Gandalv

That small gesture hit big. Thanks for the first support — made my day. You can back me here: buymeacoffee.com/Gandalv/share/…

@RepDonBacon @NafoEst Thanks man. You will be taken good care of if you one day visit Europe 👍🙂

I’ve been very supportive of POTUS on Iran & believe getting rid of Maduro was good. But I’ve been appalled by this Admin's tone, rhetoric, tactics & strategy toward Europe. Denigrating our allies has been terrible. Weakness communicated to Putin has caused grave damage. Passive-aggressive communication toward President Zelenskyy is embarrassing. I hear from our allies about the damage this has done & it’s going to take time to repair.

@CardilloSamuel Yes. They are for sure putting thing out there.

@Microinteracti1 it is ai or edited video game footage. for the emergency landing itself, we odn't know yet what was the cause of it. the irgc just spinned the propaganda out of the news. they specialize in that.

The F-35 was supposed to be unkillable. That was the whole point. Lockheed Martin spent thirty years and four hundred billion dollars, the most expensive weapons programme in human history, building an aircraft that the enemy simply could not see. Not on radar. Not on infrared. Not on anything. The F-35 was not just a fighter jet. It was a theological statement. America’s way of saying: we have moved beyond the reach of your missiles, your sensors, and your prayers. Iran apparently didn’t get the memo. Somewhere over Iranian airspace on March 19, 2026, an IRST system, infrared search and track, the kind of sensor your grandmother could probably explain, looked up, found the F-35, and locked on. Not because Iranian engineers are geniuses. Because the F-35, it turns out, is extremely hot. All that engine. All that thrust. All that carefully sculpted stealth geometry, and the bloody thing glows like a kettle. The heat signature data Iran now holds is not just embarrassing. It is a gift that keeps giving. To Moscow. To Beijing. To every procurement ministry on the planet that has been quietly wondering whether to spend the money on systems designed to kill this aircraft. The answer, as of this week, is yes. And here is the bit that should really worry the Pentagon. You can patch software. You can redesign coatings. You cannot reprogramme a pilot’s brain. Every F-35 driver who takes off from here on knows, actually knows, that someone down there might be able to see them. That changes everything about how they fly. Caution replaces aggression. Hesitation replaces instinct. Four hundred billion dollars. And in the end, it was done in by a heat sensor. Tremendous. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@CardilloSamuel Ok. I can’t verify the video. It’s all over the place. Might be ai.

@Microinteracti1 the incident is real, the video ain't. for someone who specialize in ai video, you're not really good. keep the military stuff to the military people.

@CardilloSamuel Dork forbes.com/sites/zacharyf…

@Microinteracti1 sure broski, sure

@CardilloSamuel It is real

@Microinteracti1 your brain was supposed to work. that was the whole point. your parents spent many years trying to educate you. somewhere in the interweb, you failed understanding what ai slop is and you believed BS propaganda. in other words: this aint real.

The Bird That Quit Smoking – But Kept the Butts There are 4.5 trillion cigarette butts scattered across the planet every year. They end up in gutters, on beaches, wedged into park benches, ground into pavement. We regard them as perhaps the most dispiriting form of litter imaginable: tiny, ubiquitous, and completely without purpose. Certain birds, it turns out, have reached an entirely different conclusion. In the early 2010s, a group of Mexican ornithologists began poking around the nests of house finches and house sparrows in Mexico City. What they found, woven with apparent deliberateness into the fibrous architecture of those nests, were cigarette filters. Hundreds of them. The obvious reading was insulation – filters are soft, fibrous, and plentiful in any city that has ever hosted a human being with a habit. Fair enough, you might think. Resourceful birds, making do. But then came the detail that changed everything. The birds were specifically choosing smoked butts over unsmoked ones. This is the kind of finding that should stop a person in their tracks. If warmth were the only objective, the chemical history of the filter is entirely irrelevant. A pristine filter from an unopened pack would do the job just as well. The birds were not selecting for softness. They were selecting for something that only combustion produces. Smoked cigarette filters retain substantial quantities of nicotine – the compound the tobacco plant evolved, over millions of years, as a highly effective insecticide. What gives a person a brief and slightly guilty lift makes a parasitic mite feel nothing ever again. More fibres meant fewer mites. When researchers introduced live ticks into cleaned-out nests, the birds responded by bringing in up to 40 percent more cigarette material than when presented with dead ticks, or nothing at all. They were not behaving randomly. They identified a threat and applied a specific remedy. The house finch had, in effect, reinvented pest control. There is a cost, and nature declines to hide it. Higher nicotine concentrations in the nest correlated with elevated chromosomal abnormalities in chicks. The anti-parasite strategy works, but it extracts a genetic toll from the very offspring it is meant to protect. Evolution is a long-run calculation, not a guarantee, and it is entirely indifferent to the irony of the arrangement. Researchers in Poland have since confirmed the same behaviour in European house sparrows. This is not entirely surprising. House sparrows are among the most successful urban colonists on earth – adaptable, observant, and completely unimpressed by the distinction between the Old World and the New. If the trick works in Mexico City, it works in Warsaw. It probably works in a great many places nobody has yet thought to look. None of this is without precedent, exactly. Birds have been incorporating chemically active plants into their nests for thousands of years – wormwood, lavender, wild carrot – exploiting the same insecticidal and antimicrobial properties that humans would later spend considerable effort cataloguing in pharmacopoeias and herbals. The urban sparrow has simply updated the formula. A smoked Marlboro is, from a mite’s perspective, functionally equivalent to a sprig of yarrow. The active ingredient differs in origin, not in effect. We spent centuries working out that nicotine kills insects. The house finch appears to have reached the same conclusion on its own, somewhere between one generation and the next, without the benefit of a research grant. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Tucker Carlson on Europe: We should treat Europe as an ally. Europe needs to be an ally.

@WW3finalboss Excellent news.

🇺🇦🇷🇺🇬🇧 Ukraine extends drone reach — Russia’s rear no longer safe. Russia’s 🇷🇺 rear is being dismantled. The Telegraph 🇬🇧 reports Ukraine 🇺🇦 has tripled the range of its domestically produced FPV kamikaze drones from 50 km to 150 km, pushing strikes deep behind the front. At the same time, Baba Yaga bombers continue hitting logistics, air defense, and electronic warfare systems. Depth is no longer protection.

Iran struck the Bazan oil refinery in Haifa today with missile shrapnel, setting off fires at the site. The fires were put out. Israel’s Energy Minister called the damage “not significant” and said power was briefly cut before being restored to most customers. The Environmental Protection Ministry confirmed no hazardous substances leaked. The attack is part of an ongoing tit-for-tat on energy infrastructure. Israel hit Iran’s South Pars gas field on Wednesday. Iran then went after Gulf LNG facilities and Haifa. Bazan supplies roughly half of Israel’s domestic fuel. It was also hit in June 2025, when the damage was considerably worse. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Eighty billion dollars. Gone. To build a digital ghost town where legless cartoons stood around doing nothing, because Mark Zuckerberg looked at Facebook – a website people use to congratulate their guinea pig on its birthday – and thought: what this needs is a worse version of reality. He was wrong. Historically, catastrophically, trouserlessly wrong.

Netanyahu: Iran Can No Longer Enrich Uranium After 20 days of war, Iran is no longer capable of enriching uranium or producing ballistic missiles, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed at a press conference Thursday. He offered no evidence or documentation to support the assertion. “What we are destroying now are the factories that produce components to make these missiles and that build the nuclear weapons they are trying to produce,” Netanyahu also said.

The Prime Minister of Japan just did something unexpected while meeting President Trump 👀 Watch closely. We slowed it down. What do you see?

How sweet it’s going to be for Europe – and say told you so in about a year.

Six governments. One page. A lot left unsaid. The UK, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Japan have issued a joint statement condemning Iran’s attacks on commercial shipping and the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz. They call on Iran to stop the mines, the drones, the missiles. They invoke UN Security Council Resolution 2817. They express “readiness” to help ensure safe passage. What they don’t say is how. No forces named. No timeline. No command structure. “Readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts” is diplomatic language for we’re watching and we haven’t said no yet. The IEA has authorized a coordinated release of strategic petroleum reserves. That’s the most concrete action in the entire document. The most revealing line may be the last paragraph directed at “all states” to respect international law. That’s not aimed at Iran alone. That’s a signal to anyone else tempted to use this moment. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Iran just released footage it claims shows one of its air defense systems bringing down an American F-35.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

A US F-35 fighter jet damaged by suspected Iranian fire

@StateDept Such a moron 😂🤡

PRESIDENT TRUMP on NATO: They don’t want to help us defend the Strait and they’re the ones that need it. Now they’re getting much nicer because they’re seeing my attitude. But as far as I’m concerned it’s too late.