Dr. Ayọ̀ Ighodaro

"Land of Milk and Honey" - Coming Soon! #TinubuIsHere

[Covie @covie_93]

It's funny how the female reporter is just sitting there all calm while the man who told you that a woman is too emotional to be president is having a full blown crash out on national TV.

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

Iran says it will no longer wait for threats, declaring new strategic regional defense doctrine
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Iran's Expediency Discernment Council chairman Sadeq Larijani said Tehran's intervention in support of Lebanon constitutes a formal declaration of a new strategic doctrine, under which attacks on any component of the Restance Axis will trigger a response that extends beyond geographical boundaries and reshapes regional equations.

Larijani said Iran has entered a new phase in which it no longer waits for threats to emerge before acting to preserve its regional position, but instead takes the initiative. He also warned that any expansion of the conflict or attack on critical Iranian infrastructure would be met with a comprehensive and deterrent response.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

Addressing the most common criticism of my previous post, I have here plotted the extreme poverty rates of the US and China on the same scale, sourced directly from the World Bank.

The result is the same: the extreme poverty rate ($3/day PPP) is higher in the US than in China.

[𝓛𝓸𝓻𝓭 𝓓𝓻𝓮𝔂 👑 @lorddrey]

Suppose I'm staking my money on the survival of any civilisation.

Say Persia versus the collective West combined.

I'm putting my money on Persia outlasting the entire Western civilisation.

Persia will be here after the West is gone and so will China.

[yang goi @GongR1ght]

we were told that 2010 was the worst World Cup because it was being held in South Africa, we were told that the World Cups in Russia and Qatar are going to be the worst because they were being held in authoritarian countries.

We were told that USA would be the best host for WC because it is a democracy and has the best NFL stadiums.

All these narratives were set by the media which wanted us to hate on countries which are not in Western hemisphere.

[DataFut @DataFutebol]

O gol mais bonito na história do futebol: Seleção Brasileira, 1970.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The "Mediterranean diet" you're sold is a marketing campaign. Here is what those islanders actually ate.

The bread wasn't a dry health loaf. It was torn up to soak olive oil and dragged through soft cheese.

The protein wasn't lean grilled chicken. It was fatty lamb, goat, and the organs most people now bin.

The cheese wasn't a low-fat sprinkle. Full-fat sheep and goat cheese, eaten by the slab.

The olive oil wasn't a cautious teaspoon. Fat ran to 40% of their calories, and the heart disease stayed rare.

And they didn't stop at olive oil. They rendered animal fat and happily cooked in that too.

The fish was a coastal habit. Inland, the feast was a whole roasted goat, not a fillet of sea bass.

Wine came with dinner, not a lecture about abstinence. Snails, eggs, and offal, not a quinoa bowl.

Sugar was almost absent. No breakfast pastry, no honey granola, no fruit-stirred yoghurt anywhere near it.

Here is the bit they bury. Keys surveyed Crete partly during Orthodox Lent, when meat, cheese, and eggs are dropped for weeks.

He measured a fasting island and sold it to the world as their everyday plate.

The real Mediterranean diet was rich in animal fat and built on the whole animal. The version on the supermarket box is its opposite, wearing a Greek island as a costume.

[Bushra Shaikh @Bushra1Shaikh]

When Iranian ministers told me that they had built a strategy around deterrence and endurance and invested heavily in layered ballistic missile capabilities and long-range drones, they weren't kidding.

Iran has emerged as a new global player, challenging power and Western hegemony in the region.

Objectively this is very impressive, for a nation under the most severe, long standing sanctions.

[Prof Mike 🍉🇵🇸✊🏽Annibyniaeth @MikeDeadman3]

I worked in Iran for a short time

What a noble people. Hospitable, honest, loyal, welcoming.

I've supervised more Iranian PhD students than I can count. Hard working, intelligent, logical and rational, excellent researchers

I support Iranians

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Extraordinary chart: Chinese AI models have now completely overtaken their US competitors on OpenRouter, the largest API aggregator out there for AI models.

Interestingly it's really a 2026 story: beforehand US models were truly dominant.

This is mainly due to the release of models like Kimi K2.5 (released in Jan 26), MiniMax M2.5 (Feb 26), and, of course, DeepSeek V4 (released in April).

Like I wrote after the release of DeepSeek V4, for most tasks, favoring Chinese AI models is literally a no-brainer in almost all respects:

- At least 10 times cheaper than US models
- At least 90% as good for most tasks (programming, copywriting, etc.)
- Your data and privacy are MORE secure as it's open source and you can (and should) use it in a way where no-one sees your data, like self-hosting or via Zero Data Retention (ZDR) providers.

Honestly it's so freaking obvious that at this stage there are two categories of AI users: those who already use Chinese models, and those who will.

Src for graph: https://t.co/hh1N11JdFl

[Mark Slapinski @mark_slapinski]

It is okay to be Jewish.

It is okay to attend your local synagogue.

It is okay to celebrate Hannukah.

It is not okay to use white phosphorus on civilians in Gaza and Lebanon.

[yang goi @GongR1ght]

Norway said that they are not going to play in World Cup in Qatar even if they qualified (they didn’t). Denmark left it until the last minute to confirm their participation in the World Cup 2022Germany forced their players to make political statements before the match in FIFA WC 2022 even though some players didn’t want to do it.

BBC literally disrupted the coverage of one of the best opening ceremonies of the World Cup in Qatar just for virtue signaling.

but for World Cup 2026, the whole media is silent other than a few token articles here and there and Norway and Germany aren’t protesting anything when there’s so much to protest about 🤡

[Othell Yarwyck @bigbrovar]

Front page of @BBCSport's football section, and not a single mention of the visa bans affecting Iranian footballers, as well as numerous fans and officials from participating teams ranging from Iraq to Scotland.

Not one word.

Yet these same outlets spent years relentlessly scrutinizing South Africa, Russia, and Qatar over everything from human rights concerns to crime and security issues.

The contrast in coverage is striking.

[Woye @woye1]

Kaduna State has officially commenced a rigorous six-week training program for 1000 newly recruited forest guards at the Police College, Kaduna.

2: You will recall that the Gov of Kaduna State @ubasanius earlier approved the recruitment of 1000 forest guards selected from frontline communities so they are already FAMILIAR with the challenging local terrain.

3: Training: a six-week intensive program coordinated by @Official_ONSA

4: They will be deployed to Birnin Gwari, Giwa, Kachia, Kagarko, Kajuru, and Igabi.

5: Peace is a policy of @ubasanius

6: @Yeribaaba @HighChiefOkoro @ishaqsamaila5 @musa_kiliya @MusanBaturia @PrimeReportersn @Better_Kaduna @iamAhmadOlolu @OzoMusty @MOIKaduna @DepGovKaduna

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

When surveyed, Chinese people rate their government as more democratic than Americans rate our government.

US State work-around: fund a group that makes up stats using biased metrics to counter reality.

"Freedom House" is pure deep-state propaganda.

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

Iran is perhaps the only country in the world that acts from principle. It could have sold out to Western barbarism years ago but never has. This strength comes from its steadfast people.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

Iran’s retaliatory strikes against occupation forces in Palestine are one of the sharpest examples of internationalism today. Iran is channeling the gains of its sovereignty towards the defence of the Lebanese people from colonial encroachment.

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

Prediction: Iran is going to be the most loved national team in this World Cup. Just imagine them being massively applauded while Iran is bombing both Israel and American forces

[ابراهيم ناجي Ibrahim Naji @Ibrahym22Nagi]

Iran is paying the price for standing with the Palestinian cause on behalf of all Arabs and Muslims.

Iran is sacrificing its most precious possessions in defense of Arabs and Muslims, at a time when most Arabs and Muslims are hostile towards it.

O God, protect Iran, Iran and the people of Iran.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

In the fight against Genocide, it is illegal in the UK, and carries 14 years in prison, to state or even to imply that you support Hamas or Hezbollah. So please do not do this.

However they have not yet found a way to make it a crime to support the state of Iran.
I support Iran