Raison d'État

The 🇺🇸 Tomahawk double-tap on the girl's school in Minab was not as stupid as it looks. Many ranking officers at the nearby military base send their daughters to that school. The base is fearsomely fortified, but Iranians have an unusually family-obsessed culture, and it was quite predictable that Iranian fathers would defy orders and break cover to try to save their little girls. The 40-minute delay between "taps" maximised the number of fathers on-site. In the lingo, "Operational Planners leveraged Cultural Awareness and Human Terrain Mapping to bring High Value Targets (HVTs) with range of friendly kinetic effects". It's 2026: boys can be girls, girls can be targets, and winners are never charged with warcrimes. Tucker Carlson - "Mister Traditional Values" - disagrees, of course: "You can't have a war unless you believe you are — on the deepest level — better than the people you're fighting." "If you wake up in the morning living in the kind of country that thinks it's okay to kill — not simply military officers — but their daughters… That country is not worth fighting for." https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/176702

Hunter Biden must have introduced Estonia's leadership to his coke dealer :D 📝 7a1f9142…

Regime change is finally happening! https://ronpaulinstitute.org/bahrains-big-breakout/ Thoughts and prayers with these brave people, I hope they can throw out their (actual) dictatorship. #war #iranwar #protests

📝 004fadcc… Could anything more perfectly capture the 2020s zeitgeist? Inside that bloated orange Boomer there is a blue-haired Millennial Karen who demands to be heard...

In a world in which T-Rex attacks in the suburbs were a problem, we could hang sheets of polished aluminium on blank walls everywhere. Bird-brains love to fight their own reflections for hours, and dinosaurs were basically ground-dwelling birds with heavier bones. Bird intelligence is pretty alien to us mammals - so smart in some ways, so bafflingly stupid in others.

Yup, that was me in my 20s. Wasn't picked up for years, but when it was its so easy to fix - supplements and/or sunshine. 📝 e93e88af…

📝 f83d8073… "The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists." - Ernest Hemingway

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? #diy #analog #telephone #comms #communication #electronics

Spammers before email! 📝 10567084…

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.

@Hasanfam wants to set up Bitcoin Lightning so he can receive Zaps, but he has no idea how to do it. Can anyone help him through the process? #Bitcoin #Lightning #Minibits #Zaps #Nostr (I'm pretty new to this myself)

📝 ddaaf850… #Iran #War #IranProtests #Israel #Zionism

Happy Valentine's Day, my crazy friends! Respect to Saint Valentine, who understood love wanted boundaries, and went on to make setting them permissionless.

In stories, supernatural villains can win over sidekicks by promising them eternal life. Bitcoin Core can now offer the same to our clawbots via OP_RETURN :p 📝 6f39def0…

The only Nostrich who would prefer the #Epstein Files had stayed secret: 📝 2c7d11af…

Remember when the MSM accused the Taliban of trafficking kids and heroin? Every allegation was a confession. #epstein 📝 8fd4bcce…