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@AmericnDreaming @QueerMajority @diankari1013 It’s a refreshing development aye. (Queer = Cool) No doubt there’s still loads of prejudice out there & no doubt being queer is difficult sometimes / often but overall we do seem to be growing up on the subject. (Banning religion would probably help)

@jayconway13 @QueerMajority @diankari1013 The article is three years old as well.

Queer is Cool: What Was Once Stigmatized Has Become Aspirational | @AmericnDreaming @diankari1013

@AmericnDreaming @QueerMajority @diankari1013 It’s been pretty “cool” for a while now. (In my bubble anyways)

@QueerMajority @diankari1013 Here's the full article if anyone wants to read: queermajority.com/essays-all/que…

@RpsAgainstTrump WTAF Merica. You elected this fool TWICE FFS. What is wrong with you!?!?!?!

Not AI. Not SNL. Meeting the Artemis II astronauts, Trump claimed he’s physically “very, very good” and fit to be an astronaut: “I would have had no trouble making it. I’m physically very, very good.” How is this real life?

@Tendar Fool.

Trump in his rant claiming that according to him „Ukraine is militarily defeated“ aimlessly rambles about what supposed to be Iran, clearly mixing up those two wars. Ukraine never had 159 ships. Ukraine situation is far better than it was a year ago.

@MeanwhileInUA Brilliant. Congratulations.

Putin called the war a dvizhuha — Russian slang for movement, momentum, the energy of the moment. Tuapse loved the idea. Resort town. Pro-war billboards. Rosneft refinery humming on the Black Sea coast. Business as usual. Then Ukraine's drones found the refinery. Three strikes in 12 days. April 16. April 20. Last night. Russia's only major Black Sea refinery — 12 million metric tons of crude a year — is offline with no timeline to restart. Now Tuapse has a different kind of dvizhuha. Black rain falling from the sky. A 10-square-kilometer oil slick in the sea. Benzene in the air. Evacuations underway. Environmentalists call it the largest ecological disaster on Russia's Black Sea coast in years. Putin hasn't commented. State TV hasn't mentioned it. People in Tuapse are furious and afraid to talk to journalists. The war has a return address. It's Tuapse. Support link is in the first comment.

@jaketapper What a stupid person.

A post from the president, 4:05 am ET today:

@EVCurveFuturist Congratulations.

🚨 The largest clean energy project in the US just dropped. SunZia isn’t just a wind farm. It’s a system. 242 giant turbines are already installed, ~916 total coming, delivering 3.5 GW of power, connected by a 550-mile HVDC line that moves energy from New Mexico into California exactly when it’s needed. Solar dominates midday, demand spikes in the evening, and wind fills the gap. That’s not coincidence, that’s design. At full capacity, it can power ~3 million people. With a capacity factor around 35–45%, that’s roughly 11–14 TWh per year, all for about $11B including transmission. Now compare that to Hinkley Point C: ~3.2 GW, ~25–26 TWh per year thanks to ~90% capacity factor, but at a cost of $60B+) and still not online. Yes, nuclear produces about 2x the annual energy, but that’s the wrong frame. The old system was built around fuel logistics: mine it, ship it, burn it, repeat. Constant inputs, constant exposure, constant volatility. SunZia flips that completely. Build it once, move electrons, optimise forever. No fuel supply chain, no chokepoints, no price shocks tied to oil or gas. This isn’t about renewables replacing fossil, it’s about a new grid architecture emerging where remote generation, long-distance transmission, and demand matching work together as a coordinated system. Lower capacity factor, lower total output, but 5–6x cheaper, faster to build, includes transmission, and scales modularly. While people argue about intermittency, projects like this are already solving it at scale, not in theory but in steel, concrete, and transmission lines. This is what the transition actually looks like. Not one-for-one replacement, not wind versus coal, but a full rewrite of how energy flows. From fuel logistics to electron logistics, from extraction to optimisation, from fragile to resilient. This isn’t incremental. It’s infrastructure for a post-fossil grid, and it’s already being built. ⚡ electrek.co/2026/04/17/the…

@maria_drutska It’s not just the Iran war that’s causing his popularity to crash. He’s an utterly incompetent malignant racist rapist. (That’s quite unappealing independently of the Iran war)

Strait flush: Trump is again considering just declaring "Mission Accomplished" in Iran and leaving. Trump's popularity is crashing ahead of US midterm elections due to the Iran war and the rise in oil prices, and he's looking for an easy way out. The art of the (Hormuz) deal.

@EVCurveFuturist Brilliant news. Congratulations China.

China is building the largest energy transition in history. At 25-year timeline, the trend is unmistakable. This isn’t a transition at the margins, it’s a system being rewritten at scale. This is actual generation, not capacity. Fossil fell from ~78% in 2000 to 59% today. And that drop happened while total electricity demand surged several-fold over the same period. This isn’t a shrinking system cleaning itself up. It’s a rapidly growing system where new capacity is overwhelming the old. Most people look at China and see coal. Or they point to it as proof nuclear is making a comeback. Both miss what’s actually happening. Hydro was the early backbone, holding ~20%+ and providing stability. But it doesn’t scale fast enough to carry growth on its own. That’s where the shift begins. Wind and solar. From effectively zero to 11% each. Together now 22% of total generation. That’s not just growth. That’s convergence. Two different technologies, now at the same scale, becoming interchangeable building blocks of the system. That’s what a maturing energy mix looks like. Total renewables moved from ~22% to 37%. And here’s the key point: in 2025, clean generation covered all demand growth and more. Fossil didn’t just slow. It declined. A quick note on nuclear. It’s not shown here by design. China’s nuclear share is relatively small, around 4–5%, and has been broadly steady compared to the rapid scaling of wind and solar. This chart focuses on the technologies actually driving the shift. And now the next phase is kicking in. Batteries. Storage is the layer that turns variable generation into a controllable system. It absorbs excess solar, smooths wind variability, and shifts energy into peak demand. China is central here too. They dominate battery manufacturing, are deploying grid-scale storage at speed, and pairing solar, wind, and batteries into integrated systems. Hydro stabilised the system. Wind scaled into it. Solar accelerated it. Batteries will optimise it. Now they’re compounding. This isn’t a slow transition. It’s a parallel buildout that eventually overwhelms the old system. Generation shows where China is. Growth (capacity) shows where it’s going. Scale drives the system shift.

@KyivIndependent Good on him.

King Charles III tells a joint session of the U.S. Congress on April 28 that the same "unyielding resolve" seen after the 9/11 attacks is now required for the defense of Ukraine. Video: AP / POOL.

@TeamTalaricoHQ @jamestalarico Brilliant news. Congratulations. One day the economy might deliver for the people. (As was originally intended)

New poll shows @jamestalarico beating both Cornyn and Paxton

@lmower3 @mehdirhasan @romyellenbogen Who the hell votes for these people. How impaired do you have to be to endorse these people?

NEW: DeSantis' staffer said he used party affiliation data when drawing up a map that would give Republicans four more seats in Congress. By @romyellenbogen: tampabay.com/news/florida-p…

@kaitlancollins Surely he should be compensated for this nonsense.

Comey indicted again after the last case was dismissed by a federal judge who found that the interim US Attorney was improperly appointed. cnn.com/2026/04/28/pol…

@Element25Ltd Any update on the High Purity Manganese Sulphate Monohydrate refinery in Louisiana?

Our Quarterly Activities Report for the period ending 31 March 2026 has been released. View the full report: element25.com.au/announcements/… #E25 #Managanese #ASXnews

@marketplunger1 Sigma, Galan, Atlas & Lithium Argentina.

Yeah I've seen enough. Lithium looks like a good buy here. Started nibbling on some lithium companies today. What's your favorite lithium play, MinTwit?

@HoldMyPosition @InvestmentGuru_ Good read. Thanks.

@InvestmentGuru_ I just wrote a Substack on $OUST, please feel free to read and give me a follow! open.substack.com/pub/holdmyposi…

$OUST $OUST is coming off twelve consecutive quarters of product revenue growth, with Q1 2026 guidance raised to $45–$48M — above analyst consensus — powered by contributions from its StereoLabs acquisition and doubled software-attached bookings in 2025.  Q3 2025 revenue hit $39.5M, up 41% year-over-year, with non-GAAP gross margins expanding 300 basis points to 47% and adjusted EBITDA rising $20M year-over-year to $10.6M — real operational progress, not just revenue growth.  The company is expanding into intelligent transportation systems and collaborating with heavy equipment manufacturers, while Simply Wall St estimates the stock is trading at 43.5% below fair value  — with the lidar TAM spanning automotive, robotics, smart cities, and physical AI infrastructure all accelerating simultaneously. Technically, $OUST has surged ~70% off its March 30 pivot bottom and broke out of its rising trend channel to the upside, with both short and long-term moving averages on buy signals heading into the May 5 earnings catalyst.  5 analysts maintain a Strong Buy consensus with an average price target of $38.75, implying ~60% upside from current levels.  Not financial advice.

@LithiumPriceBot @LibraEnergyMats Looking very positive.

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@FareedZakaria The US isn’t like other Western Democracies. They lack a safety net. I’m not sure if they’re compatible anymore.

President Trump’s abuse of America's allies has reached a tipping point. Now countries have started making long-term policy shifts — and those shifts will soon take on a life of their own. My take:

@FareedZakaria This guy is very good. Keeps it simple & direct.

@CaolanReports @Billbrowder Good. Fuck russia.

Russia isn’t a superpower. It’s a weak state with an economy the size of Italy. It has a failing military, and a system built on oil that Ukraine is tearing apart. Everything else is an illusion. @Billbrowder explains how every empire believes it’s eternal until reality sets in