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Dear soldiers, Thank you for this peace. Your presence enables travel, commerce, science, art, and good old American recreation, among other things. I can never give you your peace back, should it be lost. I can fully acknowledge the fact that you have given your peace to me. I cherish this peace. Godspeed

Normalize saying "that sucks." The burden of thinking we might say something wrong to an unstable person is real and heavy. Exercise, hygiene, routine, structure, and self care cure depression a lot better than text messaging peers, but feeling alone and misunderstood causes the urge to inform with aspirations of being understood. They might love me again if they understood. That's a fallacy. Love not coupled with respect breeds contempt. Because your lack of dedication is an insult to the people that believe in you. They don't want to understand, they just want you to be dedicated to getting better. In some people's eyes, lack of recovery is a choice on long time lines. To validate other's challenges is to allow other's an excuse for being unsuccessful, maladjusted, unstable. I disagree with these stances, but it's not some moral failing. That sucks. Let's go lift. Let's take a walk. Let's live.

Actually, NOBODY likes you when you're depressed. Plain and simple. We can talk all day about MENTAL HEALTH and how important it is but the moment you are depressed, people really start to distance themselves. They see you as NEGATIVE, a BURDEN, and someone just too HEAVY to handle.

@4thOfJuly365 Ok.

I realized something tonight. I’m never shutting up about it. I could lose followers, gain followers, this post can get 200 views or 2 million... Quite frankly, IDGAF anymore. This platform needs a voice for the small guy and if that's my purpose then so be it. This platform is being destroyed right in front of us, and I refuse to stay quiet. I’ve always been a man of integrity. I will always call out what’s wrong no matter the cost. Right now, the right thing is to say this out loud...the current algorithm is strangling the soul of X. I see you complain about it. I see you post about it. I see your talent being hidden. They shove every 12-second Trump clip, every world leader handshake, every black on black fight, every protest straight to the top while the hundreds of incredibly talented creators on this platform get buried and leashed like dogs. It’s disgusting. It kills motivation. It crushes passion. I’m sick and tired of watching brilliant, creative minds pour their hearts out only to get shadow-buried while low-effort noise floods every timeline. But here’s the part you need to hear: This is not the end of us. This is the moment we rise. To every creator feeling invisible right now...the artists, the writers, the singers, the comedians, thinkers, storytellers, builders, and truth-tellers... I SEE YOU. Your talent is not gone. Your voice is not irrelevant. Flood this place with creativity until the algorithm has no choice but to show it. The renaissance is coming, and it’s going to be loud, unapologetic, and made by every single one of us who refuses to stay quiet. UNLEASH THE CREATORS.

I've been thinking about this lately from the perspective of what digressions we will tolerate from not just ourselves, but from our peers. More specifically, the digressions we see often from our peers and how that shapes what we deem acceptable and tolerable. I think a lot of people never realize that their moral compass is just regurgitated ego driven justification. Never having to trim your circle of friends might mean you're the lucky one, but probably not.

What makes this truly terrifying is that people rarely “become evil” in one dramatic moment. It happens quietly, through repetition, justification, and emotional numbness. The brain adapts to whatever you normalize. Lie often enough, and honesty starts feeling uncomfortable. Hurt people long enough, and empathy begins to feel inefficient. Ignore your conscience repeatedly, and eventually it stops interrupting you. Human nature isn’t just shaped by what we believe. It’s shaped by what we repeatedly tolerate in ourselves.

What is the most chilling truth about human nature? I'll begin: The sinister side of neuroplasticity. Our brains are purely survival machines, not moral compasses. You inherit the evil you repeatedly exhibit. This mechanism arises from synaptic pruning, where unused neural pathways are systematically eliminated to conserve energy. If you aren't careful, you become the person you avoid being.

@eyes_onlyx @FarmGirlCarrie Hi, thanks for sharing. I've never been there, but I love this idea. I think true rehabilitation means creating dignity and integrity within. Shame, isolation, degradation, bad food, danger, and exile don't seem to teach us how to do the right thing even when nobody is looking.

@FarmGirlCarrie I was in state for 2 years. You meet the most soulless men in there but if you pry into their brains and thoughts they can be good people, just life fuck them growing up or different circumstances in life, and had to put walls around them. In the end we're all humans.

Prison violence dropped 300% all because of cats 🐱

@PhilipHoudeshe1 @SirBylHolte Not to mention your(stomp stomp) biological clock! The two yutes.

@SirBylHolte Nominating a new one "As long as you don't fuck it up". (Mona Lisa Vito, My Cousin Vinny)

The 15 Greatest Movie Catchphrases: 1. Get away from her you bitch! 2. I’m your huckleberry. 3. It puts the lotion on its skin. 4. You talkin’ to me? 5. Here’s looking at you, kid. 6. We’re gonna need a bigger boat. 7. Say hello to my little friend! 8. You can’t handle the truth! 9. Houston, we have a problem. 10. May the Force be with you. 11. Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker! 12. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. 13. Hasta la vista, baby. 14. I see dead people. 15. KHAAAAAN! What did I leave out?

@RonCab13 @SirBylHolte @lavern_spicer HOLY SHNEIKIES

@SirBylHolte @lavern_spicer This is a great Thread “FAT GUY IN A LITTLE COAT”

@TennesseanProud @SirBylHolte Quid pro quo, Clarice.

@SirBylHolte "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."

Been through just about this whole thread. The only quote that really hit me physiologically was the never ending story line, which triggered a lingering 35 year old neuropath to fire, causing full body goosebumps. The swamp scene flashed in my mind. Tengo el gato los pantalones!

@SirBylHolte "Come quietly or there will be ... trouble." "There can be only one." "I'll be back." "ATREYO!!!" "Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore..." "Phased plasma rifle, in the 40-watt range."

@thedangerouspyt @SirBylHolte This quote is the minmax intersection of value:obscurity.

@SirBylHolte “I want my 2 dollars “

@SirBylHolte I am Jack's shit post. Sell Mortimer Sell! HOOOOAHHHHH Royale with cheese. You're killing me, Smalls. Kick his ass, Seabass. We goin Sizzla. We goin Sizzla. Now let's see his fucking cards. It's all in the reflexes. Shirley you can't be serious.

Just as we soften the truth for children, God shelters us from the whole truth. We are all God's creatures. We are uncertain, temporary, fragile, and mortal, and we have no idea what's next.

@BowTiedFawn Guy Ritchie made a psychologically intense movie called Revolver that you might find interesting.

I went my entire life up until 24 hours ago thinking I hated mangoes A friend cut one up and offered half to me, but I declined, naturally, because I don’t like mangoes He convinced me to try it anyways, and I swear it was one of the best things I’ve ever eaten. So I’m standing there in the kitchen bewildered. Because, as you know, I do *not* like mangoes. I have never liked mangoes. But upon being interrogated about my mango eating habits, I realize I can’t remember the last time I actually ate a mango . . . Because I always decline mangoes. Because I don’t like mangoes. Now I’m wondering if I just convinced myself I don’t like mangoes out of the blue one day and where in the world that came from But more importantly, this begs the question: what other narratives do we carry about ourselves that we decided on years ago and never bothered to question or rewrite? Holy long-walk-for-a-drink-of-water, but my point is this: You can choose to change your mind, your way of being, your life at any point. No guilt or shame needed. Better to admit you got on the wrong train than to stubbornly allow it to take you to the wrong destination. Even if it’s as simple as deciding that hey, maybe you were wrong about mangoes 😂

I grew up slim and I had to hit low and wrapping up legs with everything I had, driving hard with my legs to tackle anyone of substance. I suddenly remember having the wind knocked out of me. It's been a while thankfully. People stopped showing up for pickup football around 20 years old. Enjoy it while you can.

As an unusually large man, I can tell you that putting your mass into a shoulder check like this is one of the most satisfying things you can do. Yellow shirt guy will be smiling every time he thinks about this for the rest of his life

@diglloyd @SamaHoole @grok tell us about the Grease the Groove workout philosophy.

@SamaHoole What about 3 sets of something over a 12 hour day, if I can just walk over to nearby weights to take a compute break?

Three minute rests between sets will outperform one minute rests, every time, on every metric that matters.⠀ ⠀ Whether you're chasing strength or hypertrophy.⠀ ⠀ The point of a hypertrophy programme is to minimise systemic fatigue across the session, so that mechanical tension survives intact from set one through to set whatever, and so that the body can recover cleanly before the next session lands.⠀ ⠀ Because fatigue is not a stimulus. Fatigue is a tax on the stimulus.⠀ ⠀ Resting properly between sets means every working set you do in the gym actually counts. The bar moves with intent. The recruitment is high. The signal is clean.⠀ ⠀ Which means you reach the growth threshold with a fraction of the volume that the meathead protocol of high reps and rushed rest periods demands, and you walk out of the gym feeling like a person who lifted heavy things, not a person who survived an ordeal.⠀ ⠀ A small note that gets ignored constantly: you need similar rest periods when switching sides on unilateral work. Your right leg doesn't recover faster because your left one is doing the set. The nervous system is shared. Treat it accordingly.

@REALGRMOM @SamaHoole My partner is doing this diet. I'm not. I have Hashimoto's. Eliminating bad food definitely helps, and all of this above makes sense. Best of luck.

Inspirational post! I'm not doing carnivore to lose weight, I'm doing it to hopefully get rid of autoimmune Hashimoto's. Your post is so true. I am on day 21. My energy is through the roof! Haven't had energy like this since I was 20! My mood is incredible. I sleep like a baby. I only eat meat and tallow. No dairy products at all for now (Hashimoto's). I never realized how anxious I was thinking about food before. All the planning, all the time spent thinking about food, making food, shopping, etc. I am not going back to eat carbs, bread pasta, or fruits and vegetables. I am done. I'll take the steak. With extra tallow, thank you.

If you are about to start carnivore, here is the map. Three months from today, the person looking back at you in the mirror will not be the one currently reading this. Here is how the handover happens. Days 1 to 3. You will feel fine. You will be smug. Take a photograph. You will need it later. Days 4 to 14. You will feel terrible. The body is switching fuel systems and is mildly insulted you have asked it to. The headache is real. The fatigue is real. Lifts will drop. Cardio will drop. Add fat. Drink water. Do not weigh yourself. Do not look at the bar and panic. The lights are coming back on. You are stood in the wrong room. Days 15 to 30. Energy returns at a different quality. Steady. No spikes. No crashes. You will forget to eat lunch and not be bothered. The mirror will start to do something unfamiliar. Days 31 to 60. The skin clears. The sleep deepens. The mood evens out. The lifts come back to baseline and a colleague will ask if you've started something. You will say no. This will technically be a lie. You don't yet have the patience to explain it. Days 61 to 90. Strength is now climbing. The body has built the metabolic machinery to run a working set of squats on rendered ribeye fat from last Tuesday. You walk past the bakery without a flicker. You eat one large meal a day and lift heavier than you did at five meals. Day 91. You try to explain it to a colleague. They tell you that you need vegetables. You eat another ribeye. That is the arc. Bring butter. Bring patience for the first fortnight. The first fortnight is the price of admission, and the admission is cheap.

@elkharunai @theralkia Just watch the movie Serendipity. It's a far more elegant representation than any explanation the internet might produce.

@theralkia Elaborate please

The best way to flirt is to have God orchestrate synchronicities for you

@akirathedon Nobody cares when a ten year old says lobbyists pay bribes and everything is corrupted. Nobody even remembers.

While I have not had a lot of people reaching out to say "Sorry you were right about everything..." ...I have had a fair few people tell me things that I told them decades ago - that they actively scorned me for telling them at the time - as if it was new information Naturally this is to be expected and we can expect a lot more of this going forward as consensus reality collapses into its next form Alex iacta est

I was going to tweet that not a single person has been in touch with me to say, "You were right about it all, I'm sorry." However that is incorrect because ONE person DID get in touch with me in like 2023 to say "You were right about it all, I'm sorry..." ... and one person out of a lifetime's worth of scoffing naysayers with their "do you know how many people would have to be in on it for that to be true etceteras" is not bad, I suppose.

@ShaneFrakes Joan of Arc by Twain. Preface states that Twain was diligent in his investigation before writing, and that the story is told as though it's all fact. It helped reshape my faith during an unfaithful period. All I wanted was to cure winter boredom.

Books labeled nonfiction that are nothing but fiction. Or the inverse. Books full of real information, but they push so far beyond the human experience and what people can handle that they are written as fiction. So the reader drops their guard, stops questioning, and lets it all in without resistance, no matter how wild it sounds.

@teachrobotslove Similar to the cigarette game. Two people put their forearm parallel against one another. A burning cigarette is balanced in the crease. First to pull away loses. I don't recommend.

Sometimes people ask about a scar on my arms and I'll just say, "cigarette burn" so I imagine they think it's the standard self harm scenario - but the truth is once a guy jokingly threatened to burn me with his cigarette on the back porch of a bar so I rolled up my sleeve and held out my arm and said, "Do it, then." I stared at him while he pressed the cigarette into my skin and waited for me to scream. Of course it hurt like hell, but I wasn't going to give him the satisfaction.

@RootBeerMayhem @VigilantFox You're right. I'm sorry O'Connell. I forgot that "if, then maybe we should" clauses don't translate well. I specifically said "we" for a reason, but then I went too far with the commentary. I don't align with those saying nasty things about O'Connell in the comments.

@fourthree147 @VigilantFox If you don’t know what they mean by get physical, then you can’t really say “stop throwing around exaggerated accusations”

Jerry O’Connell reveals his liberal daughters were “filled with RAGE” and “became PHYSICAL” with him when he criticized Kamala Harris as a candidate. O’CONNELL: “If I say this, will I stay married? Blow it over here.” MAHER: “Sounds like you’re going to blow it over here.” O’CONNELL: “The night of the [2024] election… I was watching late at night, the returns, and I’ll be honest with you, I didn’t think Trump was going to win. I live in California. I didn’t think he was going to win from what I was hearing.” “I said something along the lines of, like, ‘There was no planning.’ ‘This is what they get.’ ‘There should have been a primary.’” “I said something along those lines. I was just spitballing ideas as to—it was a shock, you know?” “My wife and daughters, without saying anything, became physical with me. They were filled with rage.” “So if I am being careful with you in how I say things… I live with not one, not two, but three people who, if I made any kind of joke, they’d become very angry with me, you know?” Once O’Connell said this, Maher saw a man who had completely lost control of his household. He bluntly told him that living in fear of your own family’s reactions is no way to live: “I don’t want to tell you how to live your life, but I couldn’t live that way… I say what I truly think. And if it makes you angry, I’m sorry, we’ll have to work that out.” “I am not going to tuck my tail between my legs and just shut the f*ck up.”