Luke AP

Developer of Annihilate The Spance
Solo-Dev of Vectored Armada!
Software Engineer, game developer, writer, actor, Christian.

[Rod MacPhail @rodcampsbay]

Oh yes? Formerly, the medical profession used surgery to treat stomach ulcers. Barry Marshall proposed that the ulcers were caused by a bacterium Helicobacter Pylori and could be eradicated by antibiotics.
He was universally mocked by the medical profession until he poisoned himself with H. Pylori and developed stomach ulcers. He cured his ailment with antibiotics.
He subsequently won a Nobel prize.
Not all PhDs are clever. And not all lay people are ignorant. Many of them are autodidacts.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Remember the European Hospital in Khan Younis last May?

Israel struck a targeted site there, and the world lost its mind.

Palestinians denied any tunnel existed underneath. The UN and European governments rushed to condemn Israel for attacking a “hospital.” Outrage, headlines, accusations of war crimes… the usual script.

Then June came.

The IDF took international media into the very same location and showed them the tunnel… a full Hamas command center, right under the emergency room.

Weapons, rooms, infrastructure. And yes, that’s where they found and confirmed the body of Mohammed Sinwar, Hamas’s top military commander and brother of Yahya Sinwar.

The strike that killed one of the architects of October 7 was surgically precise, and entirely justified.

Under the Geneva Conventions of 1949, hospitals and other medical facilities lose their protected status when they are used for military purposes, such as command centers, weapon storage, or troop movements. By deliberately turning the European Hospital into a Hamas base, the terrorists themselves stripped it of any legal protection.

Not a single apology from the UN or the European governments that rushed to condemn Israel. Not one admission they were wrong. They simply moved on to the next round of accusations.

This is the pattern. Hamas hides its terror infrastructure under civilian sites, uses hospitals as shields, and the international community reliably attacks the defender for responding, only to be proven wrong again and again and again when the evidence emerges.

How many times does this have to happen before the world stops falling for it?

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

One of the most terrible things we will have to face in the future is learning, one way or another, how many people died in Mariupol in the spring of 2022, when Russia was leveling the city to the ground along with its inhabitants.

Among them were my former classmate and the father of a good friend of mine.

And how many more remain unknown to us, lying in the vast anonymous mass graves on the outskirts of Mariupol, visible even in satellite images.

[Jacob L @JacobL1994_]

The Einsatzgruppe Trial established in law that there is no moral or legal equivalent between collateral damage from war, and going door to door executing civilians because of their race.

As such, no amount of collateral damage, however tragic it is, will ever be morally or legally equivalent to the mass deliberate extermination of Jews carried out by Hamas and their accomplices.

Remember that the crime of genocide is determined by intent. Thus, men with rifles and gasoline going house to house looking for Jews to burn is genocide, and military operations to prevent them from doing that again, which unfortunately result in civilian casualties, is not.

[Ricky van Huyssteen 🇿🇦 @rickyvhuyssteen]

When the DA says every vote counts, we mean it.

In Emfuleni, just 8 votes secured a DA councillor.
In uMngeni, 42 votes secured a DA mayor.

A handful of votes can change the direction of an entire community. Every vote matters.

Register to vote. https://t.co/uc9uuiHYFb

[Ayômîde 🧢 @Haryormdey4u]

"He threw away that cable he's been holding onto for over 10 years for a device he couldn't find”

Have him find the device.

[RUPERT @rupertxyz]

> Enhanced Games launched in 2026 as the first “doped Olympics”
> Athletes openly allowed to use steroids, PEDs, anything legal
> Founded on the idea that human limits are artificial and drugs unlock the real ceiling
> Hunter Armstrong shows up
> Two time Olympic gold medalist and former world record holder
> Refuses every drug
> Sings up as the only “non enhanced” swimmer in his field
> Faces a pool full of athletes pumped on steroids
> Wins the 50m backstroke anyway
> Walks away with $250,000

Dude is absolut chad.

[Gina @ginnydmm]

YOUR IDENTITY IS ABOUT TO CHANGE FOREVER — DON'T LET YOUR SILENCE BE MISTAKEN FOR CONSENT!

The Department of Home Affairs has officially opened public comment on a massive overhaul of South Africa’s civic infrastructure: the draft Identification Regulations, 2026 (Government Gazette No. 54610).

Under the new "Home Affairs @ home" strategy, the state is introducing a smartphone-based "Digital Identity Credential" housed inside a new app called MyMzansi. This digital ID will carry the exact same legal weight as your physical Smart ID card.

While phasing out paperwork and cutting down administrative delays sounds like a win for convenience, the actual legal mechanics hidden within the draft text raise major questions about privacy, asset security, and digital exclusion.

If we don't speak out before the 6 June 2026 deadline, these rules will become law as they stand.

Here is what is actually on the table:

👉 Real-Time Corporate Data Loops: The state will record "Verified Relationships" between you and private entities like banks and telcos. If you update your address or phone number at your bank, it will synchronise across the state population register automatically in near real-time—permanently blurring the line between public civic data and private corporate infrastructure.

👉 The Stolen Phone Lockdown: Your digital ID is cryptographically "bound" to a single smartphone. In a country with high rates of mobile theft, losing your phone means your legal identity token is instantly frozen or revoked. The regulations are currently silent on a secure, remote path to restore your access, raising the threat of immediate financial and administrative paralysis.

👉 The 10-Year Physical Queue Trap: Your digital ID expires every 5 years. While remote renewal via a facial scan in the app is permitted, the draft rules state that if you go 10 consecutive years without a physical, in-person touchpoint at a Home Affairs branch or partner bank, your credential completely lapses. You will be forced to line up in person from scratch to re-prove your identity.

👉 Algorithmic Profiling (The 30-Day Rule): You will be legally required to report routine life updates (moving house, changing an email) within 30 days. If you fail to do so, the state will algorithmically drop your internal "Identity Assurance Level." A lowered score could mean sudden, frustrating transaction rejections when you try to use high-security online services.

👉 Foundations for Function Creep: Centralising dynamic biometric registries and cross-entity tracking pipelines creates a technical foundation that critics warn could easily be weaponised into an authoritarian behavioural tracking system, or act as a centralised economic kill-switch over your accounts.

🗣️ YOUR VOICE IS A LEGAL FORCE
Public participation is not a mere tick-box exercise—it is a binding constitutional right under the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act (PAJA). Every choice and comment submitted through the Dear South Africa portal forms a recognised legal submission delivered directly to the Chief Director: Legal Services, Adv A M Malakate.

We’ve cut through the legalese and structured the official questionnaire into clear, direct focal points so you can have your say in less than a minute.

👇 Click the link below to cast your vote and submit your formal comment now!
🔗 https://t.co/ZbAhiZ4WUt

Spread the word! Once you’ve participated, share this post to your local community groups, family chats, and colleagues. Our digital future must be shaped by active citizens, not unchecked bureaucracy.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

An unexploded Russian drone, carrying over 50 kg of explosives, was neutralized after striking and becoming lodged in a 24-story residential building in Odesa.

A National Police bomb disposal expert manually disarmed and removed the drone’s warhead from the wall on the 15th floor, after which it was transported for controlled destruction.

📹: SESU

[David Jacobs @DrJacobsRad]

The world is about to get a master class in antisemitism.

Israel's minister Ben Gvir's behavior towards the flotilla activists was unacceptable. I said so myself.

World leaders all posted angry denunciations of the Israeli government and summoned Israeli ambassadors for a dressing down.

Here, the same activists are receiving much more brutal treatment at the hands of the Spanish government. What we won't see however is an international outcry against the Spanish government.

This imbalance isn't due to the vagaries of international diplomacy. People hold the Jewish state to a higher standard than they do any other state, and fundamentally it's due of bigotry and hatred.

@AnitaAnandMP

[Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @Oksii33]

Let’s skip directly to the 5th phase -> ❌ 🇷🇺

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

A Japanese YouTuber has gone viral after spending three years doing Saitama's infamous One Punch Man workout every single day

Tasuke reportedly ran over 10,000 miles and completed 109,600 push-ups, sit-ups, and squats

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The most horrifying thing in this article, out of the dozens of nightmarish details, is that some of these men are selling their children to family members. Imagine that your relative needs help and you offer it only on the condition that they sell their children to you as slaves. And then imagine that they actually do it. Totally unthinkable all around. But this is the “culture” in places like Afghanistan. And it’s why we should have realized and accepted a long time ago that some cultures are just evil. Some people are just barbarians. You lock your door and don’t let them inside, ever, period.

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

My atheist friend screamed “Jesus Christ” when something shocked him. He didn’t think about it. It just came out.

That moment stayed with me longer than it should have. Why is this man’s name the default exclamation of the human race, including people who deny he was anything more than a man, or deny he existed at all?

We understand the other names history kept. Alexander conquered half the known world before 30. Caesar built an empire. Aristotle shaped Western thought through institutions that outlasted him by centuries. Gandhi and Mandela had movements, microphones, elections, global media. Their fame has a traceable engine. You can follow the mechanism.

Jesus had none of that.

He wrote nothing. He governed nothing. He was born in Bethlehem, raised in Galilee, in a province Rome considered irrelevant. His inner circle was fishermen. He was publicly executed before his 40th birthday in a manner specifically designed to strip a man of dignity and erase his name.

By every sociological law we use to predict who history remembers, he should be a footnote. A regional agitator and à case study in Roman efficiency.

He is instead the most recognised name in human history. Across every language, across every century and across every belief system, including the ones that most loudly reject him.

That is the only argument I am making here. Not the resurrection, the miracles or the prophecies. Just that something happened in first-century Palestine that broke the rules of how human fame works, and it has never stopped breaking them.

You do not have to be a Christian to find that strange. You just have to be honest.

The question is not really about whether you believe in him. The question is how a man born in a manger, executed with maximum humiliation in an obscure corner of the Roman Empire, with no army and no written word, got so deep into human consciousness that 2000 years later my atheist friend reaches for his name before his brain even catches up.

Nobody has a satisfying secular answer to that. Not really.

[Interlinked @Interlinked444]

Being a highly intelligent outlier doesn't negate your ability to be retarded, paradoxically it actually enables far more creative ways of being retarded.

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

🇺🇦 Ukrainian strikes on russian oil infrastructure (May):

• May 20 — Kstovo refinery
• May 17 — Moscow refinery
• May 15 — Ryazan refinery
• May 13 — Taman oil terminal
• May 08 — Yaroslavl refinery
• May 07 — Perm refinery
• May 05 — Kirishi refinery
• May 04 — Samara refinery
• May 03 — Primorsk oil terminal
• May 01 — Tuapse refinery

russia’s oil system isn’t “stable” anymore — it’s being systematically dismantled faster than they can repair it.

🇺🇦 Glory to Ukraine.

[Bambulu @Bqmbulu]

George S. Patton believed fear was contagious. But so was courage.

During World War II, while shells exploded around his men, Patton walked openly across the battlefield.
No hiding. No panic.

One officer asked him:

"Sir, aren’t you afraid?"

Patton replied:

"Of course I’m afraid. I’m just more afraid of failing my men."

Courage is not the absence of fear.
It is mastery over it.

[CSW Hoosier 🇻🇦 @CSW_Hoosier]

People are clueless about our history because it’s been revised to paint Christianity in the worst possible light, when it was specifically the Church that preserved all the great ancient texts that illuminate the histories for us.

Why did the Dark Age happen? Not because of Christianity, but because of Islam. Aside from Constantinople, all the centers of Christian learning in the East were conquered by the Caliphate. And in particular, Egypt was the greatest loss, for two reasons: 1) the catechetical school at Alexandria was a brilliant light of Christendom for the 6 centuries prior to Islamic conquest, and 2) most importantly, the production and importation of paper (made from papyrus) to Europe ceased overnight, and Europe had to resort to enormously expensive parchment for its writing mode — and thus reading and writing became relegated to the wealthy nobility and to the clergy. No one else could afford the material necessary.

Couple that with the next thousand+ years of Islamic raiders plundering the coasts of southern Europe for Christian slaves, leading to most unfortified coastal areas to be abandoned for centuries, and you have a recipe for Christian Europe to be forced to draw in upon itself. This coincided with the so-called Islamic Golden Age, which occurred specifically because Islam violently conquered Christian lands and stole their knowledge for themselves.

The Christian West during this period nearly collapsed altogether, but it was their unifying Christian faith that helped them band together to defeat the pagan Germans in Saxony and Bavaria, the pagan Vikings raiding and conquering the British coasts, and Islamic rule in Iberia, southern France, Sicily, and southern Italy.

People like to treat “science” and “learning” as these linear progressions, but in reality the studies of the sciences, and in particular philosophy, had really begun to decline during the period leading up to the fall of Rome in 476. This era was marked by increasing decadence and a lack of moral and social cohesion in the empire, and as society decayed so too did the quality of its academic institutions and scholastic fervor. Some people try to blame this decay on Christianity, but in reality Christianity was a response to — not the cause of — this societal decay.

This same pattern is playing out today. The moral and societal decay of the modern secular West is leading the younger generations to reject modernity and embrace faith, and in particular the more traditional and liturgical faiths are surging with young adult converts.

History doesn’t repeat itself but it does rhyme.

[David May @DavidSamuelMay]

At a bar this weekend, I spoke with a random person in their young 30s. She mentioned that she and her sister-in-law have political disagreements.

I asked her which subject in particular.

She said: Israel-Palestine.

So, I asked which side she stands on.

She said she was opposed to Israel genociding Palestinians.

Trying not to give away my position, I asked: What makes you say that?

She said it was Israel killing 200,000 Palestinian children.

I told her that was interesting because Hamas's death toll, which includes fighters, sits at around 70,000. At that point, she made it clear that she wasn't interested in changing her opinion.

We have a propaganda and misinformation problem. It seems that many people have developed strong opinions based on lies. But perhaps correct information could help dispel the lies. Though, I suspect the truth doesn't matter as much as the narrative.

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Hi. Meteorologist here. 👋

250 million people are not going to die because of this developing El Niño. That's not going to happen even if there is an 1877 repeat. That said, we don't even know yet how strong El Niño will be.

FFS, quit the panic p0rn.

Your post has 4.2 million views and 11,000 likes. This patent misinformation needs to quit going viral.