Elmheart

Angry politics, cute birds.
Also tech stuff, nerd stuff, gay stuff.

But mostly anger and birds.

[Elmheart @Elmheart]

Hypothetical: the natural selection of short-form online political discourse pushes the style of all tweets inexorably towards the un-dunkable.
Eventually, the format of every post will be unfalsifiable and disingenuous.
Our only hope?
Be brave. Dare to be dunked upon.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

In 2014, Marco Rubio reminded the world that Ukraine had given up the third-largest nuclear arsenal on the planet in exchange for security assurances under the Budapest Memorandum — and he insisted the United States would support Kyiv for as long as necessary.

Rubio in 2025 sounds very different. Now he is pressuring Ukraine to make concessions to Moscow and hand over territory without any real security guarantees.

[Ruxandra Teslo 🧬 @RuxandraTeslo]

I am against pretentious PhD holders, but can we also do away with physician worship? They're also annoyingly pretentious and frankly, many PhDs at top schools/ hard topics are smarter than medical doctors.

[(((Charles Fishman))) 💧 @cfishman]

Two satellites have changed the game in the last 10 years for farmers, scientists, oil & gas companies, other companies.

They are the OCO satellites—Orbiting Carbon Observatories.

Used daily.

The Trump Administration has ordered one destroyed, the other turned off.

Why?

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[Elmheart @Elmheart]

@SpencerHakimian And then someone else will step in and take Temu's crown in a year or so. Protectionism is, and always will be, a ruinous game of whack-a-mole.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Temu is literally being told that it cannot provide cheaper prices than Amazon anymore.

They don’t want you to have cheap goods.

Protectionism = Inflation

[Elmheart @Elmheart]

@FlyoverStateKS @RadioFreeTom See, I don't even like golf, but I've MET people who cheat at golf.
You don't want them in charge of a hotdog stand, much less the Oval Office.
But also like, I feel a fraction of what you're saying.
This is just a known thing. It's not news.

[Elmheart @Elmheart]

@wideofthepost SURELY Mamdani isn't so saintly that these facile hit pieces are the best they can do. They're putting SO much effort into tarring his name, and getting nothing of consequence.
I like the guy, but cmon. There's no way he's THAT good. It's like their heart isn't in it.

[Elmheart @Elmheart]

@cascamike Which is why the most vocal segment of the pro-palestine movement quite famously never accomplishes a single fucking thing.
I get it. It's genocide. You shouldn't HAVE to glad-hand and persuade. But Trump is president. Clearly the country isn't where it needs to be.

[Matthias #SiempreGino @NairoInGreen]

Tour organisers say this every time and then attach the sickest picture you've ever seen

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

This is an important point. A lot of red-pill guys think liberal society is holding them back from being warlords. In fact, liberal society is holding them back from being slaves.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

One of the defining features of totalitarianism was how its leaders made war on experts, like the Soviet bureaucrats who boosted Lysenkoism. Dictatorial regimes *hate* experts, because experts reach conclusions based on evidence, not political expediency.

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

The AI bubble is overdue for a pop:

https://t.co/Z29y1No34I

When it does, it will leave behind some kind of residue - cheaper, spin-out, standalone models that will perform many useful functions:

https://t.co/FL4tk2qKIP

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[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

they're having a hard time hiding their boredom

[cats with jobs 🛠 @CatWorkers]

I would subscribe to their podcast.

[Rohan Grey @rohangrey]

The left: "billionaires shouldn't be able to buy elections"

Centrists: "stop peddling conspiracy theories"

Billionaires:

[Elmheart @Elmheart]

@AndyGrice15 @maddenifico ... See I thought this was a joke, so I did a quick check.
Credit where credit is due- Every justice Trump has picked is better than Thomas or Alito.
Damnation by faint praise? Sure. But true.
So hey Andy. We agree on something! Wild!

[Elmheart @Elmheart]

@TapeDeckChris @AhmadulXadim @LarsWienand @TheRocketRalph Conspiracy Theory:
11 Dimensional PR chess.

If there's an embarrassing photo or video, release a slightly edited version to discredit the original.

When you can't put lipstick on a pig, you can instead call the very existence of the pig into doubt.

[David Wright @DavidWright_7]

Obama: "And now we’re in one of those moments when you know what, it’s not – it’s not enough just to say you’re for something, you may actually have to do something and possibly sacrifice a little bit."