My ex-fiance, one of the brightest minds I’ve met in social engineering, infosec, machine learning, and psychedelic research, had been staff and lead engineer for security, consulting for governments across the world.

He could’ve had accomplishments from startup CEO and beyond.

One has to wonder as to why he decided to abstain.

Instead of pursuing an easy React Native ML startup to get acquired or found a backend company, he finds the most optimal solution to refuse an Apple offer and log off.

Where is he now? Nobody knows.

He knew from early on that my desires seemed to lie elsewhere. As did his own.

I’ve had relationships and encounters in the dozens, but I knew that a normal relationship with a normal human would never be sufficient.

I only realize now how lucky our chance falling out was.

I was naive.

Not necessarily because he was in his 30s and I was 19, as my IQ and intellectual background put me ahead of most 40 year olds in terms of crystalline intelligence at the time, but because I thought people as open as him were far more commonplace.

The world is not just increasingly hostile, but also my understanding of how hostile the world is to solutions evolved dramatically.

Doing quantum mechanics & psychological engineering as a teenager made me a target, even if all I cared about was optimal furry yaoi pairings.

STUDY FROM 1991 MAY HAVE FOUND ROOT CAUSE OF TRANSGENDER DISORDER

Overbearing Liberal Mothers with psychological disorders

boys who identified as girls, 53% of their mothers had Borderline Personality Disorders
Boys who knew they were boys it was only

@mikeroscoe67 @NotRightRuth 1/ Completely untrue. What benefit is there for you in such lies?

The pressure was from medical ethics in the light of what became obvious after GIDS responded to the lead of their 🌍 medical peers & peer clinics.

In 2009 the veteran gender expert Prof Richard Green, recently…

@NotRightRuth 2/…retired head of the world's largest adult GIC - London's Charing Cross - was so disgusted🔗 at the psychoanalytically-based pediatric clinic, GIDS' stubborn refusal to prevent the harm he had seen to those arriving at adult

@NotRightRuth 3/…by neglecting to provide "blockers" (GnRH agonists) other clinics had used for >20yrs(📽️1995) that he organised a conference of 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇧🇪🇩🇪🇬🇧 experts, patients & families on hormone treatment in adolescence with trans patients at @imperialcollege

@NotRightRuth @imperialcollege 4/…advise them. The heads of GIDS - which had sought & just been granted an exclusive national contract - just sat silent the entire day. That so upset Prof Spack🔗📽️ of @BostonChildrens that he announced that any UK family with a trans

@NotRightRuth @imperialcollege @BostonChildrens 5/…who could get to Boston🇺🇸🖼️ would be treated free of charge. Yet it was another 4yrs before those peer clinics finally budged them by showing them that their last ground for refusal - that 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 patients were different & it was impossible for GIDS to know which were trans…

There is so much wrong with this article, it's hard to know where to begin. Lesbians are not extinct, nor are lesbians close to extinction. The L Word has never really been as popular as "gay" & this has long been the case, it's not a new thing....

Then in the context of Queer activism, DIY activism & the burgeoning internet culture in the 90's younger adults did not seem to like to be labelled, or boxed into labels. It is still popular for younger adults to describe themselves as fluid, in terms of sexuality, gender...

Earlier, 70s/80s there had been an attack on #butch lesbians in the LGBT community, not from trans women, but from lesbian feminists & lesbian feminist theory, which branded butch #lesbians sadomasochists copying het roles & eroticising sexism & the oppression of femme lesbians..

There was also the so-called 'lesbian sex-wars' of the 80s which was really about Radical Feminist theory & lesbian feminist theory politically critiquing the industries of porn & prostitution, but also reflexively critiquing sexual practices like BDSM in the lesbian community...

There should always be space for such reflexivity, but what this was turned into was a false dichotomy between 'anti-sex' & 'pro-sex' feminists. This played into ancient misogynistic beliefs about lesbians as prudish, ugly, non-sexual, monstrous spinsters etc etc, NOT that this..

THREAD: Exposure before Extraction

1. Many are screaming for the EXTRACTION of corrupt people. People are asking:

- Prosecutors will surely follow the rule of law, won’t they?
- Why can the people see the crimes, but nothing happens?
- Why are there no major arrests yet?

#Breaking #BreakingNews
Countries around the world are speaking out about the #Deepstate of the #DNC CRIMINALS & The Military-Industrial Complex & other Corrupt Corporate & Business & Intel Agency Interests in #America which have subverted the nation, laws, ppl & the world.

Liberty and Freedom:

You want the freedom to be racist.
You want the liberty to terrorize POC and LGBT.
You want the freedom to discriminate and hate.

Thread.. @NicolaSturgeon There should be no place for Transphobia in ANY party.
However, women wanting to retain sex based rights and protections is not Transphobia.1/2

If you are going to call women Transphobic, you must be able to define what actually constitutes a Transwoman, because so far we are seeing drag artists, cross dressers, non binary etc all defined as Transwomen by Stonewall..2/3

Women have been subjected to vile mysoginistic abuse by some of the young members who are suddenky leaving Snp...and why are they leaving?
Because some weak protections for women were incorporated into the Hate Bill..3/4

I saw someone call @joannaccherry the most vile names, a C*** and other sex based insults. This and the other abuse has not been called out by our First Minister.4/5

Women I know personally have left @theSNP in their droves because of the attitude towards us voicing our concerns "Jeremy Hunts" etc..to the way we are being treated by these young people and others.5/6

BREAKING: Big @TheJusticeDept move against #ProudBoys. 5 new conspiracy arrests for actions at #Capitol.

Mention of the use of fluorescent orange recognition tape, movement as a group. Developing story.

h/t @FPWellman
Story via @davidgshortell @CNN. https://t.co/lvCBe1QqOR

While we wait on docs, I recommend revisiting this excellent @WSJ visual investigation of the #ProudBoys coordinated role in the #Capitol

The reason there is the "Only for use in Africa" label on some vaccines. Please bring every #African here:

The fundamental reason is essentially one of supply management so that #Africans also get a sizeable share of the vaccine within a reasonable time frame. In other words, it is a way to reserve a portion of the vaccine for #Africa.

It is meant to secure the vaccines for #Africa - it is the manufacturers, being aware of the scarcity of the vaccine, proactively managing supply so that there is some for #Africa.

COVID19 is a worldwide pandemic and some parts of the world are more affected than others and every nation and region is working frantically to secure some vaccine for its population.

The problem is that supply is limited, there are roughly less than a dozen vaccines that have been approved by WHO for distribution.

1/11
Last week General Motors announced plans to be carbon neutral in its global operations by 2040 & to offer only zero-emissions vehicles even by 2035. #velshi

2/11
I’ve had my share of things to say about GM's poor corporate responsibility & leadership for years but now, it seems, even GM sees the writing on the wall: the future is about cutting emissions, transitioning to electric vehicles or other zero-emissions technologies #velshi

3/11
America is less than 5% of the world’s population, but uses 20% of all the oil produced in the world every day. Gasoline for driving accounts for half of that. #velshi

4/11
General Motors has done the math. Getting to zero-emissions as quickly as it can is where GM can have the biggest positive environmental impact. With this announcement, we may witness an America where gas stations eventually become charging stations. #velshi

5/11
The upside to doing any of this is clean air, a healthier earth, stopping the warming of the earth, moderating the effects of hurricanes & floods & wildfires, all by transitioning away from an energy source that kills the planet to produce it & to burn it. #velshi

H/T @PatHarrison2
A decent report from the NY Times...
"As the new year made Brexit a reality, Tony Hale encountered the pitfalls of Europe’s redrawn geography. Specifically, he confronted the need to extricate 53 tons of rotting pork products from administrative purgatory

a port in the Netherlands.
For more than two decades, Mr. Hale’s company had shipped pork to the European Union without customs checks, as if the United Kingdom and the continent across the water were one vast country.

With Britain now legally outside the bloc,

exporters suddenly had to navigate inspections, safety regulations & a bewildering crush of paperwork.
For Mr. Hale, incorrectly prepared documents meant sending five containers full of pork to an unplanned final destination : the incinerator.
“It’s a new game,& we have to learn”

Mr. Hale said. “We are having to double- and triple-check every document.”
In the early days of the post-Brexit era, Britain is struggling to adapt to its new position in the global economy — its fortunes still tethered to the European Union; its companies now on the outside.

The trade deal Britain struck late last year with the European Union stopped tariffs from being imposed on goods exchanged across the English Channel, but did not prevent the revival of customs procedures, health and safety checks, value-added taxes on imports, and other

1. How The Irish🇮🇪, British 🇬🇧 & World🌏 Have Had The Wool Pulled Over Their Eyes 👀 By The Media 🧻 In The Biggest Social Experiment Ever Undertaken 🧵1/24

2. I have to admit to being fascinated seeing how easily people have been taken in since March of this year by the propaganda in our media. My own saving grace was that I haven’t really watched TV or bought the newspaper in years.

3. If I had tuned into our National Broadcaster RTE and believed everything I watched, I expect I would be in the exact same position as 99% of the population. Swallowing everything and questioning nothing.

4. Our newspapers, the IT & Independent, have just promoted non stop fear. Good journalism has died a death and now what appears in the papers are merely puff pieces and propaganda whilst successfully psychologically manipulating the 99%

5. In an upcoming thread🧵 this week I’ve actually analysed the headlines and words that the IT has used for the last 9 months when discussing the pandemic. You will be blown away by some of the data.

Postcard From Luxembourg: normality is restored prior to vaccination.
I’ve repeatedly said that “test, test, test” is madness, if the tests are unregulated. Why?
‘Because pandemic’, NO PCR mass testing has a declared operational false positive rate.

So we don’t know the oFPR of PCR mass testing in U.K. This is conducted in a small number of private labs, set up at pace in summer, anticipating a ‘2nd wave’ (itself a dubious prediction from the Imperial team who’ve been wrong every time before). You’d assume these “Lighthouse

...Labs are surely regulated, inspected, accredited etc. They’re doing the most impactful medical diagnostic testing which has ever happened in history. But no. None of these are true. ‘Because pandemic’. Now, I don’t know the oFPR either. But we’re paying for it. It is NOT ZERO.

However, the authorities take every positive result as a “confirmed case” (though there’s nothing confirmed). There is no open protocol you can examine & debate. None of the results are available for understanding, thinking & interpretation. Wouldn’t it be important to learn...

...how the distribution of cycle threshold for positives varies through a run of tens of thousands of samples? Or through time? Or across geography? There is no routine evaluation of the characteristics of the test, even though we know the oFPR of complex systems is subject to...

Here's the challenge with disrupting militia plots: most militia dudes are Dunning-Kruger levels of incompetent, but not Dunning-Kruger levels of dangerous.

So the problem is that militia culture is wrapped up in this sort of virtue signalling nonstop. It's all around trying to project yourself as a leader, a military expert, a tactical master, based entirely on what you've read in Tom Clancy novels

So a militia might say things like, alright, here's the plan. We're gonna get 1000 guys, and we're gonna set up a barricade at each of the three entrances to the statehouse, and then we're gonna neutralize the security forces.

Super scary stuff! Just one problem.

Where are they gonna get 1000 guys? How are they going to implement a Command and Control structure for 1000 guys? What are they gonna make the barricades out of?

This requires a high-level of coordination and logistics support that they really just don't actually have the talent or network for. Let alone that the number of guys they claim is always a factor of 100 larger than the number of guys who actually guy.

@jeffmason1 1/n I want to talk about why this doesn't hold up, @jeffmason1. Black Lives Matter and other groups protesting in 2020 never attempted to assassinate heads of state. They were seeking to uphold the constitution, not torch it. LEO response was so strong it violated human rights.

2/n The police response to those protests was so strong we had a hearing. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper testified about the military role in wake of the killing of George Floyd.

3/n Milley said, "I have many policemen in my family, and I am personally outraged by George Floyd's brutal and senseless killing. The protests that have ensued not only speak to this injustice, but also to centuries of injustice towards Black

4/n..We, as a nation and as a military, are still struggling with racism, and we have much work to do." Milley said the vast majority of protests were peaceful. "Peaceful protests mean that American freedom is working." He talked about the response, too.

5/n Milley: "I...advised it was not necessary to employ active-duty troops in response to the civil unrest." "It was my view then and...now, that local, state and federal police backed by the Nat. Guard under governor" could handle the situation. So, what was the response like?