Monty Nicol

@TheNorfolkLion HEY @Starlink - MY DISH CANNOT BE DAMAGED BY WEATHER AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE; ALWAYS BE THIS COOL! I HOPE $2 OUT OF MY SUBSCRIPTION WENT TO HELPING THIS LADY. AND I HOPE THAT THE OTHER $48 WENT TO GETTING US TO THE MOON AND MARS!!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter

My mum lives on a boat and has Starlink. Last weeks bad weather blew her Starlink dish across the deck and wrecked it. She contacted Starlink support, and they told her the warranty doesn’t cover weather damage… but as a goodwill gesture, they’re sending her a brand new one for free anyway. That’s proper customer service 👏🏻 Thank you! @Starlink @elonmusk 💯

@Mr_Husky1 This is the way. The entitlement is real. You are entitled to pay your bill to the penny and leave.

I’m usually a strong tipper. I respect the work and understand how tough restaurant jobs can be—but tipping is still tied to service. Tonight started off rough. I walked in, waited at a “please wait to be seated” sign, and got no acknowledgment. Eventually, I had to ask if they were even seating people. I got seated, ordered, food came out, and yes—the server checked in. But when it came time to leave, everything fell apart. I had cash ready—a $20 and a $10—and planned to ask for $5 back, leaving about a $7 tip on an $18 tab. I know I’m a one-top, so I try to tip a little extra to make up for it. The check gets dropped… and then nothing. No follow-up, no effort to close it out. I’m just sitting there, clearly ready to pay and leave. At a certain point, I’m not going to wait indefinitely just to hand someone a bigger tip. Total was $18.36. I left $20 and walked out. That’s not about being cheap—it’s about not being stuck waiting just to pay. If it takes longer to close out than it did to eat, something’s off. Take care of your customers, and they’ll take care of you.

@orenbarsky I watched the video six times and... where's the 'hard to watch' part? Did you cut it?

Hard to watch. A group of Iranian civilians boldly seizes a Basij operative in the middle of the street and takes him down. The level of public rage in Iran toward its regime is hard to comprehend.

@morganlinton SUDO intellectuals ride again

Just ran Agent Armor on a brand new Mac Mini with OpenClaw installed, before, going through the official security docs and hardening. Pretty much what I expected 50/100. This is why your first step after installing OpenClaw should be to go through the official security docs, and official audit. You are starting with an F in the security department. Don't give your OpenClaw agent access to anything until you secure it. And if you want to try my little open source, security scanner, that's 100% Rust, link to GH repo in first comment below.

@Osint613 He could have just said "I diddle little boys" and saved himself some words

Italy’s Defense Minister Guido Crosetto: “We did not support this war, and no one asked for our opinion. The length of wars does not depend on the power of the strongest, but on the resistance of the weakest. Iran is larger than Ukraine, has more people, and thousands of years of history.”

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Big fan of whatever is going here

@Object_Zero_ Look up where Lloyds of London is located. HINT: It's in the name. I can definitely see why you felt you needed an X account to share your brain droppings with the entire planet. Can't wait for your next tweet

@catsfive The UK doesn’t control it.

Strait of Hormuz + old fashioned Artillery Iranian islands + Soviet era artillery is enough to close the Strait of Hormuz indefinitely with the most basic low tech hardware. No electronics, no rare earths needed, just steel and cordite, little more than Napoleonic technology. Below are 1970’s era artillery guns, that can be fed with mass produced Russian or North Korean artillery shells. Oil and LNG tankers are not warships, they are not armoured. They are not designed to absorb any sort of hits. They will never sail into a bombardment, or even the threat of a bombardment. This is why Iranian steel mills were hit. Iran doesn’t need high tech drones, doesn’t need EW, doesn’t need rocket motors, or guidance systems, doesn’t need fibre optics or chips. Iran only needs a few old artillery pieces and they can dig artillery guns into mountain pill boxes. Even if you bombed all the artillery, Iran could tow new Artillery to its coastal positions faster than any tankers could escape the gulf. What does this mean? It means Iran has essentially taken the whole Middle East hostage, and can now collect a petroleum export tax on some 30% of the world oil production. It also means OPEC is dead. OPEC serves no purpose in a world where Iran has a geographical choke on the world’s oil supply. It means Iran can become wealthy unless someone intervenes to end this. If Iran collects $20/bbl on exports for clear passage, that’s $400m / day. That new revenue would be 1/3rd of Iran’s GDP. They are unlikely to give this up now that they have stumbled upon this new power. Iran’s military budget is $10bn / year, if they extort $20/bbl for free passage, that’s approx 15x their military budget. If the Iranian people start to benefit from this extortion revenue, it gets even harder to prevent it as there are 90 million people over there. Way too many people for any modern military to conquer. Therefore this could be a new paradigm for the world economy and its energy supplies. Maybe one morning everyone will wake up and just go back to how things were before all this started? But the more people are involved and the longer it goes on, the less likely that is. Just seems like a huge mess.

@shanaka86 Yes, because those gulf air bases move around so much, it's a good thing Russia was providing intel or they wouldn't have known where to send the missiles, right? Right.

BREAKING: Zelensky just told NBC News that Russian satellites photographed Prince Sultan Air Base three times in the days before Iran struck it. He shared this intelligence from Doha, sitting in the same Gulf state where he had just signed a 10-year defence deal to protect against the weapon Russia helped Iran build. One man. Both sides of the intelligence war. Same interview. Zelensky shared a summary of his daily presidential intelligence briefing directly with NBC News per the exclusive report published hours ago. The briefing stated that Russian satellites imaged Prince Sultan Air Base on March 20, March 23, and March 25. On March 27, Iran struck the base with six ballistic missiles and 29 drones, damaging an E-3 Sentry AWACS and multiple KC-135 tankers and wounding at least 15 American troops per AP. Zelensky told NBC: “We know that if they make images once, they are preparing. If they make images a second time, it’s like a simulation. The third time it means that in one or two days, they will attack.” Then the sentence that will reshape the war’s narrative: “Do they help Iranians? Of course. How many percent? One hundred percent.” NBC separately reported earlier this month that Russia was providing intelligence to Iran on the location of US forces in the Middle East, citing four sources with knowledge of the matter. Lavrov denied it in an interview with French media on Thursday, though he admitted Moscow has sent military equipment to Iran under their long-standing alliance. Here is what makes this the most important intelligence disclosure of the war. Zelensky is not a neutral observer. He is selling the counter-weapon. Ukraine’s FPV interceptors kill the Shahed-136 at a 70 percent rate. The Shahed was designed by Iran, upgraded by Russia, fired at Ukrainian cities for four years, and is now being fired at the Gulf states Zelensky just visited. He signed defence deals with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar in 48 hours. And from the same tour, from the same interview, from the same city where he signed the deal, he hands NBC the intelligence showing that Russia photographed the base those interceptors are designed to protect. The timing is strategic. Zelensky is demonstrating to Washington and the Gulf that Ukraine sits at the intersection of both wars. Ukraine knows Russia’s satellite patterns because it has been targeted by them for four years. Ukraine counters Iran’s drones because it has been intercepting them for four years. Nobody else occupies this position. Zelensky told NBC he believes Putin wants “a long war in the Middle East” because it delivers higher oil prices, temporary sanctions relief, and revenue for Russian weapons production. “If sanctions are lifted, he will get more money, much more money, and he will put this money to weapons.” Russia photographs American bases for Iran. Russia upgrades drones for Iran. Russia profits from the oil spike the war creates. And Russia sends deputy ministers to Sri Lanka and the Indian Ocean to sell the fuel that bypasses the chokepoint Iran controls. The spotter and the seller are the same country. The man who exposed the spotter is the same man selling the counter-weapon to the countries being targeted. Two wars. One architecture. One man sitting in Doha connecting both. Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Do you even lift? The Iranians didn't close it... the UK did. For the first time in 337 years, they withdrew ALL maritime insurance for passage through the strait. Delete your account. Adults are busy and you're cluttering up the airwaves with low-info, low-effort litter pretending to be analysis

@catsfive I checked. The Strait is still closed.

Wait.... "a catastrophe for the image of the superpower"?? You mean, the same 'superpower' that captured Maduro with no casualties? Is that coffee in a sippy cup? I love X, but the fact that it lets any armchair (literally) midwit translate retarded takes like this to the entire planet needs some work

Ich sitze auf der Terrasse meines Vaters in der Nähe von Split. Vor mir die Adria, dahinter die Inseln, und mittendrin liegt sie: die USS Gerald R. Ford. Der Espresso ist noch heiß, während ich auf das teuerste Kriegsgerät der Menschheitsgeschichte blicke. 13 Milliarden Dollar, drei Fußballfelder lang, 5.000 Soldaten. Ein schwimmender Superlativ, direkt aus dem heißen Krieg gegen den Iran. 277 Tage ist sie bereits unterwegs – USNI News listet Venezuela, das Rote Meer und die Operation „Epic Fury“. Jetzt liegt dieser Koloss direkt in meiner Nachbarschaft. Reparaturbedürftig. Und hier wird es interessant. Das Pentagon sagt: Wäschereibrand, technischer Defekt, kein Kampfschaden. Doch Donald Trump erklärte es vor internationalem Publikum öffentlich anders: Der Iran habe den Träger „aus 17 Richtungen“ getroffen. „We had to run to save our lives – it was all over.” Das Pentagon widersprach dem eigenen Präsidenten umgehend und kategorisch. Entweder log Trump vor Investoren auf dem Future Investment Initiative Forum – oder das Militär deckt einen historischen Treffer auf ihr Prestigeobjekt. Es ist das ultimative Paradoxon: Entweder wurde das technologisch fortschrittlichste Schiff der Welt durch eine brennende Unterhose lahmgelegt oder durch iranische Billig-Drohnen entzaubert. Beides ist eine Katastrophe für das Image der Supermacht. Ich trinke meinen Kaffee. Dahinter liegt das beschädigte Symbol amerikanischer Überlegenheit in einem dalmatinischen Hafen und wartet auf Reparatur. Während AFP, Reuters und Xinhua ihre Profifotografen schicken, um Brandspuren an der Hülle zu finden, beobachte ich die Demontage eines Weltreichs einfach vom Frühstückstisch aus. Manchmal reicht das.

@BrAgLifeEnjoyer The idea that Trump pulled off the Maduro raid but "got us into this MONTH-LONG WAR with no plan!" is so mind-numbingly stupid, I can't even describe it. These people are purely along for the ride and should not be breathing my oxygen

If you didn’t predict the Maduro raid, I really don’t care for your opinions on the Iran war You have no idea what the US military is capable of, what this administration is thinking, what the short and long term plans are Not the faintest clue Shut your 3rd world mouth

@theroberthu @chiefofautism Or lemon jello

@chiefofautism security researchers are about to discover their most dangerous competitor doesn't need sleep or coffee

someone at ANTHROPIC just showed CLAUDE finding ZERO DAY vulnerabilities in a live conference demo claude has found zero day in Ghost, 50,000 stars on github, never had a critical security vulnerability in its entire, history... it found the blind SQL injection in 90 minutes, stole the admin api key, then did the exact, same thing to the linux kernel

GPS—No Kings protests, Saturday, March 28, 2026. We had geofenced Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota (Twin Cities), New York City, Washington, D.C. (and DMV area), Chicago:, Los Angeles and Southern California, San Francisco Bay Area; Boston, Philadelphia and Dallas (with some clashes reported). Without revealing proprietary technology, tactics, and methods, understand that if someone uses a Faraday bag or even leaves their device at home, we can still reconcile their likely movements and location. In fact, it's after dispersal that the real data exploitation begins. When a large protest happens—especially one that isn’t institutionally approved—you can always assume it’s being mapped in real time by every intelligence and policing network with overlap to that jurisdiction. They don’t “watch” in the traditional sense; they analyze systems. The modern apparatus doesn’t care about shouting crowds; it cares about data signatures. Every phone becomes a tracker beacon. Even if “location off” is toggled, the phone still emits continuous metadata: Cell-tower handoffs (triangulation gives position within meters) Wi‑Fi pings (routers log MAC addresses) Bluetooth scans and proximity signals IMSI catchers (“Stingrays”) mimic cell towers, forcing all nearby phones to connect. That gives agencies mass identifier lists and movement paths. Device fingerprinting: once a phone’s radio signature is logged, it can be matched later even with a new SIM. License‑plate readers (ALPRs) tie individuals’ physical locations to digital ones. All of this gets piped into fusion centers, where predictive models weigh “social stability indexes” and generate risk ratings on protesters. Before, during, and after these protests, my team and I rely on automated social-media ingestion. Pattern mapping: bots scan hashtags, Telegram channels, Discord groups, Signal, and even “private” messaging servers that leak metadata. Sentiment clustering: AI classifies users as organizers, participants, sympathizers, or hostile observers. Social‑graph scoring: once a few key IDs are confirmed, algorithms find second‑ and third‑degree ties—family, employer, affiliations. That’s how protests get “pre‑neutralized.” Not by arrests, but by psychological operations: deplatforming, malware, intimidation messages, or pressure on employers to deter attendance. Even if data is encrypted end‑to‑end, traffic analysis (who talks to whom, when) exposes networks and leads to the identification of each user. Key groups and demographics in the crowd include: Data analysis combined with CCTV feeds shows a mix mostly retired families (including parents with kids), teachers, nurses, social workers, clergy, activists, and residents from various backgrounds. I will provide more details tomorrow after a review of all the data.

@HistoryWJacob Not "give them more responsibility" - give them more EXPECTATIONS. Had Hamilton been still lying on his parents' couch at 20 having still not "found himself" his own parents would have thrown him into the river

The concept of "teenager" is a modern invention. For most of human history, a boy of 13 was already a man, apprenticed in a trade or fighting in a war. George Washington was a professional surveyor at 16. Alexander Hamilton managed a trading company at 14. In medieval Europe, noble boys could be pages at 7 and squires by 14. In Rome, a boy put on the "toga of manhood" at 14. The idea that an 18 year-old is "still figuring things out" would have been incomprehensible to our ancestors. I believe this is why we think teenagers are so troubled. They are men and women stuck in a society that treats them as children. Of course they are going to "rebel". We should give them more responsibility and expect much more of them.

@exQUIZitely I want that joystick. I don't want to hold on to the whole stick like I'm pulling back of foreskin. I want to just navigate and fly with my finger Tandy, come back

I know gaming is much more "convenient" these days. No more fiddling with AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS files. No fine-tuning HIMEM.SYS. No IRQ conflicts with your sound card. You don’t need a boot disk anymore. Juggling hard drive space? Forget it - drives now come in terabytes, not megabytes. Dealing with a 5.25" floppy, a 3.5" floppy, and a CD-ROM drive all crammed into one case? What a drag. These days, you just click a button and the game downloads and installs itself. Saving up for that shiny new VGA card to replace your trusty old EGA? Not a thing anymore. And yet, if you ask older gamers who lived through the 80s and 90s, most of us actually enjoyed customizing and troubleshooting our machines. It was part of the experience - part of the joy and excitement. Sure, it involved a lot of trial and error and plenty of frustrating “OMFG, why isn’t this working?!” moments… but when it finally did work, the reward was so much sweeter. Finally freeing up those last couple of KB in your 640K base memory? Replacing the pathetic PC speaker with a real sound card? Pure ecstasy. Especially when your “Command HQ” eventually looked like this… oh, the glory days! Too all you OGs out there, I hope you experienced it that way too.

@CraigBrockie GUIDE

There's a single gut microbe that influences your mood, your sleep, your skin, and even your muscle mass. 96% of people have lost it. Scientists just discovered it triggers your body to produce the "Love Hormone" oxytocin. Not in your brain, but in your gut. The microbe is called Lactobacillus reuteri (L. reuteri). It used to live in nearly every human gut on Earth. Today - Antibiotics, processed food, and modern living have wiped it out of almost everyone. If you've taken even one round of antibiotics in your life, Yours is probably gone. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine made a stunning discovery. They found that oxytocin - The hormone linked to mood, bonding, stress relief, and healing - is produced in your small intestine. Not just your brain. Your gut. And L. reuteri is what can trigger its release. How does it work? L. reuteri stimulates special cells in your intestinal lining to release a hormone called secretin. Secretin then signals nearby cells called enterocytes to produce and secrete oxytocin. Your gut is literally manufacturing one of the most powerful hormones in your body. And - It's published science. The Baylor team confirmed it using human intestinal tissue, gene expression data, and lab-grown intestinal cultures. The highest concentration of oxytocin-producing cells? The small intestine. Dr. William Davis - the physician who wrote "Wheat Belly" and "Super Gut" ... figured out how to grow L. reuteri at home using a simple fermentation process. Not a pill Not a supplement A highly concentrated probiotic food you make yourself. Here's what people are reporting after restoring L. reuteri: - Deep, uninterrupted sleep - Reduced anxiety and improved mood - Thicker hair and younger-looking skin - Increased muscle mass (even without heavy exercise) - A 50% rise in testosterone in men over 50 - Faster wound healing - Restored libido MIT researchers tested it in mice. The ones given L. reuteri stayed lean, kept their fur, mated, and aged gracefully. The control group (same diet, no L. reuteri) - Got fat, lost their hair, stopped mating, and died early. Same crappy diet. Completely different outcome. Why? Because L. reuteri does something most probiotics can't. It colonizes your entire small intestine - ALL 24 feet of it. It produces natural antibiotics called bacteriocins that kill harmful bacteria. And it prevents the toxic migration of fecal microbes into your upper gut. When those bad microbes invade the small intestine, they release toxins into your bloodstream. That's called endotoxemia. It drives weight gain, brain fog, type 2 diabetes, cognitive decline - And is now being linked to multiple forms of the Big C. L. reuteri helps stop that at the source. The key? Dr. Davis found that fermenting L. reuteri at 99°F for 36 hours produces roughly 300 billion microbes per serving. More than 30X a typical supplement. A half cup a day is the protocol. I've been saying for 30 years: your mood, your anxiety, your energy - It starts in the gut. When I healed my gut, my crippling anxiety disappeared. Not from medication. From fixing the actual cause. Now science is catching up. And L. reuteri is one of the biggest reasons why. Comment GUIDE and I'll send you a FREE guide on how to make unlimited probiotics at home.

@visionergeo He lived. How do I know? I am him. He wishes LOL

Crazy archival Footage🚨: RPG shooter meets ATGM

@MetabolicUncle I use patches, 21mg, I cut them in half with scissors, I wear them a couple times a week. Dunno if that's smart.

NICOTINE WORKS. THAT’S THE PROBLEM. For decades, the compound has been lumped together with cigarettes and vaping products, creating a false equivalence that obscures what nicotine actually does in the body. The addiction issue is real, but it's dose-dependent and delivery-dependent. High doses, especially when smoked or vaped, create dependency. Low doses don't. The research on nicotine as a cognitive enhancer and anti-inflammatory agent is extensive. It's one of the most studied compounds for brain function. But most people never hear about this because the conversation stops at "nicotine equals cigarettes equals bad." Here's what happens when nicotine enters your system through non-smoking routes. It binds to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in both your brain and body. This triggers a cascade of neurotransmitter release: dopamine (reward and motivation), norepinephrine and epinephrine (alertness), glutamate (excitatory drive), and acetylcholine (mental clarity). That neurotransmitter cocktail creates sympathetic activation. You feel awake, focused, motivated. This is the performance-enhancing effect everyone recognizes. But acetylcholine does something else that most people miss. It powers the vagus nerve, your primary parasympathetic nerve. While nicotine stimulates your brain, it simultaneously calms your body through vagal activation. Smokers report this exact sensation: mentally stimulated but physically relaxed. The compound creates opposing effects in different systems. The anti-inflammatory mechanism matters more than the cognitive boost for many applications. Acetylcholine binding to receptors in the brain actively suppresses inflammatory pathways. TNF-alpha, IL-1, IL-6, and NF-kappa-B pathways all get downregulated. Microglia, the immune cells in your brain, reduce their activity. This matters because chronic neuroinflammation drives cognitive decline, brain fog, and various neurological conditions. When microglia stay activated long-term, they deposit amyloid plaques as a defensive response. We used to think these plaques caused Alzheimer's disease directly. Turns out they're a reaction to immune system overactivation. Removing the plaques doesn't improve brain function because the underlying immune dysfunction persists. Nicotine addresses the immune activation directly. Patients with chronic inflammatory conditions, long COVID, or persistent neuroinflammation often experience rapid cognitive improvement. Memory, focus, attention, verbal fluidity all improve. But unlike typical stimulants, there's often no crash because the anti-inflammatory effect continues after the cognitive boost fades. Some patients take nicotine once and feel better for days. This indicates significant brain inflammation that got temporarily suppressed. The effect duration reveals the problem's severity. I remember when I was a kid, I had one uncle who had severe Parkinson's, and you never saw him without a burnin g cigarette. Cigarettes really helped him to get his tremors not completely under control, but he improved his situation significantly. The inflammation issue connects to modern environmental exposures. Medications, environmental toxins, pollution, chronic stress, all create persistent immune activation. We're not dealing with acute inflammatory responses anymore. The exposures are constant, so the inflammation becomes chronic. Blood-brain barrier integrity plays a critical role here. Leaky gut creates leaky brain. When the gut barrier breaks down, the blood-brain barrier often follows. This allows pathogens and inflammatory molecules into the brain that should stay out. Post-infection syndromes often involve reactivation of dormant infections like Epstein-Barr, Lyme, or mold because the compromised blood-brain barrier let them into the central nervous system. The addiction threshold sits around five milligrams daily. Below that, tolerance and dependency rarely develop. Above that, you start needing more to get the same effect. The compound's short half-life (one to two hours) contributes to the redosing pattern. Faster delivery methods like smoking create stronger addictive potential because the rapid onset leads to rapid decline, triggering the desire to redose. Patches provide steadier delivery but still build tolerance over time. Even low-dose patch users eventually need to increase their dose for the same effect. The key is staying under five milligrams total daily intake through any delivery method. Nicotine acts as a performance-enhancing nootropic, not a health-optimization nootropic. It clocks the system to make more energy. This distinction matters. Performance enhancers help you complete tasks better but may stress the system. Health optimizers support the brain's natural function without forcing increased output. L-tyrosine provides a useful comparison. It's an amino acid precursor to dopamine and norepinephrine. When you take L-tyrosine, your body uses it to make these neurotransmitters through normal biochemical pathways with built-in feedback loops. The system regulates itself. Nicotine bypasses this regulation and directly triggers neurotransmitter release. More effective for immediate performance, potentially more stressful for the system. If you're depleted, deficient in cofactors, dealing with high oxidative stress, or already in chronic sympathetic activation, nicotine will likely cause a crash. You're forcing a compromised system to work harder. The increased energy demand exceeds your capacity to meet it efficiently, creating more oxidative stress and eventual depletion. This explains why caffeine feels different after poor sleep versus good sleep. One night of sleep deprivation significantly reduces mitochondrial function and oxidative phosphorylation capacity. Adding a stimulant to a system that can't process fuel efficiently creates oxidative damage and a harsh crash. Same compound, different context, completely different outcome. The anti-inflammatory effect provides some protection against this crash pattern. Even in a depleted state, nicotine's immune-suppressing properties can prevent the worst outcomes. Some users don't crash at all because the inflammation reduction offsets the energy demand stress. Cellular function determines everything here. If your basic cells make energy effectively and manage oxidative stress well, performance enhancers work cleanly. If cellular function is compromised, any performance enhancer becomes problematic. Metabolomics testing reveals real-time cellular function by measuring small molecules produced during metabolism. You can see energy production efficiency, toxicity levels, vitamin and mineral status, and cofactor availability. This data shows whether your cells can handle the stress of performance enhancement before you add stimulants. The source material identity must remain invisible. These mechanisms apply universally regardless of who explained them or where the information originated. The facts about nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, neurotransmitter cascades, inflammatory pathways, and mitochondrial function exist independent of any particular source. If you are interested in experimenting safely with it, Part 2 of my post provides all the details.