Patrick Lyons

@elonmusk @anishmoonka Sometimes you bust a nut; sometimes the nut busts you.

@anishmoonka Fun while it lasted

A male bee mates for less than 5 seconds in midair. The ejaculation is so explosive you can hear it pop from a few feet away. His body rips in half. He falls dead before hitting the ground. And he is one of the lucky males in the hive. When a male bee, called a drone, chases down a queen mid-flight at speeds of 22 miles per hour, his entire reproductive organ turns inside out. The pressure required for this comes from nearly all the blood in his body, which rushes downward to force the organ outward like a spring. The semen fires into the queen with so much force it makes the audible pop. The organ then snaps off and stays lodged inside her like a cork. As he flips backward off her body, his abdomen rips open. The next drone waiting his turn has to physically yank out the dead male's cork before he can mate. The same thing then happens to him. The queen does this 12 to 20 times in a single afternoon. She flies up to a spot in the sky that beekeepers call a drone congregation area. Picture an invisible meeting point about 50 to 130 feet above the ground where up to 11,000 male bees from as many as 240 different hives are hovering, waiting for her. These spots stay in the exact same locations year after year, sometimes for over a decade. No one fully understands how brand new drones, born only weeks earlier, find them. By the end of her mating run, the queen has collected around 100 million sperm cells. She keeps only 5 to 6 million in a tiny internal storage organ that keeps them alive for years. From that supply, she uses just two sperm cells per egg for the rest of her life, laying up to 2,000 eggs a day for 2 to 7 years. After that one afternoon in the sky, she will never mate again. A 2019 study from UC Riverside, the University of Copenhagen, and the University of Western Australia found that bee semen contains toxic proteins that temporarily blind the queen by interfering with how vision genes function in her brain. If she can't see well, she can't fly out again to mate with more males. Their semen also carries a separate protein that attacks and kills sperm cells from rival drones still inside her. The males keep competing long after every one of them is dead. The 99.9% of drones who never get to mate have it worse. As autumn arrives, the female worker bees in the hive stop feeding their brothers, then drag them out of the entrance after biting off their wings. The drones can't fly back in. They starve or freeze in the grass within days. The colony raises a fresh batch of disposable males the next spring, and the whole cycle starts over.

@RapidResponse47 I hope not. This is your moment to avoid a "No New Taxes" moment and stain your presidency irrevocably. There are those who will encourage you to go against your own instincts so that they can lambast you later for following their advice.

@danny__kruger Poor Sir Humphrey.

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@EYakoby If the regime is left in place, this is Trump's "No New Taxes"moment.

BREAKING: Iran agreed to give up enriched uranium in proposed deal announced by President Trump. The foreign op to say “Iran won” is already disintegrating.

@RepThomasMassie @5149jamesli @jchodagam @grok @Grok, when did Massie first make the Epstein files, and is there a probability that he championed the issue as a hedge in case he lost so that he could blame it on any other issue than perceived poor performance by those who would elect him?

@5149jamesli @jchodagam .@grok, is it true that the Charlie Kirk Show is now distributed by a registered foreign agent of Israel?

FYI, this show is now being run by a registered foreign agent of Israel. Seriously look it up, I'm not joking.

@CarriePrejean1 My first block on X. Congrats, irrelevant witch.

Why didn’t you say the same thing about your late husband’s favorite congressman? I’m starting to see now why they took Charlie out. They wanted to take out his voice and his influence. Charlie would have undoubtedly campaigned alongside Thomas Massie publicly and unapologetically. Your silence speaks volumes Erika. The more people watch this, the more obvious it becomes why Charlie had to be removed from the equation. Charlie would have been boldly campaigning alongside @RepThomasMassie against billionaire donor Miriam Adelson.

@camhigby Correlation does not equal causation.

Massie getting primaried out as an incumbent made it extremely obvious how many bots there are on X.

@AnaEscobarShow @EYakoby Whether you are one, I don't know. But some people are dumb enough to believe that.

@EYakoby Do you…… think we’re too dumb to understand what the A in AIPAC stands for??

Here are the top 10 foreign countries lobbying in America from 2016-2024: 1. China: $446,099,458 2. Japan: $387,265,853 3. Liberia: $353,119,848 4. South Korea: $303,178,372 5. Marshall Islands: $284,773,327 6. Saudi Arabia: $271,797,541 7. Qatar: $250,901,327 8. Bahamas: $239,466,140 9. UAE $225,555,192 10. Israel: $188,886,398 Weird, how only one country gets the majority of everyone’s attention.

@interesting_aIl That's how horror stories start.

An injection that can double a cat’s lifespan to 30 years has been developed Clinical trials have begun, with regulatory approval projected in 2027

@RCPolitics And some blame.Jews when they can't get elected.

Jeff Bezos on AOC and Mamdani: Politicians Create Villains To Blame When They Can’t Solve Problems "They think there's a fixed pie. One pizza and seven people, who's going to get two slices?" "That is not how economies work," he said. "It isn't a fixed pie. It grows."

@rustyrockets No, because he first made it an issue less than a year ago, and Trump has been egging for this since 2020. Then it was those darn Joos. Like every other failed politician in history, he made the Jews his scapegoat to deflect blame from his meaningless career.

Did exposing Epstein cost Thomas Massie his future?

@TonyTaylor_87 Wow. As a former gas station worker, could you also help figure out the cure for the common cold and the mysteries of the universe?

As a former gas station worker, I’ve seen these movements before: that’s meth.

@HansFiene Yeah. I once viewed Robinson more as a guy standing up to a corrupt church. Now I view him as a duplicitous individual standing up to a corrupt church.

One man’s masculinity conference is another man’s personalized Greek mythology hell

@dvorahfr I have super Grok, and all it does is tell me all the things it can't do. I ask open ended questions and it just says it can't do things. One of those is to make a simple few minute video.

I've finished a video of just over 4 minutes, entirely created using Grok Imagine's Agent mode (see image). It's a much smoother way to make videos because you can rely on Grok's understanding. The Image reference is now available and it's very, very useful. All the dialogues were done with Grok, no need for sound dubbing and that's a huge time saver and adds credibility to the video. The realism is really well done. I post it in one hour.

@EYakoby Volunteer IT?

Routing for you?

@Alice_MiaX Both women are already legends in their sport and lives. I won't mind which one wins.

Ronda Rousey vs Gina Carano on Netflix! Okay… who’s actually winning this fight tonight?

@SteveDeaceShow Just an observation about the recent pope.

Catholicism in a free fall. Church attendance is uniquely tied to orthodoxy in that sect given its premium on liturgy (Word & Sacrament). In other words, a direct correlation between being present for church and your state of being. This trend line is bad news for America.

@pureMetatron I thought it was a new warcraft movie with vanilla armor.

Your costume designer is a clown.

@RapidResponse47 @POTUS I'm sure Boeing will have those planes ready in 20 years with exorbitant cost overruns and questionable safety.

.@POTUS: "We had a great stay. It was an amazing period of time. President Xi’s an incredible guy. We got along, made a lot of great trade deals, including over 200 planes from Boeing, with a promise of 750 planes, which will be, by far, the largest order ever..."

Breaking : SSPX Bishop Fellay says that there is a high probability that he and other SSPX clergy will be excommunicated. Yeah, well when you directly disobey the Pope that sort of thing happens. Stop claiming to be in submission while actively rebelling.