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@fuckyouiquit Well, one thing I learned from watching Monkey World is that chimps don't share, so there's that. And alphas feel free to take food from other chimps, who tend to wait their turn. Maybe not the best analogy.

If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat while others starved, scientists would study it to understand what the fuck was wrong with it. Scientists would then watch as all the other monkeys took turns beating that one monkey to death with sticks.

@vividvoid @kasratweets Oh I'm always open to donating to anonymous avatars on the basis of a bunch of photos!

Friends, I'm opening a spiritual center in Boulder! It's called Nameless Mountain, and it's focused on spiritual maturity rather than enlightenment. We're trying to raise $50,000 to cover this year's expenses. Please help build this with us by donating or becoming a member: givebutter.com/nameless-mount…

@Vic18246223 @BreakingBrown Speak for yourself. The women enjoy their freedom. Who suffers? Maybe only men who want everything to fall in their lap with zero effort.

@BreakingBrown No. He is talking about undoing feminism. It has proven to be a disaster. This is a novel in the right direction

To be clear, he wants this world of male domination only for WHITE MEN. Which means a world pre women’s suffrage & civil rights movement. They faked their belief in freedom, equal protection under the law, & equal rights for as long as they could I guess

@BreakingBrown @janeclarejones That was one weakness with the TV version of The Handmaid's Tale. We were supposed to believe there was no racist element to Gilead.

@michaeldweiss Would it be awkward to say I'm surprised how white Larijani & this guy look. There must be a minority genetic heritage there, as with some Syrians.

The look on his face definitely says PhD in Management. The look on Linda from HR’s face remains unchanged, however, and she’s already moved his next of kin onto the IRI COBRA plan.

This will always be hilarious THE FLYING LIZARDS 1979

@JasonBassler1 @janeclarejones Personally, I wouldn't build a bunker in Florida. A few more years of climate change & the sea is likely to rise & flood the lot. It's mostly reclaimed swamp anyway so high tech civilization is a thin veneer.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp has bought a $46M "Billionaire Bunker" in Indian Creek, Miami which has it's own private police and guarded bridge. He's now neighbors with Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, & Jared Kushner. Total surveillance for you. Total security for them.

@Deconn @davidfrum As well as being crass, Trump completely ducked the question: then, Japan was an enemy, now, they're an ally. To suggest it's reasonable to treat an ally like an enemy is weird.

@davidfrum What's wrong with that? It is the truth. If you have watched the Japanese Prime Minister at all you would see she has an unusual sense of humor. It has been 80 years since Japan was the bad guy. It is a totally different country, one of the USA's staunchest allies.

It's tiresome to have to keep saying that he shames his office, but he shames his office.

@MollyJongFast They need prayers already? Hegseth doesn't show a lot of faith in US military planning, does he. Does this indicate he'll soon be putting troops in direct line of fire (like 5000 marines, for example ... )? #IranWar‌

This is a real thing that happened

@ZH956 @uchnamsen My guess is they're trying to ease in a new veteran judge so they give them just 2 courses first time round. #greatbritishmenu

@uchnamsen Understandable reasons. However I do feel this adds to inconsistencies to scoring across 2 days by 2 chefs #GreatBritishMenu

Why is it some weeks it's same past winner chef judging both days & others they use 2? #GreatBritishMenu

Beautiful Victorian house: "Strip it and redo it" 😬 #escapetothecountry

She'd paint the floors grey, wouldn't she?#escapetothecountry

Helium is the only element that escapes Earth’s atmosphere permanently. Once released, it rises through the troposphere, passes the stratosphere, and leaves the planet. It cannot be manufactured. It cannot be synthesised at industrial scale. It accumulates over billions of years in the same geological reservoirs as natural gas. And one third of the world’s supply just went offline because Iran hit the facility that extracts it. Qatar produced roughly 63 million cubic metres of helium in 2025, accounting for 30 to 36 percent of global supply from a total of approximately 190 million cubic metres. QatarEnergy’s three large helium purification plants at Ras Laffan form the world’s biggest helium production base. When LNG production stopped after Iranian drone strikes on March 2 and the subsequent missile damage on March 19, helium extraction stopped automatically because helium is recovered during natural gas liquefaction. You cannot produce helium without producing LNG. The byproduct dies with the primary product. Spot helium prices have roughly doubled since the crisis began. Industry consultants warn that prolonged disruption could push contract prices toward $2,000 per thousand cubic feet. A major industrial gas supplier has already begun assessing customers a helium surcharge. Phil Kornbluth, the most cited helium market consultant, stated the assessment directly: the world cannot compensate for the loss of a third of its helium supply. South Korea imports 64.7 percent of its helium from Qatar. SK Hynix and Samsung operate high-volume fabs producing the DRAM and high-bandwidth memory that power every AI accelerator, every data centre GPU, and every cloud computing cluster on Earth. Helium cools silicon wafers during fabrication. It serves as a carrier gas in deposition and etching tools. It enables leak detection in vacuum systems. Modern extreme ultraviolet lithography requires helium-cooled environments for precise temperature control. Without helium, the fabrication process degrades or stops. SK Hynix and Samsung hold two to three months of helium inventory. Two to three months is not a buffer. It is a countdown. If Ras Laffan remains offline beyond that window, South Korean memory production faces rationing. TSMC in Taiwan is somewhat more diversified but still uses Qatar-linked supply chains. The entire AI hardware supply chain, from HBM3E memory stacks to advanced logic chips, sits inside helium-dependent ecosystems. Beyond semiconductors, helium cools the superconducting magnets in more than 14,000 MRI machines operating worldwide. It pressurises rocket fuel tanks and purges propulsion systems in aerospace. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider depends on helium cryogenic systems. There is no substitute for helium in any of these applications at industrial scale. The United States and Qatar together account for more than 70 percent of global production. The US federal helium reserve and private suppliers offer partial relief, but global prices and spot availability are still governed by Qatar’s market share. Japan’s Iwatani has drawn on US reserves. Canada and the Rockies are seeing renewed investor interest. None of this replaces 63 million cubic metres in weeks. The war hit uranium first. Then oil. Then nitrogen. Then water. Then plastic. Then medicine. Then sulfur. Now helium. Eight layers. Each one deeper. Each one closer to the infrastructure that sustains modern civilisation. The chip that processes your data, the magnet that scans your body, and the rocket that launches your satellite all depend on an atom that leaves the planet when you lose it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

💥 Another enemy air defense system down. Warriors of the 426th Unmanned Systems Regiment struck a Strela-10 SAM at a distance of over 90 km.

@SimonWDC @IAmPoliticsGirl Mind you, Americans could do with eating a bit less corn syrup from a health perspective.

Read this.

Photographed in colour on 26th September 1909, this amazing autochrome by Léon Gimpel is entitled "The Balloons on the Esplanade des Invalides" which captures the Parisian launch of several gas balloons (as opposed to modern hot-air balloons) participating in a long-distance race organized by the Aéro-Club de France. It is an original colour process from 117 years ago and isn't colourised.

@simongerman600 It seems perverse to show an acre in metric terms without also showing the imperial measurement it's obviously based on.

Not coming from an agricultural background, some measurements don’t make intuitive sense to me. A Hectares are easy enough to come to terms with: 10,000 square meters. Easy. An acre?! I still can’t wrap my head around this…

The NYT reported about how a male serial murderer of women was allowed into a women’s shelter in NYC despite the terror of the women forced to be confined with him. He went on to behead and dismember yet another woman weeks later. He is back in a women’s prison. The people working relentlessly to inflict male murderers and rapists onto women locked in prisons and shelters are zealots who think they are the best people in the world at the vanguard of humanity as they inflict danger and humiliation onto vulnerable women. They are carrying out the will of center-Left political parties across the Western world. There has never been a cult this deranged with this much power in the post-Enlightenment world.

@shanaka86 Trump didn't write this - it's too literate and flows logically. Stephen Miller is my guess.

JUST IN: President Trump just published the most extraordinary statement of the entire war. It was not a press conference. It was not a briefing. It was a Truth Social post. And it contained more strategic architecture than every NSC meeting of the past nineteen days combined. Read what he said. Israel acted “out of anger” and “violently lashed out” at South Pars. The United States “knew nothing about this particular attack.” Qatar “was in no way, shape, or form, involved in it.” Iran “unjustifiably and unfairly” hit Qatar’s LNG. No more Israeli strikes on South Pars “unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar.” If Iran does, the United States “will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before.” One post. Six moves. He blamed Israel for acting without American knowledge. He shielded Qatar as innocent. He condemned Iran for retaliating against the wrong target. He ordered a halt to Israeli energy strikes. He created a tripwire around Qatar’s LNG that makes the next Iranian attack on Ras Laffan an automatic trigger for the destruction of South Pars in its entirety. And he told Iran he does not want to authorise that level of violence but will not hesitate. This is not diplomacy. It is a Truth Social post that restructured the security architecture of the entire Gulf in approx 200 words. The production asymmetry makes the threat existential. South Pars and Qatar’s North Field share the same geological reservoir, the largest gas deposit on Earth at roughly 1,800 trillion cubic feet. But Iran produces approximately 2 billion cubic feet per day from its side. Qatar produces 18.5 billion. Iran’s side funds a fraction of its budget. Qatar’s side funds 80 percent of government revenue and the world’s largest LNG export operation. Destroying the entirety of South Pars would eliminate Iran’s gas production while risking catastrophic reservoir pressure migration that could damage Qatar’s North Field for decades. Trump is threatening mutual geological destruction. He is telling Iran: hit Qatar again and I will destroy the gas field you share, knowing that the destruction migrates through the rock to the asset I am claiming to protect. The threat is credible precisely because it is disproportionate. Nobody bluffs with geology. While Trump posted, four Gulf states were burning simultaneously. Ras Laffan in Qatar: explosions and fires at the world’s largest LNG facility. Riyadh, Jubail, and Samref in Saudi Arabia: confirmed hits. Habshan, Bab, and Al-Hosn in the UAE: shutdowns from missile debris. Bahrain desalination: incident confirmed. The IRGC’s Shekarchi threatened to reduce it all to ashes. The sealed packets in Bandar Abbas continued executing. Qatar expelled Iranian military diplomats within 24 hours. The Fed held rates with PCE revised to 2.7 percent and Middle East “uncertain.” China draws commercial reserves at a million barrels per day. The farmer in Iowa plants soybeans. Trump created a tripwire around Qatar’s LNG. He handed Iran a choice: stop hitting the ally or lose the gas field permanently. He distanced the US from Israel’s strike. He capped the energy escalation. He preserved the threat of total destruction as leverage. All on Truth Social. All in one post. The strait runs on sealed orders. The war runs on Truth Social posts. And the urea at $610 does not read either. Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

For the record, the president of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year.