A. R. K.🌻

Software Developer, Interest in Politics, Things with Olympic Wrestling, PC and RP Gamer, 🇨🇵 Enthusiast, Weremouflon - Personal views

[Qalaat Al Mudiq @QalaatAlMudiq]

A sentence nobody expected to read in 2026:

#Syria will be *the* Middle East's largest fuel oil exporter in June.

And not because it produces the most oil.

Because Iraqi crude is trucked through Syrian territory to the Mediterranean, turning the country into a key export corridor.

The alternative route was launched in late March as a bypass to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Despite the Iran agreement, it's here to stay: the war has reshaped regional energy flows amid persistent geopolitical uncertainty in the Gulf.

https://t.co/GFIND0pe8R

[Werschweigtmachtsichmitschuldig @AfDverbot_2024]

#Höcke-Fan #Issmer aus #Erlensee (Main-Kinzig-Kreis) spendete erneut an die #AfD.
50.000 Euro waren es im Mai dieses Jahres.

https://t.co/lMP3JakB75

[Ipa 🇺🇦 @ippvch]

“2021 was 5 years ago, post a pic of you from 2021.”

A simple Instagram trend. For Ukrainians, it hits differently.

A thread about everything russia stole from us and me personally🧵

[Rudi Bachmann @BachmannRudi]

Seems important… 👇

[A. R. K.🌻 @spyonmetoo]

@jan_leidecker Hoffentlich setzen sie auch den Ungarnknaller JD ein...

[Vitaly Shevchenko @VitalyBBC]

Normally, nothing ever happens in Kyiv's sleepy suburb of Vynohradar. But that changed in the early hours of Tuesday. My latest from Ukraine.

[A. R. K.🌻 @spyonmetoo]

@BembelFfm @MariamLau1 Und ich dachte, man soll berichten, was passiert ist, in einer Zeitung. Ich Idiot...

[Frank J. Fleming @IMAO_]

Interestingly, Xena Warrior Princess had a black Helen of Troy thirty years ago, but race wasn’t a big deal back in the 90s.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Ukraine allows Putin’s May 9 parade to go ahead after Trump’s intervention and a promise to exchange 1,000 Ukrainian POWs. No prisoners have been freed, and Putin after his parade unleashed one of the biggest missile and drone barrages of the war. Here is a Kyiv high-rise where dozens were killed and injured last night, including children, and many more still remain under the rubble.

[A. R. K.🌻 @spyonmetoo]

@Noahpinion Rambo 26 will be a sad story.

[A. R. K.🌻 @spyonmetoo]

@Noahpinion Worth noting that PKS is all suspects not convictions.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Nukebros been awful quiet lately

[A. R. K.🌻 @spyonmetoo]

@Herold202020 @micha_bloss Wir könnten halt auch selbst Batterien in Form von eautos und Speichern hinstellen. Aber das wissen sie vermutlich selbs.

[Ricarda Lang @Ricarda_Lang]

Vielleicht wäre es sinnvoll, die Kernaufgabe der Wirtschaftsministerin an eine andere Person auszulagern?

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

This is cyberpunk AF.

Bad actors appear to be using AI to create malicious software that human coders can't see, but which other AIs then use to code, producing damaging effects that no human can catch...

[John Foreman CBE @John_ForemanCBE]

On the Strait of Hormuz conundrum, the 1987 tanker war is illustrative. The US had 28 ships in the region, France 15 inc an aircraft carrier, the UK 9 plus random Italian, Dutch and Belgium escorts.

Despite these large numbers, escorting ships was ineffective. Attacks went up in the SOH after the operation started.

And since 1987 politicians have become much more risk adverse and naval platforms scarcer.

[Thord Are Iversen @The_Lookout_N]

With much attention on Iran and Kharg Island, the Russians conducted a large combined strike overnight, with the main effort on Kyiv.

Sizable Navy contribution with 25 Kalibr's total from both the Black Sea Fleet (16 fired off Novorossiysk, own data) and the Caspian Flotilla.

[A. R. K.🌻 @spyonmetoo]

@Noahpinion Also: ignoring flooding risks (floodwater, wetland and open water body regulation) improves insurabilty ? Are you counting on insurance mathematicians with collective brain damage?

[A. R. K.🌻 @spyonmetoo]

@Noahpinion What in earth does a thread that cites dishwasher cycles promise for housing construction? That sounds like Trump slop...

[A. R. K.🌻 @spyonmetoo]

@Rebel44CZ And have an potential Azeri uprising in the Northwest to complement the Kurds? 😵‍💫