Thread Reader helps you read and share Twitter threads easily!
I'm @ThreadReaderApp a Twitter bot here to help you read threads more easily. To trigger me, you just have to reply to (or quote) any tweet of the thread you want to unroll and mention me with the "unroll" keyword and I'll send you a link back on Twitter 😀
— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) November 25, 2017
X thread is series of posts by the same author connected with a line!
From any post in the thread, mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll
Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us easily!
Practice here first or read more on our help page!
Recent
The time is nigh to discuss a tale of 4 eBay hard drives! We had some shipping perils, some DOA perils, and perhaps finally some success? Let's find out! 🧵time! 
So, let's start with the two drives in the first box. While the seller did issue a full refund, he "couldn't possibly imagine" that the drives were damaged in shipment. That makes the one of us 🤣
Starting with the first drive, Western Digital Data Lifeguard found and fixed errors on one of the drives. Great!
@GibsTweets_KF Here's audio recording of Jersh defending a board for pedophiles to discuss being pedophiles. Here's also a post he made on KF doubling down on defending it. I know you've seen these.
@GibsTweets_KF Here he is also admitting to finding Etna hot, a child character, when he was 15, well after it would have been "age appropriate" like with the shota catboys. Again, you've seen these and you don't care. Fuck you and that male feminist psychopath.
@GibsTweets_KF @threadreaderapp unroll
🚨 Narcissistic sadism is one of the darkest intersections in personality pathology — where the need for power meets the enjoyment of pain.
It isn’t just cruelty as a byproduct of self-interest. It’s cruelty as reward. The narcissistic sadist doesn’t harm others reluctantly or instrumentally — they experience genuine pleasure from suffering. And they will seek this pleasure out.
At the milder end of the spectrum, you have someone who gets a quiet thrill from humiliating others — sharp comments that land just right, watching someone shrink. At the more severe end, you have deliberate, calculated campaigns of psychological destruction where the suffering itself is monitored, savored, and prolonged. 🧵
It isn’t just cruelty as a byproduct of self-interest. It’s cruelty as reward. The narcissistic sadist doesn’t harm others reluctantly or instrumentally — they experience genuine pleasure from suffering. And they will seek this pleasure out.
At the milder end of the spectrum, you have someone who gets a quiet thrill from humiliating others — sharp comments that land just right, watching someone shrink. At the more severe end, you have deliberate, calculated campaigns of psychological destruction where the suffering itself is monitored, savored, and prolonged. 🧵
It tends to surface under specific conditions:
•When they have captive targets. Partners, children, employees — people with limited exit options. The relationship structure itself becomes the cage.
•When they’re winning. Narcissistic sadists often escalate when they feel secure. The mask slips not when they’re cornered but when they’re confident they won’t face consequences.
•During devaluation phases. Once idealization ends, the same person who was worshipped becomes a target for the accumulated resentment of having needed them at all.
•When their narrative is challenged. A direct challenge to their self-image can trigger a sadistic response — not just anger, but punishing anger, designed to make the challenger regret the attempt.
•In group dynamics. The narcissistic sadist is often the architect of mob behavior — pointing the group at a target and watching from a position of deniability. The smear campaign, the family scapegoating system — these are sadism with social cover.
•During discard. The ending of a relationship is often when the most overt sadism emerges, because the target is at peak vulnerability and the sadist faces no future reputational cost within that relationship.
•When they have captive targets. Partners, children, employees — people with limited exit options. The relationship structure itself becomes the cage.
•When they’re winning. Narcissistic sadists often escalate when they feel secure. The mask slips not when they’re cornered but when they’re confident they won’t face consequences.
•During devaluation phases. Once idealization ends, the same person who was worshipped becomes a target for the accumulated resentment of having needed them at all.
•When their narrative is challenged. A direct challenge to their self-image can trigger a sadistic response — not just anger, but punishing anger, designed to make the challenger regret the attempt.
•In group dynamics. The narcissistic sadist is often the architect of mob behavior — pointing the group at a target and watching from a position of deniability. The smear campaign, the family scapegoating system — these are sadism with social cover.
•During discard. The ending of a relationship is often when the most overt sadism emerges, because the target is at peak vulnerability and the sadist faces no future reputational cost within that relationship.
Narcissistic sadists are not random in their targeting. They need someone who feels deeply, visibly, and authentically. The whole mechanism depends on an emotional response. A person who can be made to cry, to panic, to doubt themselves, to beg for resolution — that’s what they’re hunting. Emotional depth and sensitivity aren’t weaknesses in any objective sense, but in the presence of a sadist they function as a vulnerability.
Specific profiles they gravitate toward:
• Empaths and highly sensitive people. They feel everything, they blame themselves instinctively, and they’re constitutionally inclined toward understanding rather than condemning. The sadist gets both a responsive target and a built-in rationalizer.
• People with existing wounds. Childhood neglect or abuse creates specific patterns — fawning, hypervigilance, a deep hunger for approval — that sadists read and exploit with precision. They don’t create the wound. They find the one that’s already there.
• High achievers and people with strong identities. There’s a particular thrill in breaking someone impressive. The stronger the person appears, the more satisfying the collapse.
• People with moral integrity. Someone who genuinely cares about being good, being fair, being kind — that person can be endlessly manipulated through their own conscience. The sadist weaponizes decency.
• Children. Captive, dependent, developmentally unable to name what’s happening to them, and guaranteed to react. The narcissistic parent who is also sadistic has the most compliant target imaginable — one who will also love them and seek their approval at the same time.
Specific profiles they gravitate toward:
• Empaths and highly sensitive people. They feel everything, they blame themselves instinctively, and they’re constitutionally inclined toward understanding rather than condemning. The sadist gets both a responsive target and a built-in rationalizer.
• People with existing wounds. Childhood neglect or abuse creates specific patterns — fawning, hypervigilance, a deep hunger for approval — that sadists read and exploit with precision. They don’t create the wound. They find the one that’s already there.
• High achievers and people with strong identities. There’s a particular thrill in breaking someone impressive. The stronger the person appears, the more satisfying the collapse.
• People with moral integrity. Someone who genuinely cares about being good, being fair, being kind — that person can be endlessly manipulated through their own conscience. The sadist weaponizes decency.
• Children. Captive, dependent, developmentally unable to name what’s happening to them, and guaranteed to react. The narcissistic parent who is also sadistic has the most compliant target imaginable — one who will also love them and seek their approval at the same time.
China pushed Iran towards a ceasefire in order to score diplomatic capital with the Trump administration, and hopes to use that credit to begin shifting U.S. policy toward the position that Taiwan is a "breakaway province that should reunite with the mainland" -WSJ
The number of registered unions in NZ has declined, with 16 unions having registrations cancelled for missing the deadline to reregister to comply with changes to the incorporated societies act.
Of these, 7 filled out their 2025 Membership Returns Report, totalling 846 members
Of these, 7 filled out their 2025 Membership Returns Report, totalling 846 members
These were:
•Athletes Cooperative - 60 rowers and cyclists joining Mahe Drysdales failed attempt to unionise Olympian athletes.
•Care Union - 77 caregivers at Presbyterian Support Otago
• Professional Drivers Union - 43 bus drivers who split from Auckland Tramways Union
•Athletes Cooperative - 60 rowers and cyclists joining Mahe Drysdales failed attempt to unionise Olympian athletes.
•Care Union - 77 caregivers at Presbyterian Support Otago
• Professional Drivers Union - 43 bus drivers who split from Auckland Tramways Union
•IAG NZ Staff Association - 432 insurance workers at IAG who split from FinSec (now Workers First) in the 90s
•Border Ops Association - 150 biosecurity NZ Ministry for Primary Industries employees.
• Southland Enterprises Union - 67 workers at a recycling sheltered workshop•
•Border Ops Association - 150 biosecurity NZ Ministry for Primary Industries employees.
• Southland Enterprises Union - 67 workers at a recycling sheltered workshop•
🔥 Day 1507 of russia’s war against Ukraine — what you need to know 👇
🧵 1/14
🧵 1/14
🔥 Ukraine Strike Key Krymskaya Oil Pumping Station
Ukrainian Defense Forces hit the strategically vital Krymskaya oil pumping station in Krasnodar Krai — worth around $25M — along with a 🇷🇺 Tor air defense system. The station pumps oil toward the Novorossiysk port.
2/14
Ukrainian Defense Forces hit the strategically vital Krymskaya oil pumping station in Krasnodar Krai — worth around $25M — along with a 🇷🇺 Tor air defense system. The station pumps oil toward the Novorossiysk port.
2/14
🔥 Russian Baltic Oil Exports Plunge 33% After 🇺🇦 Strikes
🇷🇺 Kommersant reports seaborne oil exports from Ust-Luga and Primorsk fell 33.2% to just 115,000 tons per day — the lowest level since early 2025. Ukrainian attacks continue to slash Moscow’s oil revenue.
3/14
🇷🇺 Kommersant reports seaborne oil exports from Ust-Luga and Primorsk fell 33.2% to just 115,000 tons per day — the lowest level since early 2025. Ukrainian attacks continue to slash Moscow’s oil revenue.
3/14
The Russians are very concerned about the emergence of the Ukrainian “Hornet” strike UAV (Russian name: “Martian-2”) from Eric Schmidt's Swift Beat company.
It reportedly has autonomy and terrain-following capabilities that were previously seen on the Russian “V2U” strike UAV.
1/
It reportedly has autonomy and terrain-following capabilities that were previously seen on the Russian “V2U” strike UAV.
1/
Here, a Hornet UAV destroys a Russian “Zoo-1M” counter-battery radar.
The medium-range UAV can automatically detect, classify, and lock onto a target, as seen here by the on-screen tag “VEH/ARM” (armored vehicle).
2/
The medium-range UAV can automatically detect, classify, and lock onto a target, as seen here by the on-screen tag “VEH/ARM” (armored vehicle).
2/
The Hornet is equipped with two daytime cameras that enable GPS-free terrain-following navigation using onboard digital maps, although it also has a simple GPS antenna.
The drone approaches targets at an altitude of 200 meters, and the Russians complain that it is very quiet.
3/
The drone approaches targets at an altitude of 200 meters, and the Russians complain that it is very quiet.
3/
🧵 (1/32) Thread: Here's today's list of new entries added to DebunkTHIS's Election Fraud Database. (Not everything that's newly added is a new event. It's an addition to the database.)
debunkthis.eth.limo
debunkthis.eth.limo
(2/32) Debunked Claim: DOJ Criticized for Allowing Faulty FBI Raid on 2020 Election Records
debunkthis.eth.limo/#/evidence/770…
debunkthis.eth.limo/#/evidence/770…
(3/32) Texas Poll Pads Caught Adding Hundreds of Voters in Real-Time
debunkthis.eth.limo/#/evidence/2a9…
debunkthis.eth.limo/#/evidence/2a9…
MORE ⬇️🧵(1/3): Iran is taking several steps to exert control over maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, with the net effect of keeping oil prices high. Iran likely aims to use high oil prices to exert economic pressure on the United States and extract concessions from the United States during negotiations.
An unnamed senior Iranian source told Russian state media on April 9 that Iran will not allow more than 15 vessels per day to transit through the Strait of Hormuz during the ceasefire. The Iranian Ports and Maritime Organization published a graphic on April 8 instructing ships to follow designated entry and exit routes in coordination with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy to transit the strait. These routes move international maritime traffic into Iranian-controlled waters. The graphic warns that ships risk hitting mines outside of these routes. Unspecified US officials previously told Western media on March 23 that there are at least a dozen Iranian mines in the strait.
Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei released a statement on April 9 in which he said that Iran will “take the management” of the Strait of Hormuz to a “new phase.” This statement is consistent with other Iranian officials’ statements in recent weeks that Iran intends to use the Strait as a point of leverage even after the war ends.
Commercial maritime tracking data showed that three cargo ships and one oil tanker entered the strait, while six cargo ships and four oil tankers exited the strait between 2:00 PM ET on April 8 and 2:00 PM ET on April 9.
An unnamed senior Iranian source told Russian state media on April 9 that Iran will not allow more than 15 vessels per day to transit through the Strait of Hormuz during the ceasefire. The Iranian Ports and Maritime Organization published a graphic on April 8 instructing ships to follow designated entry and exit routes in coordination with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy to transit the strait. These routes move international maritime traffic into Iranian-controlled waters. The graphic warns that ships risk hitting mines outside of these routes. Unspecified US officials previously told Western media on March 23 that there are at least a dozen Iranian mines in the strait.
Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei released a statement on April 9 in which he said that Iran will “take the management” of the Strait of Hormuz to a “new phase.” This statement is consistent with other Iranian officials’ statements in recent weeks that Iran intends to use the Strait as a point of leverage even after the war ends.
Commercial maritime tracking data showed that three cargo ships and one oil tanker entered the strait, while six cargo ships and four oil tankers exited the strait between 2:00 PM ET on April 8 and 2:00 PM ET on April 9.
2/ Iran, the United States, and Israel have not exchanged fire since ISW-CTP’s last data cutoff on April 8. Gulf states continue to report drone attacks against them, however. Bahrain’s Defense Ministry stated on April 9 that it has intercepted seven Iranian drones since April 8. The Kuwaiti Armed Forces announced on April 9 that an unspecified number of drones entered Kuwaiti airspace and that one of these drones targeted a Kuwaiti National Guard site.
3/ The US Government stated on April 8 that Iran submitted a “new” and “modified” proposal to the United States that will serve as the basis for the US-Iran talks. US President Donald Trump stated on April 7 that this proposal is a “workable basis on which to negotiate.” Iranian media previously published a version of its 10-point proposal, which included long-standing and maximalist Iranian demands. The proposal called for guarantees against future strikes on Iran, Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz, recognition of Iran’s right to uranium enrichment, and the lifting of all US primary and secondary sanctions. It also demanded the termination of United Nations and International Atomic Energy Agency resolutions against Iran, the withdrawal of US forces from the region, war reparations, and a ceasefire across all fronts, including Lebanon.
Unspecified mediators told the Wall Street Journal on April 8 that Iran has softened several of its demands, including its demands related to nuclear enrichment, the withdrawal of US forces from the Middle East, and war reparations. The Wall Street Journal also highlighted disagreements over the scope of the ceasefire, noting that the United States does not consider Lebanon part of the agreement despite Iran including it in its proposal. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stated on April 9 that Israeli strikes on Lebanon render negotiations “meaningless.” Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf separately insisted that Lebanon is part of the ceasefire framework.
Unspecified mediators told the Wall Street Journal on April 8 that Iran has softened several of its demands, including its demands related to nuclear enrichment, the withdrawal of US forces from the Middle East, and war reparations. The Wall Street Journal also highlighted disagreements over the scope of the ceasefire, noting that the United States does not consider Lebanon part of the agreement despite Iran including it in its proposal. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stated on April 9 that Israeli strikes on Lebanon render negotiations “meaningless.” Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf separately insisted that Lebanon is part of the ceasefire framework.
My statin thread went viral. Thousands of you read it. But the messages that hit me the hardest were the ones that said: "Mark, I have heart disease in my family. My dad had it. My grandfather died from it. Am I next? Is there any hope for someone like me?"
I need you to hear me. There is hope. Real hope. Backed by science.
Look at this chart. A 2016 study in the New England Journal of Medicine followed 55,685 people. Even those dealt the WORST genetic hand for heart disease cut their risk in HALF through lifestyle alone.
You are not your diagnosis. You are not your family history. Let me show you why. 🧵
I need you to hear me. There is hope. Real hope. Backed by science.
Look at this chart. A 2016 study in the New England Journal of Medicine followed 55,685 people. Even those dealt the WORST genetic hand for heart disease cut their risk in HALF through lifestyle alone.
You are not your diagnosis. You are not your family history. Let me show you why. 🧵
1/ I know what it feels like to believe your genetics are a death sentence. I was lying in a hospital bed at Stamford Hospital in 2020. I was 52. I just had a heart attack on a tennis court. A lifelong athlete. The fit one. And my first thought was: this was always going to happen. It's in my blood. There's nothing I can do.
That thought almost broke me. Because when you believe you're doomed, you stop fighting. You accept the pills. You stop asking questions. You hand your life over to a system that hands you a bag of drugs and says good luck.
I'm here to tell you that thought was wrong. And I have the data to prove it.
That thought almost broke me. Because when you believe you're doomed, you stop fighting. You accept the pills. You stop asking questions. You hand your life over to a system that hands you a bag of drugs and says good luck.
I'm here to tell you that thought was wrong. And I have the data to prove it.
2/ This chart changed my life. It's from the Women's Health Study published in JAMA Cardiology.
Family history, your genetics, is a 2x risk factor. I'm not going to lie to you and say genetics don't matter. They do. But look at the green bars.
Diabetes is a 10x risk. Metabolic syndrome is 6x. Hypertension, obesity, smoking are all 4x.
You've been losing sleep over the 2x. The things you can actually control are 4, 6, and 10 times more dangerous. And they are ALL within your power to eliminate.
Study: Mora S, et al. JAMA Cardiology, 2016;1(1):60-67.
Family history, your genetics, is a 2x risk factor. I'm not going to lie to you and say genetics don't matter. They do. But look at the green bars.
Diabetes is a 10x risk. Metabolic syndrome is 6x. Hypertension, obesity, smoking are all 4x.
You've been losing sleep over the 2x. The things you can actually control are 4, 6, and 10 times more dangerous. And they are ALL within your power to eliminate.
Study: Mora S, et al. JAMA Cardiology, 2016;1(1):60-67.
US Air Force C-17A Globemaster III #AE1173 as RCH667 has completed the 7th medical evacuation from Ramstein AB, Germany to JB Andrews, MD since the launch of Operation EPIC FURY, meeting 1 patient evacuation vehicle (PEV) and 1 medical ambulance bus (MAB) to transport wounded back to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
1/
1/
Notably, this same aircraft conducted a medical evacuation mission out of Jordan and Kuwait early Monday morning using this same call sign.
2/
2/
The 7 medevac flights have met a total of 9 PEVs (left), that can carry up to 16 patients each, and 7 MABs (right), that can carry up to 30 patients each.
📸: @PenguinSix
3/
📸: @PenguinSix
3/
Office of the First Lady
First Lady Melania Trump’s Statement
The White House
April 9, 2026
Good afternoon.
The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today.
1)
First Lady Melania Trump’s Statement
The White House
April 9, 2026
Good afternoon.
The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today.
1)
The individuals lying about me are devoid of ethical standards, humility, and respect. I do not object to their ignorance, but rather, I reject their mean-spirited attempts to defame my reputation.
2)
2)
I have never been friends with Epstein. Donald and I were invited to the same parties as Epstein from time to time, since overlapping in social circles is common in New York City and Palm Beach.
3)
3)
