Konstantinos

Ad Astra Per Aspera!

@visegrad24 I hope they haven't used the term imperial possessions. Thats woke terminology that led to the current state of affairs.

Reuters reports that the U.S. considers options to punish NATO members who the Trump Administration believes failed to support USA during the Iran War, including: - Suspending Spain from NATO - Reassessing U.S. support for “imperial possessions,” such as the Falkland Islands

@Wileybot2004 Pretty 😍

Oooh, shiny

@assassinscreed Allegiance to man's natural freedoms...

It's time to raise the Black Flag again. July 9th, 2026. 🏴‍☠️

@redneckleeusmc Ahh yes. This chain of events makes sense. I wonder if it tries to predict the next question

@hyperiongr I said "Ok" and then I hit stop because I wanted to add something else. But when I hit stop it must have just dumped part of the model response to the chat.

Huh.

@ian_omrf 💯

Το τελευταίο μου απόκτημα #παγκοσμια_ημερα_βιβλιου

@Wileybot2004 A good boy?

Me :3

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is in final preparations for an early September launch, eight months AHEAD of schedule and UNDER budget. This milestone is the result of more than a decade of dedication and millions of hours of work by NASA and our industry partners. Their commitment is what’s making this moment possible and helping drive Gold Standard Science. Roman will help answer some of the biggest questions in science, investigating dark matter, dark energy, and the structure of the universe. Its images will be so large and detailed, there isn’t a screen in existence big enough to display them. This is just the beginning.

@AtelierMissor_ Across the West such statues should be everywhere. We can have beautiful cities again!

This 50 ft Prometheus will soon be shipped to the USA. It costs around 1 million to build. We want to build larger and larger Prometheus statues everywhere across the West.

@IterIntellectus The Crisis of the Twenty-First century.

fertility collapse will be seen as the defining crisis of the century

@MattWalshBlog Gay men evolved precisely to protect and defend their communities. And that makes them superb choices to be parents for their own children as well.

Gay surrogacy and gay adoption are predicated on the idea that gay men (or women) have a “right” to become parents. This idea is not only morally insane but also logically incoherent. It’s exactly like jumping off a building and claiming that you have the right to fly. Nobody has the right to defy the laws of nature. Where would such a right even originate? Two men cannot be parents. It’s impossible. Doesn’t matter how they feel or what they want. It cannot be. The only “right” at issue here is the right of the child. And the child has a right to be raised by a mother and a father, not two men masquerading as mother and father.

@GiorgosBeige Πρέπει να εχεις την σκέψη "is he the one?", να παθιαζεσαι και να ονειρεύεσαι πως θα παντρευτείτε ενώ ταυτόχρονα κανεις self-check και λες στον εαυτόν σου "κρατησου, κατσε να τον γνωρίσεις καλύτερα, ολοι καλοί δείχνουν στην αρχη".

Ποια από τα παρακάτω συναιαθήματα χρειάζεται να έχεις (τουλάχιστον σε αρχικό στάδιο) για να κάνεις μια σχέση;

@OpticNoir Good morning 🫡

@hyperiongr Goodmorning! 🫡

Signing off: drink water

@bryancsk It's a great event 🇬🇷; no bias! 🤣

I'm really fond of how open to adoption the Hellenes are. No, I'm not marching in the Greek heritage and independence day parade downtown today, I'm very chuffed to be invited though, even though I'm not Greek.

@andrikeloss Σε εφήμερα δεν παιζει ρολο ή δρα σαν αφροδισιακό, ειτε διαφωνία ειτε συμφωνία. Σε σχέση σοβαρή όμως ισως παιζει ρολο γιατι πίσω από τις πολιτικές πεποιθήσεις κρύβεται ενα σύστημα αξιών και ιεράρχηση αυτών που για να λειτουργήσει η σχέση πρέπει κάπως να συμφωνούν στις αξίες.

Είναι για εσάς red flag 🚩(σε ερωτικό επίπεδο) οι πολιτικές πεποιθήσεις κάποιου;

Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com

@gay_lumberjack I have noticed the same but it seems its the algorithm that for some reason it deprioritize them.

I've had so many mutuals on here where I enjoy their daily posts for months or years and then they vanish and it takes me a long time to notice and when i do finally notice I feel happy that maybe they deleted their account and are living a happy life.

@OpticNoir Try the term ascending or aspiring influencer. Imply you are close to a big break. She will then crave to be near.

How she looks at me when I tell her I am a micro-influencer on X

@Wileybot2004 it gets better!

I try and say I’m doing good and sometimes I am in the moment but tbh I don’t think I am. I really hope this passes soon and I can go back to pretending that there’s a chance I can find a path forward and finally start my life as the real me. I don’t know how much longer I can take this