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"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."

- T. E. Lawrence

Anarchist. Dad. Metalhead. Numbers guy. Python dev. Self-custody fanatic. Weekends-only aspiring homesteader.

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2026-03-07 01:15:01 CET

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Someone needs to give those lads modern MANPADS

2026-03-07 01:11:15 CET

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There are ~40 governments trusted to sign certificates by major operating systems..
For them, HTTPS is trivial to MitM unless you're pinning certs

2026-03-06 10:07:42 CET

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The convoy had a broken headlight.
And - oh look - another one!
Lets see what you got in the back there boys...

2026-03-05 12:02:55 CET

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GM, Rasha!

2026-03-05 10:43:36 CET

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GM! A good day for mischief :)

2026-03-05 04:31:38 CET

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#anarchocommunism is just like regular #communism, but Comrade Commissar is allowed to smoke weed.

2026-03-05 04:28:58 CET

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Imagine you were a hypocrite, for argument's sake.
Things you already own, and expect to keep owning, are "personal property".
Things you don't own, but expect to one day to be able to take from others by force, are "private property".
All other definitions are comically arbitrary and cannot survive the briefest logical scrutiny.
A toothbrush can be used to provide services, such as cleaning a rifle receiver or seams in a boot.
A car can be a work of art.
A tool can be a momento.

2026-03-04 14:08:41 CET

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Thought it sounded unlikely, Turkey and UAE elites have very close relations.
https://ilkha.com/english/world/turkiye-denounces-social-media-claims-of-military-threat-against-uae-515831

2026-03-04 12:25:32 CET

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You'll be shocked when you learn the Tanakh is explicitly anti-Zionist.
There will be a Hindi translation you can read

2026-02-27 08:26:25 CET

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Why death-spiral?
Westerners won't rebel, their wages will just inflate away and stabilise around Nigerian standards of living.
Buy Bitcoin. Buy gold. Plant potatoes. Tell your grandchildren about the old days, and who ended them.

2026-02-27 08:20:52 CET

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What a "maroon".
This tactic HAS worked on most of the economically-valuable Israelis, but they have another ~60 countries to move to.

2026-02-27 08:17:18 CET

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AI Cat Videos!!! W00t!

2026-02-27 08:06:42 CET

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I should probably start training my son in these skills
#parenting #ModernWest #war

2026-02-27 08:05:07 CET

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#wagerestraint
Duct-tapers, flunkies, gofers and goons still expect too much.
Pool boys and consultants, even more so.
But the government has a plan!

2026-02-27 07:56:05 CET

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That's amateur stuff!
Claim to hear voices telling you to overthrow the State.
Act droolingly-eager to get guns.
Ask the assessor if he's Jewish.

2026-02-27 07:51:45 CET

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Because the audience are always assumed to self-identify as sartorially-challenged losers in life :p

2026-02-27 07:47:39 CET

I own a few ex-Soviet TA-57 landline field telephones. Those things just don't break down, they were designed to survive as long as possible in a thermonuclear end of the world.
Going to install them in my farm sheds, where there's no mobile reception, mostly for household / intercom use.
What else could / should I wire / switchboard into the same analog voice circuit, and why?
https://image.nostr.build/1f46e27c6b040f37d9a8c0d1b6001431674701b3177afb86c6888804d09a46d6.jpg
#diy #analog #telephone #comms #communication #electronics

2026-02-27 07:34:57 CET

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These (emotionally) healthy young women, are they in the room with us right now? :p
Getting laid for a masculine man is easy in the West. Finding a woman trustworthy to raise children quite another.
Other than that, 100% agree.

2026-02-27 07:31:05 CET

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Nuclear test sites FTW!

2026-02-27 07:26:02 CET

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And its worse to call someone out for committing genocide than it is to commit genocide.
(Unless the victims were Chosen, of course)

2026-02-27 07:23:15 CET

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I trust Paul more than I trust Constantine :p
But yes, the Bible is a collection of other people's study notes, the ones that were copied more than others, and that then survived Emperor Constantine / Council of Nicea's purge.
Christianity is like what Islam would be if the Qu'ran had not survived, only various contradictory collections of Hadith.

2026-02-27 07:17:25 CET

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She used to be smarter than this.

2026-02-27 05:05:57 CET

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How will your "separate authority" be kept safe from bias, bribery, blackmail, and "rubber hoses"?
Right now, purchasing of a large Nostr account by government would work the same way it does right now on Telegram - the purchaser gets a window in which their lies / scams are credible, then followers figure it out and unfollow in droves.
That's not a great system. But we need to make sure anything we replace it with is less-gameable, not more.

2026-02-27 01:05:44 CET

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The gargoyles will pull faces at you from the rooftop

2026-02-27 01:03:08 CET

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Risk of someone cornering the market? Valid, given the distribution of ores, but only one of several reasons. Easy of testing purity outside a lab is kinda big deal. Culture and tradition, too.

2026-02-26 22:29:16 CET

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How would you verify it "in the field"?

2026-02-26 22:27:46 CET

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Srsly? You can't streak-plate platinum, and its density is close to base metals

2026-02-26 22:26:55 CET

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Bitcoin needs a "Day of the Dead" even more than Nostr does :p

2026-02-26 22:25:51 CET

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Trophy wives!

2026-02-26 22:23:33 CET

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Platinum is much harder to verify...

2026-02-26 22:22:08 CET

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And this is not a situation where one should trust an Agent to port it, either... :(

2026-02-26 22:19:13 CET

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True, but typical Ancient Greeks walking in the street and watching where they put their sandals were probably not looking for prostitutes, any more than typical Usenetters were looking for migration agents (the birth of modern spam).
It does highlight how widespread literacy was in ancient Greece, that this was a viable marketing tactic at all...!

2026-02-26 22:14:06 CET

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Fair, but equally, Windows is only useful if you have an IT Department.

2026-02-26 22:12:40 CET

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Its both an asset and a liability, but the specifics vary by nationality
Optionality is where its at.

2026-02-26 22:10:32 CET

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Miaow

2026-02-26 22:09:39 CET

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NGL, my brain translated this post as "jealous" without even clicking the link

2026-02-26 22:01:22 CET

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I don't believe it will be reversed. Tactics for protesting need to change.
Public rallies are not just overtly targeted by state violence, they are also decreasingly visible and decreasingly persuasive in an always-online world where the enemies of freedom control the narrative...

2026-02-26 21:57:40 CET

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Yup. And Netanyahu, specifically, was the driver of that project.

2026-02-26 21:54:36 CET

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We could use "Word Vectors" to sort that out in a fairly-objective way.
If the correlation between "good father" and "trusted to look after my cat" is 0.9, then that's the weighting that should apply if the user's intent is to find someone to look after her cat.
Word Vectors (e.g. from Spacy or NLTK) also allow clients to handle arbitrary attestation strings.
Sentence Transformers could also do this, but are much less performant

2026-02-26 12:57:58 CET

Spammers before email!
#nevent1q…lj0z

2026-02-26 12:51:01 CET

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Pretty sure its the other way around.
Tigers are cats - lazy, cowardly and resentful.
Hyenas hunt as a team sport, and enjoy competition and flexing skills in front of others.

2026-02-26 12:47:42 CET

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GM, Mo!
Cobalt. Make it a Cobalt Bomb or we'll have to do it all over again in ten years.

2026-02-26 12:40:33 CET

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The only useful things you can run through burning jet fuel undestroyed are water vapour and sulphate aerosols.
I'm in favour of adding both into the stratosphere, but my government doesn't have the balls. Easier to de-industrialise...

2026-02-26 12:37:06 CET

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This is Nostr. Most of us struggle with those things :p

2026-02-26 12:33:17 CET

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I've met Africans baffled by the prevalence of forklifts here. And for good reason - why spend $10k on a machine you have to fuel and repair when for a few $ in Africa you can get a team of men to do the lift?
And if they get mangled its their problem.
That is the future in the West, not UBI.

2026-02-26 07:42:08 CET

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Sweet dreams, Connie!

2026-02-26 07:06:17 CET

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Looking good :)
'Night, Diyana!

2026-02-26 07:00:40 CET

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"A little yes", as my boss likes to say. You're not wrong, but it is complicated. There's a whole piano-keyboard of emotion centers in there...

2026-02-26 06:35:29 CET

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What???
No, significance tests do not ignore outliers.
Outliers have wildly disproporionate influence on significance tests. That's why they're scrutinised so much during data cleaning.
And yes, bias at the data cleaning stage greatly influences whether the null hypothesis is rejected or not.
This isn't just a problem for science, all statistical processes are vulnerable to it.

2026-02-26 06:27:15 CET

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The first poster is crass and cringe, and should be ignored by all.
The second poster is the one who is objectively pro-rape.

2026-02-26 06:25:08 CET

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Truth.
And some men also date women for money. You'll never see an heiress single for long, unless she wants to be

2026-02-26 00:04:15 CET

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Good article, but he massively overstates the case.
Screens aren't going anywhere, for people who work.
We have a 20 Mbit simplex interface (the optic nerve) honed by tens of millions of years of optimisation for finding berries and tasty bugs. We also have a duplex interface - the hands - far slower than the optic nerve but still an order of magnitude faster in upload than speech.
Diversity of options for interfaces is good. Voice will further erode downtime, though, not restore it.

2026-02-25 23:30:38 CET

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Alternative take - I get invited to useless "fun" polls on certain messaging apps all the time.
Nostr has a "Proof of Stake" to reduce the noise :p

2026-02-25 23:27:28 CET

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Paragraph #2 is the opposite of a century worth of social psychology findings.
Popular meme, though, and cross-cultural. Its called "Women-Are-Wonderful", there are evolutionary arguments for why its believed even though trivially disproved...

2026-02-25 23:15:42 CET

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Human nature being what it is, some people will book just to see closeup the chaos.
Human nature being what it is, some people will book in the hopes of causing some chaos themselves and getting away unnoticed...

2026-02-25 22:20:47 CET

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TBF, that's exactly what we expect human leadership to do.
Without massive, predetermined retaliation, deterrence cannot work.
Given that SNAFU is also a thing, the probability of unintended global thermonuclear war trends towards 100% over time.
Humanity has dodged at least two close calls so far, there may have been many others we don't know about.
'Hal' / Anthropic / Dead Hand didn't cause this, and I suspect they're already safer on the button than human politicians. At least they don't have their own involvement with Epstein et al to hide...

2026-02-25 22:02:49 CET

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Imma gonna need to see some evidence for paragraph three. But we're about to cross the border into religion, so might be best to call it a day. Thanks for the conversation, not many people I know IRL with your knowledge and insights

2026-02-25 21:42:04 CET

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Honestly, that might be a more sustainable business model for all concerned...

2026-02-25 21:38:40 CET

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Impossible, even if there were a tax on it. Trust me :p

2026-02-25 12:45:02 CET

#nevent1q…7krt
#ModernWest

2026-02-25 12:28:06 CET

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Other than normie-friendly email login, all those features already exist if you run your own community's relay.
That is a barrier, but not a large one, I should think. I haven't run a public-facing Nostr relay, but I have run a public-facing email server, and Nostr looks like 1/20th the work.

2026-02-25 10:37:13 CET

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I haven't owned a commercial NAS in over a decade, so I have no personal experience of TrueNAS to share.
If the manufacturer is no longer providing firmware updates, I would migrate ASAP. If they are still, I would still prefer the open source solution, but less of a rush.

2026-02-25 10:10:32 CET

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What do you mean by "raise order"? Perhaps we are using different terminology.
We are not closed systems, we export disorder to the environment, just like bacteria, LLMs, and crystals growing on the floors of magma chambers. Our metabolic processes inherently destroy order, and can be maintained only by frequent consumption of sources of metastable order.
If we could raise order, that would indeed be spooky, and a violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

2026-02-25 10:04:18 CET

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For centuries the Sultans weren't allowed to get married. So slave-girls it was!

2026-02-25 09:58:33 CET

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Memory use is a big pro.
Amethyst: 249 MB
Coracle: 35 MB
Wisp: 29 MB
Nearly an order of magnitude less than Amethyst. (Amethyst does a lot more, of course.)

2026-02-25 09:52:06 CET

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Bro needed Bitcoin.
I'm being flippant, but many of the alienating features of modernity were mindfully constructed to be the way they are for the benefit of narrow groups. What has been engineered can be re-engineered.
I should read his book again, its been over a decade and I'm hazy on which ideas belonged to him.

2026-02-25 09:20:29 CET

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Truth.
I was thinking of the many things you can do to a human brain. Stimulate the amygdala directly to cause rage, and the human will hallucinate a reason (and believe it). Pay them to read a script or to steelman an argument, and their beliefs going forward are tweaked.
We are built differently to ANNs, but we are also jerry-rigged messes with delusions of agency.

2026-02-25 09:10:40 CET

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@nprofile…r7ku

2026-02-25 08:59:52 CET

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I have thought about it.
Ten minutes between bytes makes it impractical for many applications, but it is something I keep in mind.

2026-02-25 08:52:16 CET

Trying out #Wisp. GrapheneOS, using Amber as a signer.
Pros:
- I like the look
- Its snappy and responsive
Cons:
- It frequently "forgets" my custom emojis, showing the defaults instead, then inexplicably recovers
- Unless I tell Amber to authorise all common actions, Wisp silently fails to react or post.

2026-02-25 08:45:28 CET

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"Ally" - Jonathan Pollard, USS Liberty, dancing on 911, non-extradition
"Democracy" - almost half people ruled are not citizens

2026-02-25 07:48:30 CET

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"Azeris are Turks!"
Whether they want to be or not...

2026-02-25 07:33:49 CET

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Abey did as well...
Netanyahu has a good chance too, but he'll need to do something to wow a bunch of Norwegian "judges". Coming out as trans might work, as would killing their children.

2026-02-25 07:19:18 CET

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That should be good for a cackle...

2026-02-25 07:14:37 CET

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Truth. But after you study neuroscience, you also look at humans that way...

2026-02-25 07:12:17 CET

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If it had been something about trans, or veganism, she would have been applauded.
Jesus must be even more hated than Trump in that scene...

2026-02-25 07:08:19 CET

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"Nobody suspected that she was capable of sabotaging the facility"

2026-02-25 07:03:56 CET

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Golf - just like range practice, but for useless people :p

2026-02-25 06:38:38 CET

#nevent1q…0ga5
Article reproduced below:
Just yesterday I wrote an article explaining how the evidence that Epstein did not take his own life is only growing stronger, and in the past 24 hours, more information has emerged. Much of that information has come from Rep. Nancy Mace, a US politician and rape survivor.
Now you don’t have to share Mace’s politics to pay attention to what she has to say on the matter. For what it’s worth, I don’t support any Republicans or Democrats so please don’t take this piece as an endorsement!
While Mace echoed the sentiments of many of us, her words carry weight because she is part of the House Oversight Committee, heavily pushed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and has access to sensitive/unredacted files. This makes it hard to dismiss her concerns as a conspiracy theory.
Yesterday, Mace posted on Twitter: “We are not convinced Epstein killed himself”. By “we”, she presumably means the bipartisan group of US officials, who have been pushing for Epstein transparency, that includes Reps Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie.
Yesterday, Mace appeared on Piers Morgan’s podcast where she asserted her belief that Epstein was an intelligence asset and the truth is being covered up. Part of her reasoning was that “the current Department of Justice has shut down all investigations into Epstein and will not pursue any future arrests.”
When questioned on the Matt Gaetz Show about which intelligence agencies Epstein was working for, Mace suggested it was Mossad and the CIA. She rebutted suggestions Epstein was a Russian asset, saying that would have been “very hard” and she hasn’t “seen that link yet”.
Mace suggested that the Epstein files name co-conspirators and celebrities who have not faced prosecution, despite the evidence against them. She plans to release the names in the coming days after careful review to ensure she doesn’t accidentally name witnesses.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal echoed her sentiments, saying: “Today, I spent almost 4 hours at the Department of Justice to once again look through the unredacted Epstein files. It is very clear that there is evidence here that needs to be investigated. I will not stop demanding accountability.”
Like Mace, Jayapal spoke of perpetrators who have not yet been named. She mentioned some names that have been made public — Les Wexner, Leon Black, and Jes Staley — saying she believes they “absolutely knew what was going on” and “were part of this entire ring.” Jayapal insisted there are investigative leads and prosecutable evidence in the files. She poured scorn on claims that Epstein’s associates had no idea what was going on, insisting the files show the opposite.
Mace mirrored this in a post on Twitter:
Rep. Nancy Mace
@RepNancyMace
The world's richest and most powerful people don't get there by being naive.
Please save the "we had no idea" act.
10:30 AM · Feb 24, 2026 · 31.8K Views
109 Replies · 198 Reposts · 1.61K Likes
Mace explained the lack of arrests is not a new problem and dates back to George W. Bush, where plea deals shielded co-conspirators. However, I would argue it goes back further, to Bush’s father, when victims first came forward. While Mace deserves some praise for standing up for victims, she let herself down by praising Donald Trump as a “good man who stands up for women”. The cognitive dissonance here is quite extraordinary.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna shed some light on the reality in a Twitter post:
They have so much dirt on members of Congress, and they do nothing. There is even a slush fund they use to pay people off with your tax dollars. This is part of why the system is so broken. They’re sitting on reports, and if someone steps out of line, isn’t it ironic how they leak them, threaten to leak them, or time it for right after Election Day? As you can see, there is a serious problem up here, largely surrounding sexual misconduct.
It appears the honeypot “conspiracy theory” could be real and is essentially a control mechanism to ensure politicians stay in line. This would explain why so many politicians seem to abandon their principles in office, why they agree on major issues such as war. It seems so many are compromised and intelligence agencies have the dirt.
In a recent letter, Nancy Mace demanded that all files related to Epstein’s ties to the CIA be made public. The CIA has refused to confirm if such files even exist, saying the answer is “classified” which seems like confirmation. Mace has called for an investigation into CIA involvement with Epstein and demanded answers to the following questions:
How many passports did Jeffrey Epstein have?
How many names did he use?
How many governments was he working for?
As I wrote in my last piece, Epstein’s ties to US intelligence were so strong that he was offered the chance to buy properties, such as the Pentagon Center, a “mission-critical” complex located one mile from the Pentagon itself. Epstein’s ties to Mossad might have been even stronger, suggesting Israel could have taken over these buildings, had the deal gone ahead.
Journalist Ryan Goodman wrote a piece explaining how: “Five days after Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest, federal authorities ‘directed’ NY law enforcement authorities to ‘stand down’ their investigations related to Epstein.” This claim was supported by documents released by the DOJ.
Mace believes the Epstein scandal goes beyond sex trafficking into other nefarious activities, such as “arms dealing overseas and hiding money for rich and powerful people”, suggesting government officials are involved. If she is correct, it is entirely possible that the rape and paedophilia, although horrifying, is only the tip of the iceberg.
CBS News uncovered a 69-page DEA memo in the Epstein files, detailing a 5-year federal probe into Epstein and 14 others. The probe looked into wire transfers linked to "illicit drug and/or prostitution activities" in the US Virgin Islands and New York. It tracked $50 million in transfers to accounts in Switzerland, France, the Cayman Islands, and New York. Many names in the memo are redacted.
It seems that this, like so many other investigations, quietly fizzled out with no arrests being made. No wonder Mace said: “I have no confidence in our justice system. I think it’s a system of injustice”.
In her interview with Matt Gaetz, Mace accused US attorney Alexander Acosta of breaking the law when he made the non-prosecution agreement with Epstein in 2008 and didn’t tell the victims. This agreement led to Epstein getting a shockingly light sentence and his co-conspirators avoiding prosecution for sickening crimes. Mace said she would like Acosta to come to the oversight committee and answer questions.
Now I’m no lawyer, but even if Acosta broke the law, it seems this would not invalidate the NPA, meaning Epstein’s accomplices are still protected. Still, I would like to see Acosta held accountable for protecting them.
Mace has pointed out that terabytes of data from the Epstein files have not been made public. She has questioned how the FBI could not find incriminating evidence against Epstein’s co-conspirators with all the camera footage. She has demanded that all files be declassified and unredacted. She has also demanded that every square inch of Zorro Ranch be searched—this being the alleged burial location of some of Epstein’s victims. New Mexico’s DOJ is actively probing these claims, but whether the investigation leads anywhere is another matter.
Mace has long been of the opinion that Epstein did not kill himself, due to issues like autopsy inconsistencies, and like me, she has suspected he is still alive. More recently, she changed her mind and said in an interview: “I think he was murdered”, highlighting irregularities with the cameras and guards. Whatever is going on, it seems the cover up is falling apart and the truth will soon come out.
#Epstein

2026-02-25 04:40:20 CET

Hilarious.
Nobody has a motive to kill that bovine imbecile.
Except our taxpayers, of course...
#nevent1q…r62f

2026-02-25 01:05:16 CET

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Both Trump and Netanyahu answer to people like "Mega Group", likely including Les Wexner and Miriam Adelson.
They would love to see extra genocides in the Middle East, but they also have to conserve regime stability in DC.

2026-02-25 00:55:31 CET

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Perhaps they are counting on logistics and support fraying over weeks, at such distances from the US homeland.
It is not an unreasonable assumption - the USA DoD is the best in the world at this, but that doesn't make it infallible or costless. Doesn't matter how many planes are parked in the ME if they become unservicable.
There's also the prospect of Trump getting distracted, or falling out with Netanyahu.
Fingers crossed...

2026-02-25 00:22:14 CET

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Literally true.
Khazaria was the largest Jewish State in history, during the early Middle Ages. Khazarians were mostly of Central Asian heritage, and converted to Judaism in the 9th century.
Modern day European Jews (Ashkenazim) are descended from a mix of them and of Europeans. Mostly European on the maternal side, almost no non-European DNA there.

2026-02-25 00:12:18 CET

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Well, both his parents were Ashkenazim from Poland.
My comment about heritage was of Ashkenazim historically.

2026-02-24 23:47:51 CET

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2026-02-24 23:40:24 CET

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"[...] but Brutus is an honourable man."
"[...] but Brutus is an honourable man."
"[...] but Brutus is an honourable man."
- Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"
Well played

2026-02-24 23:27:05 CET

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True, but nearly all of those have been ex-Jews.
Israelis have an average IQ of ~90.
Does Fascism make people stupid, or do stupid people prefer to migrate to Fascist countries?

2026-02-24 23:22:44 CET

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Its "wrong" if it shows you're not a real heir of the ancient Hebrews, just a grifter with a Khazarian father and European mother who decided to colonise Palestine.

2026-02-24 23:20:07 CET

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There'll be another Bibi within hours unless we get rid of all of MEGA first. Starting with Les Wexner and his dybuk...

2026-02-24 23:12:27 CET

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We did it in the 1960s and 1970s.
Not because anyone GAF about the climate, but because sulphur compounds add great lubricity to jet fuel, and commercial jet engine life-hours are rather important.
A couple of parts-per-trillion in the stratosphere lowered mean global temperatures by ~0.5C. Crop yields didn't fall.
Humanity can do that again any time we want to. We could do it more.
But we don't want to. De-industrialisation of the West is more profitable.

2026-02-24 23:06:47 CET

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I can respect that.
Being consistently right shows judgement.
Being consistently wrong shows character.

2026-02-24 13:55:22 CET

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I understand you're from Texas, ma'am.
Your OP read like twenty gallons of copium being smuggled in a ten-gallon hat.
The hat hasn't gotten any larger as we move down the thread...

2026-02-24 13:03:36 CET

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Sounds like the DPRK's "Workers Party", but with a more convertible currency.
For now.

2026-02-24 12:54:25 CET

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Good morning, Kip!

2026-02-24 12:44:29 CET

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I'm not seeing "opposing the EU Commission's policies" as grounds for suspending a member states' rights.
I'm seeing:
- respect for human dignity
- freedom
- democracy
- equality
- the rule of law
- respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities
None of those apply to Hungary.
But France getting suspended wen?

2026-02-24 12:34:57 CET

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That works too, I guess.

2026-02-24 12:26:55 CET

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"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity"

2026-02-24 12:25:00 CET

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I can believe it :)
Two assassination attempts on Trump failed because vegan assassins can't shoot straight.
I'm now imagining a Women's Studies graduate trying to arm a bomb to go off in a plane's cargo hold. Dropping the detonator into her makeup bag and getting flustered.
A bomb wrapped in an Iranian flag, but because politics it'd be the old Pahlavi version :p

2026-02-24 12:16:40 CET

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European values require removing Hungarians' voting rights.
We have to stop that voting.
If we let people vote, the West could end up like Russia.

2026-02-24 11:44:47 CET

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Dataset 1 just reported for duty. Dataset 2 coming up... :)