🇸🇻 Stacy's Barbarian

[🇸🇻 Stacy's Barbarian @GLArebel]

@Renegade_Inc This is a vaccine expert and one of the best podcasts I've listened to on covid, vaccines and current events I've ever heard. https://t.co/xG7hJoMWAR

[🇸🇻 Stacy's Barbarian @GLArebel]

@MarcanoFilms @LukeDashjr Might this not be a good time to add quantum resistance?

[hodlonaut @hodlonaut]

I fully accept what happened yesterday. It is sad, I will admit that. But it also feels like a catharsis.

BIP-148 is celebrated as Bitcoin Independence Day, because it proved that ordinary users, running nodes in their homes, could force the most powerful mining cartels and corporations in the industry to back down. The users had no hashrate, no exchanges, no lobbyists. They had conviction and they had nodes, and that was enough.

BIP-110 ran the same play with the same conviction, a reasoning that was shared by all bitcoiners five years ago (Bitcoin is money and not a grift database), and node support at levels at least comparable to 2017. This time the miners and the corporate layer simply refused to follow. They extended their spam-friendly chain and moved on like nothing happened.

Remember yesterday as Bitcoin Dependence Day.

What changed between 2017 and 2026?
Not the users. They showed up with the same fire.

What changed is everything that grew in the years between. ETFs. Treasury companies. Custodians holding millions of coins for people who will never touch a node. Hashrate concentrated into a handful of pools building templates for the whole world. Capture of the governance of the reference implementation resulting in stark philosophical pivot.

Those already celebrating Bitcoin Dependence Day are not simply cheering an outcome they won. They are treating evidence that miners and the corporate layer now control Bitcoin as if it were a grand cypherpunk victory, while ridiculing the people who fought for decentralization and for Bitcoin as money.

In my opinion, and in my heart, legacy Bitcoin is not what I signed up for. Captured. Centralized. Led by suits.
No longer about freedom, sovereignty, or the mission of separating money from state.

No longer about the things that made me a ride or die bitcoiner for many years.

The fire that originally drew me to Bitcoin is still alive in the node runners who supported BIP-110. I will follow it where it goes.

As for legacy Bitcoin, I have no interest in it anymore as a freedom project. In my mind, it is now a stock.

[Extractive Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus 👻 @oomahq]

I did my own investigation because I obviously don't trust them.

What I found is that the external dependency of the firmware with the critical vulnerability hidden in it was written by CoinKite's CTO @DocHex pretending to be someone else.

All of the following can be verified:

[Paul Walsh @Paul__Walsh]

Ursula von der Leyen has confirmed that everyone in the EU will need to use the EU's app for identity authentication before being able to access or post on social media websites.

🇪🇺 As an expert in online child safety, I am here to expose the misinformation and misdirection in von der Leyen's statements.

Today von der Leyen said:

"This is not about whether children can access social media, it is about whether social media can access our children".

💡The first part is true. This isn't about children. It's about surveillance and combating political dissent. A state that can't control its own citizens is more dangerous than a state rife with criminals. The second part is a PR soundbite that politicians are using like a campaign slogan straight out of 1984.

🇪🇺"The question is no longer if children face risks online, but what can we do to give children a safer start online".

💡No. You can't give children a "safer start" online any more than you can offline. In the offline world, the government doesn't enforce curfews or ban children from entering liquor stores, bars or restaurants. That's a parent's responsibility. The digital world should be no different.

🇪🇺"The age verification app is one of the tools to get it done".

💡This is a contradiction because she also said "It won't be foolproof".

🇪🇺"It's easy to use, it is privacy preserving and it is open source".

💡The app was compromised as soon as it was released. "Privacy-preserving" age verification is an oxymoron. You can't verify a person's age without verifying their identity. Where or how that age is shared afterwards is irrelevant.

🇪🇺"This is basically about putting back the power into the hands of parents".

💡More from 1984. The EU is doing the opposite. Parents are having their authority stripped by politicians who think they know better. Many parents are capable and unaffected by peer pressure, and they know how to use parental controls to block any app classified as 13+. Some teens are safe, their parents trust them, and the state has no business overruling that trust.

🇪🇺"We don't give our children keys to the car before they have their licence"

💡Comparing an app to a car is a false equivalence used to justify mass surveillance. Governments don't decide when a young person is ready for car keys, guardians do.

💡Forcing every adult and child into a biometric checkpoint just to use an app or website is not licensing drivers. It's the state seizing everyone's keys, locking the garage, and forcing every driver to ask a private company for permission to take a drive.

💡 This is a gross, unethical overreach that strips authority from parents while imposing state sanctioned identity verification on every adult who doesn't even have a child.

💡Additionally, people who pass a test, obtain a licence and drive a car aren't forced to use an app to constantly authenticate their suitability to drive.

🇪🇺"We do not let them buy alcohol until they are legally allowed"

💡False equivalence. We don't force every person to show ID at a shopping mall entrance just because a few people might buy alcohol with a meal at a restaurant. Some parents are okay with their 12 year-old going to the mall with friends while others aren't. Either way, it's their choice. Whatever irresponsible decisions some parents might make, every adult in the country shouldn't be forced to pay the price.

🇪🇺"It won't be foolproof"

💡This is all the proof we need to show that the EU and every government know that banning social media for teens won't protect them. When pressed by journalists about VPNs being used to circumvent a ban, politicians always state the ban isn't a silver bullet and will take time. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan went as far as to say "we know it's not the solution".

💡Either age verification works, or it doesn't. As a technical expert in this space, I can tell you there are no additional steps to take and no progress to be made. Either the approach does what it is supposed to do, or it's not fit for purpose. If they claim a bulletproof solution is coming, it can only mean one thing. They intend to ban or restrict VPNs to people who verify their identity.

🇪🇺"It will take time to invite the cultural change that is already taking shape in our society, just as it took time to outlaw drink driving, just as it took time to use seatbelts in the cars. Great change never happens overnight, but when it comes to our safety it is always worth it".

💡Comparing a social media ban and age verification to seatbelts is a completely broken analogy. Seatbelts are a safety feature that protects children while allowing them to travel in a car. A ban doesn't give kids a seatbelt. It kicks them out of the car entirely.

💡Instead of supporting parents who want to guide their own children through the digital world, this heavy-handed law strips away parental authority by banning the apps and websites that many parents are perfectly fine with and actively monitor.

💡Furthermore, enforcing these bans requires biometric age verification, which means forcing millions of adult citizens to scan their IDs, faces or credit cards just to browse the internet. That isn't a common-sense traffic law.

💡It's a digital checkpoint on every street. True safety means teaching kids how to navigate the digital world safely with real guardrails and parental guidance, not burning down digital spaces for everyone under the guise of protection.

🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to ban teens from social media so every person is forced to verify their identity before they can read, share or post anything online. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous content.

🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to enforce "Chat Control" so every app has to monitor everything people say privately inside it, including apps with end-to-end encryption. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous criminals.

💡Where this ends

🇪🇺 "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever".

George Orwell, 1984.

[🇸🇻 Stacy's Barbarian @GLArebel]

@RupertLowe10 #nostr

[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

🇬🇧 Another UK regime change.

Keir Starmer consistently served Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) interests.

As Director of Public Prosecutions, he played a central role in the legal pursuit of Julian Assange while Assange was exposing information that challenged military, intelligence, and government institutions.

As Prime Minister, his role has been to maintain public support for policies that channel billions of pounds into what amounts to a MIC stimulus programme, marketed as the defence of democracy in Ukraine.

At the same time, growing social and economic tensions are being used to justify increased surveillance, digital identity infrastructure, and expanded Technical-Industrial Complex (TIC) control.

Now that strategy is escalating and becoming more difficult to sustain politically.

The next leadership phase will, in my view, monetise civil unrest for the TIC by amplifying strategic tensions and manufacturing division through political and media nodes such as Tommy Robinson, Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe, and others.

Next comes the TIC stimulus cheque: more policing, more surveillance, more Palantir, more digital infrastructure, all sold as the solution to the instability that the system itself helped create.

The same playbook is emerging in the United States, positioning figures like JD Vance as the political vehicle for the next phase.

Time to put lipstick on a new pig.

Nothing more.

Nothing less.

Another UK regime change that changes nothing.

The faces change.

The agenda remains.

[🇸🇻 Stacy's Barbarian @GLArebel]

@InertXenon @mweinbach Escape windows, use Linux

[🇬🇧 The Bitcoin & Crypto Accountant 🇬🇧🚀 @BitcoinTaxUK]

Question, on the back of this poll result -

It seems my followers would mostly leave if a wealth tax was implemented

Do we need a UK Conference on leaving the UK?

Tax implications
Best Places to go
Lifestyle choices
Education
ETC

[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

Wealth taxes are how you turn the EU into a distressed asset for private equity acquisition.

Remember: a wealth tax on unrealised gains leads to forced asset selling by average Europeans, while carve-outs exist for those using offshore corporate vehicles.

Any country implementing this policy (such as the Netherlands) is engineering a market crash and distressed acquisition strategy, designed to transfer wealth from retail investors to institutions, all wrapped in a “tax the rich” narrative.

As with policies like this, it will be structured to transfer wealth upward, just like the current closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

This is a real endgame asset-stripping policy, deliberately designed to engineer a crisis that would otherwise have been allowed to occur through normal market corrections.

Manufactured crisis is the policy.

And only those with offshore corporate structures and hard money to invest during distress will survive it.

Of course, if you own a money printer connected to a central bank, then you will create the money needed to acquire distressed assets and privatise the gains while socialising the losses.

Everybody needs to become far more financially savvy to survive the crises these policies engineer.

[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

Bitcoiners need to pay very close attention to what’s happening at the development layer.

This is an open-source boardroom.

Accountability sits with those writing the code, maintaining it and those committing pull requests need to be watched carefully.

Don’t trust.

Verify.

And when those who allegedly visited Epstein island start trying to discredit investigations and get upset about certain articles, that’s when you pay even closer attention.

That’s why we run nodes and keep an eye on miners too.

The financial industrial complex have repeatedly tried to infiltrate and we have to always stay alert.

Great work on this article.

Looking forward to Part 3.

[Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht]

Imagine a 19-year-old scrolling TikTok. She watches a creator list five "signs you have undiagnosed anxiety." She recognizes three in herself. By the end of the week, she's describing herself as anxious to her friends. A month later, she's avoiding situations she used to handle fine.

What went wrong?

In a new paper by my PhD student Dasha Sandra, titled "Why mental health awareness can harm: Converging explanations for a societal problem", we argue that well-meaning mental health awareness can backfire, and we identify how. Four separate literatures (concept creep, nocebo effects, prevalence inflation, and illness self-labeling) have been circling the same problem from different angles. We show they converge on three mechanisms:

1.Awareness lowers the threshold for what counts as a disorder.
2. It trains people to scan their inner lives for symptoms and reinterpret normal distress as pathology.
3. Once someone adopts an illness identity, they behave in ways that confirm and deepen it.

The evidence is wide. Learning that loneliness is harmful makes solitude feel worse. Learning that stress is harmful worsens well-being and performance. Awareness videos about fake conditions like "wind turbine syndrome" produce real headaches. Trigger warnings raise anticipatory anxiety without reducing distress.

This does not mean awareness should stop. It means awareness can have unintended consequences, including manufacturing the suffering it tries to prevent. Inoculating people against these mechanisms works, and we already have evidence it does.

Link to paper: https://t.co/ucoGyhEuAj

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Last night, MPs had a unique opportunity to force a forensic investigation on Starmer for his Mandelson sleaze. To expose him. I voted to drag him through it. 223 MPs did. That included Labour MPs who put their careers at risk to do the right thing.

Farage failed to vote with us - he didn't bother to show up.

We had a chance to finally drag the truth into the light, put him under brutal scrutiny, and let the British people see exactly how this corrupt system protects its own.

Why get yourself elected to Parliament if, when a real moment of genuine consequence arrives, you are nowhere to be seen?

Parliament isn't loads of fun, to be honest. I'd rather be doing other things. I would prefer to be in Great Yarmouth campaigning. But this is the job. It is what we are paid to do. It is our duty as MPs.

And it is a duty that matters, especially on a vote as fundamental as this one.

The absence of those who should have been there in our Parliament to hold this rotten Prime Minister to account speaks louder than any speech they could ever make.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

A Restore Britain Government would end the mass surveillance state.

[Restore Britain @RestoreBritain]

Restore Britain will end facial recognition in public spaces.

We will roll back mass surveillance.

The British public are not suspects or walking barcodes.

We will protect your right to live your life in private.

[Reiners Project @ReinersProject]

UKGovScan: making the British state searchable

While the state rolls out digital ID to collect every disparate aspect of your life, a new project called @UKGovscan returns the favour to the state..

Their website collates public contracts, political donations, MPs’ and Lords’ interests, lobbying, council spending, aid, schools and company data into one place, giving journalists and citizens a faster way to follow public money.

Read it here:
https://t.co/UDudDsvIuy

[🇸🇻 Stacy's Barbarian @GLArebel]

@RupertLowe10 @LawrenceLepard fix the money fix the world

[🇸🇻 Stacy's Barbarian @GLArebel]

@keet_io Make available on f-droid

[🇸🇻 Stacy's Barbarian @GLArebel]

@ProtonPrivacy What about @keet_io?

[🇸🇻 Stacy's Barbarian @GLArebel]

@danheld @mamabile777 @BitMEXResearch @SailingBitcoin @IfindRetards Every post I see from you is just calling people emotional retards without any explanation as to your position on comments like the one above, re CSAM.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I have spent the last ten days at our inquiry listening to the testimonies of women who have been raped and abused by packs of mainly Pakistani Muslim men.

One girl was raped, and then had a whisky bottle forced into her. It shattered inside her.

She was 12.

12, Prime Minister.

This has happened all over Britain. Everywhere. It still goes on today. NOW.

Thousands and thousands and thousands of British girls treated as meat. As dirt. As pieces of shit.

What are you doing about it?

The honest answer is this.

F*** all.

You are more concerned about clinging on to the Muslim vote than acting to protect vulnerable British girls.

I have never been so furious at a British Prime Minister. You honestly disgust me.

You should be ashamed of yourself. I truly mean that.

Act now, and I mean now, or history will be appropriately brutal.