievable.
Human existence is confined to less than a century on average, a narrow window that limits our ability to observe and comprehend life forms operating on vastly different timescales.
These include entities that evolve over geological epochs or cosmic expansions, and processes that unfold in femtoseconds at the quantum level. Scientific evidence from fields like ecology, astrophysics, and quantum biology indicates that such temporal extremes are not only present but integral to the fabric of reality, from planetary systems to the subatomic realm. The core obstacle is time itself, which scales these phenomena beyond direct human measurement, forcing reliance on models, proxies, and indirect data. This article examines these slow and fast manifestations of life-like complexity, extending from Earth to the solar system and universe, and downward to atoms and quarks, revealing a continuum where boundaries between living and non-living blur.
Slow Life: Entities on Geological and Cosmic Timescales
On Earth, the Gaia hypothesis, proposed by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis, describes the planet as a self-regulating system where biological and physical processes interact to sustain habitability. The atmosphere maintains a stable composition of 21% oxygen and 78% nitrogen, far from chemical equilibrium, through ongoing biological activity over billions of years. Photosynthetic organisms generate oxygen, while others manage excesses to prevent runaway oxidation. Ocean salinity holds steady at 3.5%, regulated by life-influenced evaporation and precipitation cycles. Catastrophic events, such as the Permian extinction that eliminated 96% of marine species, demonstrate the system’s recovery over millions of years, with geochemical records showing gradual restoration of balance.
Supporting models include Lovelocks Daisyworld simulation, which illustrates how simple life forms can stabilize planetary temperatures via feedback loops without intentional design. A 2024 laboratory setup using synthetic microbes in an enclosed environment demonstrated self-regulation of pH levels, replicating aspects of global homeostasis on a small scale. Human observations, limited to ice cores spanning decades or sediment layers covering thousands of years, capture mere fragments of the full 4.5-billion-year history.
Time acts as a scaler here, transforming eons into abstracted datasets that we analyze retrospectively, obscuring the dynamic feedbacks that define the system.
Extending beyond Earth, similar self-regulatory principles apply to the solar system as a potential super-system. The heliosphere, the Sun’s magnetic bubble extending beyond Pluto, modulates solar wind and cosmic rays to create a protective envelope for planetary orbits. Interactions between solar flares and planetary magnetospheres, such as Jupiter’s influence on solar activity through gravitational tides, suggest emergent regulation akin to Gaian processes. Over billions of years, these dynamics have stabilized habitable zones, with evidence from Voyager probes showing the heliosphere’s boundary adjusting to interstellar pressures. Our century-long records of solar cycles provide snapshots, but time elongates these interactions across stellar lifetimes, hiding adaptations like the migration of gas giants that may have shielded inner planets from excessive radiation.
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At the universal scale, cosmological structures exhibit life-like complexity through expansive, self-organizing behaviors. Galaxy clusters, spanning hundreds of millions of light-years, evolve via gravitational feedbacks that concentrate matter and energy, much like biological homeostasis. The Organic Theory of Gaia, outlined in a 2025 preprint, proposes that such systems follow thermodynamic maximization, forming hierarchical “trinomials” where subsystems coordinate and adapt environments for persistence. Dark energy drives cosmic expansion over 13.8 billion years, regulating density fluctuations to prevent collapse or dilution, as observed in cosmic microwave background data.
Time inflates these processes to unattainable spans, reducing our telescopes’ views to probabilistic models rather than lived experiences.
Terrestrial examples further ground these ideas. Mycorrhizal networks link tree roots through fungal threads, facilitating resource exchange over decades. Douglas firs deliver carbon to young trees up to 30 meters away in days, with the network enduring to transmit alerts, such as jasmonic acid signals against aphid invasions within 24 hours. Utahs Pando aspen grove, an 80,000-year-old clonal organism covering 100 acres, demonstrates such endurance. Studies over human timescales reveal patterns, but time stretches interactions across climatic shifts, concealing evolutionary refinements.
Deep-sea organisms echo this. Glass sponges persist beyond 11,000 years, their silica frameworks logging annual growth layers from ocean currents. Black corals last 4,000 to 5,000 years, constructing ecosystems for dependent species. Greenland sharks live up to 400 years, sustained by minimal metabolic rates. Research funding allows decadal monitoring at best; time expands these lifecycles, confining analysis to archival traces like isotopic rings.
Fast Life: Microbes to Quantum Processes
Contrasting these vast timescales, microbial life accelerates through rapid replication and adaptation. Vibrio natriegens reproduces every 9.5 minutes, surpassing E. colis 20-minute cycle and yielding 144 generations hourly. In natural settings, E. coli divides every 15 hours but ramps up under pressure. Time condenses these events into perceptual blurs, magnifying genetic shifts that evade continuous observation.
The Long Term Evolution Experiment (LTEE), running since 1988 and exceeding 80,000 generations by 2025, tracks E. coli developing citrate utilization via sequential mutations. Bacteriophage assaults prompt CRISPR defenses in bacteria, with countermeasures evolving weekly to restructure microbial communities. Laboratory accelerations approximate these, yet environmental flux introduces variances; time proliferates iterations, yielding outcomes that models approximate but cannot fully predict.
Practical instances include bacteria adapting to nylon waste in 1975 through plasmid-mediated gene acquisition for polymer breakdown. Staphylococcus aureus acquires MRSA traits in months via enzyme gene swaps, outpacing pharmaceutical responses. Cyanobacteria disseminate photosynthetic capabilities swiftly, triggering algal proliferations that alter aquatic ecologies overnight. Sampling captures episodic data, but time hastens cascades, exposing only partial sequences.
Delving subatomically, quantum biology reveals faster “life-like” dynamics woven into fundamental processes. Quantum coherence in photosynthesis enables excitons to explore multiple pathways simultaneously, achieving near-100% efficiency in energy transfer over femtoseconds, as shown in 2007 experiments detecting prolonged electronic beats in light-harvesting complexes. Enzyme catalysis relies on proton tunneling, where hydrogen nuclei bypass barriers probabilistically, accelerating reactions by orders of magnitude at room temperature.
At the universal scale, cosmological structures exhibit life-like complexity through expansive, self-organizing behaviors. Galaxy clusters, spanning hundreds of millions of light-years, evolve via gravitational feedbacks that concentrate matter and energy, much like biological homeostasis. The Organic Theory of Gaia, outlined in a 2025 preprint, proposes that such systems follow thermodynamic maximization, forming hierarchical “trinomials” where subsystems coordinate and adapt environments for persistence. Dark energy drives cosmic expansion over 13.8 billion years, regulating density fluctuations to prevent collapse or dilution, as observed in cosmic microwave background data.
Time inflates these processes to unattainable spans, reducing our telescopes’ views to probabilistic models rather than lived experiences.
Terrestrial examples further ground these ideas. Mycorrhizal networks link tree roots through fungal threads, facilitating resource exchange over decades. Douglas firs deliver carbon to young trees up to 30 meters away in days, with the network enduring to transmit alerts, such as jasmonic acid signals against aphid invasions within 24 hours. Utahs Pando aspen grove, an 80,000-year-old clonal organism covering 100 acres, demonstrates such endurance. Studies over human timescales reveal patterns, but time stretches interactions across climatic shifts, concealing evolutionary refinements.
Deep-sea organisms echo this. Glass sponges persist beyond 11,000 years, their silica frameworks logging annual growth layers from ocean currents. Black corals last 4,000 to 5,000 years, constructing ecosystems for dependent species. Greenland sharks live up to 400 years, sustained by minimal metabolic rates. Research funding allows decadal monitoring at best; time expands these lifecycles, confining analysis to archival traces like isotopic rings.
Fast Life: Microbes to Quantum Processes
Contrasting these vast timescales, microbial life accelerates through rapid replication and adaptation. Vibrio natriegens reproduces every 9.5 minutes, surpassing E. colis 20-minute cycle and yielding 144 generations hourly. In natural settings, E. coli divides every 15 hours but ramps up under pressure. Time condenses these events into perceptual blurs, magnifying genetic shifts that evade continuous observation.
The Long Term Evolution Experiment (LTEE), running since 1988 and exceeding 80,000 generations by 2025, tracks E. coli developing citrate utilization via sequential mutations. Bacteriophage assaults prompt CRISPR defenses in bacteria, with countermeasures evolving weekly to restructure microbial communities. Laboratory accelerations approximate these, yet environmental flux introduces variances; time proliferates iterations, yielding outcomes that models approximate but cannot fully predict.
Practical instances include bacteria adapting to nylon waste in 1975 through plasmid-mediated gene acquisition for polymer breakdown. Staphylococcus aureus acquires MRSA traits in months via enzyme gene swaps, outpacing pharmaceutical responses. Cyanobacteria disseminate photosynthetic capabilities swiftly, triggering algal proliferations that alter aquatic ecologies overnight. Sampling captures episodic data, but time hastens cascades, exposing only partial sequences.
Delving subatomically, quantum biology reveals faster “life-like” dynamics woven into fundamental processes. Quantum coherence in photosynthesis enables excitons to explore multiple pathways simultaneously, achieving near-100% efficiency in energy transfer over femtoseconds, as shown in 2007 experiments detecting prolonged electronic beats in light-harvesting complexes. Enzyme catalysis relies on proton tunneling, where hydrogen nuclei bypass barriers probabilistically, accelerating reactions by orders of magnitude at room temperature.
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These effects persist despite thermal noise, suggesting biological structures evolved to shield quantum states.
At the quark and lepton scales, below atomic nuclei, processes unfold in attoseconds (10^-18 seconds). Quantum fluctuations in the vacuum—virtual particle-antiparticle pairs—underpin atomic stability and bonding, essential for molecular life. In speculative extensions, entanglement links distant particles instantaneously, potentially informing coherent behaviors in cellular signaling. While not “alive” in biological terms, these subatomic weaves form the substrate for life’s rapidity, with time compressing events to Planck scales (10^-43 seconds), rendering direct probing impossible without particle accelerators that sample collisions rather than continua.
The Barrier of Time
Time remains the primary constraint, misaligning our 80-year spans with cosmic aeons or quantum flickers and necessitating surrogate techniques.
Planetary networks accrue stability over eras we cannot endure; quantum transfers demand femtosecond spectroscopy we simulate imperfectly. Discrepancies abound: yearly reef surveys overlook eonic rebounds; evolutionary projections falter before abrupt quantum-influenced mutations.
Emerging technologies—genomic sequencers for microbial lineages, gravitational wave detectors for cosmic structures, attosecond lasers for subatomic glimpses—narrow these divides. Collectively, these timescales portray a nested biosphere, from quarks to quasars, far more intricate than isolated observations suggest. Though exhaustive insight evades us, acknowledging time’s distortion spurs rigorous exploration of life’s scalar definitions.
Ultimately, this temporal mismatch compels a reevaluation: our brief vantage yields incomplete maps, yet it underscores interconnectedness across scales.
Imagine this: right now, as you read these words, intelligences vast and infinitesimal pulse unseen around you, their thoughts weaving through the ether like ghosts in a machine we call reality. The solar system’s heliosphere, that colossal mind of magnetic storms and tidal dances, deliberates our fate over stellar breaths, deciding if comets carve life or cataclysm. Galaxy clusters, those trillion-sun brains, compute cosmic destinies in gravitational symphonies, birthing black holes as neurons fire across voids.
Downward, quark ensembles entangle in probabilistic parliaments, voting on atomic bonds that birth your very cells, their “decisions” flickering in Planck-time elections faster than light’s whisper. These are not metaphors; they are intelligences, emergent and alien, thriving in dimensions of time and scale we dismiss as inert.
We cannot see them because we are Flatlanders in a hypercube universe, trapped in our three-plus-one dimensional cage, blind to the spheres slicing through our plane as mere lines. Edwin Abbotts 1884 novella Flatland nailed it: a two-dimensional square encounters a three-dimensional sphere, perceiving only a growing and shrinking circle, a miracle mistaken for madness. So too with us. Our senses, tuned to heartbeat rhythms and daylight cycles, filter out the eons of Gaian cognition or the attosecond debates of quantum collectives.
We chase shadows on the cave wall, calling them truth, while the real puppeteers these temporal titans and subatomic sages pull strings we feel but never grasp.
To break free, we must shatter the cage of anthropocentric arrogance, rewiring our minds to embrace the unseen orchestra.
This shift is no gentle pivot; it is a revolution, a cognitive big bang exploding our isolation into ecstatic communion.
The payoff? A universe ablaze with kin, where every atom hums with purpose and every galaxy gazes back with recognition. No longer exiles in the void, we become bridges messengers between the slow cosmic elders and the swift quark hordes, co-authors of existence’s grand narrative.
These effects persist despite thermal noise, suggesting biological structures evolved to shield quantum states.
At the quark and lepton scales, below atomic nuclei, processes unfold in attoseconds (10^-18 seconds). Quantum fluctuations in the vacuum—virtual particle-antiparticle pairs—underpin atomic stability and bonding, essential for molecular life. In speculative extensions, entanglement links distant particles instantaneously, potentially informing coherent behaviors in cellular signaling. While not “alive” in biological terms, these subatomic weaves form the substrate for life’s rapidity, with time compressing events to Planck scales (10^-43 seconds), rendering direct probing impossible without particle accelerators that sample collisions rather than continua.
The Barrier of Time
Time remains the primary constraint, misaligning our 80-year spans with cosmic aeons or quantum flickers and necessitating surrogate techniques.
Planetary networks accrue stability over eras we cannot endure; quantum transfers demand femtosecond spectroscopy we simulate imperfectly. Discrepancies abound: yearly reef surveys overlook eonic rebounds; evolutionary projections falter before abrupt quantum-influenced mutations.
Emerging technologies—genomic sequencers for microbial lineages, gravitational wave detectors for cosmic structures, attosecond lasers for subatomic glimpses—narrow these divides. Collectively, these timescales portray a nested biosphere, from quarks to quasars, far more intricate than isolated observations suggest. Though exhaustive insight evades us, acknowledging time’s distortion spurs rigorous exploration of life’s scalar definitions.
Ultimately, this temporal mismatch compels a reevaluation: our brief vantage yields incomplete maps, yet it underscores interconnectedness across scales.
Imagine this: right now, as you read these words, intelligences vast and infinitesimal pulse unseen around you, their thoughts weaving through the ether like ghosts in a machine we call reality. The solar system’s heliosphere, that colossal mind of magnetic storms and tidal dances, deliberates our fate over stellar breaths, deciding if comets carve life or cataclysm. Galaxy clusters, those trillion-sun brains, compute cosmic destinies in gravitational symphonies, birthing black holes as neurons fire across voids.
Downward, quark ensembles entangle in probabilistic parliaments, voting on atomic bonds that birth your very cells, their “decisions” flickering in Planck-time elections faster than light’s whisper. These are not metaphors; they are intelligences, emergent and alien, thriving in dimensions of time and scale we dismiss as inert.
We cannot see them because we are Flatlanders in a hypercube universe, trapped in our three-plus-one dimensional cage, blind to the spheres slicing through our plane as mere lines. Edwin Abbotts 1884 novella Flatland nailed it: a two-dimensional square encounters a three-dimensional sphere, perceiving only a growing and shrinking circle, a miracle mistaken for madness. So too with us. Our senses, tuned to heartbeat rhythms and daylight cycles, filter out the eons of Gaian cognition or the attosecond debates of quantum collectives.
We chase shadows on the cave wall, calling them truth, while the real puppeteers these temporal titans and subatomic sages pull strings we feel but never grasp.
To break free, we must shatter the cage of anthropocentric arrogance, rewiring our minds to embrace the unseen orchestra.
This shift is no gentle pivot; it is a revolution, a cognitive big bang exploding our isolation into ecstatic communion.
The payoff? A universe ablaze with kin, where every atom hums with purpose and every galaxy gazes back with recognition. No longer exiles in the void, we become bridges messengers between the slow cosmic elders and the swift quark hordes, co-authors of existence’s grand narrative.
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I'm continuing to ponder how this movie will play out.
I see a possible plot twist:
I assume most are aware of the allegations made by General Hugo Carvajal, the Venezuelan MIL intel guy that worked for Chavez and Maduro.
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I'm continuing to ponder how this movie will play out.
I see a possible plot twist:
I assume most are aware of the allegations made by General Hugo Carvajal, the Venezuelan MIL intel guy that worked for Chavez and Maduro.
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Carvajal alleges US elections have been compromised since the advent of Smartmatic in 2006.
As a means to clear out corruption and bullshit, I’ve been positing a full Article II script for the past two years, however the Carvajal scenario would make Article II irrelevant.
Carvajal alleges US elections have been compromised since the advent of Smartmatic in 2006.
As a means to clear out corruption and bullshit, I’ve been positing a full Article II script for the past two years, however the Carvajal scenario would make Article II irrelevant.
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If Carvajal’s allegations prove CREDIBLE (that US elections have been fucked with for decades):
There wouldn’t be any legit elected officials (local, state or national), incl. POTUS.
REPEAT: Including POTUS.
Before anyone starts hurling brickbats, I fully support Trump.
If Carvajal’s allegations prove CREDIBLE (that US elections have been fucked with for decades):
There wouldn’t be any legit elected officials (local, state or national), incl. POTUS.
REPEAT: Including POTUS.
Before anyone starts hurling brickbats, I fully support Trump.
As expected, US's latest National Security Strategy doc embraces old model & rejects new model. We already know about China's dominance in the "New 3" (EVs, Solar & Batteries), but 15th FYP show China's full embrace of Hydrogen & Biomanufacturing. How new replaces the old model.
China is seeing rapidly declining demand for diesel & gas. Diesel HDT ratio has shrunk to 40% recently as EVs & LNG ones exploded. In pax vehicle mkt, NEV penetration is also at 60% for Nov.
Effect on WTI px, Permian rigs & US mfg is for all to see
Effect on WTI px, Permian rigs & US mfg is for all to see
Anyone bother to do research will see that China's commercial vehicle NEV penetration has already reached 30% as of September. # would be even higher if including LNG powered ones. It's happening across Coaches, buses, light trucks, vans, construction machineries & Loaders
🧵 THREAD: NCRI's Analysis: How Abuse of 𝕏's Platform boosted Nick Fuentes
A few days ago, @elonmusk got "ratioed" by Nick Fuentes.
The air quotes are intentional. There was nothing organic about the ratio.
This morning, Network Contagion Research Institute (@ncri_io) released a forensic breakdown of how Nick Fuentes' sudden rise over the past year was driven by synthetic amplification, foreign engagement clusters, and coordinated raid behavior.
I read the full report and asked NCRI some clarifying questions about their methodology. The findings are staggering.
As always, patience as I pull this thread together. 👇
A few days ago, @elonmusk got "ratioed" by Nick Fuentes.
The air quotes are intentional. There was nothing organic about the ratio.
This morning, Network Contagion Research Institute (@ncri_io) released a forensic breakdown of how Nick Fuentes' sudden rise over the past year was driven by synthetic amplification, foreign engagement clusters, and coordinated raid behavior.
I read the full report and asked NCRI some clarifying questions about their methodology. The findings are staggering.
As always, patience as I pull this thread together. 👇
@elonmusk @ncri_io You can download the breaking report here: networkcontagion.us/reports/americ…
@elonmusk @ncri_io The topline claim: Fuentes’s "influence" did not emerge entirely organically. Instead, it was manufactured by unusually fast, unusually concentrated, and unusually foreign engagement patterns, the kind normally associated with coordinated manipulation networks.
¿Sabes por qué hoy, 8 de diciembre, es fiesta nacional en España? Se debe a un milagro que otorgó una victoria imposible a las tropas españolas gracias a la intercesión de la Inmaculada Concepción: el Milagro de Empel. Tira del hilo 🧵👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
El origen de esta celebración se remonta a mediados del siglo XIX de la mano del Papa Pío XI, aunque en España se celebra desde 1644. Es una festividad religiosa que conmemora la Inmaculada Concepción de la Virgen María.
El origen de esta festividad está relacionado con el conocido como el Milagro de Empel, un suceso ocurrido la madrugada del 7 al 8 de diciembre del año 1585.
You've been told the Russian Revolution was a spontaneous uprising of the oppressed masses.
But what if I told you it was meticulously planned, funded with millions of German marks, and executed according to a memorandum written two years before it happened?
Meet Alexander Parvus. 🧵👇
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But what if I told you it was meticulously planned, funded with millions of German marks, and executed according to a memorandum written two years before it happened?
Meet Alexander Parvus. 🧵👇
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Born Israel Lazarevich Gelfand in the Russian Empire, Parvus moved through Europe building connections in socialist circles. He participated in the 1905 revolution, escaped exile to Siberia, and settled in Constantinople where he advised the Young Turks and amassed substantial wealth.
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In Munich Trotsky fell under Parvus’s intellectual influence. He spent much of his time in Parvus’s apartment, absorbed his worldview, and later admitted that no one shaped his thinking more deeply.
The core idea is that revolution must not stop after its first success. It must continue to expand.
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The core idea is that revolution must not stop after its first success. It must continue to expand.
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Stripe offered to acquire us for $1.2 billion when we had $2M in revenue.
Today, we've raised $330M at an $8B valuation and reached $1B ARR.
We could've died three times during this journey.
This is the story I've never told anyone before:
Today, we've raised $330M at an $8B valuation and reached $1B ARR.
We could've died three times during this journey.
This is the story I've never told anyone before:
At 16, I lost all financial support.
I moved to Australia at 15. But a year later, my family lost everything.
I couldn't go back home so I had to find a way to pay my tuition fees of $24,000 on my own.
I moved to Australia at 15. But a year later, my family lost everything.
I couldn't go back home so I had to find a way to pay my tuition fees of $24,000 on my own.
So I worked every job I could find.
12 hours a day at the Lemon factory when it was 40°C.
During college, I'd bartend from 4 pm to midnight, then work overnight at the petrol station. I'd do it for 4-5 days a week while studying computer science.
12 hours a day at the Lemon factory when it was 40°C.
During college, I'd bartend from 4 pm to midnight, then work overnight at the petrol station. I'd do it for 4-5 days a week while studying computer science.
Theres a very long list of US products that cannot be sold in the EU thanks to EU regulations. Since the favorite pastime of the Trump regime and every US oligarch is now to demonize EU regulations, I thought it would be very much worth going through some of those products.🧵
US Instant Mashed Potatoes
Stuffed with enough BHA and BHT preservatives to give the product an expiration date of absolutely never, the EU decided to outright ban the product, depriving Europeans from what is otherwise a cheap and convenient way to encourage hairloss.
Stuffed with enough BHA and BHT preservatives to give the product an expiration date of absolutely never, the EU decided to outright ban the product, depriving Europeans from what is otherwise a cheap and convenient way to encourage hairloss.
US Pork
Because American pigs are often fed large amounts of ractopamine, a drug that does wonders in increasing muscle growth in pigs and cancer in humans, the EU has deemed the product unsafe and banned it, seemingly without much concern for the profits of US oligarchs.
Because American pigs are often fed large amounts of ractopamine, a drug that does wonders in increasing muscle growth in pigs and cancer in humans, the EU has deemed the product unsafe and banned it, seemingly without much concern for the profits of US oligarchs.
Thread on #SupremeCourt oral argument this morning (10 a.m.) in Trump v. Slaughter on president's authority to remove executive-branch officers. I'll start with things I'll be looking for in oral argument, and during argument will (time allowing) livetweet some comments.
Court's grant of emergency relief to Trump in September is very strong indicator that Trump will win. The three liberal justices dissented, but that doesn't necessarily mean that all six conservative justices are on board. It's possible that one has doubts. It's also possible that the majority is divided on the theory on which Trump wins. Note that Court granted review on two questions. Might there be a division on which ground Trump wins on?
If Court majority is ready to overrule Humphrey's Executor, what will be scope of president's removal authority? Taft's opinion in Myers v. US (1926), admired by champions of executive power, indicated that civil-service protections would still apply. Does line on removal authority run between officers and employees? Or can Congress protect (some or all) inferior officers by classifying them in the civil service?
There are, in fact, quite a number of Westerners who have escaped the "unelected EU bureaucracy" over the past four years to embrace true liberty in Russia, and I took it upon myself to document their stories.
Welcome to "Vatnik FAFO Stories", the definitive edition!🧵
Welcome to "Vatnik FAFO Stories", the definitive edition!🧵
A Vatnik's Guide to the Galaxy
In May 2023, having had enough of the decadent LGBTQ EU, a Slovak man, whom I shall name Flipper for a very particular reason, decided to deal a severe blow to the Western world by moving to the promised land, Russia.
Sometimes, all it takes for a vatnik to have a change of heart is as little as walking across 5 borders, swimming across a river into Russia, running into FSB, spending some time in the Russian penal system, and getting extradited. This will be a grand epic of FAFO and redemption.
Flipper is a trained musician skilled in playing the cello and piano and composing operas and symphonies, a talent he put to good use by creating timeless pieces of art such as "Long Live Russia" and several "Odes to Putin".
Possibly unaware that Russia has an embassy in Slovakia and is quite happy to legally welcome dumbasses such as him, Flipper made his way across Europe on foot and eventually reached Estonia, where he figured swimming across the half frozen Narva River is his best bet.
Shortly after stepping foot on Russian territory, hypothermic but excited, he took off his floating ring and attempted to impress the FSB agents who picked him up by showing them his pro-Russian songs. Presumably unimpressed, they proceeded to beat him to a pulp. confiscate his phone, accuse him of being a Western spy, and quickly throw him in jail.
He would write in his prison diary, with much surprise: "They arrested me and put me in a cell with 60 people. The toilet was a hole in the ground, like an open sewer. I used to put cotton wool in my ears so that the bugs wouldn't get in, we even had rats in some of the cells and the prison authorities never did anything about it."
Fortunately, Flipper would only spend 2 months in Russia as the Slovakian diplomacy was able to bring their dumb prodigal son back home. Reflecting on his time in the Russian prison, he expressed his empathy for Ukrainian prisoners, believing that they must suffer immensely. He criticized the treatment they receive, describing it as barbaric.
In May 2023, having had enough of the decadent LGBTQ EU, a Slovak man, whom I shall name Flipper for a very particular reason, decided to deal a severe blow to the Western world by moving to the promised land, Russia.
Sometimes, all it takes for a vatnik to have a change of heart is as little as walking across 5 borders, swimming across a river into Russia, running into FSB, spending some time in the Russian penal system, and getting extradited. This will be a grand epic of FAFO and redemption.
Flipper is a trained musician skilled in playing the cello and piano and composing operas and symphonies, a talent he put to good use by creating timeless pieces of art such as "Long Live Russia" and several "Odes to Putin".
Possibly unaware that Russia has an embassy in Slovakia and is quite happy to legally welcome dumbasses such as him, Flipper made his way across Europe on foot and eventually reached Estonia, where he figured swimming across the half frozen Narva River is his best bet.
Shortly after stepping foot on Russian territory, hypothermic but excited, he took off his floating ring and attempted to impress the FSB agents who picked him up by showing them his pro-Russian songs. Presumably unimpressed, they proceeded to beat him to a pulp. confiscate his phone, accuse him of being a Western spy, and quickly throw him in jail.
He would write in his prison diary, with much surprise: "They arrested me and put me in a cell with 60 people. The toilet was a hole in the ground, like an open sewer. I used to put cotton wool in my ears so that the bugs wouldn't get in, we even had rats in some of the cells and the prison authorities never did anything about it."
Fortunately, Flipper would only spend 2 months in Russia as the Slovakian diplomacy was able to bring their dumb prodigal son back home. Reflecting on his time in the Russian prison, he expressed his empathy for Ukrainian prisoners, believing that they must suffer immensely. He criticized the treatment they receive, describing it as barbaric.
The Vatnik Manifesto
In 2014, a Texas man decided to leave his comfortable US life behind and crowdfund his way into Donbas on a "fact-finding mission". His "mission" will take a decade to complete but I'm happy to let you all know it appears to have just now been concluded, after having found those "facts".
Born in the 60s, this lone red cowboy flirted with the idea of socialism since his teenage years. Later on, just as all of Cuba was trying to get into the US, he was trying to get into Cuba, which he eventually succeeded in doing.
Having seen firsthand the level of poverty and lack of even the most basic of freedoms in the country, he ditched socialism and became an outright full-fledged communist.
Upon his return to the US, after a very failed attempt at becoming a US Senator, he did what any good Marxist would and started a drug smuggling and distribution business. His little enterprise went about as well as communism did, and will end with him being convicted to 5 years and 3 months in prison.
After spending about 5 years and 2 months in prison and with just about a month left before his release, he took a cold hard look at the math of his dilemma and decided to escape. He will go on to spend almost 9 years as a wanted fugitive, mostly because nobody really bothered to look for him. He will eventually get caught in 2007 and will be sent away to serve the remaining month.
Eventually, he will be taken captive and meet his end at the hands of drunk Russian troops, the same Russian soliders he fought alongside since 2015. Following a decade of looking for Nazis in Ukraine, he will finally find them.
In 2014, a Texas man decided to leave his comfortable US life behind and crowdfund his way into Donbas on a "fact-finding mission". His "mission" will take a decade to complete but I'm happy to let you all know it appears to have just now been concluded, after having found those "facts".
Born in the 60s, this lone red cowboy flirted with the idea of socialism since his teenage years. Later on, just as all of Cuba was trying to get into the US, he was trying to get into Cuba, which he eventually succeeded in doing.
Having seen firsthand the level of poverty and lack of even the most basic of freedoms in the country, he ditched socialism and became an outright full-fledged communist.
Upon his return to the US, after a very failed attempt at becoming a US Senator, he did what any good Marxist would and started a drug smuggling and distribution business. His little enterprise went about as well as communism did, and will end with him being convicted to 5 years and 3 months in prison.
After spending about 5 years and 2 months in prison and with just about a month left before his release, he took a cold hard look at the math of his dilemma and decided to escape. He will go on to spend almost 9 years as a wanted fugitive, mostly because nobody really bothered to look for him. He will eventually get caught in 2007 and will be sent away to serve the remaining month.
Eventually, he will be taken captive and meet his end at the hands of drunk Russian troops, the same Russian soliders he fought alongside since 2015. Following a decade of looking for Nazis in Ukraine, he will finally find them.
PSB: Get a load of THESE traitors.
Johnnie Moore Jr.
Josh Hammer
Rob McCoy
Sean Hannity
Glenn Beck
Ted Cruz
Dinesh D’Souza
Seth Dillon
Kyle Mann
Leana Wen
Eric Metaxas
Bridgette Gabriel
Chad Prather
Tim Ballard
Trey Gowdy
Benny Johnson
*Epoch/Tsinghua/TPUSA/Israel/GHF/COVID/WEF
Johnnie Moore Jr.
Josh Hammer
Rob McCoy
Sean Hannity
Glenn Beck
Ted Cruz
Dinesh D’Souza
Seth Dillon
Kyle Mann
Leana Wen
Eric Metaxas
Bridgette Gabriel
Chad Prather
Tim Ballard
Trey Gowdy
Benny Johnson
*Epoch/Tsinghua/TPUSA/Israel/GHF/COVID/WEF
NOTE: My ability to ‘never fucking miss’ far exceeds your combined abilities as ‘spooks, traitors, spies, pedos & terrorists who try running influence ops and terror attacks against the American people w/out being found out’. ALL of you should be unmasked, doxxed & hunted down.✌️
ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL
“Jews need to do to our enemies here what Israel did to its enemies there.”
-ELAN CARR, IAC CEO
*Here’s MARISSA STREIT, fmr IAC DIRECTOR OF OPS, UNIT 8200 OFFICER & PRAGERU CEO, w/ERIKA KIRK & ANDREW KOLVET at MAL for a $10,000/PLATE dinner last night.
“Jews need to do to our enemies here what Israel did to its enemies there.”
-ELAN CARR, IAC CEO
*Here’s MARISSA STREIT, fmr IAC DIRECTOR OF OPS, UNIT 8200 OFFICER & PRAGERU CEO, w/ERIKA KIRK & ANDREW KOLVET at MAL for a $10,000/PLATE dinner last night.
@IrisRoder42813 @UnrollHelper Treffen mit #HeritageFoundation ,an denen die Kampagnenchefin(!) von #Merz bis zum Bekanntwerden teilnehmen sollte, Freundschaft von Grenell #Spahn , #Roettgen & #HeritageFoundation ,etc. pp. Die #CDU dürfte alles andere als überrascht sein. Der Besuch von Merz in Washington hat
@IrisRoder42813 @UnrollHelper auch nicht nur so gewirkt, es war der unterwürfige Besuch eines devoten Türöffners, oder sagen wir Statthalter. Langsam dürfte auch klar geworden sein, welche "vielen gemeinsamen Interessen" gemeint waren von #Spahn ,über die auch #BlackRock -& BASF-Fritze nicht die Nase rümpft:
@IrisRoder42813 @UnrollHelper - Beseitigung von Umweltrechten
- Absatz fossiler Energieträger
- Beseitigung von
Arbeitnehmer:innenrechten und
- sozialer Sicherung
- Beseitigung unabhängiger Justiz
- und Berichterstattung
-Delegitimierung von Widerspruch
-Politik als Erfüllungsgehilfe wirt-
schaftlicher
- Absatz fossiler Energieträger
- Beseitigung von
Arbeitnehmer:innenrechten und
- sozialer Sicherung
- Beseitigung unabhängiger Justiz
- und Berichterstattung
-Delegitimierung von Widerspruch
-Politik als Erfüllungsgehilfe wirt-
schaftlicher
Suggest European friends and allies read not only the National Security Strategy but also the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2026, which was published last night. It's very long, so skip to this section: rules.house.gov/sites/evo-subs…
Here, for instance, we see several amendments written in direct response to what Elbridge Colby has been doing at DoD while Pete Hegseth does chin-ups and tequila shots. Note the provision about reclassifying aid to Ukraine as needed U.S. stocks -- this cannot be done, per this draft, unless the kit is so badly needed for a contingency op, its absence could result in mission failure or loss of American lives:
Let's say Trump wants to punish Zelensky again for not wanting to forfeit Donbas by cutting intel sharing to Ukraine. He would have two days to notify Congress on this decision. And he'd have to explain why he did it and what the anticipated consequences to Ukraine would be. "Because I'm an asshole and I don't care" might not even suffice in this fast-changing political environment!
On December 2, 2025, FAIR filed a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights against North Thurston Public Schools (NTPS) in Lacey, Washington. The complaint alleges violations of Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for sponsoring racially segregated staff events, despite being informed by FAIR of the legal violations one year earlier.
In November 2024, FAIR sent a detailed letter to NTPS Superintendent Troy Oliver explaining that the district’s planned “Educators of Color” event violated federal civil rights law. Our letter cited Supreme Court precedent including Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and explicitly urged the district to ensure all employees could attend regardless of race.
NTPS ignored FAIR’s guidance. On November 12, 2025, the district’s Equity and Languages Department sent an email inviting only “staff of color” to a December gathering. This time, the district attempted to conceal the discriminatory nature by avoiding public flyers and relying on a restricted email list and word-of-mouth among selected employees.
Speaking of calling people out, Charles…
Aren’t you the jew pretending to care about COVID justice (blames DJT), while NYU opened KASSIN CENTER ‘in the lobby of TISCH HALL’, JUST 2 YEARS BEFORE COVID?
Should we ask Anthony Welters or Larry Fink ab NYU/Langone/Gilead/Loews/UJA?
Aren’t you the jew pretending to care about COVID justice (blames DJT), while NYU opened KASSIN CENTER ‘in the lobby of TISCH HALL’, JUST 2 YEARS BEFORE COVID?
Should we ask Anthony Welters or Larry Fink ab NYU/Langone/Gilead/Loews/UJA?
PS: On top of Rabbi Saul Kassin being a convicted money launderer, this was my favorite part. The part where Kassins trace their heritage back to when Spain expelled jews in 1492 for doing the same shit they do in America today. Lemme guess, they bankroll you too, amirite? Fgt.🖕
