Dunning-Kruger

Incentives. Everything else is just lies.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

The finale of the brilliant historical sitcom Blackadder left many of us in tears. It remains just as powerful today, and so it should. Lest we forget.

[Dunning-Kruger @Blockenomic]

@JesseOlson Anything on $HYPE?

[Ben Thompson @TheStoicEnglish]

On behalf of the British people, I would like to apologise for the slave trade. I am sorry we were the first great power in history to turn its guns on it. I am sorry it cost us around 2,000 sailors to free 150,000 people they would never meet. I am sorry the rest of the world took so long to follow.

Slavery did not begin with Britain. It is as old as civilisation. Babylon wrote it into law. Rome built an empire on it. The Vikings sold Englishmen through the slave market at Dublin. In 1625 Barbary corsairs took 60 men, women and children out of a Cornish church; by 1640 Parliament was told 3,000 to 5,000 English people were held in Algiers alone.

Every great power of the age took part in the Atlantic trade. Portugal and Spain for a century before an English ship did. Then the Dutch, the French — and the British, who in the eighteenth century carried more than anyone. That is the record. It is not disputed here.

Then a nation turned on the trade that had made it rich.

Wilberforce's bill was beaten year after year. On 25 March 1807 it passed. Then Britain did the part the critics never mention — it sent the Royal Navy to enforce it. The West Africa Squadron sailed in 1808, two ships for 3,000 miles of coast, and hunted slavers for nearly sixty years. Britain paid Spain and Portugal to open their ships to search. HMS Black Joke ran down the slaver El Almirante in 1829 and found 466 people in her hold.

Around 2,000 British sailors died doing it — most of fever, to free people they would never meet. 1,600 slave ships seized. 150,000 Africans set free.

In 1833 Parliament borrowed £20 million to end slavery across the Empire. The debt was not finally redeemed until 2015. The United States needed a civil war. Cuba held slaves until 1886. Brazil until 1888 — eighty-one years after Westminster voted.

Yes, we took part in the trade. Every power of the age did. None of them fought it like we did.

So yes. I will apologise. I am sorry it cost us so much. I am sorry the rest of the world took so long to follow.

That is not something you apologise for. That is something you teach.

#history #britishhistory #royalnavy #westafricasquadron

[Jesse Olson @JesseOlson]

$LINK has four more days until a confirmed buy signal on the 2-week chart.

It's not even flashing a green trending dot yet but will most likely in 4 days.

Not as early as it was but still seems early enough.

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO TAHIR ALI

Let me introduce you to the man sitting in the British Parliament right now, drawing a British salary, operating under a British party whip, enjoying the protection of British law, and using every single one of those privileges to serve causes that have nothing to do with Britain.

His name is Tahir Ali. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley. And if you have never heard of him, that is precisely the problem. Because the things this man has said, the votes he has cast, the foreign governments that have bankrolled his travel, and the causes he has championed from inside the House of Commons, belong in a counter-intelligence file. Not on a parliamentary payroll.

This is not a rumour. This is not a smear. This is a documented, verifiable, public-record account of one man's seven-year career of advancing foreign and Islamist interests from inside the legislature of England.

Read every word.

THE QATAR CONNECTION

Let us start with the money.

In September 2023, Tahir Ali flew to Qatar on a trip funded entirely by the Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Not a private donor. Not a charity. The actual ministry of a foreign government. A foreign government that the United States Treasury, the European Union, and multiple intelligence services have identified as the primary financial backer of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood globally.

Qatar paid for his flights. Qatar paid for his hotel. Qatar paid for his food. Qatar even paid for a family member to accompany him. The total bill that Qatar's government picked up for this British MP and his guest came to £8,972. Every penny of it is recorded in the Register of Members Financial Interests.

What did Tahir Ali do in Qatar? What meetings did he attend? Who did he sit across the table from? What was discussed? The public itinerary does not say. The Foreign Influence Registration Scheme, if it had any teeth, would compel him to answer. It does not. So he filed the trip, pocketed the hospitality, and returned to Birmingham.

He also took a separate trip to Islamabad and Kashmir in the same period, with a family member, funded by a different donor, valued at £1,800. More foreign travel. More foreign money. More blank space where the meeting details should be.

THE FOREIGN NETWORK INSIDE PARLIAMENT

Tahir Ali does not just travel to foreign countries on foreign money. He organises foreign influence inside Parliament as a formal function of his role.

He chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Turkey. He chairs the APPG on Jordan. He sits on the APPGs for Kashmir, Palestine, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. That is six foreign nation interest groups that this Birmingham MP either leads or participates in as a formal parliamentary officer.

Six. Not one. Six.

When does he chair an All-Party Parliamentary Group on Birmingham? On the West Midlands? On the industrial decline that has gutted the communities he was elected to represent? He does not. Because that is not where his interests lie.

His interests lie in Ankara, in Doha, in Islamabad, in Amman. His interests lie in the states and causes of the Muslim world, and he uses his seat in the British Parliament as the mechanism for advancing them.

THE VOTE THAT TELLS YOU EVERYTHING

On 2 July 2025, the House of Commons voted on whether to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000. Palestine Action is a group whose members have climbed onto arms factory rooftops, smashed machinery, and caused millions in criminal damage.

The vote was 385 to 26 in favour of proscription.

Tahir Ali was one of the 26.

He voted to keep Palestine Action off the terrorist list. He stood with a tiny rump of radicals against the overwhelming consensus of Parliament, against the Home Secretary, against the security services' assessment, against the law. He voted no.

In the same division, the proscription order covered two other groups: the Maniacs Murder Cult, a neo-Nazi organisation, and the Russian Imperial Movement, a white supremacist paramilitary group. All three were proscribed in the same motion. Tahir Ali voted against proscribing all of them, because voting against Palestine Action's proscription meant voting no on the whole order.

That is his judgment. That is his priority. That is the call he made when put to the test.

"MILITARY ACTION AGAINST ISRAEL"

On 14 September 2026, inside the House of Commons, Tahir Ali called for Britain to take military action against Israel. He demanded that Israel be disarmed. He made these statements from the floor of the Parliament of England.

He was not speaking at a protest. He was not posting on social media at 2 in the morning. He was standing in the chamber of the House of Commons, as a duly elected MP, funded by British taxpayers, calling for the British military to be deployed against a democratic state.

The backlash was instant. Within hours he was on X posting an apology, saying he had "wrongly given the impression" that he supported military force against Israel and that he "apologised unreservedly."

But the words were said. In Parliament. On the record. In Hansard. They do not disappear because a grovelling tweet followed them.

And it was not even the first time. The Jewish Chronicle reported that it was not the first occasion Ali had raised the prospect of British military intervention against Israel. This is a pattern. The call comes. The outrage comes. The apology comes. And then it happens again.

BLASPHEMY LAWS. IN ENGLAND.

In November 2024, during Prime Minister's Questions, Tahir Ali stood up and asked Keir Starmer to "commit to introducing measures to prohibit the desecration of all religious texts and the prophets of the Abrahamic religions."

He prefaced the question by citing Islamophobia Awareness Month. He cited a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution condemning desecration of the Koran.

He was asking for blasphemy law. In England. In 2024.

England abolished its blasphemy laws in 2008. Those laws had been dead for sixteen years when Tahir Ali stood up in the Commons and asked the Prime Minister to bring them back. Dressed up in ecumenical language about "all Abrahamic faiths," the request was, as The Independent noted, transparently about protecting one religion and one set of prophets from criticism.

This is the logic of Pakistan's blasphemy statutes, which carry a death penalty and are used to persecute Christians, Ahmadis, and anyone who questions the dominant religious order. Tahir Ali walked into the British Parliament and argued for the same principle.

And Keir Starmer did not reject it. He did not laugh it out of the room. He simply failed to commit to it, which is a different thing entirely.

BIRMINGHAM IS DROWNING IN RUBBISH. HE IS BUSY WITH KASHMIR.

In March 2025, with Birmingham City Council effectively bankrupt and a refuse collection strike leaving the city buried in uncollected waste, Tahir Ali signed a letter addressed to the Prime Minister of Pakistan. The letter called on Pakistan to build a new international airport in Mirpur, Azad Kashmir, to save travel time for British visitors.

He was one of twenty MPs who signed this letter. Twenty British MPs writing to the leader of a foreign government to build an airport in a foreign territory, approximately four thousand miles from the United Kingdom.

GB News commentator Alex Armstrong said of Ali: "This is a Labour MP who is so out of touch he is practically on another continent already."

The Guardian's Kenan Malik observed that Ali had never once voted in Parliament on welfare reform or benefits cuts, issues that devastate the poorest people in his constituency, but had found time to campaign for a Pakistani airport and for blasphemy law.

His constituents are living in rubbish-strewn streets. He is writing to the Pakistani government about airport infrastructure in Azad Kashmir.

THE ANTISEMITISM. THE COVID BREACH. THE RECORD.

This is not new behaviour. It has been consistent since the day he arrived in Parliament.

In December 2019, before he had even been formally sworn in, Ali stood at an election hustings and conflated the Barclay Brothers, the Conservative press proprietors, with Lehman Brothers, the collapsed American investment bank associated in popular antisemitic conspiracy theory with Jewish financial power. The Community Security Trust logged it as a hate incident. Police received a formal complaint from a senior member of Birmingham's Jewish community.

He was not yet formally an MP. He had just been elected. The antisemitism came before he even crossed the threshold of Westminster.

In April 2020, during the first national COVID lockdown, when the government was telling the country that attending funerals was restricted to immediate household members, Tahir Ali attended a funeral in breach of those restrictions. He was photographed at the event. He apologised.

His company, Tahir Ali Campaigns Ltd, incorporated in June 2024, right before the General Election, has its registered address at a virtual office in Covent Garden. He is its sole director.

THE SHAPE OF IT

Look at the shape of what is documented here. Not speculation. Not inference. Documented, public-record, registered-interest, Hansard-confirmed fact.

A man who received nearly nine thousand pounds in travel and hospitality from a foreign government directly connected to Hamas. A man who chairs parliamentary groups for Turkey, Jordan and sits on groups for Pakistan, Kashmir, Palestine and Bangladesh, and has apparently never found time to chair one for Birmingham. A man who was one of only 26 MPs in a 411-member chamber to vote against labelling Palestine Action terrorists. A man who stood in the Commons and called for Britain to take military action against a democratic state. A man who asked a British Prime Minister to introduce blasphemy law. A man who campaigned for a Pakistani airport while his own city drowned in uncollected rubbish. A man with an antisemitism incident on his record before he had served a single day in office.

The question is not whether Tahir Ali has foreign sympathies. His own Register of Members Interests, his own Hansard record, his own voting history, his own tweets establish that beyond any serious argument.

The question is why the British state has done nothing about it.

The Foreign Influence Registration Scheme exists. Use it. The Intelligence and Security Committee has oversight powers. Use them. The Committee on Standards has the authority to investigate conduct. Use it. Lahore does not elect Members of Parliament. Ankara does not elect Members of Parliament. Doha most certainly does not elect Members of Parliament.

Birmingham does. And the people of Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley deserve a Member of Parliament whose primary loyalty is to them. To England. To the country whose laws protect him, whose taxpayers pay him, and whose Parliament he stands in.

Tahir Ali is not that man.

The evidence is in the public record. It has always been there. The question is whether anyone in this country still has the courage to read it, say it out loud, and do something about it.

All facts cited are drawn from the Register of Members Financial Interests, Hansard parliamentary records, Companies House (number 15780408), and contemporaneous reporting by The Jewish Chronicle, The Independent, The New Statesman, The Spectator, Israel Hayom, GB News, and The Guardian. Claims about Qatar's relationships with Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood reflect the documented assessments of the US Treasury, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, and the Counter Extremism Project.

[Jesse Olson @JesseOlson]

$LINK has been dominated by Bitcoin for 6 years.

Based on this monthly chart, that trend is reversing.

Monthly chart is about to flip bullish, 3-week chart already is bullish.

[MSB Intel @MSBIntel]

BREAKING: Bottomline, a top-three Swift service provider handling $16T+ in annual payments, launches a Chainlink-powered platform connecting 600+ banks to onchain payment rails.

[Hov @HovWaves]

$LINK bull market loading…

Last update I said LINK was close, but not ready

We needed one more push higher into resistance to complete the 5 off the low

We got it

And now the chart gets interesting

We finally have the structure needed to start hunting for a potential A+ setup on the larger pullback

At minimum, I’m looking for a C/3 higher from here

I actually lean toward that last high being an expanded Wave 4, which would mean one more push higher before the larger retrace begins

But honestly, that part doesn’t matter much

The important part is we now have exactly what we were waiting for

A completed 5 wave move off the low

This is the difference between finding a chart and waiting for a chart to become worth trading

Don’t chase it

Let the pullback develop
Build the roadmap
Wait for the levels

This is exactly the type of setup people ignore while it’s developing, then chase after it’s already gone

Don’t be that guy

Chainlink is officially on watch

Previous roadmap threaded

[MöCS @MocsMetal]

1990 Versus 2025

[Philip McCarroll @philmccarroll]

This is incomprehensible... and brilliant. The bit he climbs off the ladder up onto the platform 🫣

All whilst demolishing a fag 😅 Different breed.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Researchers spent 500 hours and $70,000 and found LG TVs logging plain text transcripts in standby, mapping every device in the house, and feeding it to LG's ad arm

Unplug the internet and it saves the files until you plug back in.

LG says its TVs don't record ambient conversations.

The evidence begs to differ.

216 million of these are sitting in living rooms.

Where are the regulators?

Writer: Daniel

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

No, it's not racist, it's culturalist

And some cultures are superior in the light on British
values

We don't like child marriage, stoning women, clitoral mutilation, throwing gays off high buildings, torturing
animals, and systematic inflation of the male ego

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

What are we doing to ourselves?

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I'd like to suggest that promoting child marriage, stoning, halal animal torture, wife beating, sharia courts, and other behaviour contrary to British values, should now be referred to as Anglophobia

[Tom Zschach @TomZschach]

@_Crypto_Barbie Not happening

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

If you had trusted the settled science of the day, here is how it would have gone.

1890s: you dose the baby with Bayer's new cough syrup, the non-addictive alternative to morphine, marketed for children. It was heroin. They named it after the German for heroic.

1900s: you rub calomel teething powder on your infant's gums. It is a mercury compound, and it leaves a generation with pink disease. Swollen, peeling hands and feet, screaming for months, and some of them died.

1910s: you cook in Crisco, launched by a soap and candle company, because cottonseed oil is modern and lard is what your mother used. The process that made it solid produced trans fat, banned outright a century later.

1920s: you drink Radithor, certified radioactive water, on prescription. Eben Byers took fourteen hundred bottles for his vitality. His jaw was removed in pieces and he was buried in a lead coffin.

1930s: a chemist dissolves a new sulfa drug in diethylene glycol, which is antifreeze. It kills 107 people, mostly children, and only then does America give the FDA power to demand safety testing.

1940s: your doctor lights a Camel in the surgery. More doctors smoke them than any other brand, and the advert runs in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which sold him the page.

1950s: DDT is sprayed over your kitchen, your garden and your children at school. The man who found its insecticidal properties has already been given a Nobel Prize.

1960s: your wife takes thalidomide for morning sickness because it is remarkably safe. More than ten thousand children are born with missing and shortened limbs.

1970s: the country puts down the butter and picks up the margarine, on the instruction of the American Heart Association. The fat everybody switched to was banned in 2015 as unsafe at any level.

1980s: the fat comes out of everything and sugar goes back in to make it edible. Obesity begins a climb it has never come off.

1990s: your father is prescribed OxyContin, because fewer than one per cent get addicted. The company later pleads guilty to criminal misbranding, and the overdose count runs into hundreds of thousands.

2000s: you take Vioxx for your knee. It is pulled in 2004, and the FDA's own safety officer estimates tens of thousands of excess heart attacks.

Not one of those was fringe. Every one had a professional body, a literature and a man in a white coat standing behind it.

Nobody who followed that advice was stupid. They were obedient, to the most qualified people available.

Settled is a word about money. It means the questions stopped being funded, so they stopped being asked.

So which of today's instructions will your grandchildren read out in disbelief.

The oil washed in hexane and built into every cell you own. The statin that blocks the pathway making your hormones, to prevent one heart attack per hundred people. The injection where a third of the loss is muscle. The infant formula built out of vegetable oil.

All settled. None of it funded to be otherwise.

[Verdict @Verdict_Finance]

Verdict has completed a Pre-Launch Risk Assessment (PLRA) for 4 Leaf Games

Before launch, Verdict assessed .@4leafGamingHQ stack for potential risk exposures and vulnerabilities.

Launch with clarity. Not assumptions.

Rated. Covered. Institutional.

[4-LEAF GAMING @4leafGamingHQ]

Before we launch, we wanted to make sure our security posture was independently verified. Not just claimed.

We completed a Pre-Launch Risk Assessment from Verdict. 106 controls. Every operational surface covered. Independently verified against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.

We did this for our users. They deserve to know we took this seriously before we asked them to trust us.

PLRA complete. We are ready.

[Seed Oil Disrespecter™️ @SeedOilDsrspctr]

They could have chosen any random Greek weather girl to be Helen of Troy

[The Block @TheBlockCo]

THE BLOCK: Standard Chartered set a $200 price target on Chainlink's ethereum:0x514910771af9ca656af840dff83e8264ecf986ca for end-2030 in its first coverage of the token, a roughly 25x gain from about $8 today.

The bank argues the tokenization boom will require trusted onchain data, positioning Chainlink as critical infrastructure for TradFi and DeFi.