Alexandra St 🇷🇴🇺🇦🇪🇺

@nathan_covey There’s a show I recommend, it’s called The Flintstones

Turning 27 today and got myself a flip phone. I've determined that a smartphone has become a net negative for my life. Excited for this new phase!

@chydorina I’m sorry. Everything you write is just incomprehensible to me. I literally cannot understand one single sentence. Like what is the correlation between autoimmune diseases and leaky gut? 🤔

When we are chronically ill the body has found a highly dysfunctional yet stable state to ensure survival - it also means minimal function. It will fight hard to snap back whenever you try and push a big lever. The way forward is to nudge all the levers - push the systems function as a whole into a new state. Some parts of this framework sounds pretty counterintuitive at first glance when viewed through a lens of AIP and autoimmune reactivity. What I would like to suggest to you is that the autoimmune reactivity is a stage of certain subtypes of chronic conditions - and many of us learn that we can partially control our flares or symptoms by removing foods and other triggers (and it can work, at least a bit - right?). Those that have autoimmune conditions can (at least somewhat) figure out triggers and reduce reactions. Because of this - it makes sense that the gut is to blame. If the gut wasnt leaky - the triggers wouldnt make it into general circulation and all would be well. Trying desperately to hold off disease through actions like this is however is not a wise approach in the long-run (thou shalt not pass). I am not saying its not important - it is, it is just not a real ultimate solution. Think of a complex system. your goal is to switch it from one state to another. how would you do this while causing the least disruption to the system? Would you target a highly connected node (big lever) or would you deal with dozens of smaller ones on the edges of the network first? What I am arguing is that when you press 100 biochemical levers just a bit in the right way - you can nudge a system from one stable state to another without collapsing the system. The way most of us approach our issues is by trying to find a few high impact levers and putting all our force into changing those sections. Because we have no understanding what changing that subsection (functional) will do to other sections it often results in stress/strain elsewhere and a system that then rushes in to maintain (dys) function. When we are chronically ill the body has found a highly dysfunctional yet stable state to ensure survival - it also means minimal function. It will fight hard to snap back whenever you try and push a big lever. The way forward is to nudge all the levers - push the systems function as a whole into a new state. Full list at bornfree.life/learn/protocol/ @joshual_tm

For tiny Moldova, the conviction of Vlad Plahotniuc was a huge step—a sign that the notoriously corrupt and cowed judiciary has begun to work as it should economist.com/europe/2026/04…

Investigation finds 300 more Russian doping cases. Get those guys back in global sport immediately. bbc.com/sport/articles…

Four years ago today, Crimean journalist, nurse, and human rights defender Iryna Danylovych was abducted by the Russian regime on her way home from work. She was held incommunicado for 13 days, tortured, and later sentenced to seven years on fabricated charges of “possession of explosives” for her reporting on repression in Crimea.

@JohnDoejkmd @Brahmacharyan @109evictions @NomosEvents Belgium

@Brahmacharyan @109evictions @NomosEvents Name one (1) country that does art deco better than the US.

Yes, Europe IS better. Until Americans can admit to themselves America is an embarrassing high crime fugazi then they are to be gatekept. Ethnic Europeans come from Europe, an older & better civilisation than MLK RapeApe burgerland & it's mere 250 years of liberal waffle.

@POLITICOEurope Why is any russian allowed in the EU, apart from the dissidents?

Estonia has blocked some 1,300 Russian ex-combatants from entering the country this year. Now it’s pushing Brussels to ban Moscow’s former soldiers from entering the EU — and keep them out long after the guns fall silent. 🔗 politico.eu/article/estoni…

That would be chic!

@EBasilion BS

This is likely one of the reasons I have never met a dumb Greek. The language. The other thing to consider is that language shapes cognition. So you could also say that the Greek language creates smart Greeks.

King brings the House down on day of jokes, ovations and warm words. So proud of His Majesty for saying what needed to be said. A truly King worthy speech. telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2…

I burned through all my tokens in a session on Claude Pro this morning in maybe 10 minutes trying to pull data out of one PDF — there’s just no way there’s enough compute to disrupt a meaningful number of jobs this year.

Se scrie AUR, se citește PSD, dar se aude PCR.

Europe’s Socialists have spent years scolding the center-right for cutting deals with the far right. Now they face the same charge after a deal to topple Romania's centrist coalition government. politico.eu/article/europe…

In Romania, the PSD — the country’s Socialist Party — has withdrawn its support for Liberal Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan and is now appearing hand in hand with AUR, a far-right, anti-EU party, ahead of a no-confidence vote scheduled for early May. This is not a tactical detail. It is a political choice. European Socialists cannot denounce extremism in Brussels while opening the door to it at home. Democracy needs alternatives, not alliances of convenience with those who weaken Europe from within. @PES_PSE @TheProgressives

The EU Wall of Shame - Eastern Europe edition robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/the-eu-wall-…

Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia. Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources. nytimes.com/2026/04/25/hea…

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America. A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts. In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention. Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, the Trump family’s deals are expanding, and not a single Washington Republican is willing to say a word about any of it. This is a corruption of everything the office of the presidency is supposed to stand for, and the American people deserve to know about it. nytimes.com/2026/04/19/us/…

Orbán-linked oligarchs are transferring tens of billions of forints to the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Uruguay, and other distant countries. I am aware that Hungary’s National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV), based on reports from banks, has suspended several high-value transfers linked to Antal Rogán’s circle on suspicion of money laundering. I call on the leadership of NAV to immediately freeze these stolen funds. I once again call on the Prosecutor General, the National Police Chief, and the head of NAV to detain the criminals who have caused thousands of billions of forints in damage to the Hungarian people, and not to allow them to flee — before the formation of a TISZA government — to countries from which extradition is currently not possible. I am also aware that Orbán-linked oligarchs have begun selling TV2 and other media outlets at below-market prices, including the Rogán-linked propaganda flagship, Lounge Event Kft. I call on responsible domestic and international investors to refrain from acquiring assets linked to the mafia; otherwise, they may find themselves facing the National Office for Asset Recovery and Protection. I have also been informed that several oligarch families have already left the country, and that the Mészáros family is expected to travel to Dubai in the coming days. According to reports, several influential oligarch families have already withdrawn their children from school and are arranging trusted security personnel for their departure.

@kofinas Isn’t he supposed to be in jail?

Russell Brand is a stupid person's idea of what a smart person sounds like.