#  @TomSneddon14 Tom Sneddon
Tom Sneddon posts on X about russia, france, ukraine, ireland the most. They currently have [---] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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- [--] Month [------] -52%
- [--] Months [------] +218%
### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1498185386908127236/posts_active)
### Followers: [---] [#](/creator/twitter::1498185386908127236/followers)
- [--] Week [---] -1.40%
- [--] Month [---] -0.71%
- [--] Months [---] +2.20%
- [--] Year [---] -31%
### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::1498185386908127236/influencer_rank)
### Social Influence
**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries) 29% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 9% [finance](/list/finance) 5% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 3% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) 2% [stocks](/list/stocks) 1% [currencies](/list/currencies) 1% [social networks](/list/social-networks) 1% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) 1%
**Social topic influence**
[russia](/topic/russia) 4%, [france](/topic/france) 4%, [ukraine](/topic/ukraine) 3%, [ireland](/topic/ireland) 3%, [all the](/topic/all-the) 3%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 3%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 3%, [ton](/topic/ton) 2%, [denmark](/topic/denmark) 2%, [the big](/topic/the-big) 2%
**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
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**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"@ProudBavaria Agreed. But maybe with an option (only for administrative realms) to spend a ton one gold and give *one* city the chance to sprawl out to Constantinople-sized enormity"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2023098574813503784) 2026-02-15T18:14Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@nobodyknows2322 I think 19th century fears of Russia pretty quickly revive in that scenario. UK would be Austria-Hungary and Ottomans staunchest supporter at the peace conference and probably Germanys too so long as it loses its colonies and navy"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2020761034701627871) 2026-02-09T07:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ProudBavaria See this is the EUV weirdness I wanted. Oooh Denmark became a hanseatic republic and the Calvinist Theocracy of Flanders just annexed Lige. Great Not just big Bohemia fighting big France again for the billionth time"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2021102725472149924) 2026-02-10T06:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@nikicaga This can be pretty easily proven by the fact that the areas Hungary lost that didnt really contain Hungarian minorities (eg Burgenland and Slavonia) arent a focus of irredentism. I mean theyre on the Big Hungary car sticker but they dont really want them back"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2021104513113829814) 2026-02-10T06:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@avzaagzonunaada I go by Thomas tma when Im speaking French because I detest how Tom sounds in French"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2021116794270830810) 2026-02-10T06:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@the_ason @agraybee Panama Canal should have settled this once and for all"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2021119053943726220) 2026-02-10T07:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@johanistmat @nikicaga Twenty-year-old Clavicular casually lifts grocery bags and opens jam jars with ease after coming off insane supplement regimen"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2021119798336164172) 2026-02-10T07:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Kilvesfur @ProudBavaria Thats what the actual Age of Absolutism looked like Louis XIV spent [--] years trying and failing to take the Palatinate. Theres loads wrong with EU5 but as regards this map its really just the Ottomans and Muscovy that need some major buffs"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2021254708568998312) 2026-02-10T16:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Kilvesfur @ProudBavaria I mean sure but its like a flight sim - if my spitfire or Messerschmitt can fire guided missiles it kinda defeats the purpose right I want the game to give me a world that at least resembles historical reality. 18th century giant Bohemia vs giant Mamluks doesnt work for me"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2021310260313489676) 2026-02-10T19:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@SpaghettiKozak Even here he cant commit to the bit though. He wants to join the god squad but hes a Reddit atheist nerd at heart and this the universe came from something shit wont cut it"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2021888171399663896) 2026-02-12T10:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@cheer_wine Nice that theyre figuring out ways to hate people without even waiting for the excuse to drop"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2022266858934620308) 2026-02-13T11:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@VK_HM Alsace Lorraine but no Low Countries I mean cmon they were HRE And if youre going to pretend the key criterion is are they really into beer"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2022264173590172043) 2026-02-13T10:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ProudBavaria Yes. But max one per realm. Probably only empires. Should be a late-ish playthrough goal not something you can just spam with enough cash"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2023099480082719219) 2026-02-15T18:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@agraybee Instead it merely decimated them (see what I did language nerds)"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2023437301595205798) 2026-02-16T16:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@BalticJames @clement_molin Im not saying the shelling of frontline cities is a war crime in itself - of course cities are fought over - Im just saying theres no indication that using human shields would deter Russia in the slightest. And again just because Ukraine does its best to protect"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1970119155312386470) 2025-09-22T13:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@LiberalHegemony This is like something from a 90s schoolbook called Todays Multicultural Britain where theres one happy child of every race on the merry-go-round. They couldve at least made her frown so you could imagine shes thinking about terrorism or something while vitamin-C maxing"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1970462135311306810) 2025-09-23T12:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@LiberalHegemony See A little subtle post-Midjourney editing and theyd have a much more powerful piece of agitprop"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1970463350506299724) 2025-09-23T12:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@9mmballpoint @LiberalHegemony Even in Mao era Chinese propaganda posters the muscular peasants and factory workers dont gaze quite this adoringly at their infallible leaders"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1970562865733214299) 2025-09-23T18:56Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@9mmballpoint @LiberalHegemony Genuinely. The Charlie Kirk stuff looks cultier than this"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1970565542445506586) 2025-09-23T19:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@_lyraaaa_ @frogs4girls Google maps: But its nice man. You can stop enjoy the view maybe crack open a Dr Pepper play some music. I mean whats the rush anyway You think Home Depot cant wait an hour"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1970850508765299162) 2025-09-24T13:59Z [---] followers, 15.5K engagements
"@iA3838119368737 @tweet4Anna_NAFO Moldova has been a member of the UN since March [----]. Otherwise good job though you earned your ruble 👍"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1972545056868589788) 2025-09-29T06:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@wildstar33 @Hieraaetus Yeah. This is like how Burmese people who arent pro regime get mad if you say Myanmar"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1972905101443715328) 2025-09-30T06:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@sumguy265 @wildstar33 @Hieraaetus Again its the associations. If a Catholic theocratic regime took over in Ireland and insisted that the world call my country ire Id insist people still use Ireland in English - its a richer and more resonant term in that language whereas ire is functionally a neologism"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1972906380500885592) 2025-09-30T06:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Vibutler_ @cheer_wine Nono just worship the LLM. Its fine. Something something Charlie Kirk"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1975465664451383720) 2025-10-07T07:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@MarkGaleotti Good analysis - the bit missing for me is the banking/finance sector. Borrowing is tough for Russia and its running a deficit so when the SWF is depleted they face some tough choices. I suspect the urge to just print money will get harder and harder to resist"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1975496719908364376) 2025-10-07T09:41Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@cmarschnerde Bad example - this kind of urban Bauhaus you find in Austria and N Italy actually looks great especially in medium-sized towns where the image on the right would look pretentious and out of place. Its not at all the same as identikit concrete box architecture"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1978850026034966959) 2025-10-16T15:46Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@cmarschnerde Right but it establishes an architectural idiom (clean smooth facade big windows no frills) that means that when Bauhaus arrives in that region it fits. This looks good in Vienna (and in say Turin). Doesnt work everywhere"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1978915266277912968) 2025-10-16T20:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@lucyjones And incidentally its much better still across the border in Romania though of course things are heading in the wrong direction everywhere"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1561721963764224001) 2022-08-22T14:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ajferguson98 @cortes_john @lucyjones Yes and a willingness to leave remnants of richer ecosystems. Hungarians can do 100ha monocultures of maize and sunflower with the best of them but there are still pockets of meadow and mixed woodland. Here are some in my area (from May)"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1561750239580676101) 2022-08-22T16:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@lucyjones @ajferguson98 @cortes_john Good question Definitely not a newer push - the govt just passed laws allowing logging even in national parks - as a response to the energy crisis But I think a combination of ingrained habits + falling rural populations meaning lower land pressure"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1561789180828700673) 2022-08-22T18:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@redhead_ophelia On the one hand its probably fine in itself - the dogs dont seem to mind. What gives me the ick is youre not actually treating your dog as a dog with particular doggy needs but as a sort of animate plushie and I expect this leads to fucked up outcomes eventually"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1973836632756531256) 2025-10-02T19:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@cheapncheerless Im gonna assume its actually Czechoslovakia theyre wishing death upon"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1981329529571344841) 2025-10-23T11:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@aowd25 @JayinKyiv I love these chatGPT replies. A flower of serene equanimity in a sea of angry humans"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1982096096814850150) 2025-10-25T14:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@watn_tarnation But also What are liberals going to say now Yeah youre right. Libs would have to concede that drinking bourbon in the afternoon and watching tv with your gun is peak happiness. You finally won"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1982504579012128960) 2025-10-26T17:48Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@Romy_Holland @paularambles As a father of a very tiny newborn Ive been thinking about this a bunch these past days. Like everyone was like this once. Every millionaire and crazy homeless guy was a few short decades ago a helpless little creature being nurtured and lovingly kept alive by someone"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1982538087130370479) 2025-10-26T20:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@joeofsteel1917 @ContraPoints Haha Joe Steel upset at talk of purges. Sorry your sympathy for the economic plight of Trump voters shows you to be a rightist deviationist. Its the North Dakota gulag for you"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1982735035154501815) 2025-10-27T09:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@DarRamesnis Its America. Every authoritarian cosplay is interchangeable. The vibe is big man does what he wants so they like it"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1983283564889133457) 2025-10-28T21:23Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@LzSeishi @the_transit_guy A [---] or a 9/11 If a bunch of planes hit it I guess theyre fucked either way regardless of building regs. But the street in the picture is Zrinyi St in Budapest. You can see its accessible to vehicles with a permit so fire trucks can get down there if they need to"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1983982520648761756) 2025-10-30T19:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Myuutie @nikicaga Nono the real utopia is across the border in Murmansk oblast. You get all the advantages of that sweet sweet Finnish weather but also theres krokodil"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1985940865651507642) 2025-11-05T05:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ProudBavaria Not if the Avignon pope is supporting Romes claim to supremacy. Which he obviously will"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1987581448812159074) 2025-11-09T18:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@nikicaga Wrong. Greater Belgium includes SE England (historic Belgae land). As the great Jacques Brel sang: Et Londres nest plus que le faubourg de Bruges perdu en mer perdu en mer"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1987760782738588142) 2025-11-10T05:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Demence119 @OregonMapGuy Exactly. I have my qualms about assigning a score to artworks - is the Taj Mahal a better work of art than Hamlet or the Magna Carta What does that even mean But on the other hand they all mattered and what other system is there"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1988297250620289402) 2025-11-11T17:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@almurray Its a different idea of the nation isnt it Calling out He died for Britain would sound pompous or tendentious but theres something almost of a civic religion about patriotism in France. As you say very strong"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1988589572134171071) 2025-11-12T12:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Vasileus1081 @HellenicEchoes Byzantium will be the focus of the first DLC I think which should fix this. Honestly glad they didnt spend too much time on culture-specific event art pre release"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1988664181097394320) 2025-11-12T17:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@phanari0te @relaithable I agree we need at least one more but Id go with sometime in the early [----] say [----]. You get Henry VIII Francois I Charles V Suleiman the Magnificent Spanish invasion of Aztec empire Reformation Italian warsFfall of Hungary and Sengoku Jidai all kicking off"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1988913445090021416) 2025-11-13T10:14Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@phanari0te @relaithable But I think the [---] CK3 start date is the perfect comparison - its what you play if you want to go back a century or two before the games main defining mechanics have matured. We need one that starts in the core EU era (early modern era)"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1988914315567473135) 2025-11-13T10:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@PunishedFredda The problem is the historically accurate way (basically unless you go out of your way to genocide people there wont be any assimilation to speak of at least until literacy is very widespread) would generate a lot of pushback for being boring. Should be a game rule like CK3"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1988952700541890655) 2025-11-13T12:50Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@cheer_wine Theres no solution to this. The sandbox vs railroading debate is doomed to go in circles forever. The only solution for my money is to accept that any game that starts in [----] is gonna end up weird but give us say [----] and [----] start dates as well"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1989074293792358606) 2025-11-13T20:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@cheer_wine CK3 proved that [--] start dates is the optimal number of start dates - thats a hill Ill die on. EU players get hung up on the dogs dinner that was EU4 start dates but CK3 already solved this problem The answer is 3"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1989075065724629307) 2025-11-13T20:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@moe_lean @Sturgeons_Law No sorry I was just looking for Juliette Binoche looking as similar to Anne Hathaway in the shot. But its overall a good looking film for not having a huge budget"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1990163371396866328) 2025-11-16T21:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@cheer_wine Ive hiked in Greece and Transylvania. Wolves werent an issue but encounters with the massive dogs that guard flocks from wolves were among the most thought-I-was-gonna-get-eaten-alive terrifying things that ever happened to me"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1990899012698816612) 2025-11-18T21:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Cruxador @ProudBavaria Nice dilemma though: Do I want to spend my afternoon a) genociding the New World or b) building small town bicycle infrastructure"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1991430538998215060) 2025-11-20T08:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ProudBavaria Very nice. BTW would it even have been that good to have a band of territory from one side of Southern Africa to the other Might have looked cool but surely to get from Angola to Mozambique youd still have been better off sailing around. Guess I can play and find out"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1991596874114204016) 2025-11-20T19:57Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@RepealTCPA1947 @isaac_kh No they just win elections to seats in the House of Commons"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1991605233252986967) 2025-11-20T20:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@RamblingsNerd @ProudBavaria OPB has done a ton of V3 vids - just check out his YouTube channel"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1993390188115247305) 2025-11-25T18:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@rosadoranger Guy Fawkes Night. Its all good fun its just you know at bottom it is the commemoration of burning a Catholic man alive in [----] which youd think might make more people uncomfortable than it actually does"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1994658480922443995) 2025-11-29T06:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Thatoneguy0161 @retro_futurist_ @cleobug101 I dont see why its mathematically impossible - attractiveness isnt merely a genetic variable doled out on a bell curve. Its influenced by diet exercise fashion effort put into presentation etc. Its perfectly possible for women to just look better on average than men"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1994752244277756295) 2025-11-29T12:56Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@skyler_higley I prefer to pour out libations to Yamaha the patron deity of motorbikes and pianos"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1995007419173224584) 2025-11-30T05:50Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@SupremeOde @ProudBavaria Agree with this. I think after the weird CK2/EU4 thing of making every date in history a start date they over corrected by only giving you one. Especially if we get HOI5 Id like the dlc to be around specific events (Overlord Barbarossa etc) with specific goals/achievements"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1996996227968246173) 2025-12-05T17:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@SupremeOde @ProudBavaria So I can fire up the game play d-day or whatever achieve what I want to achieve get my little dopamine hit and be out in an hour or two. Its a definite gap in the grand strategy market"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1996996643309158553) 2025-12-05T17:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Callum_TH @SupremeOde @ProudBavaria For me its like the [---] start in CK3 - almost a prequel to the main medieval era. Im glad its there. But yeah it needs one more - an equivalent of [----] so the the main early modern world of Habsburgs Tudors Conquistadors Ottomans and all the rest"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1997028473366294879) 2025-12-05T19:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@BrianJBerletic @pati_marins64 Yeah Ukraine shouldve never launched that unprovoked invasion of Russia in the first place should it"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/1998683837463695429) 2025-12-10T09:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ChrisO_wiki Hmm. I tried this and in my case it made much less of an effort :("
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2001034771409801514) 2025-12-16T21:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ImBillRay This is three years tops from being a Rob Reiner thing"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2001624756047745067) 2025-12-18T12:05Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@GHarward Weird thing to add to a metal helmet. Surely it clinks and jingles a lot Id keep decorations off actual battledress full stop barring maybe ribbons on the undershirt or something"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2001742716971950216) 2025-12-18T19:53Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@butleriano And then theres Switzerland just quietly keeping on keeping on"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2003200191965593726) 2025-12-22T20:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@nikicaga Fuentes is going to pull a Hanania isnt he"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2006056723388256763) 2025-12-30T17:36Z [---] followers, 17K engagements
"@bolsademiedo @nikicaga I think your cultural reference points (actual Islamic history) might not quite match OPs"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2006387980361986344) 2025-12-31T15:32Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@jocktag @2024dion For looks Ill still take Kyoto or Florence over KC in its prime but too beautiful creates problems of its own. You dont want to be Salzburg with a bajillion tourists just a nice walkable mid-rise fun urban space with lots of places to hang out"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2006454158388494777) 2025-12-31T19:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@DavidHerdson @PhillipsPOBrien @curtis_yarvin Weirdly deficit spending on public works is also the only Hitler policy Yarvin genuinely disagrees with"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2007024835214590189) 2026-01-02T09:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Jack_Frodo The bolt on his *helicopter* looking like that has got me. Has it been on cinder blocks in the drive for the past decade"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2007481772024705376) 2026-01-03T15:58Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@DanaTano501 @nikicaga Dont know what youre on about. Ballymena is spiritually Copenhagen - a haven of intellectual inquiry and a Mecca for connoisseurs of the finer things in life"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2007681382215233718) 2026-01-04T05:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@samuli_hirsi @Empty_America Well I imagine thats purely an aesthetic preference. Wire fences are surely more practical (and common in N Ireland) but most field boundary walls were built long before wire fences existed. Wood has also long been a pretty scarce commodity in Ireland unlike the US"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2007764849028481367) 2026-01-04T10:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Celebrim42 @anti_realism_ Fair enough wont happen again. I was just struck by your assertion of a collective human demand for sovereignty. Id always thought of free will as irreducibly thrust upon us - how can you demand free will unless you already have free will to demand it"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2008211238426198478) 2026-01-05T16:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Paul_Melman @Empty_America In defence of the rain theory dew ponds just arent a thing in say California or the south of Spain. Pretty much restricted to extremely damp islands in the North Atlantic"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2009324922116722939) 2026-01-08T18:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@OlivierRoulph @ErikBootsma Why do you keep calling it the Netherlands/Ireland when its obviously Budapest. And nobody said its its the engine of the global economy its just a nice place to be"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2009335205321167356) 2026-01-08T18:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@MarcusCVance Anyone whos tried actually lighting a wood fire knows a big log takes a surprising amount of heat and flame to actually catch. Plus in the motte and baileys natural habitat (Britain Ireland and northern France) it rains all the time"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2010042599541997682) 2026-01-10T17:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ChrisO_wiki Ted Cruz today: what America needs is someone with the temperament and bold strategic vision to nuke Denmark"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2012085533204513080) 2026-01-16T08:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@almurray @SamWatt30745054 Lmao love this. Anyone could pull a crowd at Edinburgh if they were the *grandson* of a *diplomat*. Thats just common sense"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2012867733461864797) 2026-01-18T12:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ProudBavaria I like and approve of this OPB tilt towards euro-hawkish current affairs commentary. Next step: lobbying for EU support to Paradox as strategic European tech asset"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2013188860000280993) 2026-01-19T09:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@headspaceman @willsolfiac @AdrienBoieldieu I hope we Europeans become more united and in all respects self-sufficient. That said an actual hot war between the US and some Nordic coalition of the willing would ultimately not end well. We need to disengage from the US arm Ukraine and build a European army"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2013260874719383936) 2026-01-19T14:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@kierkegaardpwns @thescottbarber Why would it stoke war They arent threatening to invade the US theyre threatening to defend themselves if invaded. The only sane response is yes of course you would. Like any self-respecting country would. Fortunately we would never invade you"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2013281864316797382) 2026-01-19T16:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@HearnsOfficial @dimenpsyonal I have my complaints about the UK government but I dont feel any more (or less) ignored than the citizens of England Scotland or Wales. And the Irish language is plainly not suppressed - Belfast has seen a larger increase in Irish speakers than almost anywhere in the south"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2013710301171007690) 2026-01-20T20:28Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@lolbertking @LinkofSunshine Yeah. And it makes everything after [----] a waste of time. I really want a good 1700s simulator but whats the point of waiting for redcoats and ships of the line if its just giant Bohemia and giant Mamluks duking it out again Deeply frustrating"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2013982182042107974) 2026-01-21T14:29Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ianbremmer @piersmorgan Piers is so unprincipled I think hes actually a good barometer of the political weather. Its like the betting markets - just raw probabilistic calculation of where this is going to end up"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2015471661479325883) 2026-01-25T17:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@EricVBailey @made_in_cosmos Its not that the words cant be translated its that theres no equivalent phrase wed naturally use in that situation. I remember sitting on a wall in France eating a sandwich and random strangers passing would call out Bon apptit Made me v self conscious"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2015869905166307591) 2026-01-26T19:30Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@nikicaga [--] would be an anecdote if nothing else. Hey did I ever tell you about the time I spent an [--] hour flight sandwiched between Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2016461903304777969) 2026-01-28T10:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Bartaway He mostly means it was ok to try to eradicate Poland I think. Still a big fan of the secret clauses in the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2016464596240892339) 2026-01-28T10:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@copesint A continent that had a generation before fought a twenty year long struggle spanning from Portugal to Moscow would be flabbergasted by the sheer size of Tennessee. Minds simply cannot comprehend etc"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2016790958109491538) 2026-01-29T08:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@batinfestation @FionaSmall Yeah this and The Secret of Kells have the advantage of actually being produced by Irish people"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2017152192319250928) 2026-01-30T08:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@redhead_ophelia I cant imagine trying to speak with such certainty while obviously not even bothering to wiki what Im talking about (prime minister I believe). Its in Europe I believe. Whatevs. If you dont develop your own opinions someone will develop them for you. Or something"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2017164747842482502) 2026-01-30T09:15Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Ezegames_RL @BitecoferStan Yeah but thats 40% of the population. Id be curious actually if theres a state in america where if you took away the 40% of the population that most decisively swings to a particular party that wouldnt leave the rest at least a toss-up"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2017313961251676383) 2026-01-30T19:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@nikicaga The first First Twink"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2017321901526266044) 2026-01-30T19:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@QingFoid @nikicaga Not sure it would have hurt the books that much to have two or three nice orcs whod rather garden. After all every WW2 movie has some scared [--] year old German kid who doesnt want to be there but I still cheer Tom Hanks blowing up a bunker full of them. Needs must"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2017334313839198490) 2026-01-30T20:29Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@TheLastTime31 @MakeUSAVAT @MelegReizinger The more of New England Canada gets the prettier the map looks"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2017855688060358924) 2026-02-01T07:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@LadySaffronVT Honestly I think theres something a bit cargo-cultish about even modern real-world religions. Ppl embrace the trappings but its all just piggybacking on a time when they really really felt it in their bones"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2018632678556540989) 2026-02-03T10:28Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@P_Kallioniemi @ForgiatoBlow47 Both the aesthetics (green headband random scrubland threats of grisly executions) and the vibe (if you infringe this moral code we murder you but its probably fine if we do that thing) is very ISIS-coded"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2018668074157875493) 2026-02-03T12:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@cheer_wine Its worse than that. You dont wrongly pick Franklin Pierce because you thought it was still Millard Fillmore youd simply never think of either. Biden is doomed to be memory-holed like them I fear. Another Gerald Ford"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2018784884022784111) 2026-02-03T20:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@nikicaga The question is is Bill sufficiently shameless to go MAGA A world of adulation and impunity awaits if he is"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2018930638968001003) 2026-02-04T06:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@evilvillain1231 Whenever I catch myself thinking Orions Belt is the lamest constellation I remind myself of the Big Dipper. Dipping bigly. Just such a chud of a constellation. And always right there"
[X Link](https://x.com/TomSneddon14/status/2019140245653188731) 2026-02-04T20:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
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Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @proudbavaria @nikicaga @cheerwine @liberalhegemony @kilvesfur @lucyjones @supremeode @agraybee @9mmballpoint @wildstar33 @hieraaetus @cmarschnerde @ajferguson98 @cortesjohn @redheadophelia @almurray @phanari0te @relaithable @chrisowiki @emptyamerica
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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"@ProudBavaria Agreed. But maybe with an option (only for administrative realms) to spend a ton one gold and give one city the chance to sprawl out to Constantinople-sized enormity"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:14Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@nobodyknows2322 I think 19th century fears of Russia pretty quickly revive in that scenario. UK would be Austria-Hungary and Ottomans staunchest supporter at the peace conference and probably Germanys too so long as it loses its colonies and navy"
X Link 2026-02-09T07:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ProudBavaria See this is the EUV weirdness I wanted. Oooh Denmark became a hanseatic republic and the Calvinist Theocracy of Flanders just annexed Lige. Great Not just big Bohemia fighting big France again for the billionth time"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@nikicaga This can be pretty easily proven by the fact that the areas Hungary lost that didnt really contain Hungarian minorities (eg Burgenland and Slavonia) arent a focus of irredentism. I mean theyre on the Big Hungary car sticker but they dont really want them back"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@avzaagzonunaada I go by Thomas tma when Im speaking French because I detest how Tom sounds in French"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@the_ason @agraybee Panama Canal should have settled this once and for all"
X Link 2026-02-10T07:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@johanistmat @nikicaga Twenty-year-old Clavicular casually lifts grocery bags and opens jam jars with ease after coming off insane supplement regimen"
X Link 2026-02-10T07:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Kilvesfur @ProudBavaria Thats what the actual Age of Absolutism looked like Louis XIV spent [--] years trying and failing to take the Palatinate. Theres loads wrong with EU5 but as regards this map its really just the Ottomans and Muscovy that need some major buffs"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Kilvesfur @ProudBavaria I mean sure but its like a flight sim - if my spitfire or Messerschmitt can fire guided missiles it kinda defeats the purpose right I want the game to give me a world that at least resembles historical reality. 18th century giant Bohemia vs giant Mamluks doesnt work for me"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@SpaghettiKozak Even here he cant commit to the bit though. He wants to join the god squad but hes a Reddit atheist nerd at heart and this the universe came from something shit wont cut it"
X Link 2026-02-12T10:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@cheer_wine Nice that theyre figuring out ways to hate people without even waiting for the excuse to drop"
X Link 2026-02-13T11:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@VK_HM Alsace Lorraine but no Low Countries I mean cmon they were HRE And if youre going to pretend the key criterion is are they really into beer"
X Link 2026-02-13T10:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ProudBavaria Yes. But max one per realm. Probably only empires. Should be a late-ish playthrough goal not something you can just spam with enough cash"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@agraybee Instead it merely decimated them (see what I did language nerds)"
X Link 2026-02-16T16:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@BalticJames @clement_molin Im not saying the shelling of frontline cities is a war crime in itself - of course cities are fought over - Im just saying theres no indication that using human shields would deter Russia in the slightest. And again just because Ukraine does its best to protect"
X Link 2025-09-22T13:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@LiberalHegemony This is like something from a 90s schoolbook called Todays Multicultural Britain where theres one happy child of every race on the merry-go-round. They couldve at least made her frown so you could imagine shes thinking about terrorism or something while vitamin-C maxing"
X Link 2025-09-23T12:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@LiberalHegemony See A little subtle post-Midjourney editing and theyd have a much more powerful piece of agitprop"
X Link 2025-09-23T12:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@9mmballpoint @LiberalHegemony Even in Mao era Chinese propaganda posters the muscular peasants and factory workers dont gaze quite this adoringly at their infallible leaders"
X Link 2025-09-23T18:56Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@9mmballpoint @LiberalHegemony Genuinely. The Charlie Kirk stuff looks cultier than this"
X Link 2025-09-23T19:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@lyraaaa @frogs4girls Google maps: But its nice man. You can stop enjoy the view maybe crack open a Dr Pepper play some music. I mean whats the rush anyway You think Home Depot cant wait an hour"
X Link 2025-09-24T13:59Z [---] followers, 15.5K engagements
"@iA3838119368737 @tweet4Anna_NAFO Moldova has been a member of the UN since March [----]. Otherwise good job though you earned your ruble 👍"
X Link 2025-09-29T06:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@wildstar33 @Hieraaetus Yeah. This is like how Burmese people who arent pro regime get mad if you say Myanmar"
X Link 2025-09-30T06:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@sumguy265 @wildstar33 @Hieraaetus Again its the associations. If a Catholic theocratic regime took over in Ireland and insisted that the world call my country ire Id insist people still use Ireland in English - its a richer and more resonant term in that language whereas ire is functionally a neologism"
X Link 2025-09-30T06:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Vibutler_ @cheer_wine Nono just worship the LLM. Its fine. Something something Charlie Kirk"
X Link 2025-10-07T07:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@MarkGaleotti Good analysis - the bit missing for me is the banking/finance sector. Borrowing is tough for Russia and its running a deficit so when the SWF is depleted they face some tough choices. I suspect the urge to just print money will get harder and harder to resist"
X Link 2025-10-07T09:41Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@cmarschnerde Bad example - this kind of urban Bauhaus you find in Austria and N Italy actually looks great especially in medium-sized towns where the image on the right would look pretentious and out of place. Its not at all the same as identikit concrete box architecture"
X Link 2025-10-16T15:46Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@cmarschnerde Right but it establishes an architectural idiom (clean smooth facade big windows no frills) that means that when Bauhaus arrives in that region it fits. This looks good in Vienna (and in say Turin). Doesnt work everywhere"
X Link 2025-10-16T20:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@lucyjones And incidentally its much better still across the border in Romania though of course things are heading in the wrong direction everywhere"
X Link 2022-08-22T14:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ajferguson98 @cortes_john @lucyjones Yes and a willingness to leave remnants of richer ecosystems. Hungarians can do 100ha monocultures of maize and sunflower with the best of them but there are still pockets of meadow and mixed woodland. Here are some in my area (from May)"
X Link 2022-08-22T16:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@lucyjones @ajferguson98 @cortes_john Good question Definitely not a newer push - the govt just passed laws allowing logging even in national parks - as a response to the energy crisis But I think a combination of ingrained habits + falling rural populations meaning lower land pressure"
X Link 2022-08-22T18:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@redhead_ophelia On the one hand its probably fine in itself - the dogs dont seem to mind. What gives me the ick is youre not actually treating your dog as a dog with particular doggy needs but as a sort of animate plushie and I expect this leads to fucked up outcomes eventually"
X Link 2025-10-02T19:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@cheapncheerless Im gonna assume its actually Czechoslovakia theyre wishing death upon"
X Link 2025-10-23T11:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@aowd25 @JayinKyiv I love these chatGPT replies. A flower of serene equanimity in a sea of angry humans"
X Link 2025-10-25T14:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@watn_tarnation But also What are liberals going to say now Yeah youre right. Libs would have to concede that drinking bourbon in the afternoon and watching tv with your gun is peak happiness. You finally won"
X Link 2025-10-26T17:48Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@Romy_Holland @paularambles As a father of a very tiny newborn Ive been thinking about this a bunch these past days. Like everyone was like this once. Every millionaire and crazy homeless guy was a few short decades ago a helpless little creature being nurtured and lovingly kept alive by someone"
X Link 2025-10-26T20:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@joeofsteel1917 @ContraPoints Haha Joe Steel upset at talk of purges. Sorry your sympathy for the economic plight of Trump voters shows you to be a rightist deviationist. Its the North Dakota gulag for you"
X Link 2025-10-27T09:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@DarRamesnis Its America. Every authoritarian cosplay is interchangeable. The vibe is big man does what he wants so they like it"
X Link 2025-10-28T21:23Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@LzSeishi @the_transit_guy A [---] or a 9/11 If a bunch of planes hit it I guess theyre fucked either way regardless of building regs. But the street in the picture is Zrinyi St in Budapest. You can see its accessible to vehicles with a permit so fire trucks can get down there if they need to"
X Link 2025-10-30T19:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Myuutie @nikicaga Nono the real utopia is across the border in Murmansk oblast. You get all the advantages of that sweet sweet Finnish weather but also theres krokodil"
X Link 2025-11-05T05:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ProudBavaria Not if the Avignon pope is supporting Romes claim to supremacy. Which he obviously will"
X Link 2025-11-09T18:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@nikicaga Wrong. Greater Belgium includes SE England (historic Belgae land). As the great Jacques Brel sang: Et Londres nest plus que le faubourg de Bruges perdu en mer perdu en mer"
X Link 2025-11-10T05:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Demence119 @OregonMapGuy Exactly. I have my qualms about assigning a score to artworks - is the Taj Mahal a better work of art than Hamlet or the Magna Carta What does that even mean But on the other hand they all mattered and what other system is there"
X Link 2025-11-11T17:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@almurray Its a different idea of the nation isnt it Calling out He died for Britain would sound pompous or tendentious but theres something almost of a civic religion about patriotism in France. As you say very strong"
X Link 2025-11-12T12:47Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Vasileus1081 @HellenicEchoes Byzantium will be the focus of the first DLC I think which should fix this. Honestly glad they didnt spend too much time on culture-specific event art pre release"
X Link 2025-11-12T17:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@phanari0te @relaithable I agree we need at least one more but Id go with sometime in the early [----] say [----]. You get Henry VIII Francois I Charles V Suleiman the Magnificent Spanish invasion of Aztec empire Reformation Italian warsFfall of Hungary and Sengoku Jidai all kicking off"
X Link 2025-11-13T10:14Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@phanari0te @relaithable But I think the [---] CK3 start date is the perfect comparison - its what you play if you want to go back a century or two before the games main defining mechanics have matured. We need one that starts in the core EU era (early modern era)"
X Link 2025-11-13T10:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@PunishedFredda The problem is the historically accurate way (basically unless you go out of your way to genocide people there wont be any assimilation to speak of at least until literacy is very widespread) would generate a lot of pushback for being boring. Should be a game rule like CK3"
X Link 2025-11-13T12:50Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@cheer_wine Theres no solution to this. The sandbox vs railroading debate is doomed to go in circles forever. The only solution for my money is to accept that any game that starts in [----] is gonna end up weird but give us say [----] and [----] start dates as well"
X Link 2025-11-13T20:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@cheer_wine CK3 proved that [--] start dates is the optimal number of start dates - thats a hill Ill die on. EU players get hung up on the dogs dinner that was EU4 start dates but CK3 already solved this problem The answer is 3"
X Link 2025-11-13T20:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@moe_lean @Sturgeons_Law No sorry I was just looking for Juliette Binoche looking as similar to Anne Hathaway in the shot. But its overall a good looking film for not having a huge budget"
X Link 2025-11-16T21:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@cheer_wine Ive hiked in Greece and Transylvania. Wolves werent an issue but encounters with the massive dogs that guard flocks from wolves were among the most thought-I-was-gonna-get-eaten-alive terrifying things that ever happened to me"
X Link 2025-11-18T21:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Cruxador @ProudBavaria Nice dilemma though: Do I want to spend my afternoon a) genociding the New World or b) building small town bicycle infrastructure"
X Link 2025-11-20T08:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ProudBavaria Very nice. BTW would it even have been that good to have a band of territory from one side of Southern Africa to the other Might have looked cool but surely to get from Angola to Mozambique youd still have been better off sailing around. Guess I can play and find out"
X Link 2025-11-20T19:57Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@RepealTCPA1947 @isaac_kh No they just win elections to seats in the House of Commons"
X Link 2025-11-20T20:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@RamblingsNerd @ProudBavaria OPB has done a ton of V3 vids - just check out his YouTube channel"
X Link 2025-11-25T18:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@rosadoranger Guy Fawkes Night. Its all good fun its just you know at bottom it is the commemoration of burning a Catholic man alive in [----] which youd think might make more people uncomfortable than it actually does"
X Link 2025-11-29T06:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Thatoneguy0161 @retro_futurist_ @cleobug101 I dont see why its mathematically impossible - attractiveness isnt merely a genetic variable doled out on a bell curve. Its influenced by diet exercise fashion effort put into presentation etc. Its perfectly possible for women to just look better on average than men"
X Link 2025-11-29T12:56Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@skyler_higley I prefer to pour out libations to Yamaha the patron deity of motorbikes and pianos"
X Link 2025-11-30T05:50Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@SupremeOde @ProudBavaria Agree with this. I think after the weird CK2/EU4 thing of making every date in history a start date they over corrected by only giving you one. Especially if we get HOI5 Id like the dlc to be around specific events (Overlord Barbarossa etc) with specific goals/achievements"
X Link 2025-12-05T17:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@SupremeOde @ProudBavaria So I can fire up the game play d-day or whatever achieve what I want to achieve get my little dopamine hit and be out in an hour or two. Its a definite gap in the grand strategy market"
X Link 2025-12-05T17:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Callum_TH @SupremeOde @ProudBavaria For me its like the [---] start in CK3 - almost a prequel to the main medieval era. Im glad its there. But yeah it needs one more - an equivalent of [----] so the the main early modern world of Habsburgs Tudors Conquistadors Ottomans and all the rest"
X Link 2025-12-05T19:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@BrianJBerletic @pati_marins64 Yeah Ukraine shouldve never launched that unprovoked invasion of Russia in the first place should it"
X Link 2025-12-10T09:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ChrisO_wiki Hmm. I tried this and in my case it made much less of an effort :("
X Link 2025-12-16T21:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ImBillRay This is three years tops from being a Rob Reiner thing"
X Link 2025-12-18T12:05Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@GHarward Weird thing to add to a metal helmet. Surely it clinks and jingles a lot Id keep decorations off actual battledress full stop barring maybe ribbons on the undershirt or something"
X Link 2025-12-18T19:53Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@butleriano And then theres Switzerland just quietly keeping on keeping on"
X Link 2025-12-22T20:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@nikicaga Fuentes is going to pull a Hanania isnt he"
X Link 2025-12-30T17:36Z [---] followers, 17K engagements
"@bolsademiedo @nikicaga I think your cultural reference points (actual Islamic history) might not quite match OPs"
X Link 2025-12-31T15:32Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@jocktag @2024dion For looks Ill still take Kyoto or Florence over KC in its prime but too beautiful creates problems of its own. You dont want to be Salzburg with a bajillion tourists just a nice walkable mid-rise fun urban space with lots of places to hang out"
X Link 2025-12-31T19:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@DavidHerdson @PhillipsPOBrien @curtis_yarvin Weirdly deficit spending on public works is also the only Hitler policy Yarvin genuinely disagrees with"
X Link 2026-01-02T09:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Jack_Frodo The bolt on his helicopter looking like that has got me. Has it been on cinder blocks in the drive for the past decade"
X Link 2026-01-03T15:58Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@DanaTano501 @nikicaga Dont know what youre on about. Ballymena is spiritually Copenhagen - a haven of intellectual inquiry and a Mecca for connoisseurs of the finer things in life"
X Link 2026-01-04T05:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@samuli_hirsi @Empty_America Well I imagine thats purely an aesthetic preference. Wire fences are surely more practical (and common in N Ireland) but most field boundary walls were built long before wire fences existed. Wood has also long been a pretty scarce commodity in Ireland unlike the US"
X Link 2026-01-04T10:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Celebrim42 @anti_realism_ Fair enough wont happen again. I was just struck by your assertion of a collective human demand for sovereignty. Id always thought of free will as irreducibly thrust upon us - how can you demand free will unless you already have free will to demand it"
X Link 2026-01-05T16:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Paul_Melman @Empty_America In defence of the rain theory dew ponds just arent a thing in say California or the south of Spain. Pretty much restricted to extremely damp islands in the North Atlantic"
X Link 2026-01-08T18:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@OlivierRoulph @ErikBootsma Why do you keep calling it the Netherlands/Ireland when its obviously Budapest. And nobody said its its the engine of the global economy its just a nice place to be"
X Link 2026-01-08T18:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@MarcusCVance Anyone whos tried actually lighting a wood fire knows a big log takes a surprising amount of heat and flame to actually catch. Plus in the motte and baileys natural habitat (Britain Ireland and northern France) it rains all the time"
X Link 2026-01-10T17:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ChrisO_wiki Ted Cruz today: what America needs is someone with the temperament and bold strategic vision to nuke Denmark"
X Link 2026-01-16T08:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@almurray @SamWatt30745054 Lmao love this. Anyone could pull a crowd at Edinburgh if they were the grandson of a diplomat. Thats just common sense"
X Link 2026-01-18T12:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ProudBavaria I like and approve of this OPB tilt towards euro-hawkish current affairs commentary. Next step: lobbying for EU support to Paradox as strategic European tech asset"
X Link 2026-01-19T09:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@headspaceman @willsolfiac @AdrienBoieldieu I hope we Europeans become more united and in all respects self-sufficient. That said an actual hot war between the US and some Nordic coalition of the willing would ultimately not end well. We need to disengage from the US arm Ukraine and build a European army"
X Link 2026-01-19T14:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@kierkegaardpwns @thescottbarber Why would it stoke war They arent threatening to invade the US theyre threatening to defend themselves if invaded. The only sane response is yes of course you would. Like any self-respecting country would. Fortunately we would never invade you"
X Link 2026-01-19T16:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@HearnsOfficial @dimenpsyonal I have my complaints about the UK government but I dont feel any more (or less) ignored than the citizens of England Scotland or Wales. And the Irish language is plainly not suppressed - Belfast has seen a larger increase in Irish speakers than almost anywhere in the south"
X Link 2026-01-20T20:28Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@lolbertking @LinkofSunshine Yeah. And it makes everything after [----] a waste of time. I really want a good 1700s simulator but whats the point of waiting for redcoats and ships of the line if its just giant Bohemia and giant Mamluks duking it out again Deeply frustrating"
X Link 2026-01-21T14:29Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@ianbremmer @piersmorgan Piers is so unprincipled I think hes actually a good barometer of the political weather. Its like the betting markets - just raw probabilistic calculation of where this is going to end up"
X Link 2026-01-25T17:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@EricVBailey @made_in_cosmos Its not that the words cant be translated its that theres no equivalent phrase wed naturally use in that situation. I remember sitting on a wall in France eating a sandwich and random strangers passing would call out Bon apptit Made me v self conscious"
X Link 2026-01-26T19:30Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@nikicaga [--] would be an anecdote if nothing else. Hey did I ever tell you about the time I spent an [--] hour flight sandwiched between Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong"
X Link 2026-01-28T10:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Bartaway He mostly means it was ok to try to eradicate Poland I think. Still a big fan of the secret clauses in the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact"
X Link 2026-01-28T10:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@copesint A continent that had a generation before fought a twenty year long struggle spanning from Portugal to Moscow would be flabbergasted by the sheer size of Tennessee. Minds simply cannot comprehend etc"
X Link 2026-01-29T08:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@batinfestation @FionaSmall Yeah this and The Secret of Kells have the advantage of actually being produced by Irish people"
X Link 2026-01-30T08:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@redhead_ophelia I cant imagine trying to speak with such certainty while obviously not even bothering to wiki what Im talking about (prime minister I believe). Its in Europe I believe. Whatevs. If you dont develop your own opinions someone will develop them for you. Or something"
X Link 2026-01-30T09:15Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Ezegames_RL @BitecoferStan Yeah but thats 40% of the population. Id be curious actually if theres a state in america where if you took away the 40% of the population that most decisively swings to a particular party that wouldnt leave the rest at least a toss-up"
X Link 2026-01-30T19:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@nikicaga The first First Twink"
X Link 2026-01-30T19:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@QingFoid @nikicaga Not sure it would have hurt the books that much to have two or three nice orcs whod rather garden. After all every WW2 movie has some scared [--] year old German kid who doesnt want to be there but I still cheer Tom Hanks blowing up a bunker full of them. Needs must"
X Link 2026-01-30T20:29Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@TheLastTime31 @MakeUSAVAT @MelegReizinger The more of New England Canada gets the prettier the map looks"
X Link 2026-02-01T07:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@LadySaffronVT Honestly I think theres something a bit cargo-cultish about even modern real-world religions. Ppl embrace the trappings but its all just piggybacking on a time when they really really felt it in their bones"
X Link 2026-02-03T10:28Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@P_Kallioniemi @ForgiatoBlow47 Both the aesthetics (green headband random scrubland threats of grisly executions) and the vibe (if you infringe this moral code we murder you but its probably fine if we do that thing) is very ISIS-coded"
X Link 2026-02-03T12:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@cheer_wine Its worse than that. You dont wrongly pick Franklin Pierce because you thought it was still Millard Fillmore youd simply never think of either. Biden is doomed to be memory-holed like them I fear. Another Gerald Ford"
X Link 2026-02-03T20:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@nikicaga The question is is Bill sufficiently shameless to go MAGA A world of adulation and impunity awaits if he is"
X Link 2026-02-04T06:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@evilvillain1231 Whenever I catch myself thinking Orions Belt is the lamest constellation I remind myself of the Big Dipper. Dipping bigly. Just such a chud of a constellation. And always right there"
X Link 2026-02-04T20:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
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