Frederick Ingram

a bard for our time

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

Sign o' the times

[Allen Control Systems @allencontrol]

Bullfrog on the road.

[Istra of Glome @byistra]

This line from Fyodor Dostoevsky is absolutely incredible

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

@byistra If you want to be given everything, give everything up. Tao Te Ching, Chapter XXII.

[Shen Shiwei 沈诗伟 @shen_shiwei]

The 600-years-old Temple of Heaven has witnessed the🇨🇳China-🇺🇸US relations.

Richard Nixon, who opened the door of China-US relations in 1972, visited the Temple of Heaven in 1979, after resigned from the White House.

In 1989, young Trump shook hands with Nixon in Houston.

[Istra of Glome @byistra]

The difference in writing styles between J.R.R. Tolkien and his friend C.S. Lewis

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

@othram https://t.co/IVmfNk40x8

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Additional footage of Marco Rubio DJing at a family wedding last night.

[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

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” – A. A. Milne

As we mark the 100th anniversary of the beloved Winnie-the-Pooh stories, The Queen has presented a very special gift to the New York Public Library, reuniting baby Roo with his friends from the 100 Acre Wood.

The Library is home to the original collection of toys owned by Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A. Milne, which inspired the characters in the beloved Winnie-the-Pooh series. The collection is missing Roo, the baby kangaroo who was lost in an orchard in the 1930s.

The new addition of Roo was created by Shropshire-based company Merrythought, who also created the original toys.

👀 Watch Roo’s great adventure travelling from Buckingham Palace onboard Their Majesties’ flight to his new home in New York.

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

Mercor Intelligence is looking for private eyes to train their AIs. I'd like to imagine this involves shadowing robots in trenchcoats. Anyway, if the gumshoe fits: https://t.co/bvwbkRyJ7J

[Adrian Hilton @Adrian_Hilton]

The Oval Office has changed a bit since 1970.

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

This does look intriguing. Gotta scrounge up a few hunderd bucks and a Slav girl or two. 🍸🤵💃

[Scott McMahan @BiggerTruth]

Here comes @GenFlynn announcing “A Night of Intrigue,” an event featuring the retired general and over 50 foreign ambassadors, to discuss the benefits of the MULTIPOLAR WORLD ORDER.

I look forward to tracking which congressmen attend the event. Will it be the same ones who gave members of the Russian Duma an unannounced and unsupervised tour of @SpeakerJohnson’s office suite on a Friday night when he wasn’t there (with @tylerbowyer’s help)?

In the Flynn network’s own words, from a marketing email promoting the event:

“As our world continues to evolve into a multipolar landscape, understanding global power dynamics and the far-reaching consequences of international conflict has never been more important.”

“We find ourselves at a pivotal moment in American history, underscoring the urgent need to create meaningful opportunities for dialogue, collaboration, and strategic partnership among nations that share common interests and values.”

“This will not be a typical Washington dinner. Instead, it is an immersive evening designed to provide direct engagement with ambassadors and ministers representing more than 50 countries, Members of the United States Congress, and leading figures from government, the military, and industry—all within a relaxed and distinguished setting.”

@DAGToddBlanche @FBIDirectorKash @AlexisWilkins @dbongino

[Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich]

If you want to know what’s going on, you should read this.

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

#MinnesotaNICE = potential sequel to Miami Vice?

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Trump reveals support for proposal to rename ICE as NICE — so the media would have to say “NICE agents.”

[Robert Morton @Robert4787]

Peter Sichel’s life sounds almost fictional. CIA operative, Iran warnings, Cold War secrets, then Blue Nun wine. But the real lesson is serious. Intelligence calls made in the shadows can shape history for decades. #CIA #Iran #NationalSecurity
https://t.co/53IhL7ICJV

[Frederick Ingram @fridrix]

Trading proms for bombs?

[Sloan Rachmuth @SloanRachmuth]

🚨 URGENT: Terror Attack on Jews Stopped From North Carolina 🚨

Davidson County Sheriffs arrested 18-year-old Angelina Hicks from Lexington, North Carolina.

She’s accused of plotting a mass-casualty attack targeting Jews at a Houston synagogue to “kill as many Jews as possible.”

Authorities say the threat may have been imminent. There may be others involved.

North Carolina: this came from our own backyard.

Jewish communities everywhere: stay alert.

Antisemitic violence isn’t rising — it’s here.#ncpol

📰 https://t.co/dCIumf3o6S

[SPIES&VESPERS @SpiesVespers]

TOO OBSCURE TO MATTER
John Steinbeck’s 1942 novel The Moon Is Down about a fictional occupation was reprinted by resistance groups in occupied countries for inspiration and was said to have inspired Churchill to launch SOE operations.

[Presidential Wisdom @PrezWisdom]

“May the day of judging President Nixon on anything less than his entire life and career come to a close.”
- Bill Clinton 🇺🇸 eulogy for Richard Nixon 🇺🇸. Clinton would consult Nixon on certain foreign policy issues

#POTUS ❤

[Slava 🇺🇦 @Heroiam_Slava]

The film «Killhouse» is the story of a real unique special operation by the SBU, GUR, and the “Troyka” (Third Assault Brigade).

It will premier in Ukrainian cinemas on April 23, 2026

A distinctive feature of the film is that 80% of the participants are real active-duty servicemen and veterans from these units, who recreate their own actions with high tactical accuracy

[Richard Nixon Foundation @nixonfoundation]

On this day in 1994, the world lost a great man.