Much like JD Vance, Elon Musk and Bob, the Nascar fan from Alabama with some really strong opinions about European integration, I too have asked myself the age old question: "what has the EU ever done for us?" and decided to have a look at some of the latest countries to join.🧵

Since tragically joining the union in 2004, Poland has barely even managed to quadruple its GDP and start what is routinely reffered to as "The Polish Golden Age", likely an achivement completely unrelated to the quarter of a trillion dollars worth of EU funds it received.

Joining in 2007, moment at which it famously topped world charts in efficient governance and standard of living, average wage in Romania went from a nickel and a smile to about $1200 net, with Bucharest alone now having a bigger GDP than all of Serbia and Bulgaria combined.

I want to give a huge thanks to everyone that has responded.

There is no doubt whatsoever, that Elon Musk's X/Twitter has had major changes to it's algorithm, particularly in the last 4-5 months, which stops mutuals seeing each other's posts. I can only find their posts if I search them out.
1/🧵

https://x.com/SteB777/status/1998720695807648150

This seems to deliberately target progressives, but not just those with overt political views, just anyone who doesn't endorse right wing populism. Many of these people whose posts I rarely see now, are photographers, birders, natural history people, who rarely post politicised views.
2/

By progressive I simply mean anyone with enlightened views who doesn't endorse the hate mongering and regressive views of the modern populist right, including old style Conservatives. Many of these people would not see themselves as progressive.
3/

.@zarahsultana, Master of Optics

Imagine the scenario; you're a Labour MP about to get sacked so you ask to join a collective that've spent months planning a working class party.

Their best asset: the most successful socialist LOTO in 45 years.

What do you do?
#AgentSultana
1/

First, you demand to be co-leader of this steering committee to which you've had no input thus far.

Demand that the 5 Independent Alliance MPs, each with their own personal mandate, vote for you who was elected on a Starmer ticket to be co-lead.

2/
#ZarahSultana

Unilaterally announce you will co-lead a new party (no mention of elections).

Name drop Corbyn & start taking donations, funnelled to a bank account controlled by your mates.

Dominate public messaging, to the point most people couldn't name the other MPs but for Corbyn.

3/

🔥 THREAD: The Hidden Hindu Symbol Nobody Talks About — But It Explains the Entire Universe! 🔱

1️⃣
What if I told you that one simple symbol explains the entire structure of the cosmos?
Not modern physics.
Not quantum theory.
But Sanatan Dharma — thousands of years ago.

Here’s the forgotten wisdom 👇

2️⃣ The Sacred Hexagram — NOT foreign, but originally Vedic
This symbol represents the union of Purusha & Prakriti,
Shiva & Shakti,
Energy & Consciousness.
A map of cosmic balance.

It is pure Sanatan geometry.

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. 🇬🇧

Talking to many Englishmen nowadays one would instantly think good times have indeed created weak men across the United Kingdom...

So how can the UK return to its former glory? Let's have a look 👇

The British Empire was a breathtaking testament to the UK's global influence, considering its small size. This island nation managed to exert control across the world, mainly through its naval dominance and mastery of the seas.

👑 Queen Elizabeth I made this possible.

💡 British influence was far from limited to its military. Many British innovators changed the course of history.

Be it Isaac Newton, Alan Turing, or Stephen Hawking, without them, the world as we know it wouldn't exist.

To this day, even Satoshi Nakamoto could have been British.

#Tether watch!

#Bitcoin fell to $90K again, pushing Bitfinex back up to $1.0006. This comes as no surprise to followers of the Tether watch, since i said it wasn't gonna hit $100K based on peg strength, and nothing has changed.

Only a straight depeg will make BTC hit $100K.

https://twitter.com/DesoGames/status/1998452885189767664

It's a simple relationship, the more BTC rises the more Bitfinex falls, and at the rate of rising and falling, at $100K Bitfinex will be around $0.998, which is the limit of this charade.

Why? OBSERVED HISTORY! It's the rest that comes up with conjecture. I've got a chart!

There's only 2 "official" depegs on that chart, both denoted a top in Bitcoin for an extended period of time. That simply cannot be coincidence, especially not if i increase the line a little bit more to 0.999 and then draw boxes around the depegs and the BTC price at the time.

i'm sick of seeing Google Ads dudes telling people to just "do keyword research" instead of actually showing them how.

so I'm gonna drop our entire keyword research process today for $0.

here’s how to find and scale profitable keywords fast:

In this thread, I’ll show you:

- Which keywords to target
- Which tools to use
- When to use exact, phrase, broad match
- How to organize them inside campaigns

Let’s dive in…

1. The Fundamentals

First, understand that not all searches are created equal:

There are 4 distinct types of keywords, each with different conversion potential:

- Informational
- Navigational
- Commercial
- Transactional

1/ The Russian army's fetish for bureaucracy has reached new levels this year, according to a Russian soldier and warblogger. The quantity has tripled over the past year, but the system is geared towards generating false information, or "fantasy stories about armed conflict". ⬇️

2/ 'Vault No. 8' has previously written about the extreme quantities of paperwork that the Russian army requires its personnel to generate and process. As well as taking up huge amounts of officers' time, the output often does not reflect reality.

https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1958932563512188943

3/ A further problem is that the Russian army is still, in the year 2025, entirely paper-based, and does not make use of electronic data collection and processing; it all has to be dealt with manually. 'Vault No. 8' writes:

We will be live tweeting day 2 of the final hearing of clinical psychologist, Dr Anne Woodhouse (AW), before the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) Conduct and Competence Committee in relation to posts on Twitter/X from 9.30am this morning.

The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) alleges that she posted/liked or permitted others to post/like Twitter/X social media posts containing gender critical content in contravention of their social media policy.
The allegations arise from one Complainant, an activist in LGBTQ politics.

The police were notified of the matter, but confirmed they would not be pursuing any investigation. The HCPC have pursued a Fitness to Practice case against Dr Woodhouse since September 2022.

The posts complained of are:

Telangana Phone Tapping case | #SupremeCourt hears anticipatory bail plea of ex intelligence chief T Prabhakar Rao, accused of intercepting phones of politicians, high court judges etc. to aid the previous BRS government.

Bench: Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice R Mahadevan.

The Court in October asked Rao to reset and share his iCloud password with police after the State claimed that he formatted his devices and destroyed evidence while enjoying interim protection from arrest.
livelaw.in/top-stories/te…

It is Rao's case that the data was deleted as per official protocol on the order of a Review Committee due to sensitivity of information.

Dark truth most women don’t want you to know:

1. They love controlling the relationships.

1. They love controlling the relationships

A lot of women feel safest when they quietly steer the emotional direction of the relationship while you handle the hard work outside. She studies your reactions and learns what makes you panic, what makes you fold and what makes you chase.

If every time she cries, withdraws or threatens to leave you instantly change your position, she learns that your emotions belong to her. It is rarely an evil master plan, it is just human nature using what works.

The more you surrender your frame to keep the peace, the more she controls the tone, the pace and the rules of the connection. Control is often silent, it looks like you adjusting your whole life around her mood for years.

2. Attention is the most powerful leash

Many women understand that your brain lights up when she gives or withholds attention. A warm message, a selfie, a long call before sleep, then three days of cold distance, this cycle conditions you like any reward experiment.

Your mood rises and falls based on her response speed and tone. If you keep chasing harder every time she pulls away, you train yourself to accept unstable bonds.

The dark truth is that attention becomes a leash only when you let your happiness hang on her replies instead of on your own mission and routine. When your life is full, her attention becomes a bonus, not oxygen.

Let me translate this for you from "Brussels" language...🧵👇🏻

https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1998859426133147996

1/7 "Good to meet...", means there's nothing new to report.

2/7 "importance of accelerating reforms...", means there was no sufficient progress that was expected in areas of rule of law and media freedom.