Mishkat Al Alvi

[Mishkat Al Alvi @MishkatAlvi]

@areheritige @kalyx2020 @sentdefender I would like to say this is more like an expression of China’s capability

[Mishkat Al Alvi @MishkatAlvi]

@EliAfriatISR Bro you are already in this situation, you are the one holding the gun.

[Mishkat Al Alvi @MishkatAlvi]

@NoahKingJr No

[Jamie Walters, CAIA @JWalters314]

See the propaganda move?

Make the image emotionally overwhelming, then pretend the only possible objection is hatred of America.

Nobody has to pretend to be mad at a flyover.

It looks cool.

That is not the critique.

The critique is that cool imagery is being used to launder the structure underneath it.

The White House becomes the set.

The military supplies the emotional force.

UFC supplies the combat aesthetic.

Paramount+ gets the paid stream.

Trump-world and politically connected corporations get the branding halo.

And then accounts like this say: if you notice the machinery, you must hate America.

No.

I like the flyover.

I dislike fake patriotism that turns the country into ad inventory.

This is Don Draper selling belonging after tribal sorting so the powerful concentrate more power.

Working-class people are not props.

Marines are not props.

National monuments are not props.

The issue is billionaires turning the White House into branded regime content, then hiding behind “the working class” when anyone notices the circus.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran says the US has agreed to pay $300 billion in reconstruction funds directly to Iran as part of the deal Pakistan announced, alongside the release of $24 billion in frozen funds with $12 billion released before negotiations even start, per Mehr News.

This directly contradicts Trump's & Vance's claim that no funds will be transferred to Iran at all.

If Trump denies this is true, there never was a deal. If Trump confirms, the US has fully capitulated to Iran's demands.

[RT @RT_com]

Tabshour ('Chalk') the donkey goes viral in Lebanon after braying with joy upon seeing his human best friend for the first time since they were separated by war

'Damn this war that separated us'

[RT @RT_com]

Famous gorilla Kiyomasa falls into deep contemplation after spat with mate — caught on camera in Japanese zoo

[Mishkat Al Alvi @MishkatAlvi]

@zackbeauchamp No.

[Triple Hausen’s Thoughts 💭 @TripleHHHPaulL]

The emotion you feel when you’re a German pretending to be an American pretending to be a Mexican luchador and you’ve not only been accepted, but anointed, as the biggest star in AAA because you’re truly one of them.

[Mishkat Al Alvi @MishkatAlvi]

@LauraLoomer @StephenM Shut up you Nazi bitch.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Ari: “…@50cent said I’ll give you $258,000 and a first class one-way ticket out of NYC…”

Mayor Mamdani: “What I would say to you 50…is I continue to think that having the top 1% of New York City who are making more than a million dollars a year, having them pay 2% more for an economic agenda that would transform every New Yorker’s life, including their own, is something that is worthwhile. And the reason that I say including their own is, when you see a city like ours that is underfunding it’s city agencies, that is pulling back on the most basic things like library services and trash cans, everybody feels the knock on effects of that.”👊

[Mishkat Al Alvi @MishkatAlvi]

@mistersiisall As much as I hate Jackoff Stinkle, this is a generic ahh Glock.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

If you see a fox in your neighborhood, be glad. A red fox eats roughly 2,000 mice, rats, and voles a year. They help keep tick-carrying rodent populations in check, which reduces local Lyme disease risk. Don't call animal control. Just watch.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 BREAKING: José Mourinho back to Real Madrid, HERE WE GO! 💣🤍

All terms have been verbally agreed between José Mourinho and Real Madrid, waiting to sign all documents.

Plan for initial two year deal, JM to travel to Madrid after Real-Bilbao game.

The Special One is back.

[Mishkat Al Alvi @MishkatAlvi]

@hmajd Sarcastic

[Daniel Franke @dfranke]

You buy a German anvil. It contains 83 moving parts and requires winding twice a day. It's forged from excellent steel, holds tolerances across all three striking faces to within three microns, includes a beautifully indexed horn-adjustment mechanism nobody asked for, and requires a proprietary 11-point spanner should you need to replace the rebound calibration bushing. It runs flawlessly for years, but one day it starts up in limp mode because the onboard anvil-management system detects that it's overdue for its 50,000-strike inspection.

You search AliExpress for a Chinese anvil, and are presented with a multitude of offerings from such household-name brands as DUKXJYIBF, HDBTGMXI, AND UEJQIP. They're all priced to within a few pennies of each other, appear completely identical except for the nameplate, and obviously all came out of the same factory. You text your blacksmith friend to ask if they're legit. He tells you he got one like that from KIXJBU a few years ago, and that it's been great and a terrific deal. You thank him, but KIXJBU seems to have folded so you buy the one from UEJQIP. When it arrives, it feels suspiciously light. You scratch it and realize it's iron-plated aluminum.

You buy an American anvil. It's five times the price of the competition, but it comes from a brand that your great-grandfather used to love. It comes boxed with a warranty registration postcard, twenty pages of safety instructions, assay certificate, and a regulatory slip which lists its FCC certification and ITAR registration. It looks just like your friend's KIXJBU. There's a "Made In China" sticker on the bottom.

You buy a Russian anvil. It arrives coated in cosmoline, wrapped in newspaper from 1974, and weighing 40% more than advertised. The finish looks like it was machined with a shovel. The face is not flat, but somehow this does not matter. You drop it off a truck, accidentally leave it outside for six winters, and use it to straighten a bulldozer blade. It's fine.

You buy a Swedish anvil. It comes flat-packed in a long cardboard box with cheerful Neo-Grotesk lettering and a line drawing of a smiling man assembling it with an Allen key. The instructions contain no words, only pictograms showing the anvil face, horn, waist, feet, and 112 identical-looking fasteners. Halfway through assembly, you discover that the pritchel hole was installed upside down, but only because you used peg B17 where you should have used peg B71. Once assembled, it is clean, stable, and works better than it has any right to. You immediately wonder whether you should have bought two.

You buy a Japanese anvil. It arrives wrapped in rice paper inside a paulownia box, accompanied by a certificate bearing three generations of signatures and a photograph of the first production example being presented to the Emperor. The face has been hand-polished by a seventy-eight-year-old master whose family has made striking surfaces since the Muromachi period. You are given detailed instructions for oiling it with a cloth folded in a specific way. It is the most beautiful object you own. You never quite work up the nerve to strike it.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

> be Alexandra Elbakyan
> be born in Kazakhstan in 1988
> start coding at 12
> hack your internet provider at 14
> hack MIT Press at 16 to download neuroscience books you can't afford
> get a CS degree from Satbayev University
> intern in neuroscience at Georgia Tech
> speak at Harvard on brain-computer interfaces
> notice researchers can't read the papers they need
> notice academic publishers charging $30 a paper
> notice peer reviewers worked for free
> notice editors worked for free
> notice universities funded the research with billions of dollars of public money
> build Sci-Hub in 2011
> upload nearly every paywalled research paper ever published
> give it away for free
> get sued by Elsevier
> get hit with a $15 million judgment
> don't give a flying f*ck
> keep Sci-Hub up
> get domain after domain seized
> register a new one
> keep Sci-Hub up
> get investigated by the US Department of Justice
> don't give a flying f*ck
> get accused of working for Russian intelligence
> don't give a flying f*ck
> have the FBI subpoena your iCloud
> get named one of Nature's ten people who mattered in science
> get a parasitoid wasp named after you
> get a deep-sea snail named after you
> get the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award for Access to Scientific Knowledge
> become a legend

[Mishkat Al Alvi @MishkatAlvi]

@nypost Hell Yeah

[Jonas Čeika @Jonas_Ceika]

I sent ChatGPT an audio file of a series of FART sound effects and asked what it thinks of "my music" and this is what it said